Take some time. But in other news the u. S. Secretary of state says washington is ready to hold talks with north korea without preconditions right to listen made the comments despite the u. S. President recently voicing an opposing view those were the headlines about with more news in thirty minutes next its the listening post. Witness documentaries that. At this time. That you know one of the president s. Speech will no i. Mean you have an. Idea and i think you look at. This point you know it was. A lower Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post here are some of the Media Developments were tracking this week the yemen story is back where it belongs in the headlines it took the assassination of the former president to get it there australia becomes the latest country where the government is taking a long look at google and facebook and what those Mega Companies are doing to the news industry spain and the political talk shows that are on the air in the daytime prime time just ab
Nights state of the union speech. Hes got low Approval Ratings generally but this went down well. Cbs showed 75 of viewers approved. 65 said it made them feel proud to be american. 35 said it made them feel safer. A majority of viewers also credited him with the current buoyant state of the economy. Right, lets hear some of this speech. First heres the president on trade. America has also finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals. They sacrificed our prosperity and chipped away at our companies, our jobs and prosperity and chipped away at our companies, ourjobs and our wealth. Our nation has lost its wealth, but we re our nation has lost its wealth, but were getting it back so fast. The era of economic surrender is totally over. From now on we expect trading relationships to be fair and, very importantly, reciprocal. Applause whenever there is a big american political moment, i turned to the bbc news website for anthony zurcher. He described a smoother trumpet the same h
With the top stories from the past seven days and the right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r. T. Welcome to the program militants in the eastern go to district of syria are indiscriminately shelling the capital damascus according to Russias Defense Ministry thats despite the United Nations voting on saturday to implement a cease fire our war correspondent where augustus was here in the studio earlier with the details. Russian reconsideration Center Monitoring center in syria says that over the last twenty four hours rebels in the east launched no less than thirty one shells into damascus and i know what that looks like every time weve stayed in the mosques every time weve been in damascus we have shells landing all over the capital all over the masks because its the last rebel stronghold in the vicinity of the capital the last stranglehold you know the residue revolutions because all of the on claves around the capital have been. Retaken by the Syrian Gover
Welcome to the weekly here on r t where we wrap up the top stories from the past week bringing you the latest developments as well thanks for tuning in. Militants in the eastern good district of syria are indiscriminately shelling the capital damascus according to Russias Defense Ministry thats despite the United Nations voting on saturday to implement a cease fire or war correspondent ron goes to have was here in the studio earlier with the details russian reconsider the Monitoring Center in syria says that over the last twenty four rebels in the east launched no less than thirty one shells into damascus and i knew what that looks like every time weve stayed in damascus every time weve been in damascus we shows. All over the capital damascus because it is the last rebel stronghold in the vicinity of the capital. Stranglehold you know lulu the resident revolutions because all other on plates around the capitol have been. Retaken by the Syrian Government nevertheless these these inciden
With international we have. The Winter Olympics in south korea wrapped up with norway coming out on top of the medals table the olympic athletes from russia or. The doping scandal having prevented Many Russians from competing though that did not stop the team. Takes a closer look at russias achievements in. Well seventy medals chang is only minus twelve if you compare it to twenty nine team russian medals and saw a cheat this is not blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given that most russia stars werent even invited here by the International Olympic committee so basically it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but ill tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here in chiang it is the first gold medal by their mens Ice Hockey Team in twenty six years the final was really tough neck and neck till the last second with surprise silver medalists germany and the red machine was only able to show whos boss on an extra time when marginals will game was very tou