president of the international olympic committee insists that the anti-doping program for the sochi olympics will be the topic of any olympic games. conductthe ioc would more in and out of competition tests for these olympics than in vancouver, stressing the increase commitment to stamping out doping. >> the anti-doping test programs for sochi will be the toughest ever applied in the olympic winter games. we have decided that for the games, we will increase the pretesting program by 57% compared to vancouver. dayse comments come just after the international olympic committee said it was retesting samples from the 2006 games. today, durant takes its case takes its case for nuclear energy to youtube. reuniting lost possessions. and, the bulldog, the latest web sensation. being told that you cannot do what everyone else is doing, what everyone else is allowed to do. do you back down? would you relent? iran foreign affairs minister spoke in english in solemn tones, defending the nuclear program, saying it will secure the future of iranian children and diversify the economy. the latest round of t

complete it will be the longest really in the history of the winter olympics but all culminating in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi by the black sea february seventh in the mean time the olympic torch meets the final frontier but here we are. a moment that promises to be truly out of this world martin andrews r.t. baikonur. and they will be bringing you more on their record breaking torch relay of course for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi on saturday when the torch is taking on an historic space walk we'll have special coverage of the amazing event a live here on r.t. well more news will be coming your way after a short break stay with us. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through to some nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others faced. a limping torch relay. on r t r two dot com. only for a green card to gain aren't paying prisoners a dollar a day to do eight or ten or twelve hours of work per day they're the most productive workers of am

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. >>> the sochi olympics are making history. the olympic torch is taking a trip to space.ill not be lit while in the spacecraft, with its three-man crew. obvious safety reason there is. the torch make its way back to earth on november 11th, after being carried into outer space for a space walk. >>> it is time for a look ahead and a look back. the senate will vote on the employment nondiscrimination act. if the bill to outlaw workplace discrimination passes, it would advance to an a uncertain state in the house mptd. >>> in 1991 an nba star revealed he had the hiv virus. >> the news is so shocking and so unexpected it is difficult to absorb it as we report it. magic johnson has tested positive for the hiv virus. that is the first step to aids. >>> happy birthday to actor christopher knight. who played peter on "the brady bunch." singer song writer joni mitchell turns 70 and billy graham is 95. keep it here for more news, weather and sports. have a good day. >>> new this morning students at a college on alert after a student is sexually assaulted in a bathroom. >> the man at

the sochi olympics talks reaches the r.s.s. after an historic launch from the baikonur cosmodrome we've got the pictures to. me are two central a.p.m. very good if you choose kevin zero in here this hour it's good to have your company our top story hot on the heels of american intelligence forces trying to justify mass surveillance it's britain's spy chief now given the floor to explain themselves but what's been expected to have been a grilling over widespread spying so far looks more like a q. and a session on counterterrorism sara first been following the hearing we're talking to very soon tonight well most experts predicted that the intelligence forces were unlikely to find themselves in hot water on the journalists who released snowden's documents this take a look at. the efforts the british government's made to plug the leak shui back in july the offices of the guardian newspaper which had some of the files were rated by g c h q agents and hard drives were destroyed a month later you may recall david miranda partner of fo

islam is militants have threatened to prevent the sochi olympics from being held. the games are set to begin in february just as first lady is doing her bit to fight aids ikea havent wife of prime minister shinzo ave is joining an international commission set up to combat the disease chief cabinet secretary year she visited said the secretary general of the un aids and lancet commission has ikea other to join the group its members include world leaders and health experts. mrs ave has been involved in the educational activities to combat aids. she hosted and eight symposium in june during the tokyo international conference on african development. sudan out of the fight against aids is one of the u n's millenium development goals. the un set those goals to help reduce poverty and achieve economic growth in developing countries. garment workers in bangladesh work and often harsh conditions for little pay many make clothes and accessories for shoppers in the west. one japanese designer is working to change their flights using local resources and traditional craftsmansh

it will be the longest really in the history of the winter olympics it's what will come in next in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi. well the black sea. org in the meantime the olympic torch meets the sparkle. you really we're. a moment promises to be truly out of this world most of them on t.v. but you know after just a few moments we can go back to those live pictures at the international space station where the olympic torch has just reached it well you see cosmonauts and astronauts gathered there they're all in a very jubilant mood there because in fact it is a historic moment for the olympic torch at the i assess we here on our team continue to follow the torch a spectacular journey before it gets to sochi the whole city of the olympic games in saburo and you know just bringing the olympic torch to space isn't enough of course because what we are looking forward to here is of course saturday one cosmonauts car of answer gear is on ski will be aboard the station who have been aboard the station since september they will be making a spacewalk during which they will display and photograph the torch outside the o

and a high altitude hand over the sochi olympics torch reaches the iss after historic launch from the viking era cosmic girl. app that lets take a look at life pictures there and kick and the atmosphere of joy n happiness because this indeed is a historic ment there. i am the scenery the doc she and her much for being with us now. haha the heels of american intelligence boss is trying to justify masturbate with its time for british spy chiefs to face a grilling halves of the three uk intelligence agencies are about to make an unprecedented appearance to explain their spine operations produce her first takes a look at what to expect the best trying new things i have three heads. it was a spy agencies. the same name being questioned by anti israel bias of the session is to be drawn to cause fiat as such the lightning kids get into the night that there will be assholes times a day to think anything things are there that can be considered a threat to national security isn't exactly d we had a tape of the four week god said your love and that directs the ntc eight skiing. jane pot that he'

for the sochi olympics, the russians have a clever plan to get everybody in shape.t with 30 squats. some folks will go after what they want at any cost. >> this is -- this is for you. >> sasha baron cohen played a nasty trick on bbc america. after attempting to administer cpr to the victim, the comedian made light of life and death. this is obviously a tragedy, but on the bright side, what a great way to go. plus she will make the oscars memory segment. >> now that is some one that wi

altitude handover the sochi olympic torch reaches the ice as after a storage launch from baikonur cosmodrome. this is r.t. coming to life from the russian capital on welcome to the program the heart of the heels of american intelligence bosses trying to justify mass surveillance as britain's spy chiefs or now given the florida explain themselves but what's been expected to be a grilling over widespread spying so far looks like a q. and a session on counterterrorism are just her first is in london following the hearing and she joins us now live for more on this so sara do tell us what the questions focused on and have we really learned anything new today. well that session is still ongoing of course is started it c.p.m. and at last ninety minutes say the n.p.c. still grilling the three u.k. spy chief it's the first time that they've been seen in questions like this in public and it's being broadcast live but of course with that short delay in case anything said that kids in danger national security know it's there in law when the director of t.c.h. . park of the m i five director general and

a high altitude handover to sochi olympic torch reaches the i assess after a historic launch from the baikonur cosmodrome. very good evening to you it's just after nine o'clock now here in moscow my name's kevin though in this is our top story hot on the heels of american intelligence forces trying to justify mass surveillance since britain's spy chief giving the floor to explain themselves but those who expected to have a grilling were serious disappointment as r.t. sarah firth has been following the hearing explains next. well of course a session coming at a sensitive time for the government and these intelligence agencies on the back of the edward snowden revelations now we saw this very spy chief being questioned over a broad range of issues but i'm going to take if you like to the g.c. the key chiefs are in love and he was asked why it was necessary for the majority have intelligence gathered in the attempts to catch the minority that is doing wrong and he answered that with an analogy of a haystack so trying to find a needle in a haystack essentially saying that they don't look

in the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympic torch is safely back on earth after a unique spacewalk and it's now ready to get back on the road in the longest ever relay. this week saw a heated debate in the u.k. over a proposed law that could land people in jail for annoying be a we are the new bill would make it easier for local councils to break up peaceful protests and vague wording means it can be interpreted in many different ways if passed it will become an offense to threaten to be a nuisance to other people as activists carry on mendoza says this could seriously undermine freedom of speech. attempting to do is give to police. to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because i quote this directly from the legislation may has always like. nuisance or annoyance and as you can imagine the whole point of protest is to cause nuisance an annoyance is to get in the way to disrupt people in their ordinary daily lives so that you can have them focus on an otherwise ignore. issue which is really important. always more stories on our website including the space spectacle of

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ski team until just a few days before sochi, but she says she feels more confident than ever. >> we continue our olympics our website. there you will find oakley's road to sochi including a slide show. >> we're watching a brief chance. temperatures in the northbound already down to 39 degrees. san jose, 49 degrees. 46 inform oakland. 52 currently in san francisco. and a closer check of the temperatures right now. 37 degrees, patchy frost. some of the northbound valleys in tomorrow morning, not so much though in the inner bay. the temperatures mainly in the 40s. san jose could see some 30s as you wake up tomorrow morning. unfortunately tonight, you want to crank up the heater. but we have a spare the air alert as we head up to the alert. cut back on wood burning. or smoke in the sky, that's something you're probably going to want to avoid for the next couple of nights. we don't have cloud cover either. that's probably one of the reasons why. we have the chilly 30s and 40s. waking up to mostly sunny skies. then as we head into the afternoon, we're going to start to see some changes headed our way. first, c

russia's lake in siberia en route to the sochi olympics in february.he torch had already visited the north pole and the international space station. >>> a gun belonging to iconic sharpshooter annie oakley was auctioned off today in dallas. the 16 gauge shotgun sold for $293,000. almost three time what was expected. it was used by oakley in the wild west shows she performed throughout the u.s. and europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. it was put up for auction by her grand niece. >>> a big comeback fight by a native son is bringing some joy to the typhoon ravaged t homeless by typhoon haiyan were able to watch on television screens set up. it was his first fight since he was stunningly knocked out in a bout nearly a year ago. he declared his victory a symbol for his nation after the devastating typhoon. >>> still ahead, the heart warming story of how the family pet has made a big difference in helping a young boy with autism. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's no

for the sochi olympics, the russians have a clever plan to get everybody in shape. letting travelers earn their train ticket by paying for it with 30 squats. some folks will go after what they want at any cost. >> this is -- this is for you. >> sasha baron cohen played a nasty trick on bbc america. after attempting to administer cpr to the victim, the comedian made light of life and death. this is obviously a tragedy, but on the bright side, what a great way to go. plus she will make the oscars memory segment. >> now that is some one that will do anything for a laugh. thank you for watching abc news. and "world news now" coming up soon with overnight breaking news. soon in to "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always we are online at abc news.com. good night, america. is. >>> >>> >>> run away muni train. one woman was trapped and not knowing if it would stop. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. the ordeal happened at the castro station as the train was entering the tunnel toward the foresthill station. abc news reporter heather ishimaru is live in the castr

the sochi olympic games a bit uncomfortable in terms of terrorism so morris let me ask you this let's say with that kind of knowledge russia knows that the sochi games are going to be under threat by terrorists somewhere in the world and russia has drones and maybe because of self defense using exactly the same logic being applied in washington today russia strikes let's say saudi arabia so what would you think the world's response would be and what would washington's response be would it be just hypocritical or would say russia is the aggressor washington is certainly not been hesitant to be hypocritical i mean there's been any number of practices in the post nine eleven era where we have condemned others for doing exactly what we have done and again that's my concern of the president there were setting on the use of drones so i think the solution or what i would like to see happen is there needs to be an international consensus and we're applying the geneva conventions and international humanitarian law this largely a byproduct of world war two they didn't contemplate these kinds of

breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days now before the winter games in sochi olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station. which is passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north. if you get an r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from you then pick merab. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussion scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned

plus after conquering open space the sochi olympic torch has reached the depths of late by cause partf its ambitions relay an hour in motion section there's a spectacular video for you of the olympic eigen at the bottom of the world's deepest leg. right on the sea. first for you and i think the trip. on our reporters were very. instrumental. to the end. now we go to some other stories from around the world a series of bombings in and around baghdad is left at least twenty seven people dead and dozens wounded the attacks including the blast at a crowded marketplace which claimed sixteen lives and the assassination of a former lawmaker france has offered to help curb the rising bloodshed in iraq by providing weapons training and intelligence to security forces over seven thousand five hundred people have been killed in two thousand and thirteen making it one of the deadliest years since the u.s. led invasion. thousands of anti-government protesters have the siege to several more government buildings in bangkok in a show day of demonstrations the thai prime minister has announced emergen

enough to let rivers flow there and even for martian valleys plus a conquering open space the sochi olympic torch has reached the depths of late by callous part of his ambitious relate in motion section there is a spectacular video for you of the limbic icon at the bottom of the world's deepest like. right from the sea. first trip. and i think you're. on our reporters were there. i. am. on my. papal flags flew together with the vatican when the pontiff welcome president vladimir putin on monday the meeting was brought up in a large part to that he is on the crisis in syria the audience with the pope is part of the russian president's official visit to italy. is following the trip. francis on one hand a figure with enormous spiritual influence over one point two billion catholics across the world and president putin on the other a heavyweight politician also one of the most influential people on the globe he may not be on the scene team but they do have much more in common than some may think for instance syria both have been standing firmly against any military intervention pope francis' ev

record breaking torch relay of the twenty fourteen sochi olympics has successfully completed a historic first on saturday the after traveling up to the international space station. the court was taken into space by two options for the first time in history and while in orbit there take pictures of themselves with the symbol of the games using their helmet cameras but it's not the first time the torch has been in space. it was there before nineteen eighty six in two thousand but had never previously taken outside the states. you're now ready for the long journey back to earth when the council re enter the atmosphere after the main issue will be deployed to bring the craft smoothly in for landing in cars extent of oreos or not scare an item from the us italian lugo partly be built from italy and worship asthma not to hurt you the chin who has completed more than their five has completed more than five month long mission to miss the live coverage of the landing at three gmt later that her to revisit a place where you can put a price tag on human life. to the guantanamo apparently the life

recently the sochi olympics past the hundred days to go mark and the paralympics have reached that milestone to say has more on the preparations for the winds again. at the media center this is where the media will be house during the olympics and it's in the beautiful mountains class even though it's raining today but we're kicking off that one hundred days before the para lympics winter games the paralympics into game will start from the seventh of march till the twenty the sixteenth of march now that's almost ten days a little quick excitement as well as schools mention now russia has been taking a very important steps in making sure that those with disabilities are being cared for our one of them is a wretched find a un convention on the rights of persons with disabilities our we've seen how the transport infrastructure the restaurants we need a little bit stadium as well as at the hotels have adapted for people with disabilities and that not only for the athletes who are coming to compete out here but also for the spectators now when we talk about doing talking about the sports we have

plus after conquering open space the sochi olympic torch has reached the depths of leg by call as part of its bishops relay an hour and motions action there's a spectacular video for you of the olympic icon at the bottom of the world's deepest lake. right from the sea. search for you and i think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. russian and papal flags were flying together over the vatican to where the pontiff welcome president vladimir putin their first ever meeting was brought about in a large part due to the crisis in syria are going off reports from the holy see for us. there is so pope francis on one hand to figure with the mormon spiritual influence over one point two billion catholics across the world and there's the president going to buy a heavyweight politician also one of the most intelligent influential people on the globe to me not being on the scene team but they definitely have much more in common than. polls have been standing strong we firmly against any four years mentioned the situation. for francis a letter to the russian president recen

record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station that will be cool the torch is passing through towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north don't forget at r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from the olympic flames marathon. technology innovation all these developments from around russia. the future of coverage. shifting sands and alliances advances and reversals outside military interventions in stalemate.

he also doesn't want to see people boycott the sochi olympics.els like that would be boycotting the seven million lgbt russians living here. while there was talk of other countries offering asylum because of the anti-gay propaganda laws, it remains to be seen how many russians would actually do that. but anton is staying for sure. i just have to say this is a remarkable young guy. i mean he's 38 years old and right now he's been without a job for most of the year because of coming out. but there was this great sadness in his eyes. hopefully it came through so you could see it. >> it did. >> great sadness in his eyes about losing his job, but also great pride in the fact that he has taken this on. and it's a real integration of the spirit, of the person that he is. to be walking around with his head up very high but knowing that he paid a high price for it professionally by just living his truth. >> hey, thomas, as an outsider there, how visible is the impact of russia's -- of those anti-gay laws, how visible is it as an outsider. >> reporter: it'

the record breaking torch relay ahead of the twenty fourteen sochi olympics has successfully completed an historic first finance. after traveling to the international space station the torch was taken into space by two russians for the first time in history and one in orbit took pictures of themselves with the symbol of the olympic games using their helmet cameras however it's not the first time the torch has been displaced it had been before nine hundred ninety six in two thousand but it had never previously been taken outside a spacecraft where the crew are now readying for the long journey to earth where the capsule will enter the atmosphere after that the main parachute will be deployed to bring the craft in for a smooth landing. on board astronauts karen nyberg from the state's attorney. and russian cosmonaut if your doors are going to cheek him who have completed them more than a month long mission wouldn't miss our live coverage of the landing starting from three o three hundred g.m.t. it will be deployed this is the weekly here in r.t. coming up later in the program ati's lates

to the north pole now it's all to the bottom of the world's deepest lake the sochi olympic torch. your world headlines live from moscow. thank you for joining us today there's real hope that finally some kind of deal over iran's nuclear program could be close all the foreign ministers from the six negotiating world changing their shared jewels to join the talks and help to overcome any remaining obstacles to a landmark agreement in a sign that a breakthrough is indeed possible the six nations talking to iran reportedly agreed to recognize its right to enrich uranium being a key to iran iran's foreign minister says progress at this round of talks has been as high as ninety percent analyses in geneva with the russian delegation headed by foreign minister sergei lavrov but the media is being kept at a distance. there's been a flurry of activity since russia's a gay lover of jetted into geneva he's already met with his iranian counterpart despite this a number of sticking points still remain here that it's still going to be let out if this deal is going to be made now we know that ira

record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station the torch is passing through towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north don't forget that are to dot com there is a full selection of videos and photos from the olympic flames marathon. sigrid lumber tour. was to build a new. fortunately don't learn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. what you're dealing with. a few years tell you where our children will just be. on the. media that's the future if you have a cease environment. we're going to face big problems. is on a big journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip to. see another's face. a limp a torch relay. on r t r t dot com.

offend its powerful ally we've got more on the story in a few minutes and the twenty fourteen sochi olympic torch is safely back on earth after a unique space walk and is now ready to get back on the road in the longest ever read. this week's or a heated debate in the u.k. over a proposed law that could land people in jail for annoying behavior the new bill would make it easier for local councils to break up peaceful protest and it's vague wording means it can be interpreted in many different ways if passed it will become an offense to even threaten to be in use since the papal activist kerry and the says this could seriously undermine freedom of speach. attempting to do is give to police the all sorry city to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because i quote this directly from the legislation may has always likely to cause nuisance or annoyance as you can imagine the whole point of protest is to cause nuisance an annoyance is to get in the way to disrupt people in their ordinary daily lives so that you can have them focus on an otherwise ignore bore issue which is really i

record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi olympicflame is continuing its ambitions relay its already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station the torch is passing through towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north now don't forget our two dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from the olympic flames marathon. choose your language. make it oh if i'm going to say sell some of. the consensus here. keep the opinions that you think are great. choose the stories that in life choose me access to often. thank you. for that welcome to the capitol this week with british prime minister david cameron is being told to think outside of the box or out of his pulpit i should say and order to drum up some much needed cash for the country details in just a minute on that what was also the first that point eighty seven when he saw it that's where he will be discussing the implications of that could be a comma in how to best image the seans almo

after ongoing open space the sochi olympic torch has reached the depths of lake baikal as part of its ambitions really in our emotions section there is a spectacular video for you of the olympic i can at the bottom of the world's deepest leg. right the sea. first for you and i think the trip. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. russian and papal flags were flying together over the vatican aware of the pontiff welcome president vladimir putin their first ever meeting was brought about in a large part due to the crisis in syria are going off reports from the holy see for us. francis on one hand i figured it would warm a spiritual influence over one point two billion catholics across the world and there is a president appointed by heavyweight politician and also one of the most influential people on the globe to me not being on the scene team but they definitely have much more in common than some me think for instance syria has been standing strong we firmly against any former chief of mission into the situation there for france is a letter to the russian president recently

thanks to olympics, our life is very difficult now. >> reporter: anna says she's even thinking of leaving sochi to live elsewhere. >> reporter: russia has hosted the games before. its first and only summer olympics in moscow was back in 1980. but because of the soviet invasion of afghanistan, many countries boycotted. that's why many russians see in sochi a chance to regain confidence. a russian described the feeling to me. he used an old russia saying that means he will be proud and ready like a dog with a straightened tail. nhk world, sochi. >>> a strong tropical storm is approaching the philippines and robert speta has been following the situation for us. robert. >> gene, this really is going to be not only strong, potentially very severe storm system as it pulls off towards the west. right now towards the south of guam, we have our severe tropical storm pulling off towards the west, but you can see on the satellite imagery on tuesday already the symmetrical shape starting to form, the cloud cover rotating. and through the next 48 hour, we'll see a gradual intensification. after it passes an

record breaking torch relay ahead of the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics successfully completed a historic first saturday. after traveling to the i assess the torch was taken to space by two cosmonauts for the first time in history while in orbit the pair took pictures of themselves with the symbol of the olympic games using helmet cameras despite the torch having gone to space twice before in one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand this is the only time it's ever been taken outside the spacecraft and right. completed the spacecraft and with the crew carrying the olympic symbol currently docking from the international space station for its long journey home to earth always on board astronauts karen nyberg from united states so you know from elderly and russian cosmonaut he would. have completed more in there more than a five month long mission and don't miss our live coverage of the landing and starting from lloyd green at. the soyuz as entry over a period of fourteen and even more in-depth kuantan m o coverage coming up stay with us after this short break. president obam

record breaking torch relay out of the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics has successfully completed sturrock first on saturday. flight. after travelling up to the international space station the torch was taken into space by two russians for the first time in history and while in orbit the pair took pictures of themselves with the symbol of the games using their helmet cameras but it's not the first time the torch has been in space it was there before nine hundred six in two thousand but had never been previously taken outside the spacecraft. curren are reading for the long journey back to earth where the capsule will reenter the atmosphere after the main chute will be deployed and bring the craft smoothly in for a landing in kazakstan aboard astronauts karen nyberg from the u.s. italian luko parma nato from italy and a russian cosmonaut if you order your each kid who has completed more than their five dives completed their more than five month long mission don't miss our live coverage of the landing at three g.m.t. . later in the program we visit a place where you can put a price t

the sochi olympic flame blasts into space. details later in the program. ♪ of >> well it appears as they are demanding an international investigation after new evidence shows that their former leader yasser arafat was almost certainly pois poisoned of. >> the swiss scientists found pulonium 210, 18 tile 18 18 timr than normal. he was exhumed last year. >> first they found high amounts bleof blewflplunomiom poising p. they received the information from their lawyer. if i was a judge and jury this is stone stone cold certain. it was pe pulonium that caused e death of yasser arafat. >> for widow an daughter it's 100% proof. >> when they came with the results, i said again, you told me he just died. i will not stop. me and my daughter will go to all courts in all over the worlds to punish who did this crime. >> now that i have proof that he was poison i feel relieved, actually. >> the final close your for me will be knowing who killed him. and the motive and the ambition behind it. >>> more than 40 years of research have given sci

olympics coverage on our website. you'll find more about oakley's road to sochi, including a slide show. also an opportunity to sign up for our olympic newsletter at nbc bay area.com. olympics around the corner. >> i think jeff was part of our olympic team seven years ago in italy. >> italy, china. that that's where i first met you, rog. torino. >> we had a great time. any leftover watter is going to get kicked up on the windshields. what you're going to be able to see here is we still have cloud cover lingering across the bay. temperatures drop into the eastbound. we'll take you down to the southbound. the roadways are currently 57 degrees as you were the last ones here to deal with sol of the heavier pockets of rainfall. let's also get a sneak preview of the temperatures as we head throughout tomorrow's forecast. it is going to be a little bit warmer, about 3 to 5 degrees. temperatures in the low to mid 60s and we'll also get sunshine in here by the afternoon. we'll shooting for partly cloudy skies also into the afternoon. for the eastbound, also the south bay there will be a possibilit

operation the iraqi debt will take the olympic torch in this case has been hauled into position in kazakhstan covered with the insignia of the two thousand fourteen sochi winter olympics the russian booster rocket was erected on launch pad number one also known as the dire and start ahead of the launch scheduled for the seventh of november at the bike the newer cars with rome. the rocket will carry the soyuz tm eight eleven am and its treatment cream to the international space station where russian cosmonauts on a coat off and said he plans on ski will take the torch for a spacewalk on the ninth of november. the torch will then be returned to earth on the eleventh of november with iss expedition thirty seven to continue its journey across russia ahead of the start of the winter olympics in sochi on the seventh of february the were is you. a thirty six year old transportation security administration officer who was wounded in a deadly shooting attack in los angeles international airport last week has spoken about the ordeal for the first time tony greig speed walked with a cane as he read a statement outside his ailing home the officer was shot twice in

and reaching for the stars the sochi winter olympic torch prepares for liftoff and its first ever space for. thanks for being with us today you're watching. guy fawkes night took on a global field this year activists in more than four hundred cities turned out for the million mask march it was a show of anger against online privacy breaches corporate greed and corrupt governments. well first london in a bomb fire lit side the gates of buckingham palace with crowds wearing white masks involved in scuffles with police there were similar scenes near parliament to sarah firth was there. no you. are trying to post about the protests over the your mom are the other car go through every day a lot of resistance from the protesters. the lot of other people no more live as well possibly even more than that in the last. days with very very ugly right at the right and clear the right lively not the ruin the whole movement look i know exactly that that it would be a. rather unexpectedly the million mom march here in london has paid. the fees they had me from the houses of parliament where they were

could damage her participation in the sochi olympics. very harsh words for the commissioner. >> michael, we'll talk to you later. comments that could be used in a court of law. >> i never pulled a firearm, never displayed -- >> he knows how to do this, he knows how to play this game. >> how 911 tapes could be used to manipulate facts or even acriminal defense. >>> and paying tribute. two presidents honor john f. kennedy. power of the people until we restore our freedoms >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. crirs tin gilibrand said sexual assault issues should be taken out of the chain of command. >>> iran's nuclear issues are redeparted in geneva. >>> and the reverend billy graham is back in the hospital. the 95-year-old has been battling respiratory problems. are a expoaksman says he is expected to return home in a few days. george zimmerman is back in the news. accused of threatening his girlfriend with a gun. >>> growing concern that the people who make emergency calls like those are trying to spin the case be

a countdown to the olympics in sochi. look at this tonight. the olympic torch taken on a space walk. flying high above the earth for the first time. but back on earth, growing controversy over the games. president putin sparing no expense, but just where is all that money going? abc's kirit radia in sochi tonight. >> reporter: the olympic torch. boldly going where no torch has gone before. part of relay as grand as vladimir putin's vision for the olympics. russia's hosting the winter games in sochi, a town best known as a beach resort. last year, there wasn't enough snow, so they stored big piles under insulated blankets, hoping enough would survive until the olympics. it's an example of how putin sparing no expense. over $50 billion. by far, the most expensive olympics ever. one reason they're so expensive, all of these stadiums are brand new. the sky resort in the nines back there, even a power plant and the roads were all built just for these olympics. but critics say there's another reason. massive corruption. one report claims up to $30 bi