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

spectacular closing ceremony but the drama continued right to the very end of the games on the final day n.p.n. chang russia's ice hockey team softer me for three and then nail biting final that win gives a limpid 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 it was an embarrassing hoax. with the top stories from the past seven days and the right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. welcome to the program militants in the 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 our war correspondent where augustus was here in the studio earlier with the details. russian reconsideration 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

headlines here it began with the team's first gold medal n.p.n. chang and that was in figure skating fifteen year old alina as the gates of got the edge over her teammate eve gagne amid video in the final standings after their points from the short and free skate programs were combined the two actually tied in the free skate a rare occurrence but of a performed better in her short program on wednesday this is also as each of us a little big debut as her trading partner and close friend and another moment that was really precious to watch as well was the reaction back home in russia's countryside from alina's each of us first coach her family and other young figure skaters from the same school. material that. i was watching skating performances out of the corner of my eye when ilene appeared on the ice rink i stopped watching i don't watch a skating life i knew recordings of performances i watched alina's performance later and then meant the end of august because i still couldn't believe it only began to sink in when i saw the results well this triumph i

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 medal as 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 the germany didn't get to the final for no reason it's great that we won that we levelled 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 when 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. 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 dis

one chris told me about instead of some of the nasty things that unfortunately were happening n.p.n. chang but once again chris master silver medalist in p.r. in chiang illusion thank you for that conversation rory back to you hopefully we'll hear less about the scandals during the rest of the winter olympics in young chang south korea where it looks like you guys having a great time there with the ongoing sports chris masters congratulations on your latest. thank you both so let's give you some of the medal information here for a limit kathleen's from russia it is another day and another medal hours ago the team won another silver skeleton athlete and the key to google to google for coming in second in that race beating athletes from the u.k. and latvia his silver is the sixth medal for the olympic athletes from russia team . now the winter olympics on the only major sporting event you might want to follow this year with the football world cup now just months away on t.v. host a stan collymore looks into the history of one legendary football club that despite his massive influence on the

spectacular closing ceremony but the drama continued right to the very end of the games on the final day n.p.n. changrussia's ice hockey team saw germany for three and then nail biting final that win gives a lump athletes from russia a total of seventeen medals in south korea. and in the stories that shapes the week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was an embarrassing hoax.

headlines here it began with the team's first gold medal n.p.n. chang and that was in figure skating fifteen year old alina as the gates of got the edge over her teammate eve gagne amid video in the final standings after their points from the short and free skate programs were combined the two actually tied in the free skate a rare occurrence but to get of a performed better in her short program on wednesday this is also as each of us a little big. as her trading partner and close friend and another moment that was really precious to watch as well was the reaction back home in russia's countryside from alina's each of us first coach her family and other young figure skaters from the same school. and while i was watching the skating performances out of the corner of my eye when ilene appeared on the ice rink i stopped watching and then watched a skating life i knew recordings of performances i watched alina's performance later and then meant the end of august because i still couldn't believe it only began to sink in when i saw the results well this trium

third winter gangs a correspondent in a trying times has more from the event the alem pick stadium n.p.n. chang is flashing lights i've heard it roar a few times the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games twenty saying oh the korean these guys definitely know out of put up a show and done the audience just take the famous rapper psi who wants to rock the world with his band of god but to this opening ceremony special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team was marching under the same flag then the oh a our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching without their flags and this is the first time we don't see the washing out and a little bit of opening ceremony since one thousand nine hundred two back then the athletes from the former soviet republic march under the i.o.c. flag after the collapse of the soviet union also at today's ceremony the american team consisting of exactly two hundred forty two athletes the biggest national girl again in the history of the winter olympics i can tell you that most people don't have that seein

via lympics stadium n.p.n. changis flashing lights i've heard it roar a few times it is happening at the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games twenty saying but to this opening ceremony is special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team was marching under the same flag then the oh a our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching without their flags and this is the first time we don't see them wash and black out and a little bit opening ceremony in the one nine hundred ninety two back then the athletes from the former soviet republics are marching under the i.o.c. flag after the collapse of the soviet union i can tell you that most people don't have that feeling around me or three or four perhaps the only reason why they're a little bit disappointed is that they're not inside that arena but believe it or not on just meters away from where i'm standing right now locals are protesting instead of watching the opening ceremony of the olympics being glued t

twenty games and if i can report to south korea the n.p.n. changis flashing lights i've heard it roar a few times it is happening at the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games twenty saying oh the korean these guys definitely know out of put up a show and done the audience just take the famous rapper psi who wants to rock the world with his hand of god but to this opening ceremony is special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team was marching under the same flag then the zero eight our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching with out their flags and this is the first time we don't see them wash and black out and a little bit opening ceremony since one thousand nine hundred two back then the athletes from the former soviet republic march under the i.o.c. flag after the collapse of the soviet union also at today's ceremony the american team consisting of exactly two hundred forty two athletes the biggest national goal again in the history of the winter olympics i can tell you that

headlines here and began with the team's first gold medal n.p.n. chang and that was in figure skating fifteen year old alina is a gates of a got the edge over her teammate eve gagne amid video in the final standings after their points from the short and free skate programs were combined the two actually tied in the free skate a rare occurrence but of a performed better in her short program on wednesday this is also as each of us a limping debbie is her training partner and close friend and another moment that was really precious to watch as well was the reaction back home in russia's countryside from alina's each of us first coach her family and other young figure skaters from the same school.

one chris told me about instead of some of the nasty things that unfortunately were happening n.p.n. chang but once again chris master silver medalist.

headlines here it began with the team's first gold medal n.p.n. chang and that was in figure skating fifteen year old alina as the gates of got the edge over her teammate eve gave him a video in the final standings after their points from the short and free skate programs were combined the two actually tied in the free skate a rare occurrence but of a performed better in her short program on wednesday this is also as each of us a little big. as her trading partner and close friend and another moment that was really precious to watch as well was the reaction back home in russia's countryside from alina's each of us first coach her family and other young figure skaters from the same school. material that. i was watching skating performances out of the corner of my eye when ilene appeared on the ice rink i stopped watching i don't watch a skating life i knew recordings of performances i watched alina's performance later and then meant the end of it because i still couldn't believe it only began to sink in when i saw the results well this triumph in figure

think seventy of the fifty said winter games and yet the trying to report from south korea the n.p.n. chang is flashing lights i've heard it roar few times it is happening at the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games twenty saying oh the korean these guys definitely know out of put up a show and done the audience just take the famous rapper psi who wants to rock the world with his hand of god but to this opening ceremony is special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team marching under the same flag then the oh a our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching without their flags and this is the first time we don't see them wash and black out and a little bit opening ceremony in the one nine hundred ninety two back then the athletes from the former soviet republic march under the i.o.c. flag after the collapse of the soviet union also at today's ceremony the american team consisting of exactly two hundred forty two athletes the biggest national gorilla gays in the history of the winter olympics i can tell you that most people