well you know primarily i want saatchi to do a very good job hostin the olympics. and as far as the gambling areas concerned. i would say tsotsi is more focused on sports and healthy lifestyle than gambling. but be that as it may at this point it would be premature to talk about what me happened afterwards but we can think about it later i understand but still there are a lot of questions of what's going to happen after works and is there a risk that so she will have the same future etc you have one athens where olympic venues are hardly used by anyone and they're actually a burden on the city budget. is that. you know what it's. all the venues have been designed is small type purpose once. for instance the saatchi media center where your colleagues know work but will be converted into a shopping mall. and the nearby skating center will become an exhibition hall later this year but i'm. i guess hotels are wondering whether they were going to have an of guests after the games but i would see of course there will be a lot of guests but it. is because. we have a touri

saatchi we have a tourism development program. so they will be fine with with the show we are currently making plans for twenty fifteen where we are planning events that would attract tourists to tsotsi you you know we want to attract as many people as possible because to austin saatchi tourists are our primary source of revenue but it could. and i want to add something to regarding the gay question what a couple to put it we have no problems with gay people here. it's very peaceful. i always see our people are very tolerant of such a residence and guests don't care about other people's private lives as long as they don't impose their lifestyle on others we're very tolerant and hospitable. everybody will feel comfortable. but everybody will feel comfortable. and that was outgoing back home of layer of so it should thank you very much for the spelling our fears and doubts the message is clear come to such a enjoy the games congratulations on this big day mr mayor and we'll see you in the next edition of. the military be used you do

tara starting to unwind and relax a little bit more artsy as hall's not bringing us the latest from saatchi is the month making use of twenty fourteen thank you so much stay warm. well that leads are also weighing in on the atmosphere and saatchi from hotel rooms to the security situation take a lot. everything and anything is running like a wagon and everything's just a great day well that hasn't been any problems as of today might have had in the that way because that's just happily carried a baby but he did but when you have can lead it needs he said. but this be a bit half of the cicadas might be a gut sense that in the thought of it being at a really great time the outlook that the state so far. it's well organized and keep the needy friend here. having a good time. critics are still mincing words so i feel like a flame with comments about dangerous competition courses and mass murder of stray dogs aren't a correspondent on some future takes a closer look at the saatchi backlash once the salty at the meeting points in their homes to live on the slope. the mainstream media are looking f

russia's astley scored so far and bronze and other disciplines are to his pole scott has more from saatchi. force gold came in the figure skating team event they sort of challenges from canada and the united states to take top spot and they were helped along the way by a foolish display from one of russia's most famous sporting sons if gagne pushed blowing the competition away in the men's free program a magnificent display when you consider in recent years he's been plagued by injury and has undergone surgery twelve times meanwhile a new star has been born a fifteen year old beauty impressed in the ladies free on short programs with peerless performances i mean the procession has become the youngest ever winner of the winter olympics gold medals in the figure skating she is six days younger than the previous record holder american tara lipinski elsewhere on day two there were three other medal successes for russia forty two year old veteran lucia. competing in a record breaking seven i'm following a winter olympics he missed out on a first big gold medal but he did claim silva. olga belug

gold on ice russian athletes skate away from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating about with a sublime performance from a teenage rocky artes on standby for all the games highlights in our very own saatchi studio. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out as voters narrowly back a bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us that have been forgotten just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster that happened nearly a year ago. you're watching our to international live from moscow and lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia has scored its first medals at the sochi olympics placing it fourth in the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of the of its figure skating team i'm now handing over to an isa now a in our studio in the hearts of the winter games and you so were you lucky enough to witness the figure skating last night. i was and it was so exciting because it was

for twelve minutes in a car or something and they're tweeting this under saatchi problems. canadians are having real trouble getting up because they're such hockey fans they got to get up at four am to watch the game now there's also the then people having a little go politically at the kind of thing that stands that politicians in the states are taking on saatchi and also about the weather in sochi now here people are taking. an article came out explaining that there's an element of snobbery in the salty problems mean and that americans and the rest of world should really step off a little bit and have. to think about what they're doing now can we hold out please anya. that's gone it's gone ok well look it doesn't matter some of the images that are coming out then are the loose screws on my desk now hold this one please this is a good one this was tweeted by a correspondent from the. goggles on iran and he tweeted that he was on the way to the media center in sochi the streets not quite ready yet now if we could roll the next a look at the response he got. and this was a p

we are well into the second week of the saatchi olympics and fans are certainly getting their money's worth at the action packed games and day nine proved to be no different as russian hockey fans got some consolation after the bitter loss the day before just after the red machine lost to the usa in a dramatic shootout series the crowd immediately rallied to get behind their team and this time as soon as the extra period was over russia closed the door on slovakia's chances of victory but the win was anything but easy paul scott takes us through the match. 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 finished top of group a they saw after a five one victory over slovenia however many observers are saying

meanwhile many western newspapers are featuring pictures of less than satisfactory conditions and saatchi whilst the post said by a handful of journalists but the athletes tell a different story from admiring the views surprised in their hotels and service here are some of the tweets that foreign gas have been posting from saatchi and then you'll see in a little bit the. one of my personal favorites. now is some of the olympic competitions have got underway and the medal predictions are already swirling and it's become somewhat of a tradition for global sports events to turn to some more different creatures for forecasts paul scott who we heard from just earlier has been meeting saatchi's animal pundits. this is the moment to see his life changed forever abandoned by his mother in russia's far east the seal pup was weak with hunger and vulnerable to predators his chances of survival were slim. fast forward three years and his life is now transformed. is the home of the rather shy seal now stuff say he was abandoned as a pup was rescued and nurtured back to health care the dr marion i'm fr

gold on ice russia's athletes skate away from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating event with a sublime performance from a teenage rocky archies on standby for all the games highlights from our very own softer studio. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out as voters narrowly backing bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us that have been forgotten or are just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster that happened nearly a year ago. you're watching our two international live from moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia has scored its first medals that they saw lympics placing fourth in the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of its figure skating team now handing it over to anderson now in our studio at the heart of the winter games and it's tell me where you are lucky enough to witness the figure skating last night. i was indeed it was my first olym

results from day one which was a huge success for their all we our correspondent pos got here within saatchi now has been following the action very closely. although 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 only 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 gold he's also become the oldest individual gold medal winner in winter olympics history this is after he claimed gold in the men's ten k. sprints event there was also a super display from the netherlands in the speed skating in the men's five thousand meters they claim the one two three gold silver and bronze spend kramer successfully defending his title well let's take a look at the medals table then you can see that it's norway that lead the way at the moment but that fantastic display by the ne

yes that's right we've got lots to look forward to the olympics it's not the end of the flame for saatchi we've got the g. eight summit will be taking place in the summer we've got the formula one but we've got the world cup in twenty eighteen we've got various of the rents and also i was actually filming last week and we've got the largest swing that's opening up in one of the valleys to also the infrastructure of tsotsi is completely changed we've got hotels bulgy to open this summer we've got saatchi park which is the amazing amusement park theme park which is located next to the olympic park here in such i'll be opening this summer and actually. for the moment has about four million businesses every year but now that sortie is on the international map that number i'm sure will increase and more what about the security issue did you feel safe overall coming in from the olympics having experienced the games and now being toward the end of the first winter olympic games that's right i mean many people were quite concerned my mother in liverpool you know she was message to me saying son p

the best of the best the first sets of medals are awarded in saatchi as day one of the twenty fourteen winter olympics comes to a close. a team of german skiers and biathletes reaches out for assistance after its equipment fails and finds a helping hand from the russian opponents who decide to put rivalries side. street violence and goals bosnia herzegovina protesters clashed with police and said government buildings a blaze amid soaring unemployment economic stagnation and corruption. and a suicide bombing reportedly carried out by a briton in syria the first such attack by a u.k. citizen in the country sparks fresh fears that westerners could pose a threat and they return home from the war. you're watching our to international live from our moscow studios i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me on sunday eight sets of medals will be up for grabs and saatchi as the winter olympics are set to continue into their second day but right now let's take a look at the results from day one which was a huge success for the norwegian t.v. our correspondent paul scott who is in saatchi now has b

there's more than a week led to lots more to come from saatchi and live updates throughout the games the communities across japan are reaching out to neighbors who are grappling with dementia. don't think cafes when some friends and caregivers can get professional advice and a chance to socialize the neighborhood group in the city of constantine your tent camp set up this dimension campaign last september. it's opened once a month at a local community center. the main goal of the people who managed the campaign is to educate the community about dementia nurses and long term care specialists familiar with dimension of red vines to caregivers and neighbors health professionals can spot signs of dementia by having informal chance. and you need to really test team indictment says. a seasoned photo is a former nurse who worked with dementia patients for forty years. she tells people that the campaign how to relate to people with the disorder i don't get me down that i can in some instances. dimension kathy's also give sufferers and caregivers to stand next to people in the community. she

welcome to your content so let's take a look what we have for you in this week's paper the match at the saatchi limited to guide new capital to protest. in the uk to benefit st documentary or demonize nation. a small country with a big baby. the satay bring to olympics getting under way in yet another controversy is rearing its head. this lets let the games are being held were once the ancestral homeland as the sick and seeing people as auntie itself the capital city one hundred and fifty years ago this ethnic group was given out by a brutal ministry campaign led by the russians saw large numbers of three lines one out to cassius who are scattered all over the world say the limping athletes will be skiing on mass graves with the eyes of the twelve ounce or two basic axioms are calling for recognition of the killings as genocide. strikingly beautiful women and dearie writers. that's the image is a cashier's presented themselves at their folk celebrations at a folklore evening in a village in the caucasus in russia master of ceremonies last month that the ship is battling against forgetfulness. h

don't think great thing about saatchi is that it's so unique city that was most listed here we are at the seashore here it's always really warm but in krasnaya polyana which is just forty six kilometers from here there's plenty. it is stupid but sort of she's going to put it this is very convenient we will be going to have snow in the end everybody's comfortable. absolute circumglobal fans are comfortable well that's what makes you so true so unique. because why it's it was perfect at least for the winter olympics. i mean the world's do you have this good true. i marinate joining me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary can for news and much much. only on bombast and only on. the g twenty four team promises we call to make an exhilarating winter it's not. just me and you so now i have to make seven zero in on the bus tomorrow take news team for sochi twenty four take. on ott. welcome back towards a party where we're discussing digital freedom and oppression with richard stallman mr stillman you have a very interesting life philosophy and you're a very interesting

athletes and saatchi are busy bagging medals as the winter games enter day four with canada now leading the race let's cross live now to artist headquarters the center of the olympics and he's now is there for us and he said so there's been some breakthroughs for russia hasn't there. there as the competition is gathering pace and every day brings new reasons for celebration here in sochi russia has scored a first picking up a bronze in the short track speed skating and this victory is courtesy of former south korean athlete victor on russia had high hopes for him and he didn't let his adoptive country down but the russians women's curling team has moved a step closer to medal success beating their american rivals let's get the details from our team andrew farmer so russian curling ladies are in the spotlight again tell us more and. yeah that's right they've beaten the americans nine seven to make it two wins from two and then also turn out again later today to face the chinese it is a very taxing show jewel for them to actually have to play something like nine matches before the semifin

has been gauging the reaction from the athletes themselves about the conditions and saatchi. coming into this event you know we know such as a little bit warmer we know the pipe conditions can be a little bit bearable we travel all around the world and we ski different so you know as a professional athlete you turn up to a hospital and you just have to adjust to it for me was perfect i love this slushy snow when i stopped outside so i'm nothing to complain about the thing to do no good job so i'm happy to ski instead she says no and so i'm definitely impressed with what the russian did everything is flawless the the athletes are taking very good care of it and i think that's all that matters for the games great thing is so close it feels like just a big family every weekend before you come over and are not really sure what to expect and. you know everything's been great so far whether it's been you know the food or their commendations or their rooms or you know the village. would be. unbelievable just looking at it from the outside and going in and practicing on and successfu

was it to her starts the final leg of its historically as iran is in hosea saatchi heralding the imminent start of the twenty fourteen winter games. the u s foreign financial firms against doing business with iran saying a partial lifting of sanctions is not me. the retail market is up for grabs. the scan revealed its been trying to hand around a hodgepodge deal with a talabani as america's role in the country. twenty fourteen becomes less clear a fan. my boss can't read yet. welcome to the program neo was this line has arrived in the whole city of sochi heralding the final relay stage before the games begin and what a journey it's been more than sixty thousand km across the vastness of russia and all the way into orbit and the international space station. among those welcoming and in sochi rt smart candies and paul scott what exactly is made to a sixty five thousand km around the largest country in the world that is russia fourteen thousand troops there is the one hundred and twenty three cities in russia featuring six pieces get up and set the fastest pace in shape but the summit histor

it is also on the saatchi guest list for my gym and johnson again touch but that he once called gotten a treat in a few democrats. and jim and interior minister tom estimate cf will be getting to you be wearing the giant income as well. follow leaders have stayed home with our reporter a problem or is insulting. barbara tells took our response has been to the opening ceremony. what's the mood light. well i see the opening ceremony just came to an end to eye with his pitiful pirates right behind me. i'm so sorry you missed out on that one but you can see the shrinking lives here on my left thumb i might spend a sari and zealots of the stadium nights next it's on the left and this is where the kids chemist so actually took place and excel not the type of person thinks and so it actually started off with a very playful scenes without plenty of clouds and stars and the dreaming barrel until then the young national team sexy walks and i was interesting to see that when i let the rice this came in for the first time that he is tired of paying the special olympic atmosphere. spectators cheeri

tante saatchi. meanwhile and i. a limping news that is the image of brother is continued her domination in women's biathlon by winning an historic a third gold in sochi the twenty seven year old won the twelve point five kilometer mass start to become the first to feel about by athlete to win three individual gold medals in one olympics took an early lead and was never threatened governor such a lover of the czech republic took silver norway's till eckhoff made a late charge to win bronze. well meanwhile russian ski cross raised our money at common sight of a has been flown to munich for further treatment after breaking his spine in a practice session the twenty three year old had undergone six and a half hours of surgery in a sortie hospital after sustaining a fractured vertebra with a dislocation she was visited there by a president vladimir putin who calls the athletes father with an update on his daughter's progress. oh meanwhile the women's snowboard cross was won by about some kovach of the czech republic the

gold on ice russian athletes skate away from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating about with a sublime performance from a teenage rocky artes on standby for all the games highlights in our very own saatchi studio. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out as voters narrowly back a bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us that have been forgotten we just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster that happened nearly a year ago.

to of course we'll be bringing you all the news pictures and comments on the sporting victories of saatchi twenty fourteen. the g twenty fourteen promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter sports in our. store and you see no way i'm a clever though and i'm the worst of all the hate news team for sochi twenty four take. on. it's not only the deadly violence but also a radical ideology that's spilling over the border from the syrian civil war lebanon is one of the country's worst affected artes with the national traveled to a camp there where future islamist fighters are being recruited and discovered the shocking realities of war. was the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for kabul has killed dozens in beirut and the town of hederman 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 who traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold vehemently opposed in his bella visible. corners. and

thank you and he said now i keeping abreast of the olympics in our saatchi studio now and don't forget about tech not our twitter feed where you can see the whole lineup the roll out of the special olympic this special line up rather for the games in the last section and we've got all the sports events sorted in order with all the latest tweets and pictures from the athletes themselves and russia's women hockey players hope there will be more ups than downs coming up showing their excitement from an elevator at the games for all the latest action from salt to follow our team on twitter. and right here on arts he will of course bring be bringing you the news and pictures as well as comments on the sporting victories of saatchi twenty fourteen. twenty four jean-paul was the week ultimate in the exhilarating winter well it's an honor to be in germany and you say no way i'm a kevin zero in on the rest of our little take news team for sochi twenty two total take. on. humanitarian agencies are evacuating people from the besieged syrian city of almost as a ceasefire between the government and

gold on ice russian athlete skate away from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating event was with this sublime performance from a teenager artes on standby for all the games highlights from our softer studio. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out thousand voters narrowly backing bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us to have been forgotten we're just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster almost a year ago. you're watching aren't international live from moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia has scored its first medals at the saatchi olympics placing it fourth in the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of a figure skating team i'm not handing over to innocent now in our studio in the hearts of the winter games in sochi and this of were you lucky enough to witness the figure skating last night. i was indeed feeling very of lucky my first olympi

well was a busy day in olympic sports a let's head straight to saatchi parties' kevin allen is standing by in her studio there. he's got a look at the first official day of competition at the winter games i do. yellow then lindsay and so they just want to end the use of the bawdy and so she was still going strong on anyone but the cost of those athletes the stache is dressed in full the next day of the full competition begins at eight sets of medals will be up for grabs later today. right now let's recap the results from day one chili which was a key to successful the norwegian take the risk of top goes on a pole skull has been fully mohammed clips. although nine medals for russia on day one of the sochi twenty fourteen when turning tricks for they are in a good position to pick up that fast metal all these games in the figure skating team events of the fight of the eight rounds the car and beat the other group standings. meanwhile by athletes. only our interview and darlene has created history. he's become the joint record holder the most amount of winter olympic medals in the past twe

and about with the olympic hopefuls and saatchi is a familiar face from a very different discipline globally we're now in a violinist of an estimate has qualified for the women's slalom representing thailand and she's hoping to deliver a virtuous or performance on the slopes this time around. so explain that. and give the date three days when he. said what he and by you can you get out of these eight days when i played. and had a show the next day and i have to say that. we. may need. something and i think the minute the i am serious moment it's easy but i got myself. saying. is that he might even say that nobody thinks that he. would like to be in it is he. now will the sporting action was preceded by the glitz gloss of the opening ceremony is that he said with more of the highlights of the show the city is still low rumbling really can feel the energy in the air after what we saw last night with the opening ceremony of course kicking off the twenty second winter games here in the russian culture still city the two and how our so took spectators on a breathtaking journey through russian cul

yes that's right we've got lots to look forward to so the olympics it's not the end of the flame for saatchi we've got the g. eight summit we've taken place in the summer we've got the formula one fan but we've got the world cup in twenty eighteen we've got various of the rents and also i was actually filming last week and we've got the largest swing that's opening up in one of the valleys to also the infrastructure of tsotsi is completely changed we've got hotels bulgy to open this summer we've got such a park which is the amazing amusement park theme park which is located next to the olympic park here in such as i'll be opening this summer and actually. for the moment has about four million businesses every year but now that sort she is on the international map that number i'm sure will increase and mari what about the security issue did you feel safe overall coming in from the olympics having experienced the games and now being toward the end of the first winter olympic games that's right i mean many people were quite concerned my mother in liverpool you know she was message to me saying

valentine's day our team has been going to feedback from leading athletes on their experiences and saatchi and how they have found the olympic venues after some negative publicity and scaremongering before the games their competitors say they couldn't be happier with what they actually discovered. being heavy just server away the bus is a spin or some such your son signed up on the mountain balanced with a pretty good accommodation it's not many places on the new zealand team so he said by far a dog one of the buildings but not so comfortable with buses up around the was a new zealand makes us feel like the temperatures were by a bit of a simple warm so yeah it's getting pretty saucy but we ride in those conditions all the time and so i just came down to try to land on your face in attempting to buy. well we've also talked to alpine skier who dared to use von hohenlohe who is a mexican citizen with german loreal royal i should say ancestry he says that all the negativity about foreign journalists have been pouring on saatchi could have been cancelled out by some good p.r. think it's great

and a lively atmosphere in saatchi has been gradually throwing the hearts of the downstairs still there are some who prefer to only notice the downside and ignore the high points artie's going to to can look south where the media criticism of the olympics is coming from. you know some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympics in russia smell like cold war in their coverage some didn't even bother to come up with new tools new graphics same old bear this cover is from one thousand nine hundred eighty when the us boycotted the summer games in the soviet union of course there were calls to boycott the sochi olympics as well similar images as the handcuffs and all barbed wire not new as you can see andrew craig who wrote several books about news coverage in america is here with me to chat about all this sea of negativity thank you so much for coming craig you know russia has come a long way since one thousand eight hundred and it's a very different country now but it seems some of these outlets one their readers want their audience to see what russia as if it's still the on

ok about to go back to martin and saatchi martin as a as a. you're a gay man you're open about it there are other members of the r t team in sochi that are also again can you tell me the reception you. gone from the city because you've been there before the olympics opened you saw the venue you went to the city you met the people were any horror stories any it anything you want to share with our viewers you want goes through some people that's the only thing this is about go ahead well first of all it's not about this winter olympics is about sporting events there i said it's also what i'm going to talk to you discuss with you i do not defend the russian government and also i do not agree with this law that's been brought in that said people abroad especially in america and in the u.k. they don't understand how laws work or do not work here in russia if i was not happy living in russia. i wouldn't live here it's as simple as that and actually i feel safer walking the streets of saatchi and moscow i travel to seventy five cities in russia for t

level special coverage because of date and then katie will come to this these two little race at the saatchi twenty fourteen winter games so i'm pleased to hear updates from us to adopt a member of the sea. why haven't you can see it at all the olympic action by heading to our website our t dot com we can also follow us on twitter and the latest news and reaction any favorite sports that they can find all the treats you need from the athletes in something and tell them what you thought that their performance. russia's hockey team captains also create his appreciation to many fans who showed their support the route on their game their games so far that is will of course be bringing you the latest is from saatchi here on art. i sent one to fourteen promises. now i make every now and on the west of ireland the sochi twenty fourteen on the box. german chancellor merkel is proposing to break up the world wide web by creating a pan european network. she wants to prevent slipping from across the atlantic. the move comes after revelations from adverts noting show that europe has long been a target f

mixed biathlon relay ahead of the czech republic and italy it was the forty year old second gold at saatchi following his triumph in the ten kilometers sprint and his eighth overall from six olympic games his total takes him about combative and daley who won twelve olympic medals in cross country skiing. while another cross-country skier might be again became the most decorated woman in winter games history the norwegian won the women's thirty kilometer mass start to claim her third goal in sochi and six gold of ten olympics medals overall the thirty three year old led norway to a sweep of the podium with today's a you know how in silver and kristen starting this they are taking bronze the eigen also won gold in the fifteen kilometers ski athlone and team classic sprint. and the netherlands finished an impressive fifth in the medal table thanks to bad dominance in speed skating winning twenty three of the thirty six available medals including eight golds and four clean sweeps of the podium it won five medals in sochi two gold and three silver to become the most successful athlete in dutch o

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

olympics and let's give the latest now at the start of another day of olympic action russian fans and saatchi was there in a bit of a need of a big boost for the nation's ice hockey team crashing out in the quarterfinals that was a major disappointment and that was followed by figure skating one to gold and major gold medal hope fifteen year old yulia lipnitskaya taking a tumble during her routine well the pressure on the young star has been absolutely enormous after a gold medal in the team event she became the face of the saatchi games teen sensation teen prodigy the skating sensation skating into the pantheon of young superstars just a few of the hundreds of headlines which have followed her performance and now they are being blamed for ramping up the expectations on the teenager and possibly making the pressure too much andrew farmer has more. well it is a strong argument and the reason this is services that sky put in that amazing the form it's in the team event of the start of the limpets it seems the whole of russia in fact the whole world has been tipping her to get gold in the women'

and finally the olympics may be over but saatchi is now gearing up for russia's maiden for we know one race f one both bernie ecclestone says the olympic lights would suit a great night race well let us drive a roman groeschel gave michael graf jango his thoughts on moscow's a new race of stars the twenty four team formula one season will get underway in melbourne on march sixteenth and some of the top teams have been testing their new cars only temperatures of bahrain. but last weekend one f one driver took a brief trip from the middle east to moscow so instead of staying in a warmer weather conditions to continue its pre-season training for a mongrel journalist instead opted to come to a chilly and a wet moscow to say hearts that annual races those events and test his skills on the ice in moscow's oldest hippodrome have led to come here. to drive a nice today's. yeah melted ice but i know those conditions i've been racing in which is. drive on ice in the winter will no clue you. in a bust. like the driving lotus driver garage is noted for his attacking style finish twenty thirteen se

gold on ice russian athletes get away from their from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating event with a sublime performance from a teenage rocky artes on standby for all the games highlights in our very own softest studio. switzerland moves. voters narrowly back a bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us that have been forgotten we're just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster which happened nearly a year ago and. they're watching our to international live from moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia has scored its first medals at the olympics placing it fourth in the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of its figure skating team and now handing over to a new son now in our studio at the heart of the winter games and softly and you so very much enough to fit witness the figure skating last night. i was feeling extremely lucky this morning to have

has been gauging the reaction from the athletes themselves about the conditions and saatchi. coming into this event you know we know such as a little bit warmer we know the pipe conditions can be a little bit bearable we travel all around the world and we ski different so you know as a professional athlete you turn up to a hot body and you just have to adjust to it for me was perfect i love this slushy snow when i stopped outside so i'm nothing to complain about the thing to do you know good job so i'm happy to ski instead she says no and so i'm definitely impressed with the russian did everything is flawless the the athletes are taking very good care of it and i think that's all that matters for the games three thing is so close it feels like just a big family reunion before you come over and i'm really sure what to expect and. you know everything's been great so far whether it's been you know the food or their commendations or their rooms or you know the village seems to be. unbelievable just looking from the outside and going in and practicing on and successful or just sti

saatchi. and russia were the only team breaking records over the seventeen days of competition in sochi at the bolshoi arena right. i remarked to win may ninth the ice hockey gold and retain their title with a three nothing victory over sweden in the final event of the olympics my father got some and never trailed throughout the tournament and finished their campaign unbeaten and they smothered much fancied sweden from the start of scoring a goal in each period and were never seriously threatened canada also becoming the first back to back to limerick champions since the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred four and one nine hundred eighty eight. while all ai not beyond olen became the most decorated ever winter olympians with thirteen medals by helping norway win gold in the mixed biathlon relay ahead of the czech republic and italy it was the forty year old second gold at sochi following his triumph in the ten kilometer sprint and his eighth overall from six olympic games his total take

and we've got it same of correspondents working in all the venues across the olympic city of saatchi we heard the report from paul scott's while he's actually right here which is the coastal cluster this is where the olympic park is and where the opening ceremony will take place this evening now there'll be athletes in five different kinds of sports who will be competing there and there as that will happen up there in the mountains now in points and up there that looks quite far but it's actually just half an hour ride away and invite there is when you can find art scenes and reformer bringing us the latest. when russia won the right to host these olympics there wasn't even a paved road leading to the roads or who tour never mind a tally cabin but now look at it it is a fully fledged european style ski village there are hotel chains here is what is restaurants and cafes and there's even a nightclub around the corner but this place is in it for the long haul because long after the olympics have packed up and gone home it's hoped that many thousands of tourists will come here for decad

infrastructure of tsotsi is completely changed we've got hotels bulgy to open this summer we've got saatchi park which is the amazing amusement park theme park which is located next to the olympic park here in sochi that would be opening this summer and actually. for the moment has about four million businesses every year but now that sortie is on the international map that number i'm sure will increase and more what about the security issue did you feel safe overall coming into the olympics having experienced the games and now being toward the end of the first winter olympic games that's right i mean many people were quite concerned my mother in liverpool you know she was message to me saying please be careful we've got all this press about the security but really it was close and faultless it really was like the most well run airport in the world if it wasn't only just like the ports around the world. it was obvious it was tight but it wasn't overwhelming or scary it was just the perfect balance of what is needed and it was really money well spent but of course it's not the end of securit

saatchi has it all surrounded by the state caps caucasus mountains and the coasting bolts of the black sea. coupled with its subtropical climates on duty them to succeed you are a good one. it is so she is now officially on its maximum the whole week it has many attractions to offer for anyone that loves nature and wildlife sports history to paint my life among others we do today is a far cry from its at the house the whole area of sorts he has drastically changed since my first business up for it is again residency. it's bright it's sunny and clean and circulates this really does feel like most european cities i've visited the city atmosphere way to me always feel in pots excitement in the ad here. this week sees houses of corn is here again and takes so toxic that it is really feel i can say c'mon i'm not worried about not then you know what i'm away about his new calling me a couple of friends you have a good time getting a believer that everything was fine at my cell as you can ask for what a great time and such but it's been two days is walking around experiencing we've had a grea

who have shown their support throughout we will of course be bringing you all the latest news from saatchi right here on r.t. . the g twenty four team promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter in our. story you see no way i'm a clever know it on the rest of our limited news team for sochi twenty four take. all the. german chancellor angela merkel is proposing to break up the world wide web by creating a pan-european network she wants to prevent snooping from across the atlantic the move comes after revelations from edward snowden showed that europe has a long time been target of u.s. intelligence artists who seek help from off reports. 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

gold on ice russian athletes get away from that from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating event with a sublime performance from a teenage rocky artes on standby for all the games highlights in our very. switzerland moves. voters narrowly back a bill limiting immigration but i'd put a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us that have been forgotten we're just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster which happened nearly a year ago.

gold on ice rushes absolute's skate away from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating event with a sublime performance from a teenage rocky archies on standby for all the games highlights from our very own saucy studio. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out as voters narrowly backing bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of those that have been forgotten or were just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster that happened nearly a year ago.

he's far as to costs saatchi. the masonic symbol of some rowing coach. during the coming festival. mounted on tuesday samurai hunting costumes demonstrate traditional skills with the owner. the city stands to the joker achievement. this was the stage for political and ceremonial activities as well as the religious center of the samurai government. i i was coming for a summary of facts is the balm forty paper lantern festival the phone or e license law in the approach to the main shrine. decorated with little pictures and messages from local cultural thing. ceremony is held here to ward off some of disease into the chino one of purification rites. a maniacal she dons the foreign to me coach roy made. eye two more festival is held each august and one. to commemorate the birth rate in the memo the most comical the chemical show. scholes crammed together to enjoy the paper lanterns with their human eighteen pitches and on the guy was japan's political center for about one hundred and fifteen. the legacy left by the unique culture develops here includes many magnificent runs and ten mar

and the best of the best the first steps of medals are awarded in saatchi as day one of the twenty fourteen winter olympics comes to a close. a team of german skiers and buy athletes reaches out for assistance after its equipment fails and finds a helping hand from the russian opponents who decide to put rivalry aside. street violence and golds bosnia herzegovina protesters clashed with police and said government buildings a blaze amid soaring unemployment economic stagnation and corruption. and a suicide bombing reportedly carried out by a briton in syria the first such attack by a u.k. citizen in the country sparks fresh fears that westerners could pose a threat and they returned home from the war.

the head of the international olympic committee has squashed ounce over saatchi's right it is for the eminence whence her games thomas bach also says he is sure the events will be safe and secure pointing to some of the unique measures in place for hosting a tournaments on such a scale. but the olympic stages is ready for the winter of the world. we can see this in the sports facilities. and there we see in the olympic village which are all of very high quality about eighty percent of the athletes literally walk from the bed in the we reach to the competition when you. something i have never seen before at the olympic games one of the issues that's been threatening to overshadow the olympics has been the harsh criticism aimed at russia's over the recently adopted law against lots of nontraditional relationships to under eighteen's the move triggered calls in several countries to boycott the games arts and culture reporter martin matt some of the gay and transgender community living in the house city of sochi to ask about their feelings on the law and their experiences of discriminatio

world's top athletes gold silver and bronze medals are the most valuable mementos of their time and saatchi that doesn't mean everyone else has to leave empty handed and formal looks at how visitors can take a piece of the olympic spirit home with them. well if you're looking to buy a souvenir during the olympics you probably want to get your hands on one of the mascots either the snow leopard their hair or the polar bear and if you want to go to the high end of the market you could try one of these porcelaine figurines these have all been made in a very famous village just outside moscow this workshop english here has produced russians famous blue and white china for the last two centuries but it's not plates importance but taking up at shelf an oven the space at the moment smiling mascots but it's not easy games are being produced in abundance crafted a molded from the region special clay sixty kilometers southeast of moore cisco poured into special molds made for the hair that could polar bear benefactress forty craftswomen get to work carefully how many painting each one on average it t

very warm welcome to now it's been seven years in the making and there is just one day to go before saatchi fires up the winter olympics now as the city wall comes its thousands of extra visitors many have been quick to show the world what they're experiencing post them pictures online about how their most the most of their trip to russia's black sea coast now for meeting the mascots to literally getting into the olympic spirit there's definitely a buzz about the place now most athletes have already arrived at russia's resorts and of course we know as well as the iconic symbol of the games the olympic flame and it's on the final leg of its after journey that's covered tens of thousands of kilometers from the bottom of the world's deepest like to the top of europe's highest peak farmer has been following it since it was lets in greece and he brings us the very latest from tsotsi. rosa who taught actually which is in the foothills of the caucuses in just a short tele cabin ride away from where most of the events will take place up in the mountains it is pretty busy up here because torch made

so it exists in all three of the team needed financial help to compete at saatchi fans responded by donating more than one hundred twenty thousand dollars online within two days. to make up are expected to win a medal in the event. but the team embodied the spirit of the olympics. take heart is everywhere. the thing that my heart is too i'd like to apologies olympics. debate on thursday and felt it was a fourteen year ago. well with some breaking news just coming in and it's not use the oscar winning actor philip seymour hoffman has been found dead to open the parents don't over drug overdose in new york. he was forty six years old. police said they are investigating the incident. hoffman who was best known as a character actor in movies like the talented mr ripley magnolia in boogie nights to the best actor award in two thousand and six policy. he had struggled with drug addiction in the arts. using a digital the back of the soviet go. they are. i do good. rules. i was. it began with signs of progress in ukraine's political crisis after talks with opposition leaders president viktor yanukov