Eligible athletes on sunday just a mere two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means that a number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent hockey players and figure skaters again all of whom have never tested positive for doping and yet they will not be forced to watch the games from the sidelines with forty three other other teammates who have been hit by bans earlier and another Gold Medalist who is also thought to be excluded speed skater victor that he thought korean by birth which means that his dreams of competing in his home country are looking rather dim at this point and while condemnation of the decision has continued to flow in thats unlikely to change the i. O. C. Is mind. And number of International Athletes as well as heads of and then pick committees have condemned the pote
Regularly makes reports and invest investigations which criticise the government. We absolutely do that on our we are regulated actually by off tom as well all of our programming and just as joe was describing the process of transport less than to be then the b. B. C. And never find like the b. B. C. Has so this is but this is this is this is the problem anyway moving the goalposts were constantly moving the goalposts something and this is the problem that errors that our team has made and of course weve made errors in our reporting and weve addressed them weve corrected with issued clarifications to inform their audience but when it comes to r. T. Or other alternative voices legitimate alternative voices in the news media those kinds of accusations become a way of just summarily misrepresent the nature of what we do. On tuesday a taliban suicide bomber killed at least ninety five and injured more than one hundred fifty in the afghan capital. The bombing in kabul is the deadliest act o
A culture because Everybody Knows who you know the great figure skaters are so at the end of the day you know if the russians win in hockey or if an individual figure skater or somebody wins they know who they are and everyone knows who they are and they appreciate them as athletes and you know all the hard work and sacrifice that theyve made to be able to compete at the olympic level the players that are on the russian team are guys that we played against from the time we were little kids we know that theyre clean that yeah i mean its really unfortunately politics seems to be slipping into athletics and thats really not that. Cashmore sociology professor at Aston University in the u. K. Says band athletes have not been given enough time to appeal. B. A limb pick tournament itself is an invitation only event and that means that the organizers have the power to exclude nations or individuals willy nilly they can do it as they please there is some kind of attempt to ostracize russia russ
Establish process. And was a plan to make enough to the be no loss of federal funds for north go on at this time in conjunction with the announcements from the department of education, justice for this guidance for transgender students . As alleged North Carolina inconsiderate page hb2, a policy decision that was made hb2, even as agency was considering whether or not the implantation of hb2 would put a range of federally funded programs at risk in the state of North Carolina. A decision that was made was to not withhold any funding until the enforcement action that was announced by the department of justice had made its way through the courts. So that was a very specific thing and that was a response to developments that occurred this week with regard to the situation in North Carolina. This guidance is guidance that has been in the works for years. And, but it is guidance that is broadly consistent with the kinds of principles that this president and this administration have long fou
The Senate Permanent select Intelligence Committee, providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies, and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 19 28, which we know as fisa. Two former Staff Members of the Church Committee are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and help us understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see. Frederick Fritz Schwartz is with our studio is elliot maxwell, who was counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Lets just start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . What was the impetus . Mr. Maxwell most of it came about from a series of articles with activities by the Intelligence Community within the United States and followed by many people. This was in the context of the postwatergate resignation of president nixon. By still continuing the vietnam war there was the thought that the intelligence agencies