headlining right now a second goal for russian athletes of the winter olympics in a nail biting men's ice hockey final but i.o.c. chiefs tell the full olympic squad they won't be allowed to march under the national flag at the closing ceremony in a few hours. the u.n. security council called for a thirty day cease fire in syria to allow for. civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among the big stories covered here this past week germany's leading tabloid publishing was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was a hoax. and now i

cannot my father. says it is the stories of people who suffered post. program following the discovery of. the shocking procedures they were subjected to. the weeks biggest story right here on. today's big developments in fact starting off with just over an hour ago now russian athletes have won their second gold medal at the winter olympics in south korea the men's ice hockey team beat germany in a gripping final they'd be neck and neck right up to the end sending the match into extra time in which the russian scored to clinch a four three victory is the first time in over twenty five years that. reached the

final the last one gold in the ice hockey in one thousand nine hundred two also under the neutral olympic flag or receiving there all this time the olympic anthem was played but the team defiantly sang the russian anthem along with jubilant fans . despite a ban of the russian flag as well supporters were still seen waving it during the match other national symbols could also be seen in the stands russia's astley then have won seventy medals in total as things stand right now including two golds the other figure skater a broker world record in the women's competition winning the team's first gold. medal we had a virtue for silver it's the first time for both of them the games. are closing ceremonies just three hours away but russia won't be allowed to show its flag the decision was taken by the international olympic committee after two russian athletes tested positive for banned substances in pyongyang. has been at the games for us has more details about the i.o.c. his decision. here in chiang 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 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 gaining with the who won the oas are two silver medals in 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 and 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 lift 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 their rights as a team and we won't hear the name oh we are getting. the united nations security council passed a new resolution calling for a ceasefire across water in syria it's in response to an intensification of the fighting in the rebel held on paper feast in ghouta on the outskirts of the capital the truce is effective immediately and it will last for thirty days it's hoped to allow 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 al nasra are excluded from this agreement so 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 there 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 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 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 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 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 knows. i says 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 stirling believes the russian amendments to the ceasefire will allow anti terror operations to continue unimpeded but i

think a kid addition to the resolution was the inclusion. of 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 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 to turkish soldiers even in northern syria so this is this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity it's unclear though how the ceasefire would affect syria's northern african region which

has become another flashpoint in the conflict turkey's been carrying out a military offensive against the kurdish militia fighters that you may claim the terrorists and its fight to dislodge the kurdish people's protection units from the border area turkish military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin on thursday night congress says it was carrying fighters and weapons because the forces insists that the trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in the incident. for the tip of those let us. know the letter but. in the earlier in the week proserpine government forces arrived in africa to try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support and the fighting has put the u.s. in a difficult position as jacqueline berger explained. to the america's main partners in the region are now at each other's throats to what it might.

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 life's 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 a kaddish 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 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 rain is 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 in. most 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 a major german newspapers being caught out by hoaxes with the scoop about supposed russian meddling the details when the weekly returns after the break. what's going on now is only producing. delusional fears it doesn't have any meaning unless it leads to real kiss which can be. guaranteed only by christina presidential. everybody i'm stephen both. hollywood guy. proud american first of all i'm just george bush and honored to say this is my buddy max

famous financial guru just a little bit different. no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country and i'm shooting the brood have some fun every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american to. biggest stories of the week now in germany's best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing what it thought was a bombshell story on russian meddling in the country's politics the reports in-built details have a mysterious russian agent and yuri had supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing kevin nunez to help scupper

a coalition deal with angle of merkel's conservatives here's a snippet of the pez supposed exchange. dear care of him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group who 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 yuri 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 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 e-mails 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 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 work with to say. methods as a field so we knew how to think like a boot editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the build tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky like an aspiring movie and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's a story like that 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 sometimes the build newspaper has since retracted the story what's more the head of the youth when kevin unit insists that had

a really been made such an offer he to flatly refused it anyway popova me have to see in this book i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we don't work with social bots i don't have the information that we even received and your was in this area. 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 the score of former cia directors admitted the washington interferes in other countries elections a domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause when i guess they have been taking a closer look at that. no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections they're who really 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 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 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 a 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 five thousand people were targeted many of them operated on without their consent one of the victims has been sharing her story with r.t. . has a hard time getting through the middle school. one of the teachers to see kasey 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 and the 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 ask 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 teachers and welfare offices. the eugenics protection though was in effect until the mid ninety's it was introduced to preserve 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 still not apologized for the practice nor is it paid any compensation in fact 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 was more some of the victims were just as young as nine years old and with the issue now receiving increased attention questions are being raised as to who exactly should be held responsible and legal challenges mounted. 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 be rationed to place his 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 is 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 make apologies a soonest possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way that we use by the government. but shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste scrapyard in turkey and india adding to

environmental and health problems there and also potentially violating a law. six . legs. slim. lead

live live. live . the case is now playing out in the courts the prosecution alleges that the ships which were 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 the recycling workers and also the environment in those countries prosecutors are seeking fines of seven hundred fifty thousand euros over the alleged breach of you waste laws and if convicted three shipping bosses could face up to six months in jail the company

rejects any wrongdoing c. trade groups defense team argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and so don't fall under the e.u. environmental rules as turkey and india are of course beyond its jurisdiction a lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by environmental activists and organizations. the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice trade made was for the highest price. of the higher prices because they do not pay for the part the waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained it's indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three title beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one

in pakistan this activity causes pollution. the groundwater is 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 that's the we can call it bright thanks very much for watching i'll be back with the next edition in just over half an hour there's something thanks very much. manufacture. to the public will. protect themselves.

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