we've got a i've a cross he added to have a coffee at the far end of the table nice to see you ivor partridge as well the host of our r t world sports a pleasure to have you on you must be thrilled about what we're getting into tonight here with sochi going on the big kickoff going on tonight and james brown our residential intrepid explorer you've been all over the world's largest country and you've got some details to tell us all about sochi twenty fourteen in fact if i can if i can just perhaps start with james first here you're talking about the travel of the olympic flame it's been up it's been down it's been all around tell us about some of the highlights of the of the journey of the limbic torch well if there was ever a definition of an epic journey the torch relay certainly qualifies it's been through all eighty three regions one hundred thirty five six cities i've been to it to the pacific coast through nine time zones of russia and even beyond in fact my first. sort has been making history continuously i was with it when you could journey to the north pole on a nuclear ice breaker i