A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Russian athletes have expressed both anger and frustration after the continuing fallout from the doping scandal so the country banned from all major world tournaments for the next 4 years the decision was made by the World Antidoping Agency water bottom or putin has given his backing to russias athletes. Because the. Punishment must not be collective the 13 people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are new complaints against the Russian Olympic Committee if there are no complaints the country should compete and do its National Flag as stated in the olympic charter it means that why this decision contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal to cas water took the action after it ruled moscow had tampered with a key drug test database but while clean athletes will still be able to compete theyll be forced to do so under a neutral flag russian officials harbor are prohibited from attending major events in the country it wont be allowed to host any tournaments either now the list of doors slammed in russia speaks now is rather extensive it includes the olympic and Paralympic Games in tokyo in 2020 and footballs 5th world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was of course the last host about a band and its players will now have to go as neutrals if they qualify russian swimmer you are if your mother is among those athletes who have to prove their queen she failed a drug test in 2013 and was suspended for 16 months before the olympics she received another suspension for elderly in use but took the matter to sports highest court and won she was reinstated and went on to win 2 silver medals heres what she thinks about the water decision. With the shots still struggle how could they punish the whole country all athletes no matter whether they deserve it or not they should just punish those who were guilty one of they are from risaldar 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 on the neutral sled but they dont want to see the russian flag there or anyone representing our country. So we now have on the book i have already hired a lawyer however funny is that to my sound in ordinary life if you break a rule once it doesnt matter if its a drive in the fans were fired you will not be punished twice for that i hope it will worth now but i cant be sure about that but it could be worse than it was before rio i was reinstated for the olympics almost on the very day the games began and i was sick for half a year now and not react in the same way even if im not allowed to compete im almost a grandma for the world of sport then thats my fate and what can i do i just want to advise other athletes not to worry and to hire lawyers dont expect anyone to help you help yourself. What i have given the russian Antidoping Agency 21. 00 days to decide if it wants to appeal it ops to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport alexi or shops he breaks down the water ruling for us. Imagine a person that robs a bank steals lets say a 1000000. 00 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 stole more so were going to put in prison 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 russian athletes can compete individually but they have to again prove that they have not used any kind of doping by. 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 or 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 d the problem of fighting against doping youre not. Proven guilty and im in and you dont do to youre guilty until you can prove youre innocent a complete reversal of Justice System but its always been that way youve got to think about whats on the World Antidoping Agency has jurisdiction but it doesnt at yours dictionary to the russian authorities become sanction Russian Politicians for all it can do essentially 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. 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 exam. That is probably the situation with you wait for and feel for tournament where were you where you quite expect to. Be sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming your. First of all its a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for could part when you 2. Is again within the competence of us 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 and if youre not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas 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 ban is implemented late it might miss out on the 2024 summer elim big 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 bible club golf insists that all the information for the reinstatement of 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 has all the necessary opportunities they 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 the 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 cast the court of arbitration for sports in los on switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year where the decision was balanced on the basis of the proofs i have my doubts here because what is not clear to me is how they did find out that there should be many people asian on the russians who is guaranteeing that data is from the restall blower were not money that it causes a reputational damage to the russians board because everybody is now thinking that the russian at least or all daughters which is of course not true and. Put only on russia we all know a lot of the open cases are coming also from all the nationality clits and that means. Now actually easily to be one sided. Just behind me you can see live pictures from paris where french people have again taken to the streets against president microns plans to overhaul the Pension System in recent days the country seen violence protests any number of cities with more from paris. Well as you can see we are in the thick of it the country is trying to deliver their message to the government just one day before it now says their final plans for pension reform in france although we did hear from the countrys Prime Minister that for them for now there is no intention to change their plans if we dont make serious profound and progressive reform today someone else will make a much more brutal reform tomorrow i hope that we can convince a majority of french people that our reform is fair it is universal it makes the special Pension Plans gradually disappear and is financially balanced not just for a moment let me give you a clearer picture of who these people are for instance i mean weve already been used to the yellow vests but as you can see these are orange and what it says on them is s. N. C. F. This is the French Railway company which is by the way one of the main driving forces of the protests you can imagine what happens if the entire system. Railroad workers what if they go on strike son like that has already been facing that at one point you know almost 85 percent of the Railway Staff members white rice and this really caused the countrys transport system. To study about real world war i can tell you that the professions range from air Traffic Controllers to actually Police Officers and lawyers so this is just how vast it is. Like i said before even police Union Support the strike and actually in fact different opinion polls say that from 50 to 70. Percent of the french population are supporting whats going on in the street in the streets of france right now but i do have to mention though that a last week protests in various cities of these countries did turn ugly and violent. I can tell you that most of the slogans that we are hearing in these protests are aimed directly against the president emanuel macron one you can see right here it says macro dont touch my retirement i can tell you that the pension reform is pretty much his brainchild and thats why so many people are angry at him specifically over but this comes soon may be. Over but it does not come here to move money 1st but to reform who we are to everybodys. In the u. S. The attempt to remove donald trump from the white house has taken a key move forward with the house announcing that 2 specific articles of impeachment against the president live now to our correspondent with the details killed is this cause for concern for the president. Well we now have 2 official articles that have been drawn up the specific charges are abuse of power and obstruction lets take a listen to some of whats been going on in the hearings that have been proceeding on capitol hill. A president who declares himself above accountability above the American People and a vote of congresss power of impeachment which is meant to protect against threats to our Democratic Institutions is the president in season so as above the law. Now the long awaited a horowitz report has been released document in the crossfire hurricane operation of surveillance of 4 Trump Campaign figures now this report is 476 pages long and it didnt seem to back up what many had expected it to contain talk of a conspiracy against trump however it did seem to indicate that the u. S. Central Intelligence Agency was dishonest with the public regarding some of their activities apparently what came up was that john brennan the cia director he had been dishonest regarding the infamous salacious steal dot ca lets take a listen to that. And you know if the bureau ever relied on a steel dossier is as part of any Court Filings cations petitions pleadings have no awareness. To the cia rely on no one. Because we we did it wasnt part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had it was not in any way used as a basis for the until screen assessment that was done. It was it was not. Now page 179. 00 of the newly released report seems to indicate that what john brennan was saying was not the truth apparently according to the report it was part of the conversation the steel dossier was how it could be integrated if at all if the i. C. Thought it was assessment they thought it was important enough and consistent enough that it ought to be part of the package in some way so they had to come up with a way to make the idea and thats a quote from the report that would be according to james komi the f. B. I. Director in the contents of the report so it appears that the impeachment proceedings are moving ahead we now have official articles that have been drawn up according to the u. S. Constitution and the word of the senate. Trial however the republicans have a solid majority in the u. S. Senate so it remains to be seen whether or not they will actually proceed and convene a trial now that we do have official articles from the democrats. Are to scale mop and stain cross the latest for us thank you. Staying in the u. S. Capitol russias foreign minister has just arrived there for a working visit Sergey Lavrov is expected to meet secretary of state might come pale and possibly President Trump that meeting hasnt been officially confirmed yet but it would come just a day after the u. S. Justice departments watchdog the f. B. I. Is russia was justified and of course the visit also comes against the backdrop of that impeachment inquiry that we are speaking of have looked at the backlog of pressing International Issues that moscow and washington hope to make progress on but. Its hard to imagine a worse time for russia and the u. S. To meet but its you wait a few years the way things are good and oh it will be even worse pressing issues at stake things that could no longer be delayed things that affect you a safety my 60 the entire world. World. Arms control most important current 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 brand 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 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 1000000 back to being a battlefield or a place where. Other superpowers confront themselves 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 but 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 make a deal very much on arms. 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 resolve 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 corporator and venezuela Work Together in libya north korea that even sort out the mess that these u. S. Policy on iran. Iran is undergoing some very Serious Problems largely due to u. S. Sanctions to use absolutely illegally the americans withdrew from iran you could see you will expect the sites to implement it this was a short list 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 nice problems with it keep mounting well theres only so much a camels back can take. But amir putin has expressed fears of a massacre if care takes back control over the rest of don bus territory in the east of ukraine without guaranteeing safety to citizens living there. The mc law hasnt been put in place yet we decided on that in 2015 some decisions have been made but it hasnt been put into force the ukrainian side is always saying let us close the border without force i can imagine what happens then srebrenica nothing more. Live now to r. T. Correspondent Daniel Hawkins for the details daniel those are some rather surprising words from the russian president coming out the back of the successful normandy for meeting yesterday you know the very strong words given just yesterday there seemed to be progress on some disengagement zones on a all for all Prisoner Exchange even on a potential cease fire why new year this is very much a surprise the question oberkfell ukrainian control over the Ukraine Russia border not the disengagement line itself but the russian border remains the Sticking Point well why is this of putins concern is about far right nationalist militias present in the area concerned about zilinskas ability to control these the ukrainian president of course rose to power on a platform of unity on a plot of healing political rifts and divides in the country but these right wing nationalist militias politicians etc seem to be uncontrollable and they view any sort of negotiation any sort of compromise as a capitulation as a surrender their regular express their anger and disdain for any sort of negotiations in fact thousands of them rallied in the ukrainian capital of kiev just on the eve of these negotiations led by parties such as for border and the now Opposition Leader Petro Poroshenko who called the fans essential for a boycott of these talks now putin expressed concerns about the way is the lenski is handling the question of these right wing militias. Visit incidents weve seen zelinsky holding talks with nationalists its unclear who is stronger and what happens there and who will be leading those nationalists when they enter that territory without any guarantees for people this is one of the problems which surely is of the political nature. Of these right wing nationalist undercurrents have been weaponized in ukraine over the last 5 years both politically but also in a direct sense these armed militias on the front lines of that disengagement border with the desk and the lookouts republics and theyve been accused of multiple Human Rights Violations even war crimes alleged by so many European International bodies as well so one could understand the concern by the russian president of allowing armed groups or the regular soldiers volunteers who have these associations these far right nancy right wing beliefs into an area with 3 and a half 1000000 civilians and allowing them full control over entry and exit points some of these battalions as we say the hours of the dawn must but islands have been accused of some pretty terrible things and that is the concern that allowing them full control over the area could lead to war crimes. Now the sort of massacre of course was the killing of thousands of bosniak men and boys by bosniak Paramilitary Forces in 95. 00 recognized as genocide by multiple european and International Bodies of course putin here is perhaps illustrating a point he may be using colorful language but that doesnt distract from the question of how to. Proceed along about moment before agreement talks of the full control of the border is one of the key points to fulfill. The role of the ukrainians want not fulfilled now raul the later was from moscow this is a sort of final to achieve the how to control these right wing paramilitary militias accused all of these as we say Human Rights Violations and sometimes war crimes is a question that wont go away and will likely need to be addressed before any further progress is made arties Daniel Hawkins thank you for bringing us that report. The u. S. Government has dropped Assault Charges against journalist Max Blumenthal he was accused of attacking a supporter of venezuelas selfproclaimed interim president won by doe back in october Police Arrested blumenthal at his home on a 5 month old warrant he spent 2 days in prison with he claims no access to a lawyer the case was based on the testimony of activist chico 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 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 coup attempt or 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 is 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 him this could happen to anyone. Blumenthals independent media outlet the gray zone claims materials relating to the case were not kept or destroyed the journalist himself suspects thats because they contain 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 were communicating 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 were used to do what the secret service was legally forbidden from doing which is preventing food and medicine from getting into them to see that it would expose that that collusion and embarrass the secret service who are themselves operating under the watch of the state department its just highly unusual that this would have disappeared. Our team has asked the police to comment on blumenthals case and well bring you any response here we receive. Thats a global news update for this hour but dont forget you can always had to our website r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. 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