kicks off the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics to see a pictures of the olympic stadium n.p.r. 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 thei

officially kicks off the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics pictures of the olympic stadium n.p.r. 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.

norway's heels made twenty one year old dennis speed solve who's already won a bronze and a silver n.p.r. 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

it was a night for the history books as the twenty eighteen winter olympics kicked off n.p.r. 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

two thousand and eighteen winter olympics are about to see pictures here of the olympic stadium n.p.r. 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.

and far and small will have all the latest from the winter olympics n.p.r. chuang as canadian ice dancers tatham virtue and scott moir when there is fact a gold medal at the games. but a record setting. more than seventy five people have been killed on tuesday in the syrian rebel held on klav of eastern ghouta in some of the heaviest fighting there in years hundreds of others have been injured in the intense bombardment by russia and the syrian government that brings the death toll to more than one hundred eighty people since sunday local observers believe the attacks are the beginning of a major offensive on the area on the outskirts of the capital damascus the united nations wants an end to the targeting of civilians it says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control according to the union of medical care and relief the bombings have destroyed five medical facilities nearly four hundred thousand people remain trapped in eastern guta which has been under siege since twenty thirty al-jazeera saying the harder reports now from beirut. panic in the street

was all about one person today ok another star has burst onto the scene at the winter olympics n.p.r. chuang snowboarding prodigy chloe cam winning gold in the women's how this seventeen year old american successful as the slopes out went on sunday for teammate and fellow it team right gerard the young snowboarder had been a big hit in pyung china even before this performance tutor having south korean parents i think you know having my family to be there through the whole process was so helpful and i've surrounded myself with such amazing people that they definitely made it much easier for me but yeah i mean i feel like i got to represent both the u.s. and korea today and i'm very honored to have been able to do that ok so kim's performance broke the internet people on social media dubbing her the greatest of all time she had fifteen thousand twitter followers before her first run by the time she'd won gold she'd gone past one hundred thousand cameras twitting about something very relatable to people while also attempting to win olympic gold first came this. i wish i finished my breakfast sa