team is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region margaret howell r t. where is the olympic and paralympic games fast approaching don't forget to follow the amazing journey of the olympic torch we've been following it on line it's the best of the longest flame relay in the history of the games that are teen dot com. is on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through. cities of. relayed by fourteen thousand people or six. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others. olympic torch relay. m r r r. germany revels in its international image for efficiency and quality but behind the stereotype often lies a different story some taxpayers are complaining national projects are costing them billions thanks to bad planning archies peter oliver looks at the price the e.u. is leading economy pays when it comes to construction. if you listen to the politicians germany's ruling in it but if you believe those following the money trail is a different story. meanly it's a problem with cost estimates they use the wrong data they start building and

team for the first time we've already seen them in training and met their captain so artie's margaret howell went to meet the family behind him who helped him deal with adversity and become a top level athlete. well for the games the who can he is known as the captain of the national paralympic flood talking team here in russia but in this tells his just notice dad. we asked about his family and the first time he met his wife irene a. we first met when i was in the army serving in this area there was a spark from the very beginning and grew as we dated it you could see it was love at first sight my entire life changed it had a new meaning but another kind of change was coming the two were considering time the not one of a team went off to war where he lost both of his legs i removed into his hospital room to help with his care and the couple continued with their plan to marry when asked about the proposal irene a said she knew it was coming. well i was expecting the proposal the wedding day we had a lot of guests and we all had so much fun. but the mood changes a little when we ask our rena

people died in the attacks while twice that number remain in hospitals many in intensive care margaret howell has been keeping up with the condition of one of them the youngest terror victim. bekah is just three months old but she's found that life can be hard and unjust she was badly injured and a terrible terror attack she is now in an induced coma in intensive care clinging on to life what we give you is a baby girl remains and a coma we put her on a ventilator in intensive care also she sustained some light yet serious brain damage condition is very serious but we've got it under control on that dreadful morning of december thirtieth vico caught a fever and was on route to a hospital with her mother and grandmother when a powerful explosion rocked their trolley bus the three happened to be in the very epicenter the women died the infant survived it was blind luck the thick blanket she was wrapped in saved her from life threatening burns she was pulled from the wreckage in a critical condition only two days ago doctors allowed her to be airlifted to moscow's children's hospital so it's her

the russian city of volgograd doctors say her condition remains critical but stable correspond margaret howell reports the guy is just three months old but she's found that life can be hard and unjust she was badly injured and a terrible terror attack she is now in an induced coma in intensive care clinging onto life what it could you is a baby girl remains and a coma we put her on a ventilator in intensive care also she sustained some light yet serious brain damage condition is very serious but we've got it under control. on that dreadful morning of december thirtieth caught a fever and was on route to a hospital with her mother and grandmother when a powerful explosion rocked their trolley bus the three happened to be in the very epicenter the women died the infant survived it was blind luck the thick blanket she was wrapped in saved her from life threatening burns she was pulled from the wreckage in a critical condition only two days ago doctors allowed her to be airlifted to moscow's children's hospital so it's here in this hospital where baby is receiving treatment for those entries to he

margaret howell our team. and following the blast russian president vladimir putin has responded he's not too cold and nine only referring of course to those who were castrated two bomb attacks in the country in less than twenty four hours. his new year's eve our marks for the first comments he's made since a suicide attack that took place on sunday. rtc for this cannot pass more. the president changed his traditional new year's address location from the clement to the blast in the russian far east where he's currently on an unexpected visit. we knew we are with those affected by major floods which happens in the region. last summer what's important. the more things to talk about us spoke about the challenges at work after facing two thousand and thirteen including the two way this is their attacks to be little doubt that the president listens with its condolences to the families of victims of white people white all the necessary support and help and also promised to continue fighting terrorists until they are

officials on the issue of child casualties of course is especially disturbing i just margaret howell has been looking into that and let's now get more on this so margaret wednesday's air strike is of course just the latest incident of civilians being killed by american fire is it will just last week an accidental shot by u.s. special forces on the dry bloody stain ground on afghanistan's helmand province a four year old boy lay dead and troops say they mistakenly shot the child in the dusty weather the toddler's death is just a painful reminder that there are still serious collateral damage since the afghanistan invasion began more than a decade ago but april twenty third seen an airstrike killed eleven afghan children and the kumar province and the east here are the numbers. well in two thousand and nine one hundred thirty one children killed in the airstrikes twenty two died in nighttime raids by two thousand and eleven one hundred ten children killed in two thousand and twelve seventy four children died so far the hundreds of children's deaths at the hands of foreign troops have no

eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region and margaret howell r.t. . on the flaws at length and parnham big games fast approaching don't forget to follow the amazing journey of the olympic flame well been following it aligns cash the best bits of the longest torch relay in the history of the games at. the olympic torch is on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty plans. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space. a lizard a large. on mars. coming up in the program pool planning. this building site will eventually become. whole however it's already over its original budgets it's set to close to a billion euro. german tanks while we are going over huge amounts of public college full nationwide construction projects that's dusting them many times that's after the break. choose your language. with. some of. the consensus. choose the opinions that you. choose to stories get him. to to speak. if you. got no opportunity. to s

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the ideas he represented have gone somewhere a legacy few other political leaders can hope for margaret howell r.t. . we did speak to caleb maupin from the workers world party he believes the u.s. welfare system actually takes its roots from the u.s.s.r. . we need to recognise that part of the reason that workers even in the united states have things like social security food stamps unemployment insurance that these things came as a result of the soviet union that the capitalist powers the united states were forced to give concessions because the soviet union existed and it was it was in competition so so we're really seeing the austerity that continues all across europe right now and across the western world as a result of the collapse of the soviet union labor unions have been weakened. and coming up today here at odyssey international are just about as far as you can get boxcars are suggesting that buying exactly shining examples of august. i would imagine if you asked the chairman and the president in the c b c right now what they had for lunch they would lie they would they would have mad

also visited the morning city to pay tribute to the dead visited the injured in hospital to his margaret howell reports president putin has arrived in volgograd and he has had a very busy morning he laid flowers at the site of the latest blast on monday an explosion that ripped through a trolley bus during rush hour we know is also taking a tour of one of the hospitals here where many of the wounded are being treated he was briefed on their condition and met them personally wishing each of them a fast recovery and a happy new year the president also held a meeting with the heads of the federal security service and emergency committee on their current terror activities of the tragic events in volgograd where we're on putin's mind however even before the new year as he rewrote that annual address to the nation pledging to fight terrorism still the very end and he was speaking for the first time not from outside the kremlin but from the far east city of culture oscar where it was hit by a massive flood last year. with russia has always stood united in face of trial but argue that we are friends an

margaret howell. rte coast to keep him today though because progress to posting about the attacks god he sprinted into the new clocks but tuesday says global powers need to unite against terrorism if they want to eliminate it. why should i be. cheney's trip to saudi arabia which is a major storms on one of the record i'm a creature of what the west to relax foreign policy. the company to do the serious somewhat happy all the same site as a because he couldn't drink it with a not least we're even saudi arabia needs of the book was written in syria and that to be removed. beat the in the west. i think we need to get to work closely with russia that is when there is close cooperation of a possible means to be where we had the russian warnings about the site started this for a meal called by the americans that this band and it intended to sell its russian warnings. it would be sold. and so on with the west coast will cooperate. more seriously with russia and the pecans. it would get the radical terrorists

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the ideas he represented live on somewhere a legacy few other political leaders can hope for margaret howellr.t. . so for more insight on the socialist aspirations of modern society when i was joined live by fry of reading book an editor of the danish newspaper by thank you very much for joining us here are to international today from being a idolise to severely criticized and now heading back to positive just how does the world see the image of lenin today thank you for having me on the show well naturally the ideas of socialism where we can die after the fall of the soviet union but i think this is changing now after nine years of the crisis in the capitalist system with more and more people experiencing the consequences of the crisis these ideas they never really disappeared and now they're coming back people and actually looking for alternatives and i think when you look at europe today the figures speak for themselves with one out of every four european at the risk of poverty and twenty five million unemployed europeans people are looking for alternatives as i said and even though the w

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margaret howell. rte besides says the remote into the football league has some politicians and cool to bring about the death penalty the center isn't even of their opponents say that the current deal was far enough. hold on to aussie film called the concealed going on there. to my two cities the west of baghdad in the grip of intense fight to deny according to latest reports the iraqi army's killed an al qaeda commander in a monday which the governments said that it into a haven for insurgents the coffin escalate the daily this week when to trade and anti regime protests come either the citadel in true that the rebels regain control of the year again. putting on friday kind of one hundred lives said of them civilians he comes up feelin reports confirming that last year was the bloodiest for iraq since two thousand and a defense consultant complete and the smaller group believes the roofs of the crisis though. oh well outside iraq but security is nonexistent in iraq the situation is made to create it o

the city started three days of mourning for those who fell victim to the acts of terror artie's margaret howell reports. it is a somber mood here of course with all that has happened over the past couple of days i want to say though of volgograd is a city of hope and i was really encouraged on our way back from dinner we saw some children and they were dressed for the new year and you know this is a city of hope and it this something this is something that does happen globally it is a global issue it's not a russian issue and cities across the world have dealt with terrorist attacks like these and unfortunately will the crowd this is happens here. a sober mood yes with the three days of mourning and there is a damper here on the city we do hear a little bit of fireworks in the background but not what you would expect on new year's eve but we were able to visit with the victim's family members who had them you know other family members die as well as victims who survived these attacks and in particular one young man the security officer who died the first victim of the terrorist attack he was ab

dream is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region margaret howell r.t. and with. part in big games finest approaching don't forget to follow that mazing journey to claim or been falling into line as well cashed the best bet so they record breaking torture emailed the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi. the olympic torch is on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space. a large feeling. on march the march to the cool. of the bank and a few moments after the break we're trying why russia sayings greenpeace is connected with the seizure one of its trolling is by sending them to. the media leave us so we leave the b.b.c. . the scene pushes you to the place your party there's a good. news that no one is at school with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are t.v. . dramas the truth be ignored. stories others the few still notes. suggests changing the world

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terror attacks in volgograd she's currently in intensive care at a hospital in moscow are just margaret howell has more details on her condition. i am here at this children's hospital where baby was brought and she is currently fighting for her life behind me now doctors did give up a press conference earlier regarding what they are doing for her and here's what they had to say what are good you as a baby go remains in a coma we put her on a ventilator in intensive care also she sustained some light yet serious brain damage the condition is very serious it's we've got it under control they b.b.q. was originally on the trolley on eight thirty december the thirtieth that bus with her mother and her grandmother they were headed to the hospital where because it was already sick and going to receive some testing to find out what was going on they were standing at the epicenter of that blast and very close proximity to the suicide bomber now the mother and the grandmother killed a baby because surviving that blast based on her blanket wrapped tightly around her it did protect her from receiving life

margaret howell our teeth. allison moldovan came just months before the winter games in sochi is sparking speculation that times can be when they said to them and takes hold of london sochi are in the same region at around six hundred and fifty planning to separate. they separated. this is his thing to ashland to cami says he's confident lunch out what to leave a safe and secure gangs and places years he has been ordered or cut squash in the wake of the bombings just as fun as the retreat of these russian intelligence has extensive experience in dealing with these two actions. what we're going to see is certainly a very crackdown one that was intended to send a message but likely the real machinations are going to happen in private as the russian intelligence services in the various other relevant agencies do their work behind the scenes remember that this is precisely the kind of work that the russian intelligence services were doing in in the aftermath of the boston bombing here in the united states which acc

eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region and margaret howell r t well with both the olympic and paralympic games fast approaching don't forget to of follow the amazing journey of the olympic flame we've been following it online as well for you can catch the best moments of the record breaking torch relay of the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi on the dot com. philip the church is on its epic journey to. one hundred and twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space. olympic torch relay. on march. eighteenth the national life here mosque i'll be back in a few moments so off to the break we track why russia thinks that greenpeace is connected with the seizure of one of its trawlers by senegalese authorities stay with us for that. while more than thirty members of the syrian national coalition of already resigned over the group's participation the block has postponed its final decisi

margaret howell. rte if you get more perspective on anti terror efforts and updates on the investigation is the bulk of the bombings over on our website our t dot com. since the poker brat bombings rt has been getting reactions and expert opinions from around the world experts we talked to seemed to agree that no country can tell it alone when it comes to counterterrorism. we're talking about a jihadist movement which is linked to al qaeda operation. just in russia but also on cctv soon as we know now not the right motive is not different from his attacks on moscow on other divisions inside russia and our state is not so different from backpacks that has happened around the world with the texans nineteen seventy two wounded and picks in germany. any sporting event of a made to size is bound to track activity. terrorism doesn't so much for my own that buying it was a buffet of all the practice squad player than even that of all the grad is some four hundred miles away from the site of the winter and pi

in moscow margaret howell r t. following the attack some politicians have called to bring back the death penalty for terrorism even though they are polled and say the current law is enough while the in charge you don't call to see the argument. i will return very soon with more news don't go away. we're going to go. you know a large scale wholesale spying meanwhile things like. fraud when you real crimes are going on and the government so devoted almost no resources to actually come about in those things you know it to me this is an obvious thing to say if you want to spend money making the internet a safer place you don't spend money spying on everybody you spend money seeking out criminals and prosecuting them. he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving up. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the miracle worker on. welcome back this is or t. international south africa's ruling party wants to change the name of the capital britto oria they

the ideas he represented live on somewhere a legacy few other political leaders can hope for margaret howell r.t. . earlier we did speak to caleb maupin from workers world party he believes the us welfare system actually takes its roots from the u.s.s.r. . we need to recognize that part of the reason that workers even in the united states have things like social security stamps unemployment insurance that these things came as a result of the soviet union that the capitalist powers the united states were forced to give concessions because the soviet union existed and it was it was in competition so so we're really seeing the austerity that continues all across europe right now and across the western world as a result of the collapse of the soviet union labor unions have been weakened. to the american city of omaha and now as we go into the yard. where a large of an animal feed plant there was left at least two people dead another ten seriously injured it's not yet clear what caused the blast and one witness inside the plant said he heard a large crowd before the back wall of the factory colla

eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region and margaret howell r t well both the one pick in paralympic games foster approaching them forget to follow the amazing journey of the and then pick flame we've been following it all on as well you can catch the best moments of the record breaking torch relay of the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi on all t.v. dot com. it's on its epic journey. three days. through. four six. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space. on mars. i'll be back in a few moments with the break we'll be tracking white russia thinks green peace is connected with the seizure of one of its foreigners by senegalese authorities that know the story's coming away. told them a language of all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports and like for the know i will leave it to the states to comment on your letter play the monthly. car is on the docket. no more weasel words when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you. get ready for a. critical speech and slid down the students are

this year from a chechen extremist group who has pledged to wreak havoc in the country artie's margaret howell is in volgograd and has the latest on this tragedy. it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to me moving more slowly and i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard but here is their story it's been one more an uneasy night for residents of russia's southern city of boulder god loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks here held vigils in hospitals while others mourned. he was a good man a good father a good son a good grandson or not so many of such good ones around the good ones die first. with barely contained tears. clutches to the memory of his son who was the victim of sunday's attack at the train station. sergei was a security guard. job for about a year i saw how it all happened on the video footage he was standing by the railing during the security check and then there was this man coming in and he just barely made it towards him and then there was a blast and it was over there gaze f

dream is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region margaret howell r.t. and with the olympic and paralympic games the finest approaching don't forget to follow the amazing journey of the olympic flame we've been following it online as well catch the best bits of the record breaking torch relay of the twenty eight fourteen winter olympics in sochi own home. it's on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through. cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space. a lizard a large tree lay. on mars. the second round of peace talks all syria is around the corner but the country has a position blog is split on whether to attend coming up in just a couple of minutes we've got an expert opinion on what's behind the syrian national coalition as divided styles stay with us. they all told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to put the no i'll leave that to the state department to comment on your letter play of the mo

officials the issue of child casualties is of course especially disturbing i just margaret howell has been looking into it. just last week an accidental shot by u.s. special forces on the dry bloodiest day in ground about ghana stems helmand province a four year old boy troops say they mistakenly shot the child and dusty weather well the toddler's death is a painful reminder that there are still serious collateral damage since the afghanistan invasion began more than a decade ago april twenty third seen an airstrike killed eleven afghan children and the coup in our province in the east here of the un numbers in two thousand and nine one hundred thirty one children in airstrikes twenty two nighttime raids by two thousand and eleven one hundred ten children killed in two thousand and twelve seventy four children died and so far the hundreds of children's deaths at the hands of foreign troops have not perpetuated a single political actor on the world stage to change the policy on the ground will that's until now while collecting the data about civilian casualties is difficult when u.n. f

in amongst the reeds and margaret howell our team with both feet in the compartment the games cost approaching going to get to follow the amazing journey of the canopy frame. before going online as well. catch the vestments of the record breaking cold freezing the fourteen contestants of the autopsy. telkom. the art the journey to start. one hundred and twenty three games. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities project. the essay by fourteen thousand people. for sixty five thousand gallon in a record setting a trap by land air sea and outer space. olympic torch relay chores are more scared coming up this out of taxpayers picking up the endless hills. these buildings like will eventually be calm but spreading it calms the toll however it's already with him telling him to the regional budget is set to cost close to a billion euro. the report in the kitchen actual construction projects in gemini the bus that budgets many times i ever did just that for planning the are the if you don't know. new gun law opportunity. what he did. when you start to construct your own entrances the day th