chuang where the opening ceremony is getting underway but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition also coming up politics at play this olympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north sea the ruling that dynasty can draw on sister what is behind her diplomatic democrats the border. and a race against time after the earthquake in taiwan rescue crews try to locate a family trapped under this hotel that aftershocks make it dangerous work. i'm so new so much going to good to have you with us the opening ceremony of the twenty third winter olympics are about to start in a pyong chuang south korea and we have some live pictures here of that stadium nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries will be entering this sold out stadium over the coming hours of the games have had to overcome multiple hurdles ahead of this huge gala event the i.o.c. and the athletes will be looking to put all their troubles behind them and kick off the olympics with a bang. and we have more in the story wi

controversy at south korea's winter olympics each of the three thousand athletes attending their playoff chuang games is expected to receive a free smartphone by sponsor samsung but it was unclear whether iran and north korea would be excluded because of a un sanctions after complaints by iran the i.o.c. apologized saying athletes from both countries would receive the device. all of your business news if you want more check us out on the social media until next time from the business team in. the book. with the different languages we fight for different things that's fine let me all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom the press. giving freedom. global news that. made. tons of. stories. above. the emotion below. the bow of. the sea. and. created. an instrument of propaganda and persecution. under bankruptcy and restructuring. but it's still turning out films today. from germany's biggest and oldest film company. a cinematic history from the german empire to the present one hundred years so far starting january eighteenth.

currently on the big sporting event i'm talking of course about the winter olympics in pyongyang chuang south korea the first athletes have begun to arrive and one record has already been broken with ninety two nations competing about small.

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olympic spirit is at beaver pitch in south korea the chuang winter games just one week away now and athletes are getting in some final practice sessions on the slopes before competition starts in a few days fans will be able to tune in as early as wednesday some of us take on before friday's opening ceremonies olympic state. there's more courtroom drama in the sentencing hearings for describes to us have now asked x. dr larry nasser a father whose three daughters were abused by nasser long across the courtroom and what looked like a bid to attack a former doctor nasser's been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for decades of sexual abuse a judge has said the father won't face charges for his attempted attack and more than willing to let you say something but you know courtroom we we try to we don't use for affinity but if this is true it's father faces the man who pays two three daughters is over that is due to those covered this story. to grant me five minutes but a lot of those are going to be but. i haven't yet knew that they were nervous chuckles initially no sooner accused you to

course head on lead a guy has won world snowboard gold twice but after her final run down the chuang course she found herself winning skiing gold one one hundredth of a second ahead of defending champion and of eight austria american skiing icon lindsey vonn seemed in line to challenge until a massive error at the bottom left her tired first sixth place. japan's using rouhani has become the first men's figure skater to defend his a lympics singles title in sixty six years high news record setting short program made him the favorite going into the long program the twenty three year old led a one two japanese finish as compatriot took silver well it's day three of berlin's international film festival the berlin allah nine hundred films are going head to head for the coveted golden bear unless nine to there was a lot of buzz surrounding the new film starring robert pattinson damsel is a new take on an old classic the western our correspondent charlotte chelsea pill went to check it out. wherever robert pattinson goes so did his army of that myra's hundreds of screaming fans braved the c

chuang where the opening ceremony is getting underway but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition also coming up politics at play the.

chuang twenty thing as well while seventy are medals and pm chang is only minus twelve he compared to twenty nine team russian medals and tsotsi it stop a mind blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given all the circumstances of said and given that most russian stars were not even invited it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but i'll tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here and young chang that is of course the first gold medal that was won by the men's hockey team and twenty six years the final was tough neck and neck till the last second against the surprise silver medalists germany the red machine only made it clear who's boss on ice in the extra time but the oh you are actually won a total of two gold medals and the first one was no less special it was in figure skating i can tell you that two russian teenage girls topped the podium after setting two world records in a row within just fifteen minutes but of course there was only one gold medal and you can share that and the jury decided that it was alina is the gift of a fifteen year old girl

athletes are being given and those that have been afforded to north american athletes with appearing chuang olympics looming only one hundred sixty nine russians will be invited to compete out of almost five hundred initially put on the list russian president vladimir putin has apologized to the athletes saying the country failed to protect them. you know better than anyone else you know how hard it is to clean victories and how much it is that you need and it's two times harder with your supporters mixed with events unfamiliar to sport politics we apologize for not managing to protect you from that our team spoke exclusively to a number of russian athletes who heard from the president. so you're going to there's a certain amount of pressure on all of us of course it's quite a complicated situation i really want to do my best one to overcome my anxiety and distance myself from all the sturdy media is causing around us now i want to address our fans i want them to be more kind and to keep supporting us no matter what i need to forget about our desire to win forget that everyone is against us

way into the stadium as artie's explains no russian flags at the opening ceremony nation's parade chuang the i.o.c. set some very strict rules and promised no excuses for anyone who'd violate them so who would have thought the russian tricolor would still make it into the ceremony all thanks to a blogger by korean t.v. just as team france were walking into the arena a russian flag i can dump well while the zero eight our team were carrying the white a live big flag many russian flags flashed around the arena at the stands but it turned out that not only russians brought them there we spoke to one american fan who grabbed one too and i thought it would be nice to you know show a bit of support for them because they've basically worked for years for this moment to represent their countries and now they can't and so i was kind of trying to sort of you know help them feel at home i was trying to sort of send a message that they should be included because the olympics is for all countries i don't exactly know the particulars of the doping thing i don't know what the right decision is really i

south korean flags as well are protesting against the invitation of the north korean team to the chuang a lympics. though it looks like these are for trying to use the opening ceremony to deliver their message we have two countries. north korea we didn't make we are not you guys are. through the regime. the already in kenya. trying right. now at the very same time on the other side of the street there is a rival protest it's a much smaller one but the slogans there are completely different it says against war for peace young to go home so these people it looks like they're in favor of the steps that the governments of north and south korea have made to make sure that something is happening between the two countries during the winter olympics and young chang the number of police officers is growing so is the number of protesters these people are definitely going to stay here during the opening ceremonies so this is going to be the background of the opening of young chang twenty eight. conflicts over the korean peninsula is casting a shadow over the games and it's not only activists cashi

purpose that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and pianka chuang me doing it in a cue to induce the killers don't the. we don't need to be faster higher stronger this is what we do but how to explain what they have found in x. on this blunt he's an absolutely honest athlete and a great guy and no one including the athlete in so understands crucially that ski has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with in any case the international olympic committee have promised to launch a special probe but that will happen after the olympics are over in the meantime the olympic athletes from russia are getting on with their quest for medals and despite all the pressure despite some of the main stars missing out the zero eight are have secured some bronze and silver and the cross-country skiing squad who were teenagers just a year or two ago are doing particularly well with five medals so far no gold though. we got reaction to the incident from moscow based sports radio host alan moore if they take in a burst of energy burst of spee

chuang again that's despite his vastly more experienced team leaders sitting it out saw cheel a big champion aleksandr left off who spotted by the i.o.c. was ruled illegal in court two times world champion surrogate was still go who has never been involved in any doping scandals but still got sidelined by the i.o.c. and others but an immensely weakened russian squad is on the podiums no matter what thanks to athletes who were just teenagers are a year or two ago. dedicated himself completely to the sport how is it possible not to support such passion and the effort and of course the athletes feel our support . i feel proud for splits off everyone was talking about last year gough invalid john and we see this young guy winning bronze here this was a great surprise for me the performance against all the odds wouldn't have been possible without. a former olympic champion now in charge of the washing cross-country skiing federation she wasn't allowed to come to korea as an official or a coach so yes here at all the races as a stand crying tears she was the one who raised the new generation of ol

coach they are from one country but of course they only have one gold medal to compete for at piano chuang twenty thing. new this hour in bahrain a prominent human rights activist in the bill rajab has been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the gulf kingdom's role in the war in yemen on twitter he's already serving a two year sentence for previously having spoken out against the regime in bahrain . rose to prominence as an opposition leader during the mass pro-democracy protests that swept the country back in twenty eleven he's also the president of the bahrain center for human rights between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen he was imprisoned for organizing an authorised demonstrations in the two years he's currently serving one hundred down for publishing on disseminating rumors unfolds news apparently in connection with a number of t.v. interviews that he gave in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. jobs coast shake from some on the senior advisor of the bahrain center for human rights joins us now welcome to the program appreciate your time what are your thoughts on the s

korean flags as well are protesting against the invitation of the north korean team to the piano chuanga lympics. though it looks like the small mark trying to use the opening ceremony to deliver their message to country self. in north korea we didn't make. we are not you guys are in the room through the regime's. rule regime. trying. now at the very same time on the other side of the street there's a rival protest it's a much smaller one but the slogans there are completely different it says against war for peace young to go home so these people it looks like they're in favor of the steps that the governments of north and south korea have made to make sure that something is happening between the two countries during the winter olympics and young chang the number of police officers is growing so is the number of protesters these people are definitely going to stay here during the opening ceremonies so this is going to be the background of the opening of young chang twenty eight. well the conflict over the korean peninsula is costing a shadow over the games and it's not only and to miss

korean flags as well are protesting against the invitation of the north korean team to the piano chuang a lympics. though it looks like the samples are trying to get the opening ceremony to deliver their message we have two countries. north korea we didn't make we are not together in the group the regime's brutal rule read him. trying. to he's now at the very same time on the other side of the street there is a rival protest it's a much smaller one but the slogans there are completely different it says against war for peace young to go home so these people it looks like they're in favor of the steps that the governments of north and south korea have made to make sure that something is happening between the two countries during the winter olympics and young chang the number of police officers is growing so is the number of protesters these people are definitely going to stay here during the opening ceremonies so this is going to be the background of the opening of young chang twenty eight. well the conflict table the korean peninsula is constant a shadow over the games and it's not me an

quarterfinals of the winter olympics self to beating old rivals the usa for now any agenda join found chuang for the build up to the match. tonight's the night of the biggest event so far of the young tang twenty eight seeing it if you don't know what that is just yet in a second it will be written all over my face. seem usa versus team oh we are and are. well donald trump and vladimir putin watch this game yeah i think so what do you think donald trump will do if he sees a gold being scored by the o a r team read about it. because you asked. this girl she why you know what she's talking down guys will you hate russia tonight i love for sure i'm actually looking for and i'm not she coming making my first ever visit to russia for the world cup this summer while that is great even though the u.s. are not taking the not really taken to heart i want to russia the game is sold out and even though it's just a group stage match the talents online and outside the stadium are reselling tickets at exorbitant prices do you think came john supporting one of the sides in this one. if i had to take a gues

currently on the big sporting event i'm talking of course about the winter olympics in pyongyang chuang south korea the first athletes have begun to arrive and one record has already been broken with ninety two nations competing bouts more than ever before but the games are overshadowed by the problem of doping with the whole russian team banned and china has for many years also been suspected of being gauging in systematic doping but people have been reluctant to speak out fearing tough reprisals now those who are in jin once a leading a lympics sports doctor in china has been talking to our reporters the eighty year old has recently been granted refugee status here in germany but still she lives in fear of the chinese authorities. at the age of eighty g.e. engine has had to begin a whole new life. she fled to germany a few months ago together with her son young way dong and his wife. the move from china to the shores of lake constance has meant a huge change for her. but even here she lives in fear of the communist regime in beijing and yet she used to be part of that regime herself.

chuang the two koreas march together and south korea's president shared a historic handshake with kim jong un sr amid a spirit of unity in fact kim sr is the first member of the north's ruling dynasty to venture south since the korean war but is this rapid improvement in korean ties the beginning of a new era in relations or merely smoke and mirrors we will ask an expert in just a moment first this report. demonstrators outside the olympic stadium gave the north koreans a hostile reception they clashed with riot police and made their feelings towards the north known. we are here. making. you know you know. we are we want to hold our own. north korea's olympic delegation mocked and historic first it included kim jong the youngest sister of leader kim jong un she's the first member of north korea's ruling dentist to cross the border since the korean war south korean president well come to by extending the hunter friendship a sign of his high diplomatic ambitions for the games but not everyone was convinced that greeting the delegation with an open hand was the right approach and allow m

positive that will be a real disappointment for many people i can tell you that here and feeling chuang the crowds of literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial need ski and in this this year are husband and wife they won the country its first ever olympic medal in curling and to watch their family team work on ice was something inspiring the media went on about them for a few days in a row and they were even compared with mr and mrs smith but now alexander is suspected of taken me i'm the infamous drug that hadn't been banned until a couple of years ago once costs tennis star maria sharapova a year of her career after her team had forgotten to put it on the do not take drugs list and honestly alexander scase if he had made the same mistake or had taken the drug on purpose that would just be riddick. when the oh are under such a close watch here and pianka chang crucially it's he has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with it in case the international olympic committee have promised to launch a special probe but that will happen af

are at a north korean orchestra has arrived in south korea ahead of the chuang winter olympics one hundred forty performers disembarked from the ferry at the south korean port of move go on wednesday taking advantage of a rare sanctions exemption it's the first time in sixteen years that they are visiting the country they will perform in pyongyang on thursday as well as seoul on sunday while the two koreas will march under a unified flag at the opening of the games and also field a combined women's ice hockey team. all right before i let you go and remind you of our main headline right now germany's of biggest political parties have announced an agreement to form a coalition government just anglo-american called the deal her conservative struck with the social democrats a foundation for good government while social democrat leader martin schultz said the pact would bring fundamental change for both. her body and europe as parties rank and file still have to ratify the agreement extending the country's wait for a new government by another few weeks. all right thank you so much for watching

that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and peeling chuang i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you and your game going to things. i don't understand what it will do for you crucially it's he has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with it was presumed you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes of both will with any kind of banned substance that totally unprotected you just put it in a hotel room it's easy if you have to be really careful with all the food taking and. all the drinks to taking. it all know pretty well that if you can see the bottle and it's like locked then it can open it you can see it was locked he open it drink it and as long as you keep an eye on the bottle that's fine if you just like to turn around for a second bottle in any case the international olympic committee have promised to launch a special probe but that will happen after the olympics are over in the meantime the olympic athletes from russia are getting on with their quest for meda

the court of arbitration for sport said no to forty seven russian athletes and coaches just as the chuang winter games were getting underway perhaps the number one conclusion that came up on some people's mind was that presumption of innocence doesn't apply to the russian doping scandal well the cast secretary-general didn't literally say that the key law principle didn't work for cas but see for yourself how much it applied to the russians the fact that the unable to show the guilt of an athlete doesn't mean that the truth has nothing to do although with the case really in the sense this is a logical consequence and this is nothing bad about it mr reeve maintains that leaving the group of clean russian athletes on paper out of the winter olympics isn't a sanction also i found out that the refusal of the i.o.c. to get the dozens of russian athletes on board the olympics in some cases was a result of pure suspicion and other cases it was a result of some real evidence which however mr reeve hasn't seen after all he wasn't a member of the panel but the secretary general promised that this e

visit pyongyang and president moon is ready to accept if certain conditions are met any idea of the chuang of what these are conditions could be. well. president moon of south korea understands that his people would like to see the escalation of tension in the korean peninsula and negotiating with north korea is part of his election platform the conditions normally will be cessation of nuclear power and this south pass on the part of north korea and north korea in turn will demand a term in asian of large scale military exercises on the part of self career in the united states basically it is not. live what has been suggested by moscow and beijing two can be a factor atmosphere for concrete negotiations to proceed you talk about creating a better atmosphere for a concrete negotiations to proceed but i must ask you about the american standpoint because some international analysts are saying that america is isolating itself with its continued war rhetoric when we see a type of reproach more and between the two koreas i mean for a fact you know president moon is potentially poised to visit py

asia we talked about asia a little bit what's what's the big markets over there the hang seng the chuang high composite. you know how are those markets doing well china is always far more speculative than we are in fact somebody actually said to me once he said he was over in china and he said you know it's like an organized capitalism over there they're far more actually entrepreneurial and very speculative they've actually taken out of lot of loans don't forget they're buying on debt take out the stock market so they will have obviously great swings that europe will and what about the nikkei that japan the nikkei average about the same thing but not to the same extent of the chinese they don't but they're not as speculative as the chinese are that. take as much risk you know you know i talked to one of the headlines a investors are worried about some of the economic data coming out in peru in particular u.s. inflation data is coming out on wednesday yes and it's almost like there's a hair trigger that mentality that anything you worry could indicate more volatile markets is that just h

from our sports desk so matt i mean some pretty extravagant scenes that we saw there and not a piano chuang we also saw korean culture really on display there didn't we hear absolutely they showed the best of what korea has to offer which is not only things like you know traditional drums and dress in costume but they showed their technological prowess they showed as k. pop they showed us a little bit everything they had some kids next to a tiger i'm not exactly sure what that's supposed to mean they moved on to the procession of the athletes starting in korean alphabetical order starting with nigeria this is not julius first time at the games they have a female bobsled team and they're very proud of that but stealing the show as he did in rio de janeiro is the shirtless guy peta of tonga he was in the summer olympics as a taekwondo athlete and you can see he's a very athletic guy he's now there as a cross-country skier in the winter olympics the korean team were given a very warm welcome the joint north and south koreans who of course you know performing are you know entering the stadium w

well this is a scene live in the chuang where the closing ceremony for the winter olympics is now underwayin attendance the north korean cheerleaders you may remember them who captivated the world over the past few weeks a real hit edition a high level delegation of officials from north korea is also attending as you just heard and also there is ivanka trunk the champ the daughter of president trump who is leading the u.s. delegation so that's a scene live in the pier in china at the moment. china's ruling party is considering the removal of term limits for the president and the vice president the communist party wants to change the constitution so that chinese leaders can serve more than two consecutive terms the amendment would allow president xi jinping to be selected as leader again in twenty twenty three the party elected him as its head for a second term last october reading to refugees in bangladesh are living day to day six months on since the start of a brutal crackdown by the mia more military the un has condemned the atrocities calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing al

chuang with the opening ceremony lit up the night but not everyone in the mood to celebrate a final ruling party of dozens of russian athletes from the competition but also coming up this olympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north's luling dynasty kim jong wants to search what is behind her diplomatic in-depth across the border. the u.n. calls for an urgency east.

protest against the arrival of the north korean delegation for the closing ceremony of the pyongyang chuang the winter olympics plus. they killed my father killed my mother i feel ski it i don't want to go back to. the million mark tragedy we revisit your survivors who became the target of a brutal crackdown which began six months ago. and democrats in the us are finally allowed to release a memo rebutting the republican party's claim of f.b.i. bias against election campaign. welcome to al-jazeera first after days of heated negotiations the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a month long truce in syria it comes after a week of government led strikes on the rebel held eastern ghouta which. killed more than five hundred civilians the resolution calls for an immediate end to hostilities for thirty days is meant to allow a window for much needed aid to be let into besieged areas including east and guta it would also allow medical evacuations while in a moment we'll get the latest on the situation in eastern guta but first our diplomatic editor james bays has mo

have not been happy about the prospect of this parade being held one day before the opening of the chuang winter olympics they view it as a provocation especially at a time when overtures are being made for the two koreas to come together and rican sile are reconcile rather in any event in the last several days there has been imagery intelligence showing the mobilization of about thirteen thousand troops armored personnel carriers and tanks in preparation for this parade but what else what else is different this year is that no international media is allowed last year the international media was allowed to attend this year perhaps martine in an attempt to turn down the dial on some of the heat north korea has been taking for staging this military parade it is close to the international media north korea will be releasing images some analysts say it also allows them the opportunity to release doctored imagery apparently the north koreans have done that in the past but in any event this parade does come at a time when south koreans in general some are saying why they are happy about engagem

parades come shortly after north korean athletes arrived in the south ahead of the winter olympics chuang rescue crews in the earthquake struck city of quali and in taiwan are entering buildings that are on the brink of collapse as powerful aftershocks continue to hit the region. and those are the headlines the news continues. i. every evening here at the wall the border soldiers from india and pakistan put on a display of showmanship nationalism and hostility. seventy years ago the british drew a line on a map dividing their self asian empire into tunisia. it led to the biggest most violent migration in human history a million people. for survivors like joginder seen called forgiveness is the only way for everyone though you're very good about all. the little ones will move or go from here go through to. get out who would regard your would we go we would all maybe vulnerable. parts of our one of the river the good part one negative. or another going to look we're not going to. walk over we hear only. we're not heard a nigger me are going to go out of the room. but politicians on both sid

those athletes could now take part in the pyung chuang winter games which start next week bots they will have to be cleared to do so by the i.o.c. first the remaining eleven athletes however you know it will for the olympic games in south korea the sports court found they did commit to if he violates their lifetime bans had been revoked. across the stand out so they did commit the violations but they shouldn't be banned ok let's try and pick this with the double correspondent emily show in moscow and nick mckim klein from welcome both. let's start with the decision itself so this is a completely separate vote so i don't see over their. international course of the course of operation for sport over here so court of arbitration for sport has decided what they've decided that the athletes which the i.o.c. of band shouldn't have been banned there was enough evidence to ban them which came as quite a surprise when the news first broke but in hindsight it wasn't really that surprising because there's been precedents of this beforehand where where bans doping bans especially have been reduced a

day seven at the winter olympics in pyongyang chuang. dream of becoming the first skier to win four gold medals at a single games is over she finished fourth in her best event. ok let's get going in the last hour the u.s. and turkey have agreed to normalize relations after their talks in ankara the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been holding discussions with his turkish counterpart cover saw two times between the two countries have been strained over recent months particularly over u.s. support for kurdish fighters in syria but the turkish foreign minister says they've decided to tackle the issues together. our relations are going through a critical stage. we are i do going to. mend fences or. go in a different direction and we have come to an agreement to take joint steps together of course we need to take steps and yes of course both parties have expectations of each other. and we have expectations in relation to that to like it and the support given to the y p g by the united states and we have stated our expectations quite

from government leaders to people on the street there is optimism that the beyond chuang games will help rebuild the ties between the two koreas it's already being called the peace olympics natasha. come now south korea. well not everybody inquired yog is happy with north korea's conciliatory moves for the winter olympics protests broke out outside a venue where a north korean orchestra was performing demonstrators say the games are a propaganda tool for p.r. gag but they are or they were a relatively small group of the orchestra performers attracted a large crowd of south koreans. to europe now a protesters in the bulgarian capital saffir have rallied against a plan that could destroy some of europe's most important forests the bulgarian government which currently holds the presidency of the european union is supporting a scheme to turn the period national park it was a ski resort activists say those behind the development or offshore companies involved in tax avoidance lowered slee reports. european skiers enjoying the winter sunshine in the results of may or may not know they will une