the headlines on our international the winter olympics come to a close in south korea we speak. about her achievement. this is. actually there are 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 asylum seekers in greece struggling to find shelter. drug dealing. brings you a first hand account. defense ministry says militants in syria. the capital damascus in violation of. the western media those says it's the government

that has broken the truth. monday worldwide news headlines. this is international and a very warm welcome. the winter olympics in south korea wrapped up with norway coming out on top of the medals table the olympic athletes from russia or team came thirteenth at the doping scandal having prevented many russians from competing but that didn't stop the team from beating expectations. takes a closer look at russia's achievements in. well seventy medals chang is 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 medalist 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 one after another within fifteen minutes but of course you can't share one gold and thanks to one extra point from the jury. of

a fifteen year old girl from 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 it is said in the. 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. get off the table spoke with a go i just you were so calm of your performance never once said that the only source single tear what did you do to say so we spoke only the sun will come so this i'm going you know this 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. so you haven't been jumping and dancing so far when you put it to show you can but i get i only during my routine. what about your relationship with. your rivals and nice but is it true that you are actually friends even if you have a reason to do zia 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 and so did i miss mission the order that all of us you know you said you don't notice the media attention but we have to ask you about the american skates and actually wagner who criticize your routine saying that putting a very complicated elements at the end is basically cheating what would you say to

the world no one knows because it just it if i can say that this only encouraged me to do more and better still 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 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 are already some girls who can do quadruple jones but 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 well 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. over the last few weeks there was a lot happening in the olympic facility as a besides just. oh

just hours before the opening ceremony protests have erupted outside the olympic stadium and. what kind of team did people with this kind of sweatshirt or. brochure. it's now let's take our early lead to get paid for the russian flag from mr kim why are you here again we here to go to some hospitality houses walk around and meet him it's a people yeah i'm going to meet some athletes i see any good guys i think you know . i'm back to the. usa vs. and. a few hours ago i was working outside the cold still limping arcade and we had to stop filming every other minute because it was almost impossible to work.

with any instagram some people say a russian animal can make it sound like that. was. once in my sister had to see my sister. our balance and go to the bank for our. only son with her leg and say. it is not international some forty seven thousand asylum seekers have found themselves unable to leave greece due to a closed border policies on the e.u. code on refugees more than two thousand unaccompanied minors are waiting to be placed in shelters leaving many in a vulnerable situation. i'll miss about center. she used to.

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international you can watch the full documentary at r.t. dot com. syria's cease fire 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 of blame that is at the assad government saturday's cease fire vote at the u.n. appears to have changed nothing in syria's civil war activists say pro-government forces are mounting a ground offensive the regime is continuing its offensive against a rebel held suburb of damascus there's been little left up in the bombarding of eastern guta in the past hours despite a un resolution government bombs have continued to fall on the rather long play for damascus hands indeed been bombing. for more than a week targeting al those were terrorists that is something that is allowed for under the un resolution however according to the russian defense ministry it was

militants in eastern guta who violated the truce moscow says damascus was shelled several times after the ceasefire came into force residents 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 but don't you see the children old people women and students who should we feel sorry for for these rebellious. we are tired of shelling every day about thirty to forty shells for here in my let me i am against the truce because it only benefits the rebels i hope that it will be over soon and that no gunmen remain there the resolution calls for a thirty day ceasefire across syria this it's hoped will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated and for much needed aid to reach the stricken areas

a number of terror groups such as islamic state al qaida and the latest incarnation of those who are are excluded from the agreement and forces operating in syria are allowed to continue anti terrorist 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 a 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 the 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 cuts 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 for the rest. or the syrian capital the the surgeons or the. continuous attacks on civilians is the part of the city. and many civilians 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 are preparing to use chemical weapons to provoke a reaction from the international community against the assad government political science professor michael bottom last 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 believe that the can use chemical weapons as the last chord

on the table so 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 we have that story and many more after the break. global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that are going. to stop spreading to tell you that it will be gossip and probably by itself the most important news today. in the mosques of our eyes and tell me you are not cool enough and want to buy their product. all the hawks that we along the border will watch. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect them so. when the final larry you're a. whole middle of the room say. thanks for joining us here on r.t. the king of spain a paid a visit to barcelona or on sunday prompting both pro unity and pro independence demonstrators to hit the streets resulting of course in scuffles with the progress .

it was king philip's first visit to catalonia since the region's referendums on independence to hundreds of people many carrying cattle on flags gathered in the city center where they were met by riot police at the rally carried on into the night with people chanting support for jailed cattle and leaders who were imprisoned off of the referendum vote last october which of course was deemed illegal by the spanish government is a quick look back at how spain's biggest political crisis unfolded in the past forty i i. i . i was

thank you and even thank you. i thank you has been for here we decided to set the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government. thank you was. i madrid it remains firm in his position that the referendum was illegal warning that any attempt to inaugurated the exiled cattle and leader colace put them on would lead to the continuation of emergency rule by madrid 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's tactic of divide and rule and the fact that on june january thirtieth the two main parties of the catalan independence movement were unable to come to an agreement as to the swearing in of the exile got 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 whole of this feeling of the slated because of the failure of the leadership to get together and yet they are speaking out in the streets perhaps a more organic fashion. sometimes that the latest news looks like nothing new when british magazine the economist recently ran a front cuppa showing russian president vladimir putin as a meddling octopus attacking western democracies it was walking back to

a tried and tested formula. i. don't know what's more striking the liberals have been using the putin as a soviet menace trope for a full decade whether they've been using russia or is not to push for a full century. western depiction of time to scream between the deal 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 title very biased you how do you know and it states menaces de rose 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 direct mean age the reason why you have this guy comparison this kind of came pain propaganda campaign against russia is exactly because russia now is

a relevant player in the global politics and i just wanted twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow we are back here at r.t. international with more than half an hour. to. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. fifty years ago breaking and we've been to a concert as a sleeping pill does this is what i mean because i like to does. the side effects were terrible but not on. induction for board.

across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well as a constant reminder that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there's been a couple of. time after time they were going underground twenty five years to the day of the bombing of the twin towers in manhattan by islamist forces previously backed by the united states to fight in afghanistan coming over the show what's really behind this week's lurid headlines to me during jeremy corbin as

a soviet agent we investigated new films portrayal of the nexus of power shared by government mainstream media and the police and the boss of one of britain's fastest growing workers' associations once a provision in britain for young families is collapsing buses today marks fifty two years since the first flight of the apollo trap in two zero one spacecraft we speak to the first british astronauts in space helen schucman all of them all coming up in today's going underground but first what i would know mainstream u.k. broadcast to show this video of the bookies favorite to be britain's next prime minister when it was released on the internet in the spirit of fairness and impartiality we're broadcasting it in the last few days the sun the mail the telegraph the express have all gone a little bit james bond they found a four much czechoslovak in spotty whose claims are increasingly wild and entirely false he seems to believe i kept him informed about what margaret thatcher had for breakfast. and says he was responsible for either live aid or the mandela concert

or maybe bugs it's easy to laugh but something more serious is happening publishing these ridiculous smears that have been refuted by czech officials shows just how worried the media bosses are by the prospect of a labor government their right to big labor will stand up to the powerful and corrupt and take the side of the many not the few a free press is essential to democracy and we don't want to close it down we want to open it up at the moment much of our press isn't very free at all in fact it's controlled by billionaire tax exiles who are determined to dodge paying their fair share for our vital public services the general election showed the media barons a losing their influence and social media means their bad old habits are becoming

less and less relevant. but instead of learning these lessons they continuing to resort to lies and smears their readers you all of us deserve so much better well we've got news for them change is coming that's been seen as a dire warning about jeremy corbyn in power will destroy media freedom in britain not only was he a suspected communist agent jeremy corbyn according to commentators interviewed on the statement a to b b c will another leak free speech newspapers owned by those who go been defamed in that video claim that goldman's refusal to answer allegations catalyzed quiet censorship of the video on british television so how do we get here with me is more of livingston the director of the new film belonging the truth behind the headlines more ike thanks so much for coming on before we get to the film belonging. do you think it's right for jeremy corbyn to threaten our leading media proprietors with democratic control i'm not so sure i see it so much

as a threat per se in that you know our media has for a long time not necessarily reported everything in the news as we have it uncovered much in the film but they have taken a certain view perhaps a polemic here of the world and i fear it is more he's writing that balance that's there particularly in my understanding of his statement is that he's not increasing regulation that he's actually going to open the media up which in my view is much needed and we were right at the beginning of your film or news international composites of terry smith says it isn't what is in a newspaper it's what isn't just expanded on that so what terry was saying is is twofold one is that the newspaper editors decide what news we see and you know.