Realize it was embarrassing. Stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r. T. Our top story the twenty eighteen Winter Olympics inside korea came to a sparkling close on sunday a stunning fireworks display rounded off the night as well as the traditional to the next winter Olympic Games will be held in the Chinese Capital beijing in two thousand and twenty two. Reports from. Time really does fly and i cant believe that its already and young chang twenty eight ng 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 thing a 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. I want to so ever for a systemic or systematic. Doping 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 gandhi 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 but guess what the winners and the stadium sang then the National Anthem of course and that was quite a scene to watch this was the second gold at these olympics the first one was won by fifteen year old alina as it gets 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. Well as ilya mentioned sunday marked and historic win for russias mens ice hockey squad competing as a limb pick up leads from russian who took goal with victory over germany in a gripping final the decisive goal was scored in overtime for a four three scoreline but it was the first time in twenty years russian players had reached the final but you have to go back to reveal the france in one thousand nine hundred two for their last goal in mens ice hockey was also under a neutral banner the team didnt have its own flag at the time following the break up of the soviet union. This is todays elated exhausted hockey stars taking their bus back to the Olympic Village we spoke to one of the key men in the russian team vulture. When margin was the game was very tough germany didnt get to the final for no reason its great that we won but we levelled the score and then the final point in overtime i think this goal brought joy to millions of russian fans everyone is celebrating today. Well after a less than smooth buildup to the games that i took all very troubling russian fans getting to celebrate their countrys second gold of the tournament was clear to see their go at them when you were going most lost it but anyway things turned out ok it was a super match and a super victory russia is the champion and we did it the it that the germans were playing very well it was a beautiful game many thanks to the german team and their russian team for such a wonderful final were so thrilled. So we inside korea have wrapped but it appears that the spirit of goodwill is continuing north korea has said that it is ready for talks with the United States that was announced after the countrys officials met with korean diplomats at the games finale. But not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests at a site. Against the visit scuffles also broke i between some protesters the police in the pen in china specialist long to listen by the controversies that could shadow any north korea u. S. Talks. Swarovski sentients the concern of course the United States want to try and what the sanctions and use military coercion have moment for the National Issues it depends on what kind of a deal the United States. With north korea the United States obviously want but not of koreans to abandon all of its Nuclear Arsenal at bandon or descriptive it used to develop Nuclear Weapons and Long Distance delusionist and thats something which building north korea would necessarily accept if that cannot be struck then were back to square one and back to confrontation as elation but all the other hand its quite possible that some agreement may be reached. Moving on now that the United NationsSecurity Council has passed a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria its in response to a surge in violence in eastern which is occupied by both rebels and terrorists just outside the capital damascus now the truce must be implemented quote without delay and will last for thirty days its hoped it will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated from conflict zones and for a much needed aid to reach other stricken regions a number of terror groups chance islamic States Al Qaeda and the latest incarnation of al nusra are excluded from the agreement operations against them will continue killer martin has 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 theyre saying that that 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 the 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 knows. I says that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution that fight will continue he also had some concerns about how the fight against terrorism seemed 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 and 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 the investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendments to the ceasefire will allow terror operations to continue on unpaid. But i think a kid didnt get the resolution was the inclusion. Fact that the Syrian Government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east ghouta and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the Syrian Government is 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 has illegally set up their bases and is occupying territory in Eastern Syria weve got turkish soldiers in in Northern Syria so this is a this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity well despite the cease fire resolution which encompasses the entire country turkey says it is not going to halt its military offensive in Northern Syria claiming the decision does not apply to it im grasping carrying out an operation against kurdish m t i so militia fighters there which it feeds us terrorists and its push to dislodge the Kurdish Peoples Protection units from the border area the Turkish Military struck a convoy entering the city of a free on thursday night and chris a said was carrying fighters on weapons but the Kurdish Forces insists that the trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in the incident. The letter. Earlier in the week proves Syrian Government forces arrived enough rain to help try and repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support but developments in the region have put the us in a difficult position. Looks into. 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 lights 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 africa. 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 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 and is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus 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 us led intervention which is in its third year has no end in sight but they may be left there with no one to call a friend as they continue to alienate their allies more the weeks top news right after this. What politicians to do something to. Put themselves on the line. To get accepted or rejected. So when you want to express injury. Or something want to. Watch it right. This is what the street people are. Interested always in the wrong. Place. Welcome back to the program germanys best selling newspaper has been tricked into publishing a fake bombshell story on russian meddling in the countrys politics the report in billed details how a mysterious russian agent on bottom master called yuri supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic partys youth wing kevin hart hoping to sabotage a Coalition Deal between his party and americas conservatives heres a snippet of the purse suppose that Exchange Dear killed him im yuri id like to talk to you about supporting your new Group Campaign thanks for your mail j. Already told me to expect a mile 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 martin ginger oh dear yuri perfect thats a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an Opinion Campaign with schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted Facebook Advertising campaign. But heres the rub the whole conversation was fabricated by a german said to recall magazine titanic the editors behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online it shows one of the magazines employees posing with a transcript of the fake emails on the tabloids subsequent article the editor of titanic ses the hoax was all too easy to concoct less than an afternoons work in fact. We had to turn it over to record magazine we worked with the same. Methods as the built so we knew how to think like a boot 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 like in the spine and we had a good feeling that this would work when theres a story like this for four built they dont care about the 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. When bill finally retracted the story whats more the head of the s. P. D. s youth wing insists that how do you really been made such an offer he would have turned the tide of army have to see in this book i dont know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we dont work with social bots i dont have the information that even received a new york was in this area. Well whenever you do see meddling mentioned these days russia is usually linked to it in some way but it seems the United States is where head on that score a former cia director has admitted that washington interferes in other countrys elections on Domestic Affairs when its quote for a good cause taking a closer look this hour right. No one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections theyre hooley pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just dont mess around other people. Are only for the very good didnt do a vine video on those former cia for a very good cause. Said the former director of the cia its funny because and when america does it when someone elses even suspected of doing it no no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no not at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. Weve been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven weve used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it weve planted false information for newspapers weve used with the british called king georges calorie suitcases of cash