Korea for the Winter Olympics. And people streaming the Opening Ceremony of pyongyang twenty eighteen years one hour away early of the cold war but ration for school to rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes who were bidding to be allowed to compete. Also as we go to a u. S. Politicians there are still debating into the early hours as they struggle to end a second shutdown and three weeks. Hospitals was on alert for casualties as egypt launches a major operation against armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula. And a memo months ago to journalists a jailed after uncovering what the government didnt bomb the world to see. So a show of togetherness between north and south korea is happening with just an hours ago before the ceremony Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics the sister of north koreas leader has become the first member of her family to step foot in south korea since the two countries went to war in nineteen fifty. Is part of the north korean delegations
And eighteen a Winter Olympics opens and an explosion of fireworks with north and south korea sitting side by side next to america and the extraordinary show of unity and he just emits pyongyang twenty eighteen has been declared open but earlier the court of arbitration for sport rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes and coaches to a bidding to be allowed to compete. Our other top stories egypt launches a sweeping military operation aiming to crush on the groups ahead of a deadline set by president sisi. Played upon the time. Of the hama signals an end to the u. S. Governments latest shutdown the stage is set for a bigger battle the over immigration and ballooning deficit. Also what the mayor government didnt want the world to see evidence of a massacre and the journalists who revealed it have been jailed. I am. Extraordinarily and unexpected show of unity north and south korea have sat side by side under exploding fireworks as the two thousand and eighteen W
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