transit route to vnukovo ripples you'll best way to the heart of moscow. the two thousand and fourteen winter olympic games march of by phenomenal athletic performance is concluded with an enchanting spectacle the night sky have such a sparkling with the world's eyes glued to the breathtaking closing ceremony. with the olympic flame extinguished we look back at the intense competition this in stations of the games as well as at the top notches support from the spectators. and in other news ukraine moves closer towards splitting apart the opposition dominated parliament appoints its own acting ministers and president while the south east refuses to bend to its will within the head of state no where to be found.

in broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas going to have you with us now the twenty second winter olympic games are now officially over kept up by a spectacular closing ceremony and a fireworks display that drew the all of all who watched the organizers promised to put on a show and they delivered even poking fun at themselves over that one ring that just wouldn't open during the opening spectacle the i.o.c. president thanked russia for the games which he said lived up to every expectation and more it was a memorable olympics with plenty of new records and celebrations but also some heart breaks as well congratulations to all the winners and all the participants and of course especially the russian home team for their late surge to the top of the medal count we've been busy putting together the very best and brightest moments of the games marty's team in sochi presents our limbic program.

sensation russia comes to mind their own drew will talk about them at a minute you're starting your number five we're ok holland the netherlands the dutch nation wondering six in the medals table the rules my face tell you why because they got eight gold medals all in speedskating over one day you know one sport kind of sort of person if you like they got twenty four medals in total twenty three of those were in speed skating and the other one came from i told you last hour all good stops really all under the speed skating i've got a car else could it have come from so that's number five the dutch the next one the new generation of russians that we've seen at these and perhaps didn't that new generation do well also wearing skates we're talking figure skating at least what a star she was pressure is really on her it really was too because the other star there was the fifteen year old sky who fell twice during her routines many people oh no that's russia hopes gone but not the giver turns up puts in the best performance of her life and she is russia's first woman ever to win figure skating

gold in the individual event lympics and mason. also got new russians to enjoy because four years ago wild and big they were on. guard amazing i'm a fantastic the now got russian passport speak wild as an american who married a siberian then got a russian passport and asked why did he come here what was the story of his because he knows a well he know initially he wanted funding he couldn't get the funding he needed to do his training from america and russia gave him the option but they said look you have to be right you russian citizen how can i do that you can marry that russian girl friend of yours who happens to be a snowboarder so they did anyway so coming here he got a career out of. and love i mean they were together before we have to say that it wasn't an arranged marriage and from that respect kevin it was love there already but look at blossom on the slopes too because she got a bronze medal brilliant victory and victory on. he didn't he fell out with a south korean federation skating photo with him would he fall over there i don't

know do i but i'm sure the pope had a set to on the phone and i'm saying you must be some green eyes in the south korean and well i want you to go let me give you a quick story first he fell out of the federation he had an injury to you which meant that we did not seem at the last olympics but russia said look if you need another country to represent here we are will give you all the funding and the expertise you need it was a bit of a gamble from russia's point but look at paid off your three gold medal cracky where next where next i'm going to turn the page where next year we're going to go to the old wolf darlin he did or we did so was forty two that is old for a libyan isn't it it is for an impi and this million and look he became or he has become the most decorated winter olympians ever because during his time in sochi he picked up two gold medals which means he's now got thirteen in total over six olympics so that's amazing and then of course how can i not talk about russia number one number one and this is the main reason for me i was in vancouver four

years ago everybody was so disappointed distraught because a lot of soul searching because they only got three gold medals that was their worst performance ever since the fall of the soviet union forward wind for years and now put in the best performance since the fall of the soviet union that got thirteen gold medals at no time as russia got more than that and really accelerated towards the end though to me it did it really did an article that don't well it's hard to say but i think a lot of sport is down to your mental preparation too and once you know you've got the the ground swell of your home nation. building on your flavor seventy percent of the people watching ever think up to sixty percent were russians themselves. so we saw great examples of that wild i'm a big fan but he was almost down to one of his on his route to the final but he didn't panic he carried on and you could see he wanted it more than the other guy and he got. so she's a pretty fair share of scandals to be argued that he got more than he deserved

indeed from western the styria over gay rights to hotly debated rulings by the judges and referees of the game is an issue that has been covered pretty much think the biggest controversies of these olympics joins me now you've got your top five and i says mark by saying that so she has been surrounded by more scandal than any other olympics in recent history blew away as the games were long it did indeed someone in twitter just russia's got ninety nine problems but the olympics is that one i'll start with number five five is the doping overall the olympics were very quick game special mention that the latest technology they did and it happened just lately because the latest technology can detect the smallest traces of any kind of substance. we had a german by athlete whose results were an old we had ukrainian skier who was caught and her scored discounted and austrian skier in fact was banned from today's just this morning fifty k. . cross-country ski destroyed before number four is snow it was one of the biggest criticisms coming it is how beautiful abbott article claims have snow all

of the major news networks showing the beach down here no one bothered to show the beautiful mountains we have just an hour's drive away the snow was here was great weather lots of sun that did create a bit of a problem to have to report the slopes when there were in short sleeve shirts i'm sure not just a day many days we had people one of the i.o.c. . organizing committee was here today saying people were complaining they were getting sunburned but the snow was slushy we had a lot of falls but when it comes down to it the athletes and the i.o.c. it was very happy with with the conditions there was a backup plan we had a couple of fog delays but overall everyone skis snowboards on the same snow. number three number three is versus yeah huge was a huge one so debatable whether or not it should be number three but let's have that three tonight because it was a huge scandal leading up to the olympics it should be mentioned that during the olympics there weren't any kind of instances reported of discrimination or any kind

of problems for that matter we spoke to many many athletes scores of them that were very happy with the way things went. on to be such a big issue in the world cup because of the legal is of course people are saying ok search is over where will the critics go now catheters going to be one interesting they try to keep much much more severe. laws there concerning. sexual orientation it should be mentioned though ironically at the same time as these games all of the noise about about russia and anti-gay laws in the united states in arizona during the games a law was passed which basically allows anyone to to decline any kind of service to someone based on their sexual orientation because of their religious beliefs let's look at number two the moving goal post number two. i think it's fair to say the most exciting match of the olympics the usa versus russia of course

a long time rivals goes way back to soviet times really. there was a goal that was there would have been a third point could have been a winning goal for us so they scored a cording to international hockey federation's if the goalpost is off its pegs the goal doesn't count the ref on the ground was american that was a problem for many on social media but up in the box the the judges who watched the tape did say that according to the rules the goal does not count but many unhappy russian fans especially on the internet. watch talk realistic i still number one media media's been leading up to these olympics we heard about. so she being held in a war zone about toothpaste bombers terrorism terrorism terrorism of course that's no joke security was a big thing we heard about hotels not being done no doors of blackwater it's just you know just a tremendous tremendous media coverage really not about the sport not about the

athletes but it should be said that once the games got started it did become about them and that was what the organizing committee wanted to their overall satisfied hoping that sochi could have broken some of those russian stereotypes top five scandals thanks for telling us what you thought about when the right you put the minister now at their level. best with the games all know the competition was truly a limpy and i think you'll agree from years long rivalries to a plethora of photo finishes the winners were forced to give it their all if they wanted to find themselves on the podium end of the day he's pulled scot to spread the game's seaside cluster side of it aside to tell us about the high poll for us not to limply and sit quite hard to imagine the intensity of the competition for the people taking part in it. yes it really is a fine line isn't it between success and failure for all those joyous moments that we've seen spare a thought for those athletes who have now really missed out on success by a fraction of a second in some cases the margin between success and failure between joy and

despair is so narrow that even the latest technologies concept rate the competitors take for example the women's downhill skiing for the first time in winter olympics history the gold medal was actually shared on and tina maze clocking identical times not even a piece of tracing paper could separate them well in the men's biathlon must start french remarks in full card was going for a sochi hat trick he was going for his third medal of these games he threw himself over the line in desperation but was now really missed out of it is not only edged out in the photo finish by norway's emil haye place fenced in a much in the despair four card and who can forget one of the more humorous climaxes and finishes to a. racing winter olympics history it came in the men's ski cross now of the full compact it says three of them fell at the final jump they all slid over the line at exactly the same time in different positions and shapes along the ground no one of them knew exactly what was going on so as we celebrate the sporting successes here

in sochi let's just take a second and spare a thought for those who haven't narrowly missed out by a fraction of a second all those years of training and hard work and it comes down to the blink of an eye but of course not all the competitors here in sochi were expecting to compete for gold i know this here in sochi needed a photo finish to determine their final position in the standings. i think. for some athletes twenty fourteen was simply about taking part take for example indian illusia shiva can shave in his commitment to his sport highlighted by his training regime winding his way down dusty tracks by passing goats and lorries along the way. my wife's insight yes he may have come thirty seven thousand and thirty nine but the him there is more at stake following accusations of corruption the indian and limpid committee were suspended by the i.o.c. in two thousand and twelve and was lifted during these games meaning cache vun

could finally compete under his nation's fly unfortunately there's a lot of politics played to the flag of india which i'm sure many people back home were not happy with but now that's over think that's a lesson learned for everybody and good morning things to look ahead to one of the more colorful characters of these games was prince who purchase of hohenlohe in london the fifty five year old is a descendant of a former german royal dinner state he's also a photographer and the pop star who goes by the name of royal disaster. these are his sixth olympics the jewel nationality miti skis for mexico he's never won a medal for the maybe deserves gold for p.r. so i think that russia the only problem that at this stage that i heard that p.r. person like me it's a big bit of p.r. before i mean you know it's a great place. on the floor but you know what the for everything is really. the

issue that just got a positive for my over to europe and to america that we're so negative it's time to make his debut in these games bruno banani went in the luge it's not his real name mind as part of a sponsorship deal he changed his name to that of the german underwear company but he told me he wants to be known for his sporting prowess. if i didn't qualify for the olympics they wouldn't care at all what names i am so i think is the most important thing that i try hard in training hard to get to the olympics. and does any winter olympics complete without the jamaican bobsled the main attraction for press and fans raising their own funds to compete missing a connecting flight losing their luggage on coming second last still didn't dampen their party spirit proving that in amongst all the sporting excellence there is still room for sports to be fun. so. there we are in this. amazing closing show we'll talk about that in just

a minute it was a really strange moment when the flame extinguished that huge olympic flame that had such a journey to get here we saw it. at the beginning of all this so much excitement you saw the tears on people's eyes that i got a bit weepy really strange to see it go really touching the flame is now officially out it's essentially the official start of the paralympics this is what sochi now means for the olympics because of the seventh but for now let's concentrate on the closing ceremony so it's really unfortunate but it is always par for the course we were able to show. us exactly what was going to decide that because a very straight copyright rules. like that every time with a live picture is nothing new however we were looking. at wachovia while you are saying it was phenomenal it was family was very different than the opening ceremony just as grand again they went back through the deep history this time there was a focus on the historic. performing arts so they went through.

the boatswain theater downstairs it was largely he was there just just at the very end very famous russian conductor conducting what looked like a child's chorus and they essentially i assume are singing as we're looking at these beautiful fireworks so really a tremendous so people were floored lots of people crying in the audience. people are very proud of course russia coming out on top of these olympics breaking so many records it's it's going to such an emotional moment when it all comes to an end i think people are genuinely happy but also a little bit sad right now but of course we must look to the future as you say the paralympics kicking off on the seventh of march the last for just over a week doesn't it and then just remind us what's going to happen remind of us what's going to happen to the majority of this site afterwards well there's a huge hope that this will be the future of russians more things here that russians did not break and are in fact their worst performance ever had not and so it's a huge relief overhaul of sports there's

a hope that this will bring sport back to the polity that it was back in soviet times when it was then what's left it into where it. doesn't take a pause because it looks like we're getting some great saturday crowd here follows this but not quite sure what you can see that it all over oh yes you can see that over because you can see it's fantastic but look at me the what you're looking at the live shot of the moment so you know guys you know you can see the look what a beautiful backdrop quite spectacular end to watch but you know a great games thomas barkley are on today he said there were a great game says far as he goes he is concerned and i think that restaurants were a little bit skeptical themselves back with the bus stop the pathetic norma's and to have her and i think russell maybe a little bit nervous that they wouldn't pull it off and for russia today they realize that they did it and they did it really really well and that means something very important to russians to ordinary russians across the country. well

the twenty second winter olympics in sochi not a stand in front of t.v. screens they also generated a lot of hype among internet users as well marty's overcrowd he takes a look at the numbers from twitter where the games were frequently a trending topic. we looked at their dispersal over the week peaks around the ice hockey suggested the ice hockey is probably the king of the games for many although it's unfortunate that russia proved not quite the winner as we hoped it would be in that respect now let's have a look at the global cities and let's have a look at which cities were tweeting most intensely about such a twenty four. also in st petersburg right in there in the global twitter hierarchy i'm delighted to see that london of course is always there no matter what you look at in twitter you walk the same way but vancouver toronto and chicago are really getting in on the act this time toronto is the city the top of the global list and if you have a look at the high stocks for a week ago you can see such a twenty four team with a twenty four percent sochi problems the famous famous beam was up three percent

last week three percent of global conversation around sochi this week that's changed quite considerably i think sports and sporting heroes have broken out in the coverage we've got twenty eight percent in sochi twenty fourteen and as you can see chachi problems has dropped to less than one percent of conversations around sochi the reason is probably because a great mean that was born with steve rosenberg famous twin toilet tweet from the holes of course. probably burned a little brightly and burned out rosenberg of course set the set the template for what was to come afterwards but when it got to the stage that members of the american luiz team were tweeting about wolves walking down their corridors and in their sochi quarters things started to get a little bit out of hand another example of this is the austrian journalist who tweeted that the roof of the media center was in a state of disrepair this wasn't true however c.n.n. did want to use the photograph permanently on all their affiliates to show how

things were going badly in sochi now one of the reasons why such a twenty such a twenty fourteen has proven such a success is down to marvelous sporting stories like the fifteen year old guy who charmed the nation perhaps charmed the world with a performance of extraordinary grace in the team figure skating it was also an opportunity people to share extraordinary moments like this photo finish in the ski cross which i think left everybody who watched it gasping for air and then there are the great human stories alex bilodeau who celebrated his gold medal of course dedicated to his brother and the man is a shining example to many around the world. brian wood of course yes this is the famous. that's been reached shared over forty thousand times this lady failing to deal with the technology. of a camera at the figure skating arena at the fisht arena in sochi athletes got in on the act. started taking selfies with expressions such as that to get in on the comedy in the trolling that she was being subjected to on twitter and then there were diplomatic moments when stephen harper for example the prime minister of

canada. perhaps sold barack obama suggesting he'd look forward to picking up a can of beer when the canadian or create a beer with the canadians beat the americans you have any proof also you have a stellar performance on line by paying respect to a sad day the japanese figure skater his tweet to her was retrieved over forty thousand times and of course no version no assessment of the sochi twenty fourteen olympics online would be complete without reference to everybody's heroes i think that you make a good bobsled team who funded themselves were funded by the internet as such to get to saatchi and who were massively supported online. well the sochi two thousand and fourteen winter olympics have now officially closed they provided countless unforgettable and inspiring sporting moment that will be remembered for a long time now after the break though it's time for us to switch gears over to news you know stay with us you're watching our two international.

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and welcome back you're watching the weekly right here on our t.v. now the turmoil in ukraine has been the top story of the past few days after the most turbulent week in its post-war history the country is currently undergoing a complete government overhaul some stunning pictures coming from the now the parliament has appointed the speaker as interim president with early elections set for may now since taking over the reins in the capital the opposition has been hard at work establishing in its own order artes you going to get off is in kiev for us . the situation here resembles more and more

a coup since the president's fled the city along with some of his supporters those deputies of state or from opposition parties and they have been passing laws like a printing press the latest include the appointment of the acting president and of the russian as the second official language in the country even though in the east up to fifty percent of those living there are ethnic russians still under the full control of the protesters some of the former officials have been arrested while appointed are known for their fire right. to say that events unfolded quickly here is almost say nothing and for more about how things went on and what's the situation here like on the ground here's a report by my colleague alex. own hell was breaking loose in kiev on tuesday to compromise with seemingly reached all of a sudden ukraine's capital with plunged into the worst violence is seen so far almost two hundred dead the central streets of one of europe's finest cities looking like a war zone and snipers shooting from rooftops including

a group what we have now that you have read. that we have read. there which is somehow here and driven by especially as we see using snipers and so on and which is not controlled by the. by the west directly so everything went out of control just two days later it was a totally different scene to the president make the biggest concessions yet by offering an early election to an opposition led government and returned to by i mean the republic there were twenty four of the protests didn't buy it was still. there if the president does not resign by tunisia. i swear. to you i my ten o'clock on saturday they were is nothing left to store all the police were gone and the ruling party had. bleakly lost control over the capital so

this is the presidential administration building which used to be the probably the most protected governmental building in the whole of the of the biggest fight in the first stages of the protest happened here now as you can see we are taken on an excursion that is no longer controlled by the police or the government the protesters have occupied this building as well this means that museum which will never be back here as oppressed the president made it has to retreat to the east of ukraine and was stoutly defiant even after receiving news that parliament had ceased to recognize him as leader by an overwhelming majority and announced an early election solutions you look at all that is happening now the most part is vandalism and crimes this is my strong belief that i will do everything takes to prevent my country from splitting up blood should it went from bad to worse the other garbage with parliament leading historic or i will you little machine go from prison sparking jubilation on to use independence square. dreamt of seeing you to force change everything you're hearing here is the best of this country has

while protesters are in high spirits and the east and south of the country are simply indifferent to its leaders have declared itself governance and constitutional power to talk over the world and break up in the country and the. reporting from kiev in ukraine. the e.u. top diplomat catherine ashton is said to travel to kiev on monday to discuss ways out of the current crisis with opposition leaders that's as former prime minister yulia timoshenko has already sat down with the u.s. envoy as well as the use chief representative in ukraine you've got a bunch of the former president of the soviet union thinks that the west should let the people of ukraine decide their own political future. no movement you know don't really have you seen what's going on there so trade is you need a bulldozer to push all the consultants from the u.s. and e.u.

i was told that they should let people decide for themselves recommendations to nation sees an acceptable this shouldn't provoke people they shouldn't send bandits in old sides need to head to the negotiating table and talk to you on a month or six months if you need it they will come to an agreement eventually. now coming up after the break artie's katie pilbeam has the week financial highlights in venture capital what you are to international stay with us. judy cox a utah mother out of spite but an entire line of t. shirts at a popular chain store at her local mall the reason that she bought them was because

she feels that the images of nearly naked women on them violate her local towns decency code she wants to make it clear though that she feels the store has the right to sell this type of shirt just not displayed in an exterior window ultimately her plan is to return the shirts on day fifty nine of the store sixty limit let's hope for her sake they don't have a no return policy i bring this up because this is a great example of a nonviolent form of protest that actually works because the scandal and more importantly it will make the company lose a few dollars technically the girls on the shirts are even fully exposed believe me i checked thoroughly and i would even call them r. rated the local communities have the right to be more conservative than the rest of the nation if they want to be and is good that judy cox actually did something rather than just sitting at home on the air complaining about moral decay across the country if a housewife from a small mormon community can stand up to the man what's stopping you but that's just my.

i don't see how european countries who are member of the european union can solve the problem without leaving the european union so it's obvious that countries like great britain or france you named friends especially with increasing poverty in my opinion they have a difficult they have a difficult time to solve these problems but i think at least they should rearrange the principle rules of free movement of persons and improve the system. carlos and see friends kept so i come to the salt sea because the fifty one billion dollars price tag has got nearly as much attention as the games themselves so let's just wake up one side of those costs them for you for the most expensive olympic games.