Hello and welcome to the weekly roundup of the big stories of the last seven days who are not international. First the big story in the last couple of hours anyway the twenty eight Winter Olympics in south korea finally came to a. Close rounded off for some great fireworks expect and the traditional handover to the next winter Olympic Games will be held in the Chinese Capital beijing in twenty twenty two reports from outside the venue. Time really does fly and i cant believe that its already the and of young chang twenty eight saying weve seen the closing ceremony and the nations parade at it and ill tell you what it was much warmer than the opening on february ninth quite literally and the fans didnt have to freeze themselves that much to see the spectacle something that hasnt changed though is the fate of the russian athletes who werent able to march with their National Colors there had been a glimmer of hope that theyd be allowed to do that but earlier on sunday the i. O. C. Decided not to lift the suspension of russias National Olympic committee after two of the all way our athletes tested positive for doping although the i. O. C. President has said that these two cases appear to be isolated these are cases off of negligence and there is no indication. Of so ever for a systemic or systematic. Toping affair here the astleys who failed the test though claim it could have been a result of salva tas or some sort of mistake they say that they have never taken banned drugs on purpose to improve their performance back to the final day of peeling chang twenty eight ng i guess if you asked the russian fans would they rather see their National Flags at the closing ceremony or would they rather have their mens Ice Hockey Team win gold for the first time in twenty six years most of them would still choose the second option and that is exactly what happened inside the gunning ice hockey arena on sunday the red machine b. Germany for three and a gripping final and then at the prize giving ceremony the olympic and them was. Played instead of the russian anthem obviously the birds guess what the winners and the stadium saying then the National Anthem of course and that was quite a scene to watch this was the second gold out these olympics the first one was won by a fifteen year old alinas the gates of a in the figure skating and ill tell you what these Winter Olympics were really games of hope for russia with many more experienced star athletes having to sit out yung chang twenty home the o. E. R. Still won a total of seventeen medals that is of course by far not the best performance but still in these circumstances it deserves a huge round of applause asked for the whole medal table norway came first with fourteen gold fourteen silver and eleven bronze and thats of course a spectacular result yeah absolutely well done to all the gods of all the countries the when the good job as india mentioned sunday montanus story when then for russian hockey players as far as hes concerned this is the big one they go goal beating germany a gripping final the decisive goal was scored in overtime making a final score four three was the first time in twenty years to that russian players had reached this kind of final they last won gold in the ice hockey in one thousand nine hundred two then two is actually instead the hundred neutral banner at the time the team didnt have its own flag because of the break up of the soviet union and it burned to the present heres how fans reacted after todays historic game. 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So the Winter Olympics in south korea just wrapped up but it appears the diplomacy from there is continuing again big story thats come out to tell you about north korea has said its ready for talks with the United States that was announced after the countrys officials met with south korean diplomats at those games in pyongyang not everyone is happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests in south korea border town against the visit scuffles indeed broke out between simple test of police i spoke to independent china specialist andrew love about the possibilities he told me about the controversies none the less that may overshadow any north korea the u. S. Talks at least. As far as the sanctions are concerned of course the United States want to trumpet the sanctions and use military coercion as it wont i mean in solving the National Issues it depends on what kind of a deal. Mistakes. Struck with north korea the United States obviously won that lot of to realize to abandon all this Nuclear Arsenal at bandon or descriptive at least to develop Nuclear Weapons and Long DistanceDelivery Systems thats something which building laws korea would necessarily accept that you cannot be struck then were back to square one and back to confrontation as collation but all the other hand its quite possible that some agreement may be reached. You know if Nations Security Council passed a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria its in response to a surge in the violence in eastern guta which is occupied by both rebels and terrorists just outside of the capital damascus as it is the truce is Effective Immediately its 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 a number of terror groups search is Islamic State al qaeda in the latest incarnation of all news are though however are excluded from the agreement that was a key concern for moscow all along operations against there and will continue as more now on the u. N. 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 area is essentially being used to shell civilians in damascus furthermore theyre reporting that the terrorist groups in eastern guta are working actively to prevent medical aid from getting to civilians and theyre using these civilians as human shield 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. 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. A correspondent in new york the investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendment is to this ceasefire will allow anti terror operations to continue therefore unimpeded. I think a kid didnt get the resolution was the inclusion. Of the Syrian Government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis and. I think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia 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 is occupying territory in Eastern Syria weve got to turkish soldiers even in Northern Syria so this is so this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity so led this the other elements meantime despite the cease fire resolution turkey says its not going to hold its military offensive in the north of syria playing the decision doesnt apply to it thats new in been carrying out an operation against kurdish and the isolation of fighters there which it views as terrorists in 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 now ankara says it was carrying fighters and weapons the other side of this the Kurdish Forces though insists those trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine in fact they say one person was killed in what happened there. Look at the two of them just play such. A lot of money. Earlier in the week pro Syrian Government forces arrived in africa to help try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support the developments in the region have put the u. S. In a difficult position to as Jacqueline Bouvier reports 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 lice 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 afferent to bolster the kurds. But youre right we have come to a kaddish brothers to fight together to protect africa. We are the Popular Force we came so that we can help our kurdish brothers because we are one people. Now that surely ruffled feathers in washington where 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 a free is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary maddest had called it is certainly 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. Coming up in more of our review of the last seven days in the big stories that came out of them and shape the worlds germanys best selling tabloid publishes a fake story about russian meddling in german politics talk about that and more coming up. Whats going on is only for just seen. It doesnt have any meaning unless it leads to real kids which can be. You know guaranteed only by the most pristine of president ial. Good politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president im sure. Some people want to listen. To going to be for us to see what the before three of the more people. Interested in the waters of our. First sit. Again germanys best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing a fake bombshell story on russian meddling in the countrys politics the report inbuilt detailed how a mysterious russian agent and bot master called yuri had supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic parties you think kevin hoping to sabotage a Coalition Deal between his party and anglo merkels conservatives in fact heres a snippet of the pairs supposed exchange dick of him im yury id like to talk to you about supporting your new grow Coke Campaign thanks for your mail jail read psalm its 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 yuri 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 campaign but the whole conversation was fabricated by the germans terrible magazine titanic the editors behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online it shows where the magazines employees posing with the transcript of the fake emails that build took in and the tabloids subsequent article the editor of titanic says the hoax was all too easy to concoct it said he said it took just a couple of hours of that. We had to turn it over to rick a magazine we work with the same. Methods as a build 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 built tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky like in the spine 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 below where the papers retracted the story now whats more the head of the bigs youth wing insists that had he really be made such an offer that he would have turned it down but of a me have to see in this book i dont know but this group but of course who would refuse any of these offers who would work with social clubs and how is the major even list simple and your. Dutch shipping group facing accusations of selling a number of vessels from harmful waste to scrapyards in turkey in india exacerbating the veyron Mental Health problems there and potentially violating e. U. Laws. Well the latest on this is well is that the case is playing out now in the dutch courts the prosecution alleges those ships which was sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of toxic substances and should have been removed and recycled in a safe way it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers in the environment in those countries prosecutors are seeking fines of