all the top stories this hour time now for a special report arundhati the latest in our discovering russia series and review of the weird and wonderful winter sports one can enjoy. with the winter olympics coming to sochi in twenty four scene it won't be long before the owners of the world are trained on russia's snow easters thankfully you don't have to be in a limb to ghastly to make the most of the countries wants them. i think it's fair to say how do real russian experience until you've lived through one of their winter it's snow comes up to knees and bone chilling temperatures that last few months at a time but if you travel around a little you'll find that one thing the russians do really well it's no fun when it's freezing. cold winters turn your average trip east here my chilly journey is going to spam you three thousand kilometers take me from the racetracks of western russia to the streets of some very strong city with some bumps on clapper's. but when someone they're preparing for ross's fight with my celebrity insults so high until the spring oh but there are a great variety is

the main stories we're covering for you the sorry arundhati. and peace plan for syria falls into place this regime troops begin their withdrawal a new western and arab funding for the opposition puts rebels against each other to complete. the three day period of mourning the victims of monday's plane crash in western siberia. first to be held today. security versus liberty the u.s. congress examines and you cannot say that tackling cyber terror with freedom and swung it could become a license while talking about the state. but next we focus on what a growing number of americans see is a major flaw of u.s. politics and two party system a frank interview that won the battle for gerry white's socialist equality party presidential term that's coming right. party sitting down with jerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate for the upcoming two thousand and twelve election mr right thank you very much for joining our team today thank you very much well according to a gallup poll a record number of americans now identify themselves as

there and then the us that and much more in a second edition of julian assange is into the show arundhati he watched a program that's caused a media storm on both sides of the atlantic and later this hour. security forces in bahrain have again used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of pro-democracy protesters marching through the center of the capital the yearlong uprising intensify in the formula one grand prix last weekend as anti regime activists try to attract a global attention to their cause but as are able to screen out explains why the race now over so too is much of the scrutiny from abroad. for centuries it has been known as the pearl of the persian gulf but recent months have seen behind lose its luster. violence between the country's shia muslim majority population and the sunni minority in government threatens not just to do. but send shock waves through other nations that are heavily invested in the islands of stability such as the united states the dilemma of the u.s. faces and bahrain is a tough one on the one hand washington feels at least a lot to think some

but next to me cap of our top stories stay with us arundhati. when you force spring overseas my grocery birds will come home to roost. when their massive tongue great. empathy gives way to ponder the motions. towards those who live on the currently. are. did i kill innocents here or was it a call it's a crisis and that's never answered it. on a song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. of the flies fired from the memories. i assume i saw a long time in the series trying to tell. i was so sure. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't a clue why i got my arm i got my legs i'm a lot. bigger than the mind. what i wanted to be out of knowledge i was a boy to. now believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just a good. fit.

but also on the way arundhati rolling over the opposition to find out why a place to activists and a furious they probably went ahead with these two four wheel ones one free. there's been a recording crease in the use of antidepressants and other prescribe pills among us some just want it seen as a way to help service personnel supply the brutality of war there's concern that many a sticking plaster for the deep psychological damage suffered by soldiers and he's going to church again as the story. a record number of american troops are on antidepressants according to the u.s. army surgeon general more than one hundred ten thousand active duty service men and women are taking prescribed narcotics sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs that's an eighth old increase since two thousand and five michael brown served as a marine in iraq up until two thousand and six he started taking antidepressants after he returned from war when i was on the air i. make a rational if my brain were so cluttered regardless of. when my. read it and went there and. so i mean i couldn't i wouldn't be able to make a

first episode of something new show but i want site catch the next edition of the program tomorrow arundhati to see whether we can include guilty of treason. in the bahrain opposition activists venting anger at the government which took decisive measures to make sure sunday's formula one grand prix race went ahead security forces crack down on protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets their own streets has blocked several roads leading to the racetrack burning tires and heaps of garbage they said the government had held recently and as a listener this not going to make a nation appear unified one person was found dead on saturday taking part of a mass protest that was violently dispersed rayna seen more than a year upon rests with dozens killed at least expert american really since the gulf states friendship with america and its wrongdoings go unpunished. we've had demonstrations and anger to split on the eve of this event clearly security was a very high level western police and security officials have been called in to help and former senior scotland police chief john yates warned apply