It was an embarrassing hoax. Sunday afternoon twenty five february here in moscow this is international with me kevin and thanks very much for being with us today. So than those Winter Olympics finally over the finish line hour ago with a sparkling close in the last sixty minutes or so rounded off in some stunning fireworks as youd expect and the traditional handover to the next winter Olympic Games that will be held in the Chinese Capital in twenty twenty two and beijing. Reports from outside the olympic venue. Really does and i cant believe that its already the young twenty eight weve seen the closing ceremony and the nations parade out and ill tell you what it was much warmer then 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 raw. 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. 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 anthem was played instead of the russian anthem obviously the buds 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 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 thing at 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 as for the whole medal table norway came first with fourteen gold fourteen silver and eleven bronze and thats of course a spectacular result yeah well done all the while mentioned part of the big news today sunday marking that his story when for russian hockey players he really went out with a bang they won gold base in germany in a gripping final the decisive goal was scored in overtime in the end this is real nail biting stuff the final score for three it was the first time that in twenty years russian players had reached the final the last one gold in the ice hockey back in ninety two that too instead it was under a neutral banner at the time its because the team didnt have its own flag it was just following the breakup of the soviet union well heres how fans back to the present reacted after the historic game. The Winter Olympics in south korea then all wrapped up now but it appears that the diplomacy is continuing the good news out of there about that today north korea said its ready for talks with the United States no it was a nonstarter the countrys officials met with south korean diplomats at those games in pyongyang not everyone happy to see the north korean delegation though there were protests of the south korean border town against the visit scuffles also broke out between some protesters and the police i spoke to independent china specialist andrew learned he told me about the controversies that may shadow any north korea u. S. Talks however. As far as the essentials are concerned of course the United States want to trump the sanctions and use military coercion is what i mean for the National Issues it depends on what kind of a deal the United States. With north korea the United States obviously want that North Koreans to abandon all of its Nuclear Arsenal banding all descriptive at least to develop Nuclear Weapons and Long DistanceDelivery Systems thats something which i dont think a lot of korea would necessarily accept if that 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. United Nations Security Council has 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 thats. Both rebels and terrorism is just crucially outside the capital damascus very close to it the truce is effectively immediate it will last for thirty days its hoped it will allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated from a conflict zone thats been hellish of. Late and for much needed aid to reach other stricken regions to a number of terror groups however such as Islamic State al qaeda and the latest incarnation of al nusra are excluded from that agreement was a big concern for moscow but that went through it did in the end operations against them will continue khaled mopin has more now on this 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 notes. 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 seemed to be serving some other goals of what it was to be used with the aim 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 down so this thirty day cease fire that was agreed on by all fifteen members the council is going to be implemented. Investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendments to the ceasefire will allow anti terror operations to continue unimpeded that i think a kid dish into the resolution was the inclusion. Fact that the Syrian Government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and 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 has illegally set up their bases and its 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. Its unclear though how the ceasefire will affect Northern Syrias afrin region which has become another flashpoint in the conflict as weve been reporting in the week turkey has been carrying out a military offensive against the Kurdish Militia fighters that it sees them as terrorists in its push to dislodge the Kurdish PeopleProtection Units from that border area Turkish Military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin on thursday night now ankara says it was carrying fighters and weapons but the Kurdish Forces insist no they say those trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in what happened. To the. Earlier in the week pro Syrian Government forces arrived in our for him to help try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds appealed for support the developments in the region of put the u. S. In a difficult position to as jacqueline verger explains 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 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. We have come to a kaddish brothers to fight together to protect our free. 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 with 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 of rain is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called it is sir. 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. Jaclyn for the reporting that coming up more the weeks top stories including victims of a long standing horrific just in these human engineering programs finally speak well tell you about the. United states is going to look very deep the mystic crisis shelling still americas supremest. From the outside world from russia notes from china. Those sites what you see around russia and this cyber bullies easing over russia that. Is psychos are going to understand the bill of times to find somebody outside the United States was responsible for this while the real problem was. What politicians to do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to express. Yourself want to. Have to go to the press thats what. Three people are. Interested in the water. There soon. Germanys biggest selling newspaper has been tricked into publishing a fake bombshell story and russian meddling in the countrys politics their reporting building told her mysterious russian agent and bought the master called yuri and supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic parties you think kevin cohen it hoping to sabotage a Coalition Deal between his party and angle of merkels conservatives is a snippet of the pairs supposed Exchange Dear care of him im yuri id like to talk to you about supporting your no grow Coke Campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to 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 german satirical 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 and the tabloid subsequent article now the editor of titanic says the hoax was all too easy to concocted just took him a couple of hours he said. We had to turn it over to rick a magazine we worked with to say. 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 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 that for four 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 build newspapers retracted the story whats more the head of the s. P. D. s youth were going to says that had he really made such an offer of course he would turn it down he says. We have to see a niche but i dont know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers to do work with social bots i dont have information that even received a new york was in this area. Really old thing whenever you see meddling mention these days russia is usually being linked to it somewhere nappy days or not but it seems the United States is way ahead on that score a former cia director has admitted that washington interferes in other countries elections and Domestic Affairs when its quote for a good cause came out in the wake regards there was across the story. 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 a very good didnt feel vine video and 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 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 route the book on meddling. Weve been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand nine hundred seven weve used poster