hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and ukraine's age old split between east and west is flaring up again because revolution unity is on the balance what will it take for the people of ukraine to find a middle way and what does all this mean for russia ukraine's closest neighbor today we asked me how might the chief of foreign affairs committee of the upper house of russia's parliament. gives independence square has been extinguished but the barricades are still. following days of bloodshed the opposition is celebrating. but tell the people of ukraine they were hoping for. the end of the struggle for power or just the beginning. become like care for head of the for and affairs committee in russian federation council it's really great to have you know a program today thank you for so many things going on in ukraine right now talk all over the world now in your view what has taken place is it a cooler evolution. well you know as an artist as an oriental list unfortunately i draw many parallels with what is happening in ukraine with what is called the arab spring. it star

international olympic committee had of the world's anti-doping agency was great to talk to you on sophie and co and we all hope that this winter olympics will be all about sports and nothing else will see in the next edition of so stay with us. obviously more for the latest because it's pink. when they wanted to avoid great they really needed. this is the one that i want to go with. the feel for. when the. target of a gun. you don't want to kill anybody would if somebody would he would just prefer . noticing more and more and that's really scary mark tactics which is that women have a moral obligation to protect their family and young girls shoot out here to. so we do have a pain quality. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. the faces change the world writes never. so picture posted states leaves. from around the globe. look to. the a. more success for the host nation on olympic ice with the bronze m

international olympic committee had of the world's anti-doping agency was great to talk to on sophie and co and we all hope that this winter olympics will be all about sports and nothing else we will see in the next edition of sophie and stay with us. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate they really need to buy guns and learn how to use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again as the field full of women are definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would he would do this with her. i'm noticing more and more and that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the design of their commitment to cover al

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welcome to sophie and co on sophie shevardnadze and they are just fortune turned mercenary boss erik prince down at blackwater at the world's biggest private military company scoring billions in government contracts in iraq and afghanistan but the public backlash that followed from years of atrocities can. force him out of the business are mercenaries bonds to cross lines can they be controlled and is civil and suffering inevitable when people are given a license to kill well we'll ask the man himself in our program today. blackwater the world's most powerful drug me a dollar the u.s. government they made a killing plugging holes in america's war on terror as soon as it is until roaches died washington is accused of hanging its paid fighters out to dry. to hide guns really go out of control in the war zone were they just thrown under the bus by the white house or did they get what was coming to them. of the biggest u.s. private military contractor blackwater welcome to the program it's great to have you with us so i'm just going to start from the very beginning q created blackwater t

hello welcome to sophie and co i'm syfy shevardnadze so they went around limping games have finally come to sochi the city is flooded with guests and athletes and the enormous amount of work that went into holding this extraordinary event will now be put to test and as everyone gets ready for the medal race well wait caught up with possibly the busiest man in town and that's the mayor of such as the home of. years of preparation for this day. the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi. there were voices saying the city isn't ready for the stadiums and roads finished and there's simply not enough snow in the subdural the resort so what's the mood in sochi itself is the city ready to welcome the crowds the media campaign break the olympic spirit the mayor so she has all the answers. and our guest today is not going to the home of mayor of sochi of the olympic capital live from sochi this i think i hope this is the home of winter sports fans from all over the world are tuning again he shouted well why they should just drop everything to hop on the next flight to sochi. because s

hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze so they went to a limping games have finally come to sochi the city is flooded with guests and athletes and the enormous amount of work that went into holding this extraordinary event will now be put to test and as everyone gets ready for the medal race well wait caught up with possibly the busiest man in town and that's the mayor of sochi the home of. years of preparation for this day. the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi. there were voices saying the city isn't ready the stadiums and roads finished and there's simply not enough snow in the subdural the resort so one.

from glasgow thanks audie international in moscow more news for in half an hour from now next sophie and co welcomes to time and then pick ice hockey champion you've got a lot enough for a chat stay with us for that if you can. i just first state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio said that he would put forward legislation for the city to issue special municipal identification cards to undocumented immigrants he summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers who are undocumented i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives in the shadows yeah that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives in the shadows is because they immigrated illegally why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him a pizza because it's his home too this is not just a slap in the face to rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go through the bureaucracy and headaches to bec

until accusations that employees killed unarmed iraqi civilians back in two thousand and seven and sophie and co program spoke to erik prince her founders the company. you've said that your men wear guards not investigators station to kill and on check the policy and that's from your book that's a direct quote what gave you the right to behave in that way well look there are there are there performing a defense of mission so you know every day between iraq and afghanistan the company did more than one hundred thousand missions protective missions and no one under our care was ever killed or injured and each time there was a and event where our men had to use their weapons it was documented in of all those times it use the weapons it still comes out to less than one half of one percent. of those of those incidents so the idea that they were trigger happy is just it's not accurate. israeli democracy's embracing cyberspace the government has admitted to pay some students to say nice things about it on social networks and now it's using facebook rather than face to face meetings to ask the public wh

the latest edition of sophie and co is of next year not international. the head of the sober russia program wants to bring back russia's sobering stations which are like a hybrid hospital and police station and american we call these a good old fashioned drunk tank and in russia their history dates back to the early years of the twentieth century to twenty eleven when they were all closed putting the burden of alcohol abusers health on local hospitals despite the amount of alcohol consumed per person in russia steadily declining over the last few years alcoholism remains a big problem but will privatized drug tanks work no no they won't let's think about it what is business motivated by money big government contracts in countries around the world are often abused and if you get paid per alcoholic served then pretty soon companies are going to incentivize the police to round up as many people with a hint of booze in their blood as they can or look at it this way what is more profitable helping cure an alcoholic or treating him with fat government contract

hello welcome to sophie and co i'm so shevardnadze a law that would allow he said for children is being considered in belgium is passed the bill would lift state restrictions and those were a quest for their lives to be terminated and we'll be speaking to one of those behind a controversial love. a matter of life and death these parents are forced to watch their children ways to way slowly and. surely assisted suicide be an option. these two for. euthanasia is posing questions no one would ever want to answer do miners have the right to die is a time to break the taboo. and our guest is belgian senator run to support her off the low allow him to finish a four miners feeling about phillip mouth thank you very much for being with us at this program so you know are you a doctor yourself a surgeon what have you seen that could possibly make you take up this issue in the first place. oh listen as a doctor i think we were confronted with the situations of great distress what's your thought on medications with incurable disease mostly cancers. and it also applies to minors children and teenage

and sophie and co is up next after the break. recently swiss voters nearly passed a referendum to put a strict quota back on immigration switzerland is a relatively small country and some estimate that almost a quarter of the population is made up of immigrants from e.u. countries that is a lot of people and the swiss are worried that the increased foreigners will also mean increased crime rent prices birth of the state and erode traditional local culture as modern immigration almost always does this was populations democratic choice. to restrict immigration is now actually being blasted by the e.u. brass with threats to cancel bilateral agreements how dare you have a different version of democracy than we in the have switzerland how dare you i don't think this event will have much effect on the e.u. bureaucratic machine nothing could make them change their hyper liberal minds but i think the swiss anti immigration referendum will have a huge effect on local populations of countries like germany and the u.k. which are seeing horri

hello and welcome to sophie and co are not saying today will welcome you from the station or of the silk tropical central sochi what the twenty second winter olympics are in full swing the world's finest winter athletes are competing here on ice and snow giving it their all for the ultimate prize where does the drive come from and how can anyone possibly handle the pressure of millions watching someone who has been there twice probably knows about so without an olympic champion will have all the answers. a member of the legendary russian find with julie the gold medals under his belt and three stanley cup stews names he knows a thing or two winning what does it take to stand tall with the podium how do you mold it doesn't superstars one super team who can take. it or let you all know for a legendary hockey player it's really great to have you on our program today so which team will you be supporting. well i've got my russian passport and. my we can call the team russia. and any discipline in the olympics is going to hockey is always to weigh in when you are playing in america we're alway

talks to the author of the controversial child euthanasia law recently passed and biology and that's in sophie coright here on artsy. transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. ten a group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital of oklahoma the cygnus want to build the monument of a goat headed devil in or despite a monument to the ten commandments that was put up in two thousand and twelve year they maybe should have put up of honor into the ten commandments on public property but does that mean that satanists not cease to honor whackos have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is it depends on how you look at things. technically it was to liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor sickness which sounds nice but in reality that means that those ninety nine christians have to tolerate a monument to the infernal master and the feiler of the innocent on their way to work every morning part of having a culture