headlines in r.t. russia's foreign ministry says that this information campaign has been started in the media reports of an alleged chemical attack in syria is eastern ghouta designed simply to slander the assad government. also to come this hour the winter olympics come to a close in south korea we speak to russia's figure skating golden girl i mean is a good survivor about their achievement at the gate. some good news this is a he said 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 that when you play. with asylum seekers in greece struggling to find shelters and jobs some are resorting to drug dealing and prostitution for make ends meet but have firsthand account of their stories.

follow their you watching r.t. international this monday afternoon where it's just turned two o'clock here in moscow our top story this hour the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says some media outlets are spreading false information and slandering the syrian government . for lots of reports are being planted in the media about flooring allegedly used in eastern guta news outlets are citing an anonymous source from the us let me remind you we've been warning about such fake stories since yesterday and there will be more such stories from social media from the white helmets and provocative with a history freak reports specially when it comes to chemical attacks for which there is no evidence also there is a syrian observatory for human rights run by

a man renting an apartment somewhere in the u.k. so these provocations will continue with a single goal to blacken the syrian government by accusing it of all sorts of violations and work right. as mr lavrov mentioned there have been a number of reports of an alleged chemical attack in eastern. we also have received reports a possible suspected chlorine gas attack that's been fresh reports of a chemical gas attack in the area. while a political science professor maggette bought rosters say that terrorists are staging provocations to disrupt the ceasefire 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 terrorist groups have instructions can lead to violence. terrorist groups in this

day of this they are so desperate that's why i can't believe that. they can use chemical weapons as the last chord on the table. the resolution adopted unanimously by the un security council on saturday calls for a thirty day cease fire across syria this it's hoped will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated and for much needed aid to reach stricken areas to a number of terror groups such as islamic state al qaida and the latest incarnation of al najwa are excluded from the green mint and forces operating in syria are allowed to continue anti terrorist operations however despite all the efforts the truce does appear to have little chance of surviving as more against the it 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 to 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 operate in and buying international outrage. by the escalation of strikes me a living hell hell on earth unbearable suffering indiscriminate shelling of residential areas intentional and systematic targeting of civilians the human disastrous 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 scot's 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 surgeons or be. continual attacks on civilians is the part of the city. many civilians died so

for so that's why the syrian government better to do or we're going to war but the flip side of course is that islam is rebels will say our sad is a terrorist they will show you their dead and say as sad did this and not 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. now the winter olympics in south korea have wrapped up with norway coming out on top of the medals table there the limping athletes from russia to be known as all for short finished thirteenth with a doping scandal having prevented many russians from competing but that didn't stop the team from beating expectations. takes a closer look now at their achievements in. well seventy medals

chang is only minus twelve if you compare it to twenty nine team russian medals unsought cheat this is not blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given that most russia stars weren't even violet 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 n.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 all only able to show who's boss on it's an extra time game was very tough for 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 speaking of bosses on o.e. are won two gold medals at these olympics and the first one was no less special where men's 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 asia 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. 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 to you 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. gorge because of that the book 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 calmly spoke quietly that's all counts are the same didn't know they just did it actually there were 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. those the courts the buckeyes if so you haven't been jumping and dancing so far because when you put it go or show you what i did i only during my return. what about your relationship with you again you made about everybody your rivals are nice but is it true that you're actually friends a bit and you have

a vision of a disease that yes absolutely there's we have to 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 a status mission 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 skates and ashley wagner who criticize your routine saying the press have a very complicated elements at the end is basically cheating all of it what would you say to them a lot of them no one knows because it just it's 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 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 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 live with your 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. sport well done to what over the last few weeks as though there was a lot happening in and around the cities besides the sport. just hours before the opening ceremony protests have erupted outside the olympic stadium. what kind of team did people with this kind of sweatshirts important i'm grocery. it's tell them take it out really believe he can beat the russians want from mr kim here again we. go to some hospitality houses walk around to meet him these are people going to meet some athletes assuming good wasn't kidnapped them

back to the real see the usa versus team. and. you have to stop building every other minute because it was almost impossible. if you could. put are you going to twitter. you just wouldn't you want to instagram some people say a russian animal could make it sound like that. was. i think once in my sister have you seen my sister came you know john. howard dennis allen and you know you have a franco for the making sure that there's always fun at the word girl but they say

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vision could even trust the actions of these two going for sure on this sex environment but even more dangerous situation like would be traffic court organs we need to prevent these children being put under the danger and we need to identify their relatives and to speed up the process of reunifying of the children with their families. now still to come this hour here in our taking of spain's recent visit to barcelona has reinvigorated the debate over the region's independence well have a look at that in detail plus of the stories take just after the break. there was hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles on. the new socks for the tell you that

celebrity gossip the tabloids are full or a. lot of off ties and tell you you are not old enough but. these are the hawks that we along the border worth watching. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is project themselves. in the final merry go round. no one person. nor middle of the room.

welcome back with r.t. now the king of spain paid a visit to barcelona on sunday prompting both pro unity independence demonstrations to take to the streets resulting in scuffles with police. thousands i was there was king philippe's first visit to catalonia since the region's referendum on independence hundreds of papers you can sing many carrying cattle and flags gathered in the city center where they were and that by riot police that rally carried on into the night with people chanting support for jailed atlanta leaders they were imprisoned after the referendum vote last october which was deemed illegal by the spanish government so

here's a look back then and have spain's biggest political crisis in forty years unfolded . when i was in in one thousand see i wasn't in for a few weeks we decided to start the president's vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government i was

i i i well madrid remains firm in its position that the referendum was a legal warning that any attempt to inaugurate the exiled kathlyn leader called a speech to man would lead to the continuation of emergency rule by madrid thomas harrington an expert on catalonia says that 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 i enjoy january thirtieth the two main parties of that kind of i did attend its movement were unable to come to an agreement as to the swearing in of the press a lot of people felt quite deflated by the inability of the leadership of the movement to get together at this crucial so. 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 world is feeling a bit deflated because of the failure of the leadership to get together and yet there is speaking out in the streets perhaps a more organic fashion. but finally the sometimes the latest news does look like nothing new the british magazine economist recently ran a front cover showing russian president vladimir putin as a meddling octopus attacking western democracies harking back back to a tried and tested formula. i. don't know what's more striking that 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 depictions down to screen between the demon aggressive briery and two nations while the octopus. picture needs revising should show us as a giant squid russia as a tiny little octopus we did titled bird virus how do you know and it states menaces de rose democracy. this is a very old. 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 mainly 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. company this afternoon that's how things are looking so far today. i'll be back with more news in just about half a. day everybody from stephen paul. collingwood guy you expect every crowd

american first of all i'm just george bush in our view to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different. when. there was no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm sure the good have some fun meet everyday americans. hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. feel in this country and again here they have a bottomless side a child of six noir. an estimated eighty five since under age refugees are now living in greece. you

know still more to go to war or to do at home in their euro food during. the many sell their bodies just to make ends meet some. of them less secular than on the second all of that and all the sense in that. says in the london school of. all serious threats of dealing drugs to make a living. the rest of us in the middle is a lot of blood runs a little. game of the vineyard. to know. what holds it has to. be put themselves on the water. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be the first injury. or some who want to be rich. have to like to be first to see

what before three of them or can't be good that. interested always in the waters of dollars. question. imaginary times 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 jeremy corbin as a soviet agent we investigated new films portrayal of the vix is

a power shared by government mainstream media and the police and the boss of one of britain's fastest growing workers says he wants a provision in britain for young families collapsing buses today marks fifty two years since the for the blind to be a politician two zero one spacecraft we speak to the first british astronauts in space elon shah all of them all coming up in today's going underground but first one 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 checkers look back 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. 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 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 can.