by yfp are together with programs offered in the ecocenter and of course having, allowing for interns from city college to continue to participate the operations maintenance monitoring and research and to develop further workplace skills as you've heard about before. and also to continue and to further working with our collaborators to ensure access to the ecocenter for community events, meetings and other things that you will hear about from our community advisory committee. >> one of the beautiful things about this collaboration is that we start with what peggy just described but then we really grow things starting day one and that's really with apri and tbif really bring to this collaboration is our expertise and our best practices regarding the opportunities. so our hope is that we will continue to move forward after our presentation today and i know the port intends or hopes that we are able to sign a lease starting on march 1st. at that time we will actually be able to hit the ground running with the existing programs that peggy already described but we will also be including these new pr

threat is aimed at russia and the olympics and the security warning is for carriers flying from international cities to russia. russian security forces are everywhere in sochi. they have built a so-called ring of steel to protect olympic venues and visitors. the russian olympic committee president says we've taken all the necessary measures to ensure safety. this includes deploying more than 40,000 police and soldiers. a federal official tells cbs news the alert originated after the arrest of chechen female suspects in austria and france. terrorists carried out twin suicide bombs in volgograd not far from sochi in december and million tajtses have vowed more attacks during the games -- militants have vowed more attacks during the games. alfonso van marsh, russia. >> the u.s. department says it will not change travel guidelines for americans going to the games but officials are advising americans to remain vigilant about security while in sochi. >>> crews are working round the clock to restore power to thousands left in the dark after yesterday's ice storm. right now fewer than 20,000 pepco customers

had it up there so we'll of course be bringing you all the very latest here on r t international from the olympic city and online as well at r.t. dot com and you can also had to our a list serve on our twitter feed and take a look at what's happening there well there you can a find tweets from the contestants of course and give them your feedback if you like russia's hockey team captain has tweeted his thanks to the many fans who have shown zero support and we will be keeping you up to date on all the olympic action here and here national so do stay with us for that and more. the g. twenty fourteen promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter sports in our. journey and you see no way i make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team to sochi twenty four take. on our team while moscow is urging washington to ensure that a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. is given an urgent medical treatment constantino his health is critical but he has been refused access to a doctor or did life here chaps kaye reports. first he received twenty years in prison in the united states for a crime he never co

the latest on the build up to the festivities for martin andrews joining us from the host city so officials from the international olympic committee very now they got a personal tour from a very special person tell us more about them. that's right matt president putin arrived earlier today ahead of the olympics starting on friday in the at the wonderful state but he's completely behind us we actually have a her hustle but taking place at the moment but it was the president putin's first stop when he met the if this is going to get some of the i.o.c. one hundred twenty six committee to open the session today this bus stop was to the small cheap national park what was that will do the same facts the whole group all of that it's posted liquids as then known through rehabilitation center was a pretty a few years ago impudence of actually went inside one of the cages to pets the cubs of course the wildlife is an important subject for the presidency important to the people of salt she so much so that they actually chose a letter to become one of the mascots of the winter olympics here in. regarding the actual delegates

games for martys martin andrews joining us live from sochi so martin officials from the international committee in the city now and they got a very special welcome from a very certain someone tell us more of that. that's right president putin arrived today ahead of the winter olympic opening ceremonies will take place on friday in fact if you look behind us in a spectacular vista that you see here you can see the fish stadium it sits forty thousand people and tonight in fact they had a gigantic fireworks display was delighted many residents here in the hotel as a rehearsal staging rehearsals in fact they had a previous one on sunday so although fortunately all the people i've spoken to being tight lipped over what that olympic ceremony will actually be will have to look forward to that on friday in the meantime president putin arrived today his first stop wasn't to meet the delegates of the i.o.c. it was actually to the national park were put himself actually went into the cages to see one of the persian leopards and actually strips the creature of course putin himself is a is a fan of wildlife as are many

potential threat is aimed at russia and olympics and the security warning is for carriers going from international cities. the oic president says we have taken all the necessary measures to ensure safety. this includes deploying more than 40,000 police and soldiers. a federal official tells cbs news the alert originated after the arrest of chechen female suspects in australia industry yeah and france. -- in austria and france. terrorists carried out twin suicide bombings in vogelsong in december and muslims vowed more attacks during the games. despite the warnings the russian government is doing everything possible to make sure the games are safe. officials are guaranteeing safety which everyone hopes is the case. live in the newsroom, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> the state department says the latest threat will not prompt any changes to travel guidelines for americans visiting the olympics. but the department still advises all americans to remain attentive about security while in russia. >>> happening today the san francisco bay conservation and development commission will hotted a briefing on the golden g

from san francisco to know this is an international icon. as people run and come from all over the world and invest this city my extraordinary state and buildinggeneration and carrying the eventually. as people gaze upon the trickling lights and the cables of willie brown bridge from now and into the future we need not know reason of this as a bridge named after willie brown. willie brown junior is the bridge that makes the ends connect (clapping) and from this day forward people will cross that bridge minority and a people of color and the like and ask themselves what makes that man so great and it's transforming this stooifk and the capital into the institution we know it as of today. we're honored speaker brown and willie brown to stand with you as we cross those bridges together. god bless you and god bless the state of california. god bless you (clapping.) well, now we know why we're here (laughter) he was leading the battle, of course, we're here. thank you very much assemblyman i see demeanor hall. i want to mention a couple of other elected officials. supervisor kim is here and supervisor cowen and dennis is here. he was the supervisor

worldwide news live from moscow city center international with me will receive thanks for joining us and an easy truce has been reached in ukraine after overnight talks between the president and the opposition aimed at stopping the bloodshed with china stay in the country over the last few days in total twenty six people have been killed in the clashes ten of them a policeman both sides and taking captives in what is beginning to look like a full on conflict. you may find some of the following images disturbing. for sure you know your memory is short enough here years ago you were. going. to be able to get lucky and it was fun to be at the seattle ring was when you. were you. know you know you're. going to be able. to get you fired first you can. already see if you will. and our correspondent alexia shaft has been on both sides of the barricades and he saw how quickly kiev itself turned into a battlefield he reports now on the delicate balance between finding a political agreement pushing their country beyond the point of no return. we reported from the independence square from the p

a tourist from taiwan was take pictures on the pier near the golden gate bridge last january and she fell in the frigid waters. a man who lives in the city and another who is an international student from china jumped into the water to rescue her. >> they did not know each other but they acted as we would think san franciscoans would act with a big heart, without thinking about the danger to themselves. >> i was trained adds an observation lifeguard in south carolina and did it many years. i actually have a foot injury and i was contemplating whether to go in and when i saw the situation deteriorating, i decided that i needed to go in. >> it is a person's life and i don't think about the consequences. >> together, the woman was pulled from the water with first responder showing up. >> without a moment's hesitation, rushed in, she was unconscious when they got her out and in a coma at the hospital for a couple of days and now she is 100 percent. >> she is back living in her native taiwan. if you called both of these brave men "heroes," you would be right. >> very heroic thing. do you feel like a hero? >> yeah, sometimes. >> no time to be modest, he is a hero, a third go sam

airlines operating flights from international cities to russia, but the bulletin also applies to a handful of direct flights involving american carriers flighting nonstop from the u.s. frank cilluffo who worked counterterrorism issues for george w. bush said terrorists are innovative, always seeking ways to smuggle bomb parts aboard planes. >> in this case it happens to be toothpaste. in the past it was liquids, and in the future it could be something else. >> reporter: officials will not identify which terror group may be at the center of this concern. but islamic radicals based in the northern caucasuses have repeatedly vowed to attack. >> terrorists have always looked to major sporting events in the olympics as lightning rods for certain activity. clearly when you're looking at sochi, it's a tough neighborhood. there's a long history of both nationalist movement and now what has been co-opted into more of a jihaddy threat in the region. >> reporter: sources say they're not aware of any specific plot. there is still no known threat to the u.s. homeland and we're told there's no evidence

the rain is pulling away from san francisco international airport but daly city and south san francisco all ready to get a sprinkle. same for dublin and headed to pleasanton. across the north by we are looking at scattered showers from san rafael, up 101, into santa rosa. lowest visibility is 1.5 miles at half moon bay. san francisco international airport is an hour and 47 minute flight arrival delays. light showers will taper in the afternoon and heavy rain and windy and thunder tonight and scatters showers through saturday. the front moved through overnight and the thunder and lightning with thunder snow around yosemite village and a plume of moisture along the cold front where urban flooding is an issue and wind damage. a lot of the damage could happen while we are sleeping so tune in 24 hours from now and we will have that covered as the biggest part of the storm moves in overnight. at 10:00, the steady rain moves in and the thunderstorms and the winds and urban flooding potential around midnight through 3:00 in the morning it is a stormy start to the commute which is a nightmare be

under international law accuses israel of using excessive force against palestinian protesters in the occupied land saying some killings could be tantamount to war crimes. from the city center in moscow this is art international with twenty four hours a day the iranis of ultra nationalism in the capital is causing tensions in southern ukraine the center of unrest is now in the capital of the autonomous region of crimea and local parliament there was voted to hold a regional referendum which could push them even further away from kids control you have this kind of is there for us. crimean parliament has released the local prime minister from his duties basically dispersing the government as well and has set a date for a referendum over whether or not to stay with ukraine and this date is may twenty fifth which is the same day when the new authorities in kiev are planning to hold nationwide presidential elections in fact they said that crimea is have no rights to hold any sort of referendums independently under new laws which have been passed recently in kiev and now in the meantime over and over the night here in the capital of the crimea a group of unknown pro russia

international criminal organizations. >> that was adam rainy reporting from mexico city. >>> criminal investigation has been launcheded induke energy for a second leak of arsenic-laced waste without their fell in the dan river in north carolina. al jazerra afternoons robber ray has the story. >> reporter: when toxic coal ash started pouring in to the water, environmental groups turned their eye to his north carolina's governor pat mccrory. they waited for four days for a response it came in a tweet from ma cory saying he would visit the site to be briefed on the spill he is a former duke company executive. a company he spent 28 year old with. one group took issue with that during his campaign. >> pat mccrory's questionable ethics, case number two, duke energy. >> reporter: john frank is a political reporter and says mccrory's ties to duke energy have raised eyebrows. >> and the questions go well beyond that. state utilities commission regulates duke energy and mccrory filled his administration with a number of former duke energy executives. >> reporter: a cause for concern among environment the groups after 30,000 tons o

latest on the build up to the games from our own martin andrews live in the host city with the latest hello martin good to have you with us officials from the international olympic committee there in the sea. now and they got a personal tour from president vladimir putin tell us more about that. yes that's right president putin arrived earlier today his first stop is actually to the such a national park where he visited a leopard rehabilitation center that was sort of a few years ago he then went off to meet the delegates and the wives and the. you see the one hundred twenty six session was formally opened there he met there was actually he introduced himself and spoke to them in english they had a gigantic feast and a putting speeches at this wonderful glorious old soviet architectural house beautiful white everyone's in formal dress and that they listen to traditional russian music and some western music course thrown in with the likes of queen and we are the champions regarding obviously people talking about security here at the winter olympics which opens on friday just three days away and we spoke to the mayor of the olympic mountain village. who ha

showed their support and of course we'll be bringing you all the latest news from the olympic city here on r.t. international. the g twenty four team promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter and. make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take these teams to sochi twenty four take. on. and to some of the week's other news german chancellor angela merkel proposing to break up the world wide web by creating a pan-european network she wants to prevent snooping from across the atlantic the move after revelations from edward snowden showing that europe has long been a target of u.s. intelligence or decency cavanagh reports from berlin. the german chancellor is interested in effectively building up a european communication network to avoid e-mails and other data passing through the united states now it's not a separate internet so to speak but more of a way to prevent e-mails and other data from being harvested by u.s. intelligence agencies now this is just an idea at this point and it is one that merkel will certainly be discussing with the french president when they meet in france on wednesday merkel sa

from birmingham in the u.k. thank you so much for your views here in our international. and stay with iraq the country's army has stepped up its bombardment on the city of fallujah reportedly had a full on the ground offensive. that the city was seized by militants connected to al qaida in early january and has been under intense shelling for days the government's been holding off from sending in troops to give local tribesmen time to oust insurgents security in iraq has been getting worse with almost eight thousand people killed in sectarian violence last here. coming up later this hour here in catching out the cops i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructing them with this thing that could have been six months in prison and that would have completely revoked oblique changed my life are he speaks to a student about how a video that went viral helped him prove misconduct carried out against him by the police. told me my language or what i will only react to situations i have read the reports but i'm like but it should be no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point. to carry out a call it's all you

international studies. also a scholar at the middle east institute. from new york city michael weiss fellow from the institute of modern russia and columnist. he has covered the story from inside syria including the siege of aleppo in 2012. and heather, her work focuses on the civilian and conflict resolution. and let me start with you. in conflict resolution, we have a leader who is willing to do anything to stay in power, and at the same time knows his opponents are not willing to do anything to make him leave. >> we have two basic problems. that's one. the other one is the neighbors' neighbors who want different things and each want different things more than to have the violence to stop. if you had agreement amongst syria's neighbors you might have more on the first one you mentioned. but it's very hard to see how the violence stops. >> during the peace talks that just ended, daniel, sir, were we fated to end with this failure, this break up that we saw over the weekend once it was clear that the opposition was going to stick to its guns, that it wouldn't countenanc

from home. >> reporter: it's a city within a city. the ibc, international broadcast center. down every long hall that seems to never end, you'll find journalists buzzing around. 11,000 journalists from all over the world working the sochi games, many working day and night, 24 hours a day. nbc of course as well as the associated press getting images cctv, broadcasting stations from australia, finland, france. long hours, long day, a lot of responsibility. >> my job is to organize the camera crews, all the reporters and decide what features we're making. >> it's amazing. absolutely love it. so much fun. such an adrenaline rush. it's crazy but great fun. >> it's also a lot of work. most of us are locked down here a month. we can find everything we need. a general store, bank, post office, laundry services, and of course mcdonalds. >> you can even get a massage. five minutes cost you about $1.50. >> after a five minute break, we're off tracking local athletes. every country here has their own star athlete to watch. >> we have many here, not just one. i think she's athlete -- >> a

cities. the latest expression of international concern has come from on wednesday he called for the violence that claimed the fourteen nights just got into one of the worst affected areas the border station that era the animosity against the government of neglect which already runs deep in some sense he was doing in there. time is apparent in rich hill has been a swing and protesters refused to be reined in. they make a surge of violence extent it's the latter. we can manifest into buried and loved ones were those cowards don't want to know words or are there hidden among us. i am yawning like these opposition supporters not to sign ends the key to growth. they held a good excuse and pretended that the security forces. hee hee hundred children to suffer that i passed. see the market is flooded minute is. tonight will be undergoing a while the country's president has called for a guy known in the lead i know for sure and his attendance for all the support. i felt it in the general wants to invite people to announce he can be so it was some music on and solve problems he has no idea looking. l

from around the globe. dropped. welcome back to international aid convoys are on their way to the embattled syrian city of homes where civilians have been bearing the brunt of the war dozens of people were evacuated on friday as part of being agreements reached at the geneva two conference on the syrian government says it's where you to continue talks with the opposition at the summit being mediated by the one of the rebel delegates don't enjoy popular support inside syria or radical islamists are now dominating the fight against assad hundreds a western volunteers have the ranks of the opposition fighters sparing and sparking fears they could bring terrible problem with the. a british heart is known as i will survive model be taught he is believed to be the first brit to have carried out a suicide attack in syria after a vehicle packed with explosives was taken to a prison allowing some three hundred prisoners to escape now british citizens along with other europeans to travel into syria some as young as sixteen and fighting alongside jihad is groups of long been a concern for authorities believe now that there are

it's all its international live from moscow i'm wrong re sushi of course here in russia and around the world the olympic city of sochi is absolutely the main focus of attention that's across that now for your latest winter olympic updates with my colleague. yeah hi there oriole big news here tonight as day four comes to a close lympics in sochi speed skater olga fact colins russia's heroine tonight winning the hosts only medal on tuesday she says his silver podium finish was only possible thanks to a psychologist who helped to cope with some of the extreme nerves she was only head of the big race let's get more on this now on the rest of the olympic stories in the thick of it all with the crowds in the arena as is paul scott other paul tell us first of all about the speed skating success and on the same thing that. while it was somewhat of a surprise is older for cooler one silver she transferred her domestic success onto the international scene with a silver medal in the five hundred meter speedskating in the arena elsewhere it was a case of win one lose one for russia's female curlers they went down seven

if people bowl events in london and sandals from aids in japan to prepare for an international conference scheduled for march of next year in sand die. the city was hit high by the earthquake and tsunami in march two thousand eleven getting away from these idea that is the dishonest is an event it up as you pay for it to move on to treating us to become top four countries plumbing for them said. also noted that awareness and disaster management as in print across the globe. but there's still room for improvement. now sam asa said many countries are linking to japan hoping it will share the lessons it has learned from a variety of disasters the day. few people we are do you want. but after that preview. people start to the stars are so strong. they stopped building. because each of them was a bit stiff to play. it could afford it's stupid to. real. don't you. japan's government says the sea shepherd has disrupted operations of the two of the country's research whaling vessels in the antarctic ocean attentive strike the fleet repeat eclipsing therapists here the agency if it shows the activists from the anti really do like thirteen of what appe

organized drug trade, an assist important professor of international service, where he is focused on us-mexican cooperation in law enforcement. from mexico cityrector of security studies at the institute for mexican competitiveness. he is a former mexican intelligence officer, and has a blog about drugs and crime in mexico. and john torres, managing director of guide post solutions, special agent in charge for homeland security investigation in d.c. and virginia at the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency. i would like to hear from a mexican whether this is a big deal or not? >> it is a huge deal for a number of reasons. ethically this is tremendous because this guy was the face of mexican impunity in so many ways. this guy had mocked the mexican institutions, the mexican justice system for years. so bringing him back i think is a powerful signal that i think to some extent impunity has some limits. and it is a blow to the largest, most sophisticated criminal organization in mexico, and it pushes the transition towards smaller, more local, less soft us indicated gangs. i think that transition has been going on for a while, and will

fire stations and three stations at san francisco international airport and station 49 which the station from ambulances are deployed throughout the city. they're currently as of october 2013, ,131,393 unformed employees at the fire department. 1,070 are in fire suppression and 323 are in emergency medical services. the fire department has the fifth largest department budget in the city. and its resources are derived from the general fund. total projected expenditures for the fire department and fiscal year totalled on -- >> we're having a technical glitch here. in 1997, the city's ems emergency emergency function was relocated from the department of public health to the san francisco fire department. and today the fire department continues to provide both fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city. the table presented here shows the total calls for service broken out by function of ems and fire from 2005 through 2013. over the past few decades the courts and the elector has taken -- in 1988 in response to civil litigation, a federal judge ordered a consent decree which had work force requirements for the san francisco

three hundred more people have been evacuated from the besieged city of homs after a cease fire was extended for another three days. well this is r.t. international we are your olympic headquarters the latest sporting news from the sochi seacoast coming up in a break on our international though if you're watching us from london you're going underground. there's a saying when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple but really she's not simple. and full of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we've undertaken a unique operation. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. a good intelligence unit attached to u.k. . whole range of different opportunities to information they get it from the media. people can give them information to get trained of information across and bardos is actually quite complicated what we do is in egypt intelligence function is to use a little range of sort of independent inf

will sing with the assyrian the president of the international red cross says voices along with the chaos surrounding the evacuation of civilians from the city of palms thousands of people being trapped in rebel held areas all city some of them for more than six hundred days of the icrc she described situation in homes is extremely complex and political parties to respect humanitarian role as a guest post was a house a mother and trials free and honest to your home try to insulate homes. they note showing some one thousand four hundred of those who struggles to escape the besieged old town in recent days. thanks to a french au un brokered truce indeed carrying a harrowing memories of daily bombings and the trauma of near starvation. what if you live with that khamenei things pre teens to recruits. are we eating plants to surviving in the most basic way. it's not a well known. the women children the elderly the ordeal of homes might now be under threat. many evacuees deemed to be open in a tree a huge part the regime being held for questioning the sounds of thirty sikkim to out what they see as potential terrorists and the spirits of men who

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from international petroleum week and sarah first before sing for us. to some normal level headline is right now protesters in this spanish city. valencia have burned effigies of police officers before finals and marched through the city angry at a government changes to abortion rules two people were reportedly arrested under the new legislation women would only be allowed to have an abortion in cases of rape or if there is a serious risk to the health of the fetus or the mother. ongoing clashes between opposition activists sunrise police have now left five people dead in venezuela a local beauty queen was the most recent victim of the violence reached the battles continued in the center of the capital as the opposition movement kept up its called the government to resign tensions have original caracas after a leader of the demonstrations hundred himself into police on tuesday. hundreds of protesters have gathered in thailand outside the headquarters of the company links to the family of the prime minister they're calling call people to boycott of the businesses for protesters and a police officer died in clashes on tuesday in

chaos which could force international action, even by the u.s. tonight, a city is in ruins, seen from above and a bloody battle is playing out on the ground, amid reports of a truce coming in tonight. abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran is right there. terry? >> reporter: diane, that truce was announced by the ukrainian president late tonight. one day after he sent security forces into the square behind me, touching off a bloody battle. they're still out there. the fires are still burning. and tonight, there is no sign of a cease-fire. all day today and into the night, downtown kiev smoldered and burned. this city, and the world, still shaken by the terrible scenes that flashed from here yesterday. protesters shot down. police lines aflame. the dead lying in the streets. but this afternoon, when we clambered over the barricades, into the central square, we found thousands of ordinary ukrainians gathered again, young and old, men and women, undeterred, undaunted. they say they want freedom and democracy. >> this is the last war. this is the last chance for us. if not, we will

have more from islamabad. [ protesting ] >> this is one of the biggest international protests in solidarity for the al jazeera journalists that have been held in egypt. journalists from 13 cities from cross the country and have gathered in different parts of pakistan. they say that egypt should immediately release the journalists and say this is not just a day of protests but will continue their protests until the journalists are released, and they urge the pakistani government to use all men's too-to-realize al jazeera staff. >> police say suicide-bomber was behind the blast of a tourist bus on the border of israel. four people were killed and a dozen from injured, most of them tourists from south korea. they were traveling into israel when it was set off. >>> swiss police are questioning a pilot who hijacked his own plane and landed in egypt. his hijacked the plane when his colleague went to the lavatory. the fear was this was a full-scale armed hijacking. at this stage the passengers were unaware of the unfolding events. the plane eventually touched down in geneva at 6:00 in the morning local time. the co-pilot said he sought asylum for fear of persecution in ethiopia. at t

international the fresh round of violence that has flared up in kiev these are live pictures that you're seeing there from be kept. city where another showdown between the rioters and law enforcement is happening as we speak now a deadline given to the protesters to clear the streets expired over two hours ago seven civilians and two police officers are now said to have been killed in today's fighting which has clearly become the bloodiest to hit kiev since the protests began last november one hundred twenty police officers have been injured in clashes the majority of them have needed hospital treatment rotters moved on the parliament in clash with police using firearms rocks molotov cocktails and explosives so these are the live pictures at the moment and we've been hearing from the alexia chef ski who's our correspondent he's just made his way now to kiev and we'll hear more from him at the moment but just a few minutes ago he was saying that the tensions are building more and more after the deadline exerted upon the protesters to clear the streets has now passed and they're still there alexander private she's talkin

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international criminal organizations. >> that was al jazerra's adam rainy reporting from mexico city. >>> television food programs have long palate, but now a new canadian show is helping cancer patients struggling with making healthier food choices, al jazerra's daniel lack has the story from toronto. >> how is everybody doing to? >> reporter: cooking well to help cure cancer shot before a live audience it features food that's nutritiousing desirable and most importantly when cancer treatments cause lost appetites or fatigue easy to prepare. >> cooking doesn't have to be hard. chefs make it see fancy bus it's easy. i try to present that. >> we will get the protein. >> reporter: the hosts make the food. they explain ingredients and answer questions. a starter, breads, main course and desert. ale for a patient who might normally open a tin, defrost something bad for them or worse not eat at all. >> easy to make, ingredients are ease toe find and something that people see us do and think, wow, it's that easy, it doesn't have to take a lot of effort and it's going to make me feel better. >> reporter: fussy eaters, food allerg

which international coming to live from moscow with memories. of the olympic flame has arrived in the host city of sochi heralding the final relay stage before the games begin and what a journey it's been more than sixty thousand kilometers across the vastness of russia and all the way into orbit and the international space station among those welcoming in sochi artie's martin andrews and paul scott. what a journey it's made sixty five thousand kilometers around the largest country in the world that is russia fourteen thousand torchbearers over one hundred twenty three cities in russia featuring such features going up as you said to the international space station the first time in history it made a space walk event should up to the north pole it's been a summary visit of the largest freshwater lake in the world by cal in siberia and finally after months of anticipation it is here in salt in fact it will rise not by land but on a yacht and it will make its way across to adler very close to the olympic park where the opening ceremony will take place on friday she missed out space left at the air

this is all to international with the twenty four hours a day live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm and eight pm in kiev where unrest has reignited in the city just a day after the government's amnesty for protest as came into force rotters clash with police on the streets of the ukrainian capital with reports of fatalities on both sides and as you can see in this video it's increasingly difficult to understand just who the people in uniforms are attacking what are presumed to be ukraine's riot police and in this video we can show you just what means are being used against the authorities you can clearly see camouflage men with real guns pretty far out police have been attacked by shells of molotov cocktails and rocks and this is how protest of detroit. so this video apparently shows the first victims of today's massive clashes between the protesters and law enforcers interior ministry confirmed the deaths of nine people now with two police officers among them in the bloodiest wave of violence to hit since the protests began last november let's get the latest now from. going to school. so a dark day for ukraine tell us what is going on there

from home. >> it's a city within a city. the ibc, international broadcast center. down every long hall that seems to never end, you'll find journalist buzzing around. 11,000 from all over the world work these sochi games. many work day and night, 24 hours a day. nbc including the associated press, cctv, broadcasting stations from france, australia. long hours, long day, a lot of responsibility. >> my job is organize the camera crews and reporters. >> it's amazing. absolutely love it. so much fun. such an adrenaline rush. it's crazy but great fun. >> it's also a lot of work. most of us are locked down here a month. we can find everything we need. a general store bank, laundry services, mcdonald's. >> you can get a massage. five minutes cost about $1.50. >> after a break, we're off again tracking athletes. every country here has their own star athlete to watch. >> we have many athlete, not just one. >> we gain a lot. the player name. she's the best player. >> that was janelle wang reporting. one of the people reporting working hard is our own jim handly. see his repor

from california cities like palm springs and monterey. delays averaged they hours. in delays at oakland or san jose international airport but a lot of the airlines sent a seattle flight to san jose rather than san francisco because of the wet weather. >> crews are removing downed trees best next storm. this fell across highway one in marin county. it blocked lanes until the workers can remove it. it caused minor flooding on the highway and it jammed open. the hardest rain fell on the north bay as commuters were driving home. our reporter was scouting 101 and shows us the impact. >> water in the roads. cars are driving too fast. >> c.h.p. officer took in a spray after being pelted in the face by the wind-driven rain. he, worked overturned pick truck on northbound highway 101 and a single car accident that happened at 6:30. the driver was uninjured but backed up the drive home for several miles. >> he hit a puddle and it spilled down here and that caused him to loose control. he hydroplaned. >> it is scary. >> freddie is talking about the hydroplaning hazard on highway 101. >> it is overflowing. the rain is high a