Hello and welcome to the wake of the biggest stories covered right here on the past 7 days 1st the prospects for russian athletes the countries being kicked out of all International Sporting events for the next 4 years punishment the World Antidoping Agency for moscow tampering with a key database of test results from russian athletes. This is a russia that protects the rights of russia. But the reentry for make sure is. Able to demonstrate that they are not. Me we. Comply what is important thing to this decision is that we are really sanctioning those who are responsible for this many pollutions and leave those open for those who hurt nothing to do is being scandal in russia clean. Being able to 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 want an objective decision lets do it like this was saddam has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach a blow for sure but as you heard water says the clean athletes will be able to compete under a digital flag russian officials are now prohibited from attending major sporting event while the country also will be allowed to host any tournament whats more the list of events that russia is now being excluded from is extensive and includes the olympic and Paralympic Games coming up in tokyo next summer and also 4 balls world cup in cattle 2 years after that russia of course was the host of that event last time around its players though now will have to go as neutrals if they qualify water insists that the onus is on the clean players to prove that they are playing next our Sports Correspondent alexy irish ascii breaks down the water ruling for us. That is quite a clear how exactly stripping and they send off its flag in a major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve d the problem of fighting against doping youre not innocent until Proven Guilty in anti doping until youre guilty and city can prove youre innocent its a complete reversal of the normal Justice System but its always been that way youve got to think about whats on the World Antidoping Agency has jurisdiction but it doesnt have jurisdiction over the russian authorities become sanction Russian Politicians and all it can do is censure resell it and take actions relative to sports so its come up with this International Standard to code compliance by signatories which is used to sanction russia this time round. On top of everything it seems that waters 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 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 compartmented to. Is again within the competence of your for it 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 you are not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cast 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 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 cast the court of arbitration for sports in switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year as this is a punitive action against including begin to shift ones im not convinced me more im just. Not going to particularly with this new evidence of this against them this may be raising a human rights issue with. Go. To grays this before the court of protection order im not entirely certain we have to accept that there is a when we think of them and they are involved and i think theyre actually pretty applying of am big news for more and multi of crusades here they once were softer in terms of a lot for a month or so are they rushed into the election russian rockets or expect with great anticipation to see what the i. O. C. Is restore. Point in thats what its doing its like saying im going to come into your house take the keys away from you and ill decide who comes and goes out. On top of all that the roof is in the Sports Community that the ban could be motivated generation a future athletes. How can you ban entire team and not only ban a type team in that entire sports from a country for 4 years its absolutely ridiculous its an overkill this little water should do its job and do with claims concerning individual athletes not with the country as a whole they have a dream like god the so there was 18 years old to go to their lives what it will do. For their country for the love of this sport for the love of their country and try to be the one to pull with their coats a lot of this dont want to do. What. Sport is being dragged down by politics in a place where politics should be completely absent sport is becoming costly. For you friends of politics intensely in this desire to disqualify Different National team why does decision to ban russia will affect everybody and it will cause a great shock. I would say the decisions either politicized would just incorrect. What kind of message is out. To our children and we always talk about. The youth our mission because that is tomorrow where we began the whole culture from participating to kill all out of you wish that the 1st and foremost this will affect children and their interest in sport. By our children taking their future away with they want to do what they love away because of what a couple individuals did in the past is just i mean its ludicrous there doesnt make any sense at all. Boris johnsons conservative policy want to resoundingly after a strong showing at britains historic general election on thursday as for the opposition labor liberal democrat parties then now both looking for new leaders north of the border it was a decisive win for the Scottish National party which has reignited their calls for another independence referendum from the u. K. Heres how the Party Leaders reacted to a dramatic night in westminster and the results sank in. Proud to say that members of our new one nation government a peoples government will sit out from constituencies that have never returned a conservative m. P. For 100 years and yes they will have an overwhelming mandate from this election to get done and we will honor that mandate by general the 31st of all not only the party in any future general Election Campaign i will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take Going Forward stunning election win last night for the s. N. P. Is reinforces and strengthens the mandate we have from previous elections to offer the people of scotland a choice over their future that monday it says that it is for the Scottish Parliament nor a westminster government to the saide weather and when the should be a new referendum on independence a quick look at the numbers the recovered the 650 seats in the house of commons so a party needs 326 to come out a majority the conservatives swept past that with 365 seats while labor got 203. 00 thats the lowest result since the 1930 s. Saskia taylor takes a look at how the u. K. Got to this point. Thursday saw the 3rd general election in just 4 years so how did we end up on this roller coaster again last well my friends its the usual suspect yeah you guessed it. Sits to play it turns out that decision taken by those 17400000 people in june 26th exit the e. U. Set off a Chain Reaction thats led to this moment but im guessing ahead of myself lets start from the beginning the british people have made a very clear decision to take a different part of my view we should aim to have a new Prime Minister in place ok so now were down one Prime Minister lets see how the next one fat a couple of weeks later to resume a took on the and then doable role of finding a way through the brics that wilderness and she was very clear about her goal bricks it means bricks it rex it means bricks it and where were going to make a success of the original deadline was set for march 29th teen oh those early days of optimism but this is possibly the most Divisive Political issue the u. K. Has faced in recent memory m. P. s have never felt so important all powerful so its unsurprising that may was thwarted at every turn by those less willing to cut ties with our european friends fed up she decided to go in and call a snap election in june 2017 we need a general election and we need one now but it was a gamble that just didnt pay off the conservatives lost the majority theyd been counting on tide already me to also taught at this point every single british citizen your charge of the infighting your charge of the political games and the arcane procedural rounds but disappointment in the polls was really the least of maize proper. The opposition tried to get rid of her own m. P. s tried to get rid of her and then she said shed get rid of herself if only theyd back deal which they didnt and it just ended up being too much for may she decided to finally hang up put heels i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love ok so now were down to Prime Ministers whos our lucky introducing Boris Johnson former mayor of london a bit of a gaffe. Just like his predecessor he was absolutely adamant that hed be the one to get it done can you make a promise today to the British Public that you will not go back to brussels and ask for another delay to practice it yet and so you can and would you. Do us credit hes really gone for it he was sick of parliament blocking his ideas so dissolved. Dissolved so then he went to the e. U. And negotiated a new deal which parliament defeated and then they forced to quest and not the extension which really really really didnt want to do but to do anyway and then she just decided enough so not so wasnt she taunted the Opposition Party after facing off at a general election in order to quote get it done which my friends i think brings you up today. Looking ahead when we started out a few experts and politicians from around the u. K. For their views on the Election Results and possible consequences. Now boris can go into a meeting to negotiate and the you can be certain that whats agreed in that meeting will actually get through parliament the big problem that weve had so far is really any suggestion that was made seem to run into this blocking wall in parliament who were determined to vote against just about everything the labor party used to say they were voting against against Different Solutions called this interim election then they voted against an election as well as a small force i think is the sentiment of the people of scotland that is not based on the views of any one politician this period to the sentiment of People Scotland has been moving gradually no rapidly towards independence but at least an overwhelming view that scotland should have the right to determine its own future that is the chain suck that is the better system will force the a movable object is bought us johnson though it may well be that. Bought us jobs and put these things out in that they can hold back the floods generally speaking that sort of politics gives out eventually and i would have my moneys on the other system will force as opposed to the movable object in terms of standing the test of time and the course of the last 2 years the unionist political electoral majority was ended as a result of this election unionist Political Representation in the north has been reduced to a minority and not quite safe to make and the context not only of the bracks issue but also with respect to the unfolding constitutional debate in ireland north and so yes. This is our still to come on the weekly afghanistan sees more violence as details emerge on the scale of the u. S. Led military campaign they may have revealed over into that and more in 90 seconds. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have. Let it be an arms race. Very dramatic. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Its a going to be for us this is what the 3 of the more people. Interested in the waters. Of the weeks news now on tuesday a suicide bomber detonated his car outside one of americas main military outposts in afghanistan. The attack came not long after a surprise thanksgiving visit by President Trump local media reported a powerful blast hitting a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the bases main gate the attackers reportedly claimed at least one life but as many as 62 others injured initial reports suggested the suicide bomber targeted a u. S. Military convoy the american officials deny that. Against this backdrop a revealing news articles appeared in the u. S. Which details of years of deliberate this information on the part of top american officials who it transpires have been putting on a brave face despite knowing the unpalatable truth about the afghan war. Hundreds of thousands dead trillions of dollars lost generations traumatized but you know what nothing good comes easy nothing in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. All that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and were doing a tremendous job. And as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest and al qaeda and we. Weve got them down very low numbers you didnt need to be nostradamus or clairvoyant to know that someone was telling bull its just logical fallacy you cant keep fighting the same guys for 20 years and claim the joule winning but then appearances must be kept up its important that everyone thinks youre winning right up to the moment you admit you lost why well its obvious no one has the remotest clue we were trying to do here we didnt have the focus notion of what we were undertaking there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front end of the stated objectives grew lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and wed never have known if it hadnt been thousands of secret and classified documents on afghanistan and stuff from the white house from the pentagon the un and the various n. G. O. S well we would have known its pretty damn obvious that the war is going terribly but who says mouth and all that it is worth considering what the president the deficient said and what they actually believed when i called our troops in action i did so with complete confidence in their courage and skill and tonight. Thanks to them. We are winning the war on terror. And. Today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror are we capturing killing or deterring a dissuading more terrorists every day done them addresses on the radical clerics are recruiting training and deploying against us does the us need to fashion a broad integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists the us is putting relatively little effort into a long range plan but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists the cost benefit ratio is against us see when youre in your 2nd term and you started a really messy war that you just realized you cant hope to win there only so many ways to save your own but heres a list of words you should use courage democracy kids schools and hospitals and for the people that dont buy your baloney get a hope in there as well thanks to the courage of these military and civilian personnel a nation that was once a safe haven for al qaeda is now a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school new roads and hospitals are being built and people are looking to the future with new hope also poor in money into huge Infrastructure Projects to obligate money that was appropriated to so we could spend it through Building Infrastructure in ways that have again instant could never sustain or even the use in some cases if youre a nato country taxpayer i honestly dont believe you can comprehend how much of your money was poured into this adventure you 1st need to understand the sheer degree of incompetence that these leaked documents show imagine for example someones putting together a crew for a bank heist they invite a bunch of people give them a time and place and tell no one what their role is no plan so everyone shows up thinking that. Everyone outs knows what to do and things go as you would expect now is the time to save your own heidi lets add a few more words difficult days human rights confidence success we will reward Good Governance work to reduce corruption and support the rights of all afghans men and women alike. There will be difficult days ahead but i am absolutely confident we will succeed. You just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state in society and not have if you corruption you just cant a legacy of mass corruption thats putting it lightly what else did you expect the guys on the ground they saw disaster they were reported back to washington washington with its countless departments that now have the courage to stand up and say they screwed up so they put up appearances everyone was doing what made them look best rather than what worked best interesting enough many of the documents were published with the name Lessons Learned perhaps an effort to extract something anything of value from this unmitigated disaster but you know i didnt have got a star not long ago and after seeing what i saw there i can tell you all asli i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are putting them to use. These efforts for Eastern Ukraine showed signs of progress this week the leaders of Russia Ukraine france and germany held 6 hours of talks in paris aimed at resolving the violence there the conflict broke out back in 2014 with the Eastern Region seeking independence from care of the nominee for for massive talks has been in hiatus for over 3 years but president putin and ukraines leader of limited entity both describe the latest meeting as positive. Just to put the plane you conclude is there a thaw 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. Which shook us said some said it with regards to our peace efforts we have met and i think its a great step towards peace the meeting was long and difficult but the mood of the meeting is a positive thing. And a written statement all parties committed to a comprehensive cease fire by the end of this year and the complete all for all prisoner swap as well and also pledged to withdraw troops from certain conflict zones before next april and to ensure that the areas would be mined thats the weekly for their south and for watching more next on the internet titans and how that all powerful algorithms might on any help you navigate the web but perhaps shape your online decisions to. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks on the population of belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mob was striking to put these attacks was a p. R. You see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the collusion was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into the now were getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is. The water where all the taste since you thought was going on and give the go ahead. You know world of big part of the movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other that its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes watching the hawks. Welcome to worlds apart after 17 months of acrimony the United States and china have decided against slapping each other with additional tariffs but with major differences in aims perceptions and values still remaining it looks like the relationship is set to be dysfunctional or at least troubled for years to come while one quarrel might have been defused by bigger more dangerous fights still on the cards well to discuss that im now joined by salon han denizen chair of International History and diplomacy at deflector school Tufts University professor han its good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for having me on its a pleasure to be here now we are recording this program on friday evening moscow time when the american and Chinese Media bazin with the news that the 2 countries have agreed against introducing additional tariffs and potentially cutting the existing ones where do you place this quarrel and its timely resolution that within the grand scheme of things of the u. S. China relationship. Thats a great question to start with i think there are a few things to say 1st of all if the agreement holds thats a terrific thing and it can lead to building on the agreement to improve the relationship in other areas which will get to. I think one of the things thats been interesting for people watching us trying our relations. Is that it deals tend to be. Difficult to sustain if you look at the negotiations over trade with china if you look at u. S. Negotiations with europe the deals seem to be on and then they seem to be off i think the chinese have been more or less prepared for this given whats happening. And if you looked at the diplomacys particularly the trade diplomacy they were conducting during the trade negotiations with the United States there was a sense that the United States was not the only game in town the brics mattered african countries mattered courting japan mattered and chinas sense of its Foreign Relations was that while achieving a deal with the u. S. Was important one would also have to prepare for a non deal or a deal that made life much more difficult and this is where the broader context of u. S. China relations comes and the 1st thing to remember is that the last few years have seen a deterioration of relationships not just on the trade front but if you think if the security front if you think of the changes in Chinese Society under xi jinping there are sources of tension that extend well beyond the trade deal whether they are technological whether theyre political whether they have to do with systemic change the idea that china as a rising power in the u. S. Is a status quo power that the 2 sides at least for now have decided to you ex change small deals and d we are yet to know. Who benefits from more because i mean some could argue that on the on the eve of the christmas sales and in the light of the overall