top stories this hour olympic chief ruled that russia will not be able to parade under their national flag at the closing ceremony of the winter games in south korea a live update next. the un security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among our 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. my parents told me the time. and now i cannot baby my father. and while family. here's the stories of people who suffered japan's post world war two sterilization program

following the discovery of the shocking procedures they were subjected to. today's news on the week's top stories this is the weekly with me calling for here on. this sunday morning it's just turned three in the afternoon in south korea that's where we start with the winter games drawing to a close this sunday the head of the international olympic committee has ruled that russia's athletes will not be allowed to parade under their country's flag at the closing ceremony in a few hours time the decision was taken after two russian athletes tested positive for banned substances in. the. first. not to lift the suspension of the russian olympic committee for the closing ceremony of the olympic winter games yung chang two thousand and eighty second.

this is spent of the receive is considered to be lifted once the doping free sports units here fits you has confirmed that there are no efficient and photocopying rules violations by members of the away our delegation. so positive and negative news there let's get more from alien patrik has been at the game for the event hi there really is so we know what the ruling is do they expand on why. call and hello well as we remember as a result of the doping scandal here and young chang the russian athletes had to abide by a long list of restrictions they couldn't be called team russia and were a member how they had to hide the name russia even on their backpacks with tapes when fans came up to them and asked for a photo they have to say no because even if

a little pattern of the russian flag had made it into the picture there could have been they could have been disqualified but the hope was at least to take the russian flag was them to the closing ceremony and it was up to the international olympic committee's executive board to decide that they said no and we spoke to you've gained who won the o.e. our team two silver medals at these alleged pigs in figure skating and she was present then at the i.o.c. meeting and on behalf of all the russian athletes she was trying to convince international olympic officials she wouldn't get any at 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 still there was some good news. from the

i.o.c. for the russians the international committee promised to lift the suspension of russia's national olympic committee if there are no further issues so that the athletes and the sports officials from russia will be given back their full rights as team russia and we won't hear about the o.e. are again then. what about finale that closing ceremony and why and while five i was time from now under a neutral flag what about those two doping cases at these games tell us what happened. well two russian ass they tested positive for doping it was alexander christian needs the curler he and his wife first one a bronze medal it was a historic medal for the russian team in this case but then that medal had to be

taken away because he tested positive for plus there was female bobsledder the city gave she finished too far from the podium but still traces of a hard drug was found in his were found story in her body but it was however a knowledge that both of them weren't systemic dopers and crucial needs case was particularly unusual when most people hard about the news they just went how could be useful in a sport such as curling and i can tell you that the athlete has maintained that he's never taken the pills on purpose although he doesn't acknowledge that formally there has been an anti-doping rule violation. i'm openly stating that i have never used prohibited substances or competed unfairly since i started in sports that's why i'm the person most interested to see an investigation as soon as possible.

yes the russians are definitely looking forward to a serious investigation because we heard from people like coaches and other curlers that it is quite possible that some sort of saba tas may have happened then someone could have spiked the drinks or food of crucially. but that was because i mean you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes of both will with any kind of banned substance that totally unprotected you just put it in a hotel room it's easy if you can see the bottle and it's like locked then it can open it you can see it was knocked he open it drink it and as long as you keep an eye on the bottle that's fine if you just like turn it around for a second tell me is this bottle. but well these two positive doping tests have been confirmed in russia can do anything about it so they'll have to march under the neutral flag at the closing ceremony which is just around the corner those still

even under such pressure and with russia star athletes missing out the owais are has won a total of sixteen medals and i can tell you that one more is definitely coming but we'll find out whether it's the silver or gold very shortly rushes men's ice hockey team are taking all the germans right now but currently in the third period it's a draw wall and very soon we'll find out who the olympic ice hockey champions are. actually let everybody know what happens at the end of that match for now they really are patrolling the winter olympics in south korea thanks for the update. more of today's news now the united nations security council has pasta 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 in the last thirty days. it's hoped

to allow enough time for injured civilians to be evacuated from the conflict zones and also for a much needed aid to reach of the stricken regions a number of terror groups such as islamic state in the latest incarnation of are excluded from this agreement operations against them will continue call them open has more on the resolution there has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leads 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 since 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 that 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 shield 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 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 i says that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution 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. i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. that the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east ghouta 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 it 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 this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity and

it's unclear though how the ceasefire will affect northern syria's afrin region which has been another flashpoint in the conflict recently took has been carrying out a military offensive against the kurdish militia fighters there who make claims a terrorist and its fight to dislodge the kurdish people's protection units from the region the turkish military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin on thursday night and chris says it was carrying fighters and weapons but the kurdish forces insist that the trucks were only carrying civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in the incident. look at the top of them and you'll play touched. on a lot of money. in the earlier in the week pro-government forces arrived in our front to try and help repel the turkish offensive now that came after the kurds appealed to the syrian government for help the development has put the u.s. in a difficult position as jacqueline vogel explains. two of america's main partners in

the region are now at each other's throats to put it mildly. 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 contracts which we consider allies and have deep political and military relations with turkey has had enough of lice false 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. what i want to. know right. 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 a free is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called it 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 recognize 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 jaclyn view that germany's top selling newspaper thought it had a big scoop on it and proving that russia meddled in its politics but it was an embarrassing hoax the details when the weekly returns after the break. united states is going to look very deep into mystic prizes shelling still miracles supremest see the north from the outside most from russia notes from china inside those sites to see what you see now all around russia and this. will is easy you know russians this is psychos are going to understand the bill of times to find somebody outside the united states will is responsible for that while the real

problem is is. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to go in the press this is what before. the more people. interested in the water out. there soon. back to the weekly germany's best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing what i thought was a bombshell story on russian meddling in the country's politics the report in build detailed how a mysterious russian agent and bot master called yuri had supposedly offered his

services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing kevin unit to help scupper a coalition deal with angela merkel conservatives here's a snippet of the pair's supposed exchange i didn't care for 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 marty 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 bazza gates schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign but the whole conversation was fabricated by a german satirical magazine called 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 also the tabloid subsequent article tongue in cheek the pranksters also turned on the head of the s.d.p. youth wing for dismissing the story as a clumsy fake because they said they spent all of three hours concocting it the editor of titanic says it was all too easy. we had to turn it over to rick a magazine we worked with to say. methods of some field so we knew how to think like 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 field tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was techie like in the spine and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's a story like this for four built they don't care about the 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 something of the built newspaper has since retracted the story ahead of the s.t.p. as youth wing kevin unit insists that had a really been made such an offer he would have flatly refused it. we have to see on this but i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers to work with social mobs i don't have information that will even received a new york was in the. whatever you see meddling mention these days russia is usually linked to it somewhere but it seems the united states is way ahead on that score a former cia director has admitted the washington interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause when i guess he 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 on those former cia for 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 not another 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 with the british called 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 old 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 country's 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 us 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 a russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways and with so much talk of meddling doing the

rounds it seems that a few russian words a crop up in the english language nowadays. the previous administration kicked the russians out of their dodges we have kept them out of their top should. be some old k.g.b. colonel after. russia had engaged in attempts at developing compromise. that's still a leaky this sort of inner circle their business interests have remained fairly stable. you are 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. victims of japan's post world war two practice of forced sterilization of been opening up about their experiences it follows the discovery of a trove of government documents relating to the shocking eugenics program it targeted over twenty five thousand people many of them operated on without their consent one of the victims has been sharing how rowing story with aussie. has a hard time going through the middle school. one of the teachers to see cassey king and his house that i was constantly being used by his wife i never got some difficult paints and never had the chance to see the

fish or the back of my diagnosis either she hated me. my teacher took me for a magical chacon and 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 that's when i remember. 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 like teaching and welfare reform some years. eugenics protection law was in effect for forty years until the mid ninety's it was introduced with the intention of preserving the purity of the japanese race and it permitted the sterilization of people with learning difficulties and hereditary diseases but misdiagnosis was common and surgery carried out when even according to the programme it should not have been

the japanese government's still not apologized for the practice nor is it paid any compensation and for a long time the victims were told that there was no evidence of what had happened to them now in more than sixteen thousand cases the procedure was carried out without people's consent some victims were as young as just ninety years old as i mentioned the increasing numbers of 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 peer ation to place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is not true when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia three different doctors gave her so she didn't have a genetic condition the only show the question is who's responsible for all of this

to me it's the government's fault big city to the program as well as the national legislature which adopted the law needs to take responsibility make apologies a soon as possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way that we use by the government. and that's the way king thanks very much for watching if you're online this sunday check us out on facebook and twitter get breaking news alerts twenty four seventh's the next edition of the weekly with me in a half an hour say that. what's going on is only producing. bumble delusional case it doesn't have any meaning unless it lives to real case which can be. no guarantee of only by and also christine a presidential. seal

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