i. i i. live pictures showing you the closing ceremony no those winter olympics in south korea getting under way as i speak this hour but russia they can't appear under the national flag. headlining to the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day cease fire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. good stories have covered over the last seven days germany's leading tabloid publishes what he thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to discover it was an embarrassing. my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father

just forced to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices are to see his the stories of people who suffered under japan's post world war two sterilization program following discovery of records dating the shocking procedures they're subjected to. a lot of this is are. two pm this afternoon sunday afternoon in moscow that means therefore eight in the evening in south korea where all the action is happening where there's a limb pigs are just about to or draw to a ground close for the closing ceremony that's going to go first them and as you can see the pictures of the shoulder not too much happening actually at the moment are cut in a minute there we go they are the live pictures the opening ceremony of the closing ceremony rather has just begun it's been a very good day again for russia's team they want to gold men's hockey squad competing there under of course the name of the olympic athletes of russia they

claim limpid gold defeating germany for three anyway let's go over now to any patrol. what's it like behind you there because you're outside. kevin hi well i can tell you i really cannot believe it that it's almost over the winter games in pyongyang chang twenty eight saying and it is just in time for the closing ceremony that has just begun i'll tell you what finally the fans will have more chances to enjoy it because it has gotten a lot warmer compared to february fifth when the opening ceremony happened something though that hasn't changed since then is the fate of the russian athletes that will not be able to take their national flag with them instead they'll have to walk with the white banner with the olympic greying xin still i can tell you that there had been a glimmer of hope that the russians would be allowed to take the russian flag with

them but earlier on sunday the international olympic committee upheld the suspension of russia's national olympic committee and that's the reason why it happened and that was because two russian athletes tested positive for doping and the course of there's a lympics but it looks like the olympic officials may actually lift the suspension in march if no further issues come up and the i.o.c. has said that these two doping cases appear to be isolated. but these are cases soft. and there is no indication. of so ever for a systemic or systematic. affair here. kevin you mentioned thrushes

last gold medal at these alum base that was just won by the man's ice hockey team a few hours ago and again they were competing under a neutral banner because of the russian doping scandal but they beat germany in a gripping final they had been neck and neck right to the end but the russians clinched a four three victory with a goal in extra time it was the first time in twenty years the country's players had reached the final they have last won gold in ice hockey back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two that was also on her neutral banner but for a different reason that was because the team didn't have its own flag at the time following the break up of the soviet union at the prize giving in pyongyang earlier that's really interesting the olympic athlete was played according to the rules but the hockey team defiantly sang the band russian athlone sorry anthem of course along with their jubilant fans supporters also waved the russian flag and the red

machine manners which was the nickname of the soviet union's hockey squad other national symbols were visible in the stands too including traditional head dress worn by women between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries that could cost nick's and the iconic golden cap a type of crown worn by the czars and total despite all the pressure despite some of russia's star athletes having to sit it out at home russia the olympic athletes from russia sorry as they officially have to be called wanted total of seventeen medals at the games including two golds the first gold was taken by figure skater i lead us again in the woman's competition by the way i just had an exclusive interview with you and the pieces of that interview will be coming up on air soon and her friend and teammate is getting a bit of a got the silver and the same event and it was both of these teenage skaters first time at the olympics. definitely a games of up and downs for the russians but plenty of joy and plenty of happiness

because of that gold medal and man's ice hockey celebrations all over the place i'm not outside world right now but definitely you'll see some of the pictures later on yeah we should get itself into a party later to explain to our viewers that we really are outsiders of course with the olympics they're very tight on the rights there and i'm sure you'll be able get inside when there's no camera and well done everyone there the team from russia considering everything that happened in the background here the rights or wrongs a bit about what you think of it they never so well didn't and of course all the rest of the team there from around the world well done or really a thank you right let's check of some of the news no today the big headline the united nations security council 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 klav eastern ghouta on the outskirts of the capital the truce is effective immediately it's set to last for thirty days it's hoped it'll allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated from that conflict zone and

for much needed aid to reach other stricken regions a number of terror groups such as islamic states hold qaida in the latest incarnation of illness or are excluded from the agreement operations against them will continue khaled mopin has the latest on this 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 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. 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 at 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 journalists are extending believes the russian members

the cease follow anti terror operations to continue unimpeded. but 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 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 turkish soldiers in and 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 will affect northern syria's afrin region which

has become another flashpoint for the conflict of course turkey has been carrying out a military offensive there against the kurdish militia fighters who make claims of terrorists and its push to dislodge the kurdish people's protection units from the border area now the turkish military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin thursday night and chris says it was carrying fighters and weapons but the kurdish forces insist that those trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in that incident. to the top of them until such time as. the light of much. of the earlier in the week pro syrian government forces arrived in our friend to help to try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support the developments in the region of put the u.s. in a difficult position to his jaclyn fuk or explains next. 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 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 a free and is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called it is sir. not helpful to have people

take their eye off the ball of ice as 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 jacqueline bouvier reporting thanks for watching today a lot more to come all the weekly or rather the main stories of the last seven days small to international including a major german newspaper has been called out by hoaxes with the scoop about supposed russian meddling or that we were to. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something want to. get it right. this is what the. street people are. interested

visible. what's going on is only producing. delusional fears it doesn't have any meaning the less it leads to real kids which can be. guaranteed only by christina president. again germany's personal newspaper's been tricked into publishing what it thought was a bombshell story on russian meddling in the country's politics the reporting builds

details of a mysterious russian agent and boat master called you read it supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democrat party's youth wing kevin kuhn to help scupper a coalition deal with i'm going to miracles conservative here's a snippet of the pay is supposed exchange. dear care of him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no grow coke campaign thanks for your mail j. 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 is fabricated

by the germans terrible magazine titanic the editor's bar the hoax posted this trial from photo online and shows one of the magazine's employees posing with a transcript of the fake e-mails and the tabloid subsequent article telling chicken pranksters also turned on the head of the s.p.d. youth wing for dismissing the story as a clumsy fake they say they spend all of three hours gulping it the editor of the titanic says is all too easy. we had to turn it over to rick a magazine we worked with to say. methods as a build 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 built tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky and 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 and i hope it will be made into a movie sometime they'll do space has retracted the story was more the head of the s.p.d. as youth were going to says that had he really been made such an offer he would have turned it down of course both of them have to see a niche but i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers don't work with social bots i don't have information that will even received and you off was in this. no story we can increase in number of victims of japan's decades long eugenics program was 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 over twenty five thousand people were targeted many of them are operated on without their consent one of the victims shared his story with us. has a hard time getting through the middle school. one

of the teachers took the cast making at 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 chacon and i was taken to hospital she 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 some time my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have a baby my father didn't agree to either of. us to sign documents by teaching and welfare and science. eugenics protection law was in effect in fact until the

mid one nine hundred ninety s. it was introduced to preserve the purity of the japanese race in this day and permitted the sterilization of people with learning difficulties and hereditary diseases but often misdiagnosed this was common in surgery carried out when even according to the programme it shouldn't have been riffing the japanese government is still not apologized for the practice or paid any compensation either indeed for a long time the victims were told there was no evidence of what even happened for straightening without a brain you see some stats there in more than sixteen thousand cases the procedure was carried out with people's consent some victims are as young as nine years old with the issue now receiving increased attention no 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 to ration took 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 treatment doctors gave her so she didn't have a genetic condition the only 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 need to take responsibility make apologies soon as possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way that we used by the government. of the love of and no one has crossed to demonstration demonstrators are holding rallies in a number of russian cities in memory of the politician boris nemtsov was murdered in moscow back if every twenty fifteen he goes down off is that one of the marches in the moscow for us because we have bigger isn't it just bit more about what's happening. while kevin's a few hundred people have showed up to commemorate the legacy of boris nemtsov and

to demand justice in the investigation into his killing now it's somewhat minus fifteen here outside but as you can clearly see these people are making their stand now various numbers of remember he was a huge veteran of russian politics once part of the russian government back in the ninety's he switched sides and joined the opposition when of lattimer putin came to power he's always been a familiar face in the anti government circles but he's never really been at the helm of them so to speak now also in the last years of his life seemingly almost altogether fell out of the political spotlight now back in two thousand and fifteen he was through. with his girlfriend when he was gunned down in a drive by assassination right in central moscow literally outside the crumbling walls now it is getting very loud here and a lot of people are chanting anti government's no shoguns right now but last year

some five people were sentenced were given out sentences ranging from eleven to twenty years in prison including the man who pulled the trigger on nemtsov now the people behind me as well as boris nemtsov family were unhappy with the investigation they're saying that those who ordered the hit are still walking free now the looking the police are still looking at the investigation still only go we're into that into who marched to minded who ordered the hit and at least one person is wanted in connection with this now this rally is still ongoing and we will be bringing you all the latest from it next hour or it all comes back to then thanks for your time tonight. thank you watching as well this is out international law i believe now we're going to head into a break for half an hour on talk of the after that seem.

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fun 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 have democracy deep in their 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 presidential campaign perception is reality navigated well to discuss that i'm now joined by further look at one of russia's top geopolitical analyst 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 these 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 employ more people at archie's cafeteria actually indicted why do you think it's gotten these larger than life notoriety. maybe you should promote you. to make more well he heard the cafeteria no english pretty much as well as the people who were running that fact. a bit disappointed by this. disclosure because i believed based on what u.s. media and western media wrote before that russia is really the almighty the 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 the p.r. and mass communication and strategic communication activities anywhere and already i think i read somewhere in the u.s. press that some people who seriously analyze that they say that basically what they did is part of it is of many commercial commercial residual media company as 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 who 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 modest knowledge about how russian society and russian of 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 opposite situation yes the state. obviously uses some how to call it nontraditional means sometimes to compensate for all those weaknesses of russian russian system because it's no secret that.

in many components of influence power economy capacity russia is much weaker than the united states but it can be compensated by by some. what i'm asking you about is the propensity of the of russia to produce these ad hoc actions what you're saying is that yes the russian state sometimes outsourcing is that but i think also what many foreigners don't understand is this call which the russian system allows for personal and sometimes even eleven and malevolent initiative yeah absolutely that's what i wanted to say and sometimes it is the case that. the state is using it but in many other cases this is a strange mixture of private initiative commercial initiative sometimes there are people with some political views and. they they do it the maybe believe the russian state but it's not. developing a competency that.