jewels your reaction to the businesser comments that bach made?back a bit it seems to me that when people try to argue that the olympics transcend politics, typically those people are milking the olympic could you with both hands. so it's either somebody from the international olympic committee or it's somebody from a corporation who is a sponsor that stands to gain a lot of money from it. >> bach also said that the ioc must be politically neutral without be a political and athletes must not use the olympic village and venues for polight cam demonstrations. but he also said that olympic values are against discrimination. but they gave this to sochi and they are keeping it in sochi. was that i that a political act give it to russia? >> absolutely. vladimir putin wowed the international community by speak big remaking an entire region of russia. when the ioc hears statements like that and thinks about the olympics that will cost more than every winter olympics combines that is puts stars in the eyes of ioc not agent let i- athletic competition. you

iac president thomas bach also inspired admonishing that is both leaders who will not attend the games. we are grateful to those who respect the fact that sports can only be called to do with the development and peace. if it's not too was as a stage for forty to go to st director of the human sewage over six thousand athletes and team. more than ninety national depicted are expected to compete continuous with the capacity of twenty thousand seats. you can use. and mm mm mm the shoes. she carries on tuesday attempted to calm concerns about the whole make your accommodation. despite the game's is thirty seven billion euro price tag of the pic to visit us have reportedly arrived to scenes of building dust and debris scattered in and around the hotels. other reports about the people staying in bed the finished rooms with no internet connection chilled out brough told to go. well i'm happy to inform you that all of the media hotels are open i did am i i write no testing of some motivation seemed easier taken place and we apologize for any inconvenience you have any trouble. please refer to

he takes the spot vacated by thomas bach after his election as president of the ioc in september. no updated on the eight seventy nine bird flu in china. health authorities report the new cases around the country to ninja jiang province won in fuji and two engines to one in hunan one in guangdong and one in beijing. some patients are in critical condition the two cases in each town is just un brings the provincial total for the year to seventy three that's the highest in the country. the elderly patient and to jane died on thursday. the hunan province reported its fifth case thursday. latest reports say an eight year old girl though the problems had this was discovered and left the hospital and am middle aged patient has shown signs of improvement. the new case reported in beijing on thursday is the second this year in the chinese capital beijing for speed seventy nine patients died last week fuji jin soo province's total now stands at eleven this year including one death snowstorms in northeast china have affected millions of holiday travelers returning to work after the spring f

bach is the biggest buildings but it was just on is all to its list. but baucus exploits its gas and had to source as it does not pay any loyalty to the bluish. umno can and put it on me and critically short of its type to sources has written more for himself with a deep and painful feed him success of talks on the governments have tried to crush them into more meaning to you. the field last season with the mucus taiba which is done. once again called the spotlight on a sunday edition getting in the insurgency hit south western poland. several of the hyundai eighteen decompose parties have been identified as doors open missing persons. last and is a one hundred and eighteen thousand people have going missing from the insurgency hit the list but don't ask to see. the call letters up on a petition of setting a hot dog for the second consecutive day on friday importance of giving off a bit in the new parliament by park in the southern state to create new problems at the end of the top the poll was given by the time why aside from a spot in other groups bu

last president of the iac thomas bach speaking in sochi. just two days now before the start to the games. haha thanks for much for this and and as the finishing touches are being added security of course it is of one of the big topics as they are and of march and i'm having heard of any last minute concerns there and what's being done in terms of security the city the greatest races of this web activity is talking about as much media hype surrounding the situation of the out the ring of steel which was standing at the moment the snake. i can say is that i had no trouble is political will to st sauce but the best artist is actually being here in saucy is really just like any other of them takes a lot more skill we have six thousand athletes of writing this week about how to ride already twenty five thousand volunteers up to one hundred thousands of police members armed forces and the armies that the dogs horses in and it really does feel like such she is one of the safest places to be on the planet at the moment of coal security concerns of

for a good cause consisted of publicly declining invitations they had not even received. >> brown: bach did not name names, but president obama is among those staying away. instead, he's sending three openly gay athletes, tennis star billy jean king, figure skater brian boitano, and hockey player caitlin cahow. the furor began last june, when russian lawmakers adopted a law they said was essential to protect the young. >> ( translated ): it outlaws the spreading of information aimed at forming non-traditional sexual attitudes among children, attractiveness of non- traditional sexual relations, a distorted perception of social equality between traditional and non-traditional sexual relations. >> brown: the statute sparked outrage around the world. in paris, demonstrators formed olympic rings, holding images of alleged human rights abuses in russia. and in sweden, 2,000 people gathered to sing russia's national anthem under rainbow flags. the video went viral on the internet. in response, russian president vladimir putin has insisted no athlete at the games will be mistreated. >> ( transl

in fun, i have some quick questions bach because of the terminology. so the stub i understand elevated freeway is what we see and i assume the stub what makes it a stub elevated freeway >> i think john can answer it. >> it's just the end of the freeway that's that. >> i was getting e-mails and innuendo what that meant. >> it goes in the city and it stops. >> i also want to clarify for the sake of the public i know that planning was able to go over this presentation earlier. a lot of the land value it gets confusing over the 280 and, of course, the railway yard the city doesn't own those parallels i want to clarify where we're expecting to get some of the land value, you know, to our public projects here in san francisco >> josh again that planning staff. you're correct the city doesn't necessarily own the parcels in question and director meddling appointed the land is not caltrain but we haven't done a full investigation of the freeway corridor and there's probably still more work to be done on the railway yards themselves but should those projects be

. >>> right now at 6:00 it's round two of the second storm of a bach that's hammering the bay area. we'll look at the live radar. you see a lot of green. rain is falling virtually everywhere but the worst is yet to come. thanks for joining us on this friday. i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. we're in store for a big weekend. a major rain event like we haven't seen in sometime. right now the situation on the roads messy. drivers on 280 near highway 17 barely moving along. things not much better north of san francisco. this is a live look at the drive in san rafael on 101. this is what it looks like from the emeryville camera. you can see it's slow, slow going. lots of fresh snow, though, is falling in the sierra and many drivers are headed to the slopes. we have team coverage from the north bay to south bay. jeff remember neis tracking the >> it's by the stream of moisture moving. it's a subtropical moisture staying with us. we'll see conveyer belts of areas of rain in and across the bay. let's get you to the live doppler scan. it's been a mess across the north bay from santa r

president of the international olympic committee thomas bach has officially welcomed russian president not demand peaked in the end of the worldly gift to the winter games in such a bank presidents caves beach is it that all of this thing barry a statement trees including un secretary general twenty min on the eve of the competition site opening ceremony. pete and i think the iac france on wavering circle just knew the whole twelve is already anticipating this great sports events and is feeling the special on spm and positive energy he said. i see russia is aiming to fulfill its olympic project marks a man doing everything possible to install the salty and it takes is an unforgettable pride events the mcgee wish all this will be the case. the violence was increased in the build up to what will be the costliest in and takes in history with threats to disrupt events on suicide bombings in india vice it's your fault or not tightening security fee is but this didn't seem to detest the traits as this they are right to watch the games waits for the first time in fact he adds the county will

olympic committee has squashed ounce over saatchi's right it is for the eminence whence her games thomas bach also says he is sure the events will be safe and secure pointing to some of the unique measures in place for hosting a tournaments on such a scale. but the olympic stages is ready for the winter of the world. we can see this in the sports facilities. and there we see in the olympic village which are all of very high quality about eighty percent of the athletes literally walk from the bed in the we reach to the competition when you. something i have never seen before at the olympic games one of the issues that's been threatening to overshadow the olympics has been the harsh criticism aimed at russia's over the recently adopted law against lots of nontraditional relationships to under eighteen's the move triggered calls in several countries to boycott the games arts and culture reporter martin matt some of the gay and transgender community living in the house city of sochi to ask about their feelings on the law and their experiences of discrimination. thousands of athletes and businesse

burmese mountain dog poodle mix named bach is from falls chump.l. >>> he said if the seahawks won he would refund money to any customer who bought at least $6,000 worth of furniture. >> guess what? seattle won. now he has to pay up. here's the story. >> was it worth it? >> absolutely. >> reporter: jim mcen veil better known as mattress mack is out $7 million. he bet wrong when he said the seahawks would lose the super bowl so staying true to his pig skin promotion, customers who bought at least $6,000 of furniture in the two weeks leading up to the big game got a complete refund. >> we're here for the customers. we're here to make houston a better place. if it's good for the customer, it's good for houston and good for us. >> reporter: it means that especially since the promotion brought in customers like leanne. >> we're definitely going back to get some end tables and coffee tables to go with it. >> reporter: cane only planned on spending at most $5,000 on furniture but ended up spending a little more than 10-k. the experience she says has made

of the oil from bach and places like that we're talking forty fifty dollars sixty dollars a barrel of actual costs and not only that but once it starts producing it tends to have a very very steep decline curve where production will drop off thirty percent forty percent the first year thirty or forty percent of that the next year goes like this was big wells in saudi arabia and such we jumped right in as for decades or so but yes it's something to people and it's going to get more expensive is the answer now we're a ways into that interview and we haven't touched that much on the u.s. yet but does that say anything to you about where the united states is headed in the coming years in your opinion. well it has we mentioned argentina before and it's very clear to me that the us is right in the same path as argentina or for that matter the same path as the roman empire did our own there's a rise a plateau. characterized by high consumption and happy days and then the second law of thermodynamics takes over which is to say all systems wind down and the more complex and energy intensive th

winter in big games and spirits of high ahead of the official cutting ceremony my ac president thomas bach held the limping toward the full time to get david to un secretary general ban ki moon. the iconic symbol of the games has traveled further this year than any other time in its history the gym and sports stars like alpine ski race at marriott it's a leash say they are ready for the competition this year reese has been given the honor of carrying gemini slack. the financial times's had to carry the flag is on top of the seeking out something really special. for me. i'm proud to be chosen to lead the march tomorrow a m on thursday two countries the good guys cause of the roman throne from it spectators are looking forward to seventy days of the bass in when to school and so she has promised an opening ceremony that's out of this quilt. the brush has been playing down a security warning from the us saying that these succulent pics were safe as any place in the west for militant attacks washington warned about the possibility of toothpaste bombs on russia downed aircraft. washington stres

and bach but also by these militant leaders who are actually more in control of anyone else at this point the people of the might do not trust yulia tymoshenko they regard her as somewhat of a attention seeking and they were extremely unhappy with her previous performances prime minister and they regard that she is actually ironically enough they feel that she is quite close to him in russia so there is not an overwhelming amount of real support for yulia actually argument all right thank you for a time march from moscow state university thank you for having me political analyst in ukraine specialist jeff ski told me that ukraine he thinks is veering toward a power vacuum. i think that do you call which companies zoom more and more divided and i think at the end of it's made quite a lot of errors so it's not sure he will be a student leader of let's say a and t. and t. might down the come there are too many leaders in the opposition and emotion will be one no one more so i don't really. see how do you position can be still united especially we observe very strong differences between do yo

the reality is that thomas bach the i.o.c. president said that some of the hotels all finished but if it's just three percent so they say three percent there is a baby on the internet not only three percent have to be finished but the every hotel every new hotel has teething troubles regarding price well. you can have everything from bed and breakfasts they go at b. and b. here little. five star hotels in the play pollyanna body the western chains with the presidential suite so really you're looking at average from around three thousand rubles paid nights which is around eighty ninety dollars you know a little less. up to who are. limited to. travel and tourism but i may have venture capital your. yes thank you so sochi is by no means out the finishing line when it comes to the budget that's still a huge money mountain to climb to break even and it's going to be a busy year facility because russia's hasting the g eight summit. the formula one race is coming out in october and there's a busy summer season as well for the right

before the opening ceremony president's team an olympic chief thomas bach. buck said ioc appreciates china's support for the olympics president she said that china strongly supports russia's efforts to host the games which the sixteen day sochi olympic games a success. what the cctv. after attending the opening ceremony trepidation he has left a thirty. during his stay in the resort city she helped calm the seas russian counterpart that when pitching. he caught onto countries to attack the cute foot angeles and the forward cooperation in larger strategic projects. experts say she's fed to said she shows time the strong support of the land cakes and at times paying great attention to time it's with its strategic partners and neighboring countries while before the opening ceremony of the games tiny speck finishing the match with his afghan counterpart and karzai in an effort to those times between the two nations. it plans to strengthen cooperation in the fields of security economy and politics or content once again border security is of great significance to

that in the house spectators and jun is what the president of beans nuts olympic committee thomas bach fugue is here and saw jake says he's confident that everything will be completed in time of the games will run smoothly for the olympics teaches that is ready for the base their winter athletes of all the world. we can see these in before the festivities sure all the state of the arctic and their weekend as the sooner the olympic year when the cheese which are all off. a very high quality. about eighty percent the athletes and authority will. from the bits in between each coat to wear the competition there were new. is there something i have never seen the before eight a new one in the games well fox also went on to address the issue of securities and that he is a show of the games will boost your body's that directs the place of course the recent when the suicide attacks involved a bra less than a thousand kilometers from that of heightened tensions robot went on to draw parallels with the two thousand and two winter olympics which was held in salt lake city just a few months off to

london he is a journalist and writer for the guardian and al-jazeera in berlin we have harold whelan bach he is a researcher and a member of the european radicalization awareness network and in harrisburg we cross to paul godfrey he is an author and professor emeritus at elizabethtown college right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it sunny if i go to you first day i think my introduction should be a little familiar to you because i stole it ok from an article that you wrote recently and i want to quote one of the sentences talking about the right wing right wing groups and parties in the west they put on smart suits stop using crude racist language and set out to gain respectability explain to our viewers what you mean but i think that they love the parties across.

so i don't think that these opposition leaders klitschko yet and you know a neo nazi tian bach have ever actually been in control of the protests. say without saying to national for the latest updates from ukraine. team russia's first tokay olympic playoff clash against no way is in full swing now and the red machine has taken two steps closer to making it to the quarterfinals let's get more on the showdown at the bolshoi eyes does from our correspondent a song change poles can't hide a pull so for the latest from day olympic i. well russia lead norway to nail heading into the final period but they've been made to work hard by a norway side who have lost all three matches so far in the competition it is of course russia's first match in the knockout stages a place in the quarterfinals or a steak gold from alexander. put the host firmly in a book seat for a place in the last eight where finland awaits in the quarterfinals but norway might think they're still in this match in the final twenty minutes however soviet hockey legend from the eighty's and ninety's. he said before this match tha

and security personnel to be deployed to ensure security in the russian city to me president thomas bach congratulated myself on yesterday he was at a meeting with the russian president flooding in from experience that seat. on tuesday night and he congratulated myself on delivering what it promised when it had made its olympic bid in two thousand to two thousand and seven to security the entire cd is seeing unprecedented security measures yesterday with salt the entire town being locked down for a few hours because the new book derives from moss goes the police just cleared the streets completely ends up with their police say the forty thousand police officers and security personnel were dispatched to sochi to provide some good ol' that of course is coming after several meetings to settlements in the town of although right now are from here seven hundred km from here late last year terrorists who claimed responsibility for the tick tock said. from there about gov dot you start to sell to you by picking up north but this is republican threatened more attacks in the game so certainly secu

to house spectators and journalists but the president of the international olympic committee thomas bach who is here in sochi says he's confident that everything will be completed in time on the games will run smoothly at the olympic stage is ready for the base. of the world. we can see this in the sports facilities. there we can see in the olympic village which are all of. very high quality about eighty percent of the fleets can literally walk from their beds in the real each to their competition bring you. something i have never seen before or any olympic games. also went on to address the issue of security saying that he is assured the games will be secure all that is a direct quote of course the recent twin suicide attacks in volgograd less than a thousand kilometers from here have heightened tensions but part went on to draw parallels with the two thousand and two winter olympics which were held in salt lake city just a few months after september eleventh and the other issue that of course has overshadowed really the buildup to these games is russia's adoption of the law banning the

deficit the amount of money the ukrainian government spending which people somehow is also played six bach op billion dollars up about the fact that all this the russia house already about three billion dollars into the kitty all the fifteen billion dollar program at michigan state where very very rapidly upper on the fifteen billion on field number for the ukrainian economy planting is at hand during military. the sad part about camping and i mean you said the russians are ready at a three billion dollars here but telling a press conference in key effect on catherine ashton said the club on the corner here as a neighbor we expect russia to support ukraine and how much more support to the sheiks from rashi here. i mean this seems to be. this is exactly the total problem with mrs austin are complete unknown entity than the typical truffle shuffle with food and cardio to protect the head of diplomacy for the european union on the wall and asked how she wanted a rasta have already pledged fifteen billion dollars which would actually go in for a knowledge of the hole that was not to be inconve

and five days before the opening ceremony international olympic committee president thomas bach also arrived in sochi to review those final preparations and security plans the former olympic fencer will oversee his first winter games after succeeding jacques rogge as i.o.c. president in september and he's optimistic the event will progress without incident . we have served for confidence in the russian authorities there we have been called to take their you know the time of their preparations we know very well so the russian security forces have very very close cooperation with the national security forces and that everything you said being done to the earth secure these three games and prayer for the athletes and all the bookies for ensuring the screams in a safe and secure environment and the snowboarders wraps up there and in pick preparations at the final stage of the world cup in germany in the men's event at france's sit down do for claims the serb win of his career ahead of austria's newest mattie's and american justin rice patties took the overall title in the parallel giant

on the other aspects of cooperation ok bach. in the aspect off their hacking go on the roof top end of the lake the end of an embassy in jakarta which he ought to be shared event that has not been done yet the weekend for facing they keep getting it so we are going good we would live but not in the window at the halftime of the way to go up while poking them somewhere like but has been well and it scared me and since it's ly being agendas and cannot an afternoon tea. if that is going to go when both sides the door for me. and on working somewhat. i think of a massive speaking with them fan the eye. elect of god what a god of hosts won the shot not the main studies are of the unprecedented election campaign kicks off they don't seem to expect security pact with the sun is gone. and of the news they got to spend in pots in the danny and sandy go to golf. presidential candidates in the fun sun began two months of campaigning for an election that the best in that high school will consolidate ratten said lt d as the force is perfect

this is an international coming to life for most co welcome bach nearly a year after a pipeline rupture caused a massive oil spill in the u.s. state of a console locals are still suffering dizziness headaches and nausea the cleanup began almost immediately but that didn't stop people moving out to safer areas and then check on visited the site. almost a year after two hundred thousand gallons of heavy crude spilled onto their streets residents of mayflower in arkansas are striving to leave the town here in mayflower for sale signs are everywhere almost every house on the street is on sale before the spill this was a place where people wanted to move in to enjoy the beautiful nature around many didn't even know there was a pipeline running under their houses and now they just want out many have already left and jerrel one of them i tried to stay here i tried to just be away you know as much as i could but if it rained i could not stay here because it would all see through the. all of the where the ground was dry it would kind of i guess in case it in when it rained all those vapors would

saatchi meanwhile the president international olympic committee thomas bach has come out in no uncertain terms against those seeking to score political points at the expense of the athletes we are grateful to those who respect the fake bids for the nordic on to do with the development and peace. if it's not too loose. as a stage for twenty to go to st or for trying to score points in game started. forty tone of political contexts two of the political egos we say we have the car each. to address your disagreements in a peaceful and i are recorded to go buy a loaf at the mosque on the banks of the athletes. we're continuing to live updates for you from the host city would you want the claim is just arrived. check out our website revisit the most exciting moments of its journey from greece to the russian black sea resort new news. the us dollar's again falling into iran but that has set off some alarm bells in washington with officials insist the new oil rich nation is not open for business yet. tehran's prospects have been looking up since sanctions were partially lifted under the nuclear

meanwhile the president of the international olympic committee thomas bach has come out in no uncertain terms against those seeking to score political points at the expense of the athletes we are grateful to those who respect the fact that sports can only contribute to development and peace if it's not used as a stage for political dissent or for trying to score points in internal or external political contests to other political leaders we say have the courage to address your disagreements in a peaceful direct political dialogue and remote on the pics of the athletes we have continuing live updates for you from the host city where the olympic flame is just arrived check out our website to revisit the most exciting moments of its journey from greece to the russian black sea resort. investment dollars again flowing into iran but that has set off some alarm bells in washington with officials insisting the oil rich nation is not open for business yet tehran's prospects have been looking up since sanctions were partially lifted under a new nuclear deal my colleague marina kosar a discussion

so i don't think that these opposition leaders klitschko yet so new york and the neo nazi tian bach have ever actually been in control of the protests and to stay with the latest on dates from the ukraine. excitement days hazing up in sochi with less than often now before russia's fast ok olympic playoff clash against no way earlier this morning a member of russia's snowboarding team wowed the public with a silver medal finish a title race and as a fan now i reports it was a surprise podium position for that. russian fans certainly celebrating this tuesday russia wasn't tipped to take any medals in the snowboarding but there you go that's the magic of the olympics nicholai noonan finished second in the cross the country's first ever medal in that sport he was put by his french rival but stayed ahead of us in third noonan is the twenty ten world junior champion and before the sochi games said he was planning to retire well if he does at least tell now go out on a high now for a wider look at the winter games so far i'm now glad to welcome to our sochi studio craig reedy the i.o.c. vice pr

fact that they were plagued by political controversy in the bill still the new ioc president thomas bach said that russia had to listen and all that it had promised. well and together they won ninety eight competitions in salty the winners come fremantle's the news is that he is and we have the actual ground up off the final day's action russia's albertsons is that called for his team to victory in the form i'm up clinching his second gold medal winning team. on saturday. that gives us of our discontent second of all people concrete and drawings to the united states. gemini missed out on the matter for the first time in fifty years the eye. russian approval and fifty km cross country skiing but some of the score one goal. the continent into town and idiots himself came to the conference . it was a victory for canada in terms of the trust's sweden three am the kind of record in the gold medal in the event well off to two weeks of competition and is a nineteen ninety eight difference in seven different olds those results least the final medal table looking like it's the hosts russia leads

when next in the company of president but today it in an intense olympic committee president thomas bach. i'd like to have my time again liabilities. indeed as i was definitely an island between teacher and requested eight units that pop into that kinda makes me a comment see that a country that if you have a lot of other things to think that that i really think that we only see the money the animals but at south city. the cost to them no mold relates to this rule is to come into sight so she stopped on to a local company admitted it to me given the contract despite use of the animals activists continue to run the streets unlike kidnapping adults in an effort to find them new callings. local authorities and private trips name was appealed to temperate don't tell tom needed to sell takeovers on aspirin for four to coax a fraction of the type tool strike population around olympic bad news. americans stay on the scam was the azores has shown his support saying that when it all to anti climate all come fall off of puppies leading to some on site so maybe it up around him. an american hero. t

sheriff bach but apparently there will be that press conference and it happened but certainly done it in and said that so now what the people in mosque al think about all of this unrest in crimea do they expect russia to step in more forcefully. below them in last month's me leave when the whole crisis in ukraine was going on and opinion polls said the contractions didn't want that government and political leaders tea into the air. they are now sits in the looking leave larry to what is happening on crimea on the one hand because the blanket but the russians they act and the other hand because they see that some serious labor actually is going on and that all politics aside they feel close to the ukrainian people and they certainly don't want a war with ukraine on any military interference but they all realize that it's serious what's going on at there right now. and speaking of sabre rattling the us has once again sent to russia basically to back off. how concerned are people that owned this can escalate and an international implications and they are that she always sat quite concern

we spoke with dinner or bach or a us congressman who says that we're seeing now is the odd dangerous violation of the law and three. as evidence of her. who were demonstrating and that they all work as peaceful as has been incorporated victims as they are being betrayed. most importantly our lives who lost to a government is elected. it should be. that is the group of people who were elected to make decisions of the ones to set the policy. now when we were in ukraine now. it looks like it. you can have you really disagree with what the elected government is doing. you should go to the streets and to stop a raise holy until those policies are reversed. orange dollars and change made in the procedure. we have just music into loss on rt from ukraine the country's parliament voted to return to the constitution two thousand for this reduces the power the president and establishes a parliamentary republic that will bring you more from the country as we get it. or following the situation on air and on line plus the markers on the ground in kiev and in eastern ukraine you can also check out

thomas bach with a surprise guest ban ki moon the secretary general of the united nations so lots to look forward to and of course lots of speculation regarding who will carry the torch to morrow of course two years ago in the olympic games in london we had a guest appearance by david beckham and queen elizabeth the second of course we have that video in the fake actor parachuting into the games with james bond so a lot of people talking about who will carry the flames for lots of excitement and certainly i personally can't wait for the party tomorrow night our. photo yes indeed that's just a taste there for you of what we've got lined up for you over the coming weeks and don't miss out in tune in twenty four hours from now for our special olympic coverage so. now so how they but. great can't wait to check back in with you later for more so r.t. reporting from the heart of the winter games will be broadcasting daily from sochi throughout and online at twenty fourteen dot r.t. dot com. stay with us at r.t. international next over to our washington d.c. studios for a financial show boo

the other hand ioc president thomas bach said on sunday that he was confident with the preparations. but despite all this the sochi winter olympics will open in on saturday a korean time and moving on the national football league seasons and came to a spectacular and at the seattle seahawks. rather the denver broncos in super bowl forty eight when the big game for twenty three two eight the psy op show by their team defense was the best of the week throughout the year linebacker malcolm smith was named mvp for returning the pain many interceptions for touchdowns which put his team to forfeit the catch and then heading to the fairways kevin stadler points trophy at the phoenix open for the first pga tour win in his twelve year career his victory was settled when bubba watson minutes apart but on the eighteenth hole and end with that he and his father frank stand there because of the night father son combo to win on the pga circuit and will be the first ever to play at the same time at the masters. now let's wrap this all of which the english premier league match day twenty four result

welcome bach votes being counted in switzerland following a referendum on proposals to limit the number of immigrants allowed to come and walk in the country the bill could put susan and all those with the e.u. on free movement with it also home country's economy as she is in this account of her poor. well today is the day that swiss voters decide whether to put up new immigration barriers to their european neighbors a vote that could trigger the country's exit from the single european market the nationwide referendum could count the number of e.u. citizens who get residency permits here which would undo a longstanding deal that lets swiss an e.u. nationals move really essentially an open borders agreement now to understand what's really behind this initiative you do have to look at the numbers switzerland has a population of just eight million people but it's seen a massive rise in immigration over the past decade in fact an estimated eighty thousand new residents come here each year and one fifth of the population is foreign born and that's simply too much according to the right wing

london he is a journalist and writer for the guardian and al-jazeera in berlin we have harold whelan bach he is a researcher and member of the european radicalization awareness network and in harrisburg we cross to paul godfried he is an author and professor emeritus at elizabethtown college right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect and you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it sunny if i go to you first say i think my introduction should be a little familiar to you because i stole it ok from an article that you wrote recently and i want to quote one of the sentences i'm talking about the right wing right wing groups in parties in the west they put on smart suits stop using crude racist language and set out to gain respectability explain to our viewers what you mean. well i think that a lot of the parties across western europe especially in the u.k. in france in germany austria austria you know and specially in the netherlands what they're trying to do is realize that a lot of the language at the youth in the past which was sometimes very anti semitic you know very ra

characterize the forty year cold war between the united states and russia and russia in the west are bach and in some ways it's different and in some ways it's even more dangerous just to bring this right into this week's new this new cold war may now be drawing the dividing line which was in berlin right on russia's borders in ukraine but this is a process that's been going on since the end of the soviet union nearly twenty two years now eric in new york how do you reflect upon that because i want to talk about ukraine a little bit later in the program but if you read western media right now i mean it's gotten to the point of steria absolute hysteria the the economist the washington post never friends of russia but in this week alone this is getting to the point of going to proportions that i have never ever seen even during the cold war i would say. well i think that the timing is instructive of course the sochi games the the triumphal sort of per session for russia on the world stage is they're attempting to undermine that of course as we all know the olympics is not merely an athletic

color again this is our international walk of bach britain's intelligence services say hundreds of britons who went to fight the regime of bashar al assad as syria have returned home and pose a serious threat of terrorism among the fears is that they could recruit even more young people willing to launch attacks in the u.k. under broad safra of how cities. that's causing huge concern here amongst the security services the police have said that they've made a number of arrests and they're monitoring the situation closely indeed ingenue it's thought that sixteen arrests have been made of people having returned back the irony here of course is that the british governments want the assad regime to go they've been pushing the transition and they've been supplying non-lethal aid to the rebels technically they are on the same side as d.g. harvests who are fighting the assad regime and the british fighters who will join those jihad is the concern those calls is that the supply terrorists the isis. of the british system instead of joining these the real worry is that obviously was there fighting wi