now holding up one of these will be the dream of every athlete competing in sochi twenty fourteen which begin in just a month's time and here in st petersburg the medals were revealed for the very first time to the public the designers hope to capture russia's sense of national identity and character and they tried to do that by showing the warm waters of the black sea crashing into the ice of krasnaya polyana up in the mountains and if you look very closely you will also notice a patchwork quilt theme here and that is meant to represent the multi ethnicity of russia a record thirty eight hundred of these will be produced matters because sochi twenty forty moved. the biggest winter olympics in history and also if you win one of these you will need a very strong net because they do you weigh in something like over five hundred grams i spoke with timmy for tuna shanker who chairs the sochi organizing committee and he hopes that when someone does game one of these they will also take away the spirit of russia on a more serious note mr tuna shanker also addressed security concerns and said

the sochi olympics are next february. very cool. >> everybody suped up. >>> mark inway is here with a look at traffic. what's up? >> looking at san jose. this is not a big deal. we'll look at the bottom where the lights are lighting up the asphalt. the pavement not really slick, but it's still damp and wet in many spots in the bay area. map shows construction crews. this is just some k rail repair in scattered portions for 680. looks like a tremendous amount of stuff going on. really just one lane at a time including the 237 interchange. i got word of a crash south 880 at auto mall parkway. sounds like a big rig involved. we'll give you details. >>> the time is 4:57. we're live in washington up next for a look at the supreme court and what it could say about california's ban on same-sex marriage. >>> a new issue that could derail this year's america's cup. why one team says it may soon file suit. >>> the supreme court will reveal its decision on prop 8. nbc has a crew in washington, d.c. for the ruling. we'll have a live

plus the new gold medals for the sochi winter olympics have been unveiled causing ripples of excitement with a less than a year before the event takes place russia and the world by storm these stories and more after a short break on a. new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's location via their cell phone the judge supports his decision by saying that there is no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but taking the simple expedient of powering it off this statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of fun luxury and that people are just too lazy to turn off their phones when they want privacy this ignores the fact that there are many people who have to be on call twenty four seven like surgeons and server technicians these people can't just turn off their phones so does that mean that certain professions can't have privacy also this presumption that people have no expectation of privacy what about people who send images of text messages of a sexua

talking about partnership in business world events and the upcoming olympics and twenty fourteen in sochi russia also heavily focusing on what's going on in syria and how to address the situation and the crisis that's going on there and also on a voice that was what they talked about during our press conference and we move on with our broadcast here on r.t. . you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official publication to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television just doesn't do so now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. wealthy british style sign. on. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. choose your

eight will take place in sochi friends we have about twenty minutes for questions and answers and so please but that much we do ask your questions. or your. blood similar to matter which a lot of attention has been given to your discussions and meetings with president obama we waited for this for a long time could you please let us know. exchange of a communique so as the issue of m d missile defense has been very stale and has there being any more a movement forward yes we did we spoke a lot about the. about decide.

fourteen and the meeting of the g eight will the summit of to you at the g eight will take place in sochi friends we have about twenty minutes for questions and answers and so you please but that much you do ask your questions. or your. first market was going to lead similar to matter which a lot of attention has been given to your discussions and meetings with president obama we waited for this for a long time could you please let us know after exchange of a communique so as the issue of m d missile defense been very stable and has there been any more a movement forward yes we did we spoke a lot about the. about disarmament of. about possible. operation in this field and we do have some. issues that we haven't agreed upon but we also spoke about what we can do you know and that is becoming more transparent. and the president of the us he is prepared as far as i understood why going to scope of this discussion and this will be continued when he next comes to russia in the e.u. for over a g twenty and this meeting will take place in moscow and then the actual g twenty meeting will be held

on high alert ahead of the twenty fourteen winter olympics due to take place in the resort city of sochi situated close to the north caucasus. coming up technology updates discoveries in a. russian medical science stuff the brakes think. what happened to the arab spring dream does egypt's first freely elected president bring any change fear poverty economic failure and violence related to egypt's attempts to escape chaos leave it wallowing even deeper. egypt year in chaos. in the clay is the perfect material it's a lie you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. what a pretty top knot you have. goals this is a little complicated. it's like geometry we start by marking out the incision lines as a guide. that's very intricate work where my life has changed one hundred percent. of the field operating table here more than just a very small table and not as long as i had a flashlight and a working battery and i had a good enough environment to work it. was among them along with some other terrorist leaders. too as if he's reminiscing about the past he's looking at you

carried by over fourteen thousand people on the way to its final destination in the russian city of sochi traditional and unorthodox means will be carriages pulled by reindeers and russian troikas are among the modes of transport up to ninety percent of russia's population will be able to watch the torch on the streets of the city setting another olympic record such a games will be the most expensive. there's also talk it might even go into outer space with watching russia's president visited artie's new h.q. in moscow on tuesday and after it's all putin spoke to some of our correspondents the highlights of that chat coming up in a few minutes. admission is free accreditation free. for charges free arrangement free. free. free. download free blog a lot of video for your media project a free medio dog r t dot com. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big picture. is leave. y

such as the renault three point five and the advent of formula one races at the black sea resort of sochicould help produce a russian world best driver i think that formula one needs the feeder formulas. to get the next russian driver to come to follow one so having races like this being a point five here having you know i thought she next year all of this helps stimulate . i think interested more to racing here in russia and for sure there's someone within the country that's potentially world champion of course it's a great deal that the formula renault three point five is in russia for the first time but of course with that there were four russian drivers that were in the race today and yesterday and of course none of then mr lawson who got fifth place in the second race mr larsen tell me what is it was like to race from if you heard. was unbelievable because so many people who came to support me or for support the russian drivers. for that was a great feeling to score some when you boys so the whole room free it was the best result for me is this year's. for sure very good day for me a

on high alert ahead of the twenty fourteen of the big games due to take place in a resort city of sochi situated close to the north caucasus. coming up technology update discovers the latest innovation in russian medical science itself the breakout. if you lived in the us knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire life savings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial failings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand iris employees have abused the charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these people are very high on the ladder including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple blois with security clearances much of the abuses related to employees writing checks for big purchases which lat

olympic speed skating champion spent long as your data also unveiled the medals for the twenty fourteen sochi games russia's first winter olympics and paralympics held at the black sea resort in eight months time while istanbul madrid and tokyo presented their bids for the twenty twenty summit games the i.o.c. also voted in favor of the embattled sport of wrestling to stay in the running for a twenty twenty berth a move hailed by russian president vladimir putin. you've already cut the list down to three sports included wrestling which is loved in two hundred and nine countries and i hope the final decision will be fairly well grounded and will help consolidate and develop olympic movement that has always relied on its ancient traditions and wrestling as we know is one of the fundamental sports traditional at the olympic games. and staying on the olympic flame this september and brown as aries the i.o.c. will decide which one of three sports to include in the twenty twenty something games and until this week whiteboarding had been a potential candidate so michael craft janko went down to the

are on high alert ahead of the twenty fourteen winter olympics to take place in the results city of sochi situated close to the north caucasus. next kinds exposes accounting tricks to banks new form of financial fraud in the kaiser reports after the break here dotty . i love life but there is a lot of sick stuff going on on this planet for example according to bloomberg a hospital in chicago has been accused by the f.b.i. of cutting the throats of patients for big bags of cash a tracheotomy is a procedure to get air directly into the windpipe of someone who can't breathe by cutting a hole into it an f.b.i. affidavit based on tape recording says that the hospital knowingly and purposely sedated patients to the point that they couldn't breathe properly and would need tracheotomies and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick out of his own days cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars a pop this alleged conspiracy between doctors and management is not the first of its kind at this hospital and administrator and five doctors have already been charged for medi

such as the renault three point five and the advent of formula one races at the black sea resort of sochicould help produce a russian world best driver i think that formula one needs the feeder formulas. to get the next russian driver to come home and so having races like this being the point five here having you know authority next year all of this helps stimulate. i think interested more to racing here in russia and for sure there's someone within the country that's potentially world champion of course it's a great deal that the formula renault three point five is in russia for the first time but of course with that there were four russian drivers that were in the race today and yesterday and of course none of that and mr lawson who got fifth place in the second race mr larsen tell me what is it was like to race from of you who. was on billboard because it was so many people who came to support me or for support the russian drivers. for that was a great feeling to score so when you boys so the whole room free it was the first result for me of this year's saw for sure very good day for m

strengthen our cooperation on this issue including as we welcome russia hosting the winter olympics in sochis president putin indicated, we have extensively discussed how we can further deepen our economic and commercial relationships. with russian ascension to the wto, the removal -- i think we're poised to increase both trade and investment between our two countries and that can create jobs and business opportunities both for russians and americans. >> our discussions on north korea and iran were very productive. and we both agreed that -- the north korean issue and in iran, we both accept expressed cautious optimism that with a new election there, we may be able to move forward on a dialogue that allows us to resolve the problems with iran's nuclear program. >> and with respect to syria, we do have differing perspectives on the problem, but we share an interest in reducing the violence, securing chemical weapons and insuring that they're neither used or are they subject to proliferation, and that we want to try to resolve the issue through political means, if possible possible. so we will

that is why, in addition to inviting president putin here before the g8, i flew to sochi this year -- i was the first prime minister to visit russia for many years. >> i thank the prime minister for highlighting his commitment to ending world hunger as such a central part of the g8, and for highlighting many of the underlying causes, but he will be aware that a third of the most malnourished children in the world live in just four countries -- india, nigeria, pakistan and bangladesh -- so will he continue to use his best offices to ensure that those countries give their wholehearted commitment to ensuring that their children do not go to bed hungry every night? on syria, two days after america has agreed to sit down with the taliban, surely it is better to bring everyone around the debating table. we do not want 12 more years of civil war in syria.in >> on the taliban, i have said many times that i welcome a political process. it is worth noting that the taliban said in their statement that they wanted an afghanistan that no longer caused instability, death or trouble in other countri

strengthen our cooperation on this issue including as we welcome russia hosting the winter olympics in sochiy, i really do think that vladimir putin clipped robert kraft's super bowl ring. i do think he grabbed it. next the godfather meets reality sort of. remember robert duvall's character in the first two godfather movies? he played a lawyer for the corleone family. the trial of james "whitey" bulger is going on in boston this week and guess who showed up at the courthouse to see what was happening? there's robert duvall leaving the courthouse this morning according to a.p., he sat in the back of the courtroom with other spectators. he's in the area shooting a movie with billy bob thornton and robert downey junior. next joe biden uses one of his signature words to sum up his disagreement with opponents of immigration reform. >> all this stuff you heard the last six months about the astronomical cost of immigration reform, it's a bunch of malarky. >> a bunch of malarky. that got a lot of play during the vice presidential debate this last election, getting over 30,000 you mentions on twitter

>> reporter: well, it seems that charles sochi, as you just mentioned, her husband is a millionaire advertisingpictures looked more violent, trying to emphasize a point he was making as they were involved in what he called an intensive debate about their children. but take a look at these images. they brought yesterday, but they've been splashed all over the front pages of today's newspapers. this one here, you can see the pictures of nigella lawson with her hand clearly cupped around her neck, that hand belonging to her husband. the headline here as well, police say they will probe what they call a choke attack. that's a reference to the fact that scotland yard here has said they will into into the details, to establish whether they need to proceed with a formal investigatio'. at the moment no actual complaint has been made, but of course this has raised concerns, and spotlighted the issue that no matter how rich or famous, our how mu(r celebrity you may have, you're not necessarily protected from the risks of domestic violence. >> there are a couple other pictures that we can't show you right

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