the winter olympics come to a close. here on the program we speak to a. gold medalist. about. actually there were no tears at all i think when i get home i will be dancing and jumping for joy i hope by the time i get home i will realize what i have achieved. with. greece struggling to find. resorting to drug dealing. stories. defense ministry says. in. the western media. that has broken the

truce. monday morning in moscow thanks for joining us. the winter olympics in south korea wrapped up with norway coming out of the medals table at the olympic team came the thirteenth at the doping scandal having prevented many russians from simply competing. takes a closer look at russia's achievements in. well seventy medals chang is the only minus twelve if you compare it to twenty nine team russian medals and saatchi this is not a mon blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given that most russia stars weren't even invited here by

the international olympic committee so basically it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but i'll tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here in p.n. chang it is the first gold medal by their men's ice hockey team in twenty six years the final was really tough neck and neck till the last second with surprise silver medalists germany and the red machine was only able to show who's boss on it's an extra time. speaking of bosses all ice owais are won two gold medals at these olympics and the first one was no less special weapons ice skating two russian teenage girls topped the podium after breaking two world records water after another within fifteen minutes but of course you can't share one gold and thanks to one extra point from the jury. a fifteen year old girl

from his desk became the champion and we were the first t.v. channel to talk to her after she got off the podium in an exclusive interview that is said in. full before competition i fully distance myself from the outside world i don't read or watch the news just some t.v. series but this time i was very calm too i didn't mind the attention from the journalists fans and the fact that i'm participating in the olympic games for me it was the same as any other competition of course i supported the other athletes from russia but i didn't feel this big burden of responsibility maybe that helped me. change because of the book ocean's book when they go out is that you were so calm of your performance never once said that the only source single tear what did you do to sing so we spoke on the bus i work on this i'm given it is. actually there are no tears at all and i'm always like that keeping my emotions to myself but when

i go home i always share all my emotions with my parents. i think when i get home i will be dancing and jumping for joy i hope by the time i get home i will realize what i have achieved. the court's going to the park as if so you haven't been jumping and dancing so far when you put it to work so you can but i get i'm only during my routine. what about your relationship with. your rivals on my space is it true that you're actually friends appearing if you have a vision of a doozy that. yes absolutely there's we often go to have a coffee or a chat on social media between training we always share funny videos on instagram and have a good laugh together yes we do is to get absolution the already that i was you know you said you don't notice the media attention but we have to ask you about the american skater actually wagner who criticize your routine saying that putting a very complicated elements at the end is basically cheating what would you say to people that no one goes because it just it if i can say that this only encouraged

me to do more and better so i wanted to prove even more that what she was saying is not true but you cannot prove anything to people like her you know they can i say let her compete in the olympics with my program and i'll gladly see how she'll manage to do it these of course figure skating is developing really fast nowadays there's always a new generation younger than me maybe someday i might think like that too because in my group there already some girls who can do quadruple jumps you know what i will try as hard as i can to stay in sports as long as i can i'm already thinking about the next season is that everything goes into what you skates and all you think about but. for now i cannot think about anything else i try to be as careful as i can and not make any mistakes so i can stay in skating for as long as i can in the jewish sport. some forty seven thousand asylum seekers have found themselves unable to leave greece due to closed border policies and the e.u.

called on refugees more than two thousand unaccompanied minors are waiting to be placed in shelters leaving many in a vulnerable situation. almost about us on a. visit. but i. feel on the daily i have a bottle maasai child of six so i get up that's all that a lot of these out. of what is. a lot of body has referred. for. you're. you're you're. very very need more it's ok. ok here in your. home. or. here where you

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have turned to crime to make ends meet it's a plant that oxy is following in a series of films. i think i'm going to make. you because i'm going to really you know you can go to so that you can in this week mission is to know what it was. going to. send you to. understand making a good move. movember. moa is a sun piano upon. the color of the cd i think you know when you put it off i say care you're not part of the world. sex drugs and refugees premieres this wednesday here on r.t. international you can watch the full documentary at r.t. dot com as well. one key destination for asylum seekers

reaching europe germany is also struggling to cope a food bank in the city of s. and has taken the step of barring foreigners from registering citing the growing number of refugee applicants and concerns expressed by elderly germans but the decision has drawn criticism and accusations of xeno phobia. for two and a half months we have stopped the admission of foreign citizens because the percentage of foreigners is increased to seventy five percent and we in essence want to give germans a chance to come to the food bank unfortunately we don't have enough for everyone.

people are going to be difficult time because so many refugees who many people have used to get. a discussion about this and show. that in our society people only pay attention to accusations of race. many people depend on tough we need a social policy that protects the dignity of people all the people whatever idea they might have. syria's ceasefire agreed upon by the un security council on saturday appears already to be unraveling with reports of violations in the damascus suburb of eastern ghouta the western media was quick to point the finger at the acid government damascus has been bombing. for a week already targeting al nusra terrorists something that is allowed under the un resolution. according to the russian defense ministry it was militants in eastern

who violated the truce moscow says damascus was shelled several times after the ceasefire came into force presidents that say they never believe the rebels would abide by the truce in the first place. this truce is similar to the others and we will see it being violated this is the same old story and we are the ones who end up being harmed don't you see the children. women and students who should we feel sorry for for these releases this is we are tired of shelling every day about thirty to forty shells for here in my let me i am against the truth because it only benefits the read books but i hope that it will be over soon and there are no gunmen remained there the resolution calls for a thirty day ceasefire across syria this hope to allow time for injured civilians

to be evacuated and for much needed aid to reach stricken areas a number of terror groups such as islamic state al-qaeda and the latest incarnation of al nusra are excluded from the agreement and forces operating in syria are allowed to continue anti terror operations however despite all the efforts the truce appears to have little chance of surviving as what i guess the explains. thirty days of peace ceasefire of course all of syria sounds wonderful a pause for civilians time for food to reach the hungry starving people for the wounded to be treated no shelling no bombs and almost no chance. east ghouta suburb of damascus the last the islamist stronghold in the area it's

from here that rebels blindly shelled damascus killing and killing and killing civilians for years now the syrian army launches a counter-terror alteration and buying international outrage. by the escalation of strikes me a living hell hell on earth unbearable suffering it must remain and shelling of residential areas is intentional and systematic targeting of civilians the human disaster is enough dead children and nothing wrecked families the thing in syria is you can argue anyone is a terrorist given how much blood almost everyone has on their hands take the rebels and islam is to control east ghouta they put women in cages and the horse that them on to roofs to protect themselves from air strikes a literal human shield they shot the demonstrators beheaded prisoners scots off

people's heads on camera now they're allegedly forbidding people from leaving the war zone as rebels also did in aleppo the freedom fighters or terrorists is. the last stronghold that the terrorists. or the syrian capital the surgeons or be. continuous attacks on civilians is the part of the city. and millions of millions have died so far so that's why the sitting government better to do. is going to work but the flip side of course is that these limits rebels will say as'ad is a terrorist they will show you their dead and say as'ad did this and they'll say we're exempt from this ceasefire we can show him all we want you see now by a sudden blanket ceasefire across syria is optimistic especially when there's

so many terrorists waiting to be killed the russian defense ministry also said that according to its sources the groups in eastern guta preparing to use chemical weapons to provoke outside international entities into attacking the syrian government and political science professor mike get both says the violence is unlikely to end soon it's naive to say we have to stop the violence overnight and ceasefire overnight simply because all the parties involved have interests to continue on with this violence terrorist groups have instructions to is can lead to violence. terrorist groups in this day of this they are so desperate that's why i can't believe that the. use chemical weapons as the last chord on the table are still to come here on r.t.

international the king of spain's visit to barcelona has reinvigorated the debate over the region's independence activists from both sides of the divide hitting the streets that story and more after this break.

not. happy with us today the king of spain paid a visit to bos alone on sunday prompting both pro unity and the pro independence demonstrators to hit the streets resulting in scuffles with the police. thank.

the region's referendum on independence hundreds of people many. in the city center where they were met by riot police. into the night with people chanting support the jailed leaders who were in prison after the referendum vote last october which of course was deemed illegal by the spanish government here's a quick look back at how spain's biggest political crisis. unfolded. it was i was thankful

thank you thank you who. has been pretty here we decided to set the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government thank god thank you. i made sure it remains firm in its position that the referendum was illegal warning that any attempt to integrate the exiled cattle and leader carlos put them on would lead to the continuation of emergency rule by much red thomas hiring to an expert on catalonia says simply put people have had enough. what we're seeing here is the

the results of the spanish government tactic of right and rule and the fact that january thirtieth the two main parties of that kind of ended attendance movement were unable to come to agreement as to the swearing in of the doubt on pres 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 feeling worn out so i think we're in a position or a time where the hold of this feeling of this is the slated because of the failure of the leadership to get together and yet here are speaking out in the streets perhaps a more organic fashion. twenty past here in moscow some time with the latest news who looks like nothing new when british magazine the economist recently ran a front cover showing putin as a meddling octopus attacking western democracies it was actually harking back to a tried and tested formula.

i don't know what's more striking is that liberals have been using the putin as a soviet menace trope for a full decade although they've been using russia is not to push for a full century. western depictions done to screen between the demon aggressive briery and two nations while we activists. picture needs revising should show us as a giant squid russia as a tiny little octopus we did tile very biased you how do you know and it states menaces the world's democracy.

this is a very old trick to. the funny thing is how this kind of thing is used to working even even today it will be more and more popular at this kind of a comparisons using motifs very popular during the times of the cold war era russia is no longer soviet union it's presented as the same enemy you know the redmayne age the reason why you have this guy comparison this kind of came paint propaganda campaign against russia is exactly because russia now is a relevant player in the global politics i see your own house here on r.t.

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bowl come to sophie and callum sophie shevardnadze said the winter olympics and chong have been an unexpected celebration of korean unity with north and south as well as competing under one flag and their leadership of the cheer countries ready for high level talks but will the momentum continue after the games wrap up. well i asked former national security advisor to the president of south korea.

under one flag korean athletes merging the charm offensive of the north korean leaders and the chance of the highest level meeting in sports diplomacy bring a breakthrough in the korean nuclear crisis with the current success is build a new future for the peninsula will be forgotten as the olympic flame. from korea. china young who former national security adviser to the president of south korea welcome to the show great to have you with us ambassador the olympics are over with so kim sr shaking hands with president moon dry in sitting closely together at the olympic stadium smiling exchanging comments is a great diplomatic breakthrough the press is expecting but the beginning of something or is it all going to come back to being enemies now that games are over well it depends on whether north korea has intention to denuclearize if they have. all these. things are just to maintain as

a means of retaining their nuclear capabilities will go back to where we were before the olympics or we could be worse off so it all depends on both korea's genuine intention well pian yun apparently wants to talk to the united states united states says it's open to talks with north korea but nobody wants to go first what is so role in this who blinks first game. well dialo is important to figure out what most korea's intention is but. dialo itself doesn't resolve the problem unless north korea. is willing to abandon its nuclear programs missile programs as well so tall between us and those korea. could be even worse if north

korea has no intention to denuclearize because any talks which. you know wish doesn't lead to denuclearization or in which no script confirms is intention not to did denuclearize under any circumstances that could strengthen the hand of those in washington who have okayed a military option so. if nothing comes out of the talks it in cells in the north or between north korea and the us. i think. you know it makes it it will. weaken those who. look for diplomatic solution.