Draw at an air show in dubai. Russia has closed a laboratory after allegations of widespread cheating among athletes. The sports minister vigorously denied the World Agency Anti doping claims, saying the allegations that the f. It was state sponsored are fictional. They collect 15,000 samples annually, roll in the disqualification of 2 of those tested. He has accused of double standards. Crossing over to lee wellings, joining us from london to tell us whether the anti doping authorities had any other option other than to suspend this laboratory. The russians absolutely had to close down this laboratory. That is not in itself, as you can tell from the tone an admission of guilt. There is no point in this laboratory existing if it doesnt join up with the rest of the accredited laboratories and the world anti doping agency. If they suggest it needs to be shut down, it needed to be shut down. The russians are saying they will try to find a way to tackle doping going forward. Overall, there
Russias Sports Ministry has said its not surprised by the latest allegations that drugs cheating is widespread in russian athletics but in a mixed message the sport minister also completely rejected the world Antidoping Agencys conclusions and charlie described the accusations that doping in russia was state sponsored as baseless and fictional and also insisted russia doping agencies are totally independent and collect 15,000 samples annually with disqualification of 2 of athletes tested and accused double standards and claiming similar investigations are not commissioned in other countries and rory challenge has more from moscow. Takes work to unpick what has been said by the Sports Ministry here in russia but ive been doing that over the last few hours and i can detect three different strands in their message, the first is compliance, essentially the Sports Ministry is saying whatever the iaaf decides in a week or so russia will comply with that. It is going to adhere to the decision
The u. N. . Two americans are shot dead at a Training Camp in jordan. We begin with the election in myanmar. European observers say on the whole, the vote counting has been transparent. Their main concerns are the low number of muslim candidates and the low participation candidates of women. Members of myanmars ruling party have been conceding defeat. Its predicted to ends up winning about 70 of the votes. Florence looie reports from langon. Right. We will come back to that story a little bit later but the Russian Sports minister rejected allegations of running a statessponsored doping program. There have been calls for russia to be banned from next years olympics after a damming report detailing accusations of drug cheating. A report from geneva. Reporter in the swiss sunshine, a dark day for the sport of athletics, an independent Commission Set up by the world Antidoping Agency, wada, to investigate claims of systemic doping in russia returned its verdict . Our recommendation is that
Is a big draw and one of the Worlds Largest air shows will be in dubai. Russias Sports Ministry has said it is not surprised by latest allegations that drug cheating is widespread in athletics but in a mixed message they completely rejected the worlds antidoping agencys conclusions and described the accusations that doping in russia were state sponsored as baseless and fictional and also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent and says they collect 15,000 samples annually with disqualification of roughly 2 of the athletes tested and he is accused of double standards saying investigations are not commissioned in other countries and lets speak to rory challenge live in moscow and rory tell us more about what the russian Sports Ministry is saying because there is some confusion if its agreeing there is a problem here. Well, it does take a little bit of analysis to unpick the different comments that have come out of the Sports Ministry in the last few hours since the wider
Exit the world body. And germany mourns the loss of a former chancellor. Russia has been forced to close a laboratory after allegations of widespread drug cheating among itself athletes. Despite that the sports minister has vigorously denied the world antidopes agencys claims. He also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent. He says they collect 15,000 samples annually, resulting in the disqualification of roughly 2 of athletes tested. He has accused the agency of double standards claiming similar investigations are not commissioned in other countries. Lets speak to lee wellings joining us from london. A strong sense of denial coming out of russia despite the laboratory closing down. Yeah, they had to close. There was no point in it being opened, because it was designed to link up with all of the other laboratories around the world, and the World Antidoping Agency runs all of them. And they suggested that it has to be closed down. It is of course, completely discredite