militants in syria's eastern border district continue to shell the capital damascus despite a un backed cease fire. the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics wrapped up in south korea with the spectacular closing ceremony of the drama continued right to the very end of the games on the final day in russia as ice hockey team saw for germany four three and a nail biting final that win gives a liga but it's from russia a total of seventeen medals in south korea. and in the stories that shaped the week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling and the country's politics only to realize it was an embarrassing hoax.

welcome to the weekly here on our t.v. where we wrap up the top stories from the past week bringing you the latest developments as well thanks for tuning in. militants in eastern go to district of syria are indiscriminately shelling the capital damascus according to russia's defense ministry that's despite the united nations voting on saturday to implement a cease fire or war correspondent martin ghazi it was here in the studio earlier with the details russian reconsiderations said the monitoring center in syria says that over the last twenty four rebels in the east launched no less than thirty one shells into damascus and i knew what that looks like every time we stayed in that mass because every time we've been in damascus we shells lending all over the capital of damascus because it is the last rebel stronghold in the vicinity of the capital. shrine gold you know the residue revolutions because all of the lives

around the capital have been. retaken by the syrian got. nevertheless these leaves the incidents of shelling there very random they shelled blindly you know shell might land in a market might land in a military base in a hospital or the government building and usually there's a lot of casualties of the last twenty four hours a dozen casualties syrian authorities but. the rebels in east ghouta generation islam the army of islam which holds which is the most powerful rebel group in east ghouta says that it is abiding by the cease fire it says that it is being shelled and bombed by the syrian government and that is indeed happening there are air strikes from what we've gathered from the valve various reports there are air strikes on going against east do it against al islam the army of islam but the syrians are saying that you know the rebels are shooting at us and

the rebels are saying the syrians are shooting the other so there's no cease fire to speak of quite yet. the russian defense ministry also said that according to its sources armed groups in eastern gooda are preparing to use chemical weapons to provoke outside forces into attacking the syrian government political science professor martin buttressed believes terrorists have no intention of respecting the cease fire it's naive to say we have to stop the violence overnight and cease fire overnight simply because all the parties involved have interest to continue on with this violence there is groups have instructions to is can lead to violence. terrorist groups in this day of this three they are so disparate that's why you can believe that the they can use chemical weapons as the last chord on the table. the two thousand nine hundred winter olympics in south

korea came to a dramatic close on sunday a stunning fireworks display rounded off the night as well as the traditional handover to the next winter olympic host city which will be beijing and twenty twenty two wrapping up the final day n.p.n. chang here's ilya the train go. 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 all way our 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 tas 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 gandhi 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 and them was. played instead of the russian anthem obviously but 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 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 in these circumstances it deserves

a huge round of applause asked for the whole medal table norway came first with fourteen gold fourteen silver and eleven bronze and that's of course a spectacular result as mentioned sunday saw a thrilling win for the russian men's ice hockey team they secured goal with a four three victory over germany and a gripping final it was the first time in twenty years that russia had reached the final and you have to go all the way back to albertville france and nine hundred ninety two for the last gold in men's ice hockey that was also under neutral bandler as the team didn't have its own flag at the time following the break up of the soviet union now here you can see the elated and exhausted the hockey stars taking their bus back to the olympic village we had a chance to speak to one of the key men in the russian team called vote chick marginals the game was very tough germany didn't get to the final for no reason it's great that we won but we leveled the school and then the final point in

overtime i think this goal brought joy to millions of russian fans everyone is celebrating today. now after a less than smooth build up to the games the delight of the traveling russian fans getting to celebrate their country's second gold of the tournament was clear. we almost lost it but anyway things turned out ok it was a super match and a super victory russia is the champion and we did it. the germans were playing very well it was a beautiful game many thanks to the german team and the russian team for such a wonderful final we're so thrilled so the winter olympics have wrapped up for another four years but it appears that the spirit of goodwill is continuing there north korea has said that it's ready for talks with the united states that was announced after the country's officials met with the south korean diplomats at the games finale n.p.n. chang but not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests at a south korean border town against the visit independent china's china specialist

andrew long told us about the controversies that could overshadow any north korea washington talks as far as the sentients are concerned of course the united states want to trouble the sanctions and use military coercion as home i mean solving international issues it depends on what kind of a deal the united states has with a lot korea with the united states obviously want that north koreans to abandon its nuclear arsenal abandon all its capabilities to develop nuclear weapons and long distance the liberal system and that's something which i don't think necessarily except that cannot be struck then we're back to square one and back to confrontation as collation but all the other hand it's quite possible that some agreement may be reached. germany's best selling newspaper was tricked this week and publishing a fake bombshell story on russian meddling in the country's politics the report in

bill detailed how a mysterious russian agent and bought master called euro. had supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing kevin cornered hoping to sabotage a coalition deal between his party and angela merkel's conservatives now here's a snippet of the pair suppose that exchange did care for him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no grow coke campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mail from you but just to be sure could you name me jay's favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh martin ginger oh dear ury perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with but surrogates schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign. but there's only one problem with all

about the whole conversation it 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 the transcript of the fake e-mails and the tabloid subsequent article the other editor of the titanic says the hoax was all too easy to come cocked less than an afternoon's work in fact we turn it over to record magazine who worked with the same. methods and built so we knew how to think like an editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this can't be we have to make an alliance with the built tabloids push a story about russian meddling a story that was like in the spy a 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 has now retracted the story and what's more the head of the s.p.d. is youth wing insists that had he really been made such an offer he would have turned it down. before the new books group but if you would refuse any of these offers don't work with social bots i don't have the information even received and yours was in this. coming up in the program catalans have been protesting against a visit by the king of spain that story and more still to come. when lawmakers manufactured them sentenced him to public wells. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. in the final merry go round listen to the one percent told.

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a less than warm reception on the streets. was i was. was. no this was for me it's the sixth the first visit to catalonia since the region's referendum on independence day hundreds of people gathered in the city center as the monarch arrived carrying catalan flags and were met by right police and i continued into the night with people chanting support to jail problem leaders who were in prison after the vote last october which was deemed illegal by the spanish government thomas harrington and expert on catalonia says the spanish government is exporting divisions within the independence movement what we're seeing here is the the results of the spanish government's tactic of divide and rule and the fact that january thirtieth the two main parties of that kind of

independence movement were unable to come to an agreement as to the swearing in of the actual on president and a lot of people felt quite deflated by the end of the ability of the leadership of the movement to get together at this crucial time. and so i think a lot of people are feeling wardell so i think we're in a position or a triumph where the world is feeling aggrieved to slate it because of the failure of the leadership to get together and yet you're speaking out in the streets and perhaps a more organic fashion. the portuguese island of terror sara in the atlantic is in desperate need of decontamination decades of u.s. air force activity have left it polluted with heavy metals and islanders say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses.

he them for and it's time to run away from here as we're ready to stay too long. we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals a hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some say sterility and cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.

the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged and a classified report written in two thousand and three that has since been leaked it describes seventeen major fuel spills and one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel were released when a pump was unintentionally activated that was in one nine hundred eighty four and there has been no clean up since then the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil air and the water here's what local experts have been telling us. we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven. two thousand and eleven period the higher number of certain cancers in the prior divots or area than the rest of the source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see thirty three percent

of those all cases being in prior divots aura while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population. and we. this is the repeat itself on various islands occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations we contacted both the us and portuguese governments but have received no response as to the specific questions we asked the us government did however forward a press release that from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation and are seeking expert advice on how to best proceed. a dutch shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrapyards in turkey and india

exacerbating the environmental and health problems there and potentially violating e.u. laws. six . legs. cut. leg .

cut keep us. safer. the case is playing out in dutch courts and the prosecution allege that the ships which were sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of talks this is 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 pop prosecutors are seeking fines of seventy five seven hundred fifty thousand euros over the alleged breach of e.u. waste laws if convicted three shipping bosses could face up to six months in jail

and the company rejects any wrongdoing c. trade groups defense team argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as turkey in india are beyond its third 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 south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price and. higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained 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 ground what is also very dangerous for the work is a 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 a review of the week's biggest stories along with today's top headlines but of course i'll be back at the top the hour with more so do stay with us. fifty years ago breaking within two cons again as a sleeping pill dusty's would suddenly because the truth does what it said just on the side effects what terrible but not on the road as shown by induction untroubled love to hear no double war then book a month across europe victims astonishing legal battles demanding at least some

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