fireworks filled the sky over south korea's pianka the winter olympics kick off with a show of unity among south and north korean athletes but how long can the thought of last. and a german coalition already in crisis the social democrats former leader martin schultz withdraws from a post as foreign minister bowing to pressure from his party the announcement comes just days after he said he was stepping down as party head. it was a night for the history books as the twenty eighteen winter olympics kicked off n.p.r. chang 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 swilling 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

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

to the winter olympics in pianka chang now and germany has stunned canada to reach the men's ice hockey final in a thrilling match germany got off to a flying start against the defending champions taking a three now lead canada battled their way back into the game to make it four three with just minutes ago but germany held on for the historic win and will now play the russian team of this final it was stolen eight years ago but now a painting by nineteenth century impressionist edward degas has turned up once again on a bus experts saying that the course singers is the real thing it was stolen from a museum and more say in two thousand and nine customs officials discovered it during a random search of a boss at a highway service station no one on board claimed it and no one was arrested the painting is believed to be worth around one million euros. you're up to date now on deja vue news you can join us again at the top of the hour or you can check out our website and follow us on twitter either at the death of your views my handle is at sarah kelly t.v. thank you so much for watching c

finished over twenty four seconds ahead of the chasing pack well for more on the winter olympics in pianka chang make sure you check out our website at www dot com forward slash olympics get all the latest results the best pictures and stories right there you can also follow us on twitter at sports for live updates. now carnival celebrations are underway in many parts of the world including brazil where many people have had to cut back because of the country's economic pinch free addition nero's mayor has also been doing his part to save money and he's soured some revellers spirits by insisting that the celebration should not detract from everyday problems but for most people the party must go on. carnival is in full swing in rio with block parties bringing the streets to life. at city hall the rains were handed over to this year's carnival king who's in charge of keeping the party going. and the mayor and evangelical bishops spoke of carnivals virtues even though he has cut its funding and many of his powerful church opposed the extravaganza only excluded didn't bother to put up with this

korea president moon day in declared the twenty eighty winter games open her fireworks going off over pianka chang. nearly three thousand hits from ninety two countries and for the sold out saving him during the opening ceremony the kings have had to overcome multiple hurdles at a winter sports most prestigious event the i.o.c. and the athletes will be looking to put their troubles behind them and keep. off the olympics with a bang. all the court of arbitration for sport the c.i.s. has turned out an appeal by forty seven russian athletes and coaches to compete at the games the russians have been banned from taking part by the international olympic committee over state sponsored doping in sochi four years ago they argued that they had been wrongly accused excluded from those games but c.a.'s said that the i.o.c. his decision wasn't unfair or discriminatory. and the olympics is playing out under a political spotlight as well with hosts south korea using the games to call relations with the north that approach though did prove popular with everyone. demonstrators outside the olympic stadium gav

that it is dave's here with the winter olympics and pianka chan will have the latest action including seventeen year old graduate who argue that it will win in the men's slopestyle the first goal for the u.s. . plan . and sarah holland broken is a show it's good to have you with us. or russian passenger plane operated by summer tall the airline says crashed else live moscow sixty five passengers and six crew members were on board the plane when it went missing from radar after taking off when moscow airport the plane went down in a rule area near the city's outskirts all seventy one people on board feared to have been killed. let's cross now to our moscow correspondent emily sure when she's on the story for us emily what more can you tell us about this crash well there isn't that much information about the crash at the moment particularly was it when it comes to the causes it seems that the airplane crashed just after it took off out of the idea of the airport and it was on the way to the city of or disk which is on the sort of southern tip of the euro's it seems that the airplane did

kevin hello well time really does fly i can tell you i really can't believe it but it is the and pianka chang twenty seeing and we've already seen the nation's parade at the closing ceremony and i guess there was more to enjoy for the fans at the stands because it has gotten much warmer compared to february fifth when the olympic games were just opening but something that hasn't changed unfortunately for the russians is that the russian athletes couldn't carry their national flags and symbols at the closing ceremony there had been a glimmer of hope that they'd be allowed to do that but earlier on sunday the i.o.c. upheld the suspension of russia's national olympic committee and that's of course after the two zero a our athletes were caught with positive doping tests but it looks like the olympic officials may lift the ban later that is somewhat sometime in march because apparently the i.o.c. chair of said that the two doping cases appeared to be isolated. but these are cases off of negligence and there is no indication. so ever for a systemic or systematic. doping affair here. kevin you

purpose that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and pianka chang 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 a burst of energy burst of speed he could work hard because you're curling is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport and self he will be supremely stupid to be caught for you know he has said because this kid said that's his drink voidable spite or training camp richard. it does seem unlikely that

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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 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 in 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 they spent to supposed radio has done more he says it would have been very unwise of the kind to risk using meltdown him. if they take a burst of energy burst of speed he can work hard because you're courting is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport and self he was the supreme the stupid to be caught for don't you know he has said it was risky said that his drink might have in spite of training camp. to see him on like he got he took it how

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purpose that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and pianka chang i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you in your game things. i don't understand what it will do for you certainly the ski has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with it you have to be really careful with all the food you're taking and all the drinks are taking. we 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 knocked he open it drink it and as long as you keep an eye on the bottle that's fine if you just like turn around for a second bottle 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 ye

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one of the snowboarders at the event today even went as far as calling these these strong winds the pianka chang guts and if you can put up the video you can exactly see why because they have these winds have created major disruptions and challenges especially for the females in the snow snow slopestyle snowboarding final i mean just look at those winds dangerous creating a lot of dangerous conditions and there was not a single act in this event that did not one point and despite all these hurdles america if any champion jamie anderson she ended up defying all these natural and elements and winning gold but even she had trouble keeping her balance and she stumbled at one point as well but the reaction sumi haven't been kind at all a lot of the snowboarders after the event came out complaining saying that the final should have never taken place not an advanced conditions that this is not a good choice. for women's snowboarding and that they really disappointed that the organizers actually went through with it there are a few events have even been a postponed for a later time when the condit

for the russians remember two thousand and fourteen sochi games they lead the medal count during pianka chang they're not even in the top ten this is all part of the fallout from this doping scandal that was unearthed during the sochi games and what happened is is the international olympic committee reiterated its position today that the russian athletes who were allowed to compete in pyongyang will not be allowed to march under the russian flag the athletes who are here about one hundred sixty eight of them were carefully screened and they were allowed to compete but they had to compete as so-called neutrals they could not compete under the russian flag and two of their athletes martine failed drug tests there was a bobsledder and a courier that courier was forced to relinquish his bronze medal dozens of russian athletes have been banned for life from a limpet competition the russian olympic committee remains suspended all right for now natasha thank you very much natasha going to live in south korea. it's six months since hundreds of thousands of ranger fled a crackdown in mi amal's i

the sport often wins lots of new fans during the winter olympics and that's been no different in pianka ivanka trump the daughter of u.s. president donald trump cheered on her country to gold over sweden but the team of also attracted another unlikely supporter. it was not a whole year robust special guy back in the states mr t. is here. oh yes on the find that of the usa culling same with mr tate the famous for the one thousand nine hundred eighty the series the a team has shown a lot of love for curling throughout the games online becoming a kind of unofficial ambassador for the u.s. or team shuster is that known here or just a couple of mr t.'s tweets he said i predict pain to sweden and victory for the usa yeah that's right but what i'm talking about where and it's a winner for of course he was also one of the first people to congratulate team shuster on twitter saying i'm so proud of you as always get in touch with us using the hashtag a.j. news go to a tweet me directly a time tatiana that's all this bill for now i'll be back later housing is back to you thanks very much a touch a

fireworks filled the sky over south korea's pianka the winter olympics kick off with a show of unity among south and north korean athletes but how long can the fault last. and a german coalition already in crisis the social democrats former leader martin schultz withdraws from a post as foreign minister bowing to pressure from his party the announcement comes just days after he said he was stepping down as party head.