artie's headlines right now olympic chief ruled that russia's athletes will not be able to parade under their national flag at the closing ceremony of the winter games in south korea but it better news in the past few minutes russian athletes have managed to secure a second gold in the men's ice hockey final. also this hour the u.n. 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. was among the big stories covered here this past week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it's thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realise that it was a hoax and. my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father is forced to sign documents by my teacher and welfare of this is

r.t. here's the stories of people who suffered under japan's supposed world war two sterilization program following the discovery of records detail in the shocking procedures that they were subject. with you would ask the h.q. in moscow sunday was just turned ten am and it's just turned four pm in south korea as well in the past a few minutes russia's athletes have just won another gold medal the men's ice hockey team were battling it out with germany in the olympic final both teams were neck and neck in a couple of points throughout the game right up until the final moments of course when russia scored in overtime clinching a four three victory it's the first time in twenty years that the russian team have reached the final. that makes russians gold tally to gold medals and the first of

course being figure skater alina as a get over who won earlier in the week so two gold medals i make seventeen in total ahead of the closing ceremony. in other news over the games as it draws to a close in south korea the head of the international olympic committee has ruled that russia's athletes will not be allowed to parade under their country's flag in a few hours time the decision was taken after two russian athletes tested positive for banned substances in pyongyang the i.o.c. executive board the. first not to lift the suspension of the russian olympic committee for the closing ceremony of the olympic winter games without a second this is pension of the r o c is considered to be lifted once the top being free sports units here fits you has confirmed that there are no it. being ruled violations by members of the way our delegation

trying to who's been reporting from the games for us has more details about the i.o.c. his decision. here is young chang south korea as a result of the doping scandal the russian athletes had to abide by a long list of restrictions they couldn't be called team russia i remember things like them having to hide the letters russia on their backpacks with tape and when fans asked them for a photo together they had to say no because even if a tiny russian flag pattern had made it into the picture they could have been disqualified but the hope was at least to take the russian flag with them to the opening ceremony it was up for the i.o.c. executive board to decide and they said no but we spoke to eve game with who won the oas our two silver medals and figure skating at these eleven pigs she was

present at the i.o.c. meeting as well and she was trying to convince the international officials on behalf of all the washington athletes that they deserve to have their flag with them at the closing ceremony but she wouldn't then 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 on the other hand we did hear some good news for the russians the international olympic committee has promised to with the suspension of russia's national olympic committee if no further issues surface and that would mean that the athletes and sports officials from the country will be given back all of their rights as a team russia and we won't hear the name o.e. are getting back to the flying and it was indeed because of to doping cases finest

qamar alexander crucial needs he who tested positive formal don't want him earlier he and his wife won the only our historic bronze medal in make scrawling. over that memo was later taken away from them and also the dish that gave a female bobsledder who finished too far from the podium but a band heart drug was found in her body it was acknowledged later however that both of these athletes were systemic dopers and the case of alexander crucially he was particularly usual what people heard of it they went how could well don't you know be useful in curling alexander maintains that he has never taken real dony of pills on purpose although he admits that formally there has been adopting rupiah least. 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 indeed looking forward to a serious investigation said we've heard suggestions from the coaches and other curlers that it was quite possible that there was some sort of sabotage and someone could have spiked alexander's food or drinks but there was presuming you know that you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes a bottle with any kind of banned substance that totally unprotected 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 locked he open it and 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. united nations security council has passed a new resolution calling for a ceasefire across wartell in 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 hope that it will allow enough time for injured civilians to be evacuated from conflict zones and also for much needed aid to reach other. stricken regions a number of terror groups such as islamic state the latest incarnation of a loser are excluded from this agreement operations against them will continue. and has more now on the un initiative 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 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 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 areas 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 this 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 russia. confederation 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 seemed 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 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. 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.

how it's unclear though how the ceasefire would affects northern syria's afrin region which has become another flashpoint in the conflict turkey's been carrying out a military offensive against the kurdish militia fighters that who make claims are terrorists and its fight to dislodge the kurdish people's protection units from the border area 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 carrying only civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in the incident. look at the top of them and you'll play such. a lot of money. in the earlier in the week processing and government forces arrived in afrin to help try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support in the fighting to put the u.s. in a very difficult position as jacqueline bouvier now 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 countries which we consider allies and have deep political and military relations with turkey has had enough of lice 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. which are out we have come to our brothers to fight together to protect africa. we are the popular force we came so that we could help our kurdish brothers because we are one people. now that surely ruffled feathers in washington when 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 rain is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called in. 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 a friend as they continue to alienate their allies expel the wakely the major german newspaper caught up by hoaxes with a scoop about supposed russian meddling the details after the break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. it was something i want to be that's. what you're going to be this is what the three of the people. interested always in the war. should. more of artes biggest stories from the week now in 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 bill that detailed how a mysterious russian agent and bought master 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's conservatives here's a snippet of the pair's supposed exchange did 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 martin ginger oh dear yuri perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with bots schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign but that 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 emails and the tabloids subsequent article tongue in cheek the pranksters also turned on the head of the s.t.p. youth wing for dismissing their story as a clumsy fake they say they spent all of three hours concocting it the editor of titanic says the hoax was all too easy. we had to turn it over to rick a magazine we worked with the same. methods as and built so we knew how to think like and boot editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the built tabloid and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky like in the spine movie 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 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 build central track to the story it was more the head of the s.d.p. as youth wing insists that had he really been made such an offer he to flatly refused it. i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we don't work with social mobs i don't have information that even received a new york was in this. was 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 directors of mit in the washington interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it quote for a good cause but i guess they have 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 us 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 no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no a lot of cool said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia route a book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created

in one nine hundred 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 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 us 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 no russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways. an increasing number of victims of japan's decades long eugenics program have

been speaking out about their experiences it follows the discovery of a trove of government documents relating to the practice of sterilization which began following world war two more than twenty thousand twenty five thousand people were targeted many of them were operated on without their consent one of the victims shared her story with r.t. . has a hard time going through the middle school. one of the teachers to see cassey king and 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. diagnosis either she hated me. my teacher took me for a magical chacon and i was taken to hospital and he didn't explain anything.

when i went i was this deep and they told me not to drink water that's what 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 my teacher and welfare for. the eugenics protection or was in effect until the mid ninety's it was introduced with the intention of preserving the purity of the japanese race and 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 has still not apologized for the practice nor is it paid any compensation either for a long time the 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 some of the victims were as young as just nine years old as i mentioned 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 the ration took place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it's 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 needs to take responsibility and make apologies soon as possible the doctors were also responsible but in

a way that we used by the government but that's it for this policy and where we discovered that russian athletes have got their second gold at the olympics in a nail biting men's ice hockey final and watching arctic. fifty years ago breaking with into a concert as a sleeping pill does this is what i believe because this is. the side effects were terrible but not on. induction for board. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some

compensation. in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the conscious mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been bought the justice and there's been a coverup. i was going along is only producing. delusional fears it doesn't have any new unless it leads to real kids which can be. no guarantee of only by christina present. manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. with the fine. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room

sick. of welcome to worlds apart rather than providing clarity and closure of the indictment of thirteen russian nationals on charges of conspiracy has further entrenched both sides of the russia gate narrative those who believe that kremlin tried to how democracy deepened our conviction as did those who insist that the whole story was an invention of sore losers whatever it was or wasn't russia's role

in the two thousand and sixteen us presidential campaign perception is reality how should moscow navigate it well to discuss that i'm now joined by further look one of russia's top geopolitical analysts and. editor in chief of russian global affairs magazine mr look and if it's good to talk to you thank you for coming over now first let me ask you about the so-called same petersburg troll factory in western media it's presented as this huge ominous operation but if you look at the sheer number of people involved and the size of the budget it's not even a factor it's a tiny little swatch of three employ more people at the archies cafeteria than actually indicted why do you think it's gotten this larger than life notoriety and maybe you should promote you. more well i think. cafeteria no english pretty much as well as the people who are running that fact. disappointed.

disclosure because i believed based on what u.s. media and western media are all before they're all mine too that we are everywhere that our specialists including thralls are really comprehensive and overwhelming if it is only for doing this kind of business and i have no doubt that this business does exist because that's part of p.r. and most communication and strategic communication activities anywhere and i think . in the u.s. press some people who seriously. this is basically what they did is part of it is a mini commercial commercial media company as they called it but you know that the problem with the americans is that they believe that the person who is behind it is vladimir putin himself the president of russia and i know that most foreigners

believe that russia is this very tightly controlled society and politically that may be the case sometimes but i wonder if you allow for a possibility of guinea pig ocean whole. conceived and funded this operation who is sometimes referred to as putin's former chef was actually doing that on his own as an experiment for social media rather than following or trying to execute direct orders from the kremlin. i have no idea both relationship between mr pretty goes on mr putin but based on my more this knowledge about how russian society ministration work in general i don't because the specificity of current russian system unlike the soviet system where everything was really centralized and very much well organized. now we have the all.