i. south korea now officially over we can report that the drama continued right to the very end of the game. with i was for the first time in twenty six years i saw key players from russia. gold beating germany four three in a nail biting game gives. a total of seventy nine. other news. unanimously votes for a thirty day ceasefire in syria urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. germany leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only

to realize it was in fact. around the big stories of the last seven days here in r.t. international with me kevin know when this first olympics than the twenty eighteen winter olympics in south korea are all gone now literally they came to a sparkling close just a few hours ago rounded off for the starting fireworks display and the traditional handover then to the next winter olympic games set to be held in twenty twenty two in the chinese capital beijing reports from the current was anyway a limping. time really does fly and i can't believe that it's already and of twenty eight thing we've seen the closing ceremony and the nations parade out and i'll tell you what it was much warmer than the opening on february ninth quite

literally and the fans didn't have to freeze themselves that much to see the spectacle something that hasn't changed though is the fate of the russian athletes who weren't able to march with their national colors there had been a glimmer of hope that they'd be allowed to do that but earlier on sunday the i.o.c. decided not to lift the suspension of russia's national olympic committee after two of the o.a.r. athletes tested positive for doping although the i.o.c. president has said that these two cases appear to be isolated these are cases off of negligence and there is no indication. of so ever for a systemic or systematic. doping affair here the astley's who failed the test though claim it could have been

a result of salva taz or some sort of mistake they say that they have never taken banned drugs on purpose to improve their performance back to the final day of peeling chang twenty eight ng i guess if you asked the russian fans would they rather see their national flags at the closing ceremony or would they rather have their men's ice hockey team win gold for the first time in twenty six years most of them would still choose the second option and that is exactly what happened inside the gardening ice hockey arena on sunday the red machine b. germany for three and a gripping final and then at the prize giving ceremony the olympic anthem was. played instead of the russian anthem obviously the buds guess what the winners and the stadium sang then the national anthem of course and that was quite a scene to watch this was the o.r.'s second gold at these olympics the first one

was won by a fifteen year old alina's the gates of a in the figure skating and i'll tell you what these winter olympics were really games of hope for russia with many more experienced star athletes having to sit out yung chang twenty home the o.e.r. still won a total of seventeen medals that is of course by far not the best performance but still and these circumstances it deserve a huge round of applause as for the whole medal table norway came first with fourteen gold fourteen silver and eleven bronze and that's of course a spectacular result yeah absolutely well done oh well as i mentioned this sunday montana story when four russian hockey players who won gold beating germany what was a gripping final the decisive goal scored in overtime real nail biting to the minute making final score for three. thank you.

it was the first time was it he said in twenty years russian players agree to that final they last won gold in the ice hockey in one thousand two that was under a neutral banner the team didn't have it sewn flag at the time but then because of the break up of the soviet union well after much the elated exhausted hockey players took their bus back to limping village we spoke to one of the stars of the russian team choke. game was very tough germany didn't get to the final for no reason for it's great that we want to be if that we level the score and then the final point in overtime that others i think this goal brought joy to millions of russian fans to see were everyone celebrating today. as just heard the russian fans were thrilled to see the team take gold of course for the first time in twenty six years. i guess my me of what we almost lost control but anyway things turned out ok

it was a super match in a super victory russia is the champion. of doing it and now. you've got a nine. now the rest of us starting you must use love you want. absolute yes we're absolutely happy we beat sweden we beat canada and so we were very very proud to be on the fifty seconds we saw and historically when we are still absolutely. so the winter olympics in south korea have wrapped up they've gone but into place something else came out of there as well as well as those medals diplomacy is continuing between north korea may be the united states the north says it's ready for talks with the u.s. that was announced after the country's officials met with south korean diplomats at those games in pyongyang not everyone's happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests of the south korean border town against the visit scuffles broke out between some protesters and the police i spoke to independent china

especially as andrew long about where this could go he did worry that controversies could overshadow any forthcoming north korea u.s. talks. forest the sanctions are concerned of course the united states want to try and up the sanctions and use military coercion is what i mean for the national issues it depends on what kind of a deal. states. north korea a lot of states which they want but not afterwards to abandon all this nuclear also at bandon or to strip abilities to develop nuclear weapons and long distance delivery systems that's something which. necessarily except if that is struck. back to square one or back to confrontation as elation but all the other hand it's quite possible that something sweet off it. we've been retouched.

you know it's a nation security council's post a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria it's in response to the surge in violence in eastern goods which is occupied by both rebels and terrorists is a place just outside the capital damascus the truce is effective immediately it's set to last for thirty days it's hoped it will allow time the injured civilians to be taken out from the conflict zones and for much needed aid to reach of the stricken regions a number of terror groups such as islamic state and the latest incarnation of are excluded from the agreement that was a crucial thing as far as mosco was concerned operations against them will continue . i was born in new york on this human 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 area is essentially being used to shell civilians in damascus furthermore they're reporting that the terrorist groups in eastern gooda are working actively to prevent 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 got. it will actually comply with the cease fire all of us on this council

must do our part to press the assad regime as hard as we can to comply we are deeply skeptical that the regime will comply but we supported this resolution because we must demand nothing less nikki haley the representative of the united states walked out before the syrian representative could speak under u.n. rules if 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 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. cut them open the investigative journalist rick sterling told us he believes the russian amendments to the cease fire will now allow operations to continue and impeded. but i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. that the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaeda and isis. and i think that was the reason that it passed unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the syrian government yes 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 turkish soldiers even in northern syria so this is so this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity meantime despite the cease fire resolution turkey says it's not going to hold its military offensive in northern syria claim the decision doesn't apply to it and korea's been carrying out an operation against kurdish n.t.i. some militia fighters they would have used as terrorists and his push 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 now i'm chris says it was carrying fighters and weapons but there's another story the kurdish forces insist no those trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine and they say in fact one person was killed in that incident. such as

the just last. month and a lot of bad. things earlier in the week pro syrian government forces arrived in a friend to help try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support the developments in the region have put the u.s. in a difficult position to as jackley bouguereau explains next. two of america's main partners in the region are now at each other's throats to put it mildly thanks. thanks . 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 lights false promises and delaying tactics and on the other side we have the kurds who have been essential to the u.s. led coalition's fight against eisel and the absence of support from their american partners against the onslaught of turkish forces the kurds have been forced to look elsewhere and that has pushed them into accepting help from pro-government forces this week militias loyal to the syrian government flooded afferent to bolster the kurds. which we have come to a kaddish brothers to fight together to protect africa. we are the popular force so that we can 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 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 friend as they continue to alienate their allies. right here right ahead find out when washington thinks it's ok to meddle in other country's elections a lot about that after the break. what's

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again thanks to using us for your news so germany's best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing a fake bomb shell story a russian meddling in the country's politics the reporting build detailed how a mysterious russian agent and bought master no less called huey and supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing kevin cohn it hoping there for the coalition deal between his party and i'm glad merkel's conservative is the theory here is a snippet of the supposed exchange. dear caribbean i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group code campaign thanks for your mail jay

already told me to expect a mile 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 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 it turns out the editors behind the hoax posted this triumph of photo online after it gave them a lot of publicity it shows one of the magazine's employees posing with a transcript of the fake e-mails and the tabloid subsequent article and the editor of titanic says the hoax was all too easy to concoct says it took just a couple of hours in fact. we at italia go over to record magazine we work with the same. 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 build tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky and like in the spine 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 probably will be anyway builds retracted the story what's more the head of the s p d e's youth wing insists that had he really been made such an offer of course he would have turned it down. i don't know but scrooge of course would refuse any of these offers who don't work with social clubs or information they won't even listen. or

a woman talk about fake news and such subjects for the subject next whenever you see meddling mention these days rushes usually being linked to it somewhere isn't it because of the territory these days it seems but it also seems the united states is way ahead on that score a former cia director has admitted that washington interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause we're going to have explains more 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 do that i don't mess around other people. are only for the very good do that through online

video and former cia for a very good cause i. 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 not at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia wrote the book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand nine hundred 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 woold 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. the dutch shipping groups facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrap yards in turkey and india exacerbating the environmental and health problems already there and potentially too violating you know what's.

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cut. cut cut. cut . yes a dirty job but sadly someone's got to do it now this case is playing out of the dutch courts at the moment the prosecution alleges the ships which was sold to be broken apart in india and contained a number of toxic substances that should have been removed and recycled in a safe way it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries prosecutors now seeking fines of seven hundred fifty thousand euro over the alleged breach of e.u. waste laws if convicted three shipping bosses could face up to six months in jail but there's more the company rejects any wrongdoing c. trade group diff defense team argues that the ships only qualify as waste once they

reach the final destination furthermore they say they don't fall on the e.u. environmental rules because turkey and india are beyond its jurisdiction a lack of proper regulation basically in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by environmental activist organizations concerned here. 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 to see the the ground work

and 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 and then the street which is very poorly regulated. so what should we are our foods national the channel that brings you some of the stories you never see in the world society dot com for all our stories if you're online as well thanks for watching i'm kevin know it. her. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. to caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry

for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different speech because there are no other takers. to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. what holds and changed you chandrika to. put themselves on a lot to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president.

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