A twist in the plods we debate the trend of dating classic characters to make them more diverse and inclusive. This is Political Correctness and god i say out for little girls everywhere love prepare some of the young ladies for reality so that we dont push them in poor cold hard world where they have to fend for themselves and there is no one there to save them on a white horse. Very good morning to you its 8 am here in moscow and youre watching r. T. International with me. Our top story this hour its a moment of anger and frustration for Russian Sports stars off of the countrys flag was banned for 4 years from all the worlds major tournament so the decision was made by the World Antidoping Agency or wanda on team russia a devastated. Why this collective responsibility 15 years old girls you know brilliant skaters synchronized swimmers who presented to some of those sports. And if in all the dumping scandalous what is the purpose is an enormous blow to our sport we have to fight for our flight until the end. Its impossible to discard athletes who have nothing to do with then you know this i dont know what we can do while were youngsters to make sure they dont end up with our sport and whos out of high achievements. Who want to says moscow is being punished for tampering with a database of drug test results clean athletes will be able to compete on a neutral flag berts russian officials and are prohibited from attending major sporting events thats what the country wont be allowed to host any tournament moscow will appeal this decision now the list of events russia has been executed from is extensive it includes the olympic and Paralympic Games in tokyo 2020 and footballs fifa world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was the last host of that event and its players will now have to go as neutrals water is insisting that the onus is on the clean players to prove that theyre clean if they want to compete. This is about and against russia the protect the rights of russian us each going reentry for major events to those that are able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any way by the noncompliance what is important thing todays decision is that we are really sanctioning those who are responsible for this many pollutions and leave those open for those who had nothing to do with we dropping scandal in in russia clean. Innocent athletes russian so my you hear your theme of is among those athletes who have to prove theyre clean she was barred from the rio olympics after failing a drug test in 2013 i think of her took the matter to sports highest court and won series win stated and went on to win 2 silver medals heres what she thinks about the what is in. Yeah. I was expecting Something Like this to happen especially after the rio olympics right after i swam i said it was just the beginning we would have these problems i had and its getting worse with each year we werent allowed to computers team russia for the Winter Olympics 2 years ago and i was getting worse now for 4 years we have banned from the International Tournament the question is what to do next and how to qualify for competitions so the news didnt come as much of a surprise but i didnt expect the decision to be that off. Look ive got to decide still struggle so how could they punish the whole country all athletes no matter whether they dumped or not they should just punish those who were guilty one of them from her solder all athletes who were involved in something but punishing the whole country all our Young Athletes just because someone did something wrong athletes shouldnt be deprived of the opportunity to represent their own country i believe it shows that politics has come into sport because they do allow clean athletes to compete under the neutral flag but they dont want to see the russian flag there or anyone representing our country. To me now that is here and then took up i have already hired a lawyer however comment that i sound in ordinary life regularly once it doesnt matter if its a drive in the fans were fired not a politician tries for that i hope it will work now but i cant be sure about that but it could be worse than it was before rio i was reinstated fully i limp exhausted the very day the games began and i was sick for half a year now and not react the same way even if im not allowed to compete im almost a grandma for the world of sports thats my fate and what can i do i just want to advise other athletes not to worry and to hire lawyers dont expect i dont want to help you help yourself. But appear to as expressed his support for russian athletes saying that the bank shouldnt be collective. Says the country has all grounds to appeal to moderates given the rush 90 deafening agency 21. 00 days to decide if they want to pursue that course if it up to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport and likely yes have skate breaks down the wild a ruling for us. Imagine a person who robs a bank steals lets say a 1000000 dollars gets caught gets prison time gets out like a near your early for Good Behavior but then the police tells them you know were not sure you actually stole 1000000 maybe your store more so were going to push imprison back again or that is basically the logic which the World Antidoping Agency applied to the whole nation of russia in their decision on monday to ban the country from major sports competitions in the world saying that the russian athletes can compete individually but they have to again prove that they have not used any kind of doping. The position of the Russian Olympic Committee stays the same the sanctions are inadequate not logical and too severe we would do our best for the Russian Olympic Team to participate in the Upcoming Games in japan under the colors of the russian trickle of due to the terms of the olympic charter. Whether someone committed a crime fair enough he or she should be punished for that but it is quite unclear how exactly stripping a nation of its flag in a major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve the problem of fighting against doping you know not. Proven guilty and you dont need to you can prove youre in. A complete regress Justice System but its always been that way youve got to think about whats on the World Antidoping Agency has jurisdiction doesnt act yours dictionary to the russians who are to become sanction Russian Politicians russian. You know the consequences shoes can it can do. Resell it and take actions relative to schools so its come up with this International Standard to code compliance where signatories which is used to sanction russia this time around and its come up with these sanctions as a way of putting pressure on us or its used to come clean which they still havent done. On top of everything it seems that what his decision from monday was made in such a haste that they have no clue how to actually navigate in that decision the biggest example of that is probably the situation with your way for anthy for tournaments well where you are where you quite expected that. These sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming euro. 1st of all its a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented to. Is again within the competence of us and if you represent you are from and if represents a continental part but should it make it to the 2022 world cup in qatar it may be stripped of its flag of its anthem and it may be participating as a neutral country i think its certainly 1st a forest the russian athletes are concerned because it means that they were that they wont be able to compete under their National Flag or their National Symbols they wont in effect be able to represent their country the russian state is being treated as. The sponsor and be the culprit in all this which makes it different from almost any other country its where its individual athletes who are sanction penalized or and if youre not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia a deal to pass the court for arbitration of sports and this process takes longer than the official preparation for next summers olympics russia will go to next summers olympics in tokyo as a full fledged nation but then if the band is implemented late it might miss out on the 2024 summer Olympic Games in paris so this is all surrounded by a lot of confusion and at the same time russia says that its not planning to give up the sports minister of the country by vocal of course insists that all the information for the reinstatement of rosado has been provided to the World Antidoping Agency. Experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they havent heard us resign or has time to appeal initially when we handed over the database we said lets investigate the database together so that we can make a full decision we wanted to have a kind of mechanism if we dont want to be objective decision lets do it like. This was saddam has all the necessary opportunity we could have taken a different approach from whichever side you look at it mondays decision by water looks like a vocal and very harsh indictment of Russian Sports it might send shock waves and reverberations in the country sport for many years to come but it might actually be the beginning of a new struggle of a new battle the legal one when russia takes its case to the court of arbitration for sports in laws and switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year. R. T. Reporting from moscow. He said fitz for Eastern Ukraine are showing signs of progress with both moscow and kiev finding Common Ground on a number of issues the leaders of Russia Ukraine france and germany held 6000 of talks in paris aimed at resulting in the long running conflict president Vladimir Putin and his ukrainian counterpart vladimir the landscape both describe the meeting as positive. Is there a thawing in our relations i think yes of course we have discussed a broad range of issues and made progress on many of them all of that gives grounds to believe that the process is moving in the right direction. With regards to our peace we have met and i think its a great step towards peace meaning was long and will usually the mood of the. Strain. In a written statement both leaders agreed to implement a complete ceasefire by the end of this year and a complete all for all prisoner swap as well they also committed to withdrawing troops from certain conflict zones before april next year in a patrol report. So has there been a breakthrough in paris or not well the new president of ukraine and president Vladimir Putin of russia shook hands for the 1st time they spoke one on one to each other for the 1st time and spent an entire day and the residence of french president emmanuel back crawdad with 2 of europes key peace brokers the leader of france and the leader of germany and we do have to remember that this is something that hadnt happened for 3 years while in some cases after such tough difficult talks the sides cant even agree on a joint statement after a day of negotiations well this time they did provide a list of common conclusions and one section from that document is very important because it paves the way for potentially a complete cease fire along the front line and east ukraine and also an overwhelming Prisoner Exchange between the 2 sides which is supposed to happen before new years eve before the end of 2019 which is very soon and during the press conference blatter mare selenski was absolutely frank that he was delighted that this was made possible as now you come to want to choose to be honest i dont know how to control the situation a little too many times nearly 6 years in the sights as you try to reach a cease fire system 120 times a cease fire lines in a filing in as youve said here in paris we have treated me issues in every city. Now that its being dealt with at a high level and i think its going to be sold by the end of the year and disengagement efforts along the front line are supposed to continue demining efforts as well and also the citizens of ukraine will get a chance to cross the front line at many more crossing points and then. They can use at this point we do have the numbers the main stumbling along of the mids Peace Process for example i can tell you that russia has so to say prioritise the following elements of the minsk agreements that is the need for key of to grant special political status to the breakaway republics of low gods and donetsk and that has to be somehow reflected in the constitution and also the demand that needs to hold free and democratic elections and this republic this is something that kiev it seems hasnt been keen to do at all however for of the government in kiev the element that is absolutely essential is the one that is supposed to lead to the full handover of the control of the border between russia and the breakaway republics of lugansk and that he had skipped that i mentioned during the joint press conference a lot of our approaches did remind everyone that when it comes to the order of the elements of the minsk accord the aspect that has to do with the control over the border does come after the political section by. The music youths of lynching read the minsk accords they say ukraine will begin to establish control over the russians on bus towards the day after elections are held in the region and that is what the documents use and why undermine the grievance and rewrite their content cd if we alter one article then the others are likely to be altered as well and will ultimately. I do have to say that there have been concerns that the government of the legs wont be able to fulfill their part of the agreement at all in the near future because of the pressure thats been mounting on him domestic only the anti russian prowar lobby is still very strong and that any baby steps that selenski could pick. Towards russia could lead to some serious political damage for him as a whole common conclusions being made by the normandy quartet that say that the russian and ukrainian sides will remain interested in trying to find ways to somehow reach a compromise when it comes to the most difficult elements of the minsk agreement that ive mentioned and also most importantly there will be another summit of the normandy quiet. For months so the contacts on the most high profile level between berlin paris kiev and moscow will continue. We have from george hw army a Senior Research fellow at the Global Policy institute he says the some issues will remain unresolved through the pressure that if the ukrainian president faces at home isnt good steps the ceasefire the creation of these 3 disengagement areas the increase in the humanitarian crossing points the Prisoner Exchanges i think theyre all going to come up well and theyre all good things getting means well but he has a lot of political pressures at home to deal with and this kind of concessions youd have to make in order to make peace is a realistic possibility. Im not sure hes going to be allowed to make here. Now right here in germany has penned a feminist version of the classic tale snow white and the adaptation has a surprise twist. Fairytales give you the chance to teach kids about important values and i think diversity is simply not addressed nearly enough it is such an important concept and i really want my children to grow valuing. Some the 1st time a classic tells been given a modern lake over in a new version of aladdin released this year princess jonathan has High Aspirations to become a full time in the original she just wanted to find her soulmate. And in a remake of the 989 classic Little Mermaid a black actress plays the lead role well that caused a backlash some criticize attempt to alter traditional characters but others were the asterix saying it was a win for diversity but we discussed the trend with karen turk a t. V. And radio host and Reese Everson womens rights advocates. This is Political Correctness gone mad i am sad for little girls everywhere that its no longer ok to be a housewife and a princess you know on the one hand we want to tell little girls that you can be anything you want to be and less that means being in a traditional relationship maybe being a housewife wanting to be a princess then its not ok you know im all for equal rights and im all for feminism but this is just wrong theres no reason that we should take away fantasy and fairytales and this story does just that this german father has rewrote this thing in a way where it just slaps reality in the face of children absolutely not i think weve done young ladies a disservice for many many years by promising them this fairy tale and pushing it into their head as little girls so that when they grow up theyre expecting to meet this guy whos ready to take them on as their wife and marry them and pay the bills and and be the head of the household and for a lot of women those the statistics say that thats actually no longer reality the reality for so many women unfortunately is that we wont get to have that fanciful stay at home fairytale story it sounds good and many of us would love to have it but lets prepare some of these young ladies for reality so that we dont push them into a cold hard world where they have to thin for themselves and there is no one there to save them on a wild love to have it but lets prepare some of these young ladies for reality so that we dont push them into a cold hard world where they have to thin for themselves and there is no one there to save them on a white horse im sure greasy would agree you know if you could find a guy on a white horse to just take you away and sweep you off your feet that would be a benefit if he doesnt mean its going to happen but its nice to read the story and why take that away from little girls rather than getting into this fanciful tale lets just as the elements that allow us to bring it to the future and the. Allow our girls the chance to you know probably create a future for themselves that looks more like what they would like it to or what theyre capable of having versus some far off this new fairytale that may never happen you know just forcing down their throat that the only way that you can have validity is to have a career and being a housewife is no longer ok i dont know that thats necessarily the right thing here and its found good to allow children to live in this fantasy world but weve got to give them some truth so that they can begin to grow into skill sets in people who can actually function in the real world taking the 7 dwarfs and making them women and then having snow white travel around the world you know with the prince and theyre not romantically involved i mean this is just changing the entire story i do believe we need to empower women but i dont think we need to emasculate men in the process and i think we should lock the door of speed worse than they should be males. Russias foreign minister will be in washington on the working visit on tuesday say lavrov is expected to me secretary of state my pump President Donald Trump the meeting hasnt been officially confirmed yet but it would come just a day after the u. S. Justice departments watchdog ruled that the f. B. I. Is russia probe was justified and id love to visit also comes against the backdrop of the impeachment inquiry into trump of course being a cold being called ukraine gate aunties morganti of looks at the backlog of pressing International Issues that most go in washington to make progress on. Its hard to imagine a worse time for russia and the us to meet you wait a few years the way things are good and oh it will be even worse which is what some seem to want american pundits more into common to go news rather than reporting it now days are of course obsess fortunately the winds really listening pressing issues at stake things that could no longer be delayed. Things that affect your safety my safety the entire world. Arms control most important car and for short range ballistic weapons ever since the u. S. And russia pulled out of the i. N. F. Treaty locking horns over who had violated the terms things have been escalating understand how awful these things are with your brother of the mill Nuclear Weapons both sides know where they are they can detect launches potentially intercept them with short range intermediate weapons theres no warning these are the sorts of weapons you just dont wait with they launch it here in minutes no time for retaliation which makes both sides and europe protected by the i. M. F. Panicky with these weapons its better to press early rather than late i want we definitely dont want to see our continent 1000000000 back to being a battlefield or a place where. Other superpowers confront themselves this belongs to a far away history. Now another monumental agreement is in the law in the far so to speak the start treaty which limits how many strategic Nuclear Weapons a country can field and its expiring in about a year which is why russia wants a new treaty in place russia is ready to prolong the new start treaty as soon as possible before the end of the year without any preconditions so far no response from washington but rumor has it trump wants a deal that would bring in china to russia wants to marry the recent leaders like 2 weeks ago russia wants to make you feel very much on arms the. World so certainly really. You know. We may be related. All talk for now this is what this meeting is about talking enough to finally result of this. Arms control is just one part of the problem now is waging a p. R. War against russia spies scandals hacking accusations sanctions and threats of more Rudy Giulianis communications with President Trump would be monitored by the russians russia may have been listening and russians are working to so doubt russias Information Warfare the escalation would be sensible little reason and relations gone mad. This is arguably the field where america and russia can do the most really actually make the world just a little bit better cooperation venezuela Work Together in libya north korea that even sort out the mess that is u. S. Policy on iran. Iran isnt going to be really Serious Problems largely gts you assumptions the absolutely legally the americans withdrew from iran you could see you will expect the summit with. This was a shortlist of common issues from the very deadly to the highly inconvenient there are many more which is why even if they achieve nothing this meeting is a good idea it keeps the avenues of dialogue open because if they arent and these problems with it keep mounting well theres only so much a camels back can take. The u. S. Government has dropped Assault Charges against journalist Max Blumenthal he was accused of attacking a supporter of venezuelas selfproclaimed interim president one kwaito i cannot tell you but police came to blumenthals house and detained him on a warrant that was over a 5 month old he spent 2 days in prison with he claims that no access to an attorney the case was based on the testimony of activist and they let. She claims that in may blumenthal and his friend assaulted her during a protest at the Venezuelan Embassy in washington d. C. The journalist says the allegations are false. The case was dropped because it was a phony case based on a false allegation no one assaulted any venezuelan woman outside the embassy in fact it was the the activists in the journalists outside who were being assaulted by a right wing venezuelan opposition that was colluding with the u. S. Secret service in order to starve out group of activists inside the embassy who are defending International Law against the trump administrations who attend are not seeking retribution and seeking justice and protection for other journalists and activists like me because its really scary that someone could be hauled out of their house by a team of cops listed falsely as armed and dangerous and then jailed for 2 days and possibly put on trial because someone who doesnt like their political views decides to level of false allegation against them this could happen to anyone. Could move those independent media out to the gray zone claims that materials relating to the case were not kept or destroyed the journalist himself suspects that because they contained information that would have compromised the secret service. The secret service certainly had to have called an ambulance for the complainant who made this false allegation that she was injured that secret service worker. Indicating with one another during this incident during the food delivery they were present and what i think could be the case here is that theyre concerned that their collusion with this right wing band of hooligans who are used to do what the secret service was legally forbidden from doing which was preventing food and medicine from getting into them to see that it would expose that that collusion and embarrass the secret service who were themselves operating under the watch of the state department its just highly unusual that this would have disappeared. I thank you for joining us hey on the international this Tuesday Morning were back in 30 minutes for the latest join us then if you can. Imagine see chase its a karaoke but this is the go kill some of the 28. 00 precincts which voted yes and we just got a call from 975772 which is now to be clear yes somebody with a gun should not count