a second gold for russian athletes at the winter olympics in a nailbiting men's ice hockey final. be allowed to march. of the closing ceremony at hour from now. the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among the big stories this past week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize later that it was a hoax. my parents told me don't now i cannot my father does. and he says he is the stories of people who suffered

post to sterilization program following the discovery of the shocking procedures that they were subjected to. this is the weekly from bringing you the biggest stories of the past seven days but also first bringing you up to date on today's developments as well first off russia's athletes second gold medal at the winter olympics in south korea a couple of hours ago the men's ice hockey team competing under a neutral banner because of the russian doping scandal beat germany in a gripping final they'd be neck and neck right up to the end but the russians clinched a four three victory with a goal in extra time the first time in twenty years that the country's players had reached the final they last won gold on the ice hockey in one thousand nine hundred ninety two that was also under a neutral by. but that was because the team didn't have its own flag at the time

following the breakup of the soviet union or the prize giving a couple of hours ago in pyongyang chang of the olympic anthem was played but the hockey team defiantly sang the band russian anthem along with the jubilant fans supporters also waved the russian flag of the match despite that not being allowed either of the national symbols were visible in the stands as well including a traditional address will by women in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and the iconic golden cap type of crown worn by this. in total then russia's our fleets of one seventeen medals of the games including two golds the first gold was taken by figure skater alina's a gator for the women's competition her friend and teammate if gainey amid vetiver took the so over in the same event it was both of the teenage skaters first time at the olympics so there's just hours ago now until the closing ceremony begins but the russians won't be allowed to appear under their national flag despite the idea

having earlier been floated the international olympic committee have held its ban after two of the countries our fleets tested positive for performance enhancing substances in pyongyang the i.o.c. chief did say though the appeared to be isolated incidents. but these are cases of of negligence and there is no indication. so ever for a systemic or systematic. doping affair here 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 gagne with who won the r 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 if you wouldn't have painted them figure skating is an individual sport idea lympics is 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 team russia and we won't hear the name oh a r again. you know. nation's security council has posted a new resolution calling for a ceasefire across will kill in syria it's in response to an intensification of the fighting in the rebel held on claims of eastern ghouta on the outskirts of the capital the truce is effective immediately and it'll last for thirty days it's hoped it will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated from the conflict zones and those so for much needed aid to reach of the stricken regions a number of terror groups such as islamic state and the latest incarnation of those who are excluded from the agreement operations against them are going to continue to put has more now on the u.n. 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 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 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 us on this council must do our part to press the assad regime as hard as we can to. why we're 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 that the russian amendments to the cease fire 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 specifically 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. and it's unclear though how the ceasefire will affect 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 make claims a terrorist and its push to dislodge the kurdish people's protection units from the border area of the turkish military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin on thursday night ankara 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 footage of those let us to. the letter but. in the new in the week and government forces arrived in africa to help try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support the developments in the region of the united states in a difficult position as jacqueline figure explained. 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 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 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 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 numerous times before but in reality many in the region have already recognized that arsenal is all but defeated despite that the us 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. next to shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrap yards in turkey and india

exacerbating the environmental and health problems that i'm also potentially violating a you know was. cool .

the case is playing out in the dutch courts right now the prosecution alleges that the ships which were sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of toxic substances we should have been removed recycled in a safe way it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on the recycling workers there and the environment in those countries prosecutors are seeking fines of seven hundred fifty thousand euros over the lead to breach of e.u. waste laws if convicted three shipping bosses could also face up to six months in

jail the company itself rejects any wrongdoing see trade groups defense team argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination which don't fall in the e.u. environmental rules because turkey and india of course are 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 that the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of higher prices because they do not pay for the proper 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 there 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 you're watching r t from moscow 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. it's.

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best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing what i thought was a bombshell story on russian meddling in the country's politics the reports in build detailed how in the stereo russian agent and yuri had supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing kevin unit scupper a coalition deal with angela merkel's conservatives is a snippet of the pez supposed exchange. dear caribbean i'm yury i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me jay's favorite beverage as he 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 bazza gates schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign but the whole conversation was fabricated

by the german satirical magazine titanic the editors behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online it shows one of the magazine's employees posing with a transcript of the fake e-mails and the tabloid subsequent article tongue in cheek the pranksters also turned on the head of the s.p.d. youth wing for dismissing the story as a clumsy fake they say they spent all of three hours concocting it the editor of the titanic says the hoax was all too easy. we had to turn it over to rick a magazine we work with the same. methods as a field so we knew how to think like and build 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 techie and like in the spying 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 and i hope it will be made into a movie something of the build newspaper has center attracted the story of course and what's more the head of the s.p.d. to youth work insists that how do you really been made such an offer he would have turned it down. i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers who don't work with social clubs i don't have information that even received and yours was. also have you see mentally 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 directors of mit in the washington interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause but i guess he has been taking a closer look no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections

there 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 a very good didn't do on vine video and those former. very good cause i never 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 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 with the british called king george 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 activities 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 the mocker see 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 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 sterilization campaign which began following world war two more than twenty five thousand people were targeted many of them were operated on without their consent one of the victims has been sharing 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 that i was constantly being used by his wife i never go through these difficult paints and never have the chance to see the fish and the back of my 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 wake up i was this deep and they told me not to treat me 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 future welfare reform since. the eugenics protection law was in effect until the mid ninety's and it was introduced to quote preserve 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 where and even according to the program it shouldn't have been the japanese government still apologize for the practice or paid any compensation for

a long time the victims were told that there was no evidence of what had happened more than sixteen thousand cases the procedure was carried out without people's consent some of the victims were as young as nine years old the issue now receiving increased attention questions are being raised as to who exactly should be held legally 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 put ration 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 to one 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 make

apologies a soonest possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way that we humans by the government. that's all for now your next edition of the weekly is with kevin i would in just over half an hour thanks for watching arctic. fill in the holiday inn a dear labor bottle sorry china six oil. an estimated eight hundred thousand under-aged refugees are now living in greece. you know just don't want to go. to your home in the view of the food drink and. many sell their bodies just to make ends meet. our lives unless i go in

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