headlining. russia's athletes will not be able to march under the national flag at the closing ceremony of the winter games in south korea we have a live update next. the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria or allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among the big stories covered here this week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was a hoax and. my parents told me to don and now i cannot have babies my father. teaching and welfare of. the stories of people who suffered under the pounds post world war two sterilization program following the discovery of records detailing what they were

put through. every sunday that means the weekly from bringing you the biggest stories of the past seven days but we've got overnight developments to bring you up to speed first on this hour with the winter games drawing to a close this sunday in south korea the head of the international olympic committee has ruled that russia's athletes will not be allowed to march under their country's flag at the closing ceremony the decision was taken after two russian athletes tested positive for banned substances in. the. first notes to lift the suspension of the russian olympic committee for the closing ceremony of the olympic charter so it's. sick. this is spain sion of the r o c is considered to be lifted once the doping free sports

unit here fits you has confirmed that there are no it. being ruled violations by members of the way our delegation by let's go live to south korea now is just ten two in the afternoon that's about six hours away from the closing ceremony of the trend has been at the games for us throughout the event either earlier talk us through the ruling than that there be no russian flag at back closing ceremony. call in the high wall as we remember of course here n.p.r. and chang as a result of the russian doping scandal the competitors from that country had to abide by a long list of restrictions they were not allowed to be called team russia we saw very strange things like the athletes having to hike the name rush with tape on their backpacks when fans came up to them and asked for some photos they had to say

no because if a russian flag pattern had made it into the take sure then they could have been disqualified many things like that but the hope for the athletes was at least that they could take the russian flag to the closing ceremony here and young chang it was up to the international olympic committee's executive board but they said no and we spoke to you gain image of a diva who won two silver medals at these winter olympics in figure skating and then she was present at the i.o.c. meeting on behalf of all the russian athletes trying to convince international olympic officials that they deserved to carry their flag at the closing ceremony. if you couldn't contain it them figure skating is an individual sport idea lympics is such a global event that you want to represent not only yourself i would have been happy to walk under our flag but in any case i'll be glad just to be at the closing

ceremony. but just a few hours after the actual session for the international olympic committee we heard some good news for the russians in march the i.o.c. promised to lift the suspension of russia's national committee so in that case it will mean that the russian athletes and sporting officials will be given back their full rights as the team and we won't hear about the oh ok are any more ok that's something at least to the line the reasoning behind this decision. well surely it's because of the two doping cases two people from the olympic athletes from russia team tested positive first it was courier alexander crucial need ski formal dodie him he and his wife one and historic bronze for the o.a.r.

at the mixed event but then that medal had to be taken away plus female bobsledder they did sit again she finished too far from the podium her position was actually just number twelve but still she tested positive for a hard drug but then it was acknowledged however that these two cases weren't systemic that these people didn't take doping on a regular basis it was a separate case and in the case of alexander crucial needs that was particularly disappointing because people have argued that doping is completely useless in their sport and alexander never acknowledged taken the drug on purpose even though he admitted that formally there was an anti-doping rule violation. openly stating that the use prohibited substances or competed unfairly since

started in sports that's why i'm the person most interested to see an investigation soon as possible. so yes there will be further investigation he agree to give back the medal but there are so many suspicious things about his particular case so then the russians will be trying to find some c.c.t.v. footage and other evidence because there have been suggestions from experts other curlers that they may have been some sort of salva taj and someone could have spiked alexander's food or drinks maybe. but there was because i mean you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes a bottle with any kind of banned substance they're totally unprotected just put it in a hotel room it's easy if you can see the bottle and it's like locked and then it can open it you can see it was locked he open it drink it and as long as you keep an

eye on the bottle that's fine if you just like turn around for a second don't use this bottle. well despite of all the pressure on the olympic athletes from russet team they have so far won sixteen medals and also despite the top star athletes missing out but one more medal can be coming up actually it will definitely come up it will either be silver or gold because right now the current ice hockey men's final is on go and russia has taken the lead there with one goal so that day will be over in about an hour and of course i'll tell you who gets to win the gold in men's ice hockey actually great well we'll look forward to the alien in the south korea of the winter games thanks for the update. more of today's news to update you on that the united nations security council has passed a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria it's in response to an intensification of the

fighting in the rebel held on place of eastern ghouta on the outskirts of the capital the truce is effective immediately and at last for thirty days it's hoped that will allow enough time for injured civilians to be evacuated from conflict zones and for much needed aid to reach of the stricken regions a number of terror groups such as islamic state al qaida the latest incarnation of al nasra are excluded from this agreement so operations against them will continue kind of open has more on the resolution there has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations regarding the situation in eastern guta this is an enclave to the east of the syrian capital of damascus and it's a place that's under the control of rebels and terrorists that are working to overthrow the syrian government twenty thirteen it has been surrounded by government forces and the fighting there has recently intensified and we're hearing allegations against both sides about human life being taken about civilians being

killed we're hearing accusations from the syrian observatory for human rights which is based in the united kingdom they're saying. if syria with the support of russia is hurting civilians and committing atrocities against civilians we've also heard reports from the russian center for reconciliation in syria they are pointing out that the area is essentially being used to shell civilians in damascus furthermore they're reporting that the terrorist groups in eastern guta are working actively to prevent the medical aid from getting to civilians and they're using these civilians as human shields now after the unanimous vote we then heard from various countries we heard from nikki haley of the united states and she said she doesn't believe the syrian government will actually comply with the cease fire all of us on this council must do our part to press the assad regime as hard as we can to comply we are deeply skeptical that the regime will comply but we supported this resolution because we must demand nothing less nikki haley the representative of the united

states walked out before the syrian representative could speak under u.n. rules if the resolution pertains to you all countries have the right to address the security council we also heard from the representative of the russian federation now he addressed the security council and he emphasized that the fight against terrorism is not affected by this resolution that internationally delegated terrorist groups groups like al nasra isis that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution and that fight will continue he also had some concerns about how the fight against terrorism seem to be serving some other goals a. game of battling terrorism can't become a cover for solving geo political problems of dubious legitimacy and that is exactly what the u.s. is doing in syria right now we insist that the so-called coalition and its attempts and occupation as soon as possible it would have among other things a clear humanitarian effect now the resolution has been passed so this thirty day

cease fire that was agreed on by all fifteen members the council is going to be implemented investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendments to the ceasefire will allow anti terror operations to continue unimpeded. but i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. fact that the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the syrian government one good thing in the resolution is that it's was there quickly affirms the fact that the territorial integrity of syria needs to be preserved but of course this is very relevant because right now the united states has illegally set up their bases and is occupying territory in eastern syria we've got turkish soldiers even in northern syria so this is

a this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity. not unclear though how the ceasefire with the facts in northern syria is afrin region which has been another flashpoint in the conflict recently turkey's been carrying out a military offensive against the kurdish militia fighters there who it sees as terrorist. operation on thursday night the turkish military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin which is suspected of carrying fighters and weapons kurdish forces insists though that the trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine a statement from the kodesh why p.g. said one person was killed. just. let him out. earlier in the week pro-government forces arrived in africa to try to help repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed to the syrian government for help the

developments put the u.s. in a difficult position that was jacqueline bouvier explained. to the america's main partners in the region are now at each other's throats to put it mildly. my. and as the u.s. tries to avoid taking sides in the conflict they seem to be losing on all fronts turkey a longtime ally looks to be getting increasingly impatient with washington's inaction america has only dared to call for a reduction in civilian casualties in the fight prompting a vicious response from the turkish president. what disappoints us most in this process is the hypocrisy and even the levity of some countries which we consider allies and have deep political and military relations with turkey has had enough of lollies promises and delaying tactics and on the other side we have the kurds who

have been essential to the u.s. led coalition's fight against eisel and the absence of support from their american partners against the onslaught of turkish forces the kurds have been forced to look elsewhere and that has pushed them into accepting help from pro-government forces this week militias loyal to the syrian government flooded afrin to bolster the kurds. but it was. something. now that surely ruffled feathers in washington where the syrian president comes only after i saw on their list of enemies the us has tried to shift focus to an issue that puts them back in the driver's seat battling eisel calling the situation in africa a distraction what is going on in of arenas taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called it is certainly not helpful to have

people take their eye off the ball of isis we've talked about that numerous times before but in reality many in the region have already recognized that arsenal is all but defeated despite that the u.s. led intervention which is in its third year has no end in sight but they may be left there with no one to call friend as they continue to alienate their allies. germany's best selling tabloid built has been tricked into publishing what it thought was a bombshell story on russian meddling in the country's politics its report detailed how a mysterious russian agent and bought master yuri had offered his services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing the aim was to prevent the creation of a new coalition government with angela merkel's conservatives now here's a snippet of the pair's supposed exchange. dear kid to him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mail from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'s favorite beverage as you

can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh martin ginger oh dear yury perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with brought suit shorts social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign and a build run with that but the whole conversation was fabricated by the german satirical magazine titanic the editors behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online showing one of the magazine's employees posing with a transcript of the fake e-mails that they'd fed to build and the tabloids subsequent article tongue in cheek the pranksters also turned on the head of the s.t.p. youth wing for dismissing the story as a clumsy fake they insist they spend all of three hours concocting it we spoke to the editor of titanic he says it was all too easy. we had to turn it over to rick a magazine we work with the same. methods as and build so we knew how to

think alike and build editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to. make a make an alliance with the build tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was techie and like in the spying movie. yes you just sat and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's a story like this for built they don't care about details it's only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed it was. like a good movie i hope it will be made into a movie sometime of the built newspaper has said retracted the story and the head of the s.t.p. youth wing kevin knew it insisted had he really been made such an offer he flatly refused it. provides me it's dishonest but i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers to do work with social bots i don't have

the information even received and your. so as you well know whenever you see meddling mention these days russia is usually being linked to it somewhere but it seems the united states is way ahead on that score a former cia director has admitted that washington interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it quote for a good cause but i guess d.m. has been taking a closer look. no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections they're hooley pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just don't mess around other people. are only for the very good didn't do

a vine video and those former cia director a very good cause. said the former director of the cia it's funny because and when america does it when someone else's even suspected of doing it no no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no not at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven we've used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it we've planted false information for newspapers we've used what the british call king george's calorie suitcases of cash add to that assassinations coups information warfare hacking and that's just the stuff we know about this the johnson that helped

oversee the cia's exhibit g.'s he'd know the difference is they say when russia does it it's to destroy the world even when that meddling has no actual impact on the elections as even the justice department just admitted when america doesn't so the greater good democracy and all that you could ask of course how on earth overthrowing democratically elected leaders as the cia has done is helping democracy how sending billions of dollars worth of guns to gulf dictators is helping democracy but don't well the united states has been interfering in other countries elections since the one nine hundred thirty s. and in the caribbean and in latin america when i was in cia in the seventy's and eighty's in europe i would say that the that the cia and the u.s. government basically were interfering in elections almost every election that was

taking place in europe this was just routine that the u.s. wanted a friendly government of a certain type and was willing to do certain things to enable that to happen if we're going to claim that america has the right to interfere behind the scenes in the politics of another country. it's a little hypocritical for then america to say oh i'm russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways i was so much talk of meddling doing the rounds it seems that a few russian words a cropping up in the english language nowadays. the previous administration kicked the russians out of their dodges we have kept them

out of their top shots. the same old k.g.b. colonel after. russia had engaged in attempts at developing compromise. that's still a devious sort of inner circle of their business interests have remained fairly stable. for the top of the pyramid of what's known as the resident tour which is where the f.s.b. the s.p.r. and the g.r.u. military intelligence guys are. recently discovered government documents in japan of shed light on the country's post world war two practice of forced sterilization the eugenics program targeted

people with intellectual and physical disabilities one of the victims shared her story with. has a hard time getting through the middle school. one of the teachers to see can sneak in his house. i was constantly being used by his wife i never got some difficult paints and never had the chance to see the official back of my diagnosis either she hated me. my teacher took me for a magical attack and then i was taken to hospital he didn't explain anything. when i woke up i was this deep and they told me not to drink water at school but i remember. at the time my parents told me

that i was operated on and now i cannot have a baby my father didn't agree to reach us to sign documents by future welfare. eugenics protection law was in effect for forty years up until the mid ninety's and it affected more than twenty five thousand people the procedures were designed to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race as you mentioned people with mental illnesses and hereditary diseases were targeted but missed diagnosis was also common of the japanese government has admitted and still not apologized for the practice rather nor has it paid any compensation to the victims and for a long time those victims were told that there was no evidence of what had happened in more than sixteen thousand cases the procedure was carried out without people's consent and some victims were as young as just nine years old more and more people are now coming forward with their stories and questions are being raised as to who exactly should be held responsible. when i got married my mother in law told me

that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when they can ration to place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is not true so when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia doctors gave her so she didn't have a genetic condition very good show the question is who's responsible for all of this to me it's the government's fault they executed the program as well as the national legislature which adopted the law and they need to take responsibility and make apologies a soon as possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way the week used by the government. and the shipping groups facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrap yards in turkey and india adding to environmental and health problems that and potentially violating

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case is playing out right now in the dutch courts the prosecution alleges that the ships which been sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contain a number of toxic substances which should have been removed and recycled in a safe way it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries have to find over a potential breach of the laws is being sought now if convicted shipping bosses could face up to six months in jail as well for its part the companies rejected any wrongdoing the defense for sea trade group argues the ships only qualify as waste

once they reach their final destination and don't fall on the e.u. environmental rules as turkey in india its jurisdiction a lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems being highlighted by the ship breaking platform. trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions that the odds in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice trade made was for the highest price. of a higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three tidal beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater

and there's also very dangerous for the work is if they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated and that's the weekly for now i'll be back in half an hour with your next edition plus also updates the overnight updates from the olympics in south korea and those talks with the un on syria to get them. out of. the mystic crisis. supremest north from the outside north from russia not from china but from inside all sides what you see around russia. no russian. psychological or understandable of times to find somebody outside the united states

who is responsible for that while the real problems of. one year i didn't do it. himself and i challenge i just mascot took off they had no problem to get them to do something very focused. on our stuff right at me when you're trying to do nothing oh my gosh.