is one of those temporary saatchi resident filling a very important role teaching locals english in time to communicate with all those spectators the students here in sochi in particular are very motivated there they have a very good reason right now learning english so it's going to make that experience more interesting for them i'm so excited for the olympics i came to sochi one hundred percent for the olympics i think it's it's something that ever since i was a kid i've i've really. been just glued to the t.v. but now i'm actually here and i get to see it and i'm so excited and discount when i count down the days as a resident of saatchi for thirty years dr alexander stubb call is using the winter olympics and paralympics to make big changes for people with disabilities he leads a group of advocates for people with impaired mobility they test out the new olympic facilities for the designers ensuring their outfitted properly even city parks now have universal access a major change from just four years ago. one month ago i flew to sochi airport and for the first time in twenty five year

way across their own country and on down to these brand new facilities at the flames new home in saatchi so for them now the light is the end of the tunnel so to speak they've got just a very short time to wait until it makes its way down here on february seventh for the opening ceremonies the very excited indeed some final last minute preparations to be carried out as we're hearing just now what's the feeling like there is difficult to describe a number of actually bring hoping to go and very shortly we talk about breaches and problem trees alone just a couple of miles away up in the mountain it's. great for this kind of thing which is why it's the what's the feeling like a typical describe when you talk about a russian breech resort with palm trees a lot of people abroad don't want to get it to describe it. yeah it's a very interesting sort of just to juxtaposition happening here you come out of the airport there's these gorgeous palm trees olympic signs and immediately you're on these excellent highways whisking around. you see the developments the the seaside cluster of the the olymp

or canada but no doubt we'll try our best to bridge that gap at saatchi and.ski cross only made its maiden olympic appearance at the two thousand and ten games in vancouver it's a race where the goal is to finish first after skiing down an optical course russia did compete in both the initial men's and women's events but finished just twentieth and thirty second in their respective qualifying rounds one of the main reasons why russia's national freestyle teams amongst other teams are playing catch up on the global scene is because of the lack of apparent infrastructure with russia winning the olympic berth they have been pumping money into new infrastructure including the winter sports base just outside of moscow and russia's freestyle squad has been using the new national team based to prepare for the next winter season even though there's no snow yet to be seen. course if you want to do sports based on snow especially freestyle across you have to be physically prepared it's not good enough to simply practice in snow he also needs to be in the gym outside and

up house of verse saatchi is alive to i wanted to take this role you know regionally i think when it was first offered to me i was a little bit has a ten for several reasons but mainly because you know she's so larger than life and such an icon and we have such an image of who she is already without really really knowing you know who she is when i read the book i thought it was such a great character i almost wish it hadn't been her because he had his own as a plane down a tele but her story i just i love the idea of. kind of she's under being under your brother's shadow who's a genius and then all suddenly having all this responsibility and tragedy laid upon you kind of going down the drain becoming an addict coming out and then she really found her voice which is amazing that she had a lot of hope and a lot of guts she's incredible i respect her now is it tough to play who won we've seen. who is satirized on saturday night live who is a public figure so we know her yeah so is it tough to play someone we know yeah absolutely i mean i've played people who are alive and who are real b

first time in its history the olympic torch has been lit on the north pole it's part of the ambitious saatchi twenty fourteen relay in four months the flame will travel thousands of kilometers across russia by torchbearers on foot by car sea plane train and even slay before it reaches the host city of the winter games in february artie's james brown witnessed it epic journey to the top of the world. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any doubt that. you might think it's just before the dawn just before the sun sets but actually we're right smack bang in the middle of the day in fact it's just gone twelve thirty in the afternoon but of course the further north we go the less daylight we're getting the polar nights coming into full effect and as you can see all right spike is really having to prove our worth now. you can see everything is getting rather busy and excited and we're all on the bridge for the final approach. sorry lympics flavor. make its way to the north pole. her top of the world. but it's not often you get to witness

while the olympic flame for saatchi twenty fourteen has officially been handed over to the russian olympic committee and it took place here at the historic tennis and i caught stadium during an elaborate ceremony that started with the greek figure skater johnny artist mark courses running into the stadium with the torch that's the same torch that was lit up at an ancient olympia just under a week ago and since then the torch is being doing a chore of greece with that greek leg of the relay did come to an end and you may have seen the torch was then given to the deputy prime minister of russia dmitri course and he received it from spirit who is in fact the president of the helen nick olympic committee and if you look closely you may have seen that that torch was then used to light a small lantern and it's that lantern has officially been taken to the russian embassy here in athens it before being flown on a plane to moscow for the start of the russian leg of this allin pick torch relay is sixty five thousand kilometers long it will see that torch go to the top of mantell bruce it will see t

today here in athens the russians will officially get their hands on the lympics flame for saatchi twenty fourteen the torch relay started in a limpia last weekend and it will arrive here at the planet in the stadium and then the to the flame itself will be handed to the russian olympic committee during an elaborate ceremony well this stadium is pretty significant because it did host the very first one in the olympics back in eighty ninety six it has been beautifully renovated in those marble white is will be full of members of the public and also dignitaries a little later on and they will sit down to enjoy an hour long spectacle and that will start with a greek figure skater by an awesome of course is running into the stadium with the olympic torch and he will then light the cauldron here to signify the end of the great leg of the relay and then the flame itself will be handed to a member of the russian olympic committee in between that of course there will be official speeches to be an orchestra orchestra here as well as the choir what then i hear you ask will the flame will be actuall

now the olympic torch has reached the north pole for the first time ever as part of the ambitious saatchi twenty forty relay artie's james brown joined the arctic voyage on board a nuclear icebreaker hereis. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any down doesn't it you might think it's just before the dawn or just before the sun certains but actually we're right smack bang in the middle of the day in fact it's just gone twelve thirty in the afternoon but of course the further north we go the less daylight we're getting the polar nights are coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth no. faith. and you can see everything is getting rather busy and excited up here and we're all on the bridge for the final approach there is our lympics flame we can see you make its way on to the north pole. top of the world. but it's not often you get to witness a moment of real history but this is the first time to be maybe claim it's ever been made of the north pole exactly that. i'm here to see. a

a ceremony attended by thousands of athletes saatchi twenty fourteen volunteers and the country's leadership was the one lighting the torch and and greeting the crowd with the start of the olympic torch relay as they were historic all the word extraordinary suits well with this particular olympic torch relay because for the first time in history the olympic flame will be taking out for a space walk it will find itself on the bottom of lake baikal the biggest lay the largest lake and in russia it will also be carried to the highest speak in russia the top of the el boost mountain as well as being carried by a plane a train a troika and even the carriage of reindeer so the this is something unprecedented for the olympic torch relay moreover it hasn't yet. set that record but we are expecting it to become the longest torch relay in the history of winter olympic games will cover more than sixty five thousand kilometers and more than fourteen thousand dortch bearers will carry it across our large country we also know. that. at some point of time about one hundred thirty million people will be wil

last one hundred days will probably be the business but very exciting nonetheless reporting from saatchi as the countdown hits the one hundred days mark the olympic torch relay still has quite a way to go while the torch is overall route is sixty five thousand kilometers long reaching more than two thousand nine hundred towns and cities it's traveling by car plane train and helicopter as well as some less than usual means like reindeer sleigh and hot air balloon and at the moment the torch is in russia's western most region approaching the city of kaliningrad artes and farmer is there for us. with one hundred days to go kaliningrad is the latest port of call for the lympics torch and it's also the most westerly point on the relay route and that's because for those of you who need reminding the kaliningrad region is on the both sixty wedged between poland and lithuania now the flame itself has been flown in from simply just heard that's where the relay has been taking place over the last couple of days and it will be used to rig night the relay in a time just north of course the relay wil

gershon who talks with her key about her key film the house of her saatchi but for night we're going to have a good night i'm trying to say. if you. couldn't take three. more chargers three. three. three. three. three broncos video for your media project c.d.o. don carty dot com. please. a little and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle on the back of one fiasco after another in the middle east the u.s. says now it is willing to engage iran after decades of prosecuting a covert in proxy war against iran can washington change its behavior many in washington have dismissed obama's always branch out of hand many in iran are just as mistrustful is this quest for peace a fool's errand. to close up all of branches i'm joined by many how the g. in washington he's a senior fellow at the washington institute also in washington we have michael hughes he is a freelance journalist and foreign policy analyst and in toronto across the forward is id he's a political science professor at the university of toronto our gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means yo

all right let's get straight to it now as the wait for the start of the twenty fourteen saatchi winter olympics has now crossed the one hundred day mark of the games crocks both here in the russian capital and the host city have both been switched to counting down the home stretch reporting for us in sochi as artie's scott. the preparations are continuing we are the poor building here in sochi for the unveiling of the uniform that is going to be worn by the volunteers during the games it's a multi-faceted multi-colored designed to represent the eighty three regions of russia later on wednesday the international olympic committee to begin a two day conference a conference on sports on the environment is designed to raise awareness of green issues and on tuesday the i.o.c. president of course tuesday the day that marks one hundred days until the start of the games had a tour of some of the venues in and around sochi to see how the preparations are coming along he visited the athletes' village the main media center on the fixed olympic stadium which is going to host the opening and closin

minutes we'll be taking a look at the celebrations marking the start of a hundred day care and those saatchi winter olympics. if we look at the history of the lp c.w. and its engagements in the past with the united states there is a history of let's say intimidation on mining collation of whatever you call it if indeed we find that president assad is lying or cheating and i i'm doubtful that he will do that because his life is really on the line in the life of the whole regime then of course then i think a military strike could take place. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a living torch relay. on r t r two dot com. it's twenty three forty moscow time here now the one hundred day countdown to the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi started earlier on celebrations to mark the big milestone held here in moscow as well as russia's westernmost region of kaliningrad which is the current stop i

the moscow stage activity as ellen was the oldest torch bearer as he'll turn ninety nine during the saatchi games while the two year old son speed scared to even school but it was among the youngest. and that's all the sport i think. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. let's we can't. let. let's. look. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sea it's a step forward oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the governm

to help with those preparations for saatchi russia played a friendly against germany which they won five one. they fell behind to an early goal five and replying including this strike from got real ever so excellent work can put your kind of sign as a look to win their first ever olympic medal in just over three months time richard wolffe meet our moscow. and meanwhile russia's top speed skater yvonne scott would have his busily preparing for the opening well cup that ends with the two time olympic medalist also targeting a maiden gold in sochi we called her child has all. events corporate shot to prominence at the vancouver winter olympics four years ago then a relative dark horse of the speed skater changed his coach and claimed silver and bronze at the second games those were russia's first men's long distance medals a year later scabrous was crowned all round while champ. and up next on his wish list is top on this in sochi as the father of two will turn thirty one on the first day of competition i'll try to do my best to not because i have really really really make. hard season then

it's no time though is it to come up with something like saatchi seventy is is a very quick time to turn around to look at the pictures over your shoulder there are none of that was there seven years ago what's the ideal time to plan for something like this was it depends upon every different venue well it really depends of course the size of the school and it's a very very impressive school i mean i'm just amazed by the pictures from this welcome ceremony i mean it's the most spectacular arrival ceremony i've ever seen and the plans will be really all course huge too and there's a quarter of thirty to forty people who are looking for years. and we hope the present importance. in russian rail and local tolls forces in all these. thousands of people who will be involved let me just get this right for all of you who've been fairly involved as well not just in past torture let's also this one as well you know we're going to work with the organizing committee here for the last time i went with russia puts on a show of thinking but. your vision contests for instance out of this world when rus

russian capital look at the airport there is the plane air a flight specially decked plane with the saatchi twenty fourteen logo on it the guards there ready to saluted as it comes down the plane will be cross into our correspondent jeff ski shortly he's covering it for us that plane got in around about twenty minutes earlier than shared over the plane doors are open there's been no sign of anyone coming out yet we're thinking first of all this is what they call an official opening of the plane doors some of the officials will come out go into the terminal then run about five minutes later or so the official opening of the plane doors will happen that's when the guard of one who will play that some will see the flame coming down and then the journalists will be coming on behind that a little bit later so we're still as we've got our cameras trained on there you can see that especially on a. plane if you can take. everyone waiting really for the moment to happen just a moment moment to tell you about the special torch which will be seeing a lot of over the next hundred twenty three days as i

with just one hour to go now before the one hundred day countdown to the saatchi winter olympics we'll bring the latest from the preparations in the host city and follow the record breaking torch relay. for it even if you just joined us my name is kevin now in this is our t. international just after eight pm here now the top story the developing news tonight survivors of a u.s. drone strike testified to members of congress today the families grandmother was killed when a missile hit their guard in pakistan a year ago say they've got no idea why they were targeted our correspondent got a teacher can we'll be talking to a bit later as she was meeting them and she was at the hearing a little bit earlier on we cross into her in a few minutes time so you can stay with us for that meantime though the british government's warn it could resort to legal action to silence newspapers seeking to publish edward snowden's n.s.a. revelations is the latest in a string of attempts than to block the release of embarrassing documents r.t. sarah firth is in london for more on that story. well it's reporte

the moscow stage activity as ellen was the oldest torch bearer as he'll turn ninety nine during the saatchi games while the two year old son of spears got that live in school but it was among the youngest. and that's all the sport bison. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two crimes a report. of the gaza strip should not be a launching side for rocket attacks on israeli women children and civilians. leadership is responsible for this but this is why israel is not willing to repeat this experiment in judea and samaria so israel is not willing to be the sucker of the middle east and to make long term concessions sacrificing the security of its own citizens only to find out in the end the conflict isn't over that is going on as before except that israel is now in a much worse position. the . pain. of the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the causes. you know. i mean t

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