but a little artie. fins this one is in black and white. >> yes t is. >> stephen: and you yourself are sore of in black and white. >> yes, i am, thanks for noticing. >> stephen: your first film was at the time set in nebraska, so was your next film election. >> yes. >> stephen: and this one nebraska also set in nebraska. >> and about schmidt. >> stephen: and about schmidt. >> also in only aha!. >> stephen: you're from nebraska, right. >> right, still live there. >> stephen: you are allowed to leave nebraska. >> yes. >> stephen: you don't have one of those tracking ang lets on or anything, you're not a wanted man. >> no. >> stephen: why dow keep shooting in, you know, what hollywood and the east coast elite was call a fly over state, you know? >> yeah, i am from there so i just like being there. i mean we don't-- we don't really ask woody allen or martin scorsese why they like to shoot in new york, for example. we just kind of think that that is okay. but because i'm from a more far-flung unusual place, i

and patrols and this patrol comes complete with vehicles on the bullet proof the whole thing is all arty joins the list they took to the streets in east london where we had in full. why the area taking. drugs to be happy if it. was to make fun of the group is being described as far right many of their members a form of b.m.p. or e.t.l. but they really get to differentiate themselves from these groups and insist they don't want to be associated with violence but tactics such as baiting when members stand with empty beer cans to try and lure out the muslim patrols have proven controversial and some members of the creep have already faced the rest we know here during the. problems for anyone to be. carrying they sure have drug dealing to confront them do you think the. intimidating. about this point having a plea condemned them isn't patrols at the time the east london mosque has been singled out by the christian patrol for criticism the mosques say they feel caught in the middle and are worried the patrol could inflame fragile community relations our community certainly feels threatened by

hackers techniques but they're also in the arsenal of britain spies according to me from adult snowden artie's point boyko takes apart the tactics behind used by g c h q. the list of g c h q latest on ticks reads a bit like a cartoon villains manual edward snowden has revealed that a covert unit within the agency is messing with targets social media accounts so that changing their profile pictures on facebook they're posting and deleting status says and they're sending cryptic messages to their friends and family containing dissent from ation about them now g c h q's joint intelligence threat research group even uses on waiting journalists to funnel information about potential targets and they're also into honey traps they pose as attractive women online in order to get potential targets to meet with them in person i think what's unique in this area it's the first public proof that we've seen that serious issues of illegality have been brought forward the interference with other people's communications the violation of the privacy of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people if the gover

right artie travels to south africa to explore the nation's struggle to overcome rampant corruption and poverty and deep divisions left after the passing of nelson mandela. but you are here national coming to you live from moscow with me reading joshing welcome to the program i was day five at the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics and our team is continuing its special coverage let's go live now tunis an hour who is in our studio in sochi. hello there and he says so what is a store today for the olympic action. well there's plenty of action on the slopes but russia right now is all about figure skating to do well maxime time called well those are have already set a record score in the paris short program and are on their way to restoring russell's dominance in the sport our season two farmer has been keeping up with the action. this evening they are on the brink of clinching not go. when the pairs with just their free skate and they've chosen a piece of music which is actually very close to their hearts it's andrew lloyd webber's classic jesus christ superstar so what could poss

more trying to woo the donors ukraine's new leaders are cracking down on the old administration as artie's a go to skin off now reports. many are calling things which have been happening here in kiev since ousted president viktor unocal which has been put on a wanted list the new authorities are accusing him of being behind the deaths of civilians during the violent clashes between the rioters and the police in and around fifty former officials are now under investigation on the same charges the whereabouts of unocal which are unknown but it is widely believed that he's somewhere in the east of the country where there's a completely different picture first of all eastern ukraine it's been widely critical of the events unfolding here in kiev it's also heavily populated by ethnic russians and so just recently tens of thousands of people took to the streets of kabul in the south and they've been protesting the political changes here in fact they voted for a new mayor and are now demanding local authorities to recognize them and this man gained his supporters by promising to protect the city f

on the sports six gold medals are up for grabs today and russia is one of the strong contenders so artie's paul scott now on today's progress here he is hi there paul so obviously i know what the ladies are looking forward to today but how about sports fans. well i can tell you that russian alexander threat to call of is currently the man to catch at the halfway stage of the main skeleton competition he set a new track record in the first round the final two rounds conclude on saturday before the games r.t. caught up with him and he admits that being on home ice is a huge advantage. for more than a year and i've gone to know it like the back of my hand we spend so much time there that it already feels like home i like that track very much and i find it very comfortable i know that everybody likes it including foreign athletes sochi has hosted a trial run world cup and everybody was happy with the track is considered one of the best in the world is design is very smart and convenient spacious it has a warm up area large changing rooms and very good infrastructure. well elsewhere russia's fe

lot to offer visitors although some of the attractions were involved one might say leap of faith as artie's and martin andrews found out. hold on to your hats this is such as you've never seen before. a.j. hackett bungee has been stretching mine since nine hundred eighty six starting out with two men in new zealand in pursuit of the ultimate adrenaline buzz almost three decades and two point five million bungee jumps later the company has set up shop in russia boasting the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge and the world's highest swing facilities are aimed to impress this is boy for the most ambitious project with. the most interesting in the most beautiful we've already done some jumps from the sixty rated germ that feels wonderful. and we normally opening opening to the public sometime later in june this year. will be. an adventure in the trees here and so it becomes really the world's biggest. with spectacular views of the black sea in the caucasus mountains the park will also have russia's highest bungee jump at two hundred meters as well as two giant flying foxes that will c

rallies a fight for democracy and if you sharply contradicted by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov artie's reports clearly the west has already taken the side of the protests or so u.s. secretary of state john kerry said that the time has come for you have to decide whether it's one country or with the rest of the world and he added that washington supports the people of ukraine but some have been calling this a one sided approach and criticizing it including russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov you know. there are some fundamental questions that need to be answered in particular about the situation in ukraine how does fuelling street riots that are becoming more and more violent promote democracy why is there no condemnation of the e.c.g. even still occupying government buildings were those who burned police officers who shot racist and use the media and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians and current such actions while any violations of the home are dealt with harshly. some strong words there from russia's chief diplomat also added to joking that next time they meet

intelligence artie's lucic half an hour from ports. the german chancellor is interested in effectively building up a european communication network to avoid e-mails and other data passing through the united states now it's not a separate internet so to speak but more of a way to prevent e-mails and other data from being harvested by u.s. intelligence agencies now this is just an idea at this point and it is one that merkel will certainly be discussing with the french president when they meet in france on wednesday merkel said also this weekend that she basically just approved of companies like google and facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as germany where data protection is quite high this is been a very sensitive issue here in germany mr merkel has faced sharp criticism in the wake of the n.s.a. spy scandal for basically failing to take decisive action according to her critics to protect german users from surveillance of internet telecommunications traf

the sea than in the postman dela country as the nation seems to be edging towards a security crisis artie's policy are now reports. we were about to enter one of the most dangerous townships in one of the most dangerous cities in the world this is the south africa that mandela left behind you never know what to expect when you go out in those days some days will be quiet some days you just up and down there are a lot of downs in south africa now days away from the cameras all is not well in the land of mandela twenty six year old constable co-wrote burma later knows it all too well for five years he's been patrolling the streets of johannesburg to try and instill some sense of order. and now we are entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic to for a better life better way of the. crime. that crime and their few places in south africa today is more rampant poverty more in demick than alexander township twelve kilometers northeast of johannesburg it was once the headquarters of the african national congress and the same to of anti-apartheid activism but it's

well one of the spectators in the stands during that game or was artie's very own and he said she told my colleague kevin owen her impressions of the contest between the two hockey powerhouses. it was an intense. match to watch all together partly rooting for russia because they are the underdogs and haven't won for twenty years that so much controversy is kicked off tonight on social media isn't it what are they indeed there was a goal which of course was counted as a goal by the refs on the ice and been notified by the international federation because the goalpost was a little bit off its pegs so basically a huge debate going on right now on social media from the american ambassador moscow to russian diplomats i mean people talk he is a political sport because when you look back to the history of the cold war so it's getting a bit in ten thousand there afterwards one of russia's highest ranking supporters told anita that fans should not be too downhearted chief of staff for the presidential administration so he gave an off believes that with a week of the games to go the country shou

the sea than in the postman dela contrie as the nation seems to be edging towards a security crisis artie's policy or reports. we were about to enter one of the most dangerous townships in one of the most dangerous cities in the world this is the south africa that mandela left behind never know what to expect when you go out in the street some days it be quiet some days you just up and down there are a lot of downs in south africa now days away from the cameras all is not well in the land of mandela twenty six year old constable co-wrote knows it all too well for five years he's been patrolling the streets of johannesburg to try and instill some sense of order. and that we are entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic tool for a better life better way of the. crime where i am right and there few places in south africa today. and or poverty more in demick than alexandra township twelve kilometers northeast of johannesburg it was once the headquarters of the african national congress and the same to of anti-apartheid activists but it's as if time has stood s

will be hearing more from him throughout the day but for now let's turn from the events to the fans artie's martin andrews has been among the spectators in sochi and now joins me to share his impressions you've been here on and off for years really been here since the olympics started tell us about your impressions as a spectator what is sochi like. regarding what i actually saw i saw the figure skating including that russian couple that were just on fire. it was it wasn't the event last night it was the night before that the short couple skating it was an event i will remember for the rest of my life. but apart from the congratulations to the super skill and when we got behind this the olympic flame you can see but it's not just the flame that's on fire the whole olympic park is on fire it's like being in a carnival in rio it was just incredible even i was surprised in the volunteers they're doing limbo underneath the flags they're all screaming shouting dulce saying everybody all the volunteers speak english we've got back on the stands we've got russian down saying we've got stages with.

they did not recognize the new self-proclaimed leadership the movement's gathering pace in crimea as artie's or corpus going off reports for the past few days soon the city of. which is also the country's second largest seaport and home to russia's black sea navy fleet scores of people have been taking to the streets protesting everything that's been happening if in fact they haven't recognized the new of forty seven war over they've taken down ukrainian flags from government. and put up russian once moscow has been saying that it will not intervene into the situation here and has been calling on western partners to follow its examples now but has also voted for a new mayor who's gained his supporters by promising to protect the city from the ultra right to what you are referring to the nationalists more of whom have been taking a new government post here in kiev so clearly the already existing gap between the east and the west is now growing while we do want to see it with our own eyes and we're actually planning to go to see us cope with it later on to report about the events there from th

and exactly where the south east of ukraine stands in the face of what's already been dubbed a coup artie's maria for notion that has been gauging the move there. a nation turning to russia for music starting today local authorities are in charge of all political decisions on the ground in these regions we have to protect our land should the sewers use of ukraine's eastern and southern regions gathers and how to go for an emergency session and decided that they no longer take orders from kiev while in the capital column and declare that these people must be brought to justice as separatists we think that the central authorities are paranoid and that their decisions cannot be considered constitutional what happened in kiev left a local population base divided and dissolution and many fear that radicals from the capital could bring violence in their wake but others condemned the president's agreement with the opposition colonnade surrender. i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president i never thought he'd ever betray the ukrainian people i thought that he'd hold on to the end of

commercial is the latest weapon in the military's arsenal was artie's paulus leader reports. these really army has a new fight on its hand and numbers in combat units are down potential recruits are shying away from signing up fighting it seems has lost its glamour the i.d.f. is concerned it's circulating videos like this online that celebrate the strength of israeli fighter in this one a week if to put claims his strong soldiers are as is the i.d.f. this old to be managed drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both fits in with the catch phrase sound the idea is strong surely cause smiles when he watches the videos the twenty five year old served in one of israel's most prestigious fighting brigades he spent two and a half years in and out of gaza a close friend of his was killed there in the line of duty like others he's asking of serving in combat was the right decision as it is sure what i did is important and needs to be done but i don't think it helped me in the long run not for finding a job and not for my education i think i would d

socializing and partying in the various time houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals for bruce arty sochi. olympic games of course coming to an end this weekend but still much more to come do stay with our team for all the latest and our special coverage coming up on sunday for the closing ceremony. the g. twenty fourteen promises to make an exhilarating winter. here in germany and it's now a make the russian team for sochi twenty four take. on. more news just ahead for you including school kids under surveillance later this hour how a u.s. initiative to gathering data on children as young as five years old as they are parents up in arms plus. growing tension in the u.k.'s trade unions voiced their outrage over new jobs and salary cuts or to reports on the stand off between the workers and the government and that's after this break. the transit. you'll best way to the heart of most go. on the money with the business of russia is. to. winter is when the sun comes to life. away says palm trees are being harvested. people are waiting for the biggest event of the yeah. the desert festiv

is holding its breath for the official opening ceremony that organizers promise will be mind blowing artie's paul scholes is in the olympic capital for us. seven years since she won the right to host the winter olympics and in a few hours time will see the culmination of all that hard work and all the planning for the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics officially gets underway without ceremony it kicks off local time eight fourteen pm now i was fortunate enough to get a ticket for the final dress rehearsal on cheese dave and i can tell you that the forty thousand plus spectators inside the stadium are going to see a high tech state of the art pyrotechnic display but i can actually tell you too much more than that i'm sworn to secrecy at the moment it's going to culminate with the lighting of the olympic cauldron and all of the opening ceremony hasn't actually taken place yet some of the sporting events have already begun as you mentioned and these athletes that are spoke to say that sochi is ready to welcome the sporting world thirsts fresh telling good we've been riding every day. like s

now the south east here is made up of ten regions and it's home to half of the country's population artie's maria fanaa exactly where this part of the country stands in the face of what's been dubbed a coup. a nation turning to mush if one is starving today local authorities are in charge of all political decisions on the ground in these regions we have to protect our land. the stories of ukraine's eastern and southern regions gathered in how to care for an emergency session and decided that they no longer take orders from kiev while in the capital parliament declare that these people must be brought to justice as separatists we think that the central authorities are paralyzed and that their decisions cannot be considered constitutional what happened in kiev left a local population base divided and dissolution and many fear that radicals from the capital could bring violence in their wake but others condemned the president's agreement with the opposition colonnade surrender. i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president i never thought he'd ever betray the ukrainian people i tho

saw a great thank you an eastern hour at artie's i saw your studio which of course. right at the heart of the winter olympic signs are right here we've got everything in want to hear from the games we got the news the interviews and all the comments as well because full coverage online including our official facebook page is actually where you can pose a question to ice hockey legend. ok the russian rocket will pick the best questions to throw straight out that hockey election for the meantime though we'll be following the action and keeping count of all the medals are busy monday for medals to stay with r.t. international for our special continued and then pick of. the g twenty for a muslim culture exhilarating winter. to. make seven zero zero am the last of our link used for sochi twenty four take. on. still to come here. bearable pressure of big banking. if you look at their actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional system the financial world shaken by a series of suicide over recent weeks look at why some are struggling to deal

all rights artie's fall scotto thank you very much of course be talking to you shortly as the game kicks off and be sure to tune into artsy next hour for coverage which will be watching closely plus artsy of course we'll also be having a chat with legendary soviet and russian hockey star. later today and you get questions via our facebook page you can find out more about that at facebook dot com slash our teams now between all the cheering and sports visitors and athletes alike need to unwind and relax fortunately so she's not just the olympic host but the capital of black sea nightlife artie's martin andrews has been out on the tiles after dark. medals locked away from their home the sun has set and. there are tens of thousands of. during the games and it's not just hotels restaurants and shops that are busier than ever before the night life here is booming hosting the olympics means mixing it up and whether you want to mingle with celebrities. who fancy something a little more traditional like. to be hard pushed to feel left out. and she was on let you head down. to midnight. very popu

commercial the latest weapon in the military's arsenal is artie's policy reports. these really army has a new fight on its hand and numbers in combat units are down potential recruits are shying away from signing up for fighting it seems has lost its glamour the i.d.f. is concerned it's circulating videos like this online that celebrate the strain he's ready fighter in this one a week if to put claims his strong soldiers are as is the idea of the soul to be managed drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both fits in with the catch phrase sound the idea is strong surely cause smiles when he watches the videos the twenty five year old served in one of israel's most prestigious fighting brigades he spent two and a half years in and out of gaza a close friend of his was killed there in the line of duty like others he's asking of serving in combat was the right decision as it is sure what i did is important and needs to be done but i don't think it helped me in the long run not for finding a job and not my own creation i think i would

surprising disappointments as well and you get a chance to tell us what were the most memorable quote artie's facebook page to post your ideas and remember fails and tough luck moments are also a part of a limb pick history you can also share your opinion on twitter with the hash tag my sochi moments the best will be read out during our special coverage of the closing ceremony later tonight. the g twenty four jean-paul must really be called to meet again exhilarating willing to listen are you joining me and you see no way i'm a kevin zero in the russian olympic news team for sochi twenty four taking. all the . we can see with other news it's been the most turbulent week ukraine has seen in its modern history in less than seven days the capital of the seas from european country has gone through fire smoke and ugly clashes and scenes resembling a medieval battlefield then the police withdrew kiev fell into the hands of rioters and the opposition practically took over power and r.c. crew has been right at the epicenter throughout including alex had a chef ski who works at caps it all for us now.

now when you go up against the british police force it is your word against theirs arty met one student who learned the hard way how important hard evidence is when that happens syria has his story. i was being charged with assaulting a police officer of structure arrest i could have been six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life and devastated. i couldn't make a more had intended to attend the talk of by the education minister in june two thousand and eleven and found himself in a crowd of protesting students and just outside this university who was later arrested and the police officer said that a shop had pushed him twice before running away. this video appeared on you tube where a shock is later seen and it offers a different version of events. thanks to this video the charges were dropped scotland yard agreed to pay a shock twenty thousand pounds in damages after he launched legal action for wrongful arrest as a result of video evidence produced as part of a civil claim against the metropolitan police service three offices are the subjects of t

hardliners placing themselves the core of the people which toppled the old administration as alike as artie's alexy or chefs explains. we lead ukraine's and europe's biggest battle in a vibrantly edited clip of the right sector movement of ukraine states its mission and well something that the revolution here ended with the ousting of the president of the college its leader dmitri jarosz has a different view. you see fortune this is just the beginning ukraine's resurrection europe's resurrection they started our my down. but does this resurrection require the storming of political party offices the torching of politicians houses and the manhunt for journalists in the new government of this recently the offer of your award for the whereabouts of a russian journalist from the r.t.r. channel for what they call providing false information so you can see where we are heading now the jewish community in southeastern ukraine thought calm had returned but on tuesday an identified man tried to set the town synagogue ablaze with molotov cocktails pushed leach before masked men started throwing explosiv

all right artie's laura smith reporting live for us from london thank you very much for that update while writing off internal splits to ignorance that you seek to expand trade links with an upcoming pact with the u.s. but some critics say it's all at the mercy of mega corporations that could tie government's hands and expand their profit focused interests that still to come after a short break. there's a see you know when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's no simple little. handful of people able to have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we undertake in a unique operation in. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. science technology innovation all the least developed from around russia we've got the future covered. thirteen minutes past the hour now the e.u. and u.s. are mulling what could become the world's biggest

the man is already at death's door russian diplomats are urging washington officials to step in as artie's like sara reports. first he received twenty years in prison in the united states for a crime he never committed on the american soil now it has gone from bad to worse for russian violent constantin you know. your own barber nearly called me in the morning and told me he felt very sick and that he'd be lucky to survive until monday he seems to be having a heart attack because he told me he was suffocating experience and heart pain and was almost unable to walk he was beaten severely when he was arrested and has not there feeling well for a long time from his pleas for medical help have been ignored and he felt sick they put him in lock copter and let him on the cold floor going to try to get a doctor with all he was offered was flu medication and some antibiotics were given sometimes then don't even let me send him letters and they have refused to let any russian officials meet with the prison chief or the head doctor you know showing his lawyer told r.t. that the head doctor at the ne

artie's marine important i reports in ukraine we stand for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely in peaceful and. and they have a say in their country's future as it turns out washington isn't just cheering from the sidelines. in this video posted anonymously on you tube my understanding from that u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland and the u.s. ambassador in the kieve are heard orchestrating ukraine's political future playing a game of verbal chess with ukraine's opposition leaders i think yats is the guy who's got the economic experience the governing experience he's the he's the guy you know what he needs is clear on a book on the outside he needs to be talking to them four times a week the embarrassingly conversation goes from bad to worse when washington senior diplomat drops the f. bomb dismissing the european union's role in ukraine so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. the state department has shifted into damage control refusing to confirm the authenticity of

slushy but on the bright side so she's guests have a chance to be enjoying the unique surroundings as artie's martin andrews now reports. known as the russian riviera is not your typical russian city for it to sochi is just to be dozens of rivers streams and into forms across the countryside but not on a more impressive than the scary. so it's out with the olympics and even with the spectacular fireworks and for that a ninety minute journey from the olympic park free to highlights the diversity of this region ok it's not nagra or aggressive but it really is very pretty here and quite relaxing ranging from one to twelve meat is there are over thirty other waterfalls seven rapids and thirteen cascades in this area alone also i think the journey from the beautiful caucasus mountains offering the perfect break from fossil a bustling city the best time to visit the fools is in the spring when the melting snow brings a rush of water. i've been this is one of the features of the sochi national park which can be easily reached the roads are excellent now are open the whole year round on average one h

see them and the postman dollar country as the nation seems to be edging towards a security crisis artie's policy or reports. we're about to enter one of the most dangerous townships in one of the most dangerous cities in the world this is the south africa that mandela left behind there were no what to expect when you go out in the street some days will be quiet some days you just up and down there are a lot of downs in south africa now days away from the cameras all is not well in the land of mandela twenty six year old constable co-wrote burma later knows it all too well for five years he's been patrolling the streets of johannesburg to try and instill some sense of order. and now we're entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the early hours to for a better life better way of the. crime where i am right and there few places in south africa today. and poverty more in demick than alexandra township twelve kilometers northeast of johannesburg it was once the headquarters of the african national congress and the same to of anti-apartheid activism but it's as if time has stoo

welcome back to artie ensor national but now appears they are inside for syria the violence is increasingly spilling over its borders into neighboring countries lebanon spearhead the hardest with successor in the visions they're now flights in and to grow and so full blown civil war artie's maria financial reports from behind lebanese rebel lines where the harvests are being bred for battle. is the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for cobhams killed dozens in beirut and the town of had a mill next to the syrian border the targets were a shia areas controlled by hizbullah lebanon's most influential force which also supports syrian president bashar assad we traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold vehemently oppose in his bella visible message growing and. it's appointed by. his well as military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the upper hand in the battle of god and has deeply angered assad's enemies do you think we're going to see more explosions like this water. and. anyth

on charges of fraud and embezzlement artie's tests are so you went to visit the family who says their lives have been turned upside down by the law one morning fourteen months ago a life changing knock on the door with two policeman from scotland yard and i said where i was sorry mr dunham would come to arrest you and your husband since then they've been out on bail and are fighting extradition to the united states to await trial after claims from the dunham's former company in the us that they've more than one million dollars in illegitimate expense claims something the couple say are without merit showing as evidence that they've gathered the dumb say they're not afraid of trial but their worst fears being sent to the states is the possibility of being denied bail and spending years behind bars apart from one another simply waiting for their day in court if we were away from this country needs is. for a very good chance he would have asked why we're confident we would win. because we are innocent but we would then be shipped but there's no compensation and. wrongful acts for patient

olympics as always we are keeping up with all the events across life now to all sorts of headquarters and artie's and he said now. that's right an action packed day ahead of us here in sochi seven sets of medals are up for grabs none of those are in hockey just yet but that's still going to be the big draw for today with russia facing the u.s. and about four hours from now their long time rivalry makes the game one of the most eagerly awaited classes of these olympics andrew farmer now brings us this short thank you. would been talking about this game haven't we since the fixture list came out russia the red machine are up against the usa and it brings back memories of one of the greatest games of all time because a little known usa side beat the mighty u.s.s.r. at the lake placid elim pics back in nineteen eighty was dubbed the miracle on ice to many russians are hoping that a victory today will help them raise memories of that defeat in particular. he was in goal for the u.s.s.r. on that fateful day thirty four years ago. it was a good lesson for our team if you want to become an olympic champi

were allegedly massacred and thousands displaced though extremists still occupy key parts of the city artie's maria and her crew were the first of foreign journalists to make it inside and speak to the survivors . is just a twenty minute drive from damascus but the highway runs through an area firmly under rebel control so instead we take a newly created pass driving through high mounds of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shield its convoys from the tanks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route. where the first foray into vickery to get this close to address after the siege began a month ago it's still not clear exactly what happened in this industrial city last december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after abjure was attacked by militants belonging to al-qaeda linked groups and the free syrian army. they stormed into the city and they kept the civilians in their buildings using them as human shields which made our mission very difficult this is why it takes so long we want to avoid civilian losses. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had

athletes and the spectators need to relax and there's no lack of opportunity to do that here in sochi artie's martin andrews went out to explore nightlife in the olympic host city . blocks away from the home the sun has set and. there are tens of thousands of. games and it's not just hotels restaurants and shops that are busier than ever before the night live here is booming to sing the olympics means mixing it up and whether you want to mingle with celebrities. like clubs who fancy something a little more traditional like you. can be hard pushed to feel left out so you get to dance and she was on let you head down and that seems to me not. very popular with the locals and visitors can listen to terry's music from just you can spend when it comes to food like most of my trips here are open twenty four seventh's ideal for energetic tourists meant it was a very positive surprise because it's really very well organized here. that would be alive only during the summer months. in winter. feeling package after all that. the pools winds down grab some food and relax necks. to the cozy heaters the pa

area has changed i was here myself seven years ago and really it's almost unrecognizable and earlier arty met up with the former olympic winner he won bronze and silver before in various olympics is there was a volley of water and this is what he had to say about the changing face of such a. degree with the president with your time stern ten years ago i couldn't imagine such as would host an event of such magnitude and it's very important for russian mother who. only been positive changes for soldier but it's not a world class resort it's a continuous training facility for winter athletes one that russia never really had been in the future so she will host world championships who will school to be friends it's an amazing period piece for such a city that no one had heard of just ten years ago of course it wasn't just the olympic flame that everyone's talking about the medals made the introduction to various journalists one thousand three hundred of them finally here in such as well that includes the paralympic medals that will be used after the main winter olympic event two they're made b

up next the europe's far right on the rise artie's panel about his gas discuss what it means for the e.u. and cross to stay with us. judy cox a utah mother out of spite but an entire line of t. shirts at a popular chain store at her local mall the reason that she bought them was because she feels that the images of nearly naked women on them violate her local towns decency code she wants to make it clear though that she feels the store has the right to sell this type of shirt just not displayed in an exterior window ultimately her plan is to return the shirts on day fifty nine of the store's sixty limit let's hope for her sake they don't have a no return policy i bring this up because this is a great example of a nonviolent form of protest that actually works cause the scandal and more importantly it will make the company lose a few dollars technically the girls on the shirts are even fully exposed believe me i checked thoroughly and i would even call them r. rated below communities have the right to be more conservative than the rest of the nation if they want to be and it's good th

stamp out discrimination and homophobia it's urge authorities to take a firmer stance on hate speech artie's losing half an hour has more. germany has done a good job of luring young people away from the neo nazi sea and the report also praises the country for a program that lets people applying for jobs anonymously in order to make sure that no one's discriminated for age or origin but when it comes to battling homophobia and racism the report says that germany simply has a lot more work to do one of the things that are recommends is tougher penalties for crimes against sexual religious or ethnic minorities as well as an overhaul of the way in which germany registers these kinds of incidents because right now there simply is a lack of confidence among victims in the german investigation process as a result many victims of racist or homophobic assaults simply don't report them to the authorities that's a major problem the council of europe also took issue with germany's penal code like the legal system here basically in many european union countries racial motivation for one example is consi

the last one not to miss and both sides have learned the hard way not so underestimate each other so artie's paul scott now for the action is so far hi there paul i know it's still early but can you give us any pointers as to which way the match is going. well perhaps unsurprisingly it's a bit of a rough contest at the moment it is still no. as we enter the final stages of the first period in the bolshoi. let me just tell you that actually russia did two medals two that in the last a gold in a silver in the men's one thousand meter short track speed skating is a real tactical display by the russian skaters they went into the first two positions very early on and never looked back gold went to victory on to the bronze he already has from the fifteen hundred meters. now going back to events in the bolshoi. as we approach the end of the first period and in a way. to prove because russia gold medal in winter olympic ice hockey since the collapse of the soviet union with a russian players did win gold as part of the unified team competing in one nine hundred ninety two as for the usa well they ha

take place today and tonight all eyes will be on hockey with russia needing a win against norway as artie's andrew farmer now reports. there's only one place to start of the one that's the men's ice hockey because russia take on norway for a place in the quarter finals the pressure is mounting on the host off they failed to reach the last eight automatically but they really should beat this norwegian side you have lost this great opening games and also many have something like one player in the n.h.l. compared to something like russia's sixteenth however there's been a word of caution from one soviet legend. i think it's going to be a. little better. for the team because you have played against norway but it's you have to or understand you know there is no. fixed so you have to be aware have to respect where played against you know that same time you have a chance like to see different. nations and to see what. what you have today and. what you plan for the next trial to a quarter finals well many people are predicting a russian win but what about the norwegians there are plenty of them her

cancelled but on the bright side sochi is cast have had a chance to enjoy the unique surroundings as artie's martin enters the point known as the russian riviera sochi is not your typical russian city which is sort she's docked to be dozens of rivers streams and want to force across its boss countryside but not on a more impressive than this scary so it's out with the olympics and even with the spectacular fireworks and for a ninety minute journey from the olympic park highlights the diversity of this region ok it's not my grass or a grassy but it really is very pretty here and quite relaxing ranging from one to twelve metres there are over thirty other waterfalls seven rapids and first team cascades in this area alone also i think their journey from the beautiful caucasus mountains offering the perfect break from the hustle and bustle of the city the best time to visit the falls is in the spring when the melting snow brings a rush of water. this is one of the features of the sochi national park which can be easily reached the roads. are open the whole year round and on average one hundred t

saying many critics are simply just looking for reasons to criticize the winter olympics well arty's caught up with a number of athletes and officials to gauge their thoughts on how the games are going as we approach the halfway stage. perfect slushy snow. so i'm nothing to complain about doing your job so i'm happy to ski and. there's no wind so we have done. our climate here as you can see it's a rather challenging ride now two weeks ago we have been totally winter even here. everything is running ok this is a big event no one wants to organize bad games that's for sure everyone everyone tried to. we were talking about the importance of family support earlier on what we are all of the studios speaking to american ski jumper jessica jerome she told me of her first experiences here and sort of a role that her family played as well in her support no i didn't her career all the way along the line let's take a listen. because so publicized all the all the negative press in the lead up to the deal put you off or to just make your own mind up and get on with it you know it was hard not to

victory reached only in shootout softer neither of the sides managed to score for more than an hour artie's paul scott was following the game very closely. it was a victory for russia but perhaps not in the style of the fashion that they or their fans would have hoped for they were made to work hard and pushed all the way by a stubborn and resilient it was nil nil at the end of regulation time and not even overtime could separate the two sides so for the second day in a row russia faced the lottery of a penalty shoot out but this time they were victorious it's actually american who finish top of group a five one victory over slovenia however many observers are saying that the match between the usa and russia today was one of the most thrilling in the history of the winter olympics and we do have the prospect of the two sides possibly going head to head later in the competition in a medal match and former russia star who enjoyed a successful career in the n.h.l. believes gold is the one the russian public want more than any other. is the main event like the no i don't care what anybody said

bringing you all the latest in triumph defeats and drama of the twenty second winter games artie's ball scott will some of today's events live for us from the olympic city so paul wrap the day up for us a lot happening. there's actually breaking news big disappointment for russian sports fans with one of the poster boys for sochi twenty four. he has withdrawn from the individual individual event in the men's figure skating he was looking to add to the gold that he won in the team event of course earlier on in these games and he's also looking to become the most decorated figure skater in winter olympics history however going back problem has put paid to that he's withdrawn from that. individual event a disappointment for russian sports fans elsewhere there's a somewhat of a surprise bronze medal for you have going to get in the in the twenty k. pursuit of course that event that combines cross-country skiing with shooting however there was also disappointment for. she was unable to add to the silver medal that she won in the five hundred meter speedskating in the arena she finished fourt

relax fortunately sochi is not just the olympic host but the capital of black sea nightlife as well arty's martin andrews has been out on the tiles after dark. medals locked away from their home the sun has set and it's time to party there are tens of thousands of new business during the games and it's not just hotels restaurants and shops that are busier than ever before the night life here is booming hosting the olympics means mixing it up and whether you want to mingle with celebrities elites night clubs who fancy something a little more traditional like. to be hard pushed to feel left out so get your dancing shoes on let you head down. to midnight. very popular with locals and visitors can listen to various like music from jazz to contemporary electronica. clubs here are open twenty four seven ideal for energetic tourists was a very positive surprise because it's really very well organized around here. that would be alive only during the summer months. in winter. feeling package after all that partying look no further than the old port down grab some food and relax next to the cozy hea

law and forces up to five activists have reportedly been killed well let's get the latest now from artie's going to so tell us what is going on there today in the capital at this point there we are waiting for any reaction from the opposition who were given at deadline by eight pm . six o'clock time they were supposed to stop all of the offensive that they have been carrying out throughout the day the mood is highly for him at the moment because those who are in the center off key have on. there are thinking that the police are preparing for a full on assault on the independence square this could be the moment where there are where the situation in kiev will come to either breaking it or making it what we have seen throughout the day were extremely violent clashes between the opposition and the police it was hard to see exactly. some of the protesters were out of it quite similarly to the police as well we're talking about. thirty more than thirty police officers who were taken to hospital with. injuries at least five of them are said to be suffering from gunshot wounds at the same time th

but of and then me now you can catch more of their antics on our website artie dot com don't forget as well you can questions for the athletes on our facebook page to the best ones will be asked here on air we promise you that join me again next hour if you can as we cover up more of the latest best from sochi for now though for me kevin i see you soon. the g. twenty fourteen promises people to live in exhilarating winter for ninety eight year journey and use an hour and make every now and the rest of our lives they can use team for sochi twenty four take. on arts. now to some of the day's other news protests that erupted in the outskirts of bahrain's capital friday aquash by police with tear gas at least twenty nine arrested activists in manana marking three years of pro-reform dissent that's reportedly seen scores killed in a crackdown artie's looks airshows he reports. it's three years since the arab spring gripped the gulf state of bahrain violence still shakes the streets of its capital mamma as protesters against the sunni led government fire molotov cocktails the police respond

sochi winter olympics fans and the athletes are arriving in the resort city and so is the olympic flame artie's mark andrews has the story well off to one hundred twenty two days the torch is finally here in the sochi area to arrive yesterday all the yachts on the black sea which you can see behind me it's more of the one hundred twenty. three days will be complete at all make its way to the opening ceremony tomorrow night at the time will be fourteen minutes past eight of course to present twenty three if you go back to two years ago we had the likes of david beckham james bond and queen elizabeth the second he made appearances so everybody is really talking about who will be carrying the torch tomorrow earlier on today we had a lot of rough we had. the i.o.c. president he was also carrying the flame i also a surprise visitor from the likes of ban ki moon the general secretary of state for the united nations as well as famous russian actors and musicians and they're all we caught up with the french figure skater brains you bet and this is what he had to say about the rising excitement here in

sochi winter olympics fans and athletes are arriving in the resort city and so is the olympic flame artie's martin andrews has the story. well off to one hundred and twenty two days the torch is finally here in the sochi area to arrive yesterday on a yacht on the black sea which you can see behind me some more of the one hundred twenty three days will be complete at all make its way to the opening ceremony tomorrow night at the time will be fourteen minutes past eight of course to represent twenty two and see if you go back to two years ago we had the likes of david beckham james bond and queen elizabeth the second he made appearances so everybody is really talking about who will be carrying the torch tomorrow earlier on today we had a lot of rough we had. the i.o.c. president he was also carrying the flame i also a surprise visitor from the likes of ban ki moon the general secretary of state the united nations as well as famous russian actors and musicians and earlier on we caught up with the french figure skater brains you bet and this is what he had to say about the rising excitement her

troops by year's end the signing of a bilateral deal may look unlikely at the moment but artie's guide says washington may be reluctant to ease off its influence in the region. it's not easy for the obama administration to communicate reasons why the u.s. should stay you know against them past twenty four teen the administration hasn't been able to sell those reasons to president karzai has taken a toll truce presence his country's worse but washington definitely does not want to leave afghanistan for good and one of the reported options is that those three thousand troops would be deployed to bases in kabul and bob graham and would not do much traveling across the country now the other option which the pentagon reportedly favors more is leaving ten thousand troops behind and also leaving more bases open the pentagon argues the closing of some of the bases would hamper drone operations in pakistan washington's main argument now remains that afghan forces cannot stand alone against the resurgent taliban to increase the pressure congress has recently slashed plans development and militar