Concerned by accusations of corruption against 2020 hopeful joe biden. Been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but that may be the only remedy feeling to act congress is complicit. Either thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. The International Association of athletics federations has extended its ban on russia that comes as the World Antidoping Agency relaunch is compliance procedures the countrys anti doping agency. Provided manipulated data the probe could cost pressure its place in next years olympics has already reacted to the allegations. In full compliance with the code this is confirmed by. The fog that we have passed to audits in 2 years i was responsible for them i can guarantee this was absolute certainty is committed to meeting all these International Obligations however we have nothing to do as the most school board tree or the samples well with the l. M. Picks already upon us next summer the World Antidoping Agency is actually investigating a bombshell allegation that could see russia suspended from tokyo games next year now let me give you some details on whats happening now russia has been given a 3 week deadline to explain why data from moscow Drug Testing Laboratory provided to the World Antidoping Agency might have been tampered with and eve these suspicions of trying to tampering prove correct then the country could again be suspended and that is happening to the year after russia was reinstated actually handing over that particular data from villa bora tree was among the critical requirements for the reinstatement and of course there has been some high level reaction to this weve know found some inconsistency were going to deal with it were going to deal with it properly we dont know yet whether its tampering or manipulation or whatever else it might be since the rules state that if we assert noncompliance and the russians dont accept it it will be decided by the courts of all betray sion for sport so you have to be very careful you have to know exactly what happened and thats the process were involved in we met all the conditions for the restoration of sunder which were established by the Water Executive Committee we were told that database transfers to water by the informant was slightly different from the one the water experts had taken a copy of in moscow in 2019 what exactly these discrepancies are and what they are connected with will be established by experts from both sides for our parts we continue to provide all possible assistance. Me remind you that. He was actually suspended back in 2015 and after 3 years it was reinstated as ive mentioned before all of that happened after claims that there was that widespread state run doping scheme in the country actually there was a number of some really strong accusations that we heard at the time however not everything was actually proved with some harsh avid and as for moscow well moscow denied it was state sponsored but still there was enough evidence to ban scores of russian athletes they were allowed to participate only to a limited extent and at the Winter Olympics in south korea and the neutral flag and now this is just a basically the latest twist in this ongoing story. More professor of sociology at the university is also a former sports media lecturer and says that this could end up in russia from will sport. The potential of this is calamitous as far as russia is concerned it could result in. Russia being banned by every sport that is affiliated toward it would end the doping agency in other words not just the olympics but they could be disqualified from the futile walk up and all the other major sporting tournament around the world for lord knows how long frankly what were hearing about is a discrepancy this is mysterious are can claim to know and i dont know anybody else who doesnt know exactly what the nature of this socalled discrepancy in the database russian is appears to be completely confident that its quite minor and they said only earlier this week that why they walk out our Armed Services if water is satisfied by those arts as by those explanations of the socalled discrepancy there presumably this scandal will be over and russias reinstatement will progress satisfactorily but if it isnt satisfied thats when the trouble will really begin and us when we really are into unknown territory. Iran is the neavitt term of downing street is highly likely scenario also used in the script the u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson said theres a very high degree of probability tehran was behind the recent attack on Saudi Oil Facilities even promising to help the us secure the gulf region. The u. K. Is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to iran for the aramco attacks we think its very likely indeed that iran was indeed responsible clearly if we are asked either by the saudis or by the americans to have a role then we will consider in what way we could be useful the british Prime Minister johnson seemingly getting on board with the accusations made by the u. S. And also by the saudis and the iranians if they werent responsible for that attack particularly the saudis saying that the components that they found were rainy and made in terms of who took part in that attack on the Saudi Oil Facilities and Boris Johnson there say that it was very likely to have been iran pointing to what he said were cruise missiles and drones and other technology that could have possibly been used in the attack now he said that the u. K. Wants to deescalate the situation but would also be willing to commit u. K. Military resources and personnel to a possible u. S. Led action in the region a military action in the region now its unclear exactly how far the u. K. Would be willing to go in any u. S. Led adventures in the region but we know that the iranians have stated and denied repeatedly that they were involved at any point but have also been warning the west that if there is any aggression against iran theyre more than capable of meeting it head on one of. The foreign powers are sincere in seeking peace and security it must stop deploying dangerous weapons to a region and proven arms troops they should stay away because their presence has always brought pain and misery now we know of course that the u. S. Very quick to blame iran saying that they would be deploying more troops to the region but one issue that might help to deescalate the situation the socalled tanker was we saw the iranian tanker. Seized off the coast of travolta by the u. K. s royal navy the iranians responded in kind by confiscating the u. K. Flag tanker the iranian one was released and now the iranians say that as a gesture of good will and today deescalate the situation that they are willing to release that u. K. Flag tanker about the century it is free to go so there are some who fear that while the iranians are trying to tamp down those tensions there are some in riyadh in washington and here in london who are doing the exact opposite the saudis themselves are be telling them theyre going to just all of you dont want it is clear that. The situation now on google earth and all out war again this because you are in the front line theres just that keep the pressure on because normally and of course still had the chance old of the opinion. Media. And leaders we know its going to be the french when he goes to new york for the United Nation decision on climate so its a question of years for the honest ones will showing support saudi arabia and community but not 100 percent but. With the fate of us around relations hanging in the balance santis Stanley Hawkins looks in to how the standoff could play out. Iran and the United States go way back a relationship at sea a coup terrorism sanctions even direct confrontation for over half a century its hard to find enemies more bitter could we see all out war the question today on the minds of many listening to recent rhetoric youd certainly think that possibility is growing that if any country wants to attack iran it will seize territory turn into the conflicts main battlefields will never let any war be dragged into iran we will continue until the end we will continue until the full destruction of any aggressor and we will leave no safe place for enemies and that was a very large attack. And it could be met with an attack many many times larger very easily by our country that the saudis have called for u. S. Help after those attacks on seoul refineries it seems all those billions spent on u. S. Military gadgets werent enough to keep them safe back in may the u. S. Sent an Aircraft Carrier strike group to the gulf to this latest incident the u. S. Was quick to announce another military deployment the president has approved the deployment of u. S. Forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and Missile Defense we will also work to accelerate the delivery of military equipment to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the u. A. E. To enhance their ability to defend themselves many see some historical deja vu in this latest move dating back 3 decades at my direction elements of the 82nd Airborne Division as well as key units of the United States air force are arriving today to take up defensive positions in saudi arabia i took this action to assist the Saudi Arabian government in the defense of its homeland operation Desert Shield back then protecting these 3 brilliancy of the region and the worlds oil markets and supply lines was one key factor behalf. Time intervention but much has changed in 3 decades the us is now the Worlds Biggest Oil producer protecting gulf oil exports just isnt a priority anymore neither is being in the middle of a war between riyadhs and tehran the United States is pursuing its own interests and that is to control the floyds flow of oil to the world and that means providing oil to its friends and denying oil to its enemies weve seen the United States embargo oil to play countries like syria the sale of oil from iran sudan libya many other places this is about the United States control over the most important commodity in the world that keeps industry going keeps country standing on their feet and domestic appetite for sending the boys to a place of sand and death is weak according to a recent poll just 13 percent would support a military intervention to protect the saudis adding a 2nd or 3rd party into that kind of tense scenario doesnt necessarily deescalate things if anything it escalates things even further so we get into another war like afghanistan or iraq and get stuck over there for another 1015 years we think iraq was bad iran to be 100000 times worse and we would absolutely destroy there i just think we should be less involved in other World Affairs no desire for conflict with iran this seems to be a war that neither side wants or at least says they want yet still seem to be on a collision course we have made it very clear that we dont want war we have made it very clear that we dont want escalation im making a statement that we dont want war we dont want to engage in a military confrontation america 1st has been trumps mantra since before his Election Campaign ending costly conflicts no more world policeman with analysts warning of the devastating costs of a war with iran the u. S. Stands at a crossroads just how high a price are they willing to. Paid to meet their objectives the u. S. As we know is now the worlds Number One Oil producer fracking has changed the nature of Oil Production tickle in the us and there is an overhang in the oil market so Many Americans are saying why are we interested in the gulf we dont need saudi oil but you know if the less said the fact of the matter is that oil is not just a product it is leverage over the International Community is geostrategic lee important ever since world war 2 the United States has wanted to control energy in the world so the United States is very loath to leave the gulf even though it doesnt actually need the oil itself. A number of us democrats say that they may start impeachment proceedings against donald trump but on the back of reports the president pressured his ukrainian counterparts to investigate possible corruption involving 2020 hopeful joe biden been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but if the president is essentially trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit then that may be the only remedy by failing to act congress is complicit in trumps latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in the us elections do your constitutional duty and impeach the president at this point a bigger National Scandal isnt the president s low breaking behavior it is the Democratic Party to impeach him for it sunday trump denied any misconduct over discussing biden and a phone call with president blood in his alinsky you also accuse the former Vice President of corruption tied to his sons Business Activities in ukraine the phone conversation has come to light after a whistleblower claim trump solicited help from a foreign leader. Youve got to give it to the democrats theyre hardworking bunch especially when somethings related to the biggest pet peeve canoe said but we want to temps over the past 3 years to push trump out of the white house havent for a bit flat new rumors have put the fire back in their bellies complained about President Trump it involves ukraine troubling promise president may have made to a foreign leader years ago 1st got in office were also nervous the donald trump was some sort of sleeper agent who was going to sell america out to a foreign power behind our backs. Well Throwback Thursday no balled into multiple reports of potentially illegal activity new allegations of attempted foreign collusion the Washington Post reported that back in july trump and the newly elected wanted to ms and how did a little chat in which trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President joe biden and apparently top level whistleblower leaks that trump unethically said hed be generous with billions worth of American Military and intelligence aid if he was cooperative whistleblower is under what i can only imagine must be the most. Intense pressure sharing anything that is truly sensitive and endangers our National Security here in our world the trouble sounds to see but then things took a slightly disappointing turn the Washington Post sort of backtracked and admitted that well actually they might have jumped the gun just to listen. One source familiar with the contents of the phone call so the crew did not raise the issue of American Military and intelligence aide that the administration was at the time withholding from ukraine indicating that there may not be no explicit quid pro quo expressed in the conversation but for the desperate damns even the with of a scandal was enough reports of a reliable whistleblower complaint regarding the president S Communications with a foreign leader brings grief urgent concerns of our National Security when you have the president call him in from other countries and whistleblowers are talking about compromising who he has deemed a political enemy this is serious this is very very serious and we have to investigate it this is all in the spirit of pursuing justice and protecting the American People from shady political dealings so probably a bit quick that trump was gunning for an investigation into how a bomb as a right hand man biden had pushed for a top ukrainian prosecutor to be fired but hey its probably just a coincidence that the prosecutor was leading a corruption investigation into a Natural Gas Company that bidens son was linked to biden bragging that he basically blackmailed x. President Petro Poroshenko into firing the guy isnt that convincing is what i said you know i get the 1000000000 im leaving iraq i think it was about 6 hours i looked as im leaving the 6 hours and the prosecutor is not fired youre not getting the money. No not biden surely not he looks so good in those shorts back in the sixtys he had such a lovable bromance with obama he cant be shady i love joe biden but there is still so much good in this country and joe biden i think represents that the democrats will see him as the best choice voters in the battleground state of wisconsin say they favor by never President Trump everyone loves your by if youre trump because an elusive phone call from a secret source reported in a classified document leaked in an article but that corrected itself would be declared hard evidence and bring to your. Reus democrats knocking at your door but if youre the only candidate your party has mustered up that even stands a chance of getting the vote of the American People in 2020 so you do something thats up for interpretation and turning a blind eye while no harm no foul this is a barn that basically joe biden has set off himself thats going to i think in the end push him perhaps out of contention it seems very much that the democrats like to shift Public Opinion away from their misconduct by alleging misconduct of trump and it fools. A large number of people who are not deep divers into details but its certainly not pulling me and its not full and i think many other pundits around the world will look at this and say the democrats are just deceiving themselves at this point they opened this can of worms trump didnt bring it up 1st they brought it up now that people have brought it back up there are serious questions about what was going on in ukraine i would argue from 2004 forward. Involving corrupt elements of both Political Parties inside our country and now that the democrats approach this up again i believe trump has a megaphone with his twitter account and were going to get to the bottom of what was really going on in the changing nature of u. S. Ukraine and russia relations going to 2004 forward or maybe even further back than that. A filmmaker is being sued by participants in a documentary over his claims about korean sex slaves during the 2nd world war. They were not sex slaves they were prostitutes. So it was screaming or. To deceive korean women to the station. At least one of the experts quoted in the film denies that the women were forced into slavery but the filmmaker micky design thinks that there are other motives for their lawsuit. Its not really top officials who are launching the lawsuits more of these kind of people in my shill interview that are doing the lawsuit in i guess what lies behind it is really them trying to silence the film you know change the narrative of the country or an issue to their narrative to come from an issue has always been a very contentious issue between korea and japan and some people actually think its the most contentious issue between the 2 countries and through my own research i realize that you know my korean friends and japanese friends didnt know certain information i thought if i made a film i could possibly fill in this gap information and bring more context in hopefully both sides will. You know be able to talk about this more productively after the film the comfort women issue is very taboo in japan and surprisingly a lot of people like the film i notice a lot of people who dont like the film are people who havent seen the film. The phrase comfort women is a euphemism for girls forced into sex slavery by japanese soldiers in occupied territories at least 200000 young women were made to work in military brothels the victims came from across Southeast Asia with most from korea the japanese government issued a statement on the issue this was back in 1993 tokyo admitted responsibility for the sexual coercion of women and apologized 2015 japan and south korea agreed on a deal under which tokyo paid more than 8000000. 00 for a victims fund so dissolve the fund same issue hasnt been settled the victims werent consulted the filmmaker says that censoring his film that would violate free speach. Well i think its definitely a case of freedom of expression and i think my film if it gets silenced or taken down or you know prevent bigger distribution then this is another you know. Expression in japan in this and its these little tiny digs at freedom of expression that make it really hard for the media and people in general to talk about these issues and so it just becomes one of these things where the powerful people get to say what they want to say about the issue and then the people who have an opposing opinion can say anything. Representatives of the taliban have met with chinas envoy to afghanistan meeting in beijing they discuss the failure of the terror groups peace talks with the United States banded talks this spun theft or a u. S. Soldier was killed in the Taliban Attack in kabul with hopes of peace fade fading again visited an afghan refugee camp in pakistan where the people there are desperate to return home. Im here in an afghan refugee camp in the pakistani capital islamabad more than a 1000 families called us home and they were small percentage of the more than 1000000 afghan refugees who have moved to pakistan in the past 4 decades now they keenly watching developments across the border with the american President Donald Trump recently announcing that he is withdrawing from secret talks of the taliban and russia stepping up to the mark for People Living here what happens in those talks has a direct impact on their lives im going to meet a man can family to see how they feel about things go and we came here from afghanistan and we dont have a stable income sometimes and sometimes we dont only our is keeping us alive there were happy here in afghanistan we had no land in the house we didnt see bread and butter for years. We came here to work because the situation in afghanistan is too bad and its too difficult to live there we are poor people and we have no limbs and have only god well you know of course we want our children to be well educated and to attend good schools our family runs a store the market would earn hardly anything im suffering from here the titles but i dont have enough money to buy medicine as you can see they dont have very much its 10 people who live here in 3 mad rooms and they survive by selling fruits and vegetables on the sides of the road shaheen is one of the Community Leaders so he how would you say the pakistani government treats afghan refugees afghan refugees live slightly better here than its hard but we dont have full rights we want to have the same rights as pakistanis no after he gets a driving license or a car we want peace in afghanistan we will be very happy to be able to return to our country the pakistani ringback Prime Minister in one can in an interview i did with him said that pakistan is willing to do whatever it needs to do to make sure that the talks in afghanistan work america however needs to send its soldiers. But the americans. Will have to of course leave understand and i think President Trump wants the u. S. Soldiers to leave this is not a lot more than pakistan can do than what it is already doing which is urging the. Only who that has influence to sit down and talk to the americans which which they have done and also talk to the of one government which they havent done as yet for the more than 1000000 afghan refugees in pakistan they dont have much but the belief that one day they will return home is something making to. R t islamabad. Staying with us updates coming your way in just half an hours time. The recent attack on saudi Energy Installations as red faced many in washington and the kingdom we will tell you why also uncle joes travails in ukraine a story beginning to be revealed for a very long time. That Afshin Rattansi welcome to this going on the ground Global Climate strike special coming up in the show but he signed his Campaign Organizer lawrence nuff and the along his campaign to unseat a 10 term u. S. Congressman from South Carolina one of a new generation fighting for a Green New Deal and will you be one of the 40000. 00 who die prematurely in britain every year because of toxic air pollution we investigate a new online tool that not only tells you if your local area is polluted but whether house prices in your neighborhood could crash plus as a Global Strike for the future of the planet continues this week we asked Extinction Rebellion if it can win in the face of capitalism and Scotland Yard all of them all coming up in todays going underground Global Climate strike special but 1st we go to the u. S. Deep south to talk to one of a new generation of politicians challenging the status quo in the most c o 2 polluting country in the world joining me from columbia South Carolina is one of Bernie Sanders organizer in perspective democrat congressional candidate Lawrence Nathaniel thanks so much for coming on to tell me about the campaign because youre up against a 10 term republican congressman joe wilson who yes im up against you i joe wilson on the campaign is actually going great in receiving a lot of hours have been mostly people or even to. Many who are in to. See kind of chimps platform or a lot of young political. Organizers so a lot of us are following needs which is basically reaching out to the people and going for the people d in that for the party itself so weve been getting a lot of great responses for that were not a part of the status quo when it comes to american politics and the 1st africanamerican to even run in my district so. Give really the carolinas have never been more environmentally conscious what with Hurricane Dorian but do you see the Green New Deal as being a vote winner on the doorstep yes i believe that is the road map so we need to be especially where our climate is today. Our state was one of the states that was a part of the regulation mandatory evacuations when it came to hurricane door and. One of things that we did actually we wasnt impacted as much as the bahamas was we probably got 1100000. 00 in damages along our coast stretches from south to North Carolina for hurricanes stay over the bahamas something that has never been seen before where thousands of people are missing and the fact that our country really