two thousand and eighteen winter olympics you're seeing pictures here of the olympic stadium and kyung chang with the opening ceremony like the night but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition. this olympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north's ruling dynasty kim jong un sister what is behind her diplomatic dance across the border. a race against time after beers are falling hard for the slopes of the all time mountains in northwest china are off the beaten track and tourists are now flocking to the land worst skiing may have begun. i'm swimming so what's going to good to have you with us the opening ceremony of the twenty third winter olympics has started in south korea fireworks went off over kyung chang as the gala event began nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries will be entering the sold out stadium over the coming hours of the games have had to overcome multiple hurdles ahead of winter sports most prestigious event the i.o.c. and the athletes will be looking to put

one way to convince the skeptics could be a limpy glory korea kicks out there kyung chang campaign against switzerland on february tenth. also football news now and on saturday shaka were hungry to reclaim second spot in one does need a table on the back of a solid record now i guess for a man on the other hand will win this in five games heading into a clash so could shaka keep up their forward claim in spring surprise. two coaches fighting at opposite ends of the table florian k. phelps braman eventually won three times in the league this season than i was david's halley at this stage when you're struggling to catch a victory the least you can hope for is your keeper to catch the ball unfortunately for graeme and you haven't counted priyanka short squirms through the grasp of usually pad lenka. i the stuff of nightmares but paddling to partly it's hoping for his error early in the second half that save keeping the visitors in the game which were to connect favre during a calamitous two minute style fish first met in a star's it's got a second yellow for that cynical talk show host down t

well canada has won gold in the team figure skating on day three of the winter olympics and kyung chang four years after a disappointing second place in sochi the ice dancing superstars scott moore and tess of virtue won their three dance event to give canada the win this after patrick chan had excelled in the men's free skate to give the team a comfortable lead over the olympic athletes from russia and the united states who finished second and third respectively. these allegations are standing really quite severe you have to imagine that after the devastating earthquake in haiti for people as it is alleged for aid workers to go in and in the village that was rented for them by oxfam employed prostitutes and the other. asians are under age prostitutes you know that is something that's quite severe and as it's being discussed it was known that some of these workers were already investigated internally there were already allegations that they had misbehaved in a similar way in bad and the allegations as it stands is that the information was not fully disclosed for example not to the haiti

two thousand and eighteen winter olympics you're seeing pictures here of the olympic stadium and kyung chang with the opening ceremony lights up tonight but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition. meanwhile this olympics brings the first ever visit to south.

american snowboarder chloe cam wins gold in the women's half pipe will have that and more from kyung chang later. our top story israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will continue to lead the country despite the police recommending that he is indicted for corruption and bribery it's alleged netanyahu and his wife received illicit gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer are a force that is following the story joins us now from west jerusalem and so we have here the official recommendation from the police that nessun yahoo be indicted on these charges what happens next terry. well what happens next is a few things the playing out of this politically how the israeli electorate will react how benjamin and no zone coalition partners were react perhaps most crucially how the attorney general will react it's up to him now to take account of these recommendations and decide whether or not to indict israel sitting prime minister it all centers around two cases case one thousand in which netanyahu is accused of taking the

get lifetime bans but despite never being caught for teaching they heard that they can't come to kyung chang and it's the careers in the olympic dreams of these two groups that a swiss law firm is trying to save behind this wall according to this these swiss lawyers story the grounds for the lawsuits are the nontransparent nature of the criteria and also the unlawful nature of the verdict that was given by the international olympic committee but most importantly the discrimination on basis of citizenship and remember that some of the people whose fate is being defended right here are reigning a limbic champions. the limping movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an example a nation i've never given a reason to doubt my honesty and my integrity. the games in korea were to be the first in my career together with my bottom we've been working towards a person because for me beavers and it was my cheering group. i was shocked lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire experience greg i've given no reasons to d

to be positive that will be a real disappointment for many people i can tell you that here and kyung chang the crowds have literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial need ski and in this this year brazil are husband and wife they won the country its first ever olympic medal and 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 and honestly alexander scase if he had made the same mistake or had taken the drug on purpose that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and peeing chang crucially is he 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 owais are have secured some bron

here except for the skating rink my room in the canteen i haven't seen anything else and kyung chang was very busy with training. the other week i was at first of course frustrated we simply did not know how to behave because it was the first time in our careers that we for to subpoenaed under the neutral flying objects nevertheless we tried our best not to give it too much attention as we had to prepare to focus on our tasks at hand the most important thing for me was to qualify for the games and when under what flag it doesn't matter. the large crowds greeting the athletes in the pool created the perfect moment for two men to put the question to the olympic medalists girlfriend. with the olympics now over we had the chance to speak exclusively with fifteen year old figure skating gold medalist the lead is the gates of about her world record achievement tonight. before competition i fully distance myself from the outside world 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

officially kicks off the twenty eighteen winter olympic fireworks light up the sky over host city kyung chang as well most three thousand athletes get in on the party there in south korea for two weeks of intense competition. and this olympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north swilling dynasty kim jong un sister what's behind her diplomatic trip across the border. unloved dan.

look at these pictures here a david gleiser received a hero's welcome at the austrian house and kyung chang she had just become the first austrian to win gold in the luzhin fifty years upsetting the german favorite felix luck in the process and blusher wasn't the only medalist celebrating the party was so good he was joined by canada's snowboarder mark mcmorris who leave the austrian house is the place to be. a millions of dressed up revelers have taken to the streets across germany to celebrate the country's biggest costume party carnival the western city of cologne is particularly famous for its flamboyant carnival perceptions and those taking part today are set to throw hundreds of thousands of bunches of flowers and chocolate bars to the crowd the festivities are also traditionally a chance to make fun of those in power of many of the floats feature of huge on slaughtering puppets of politicians and businessmen. a reminder now of our top stories that we're following for you at this hour german chancellor angela merkel has vowed to serve out another full four year term this despite being

it except for the skating rink and my own room in the canteen i haven't seen anything else and kyung chang was very busy with training games i was at first of course frustrated we simply did not know how to behave because it was the first time in our careers that we for to subpoenaed under the neutral fly to watch it it's never the last we tried our best not to give it too much attention we had to prepare to focus on our tasks at hand you know the most important thing for me was to qualify for the games and win under what flag it doesn't matter. i'll be back with headlines in just over thirty minutes see you. there. russia's been reaching out for decades for years down under putin saying look we've got to trade more this more trade and america is like well no you're an existential crisis because we have to give these deadbeats in congress a lot more money if you're going to create a fake enemy called who they're with demand three hundred million dollars meanwhile you go to trade with china and the east and create the news so grow to become much for join a five foot six thousand dollar gobb

curling medalist with doping christian it's one bronze with his wife and mixed doubles curling at the kyung chang winter games he said to have tested positive for the banned substance mel donia the russian curling federation president says it's possible rival russian athletes or political enemies spiked christian yet skis food or drink as a composite test could prevent all russian athletes from marching under their national flag at the closing ceremony. doping testing in sanctioning the olympic winter games punching twenty eighteen is independent from the i.o.c. therefore the i.o.c. cannot communicate on individual cases while the procedure is ongoing on the one hand it is extremely disappointing when prohibited substances may have been used but on the other hand it shows the effectiveness of the anti-doping system at the games which protects the rights of all the clean athletes police in south australia have revealed the biggest seizure of the drug methamphetamine in the state's history the three hundred thirty kilograms of drugs have a street value of more than two hundred million dollars they

with doping alexander crucial need ski won bronze with his wife in mixed doubles curling at the kyung chang winter games he said it is a positive for the banned substance male dhoni i'm the russian curling federation president says it is possible rival russian athletes or political enemies sparked crucial yet skis food or drink a second positive test could prevent all russian athletes from marching under the national flag at the closing ceremony. doping testing in sanctioning the olympic winter games pinching twenty eighteen is independent from the i.o.c. therefore the i.o.c. cannot communicate on individual cases while the procedure is ongoing on the one hand it is extremely disappointing when prohibited substances may have been used but on the other hand it shows the effectiveness of the anti doping system at the games which protects the rights of all the clean athletes the british film and television or bafta awards in london of wrapped up with two films winning top accolades three billboards outside ebbing missouri and the fantasy film the shape of water but it wasn't just movies in the

thrashed by switzerland it was seen as being about a lot more than sport we welling's reports from kyung chang. author of the political and historic march on the ice a unified korea from our at least via women's ice hockey a remarkable event watched by south korean president. alongside kim jong sr of north korean leader kim jong il. some south koreans particularly younger generations were critical of this sudden union between north and south preceded by the nation's providing together at friday's opening ceremony said it would harm the host nation's medal hopes but all those including those lucky enough to have tickets welcome the step towards peace however temporary it proves. it was a good idea to form the united team i'm very much looking forward to this guy and the feeling that our nation becomes one and you know. i think the united team is beneficial as a part of improving the relations between the koreas and lets me. win or lose a meaningful event i'm so glad to see this game. the korean team took to the ice in white jerseys with a unified flag two hundred twenty nine north korean cheerl

for the kyung chang action with. merriam it is been a busy day of action at the winter olympics with the nine medal events taking place in chang it included a historic gold for japanese figure skater zero can you pay to stem it has. an encoder injury prevented using two hundred you from competing for three months in the build up to these games but after anna lim big recalled school in friday's short program he produced another stunning performance in the free skate to win gold he's the first male figure skater in sixty six years to defeat and then pick title at the sliding center great britain's lizzy yarnold became the first skeleton athlete to win back to back a limbic rounds while poland's camel starch also retained he ski jumping large field title to win his country's first medal in pealing chang but there was disappointment for american skiing stallman's a bomb became just six in the super g. . the surprise winner was yesterday decker who is also said to compete in snowboarding. in the women's slopestyle finals s

i'm far is small with all the sport as high winds again cause havoc at the winter olympics and kyung chang some riders complain the slopestyle final was a lottery due to the condition. low pressure has been mounting for jacob zuma to stand down as south africa's president for the past nine hours his party they and c has been meeting to discuss his fate a formal gathering which has been dubbed as hashtags exit on social media is a final attempt to pressure zuma into resigning a.n.c. president still post ramped up the pressure on sunday saying the issue is causing disunity and discord is facing a number of allegations of corruption but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year for me to mila has more from johannesburg. the agency's national executive committee the top decision making body has been meeting for hours it's expected to recall president jacob zuma from his position the president would then need to resign but all indications are the smain not happen zuma has resisted calls to step down for months including the last few days where we understand that the president of

much a second russian athlete has tested positive to a banned substance at the winter olympics and kyung chang development took the gloss off the country's first gold medal of the games in his home and reports. day fourteen of competition started in a victorious manner for the olympic athletes from russia fifteen year old elena zagat tarver put them on top of the podium for the first time in pyongyang after a victory in the women's single figure skating. i was. the celebration was short lived with russian tame officials announcing their bobsled competitor in a dish just agave had tested positive to a bad hard drug she'd finished twelfth in the two woman event on thursday russian cola alexander crucial lidsky was stripped of a bronze medal after a positive test at fuels critics of russia's participation in pyongyang chang one hundred sixty eight athletes were allowed to compete as neutrals without tame uniforms or flags after accusations of state sponsored diving i the action continued away from the storm on friday and the netherlands collected their eight gold medal of the games in speedskatin

all the time for the sport as far as here there and thank you so much with the olympics and kyung chang now over the focus has turned to the house and the next winter games beijing in two thousand and twenty two will become the first city to host both the summer and winter olympics china though is still trying to get its population into winter sports brown reports from chong li in northeast china china is a nation of production lines and here's another novice skiers children mostly going through their paces on slopes partially covered in artificial snow the ski run is in the chong lead to strict with some of the events in two thousand and twenty two will take place to begin is include funk show high whose father brought her here from their home eight hours drive away. i really like skiing i enjoy the fast speed when i go dallas slope it's so exciting and so much fun that phone will cost her father almost eight hundred dollars for two days including accommodation but it's worth it he says. it can be expensive if you want you really good at it but for some short term fun it's affordable t

lifespans of twenty eight russian athletes is extremely disappointing thomas bach was speaking i'm kyung chang ahead of the winter olympics which start there on friday a decision on whether the athletes involved can now take part in the games will be taken this week the r.u.c. executive board. not satisfied is all with the approach or the bike us. we have discussed this situation at length. yesterday and today. we feel. this decision shows the urgent need. for reform. in the internal structural failure because a more optimistic story surrounding these games involves the combined north and south korean women's hockey team south korea have the stronger squad but at least three players from north korea will participate in each match in the olympics they played their first warm up game against sweden earlier finished we want to see. what we've been able to practice as a team for over a week so we've been and we're viewing all of our systems it's been great for our players as well. and the north korean players learn quickly they've been great to work with they work really hard so we've just been re

olympics which they hosted in such a russians are to watch their after its competitors neutrals in the kyung chang games which finished on sunday one hundred sixty eight of them competed as a limb pick up plates from russia winning seventeen medals amazing criticism that this was effectively russia only the flag and anthem was missing there were two more failed drug tests by russian athletes at the games for the i.o.c. said all their other tests came back negative. and you're still she wouldn't be reassuring yeah today's decision from the i.o.c. is incredibly important for us because the version of olympic committee has once again completely reinstated its rights and is now completely full fledged member of the olympic family it you remove those three months from december the fifth or last year with some of the most difficult in the history of russian sports on the olympic movement in russia so ruin your pocket it might not but unfortunately our relationship with the world anti-doping agency and i mean the complete reinstatement of the bush an anti-doping agency is not complete some serious work n