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Germanys leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the countrys politics only to realize it was an embarrassing how. Sunday afternoon twenty fifth february here in moscow this is r. T. With me kevin zero in for the afternoon here in russia this part of it anyway ten in the evening those winter games in south korea that have literally just come to a close a sparkling close in the last few minutes rounded off with a stunning fireworks display as usual as youd expect on the traditional handover of course to the next winter Olympic Games and said to be held in the Chinese Capital beijing in twenty twenty two there are some pretty a pictures for you lets cross live over to south side the stadium for us. The games are these going to be remembered for the remedy for the russian athletes it was a great gold at the end of the last minute. Kevan hi again well time flies doesnt it right i can tell you that weve already seen the nations parade of the closing ceremony and honestly i cannot believe that the winter games yung chang twenty eight thing are over and it was much warmer then on february ninth quite literally with the fans who didnt have to freeze themselves that much at the closing ceremony but something that hasnt changed there was the fate of the russian asked aides who. Couldnt march with their National Colors day as there had been a glimmer of hope before that that theyd be allowed to take the russian flags with them but earlier on sunday the i. O. C. Decided not to lift the suspension of russias national and the committee that was after the two positive doping tests here in chiang mai to all we are athletes but then the International Olympic committee chief though said that the two cases appear to be isolated you saw caseys offer of negligence and there is no indication. So ever for a systemic or systematic. Doping affair here. The athletes those said and they have been claiming that these werent the results of some sort of action that they did on purpose it was a result of some sort of sabotage maybe or a mistake and they say that they never have taken these banned substances on purpose to improve their performance now back to the final day of p. R. Chang twenty ting if you ask i guess most of the russian athletes would they rather see Russian National flags at the closing ceremony or would they want to have their National Mens Ice Hockey Team win the first gold in twenty six years i guess most would still choose the second option and that is exactly what happened inside the canning ice arena the russians won four two three against germany it was really a gripping final and ill tell you what the olympic athlete sorry the olympic anthem was played instead of the russian anthem but guess what the winners and the fans were singing instead that is the Russian National anthem that was really something worth watching as the different music was playing but these people were clearly screaming Something Else Something Else out there this was o. E. Ours second gold at these games the first one was won by the fifteen year old figure skater alina and i can tell you what these winter games were really somewhat winter games of hope for the russians because some of the top experienced more older athletes had to sit out at home but still despite that the zero eight our team won as many as seventeen medals perhaps thats not the best performance ever but its still deserves a great deal of respect of the whole medals table. It was topped by norway with a spectacular performance that is fourteen gold fourteen silver and eleven bronze medals dont ever see considering the whole backdrop to this and wonder what sort of iran and other what you think about it its a lot of pressure to be working out of that it ever so well done and of course everyone bronze silver gold no matter what country well done guys taken part in the world is the next sort of suppose if an hour thanks. So as only a mention there sunday also marking the story it when then for the russian hockey players is the headline of the day who won gold beating germany in that gripping final the decisive goal scored in overtime making the final score four three. It was first time in twenty years the russian players had reached the final of a last won gold in the ice hockey way back in ninety two that was also under a neutral banner for a totally different reason the team didnt have its own flag at the time its just following the breakup of the soviet union and the prize giving in pyong chang back to now earlier the olympic anthem was played but the hockey team to fire lee sang a silly was saying the band russian anthem along with the jubilant fans as well supporters also where the russian flag at the match other National Symbols are visible in the stands too including again as illy was saying the Traditional Russian headdress and the iconic golden capital of born brothers rs. But. Well aside from the sporting events other news tell you bird to the Olympic Games become a platform for diplomacy during a meeting between north and south korea the north announced it was ready for talks with america it comes in the wake of more sanctions imposed by the u. S. On north korea we will be discussing that later in the Program Guests lined up for you give us their thoughts on it soon other news now the United Nations Security Council passed a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria is big news last evening its in response to a surge in violence in eastern guta which is occupied by both rebels and terrorists just outside the capital damascus is very close to it and that was part of the problem here the truce is Effective Immediately it set to last for thirty days its hoped it will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated from the conflict zones and for much needed aid to reach other stricken regions to a number of terror groups however such as Islamic State and the latest incarnation of all newsrooms are excluded from the agreement that was a big concern all along operate against them will continue khaled mopin has more on this un initiative. There has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leads the United Nations regarding the situation in eastern guta this is an enclave to the east of the syrian capital of damascus and its a place thats under the control of rebels and terrorists that are working to overthrow the Syrian Government twenty thirteen it has been surrounded by Government Forces and the fighting there has recently intensified and were hearing allegations against both sides about human life being taken about civilians being killed were hearing accusations from the syrian observatory for human rights which is based in the United Kingdom there saying that if syria with the support of russia is hurting civilians and committing atrocities against civilians weve also heard reports from the Russian Center for reconciliation in syria they are pointing out that the areas essentially being used to shell civilians in damascus furthermore theyre reporting that the terrorist groups in eastern guta are working actively to prevent the medical aid from getting to civilians and theyre using these civilians as human shields now after the unanimous vote we then heard from various countries we heard from nikki haley of the United States and she said she doesnt believe the Syrian Government will actually comply with the cease fire all of this on this council must do our part to press the assad regime as hard as we can to comply we are deeply skeptical that the regime will comply but we supported this resolution because we must demand nothing less nikki haley the representative of the United States walked out before the syrian representative could speak under u. N. Rules if the resolution pertains to you all countries have the right to address the Security Council we also heard from the representative of the Russian Federation now he addressed the Security Council and he emphasized that the fight against terrorism is not affected by this resolution that internationally delegated terrorist groups groups like al notes. I says that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution and that fight will continue he also had some concerns about how the fight against terrorism seem to be serving some other goals a. Game of battling terrorism cant become a cover for solving geo political problems of dubious legitimacy and that is exactly what the u. S. Is doing in syria right now we insist that the socalled coalition and its attempts at occupation as soon as possible it would have among other things a clear humanitarian effect now the resolution has been passed so this thirty day cease fire that was agreed on by all fifteen members the council is going to be implemented investigative journalist for extending believes the russian amendments to the ceasefire. Operations to continue unimpeded. But i think a kid didnt get the resolution was the inclusion. That the Syrian Government can continue the fight against al qaeda and isis in east and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the Syrian Government one good thing in the resolution is that it specifically affirms the fact that the territorial integrity of syria needs to be preserved of course this is very relevant because right now the United States illegally set up their bases and its occupying territory in Eastern Syria weve got to turkish soldiers even in Northern Syria so this is this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity its unclear though how the ceasefire will affect Northern Syria safran region which has become another flashpoint in the conflict course turkey has been carrying out a military offensive there against the Kurdish Militia fighters who beat claims are terrorists it seems its push to dislodge the Kurdish Peoples Protection units from that border area the Turkish Military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin on thursday night and chris says it was carrying fighters and weapons but the Kurdish Forces insist that the trucks were only carrying civilians food and medicine and they say one person was killed in that incident. Look at the two of them and youll play such. A lot of that. In the in the. Earlier in the week prosser in Government Forces arrived in an effort to try to repel the turkish offensive that came out of the kurds actually appealed for support to do that the developments in the region of put the u. S. Too in a difficult position is Jacqueline Vogel explains next. Two of americas Main Partners in the region are now at each others throats to put it mildly. And as the u. S. Tries to avoid taking sides in the conflict they seem to be losing on all fronts turkey a longtime ally looks to be getting increasingly impatient with washingtons inaction america has only dared to call for a reduction in civilian casualties in the fight prompting a vicious response from the turkish president. What disappoints us most in this process is the hypocrisy and even the levity of some countries which we consider allies and have deep political and military relations with turkey has had enough of lifes false promises and delaying tactics and on the other side we have the kurds who have been essential to the u. S. Led coalitions fight against eisel and the absence of support from their American Partners against the onslaught of Turkish Forces the kurds have been forced to look elsewhere and that has pushed them into accepting help from proGovernment Forces this week militias loyal to the Syrian Government flooded afrin to bolster the kurds. Which we have come to a kaddish brothers to fight together to protect our friend. We are the Popular Force we came so that we could help our kurdish brothers because we are one people. Now that surely ruffled feathers in washington when the syrian president comes only after i saw on their list of enemies the us has tried to shift focus to an issue that puts them back in the drivers seat battling eisel calling the situation in africa a distraction what is going on in of rain is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called it is sir. Not helpful to have people take their eye off the ball of isis weve talked about that numerous times before but in reality many in the region have already recognized that arsenal is all but defeated despite that the u. S. Led intervention which is in its third year has no end in sight but they may be left there with no one to call friend as they continue to alienate their allies. Reporting their thanks be with us today a lot more to come in a recap of the top stories of the last seven days germanys best selling tabloid published that fake embarrassing story about russian meddling in german politics none of it was true or fake news details after the break. The United States is going very deep in the mystic process challenge to american supremacy came not from the outside noise from russia not from china but from the inside or sides of this in court you see now on around russia and this cyber bullies eastern or russia. Is psychological or understandable at times to find somebody outside the United States who is responsible for the while the real problem is as. This is the weekly from Art International with me kevin oh into day around the brother stories of the last seven days a lot of them happening today as well as big headline i am today to tell you about the Winter Olympics in south korea the just wrapped up big story came out it appears to be one of continuing diplomacy between the careers and maybe even american north korea has said its ready for talks with the United States that is big news it was announced after the countrys officials met with south korean diplomats at the games in pyongyang there but not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation they were protesting to tell you that a south korean border town against that visit scuffles also broke out between some protesters and the place lets try to get a handle on where this is International Independent china especially underlings on the line andrew if youd have said what six months ago north korea was going to any time soon say it was ready for talks with the u. S. Or even the south korea because look at the rhetoric it was going backwards and forwards between the three of them is this is groundbreaking is it is it some kind of fake news ward is actually made. Well i think that means that the North Koreans have spent the last. Couple of couple of years developing some Credible Nuclear Deterrence against perceived threats to this with security for example you know sort of detonating some high powered possibly Hydrogen Bombs and developing Long Distance Delivery Systems so once its got this kind of insurance policy i think that its more comfortable in trying to create a kind of more benign environment so that economy to grow is region legitimacy can be strengthened and so i think thats the first point secondly you can see that both koreans are spending a lot of time in there but creating a more possible positive environment for the two sides sort of korea to talk to one another i think for the South Koreans they can see that using military coercion is going to cost the South Koreans Collateral Damage and theres this this is a no brainer so i think that the South Koreans are wising up to the fact that you the North Koreans are prepared to form some sort of a more relationship. There should grab it i mean weve heard for a long time that it was down to the nuclear thing as far as north korea was concerned they basically wanted to be shown respect they want to be part of the nuclear club but its still a pretty unhappy ally this isnt it between north and south korea its a its a kind of a forced friendship now and i look at it and then what about these u. S. Sanctions north koreas call these latest u. S. Sanctions the just been introduced an act of war so what are they going to talk about so lets talk about the north south where thats going to go and then go on to the u. S. Where thats going to go. Well the senate as far as the two peoples are concerned between the North Koreans and South Koreans i think there is a degree of a unity. But of course there is a degree of any more city as world amongst them certain sectors in south korea they regard that theres a regime as north of the carrion regime but they all are on the other hand they both belong to the same people the same culture the same language and a lot of relationship family ties so i think that theres a very very good basis for the two sides. But as far as the essentials are concerned of course the United States want to trump up the sanctions and use military coercion as is want i mean in solving international each shoes so on one side is up with the pushing that that tactic but its interesting to note that even though washington recently. That during the opening of the olympics there was some sort of a tent for the two sides to meet except that this meeting was cancelled what to North Koreans at the last minute but the fact that there was even the United States were contemplating some sort of a maybe even testing the waters is quite interesting so i think that in the closing ceremony i cannot rule out the possibility there could be some testing the waters behind the scenes where you never know what goes on behind the scenes but the face of it at least this is where things were a couple of weeks couple of months ago andrew thanks for now under chinas specialist independent International Channel specialist i was once your thank you for the world. So but the good news it was nice to see that. Another story were told about in the week amid misstates well tell you again germanys best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing a fake bombshell story on russian meddling in the countrys politics the reporting bill detailed how a mysterious russian agents and bought master called yuri supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic partys youth wing kevin kuhn it intending to sabotage a Coalition Deal of which was critical to his party and i glimmer cause conservatives is a snippet of the person posed exchange. Care of him im yuri id like to talk to you about supporting your no group who Campaign Thanks for your mail j. Already told me to expect a mail from you but just to be sure could you name me g. s favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh marty ginger oh dear yury perfect thats a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an Opinion Campaign with bazza gates schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted Facebook Advertising tab per game but the whole conversation was fabricated by the german satirical magazine titanic the editors behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online good for them when it it shows one of the magazines employees posing with the said transcript of the fake emails on the tabloids subsequent article in fact turn in cheek the price is also turned on the head of the history the youth wing as well dismissing the stories of clumsy fake the service but all of three hours concocting it and the editor of titanic says the hoax was all too easy to come up with as well. We at atlanta go over to rick a magazine we work with the same. Methods as a built so we knew how to think like and build editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the build tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky and like an aspiring movie and we had a good feeling that this would work when theres a story like that for built they dont care about details its only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed it was. Like a good movie i hope it will be made into a movie sometime probably well while the build newspapers retracted the story now whats more they had the s. P. D. s youth wing insists that had he really been made such an offer he would of course turned it down but of ami have to see in this book i dont know but this group but of course who would refuse any of these offers dont work with social bots i dont have the information even received and your fas in this area. The stories making headlines today demonstrators are holding rallies in a number of russian cities right now in memory of the politician Boris Nemtsov who was murdered in moscow in february twenty fifth he goes down i was at one of those moscow marches. Town four and a half thousand people have taken to the streets of moscow they have been marching through central moscow to commemorate the legacy of terrorism solve and to demand justice in the investigation into his killing now it is somewhat minus fifteen outside here and it is starting to somewhat snow but the freezing temperature hasnt prevented these people obviously from taking to the streets and making their plea now porous numbs of was a veteran of russian politics once part of the Government Back in the one nine hundred ninety s. He switched sides and joined the opposition when Vladimir Putin came to power he has always been a familiar face in the Anti Government circles but never at the helm of them really and the last years of his life he seemingly almost altogether fell out of the political spotlight now back in twenty fifteen he was strolling with his girlfriend when he was gunned down in a drive by assassination literally outside the kremlin walls now last year five people were given out sentences ranging from eleven to twenty years including the man who actually pulled the trigger on nam so that verdict left these people and members of his family unsatisfied because theyre saying that those who ordered the hit on numbers of are still walking free and so theyre saying theyre just should be brought to justice as well the investigation into that the investigation into who masterminded the hadnt done so is still ongoing at least one person is wanted in connection in a suspicion hes suspected of ordering the hit so this last chapter of this last page in the first number of criminal saga is has not been turned yet. 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