until a judge allowed him to return to cuba earlier i spoke with artie's nicholas o'donovan from our miami bureau and i first asked him to explain what the cuban five were charged with back in two thousand and one. well actually that trial begun in november of two thousand it was a very long and complex process as you can imagine that went on for seven months it all happened here in miami and from the very beginning the legal teams defending the cuban five fault for a change of venue because as we all know the south florida is a stronghold for the cuban exile that didn't happen and the jury found them guilty of all twenty six counts including conspiracy to commit espionage conspiracy to commit murder and acting as agents of a foreign government here in the united states and besides the trial lasted several months the very well surprise was just announced in a few minutes then in december two thousand and one all five members of the group received different sentences and rene gonzalez the two that already out got nineteen and fifteen years but don't you get it all and i wanted out i m

that was artie's paul scott reporting at this year's winter olympics athletes from around the world are competing in ninety eight different events but instead of the emphasis being on the world class talent that's taking front and center the focus on sochi has seemed to lie all swear artie's on a stasi a church has the story. while the mainstream media pundits me keep acting like they're the hottest of all he speaks french look at people in reality the corporate news networks are struggling with ratings they lose credibility right because that's what media trades and that's their currency whether they're credible or not they're not credible people are watching us have decided that if what they see is not what actually is they'll tune out leaving news networks to hastily search for new tricks to increase their dwindling audience according to public policy polling the self-proclaimed fair and balanced fox news network is trusted by thirty five percent of americans and as the news network nearly the same number of americans say they trust the least it's not entirely illogical to say that f

loan artie's aleck's airshows he reports that many europeans may be reluctant to see their money head east. e.u. member state greece we don't have any jobs and at the same time we have debts to pay they should support us now that we're in great need e.u. member states brain. i'm unemployed i have two children we don't get any government help and it's hard to survive each month but if we don't have money for us how can we give it to ukraine. and revolting ukraine a country without even in association with the e.u. . the e.u. is as plain with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean that big parts of the ukrainian working population will see a deterioration in their living style the fantasy about entering your of the streets be in line with gold that's a fantasy because the real project is it is an i.m.f. based austerity program. with questions about who will lead ukraine into the future and whether the country will stay together one thing's clear it's the rubicon to be that needs to be revamped first even before the euro my down protest kicked off the

until a judge allowed him to return to cuba now earlier i spoke with artie's nicholas o'donovan from our miami bureau and i first asked him to explain what the cuban five were charged with back in two thousand and one. well actually that trial begun in november of two thousand it was a very long and complex process as you can imagine that went on for seven months it all happened here in miami and from the very beginning the legal teams defending the cuban five fault for a change of venue because as we all know the south florida is a stronghold for the cuban exile that didn't happen and the jury found them guilty of all twenty six counts including conspiracy to commit espionage conspiracy to commit murder and acting as agents of a foreign government here in the united states and besides the trial lasted several months the very well surprise was just announced in a few minutes then in december two thousand and one all five members of the group received different sentences and renee gonzalez the already out got nineteen in fifteen years but don't you get it all and i wanted out i mean i

followed closely by norway canada germany for more from sochi artie's that richard concorde fleet joining her earlier into philadelphia on the day's big winners. well just concentrating on team usa things got off very well for them very early in the morning in solitaires they came to bronze in the men's snowboard cross by going to alex the bold will from taking the gold medal and the silver medal for the russians also through nikolai loon in and things they did very well for the usa as well late in the evening here in sochi as they picked up a gold medal and then tar fights ski all of us even the men's hard fight is probably more famous in the united states for the snowboarding shaun white the flying tomato as he's known was a two time olympic champion coming into the salty games but unfortunately in the competition couldn't make out a hand trick easy crush ties and could only finish in fourth place but better fortunes for the americans in the men's half point ski as david y s y had an exile in first run scoring ninety two points and that was a good enough to give him an america gold meda

olympics a war zone overflowing with minor problems and have been neglecting the competition itself artie's an associate you're going to look at why so many news outlets across the atlantic seem to cast a cloud over the event. hundreds of world class competitions involving thousands of top notch athletes sports fans all over the world rejoice it's time for a live big game fun again and some of them are pretty distressed but why feed the excitement word of a possible new terror threat character a terrorist threat terrorist threat and her world champion and multiple gold medalist for buzz kill the western mainstream media and the olympics is a wonderful time for a contrast to get together in order to despise each other and or treat each other like crap it's only happens once every two or four years you know there's not a lot of time you've got to come together and hate each other and not a second has gone to waste from picking any little thing that might be off to fifty toilets but not one that could be flushed to toilets advisor diagnose you toilets right next to each other just spells party

artie's nicholas l. donovan joined us earlier with more on this controversial murder trial and what happened inside the courtroom well it was day nine day of closing arguments in the michael dunn trial we heard prosecutors say that for dunn the shooting was just simply a target practice prosecutor erin wolfson was in charge of deliver in the state's closing argument and she said that when michael dunn pull up to the s.u.v. with jordan davis and his friends were as you said listen to music his blood literally started to boil obviously the state is trying to depict a picture of michael dunn where he was some way triggered by some sort of irrational hate towards a certain kind of person or that there was some sort of premeditation in his actions on the other hand dunn's lawyers to pictured the faulty seven year old as a love in caring father that was literally scared to death and acted in self the feds therefore very different stories that we heard today in jacksonville let's talk about the evidence that we

house judiciary committee examined recommendations to reform the foreign intelligence surveillance act artie's sam sachs was on capitol hill and has more. the house intelligence committee took on the issue of worldwide threats to u.s. national security and a hearing today and there was quite a long list of threats covered cluny al qaeda militants in syria iran has nuclear capabilities and even threats of china shooting down space satellites but with the director of national intelligence james clapper on hand to testify it was the so-called threat of edward snowden's n.s.a. disclosures that stole the show and led to some hair raising comments by members of congress its chairman mike rogers that has repeatedly made claims without evidence that snowden is secretly working with the russians but at today's hearing the witnesses on hand refused to confirm that accusation do you believe that. there's any indication that the n.s.a. contractor who is now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services chairman i don't have any information to that effect excuse me later in the he

commercial the latest weapon in the military's arsenal is artie's policy reports from tel aviv. these really army has a new fight on its hand the numbers in combat units are down attention recruits are shying away from science not 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 made a fighter in this one a week if to place 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 sets in but the catch phrase sound i the idea of a strong smell it all 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 for 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 do thing

that was artie's sarah firth. and we turn to florida where a verdict was reached in the trial of michael dunn the forty seven year old who shot and killed teenager jordan davis on saturday the jury in jacksonville found michael dunn guilty of attempted second degree murder for opening fire on three teens who were in the same as you vs jordan davis however they could not come to a consensus on whether to can. victor a quick done of the most serious of charges first degree murder in the two thousand and twelve killing prosecutors argued that dunn recklessly shot at the teens after complaining about the volume of their music in a convenience store parking lot three of his gun shots struck davis one of them cutting through his liver along and his aorta however dunn testified that his actions were all in self-defense that davis threatened him and that he thought he saw a gun sticking out of the vehicle that al davis and his friends don was found guilty on four of the five counts he was charged with and now faces up to

commercial latest weapon in the military's arsenal is artie's paulo sleeper reports . these really army has a new fight on its hand 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 the israeli fighter in this one a weight lifter proclaims he's strong. as is the i.d.f. this elderly man is drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both clips in with the catchphrase now the idea is strong surely cause smiles when he watches the videos the twenty five year old served in goal army 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 for sure what i did is important 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 do things diff

now is artie's marina port. and we are just three days away from the start of the twenty fourteen olympic games taking place in sochi russia of course our team will have full coverage on this take a look. i . and now for a closer look at russian president vladimir putin's visit and the preparations for the games here as artie's martin andrews. president putin arrived earlier today ahead of the olympics are really starting on friday in the at the wonderful stated that is complete and it's behind us we actually have a her hustle was taking place at the moment but it was the president putin's first stop when he met the delegates of the i.o.c. one hundred twenty six committee that opened the session today his bus stop was to the salt cheap national park what was that were the same facts a whole group of of leopard's person left with as they're known through rehabilitation center was a put a few years ago didn't suffer actually went inside one of the cages to pets the cubs of course the wildlife just important subjec

comments caught on tape revealed the depth of america's meddling in ukraine's anti-government unrest artie's marina porton i reports in ukraine we stand for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely in peaceful way. 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 you know 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.

far to voice concerns over the rise of radicalism in ukraine since the turmoil started details from artie's arena . firstly i have seen at least five european officials parading through the independence square in its early stages making statements about the pact how everything is fine and dandy and it's absolutely a show of democracy in its best form but now we are hearing from the foreign minister of luxembourg who actually is the first person only an official level from the west to indicate that in fact there is something sinister going on on my done also known as the independence square in the of. the european union has no right to support extremists who use involving nazis as you call them europe is familiar with we have to fight all extremist forces including those in ukraine this is very important koreans who hate violence and extremism need to find a compromise and restore peace. now about those who are russian foreign ministry is calling extremist and it refers to as nazis well let's have a look at some of the leaders in ukraine so-called revolution for example alexander . a man of

today and it's now raising concerns over a possible separatist rebellion that's dividing the region artie's igor piskun of has the story. well i have far more grave. here in the crimea national store winds are being shouted alongside the washerwoman's they share the same went but definitely not the same political views was. there were there was a little we all came out today to show that without our approval notice the us will be mayn't we say the crimea is a part of our grades war z. is the majority of people here support russia in the u.s.s.r. the crimea belong to the russian soviet republic until may nine hundred fifty four when the then soviet leadership decided to transfer it to the administration off so he did crane and when the u.s.s.r. collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one the crimea was left as a part of independent ukraine but for the last few centuries mainly ethnic russians have been living on these lands alongside minorities including the muslim crimean tatars built the crimea always used to be russian and was passed over to the crane unlawfully it's time for justice to pr

play and the nation's contributing editor stephen cohen joined artie's a big picture earlier to talk about that very subject take a listen to what he had to say about how this kind of coverage could disrupt u.s. russian relations the coverage even in the steam leading american newspapers seems to be virtually wishing for something bad to happen to spoil what they call putin's games and they have so demonized president vladimir putin russia for so many years that when they talk about putin and then the terrorists they virtually equate the terrorist ira to articles in the washington post last week or a couple weeks ago i wasn't sure who i was supposed to be rooting for putin of the terrorist and his then kind of. now it has been embedded in this coverage of this sort of a game which is extremely or and of course is very bad for america russian relations that was the nation's contributing editor stephen cohen. well if you live in the u.s. and take a look outside your window you're most likely seeing some snow from the deep south to the northeast millions saw winter blast of snow rain an

artie's or smith has the details of what chancellor george osborne is saying is if scotland walks away from the u.k. it also walks away from the pound he's very clear about that he said that there are four things that are necessary to have a currency really and so for scotland to shed the pounds and then proceeded to demolish the possibility of those conditions being met the first thing he talked about was a banking union scotland of course has a huge financial sector it's worth about twelve times its g.d.p. alone there's no way that scotland would be able to bailout its own bags you've only got to look at the huge royal bank of scotland so that the u.k. has only just managed to extricate itself from an obligation to bail out european banks so one earth would put itself back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation then osborne talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending it would assess it take the rest of the u.k. and scotland seedings over and see in terms of how much it taxed its citizens of what it spent that money on why should the u.k. do that

artie's or smith has the details. of the georgia has been a saying is if scotland walks away from the u.k. it also walks away from the pound he's very clear about that he said that there are four things that are necessary to have a currency really and so for scotland to shed the pounds and then proceeded to demolish the possibility of those conditions being met the first thing he talked about was a banking union scotland of course has a huge financial sector it's worth about twelve times its g.d.p. alone there's no way that scotland would be able to bail out its own balance you've only got to look at the huge world bank of scotland for that the u.k. has only just managed to extricate itself from an obligation to bail out european banks so one earth would put itself back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation then osborne talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending would necessitate the rest of the u.k. and scotland seedings over and t. in terms of how much it taxed its citizens o

that was artie's sarah ferguson. and we turn to florida where a verdict was reached in the trial of michael dunn the forty seven year old who shot and killed teenager jordan davis on saturday the jury in jacksonville found michael dunn guilty of attempted second degree murder for opening fire on three teens who were in the same as you vs jordan davis however they could not come to a consensus on whether to convict or acquit dunn of the most serious of charges first degree murder in the two thousand and twelve killing prosecutors argued that dunn recklessly shot at the teens after complaining about the volume of their music in a convenience store parking lot three of his ten shots struck davis one of them cutting through his liver along and his aorta however dunn testified that his actions were all in self-defense that davis threatened him and that he thought he saw a gun sticking out of the vehicle that held davis and his friends dunn was found guilty on four of the five counts he was charged with and now faces up to

with a record score and they're on their way to restoring their country's dominance in sports well arty's andrew farmer is in the mountain cluster and he discussed what's in store with only so now a down and studio. sun is at the sudan on my back as i speak and that's prompted concerns about the possibility of melting snow but organizers have insisted that everything is fine and all events will go ahead as shai jewel today and that's included the women's downhill which produced an absolute classic we've seen a dead heat between slovenia's tina maze and swiss since dominic design and that means they will both walk away with a gold medal and that has never happened in this event in the olympics before but coming back to the weather just yesterday temperatures were as high as plus sixty degrees up rose a plateau where the extreme park is held we also saw a number of crashes in the men's cross-country skiing and some of fleets of suggested that this is because of mushy snow when i spoke to one athlete from new zealand early this morning and she said you know what athletes just have to get on

the synagogue big synagogue being torched in the country's west and one of the main violent incidents artie's alexi has more. course. 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 dmitry jarosz has a different view. 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 from the new government at 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 we had returned but on tuesday and identified man tried to set the town synagogue ablaze with molotov cocktails the police leach before masked men started throwing explosives at our sy

a that's left russia without an olympic medal in the discipline for the first time and thirty years artie's andrew farmer has been keeping track of the developments. that is the end of his competitive career he was always going to retire after these olympics aged thirty one but he did not want it to end that he had to pull out after landing awkwardly during the warm up of the men's individual competition yesterday he does have a long history of back problems in fact he still has four screws in the back of his after twelve operations but he will be remembered as one of the most decorated figure skaters of all time he has four limping medals he won gold in the team event here in sochi just a few days ago and also fellow figure skater maxine klein called among others has been paying tribute to his glittering if. we all have great respect for pollution coach he's a legend in our sport and a great example for many worldwide but i think the fact that he came out and helped win the team gold given his condition is a heroic achievement and. i want to take my hat off and tell him that he's the great

loan artie's like sarah cesky reports though that some europeans are reluctant to see their money go east. e.u. member state greece we don't have any jobs and at the same time we have debts to pay they should support us now that we're in great need e.u. member states sprain. i'm unemployed i have two children we don't get any government help and it's hard to survive each month but if we don't have money for us how can we give it to ukraine. and revolting ukraine a country without even association deal with the e.u. . the e.u. is as plain with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean big parts of the ukrainian working population will see a deterioration in their living style the fantasy about entering your of the streets be in line with gold that's a fantasy because the real project is it is an i.m.f. based austerity program with questions about who will lead ukraine into the future and whether the country will stay together one things clear it's the rubicon to be that needs to be revamped first even before the euro my down protest kicked off there w

games starting in less than two weeks back to you in moscow thank you very much and they said i was artie's on these so now are the reports in from marty's very own sources on the highlights from this year's olympics well as we're getting a heartfelt goodbye to the winter olympics we in fact i asked you what you thought about the opening ceremony of the closing ceremony the games in general we want you to give us your highlights and feel good moments of the games on our facebook page and you did that so thank you for sharing your moments well no surprise that you actually picked russian gold in the latest figure skates in there somewhere also impressed by the national team's parade while others selected the sublime performance by a russian figure skating rookie and olympic darling you need. quite an online or it seem has a more on the winter games its heroes and most touching moments so you can head to our teeth dot com for more on the. right to see. her story. and i think that you're. on our reporters. on the. we continue with other news now after it's taken the reins of the ukrainian capi

keep him on the story paul for now thanks we'll come back in just a bit later stay with us meantime artie's been keeping up with all the athletes of course including those lucky enough to find themselves on the podium we've been asking them how it feels to be a champion and whether they found in the facilities to their liking. it's funny. because it's really challenging like one of the best on his in the season the conditions on the hill. just just awesome when it's so challenging you don't have any surprise when i say. the best should win. this is what it's about really like people really know. a lot of fun the celebrating they like the sport of course and. some good words for sochi just never told us that because i honestly all i wanted was a good result to do everything i could everything have been working for you i do want to let down my team and my coaches i came to skate well and i was nervous the first time so it turned into a matter for me because a positive news got to the athletes like and so apparently the international t.v. viewers this national epic committee has now revealed t

declared that they are now taking control of their respective regions bypassing rulings from the capital artie's marouf an ocean has more. you know cool rich and it used to be a very unanimous region supporting more distant policies that the policies of western countries but we see that today population here is divided from one hand the i've prayed that opposition including right wing didn't do all those radical elements can come here from kiev and it's not very hard it's less than five hundred kilometers away from the capital and we're hearing serious calls mostly these messages sent from her through social media to stand up and to defend the c.t. and the region but from another hand those politicians and ordinary people here on the ground not totally happy with what victor new college is doing as a president and particularly in this region is disappointed by the early paul deal that victory in accord was signed with the opposition earlier on friday and a vivid illustration of these division that we see here and we see in the entire country is this meeting that you can see i hope behind me ther

house judiciary committee examined recommendations to reform the foreign intelligence surveillance act artie's sam sachs is on capitol hill and has more the house intelligence committee took on the issue of worldwide threats to u.s. national security at a hearing today and there was quite a long list of threats covered thirty al qaeda militants in syria iran's nuclear capabilities and even threats of china shooting down space satellites but with the director of national intelligence james clapper on hand to testify it was the so-called threat of edward snowden's n.s.a. disclosures that stole the show and led to some hair raising comments by members of congress its chairman mike rogers that has repeatedly made claims without evidence that snowden is secretly working with the russians but at today's hearing the witnesses on hand refused to confirm that accusation do you believe that. there's any indication that the n.s.a. contractor who is now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services chairman i don't have any information to that effect excuse me later in the hearin

loan artie's likes airshows your imports though that many europeans are reluctant to see their money go east. e.u. member state greece we don't have any jobs and at the same time we have debts to pay they should support us now that we're in great need e.u. member states brain. i'm unemployed i have two children we don't get any government help and it's hard to survive each month but if we don't have money for us how can we give it to ukraine. and revolting ukraine a country without even an association with the e.u. . is as plain with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean a big part of the ukrainian working population will see a deterioration in their living style the fantasy about entering your of the streets be in line with gold that's a fantasy because the real project is it is an i.m.f. based austerity program with questions about who will lead ukraine into the future and whether the country will stay together one thing's clear it's the rubicon to be that needs to be revamped first even before the euro my down protest kicked off there was a ta

thank you kevin very much artie's kevin owen there from sochi and we're putting up the latest results rumors and goings on in the host city in a special section on our website that's twenty fourteen dot r.t. dot com right now we're reporting on there how the russian president is entertaining for and guess at the big city and of course bringing you all the live updates on all of you that. andrea days until the next year a p. and parliamentary election but people in one country are too ignorant to vote on the e.u. matters according to a senior bloc commissioner and it's not the only choice i'm not qualified to make she says war on the rhetoric from artie's laura smith in london. these are comments made by vivian redding who is the new justice commissioner a top official in the european union and it's british people that she's talking about who she says don't know enough about the european union to be able to vote in a referendum on whether to stay whether britain should stay in or come out of it she's urging britain essentially to spend more time on debate about the e.u. before a possib

caught in a legal tangle they tell artie's tears are so huge that they'd rather take their own lives than be taken away from their families one morning fourteen months ago a life changing knock on the door with two policeman from scotland yard and i said where i was soaring with stun them with 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 u.s. that they have more than one million dollars in illegitimate expense claims something the couple say are without merit showing as evidence that they've gathered that some say they're not afraid of trial but their worst fear is 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 is. for very good chance he would have why we're confident we would win. because we are innocent that we would then be shipped but there's no compensation and. wrongful acts for tyshan. can yo

to bring the flame to sochi than their predecessors the paralympic relay has started in the styles artie's arena tells us. well the only how we can have to get to the torch from the fire as far as the far east of russia to where the paralympic games are going to take place and that of course is inside and they will have to cover the length and breadth of the entire country forty five cities more than fifteen hundred people are going to be involved and still we're going to be we're going to be seeing rather impressive displays off emotional physical and of course human in durance when we're going to be looking at people with disabilities perform in some of the most amazing sports in sochi but because they have such a short period of time to do this the organizers decided that torch release will be happening soon will tenuously in several cities at the same time so so on the wednesday it was the far eastern cities that have started at the relay and by the end of next week we're going to be seeing a bit of the paralympic torch lit out in sochi russia actually has traditionally performed rathe

hole that's breath for the official opening ceremony and organizers do promise it will be mind blowing artie's paul scott says in the olympic capital for us. it's been seventy since so she was awarded the winter olympics and in a few hours' time we're going to see the culmination the climax of all that hard work and old out planning the opening ceremony gets underway at eight fourteen pm local time in the fish stadium that you can probably make out behind me and i was fortunate enough to get a ticket for the final dress rehearsal on choose david and i can tell you that the forty thousand plus spectators who are going to be inside the stadium are going to be treated to a high tech pyrotechnic display a condensed journey through russian history and although the ending ceremony hasn't begun in the olympic cauldron hasn't been lit we still don't know the identity of the person tossed with that despite those things the sport has started the events began on thursday and the continuing to run throughout friday and also has spoken to a couple of athletes who have tested their venues ahead of their eve

artie's or smith has the details what chance the georgia has been a saying is if scotland walks away from the u.k. it also walks away from the pound he's very clear about that he said that there are four things that are necessary to have a currency union so for scotland to share the pound and then proceeded to demolish the possibility of those conditions being met the first thing he talked about was a banking union scotland of course has a huge financial sector is worth about twelve times its g.d.p. alone there's no way that scotland would be able to bail out its own balance you've only got to look at the huge world bank of scotland so that the u.k. has only just managed to extricate itself from an obligation to bail out european banks so what on earth would it put itself back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation that talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending would assess it take the rest of the u.k. and scotland seedings over and see in terms of how much it taxed its citizens of what it spent that money on why should the u.k. do that he say

big highlights along with men's figure skating with you again you pierce and aiming for victory as artie's andrew farmer explains there's another contest that could top all of those for russia. but i have to say he was a fantastic because he was in it for a try and pull from bush's job but if there is one gold medal that russia wants to win more than any other it is in the men's only hope they haven't done that since the fall of the soviet union and today they. can't against a vignette and that is a game on paper you would think they would win because they have something like sixteen and h l stars compared to c.v. news one they also have home with vantage although some are arguing that could bring extra pressure will they rushes main man alexandrovitch and says all the players have the experience they need to. i'm pretty sure we have experience and we all do our guys to handle the pressure. and i'm pretty sure it's going to be flying soon as we're going to step on the ice we're going to. think about the game and i think about how to win the game not about. the pressure and stuff and the pl

there was no gun artie's nicolas o'donovan joined us earlier with more on this controversial murder trial and what happened inside the courtroom. well it was day nine day of closing arguments in the markel dunn trial we heard prosecutors say that the dunn the shooting was just simply a target practice prosecutor erin wolfson was in charge of deliver in the state's closing argument and she said that when michael dunn pull up to the s.u.v. with jordan davis and his friends were as you said listen to music his blood literally started to boil obviously the state is trying to depict a picture of michael dunn where he was some way triggered by some sort of irrational hate towards a certain kind of person all that there was some sort of premeditation in his actions on the other hand dunn's lawyers depiction the forty seven year old as a love in caring father that was literally scared to death and acted in self defense therefore very different stories that we heard today in jacksonville let's talk about the evidence that we've heard throughout this case as it comes to a close knit the last becaus

discussion but in terms of the action russia and america their first match begins on thursday that was artie's paul scott reporting from sochi. now to a fight against the n.s.a. kentucky senator rand paul today filed a lawsuit against president obama and top security officials over the agency's surveillance program paul believes a program that includes gathering citizens' phone metadata infringes on our fourth amendment rights are to correspondent mayor dave it has more. on behalf of myself freedom works and everyone in america that has a phone we are filing suit against the president of the united states in defense of the fourth amendment today senator rand paul finally did what he had been threatening to do for months senator paul officially filed a class action lawsuit against the obama administration the national security agency and a host of others regarding a u.s. surveillance program that collects information on millions of u.s. citizens at a press conference here today paula spoke about the magnitude of this case this we believe will be a historic lawsuit we think it may well be the la

elite athletes are actually in town and it's open for skiers and snowboarders of all standards that was artie's paul scott reporting from sochi and aside from talking about good merits at the olympics there's always lots of talk about good lucks they aren't exactly give out medals for beauty at the olympics and for good reason but artie's liz wahl is taking a look at the olympians that would surely make the list if they did. the limbic games a global event where people are rallying the world to an end to celebrate athletic achievement while it brings together the world's most talented olympians there happens to be many quite attractive competitors we've compiled a list of seven of the finest in no particular order will start off with australian snowboarder or a bright bright is an olympic gold medalist at the two thousand and ten winter olympic games in vancouver she carried the flag for australia at the opening ceremony is more i can be on the slopes shaun white is a snowboarder on team usa here he is at a press conference near sochi gearing up for the twenty fourteen olympic games a lot of pr

and to day german chancellor merkel called it absolutely unacceptable artie's merino porton has more but what you hear during this four minute conversation is basically two top u.s. officials strategizing about how to form ukraine's new government it sounds like they're playing a game of chess with the opposition leaders as the pieces on that chess board they're trying to determine which opposition leader has the best economic and governing experience to work inside ukraine's new government and which opposition leaders should remain on the outside it's a bit shocking to actually hear i had to listen to it a few times to really grasp the fact that there are strategizing on how to put together the government of another country instead of paraphrasing everything let's let our viewers actually take a listen for themselves. peace is obviously the complicated electron here especially to him as deputy prime minister and you've seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now so we're trying to get a read really start where he is on this stuff i'm glad you sort of put him on t

well it was a busy day in a limp exporter let's head straight to saatchi artie's kevin owen is standing by in our studio there he's got a look at the first official day of competition at the winter games. yeah. so they're just past two am sunday morning here in sochi we're still going strong anyway but the course those athletes those spectators resting before the next day of full competition begins eight sets of medals will be up for grabs later today well right now let's recap the results in day one you shall we which was a huge success for the norwegian team there spoke to our correspondent paul scott he's been following what how closely. well there are no medals for russia on day one of the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics but they are in a good position to pick up their first medal of these games in the figure skating team event after five of eight rounds they currently lead the overall standings meanwhile biathlete ole darling has created history he's become the joint record holder for the most amount of winter olympic medals he now has twelve to his name and seven of them a g

victory with the home side battling it out late into a shootout artie's paula scott is in sochi joining me now live with the highlights so paul you watched it all unfold what did the americans do right or the russians do wrong how did it all go. well it was pure sporting drama inside the bolshoi ice time as the usa run out winners against russia in the most dramatic of circumstances the match finished two two the regulation time rusher actually took the lead midway through the second period captain pavel datsyuk leading by example to opening to open the scoring a sweet moment for him he plays his hockey in the n.h.l. but goals from cam fowler and joe pavelski put the usa to one up before the levelled at two two with five minutes to play now there was control over see russia thought they'd done enough to win the game in the final moments but it goes controversially disallowed by the officials. now the game then went into overtime nothing separated the two sides so went to that dramatic shootout and america eventually ran out winners in the most heartbreaking of fashions for russia russia

that's taking front and center the focus on sochi has seemed to lie i'll swear artie's on a saucer churkin a has the story. while the mainstream media pundits me keep acting like they're the hottest of all he speaks french look at people in reality the corporate news networks are struggling with ratings they lose credibility right because that's what media trades and that's their currency whether they're credible or not they're not credible people watching us have decided that if what they see is not what actually is they'll tune out leaving news networks to hastily search for new tricks to increase their dwindling audience according to public policy polling the self-proclaimed fair and balanced fox news network is trusted by thirty five percent of americans and as the news network nearly the same number of americans say they trust the least it's not entirely illogical to say that fox is the most trusted network by that very fanatical very small demographic within the country but it's also a very loyal one so you have this this almost a seesaw effect where you know there's nothing really i

i think that the highlight for me is artie's culture expert here in russia is how much russia sort she has changed i was here seven years ago reporting on a travel show away fareed if r.t. in the early years and really it was just a small soviet holiday resorts the black sea coast where people came in the soviet times and this entire region has transformed to what you can never even imagine you can really see where the billions of dollars has been spent the coastal cluster of crescent pollyanna with literally just mountain valleys but now we have the beautiful resorts like rosa khutor it's also important to shed some realistic balance journalistic light on this entire situation surrounding such as we have lots of controversy with the l.g. l g b t rights and gay issues with security which has been flawless and we had lots of anti western propaganda negative one sided press from many countries around the world but it's been good for me to actually report on the balance good and bad you know reality of. today well now that the olympics are over what's being done in such a to prepare for t

the man is already at death's door russian diplomats are urging washington officials to intervene as artie's alexei or if he 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 brother 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 been feeling well for a long time for his pleas for medical help have been ignored and he felt sick they put him in lock up and left him on the cold floor to try to get a doctor but all he was offered was flu medication and some antibiotics sometimes they don't even let me send him letters and they have refused to let any russian officials meet with the prison chief over the head doctor because lawyer told r.t. that the head doctor at the new jersey prison where he's

olympics a war zone overflowing with minor problems and having been neglecting the competition itself artie's honest as he looks at why so many news outlets across the atlantic seem to cast a cloud over the event. hundreds of world class competitions involving thousands of top notch athletes sports fans all over the world rejoice it's time for a live big game fun again and some of them are pretty distressed but why feed the excitement word of a possible new terror threat character a terrorist threat terrorist threat and her world champion and multiple gold medalist for buzz kill the western mainstream media and the olympics is a wonderful time for a contrast to get together in order to despise each other and or treat each other like crap it's only happens once every two or four years you know there's not a lot of time you've got to come together and hate each other and not a second has gone to waste from picking any little thing that might be off to fifty toilets but not one that could be flushed to toilets i by that i miss you toilets right next to each other just spells party that doesn't s

there are 11 messages that are arty programs. not only does this change, but it changes on all of the panels we have on the wall. we very much believe in moving people around. this has about 40 modern rolls-royce is. we have three vintage extensions from 1933-1934. this is very special. what this is used for our weddings and special cases. this is on the top floor. it supports the helipad we had on the roof. thememorabilia is based on china clipper. you can have private dinners here. being love the theme of in this environment. charlie guillen have a look? >> yes. -- shall we go and have a look? >> yes. that is a good way to beat traffic. coming up, the expectation of my next guest will not meet expectations. we will get the numbers when "first up" returns of plus analysis from financial advisors. ♪ >> we just had some breaking news right now out of japan. we are looking at the limoneira gdp numbers. -- let me get be gdp numbers. for the the expansion economy. it also comes off about the same level of growth for the third quart

dipped down over there appreciate you weighing in and letting us know the latest over there that was artie's martin anders in sochi now to ukraine where the country is seeing the most violent protests yet the latest news the ukrainian president has agreed to a truce with opposition leaders according to the presidential website the government has agreed to start negotiations with protesters of dozens of people are reported dead as demonstrators clashed with the police after officers attempted to clear out independence square the hotbed of protests in the capital city of kiev at least nine officers were killed trying according to the interior ministry well as the conflict turns deadly u.s. and european leaders are putting pressure on the ukrainian government to ease up on using force here's what president obama had to say about it today while on a trip to mexico. we called the green government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way that. the ukrainian people are able to assemble and speak freely about their interests without fear

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