militants in syria's eastern gooda district continued 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 continues right to the very end of the games on the final day in can change russia's ice hockey team soft germany for three and a nailbiting final that win gives the olympic athletes 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 in the country's politics only to realize that it was an embarrassing hoax.

welcome to the weekly here on our team where we wrap up the top stories from the past week we'll bring you the latest developments as well thanks for tuning in. militants in the eastern good 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 our war correspondent where i guess the op was here in the studio earlier with the details russian conciliation center monitoring center in syria says that over the last twenty four hours rebels in the east launched no less than thirty one shells into damascus and i know what that looks like every time we've stayed in the mosques every time we've been in damascus we have shells landing all over the capital all over the masks because it is the last rebel stronghold in the vicinity of the capital the last stranglehold you know lou the residue revolutions

because all of the on claves around the capital of have been. retaken by the syrian government nevertheless these incidents of shelling they're very random they shelled blindly you know shell might live in a market 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 of dozen casualties the 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 strikes from what we've gathered from the various reports there are strikes on going against 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 each 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 in order to provoke outside forces into attacking the syrian government political science professor minded voters believes terrorists the 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 interests to continue on with this violence there is groups have instructions to is clearly violence. terrorist groups in this day of this story 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 and eighteen 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 in twenty twenty two wrapping up the final day n.p.n. chang hears in the upper trenka. time really does fly and i can't believe that it's already the and of twenty eight thing we've seen the closing ceremony and the nations parade at it 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 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 oh you are a second gold at these olympics the first one was won by fifteen year old alina as 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 young chang twenty thing at 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 deserved 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. as i mentioned sunday i saw a thrilling win for the russian men's ice hockey team they secured gold with a four three victory over germany in a gripping final it was the first time in twenty years that russia had reached the final and you have to go back all the way to albertville france in one thousand nine hundred ninety two for their last gold in men's ice hockey ice hockey and that was also under a neutral banner as the team didn't have its own flag at the time following the break up of the soviet union here you can see the elated and exhausted hockey stars taking their bus back to the olympic village we had a chance to speak to one of the key men in the russia team in the uk. 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 russians funds everyone is celebrating today after a less than smooth build up to the games the delight of the travelling russian fans getting to celebrate their country's second gold of the tournament was very clear we're going to come when you know 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 more let's see if the germans were playing very well it was a beautiful game many thanks to the german team and their russian team for situ wonderful final we're so thrilled meanwhile north korea has said that it's ready for talks with the united states that was announced after the country's officials met with south korean diplomats at the olympics n.p.n. chang but not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests of a south korean border town against the visit independent china specialist and her 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 its moment i mean you know solving international issues it depends on what kind of a deal united states. strike with lot career 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 to liberate systems that's something which i don't think a lot of korea would necessarily accept 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 think we need of agreement may be reached. this week in germany is best selling newspaper was tricked into 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 colliery had supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democrat party's new throwing kevin cornered hoping to sabotage a coalition deal between his party and anglo merkel's conservatives here's a snippet of the pair suppose that exchange. i'm yuri 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 you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh 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 shorts social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign. but there is only one problem with all of that 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 transcript of the fake e-mails and the tabloids subsequent article the editor of titanic so the hoax was all too easy to concoct less than an afternoon's work in fact we turn it over to record magazine we work with the same. methods as built so we knew how to think like an editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the built tabloids push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky 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 s.p.d. is youth wing insists that had he really been made such an offer he would have turned it down because of i mean it's just i don't know about this 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 area coming up in the program catalans have been protesting against a visit by the king of spain that story and more after this short break. hey everybody i'm stephen ball. hollywood guy you suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and our visa issues this is my buddy max famous financial guru she's a little bit different. in your windows up with all the drama happening in our

country and i'm shooting the brood have some fun every day americans. start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. want to spoil on is only producing. his it doesn't have any meaning less it leads to real kids which can be. guaranteed only by christina president. welcome back to the program the king of spain paid a visit to barcelona on sunday and he got a less than warm reception on the streets.

it was for me pay that six first visit to catalonia since the rest of the region's referendum on independence hundreds of people gathered in the city center at the monaco right turn catalan. flag and when that by wyatt police the rally continued into the night with people chanting jail papillon leaders they were imprisoned after the vote last october which was deemed illegal by the spanish government thomas harrington an expert on catalonia says the spanish government is exploiting 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 on

january thirtieth the two main parties of the cattle of independence movement were unable to come to an agreement as to the swearing in of the exiled catalan president and a lot of people felt quite deflated by the inability of the leadership of the movement to get together at this crucial time. and so i think a lot of people are feeling worn out so i think we're in a position or a time where the movement is feeling a bit deflated because of the failure of the leadership to get together and yet there are speaking out in the streets in perhaps a more organic fashion. the portuguese island of tears they are 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.

see them through the can and it's done so in a way from here as well ready to stay too long. on most what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of clue. caused by heavy metals hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones sterility cancer i really mean well 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 and when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.

the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three which a sense 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 a nine hundred eighty four and there has been no cleanup sense that the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil air and 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 a higher number of certain cancers in the prior divots or area than the rest of the especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can say with thirty three

percent of the cases being in prior divots or while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population. we. this is the repeats 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 u.s. and portuguese governments but have received no response to the specific questions we've asked the us government did however forward a press release from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation and are seeking expert advice on how best to proceed. a dutch 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 there and potentially violating laws. such. as the talk. show. the such. cut the queue.

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

wrongdoing however the trade groups defense team argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and don't fall under environmental rules as turkey and india 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 at the south asia were well known to any european company so the choice c. 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 and 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 wrap up 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. i want. to. apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football

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