South koreas yuna kim unscathed flawless l flawlessly but loss the gold star to a russian skater, Adelina Sotnikova. Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. Well begin with breaking news in the world lead. The ukrainian president , the ukrainian opposition leaders and European Union came to the table and made an agreement to hopefully end the bloodshed that weve seen this week in the ukraine but there are two parties i did not mention. The u. S. And russia. And yet the deal was the topic of discussion when president obama called his counterpart, russian president , Vladimir Putin just a few minutes ago. Yes, the u. S. Denounced the violence and, yes, russias influence is deeply woven into the conflict in the ukraine but neither country played a public role in this mediation. The white house says everyone benefits from an end to the clashes in the ukraine between the u. S. And an try government protesters which has left scores of people dead. It is in russias inte
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