The athletes and our criminal liability. And the french government pushes forward with its new pension reform which has already led to days of mass demonstrations civil unrest and strike action. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our th here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. A suicide bomber has detonated his car outside one of americas main military outposts in afghanistan the Bagram Airfield the attack comes not long after trump surprise thanksgiving visit to the same base local media report a powerful blast hit a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the air bases main gate according to local media the attack has claimed at least. In life with as many as 62 others injured and the reports suggested the suicide bomber had targeted a new u. S. Military convoy though american officials deny that the american president flew to afghanistan and visited the airbase in late november for things giving a speaking to the military personnel there f
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
A putin has expressed fears of a massacre of kiev takes back control over the rest of us territory in the east of ukraine without guaranteeing 1st safety to the citizens living there. The arms the law has 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 with our force i can imagine what happens then srebrenica nothing more. Than a dinner for marty correspondent down whole can see joins me on the london surprising somewhat i think the words from the russian president when you look at what seemed like a successful normandy formating take us through what was said your very strong words as well given it was all handsets and smiles yesterday at the Summit Press Conference a lot of progress made the key Sticking Point though of course remain is that hand over all full control of the ukrainian russian border to Ukrainian Forces why is this a problem while putin is concern
Here watching our 2 international bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program a lot of reporting has expressed fears of a massacre if kiev takes back control over the rest of donbass territory in the east of ukraine without guaranteeing safety to citizens living there. The mc law has made put in place yet we decided on that 2015 some decisions have been made by hasnt been put into force the ukrainian side is always saying let us close the border with force i can imagine what happens then srebrenica nothing more. Were joined live by our correspondent Daniel Hawkins for more now daniel those are some rather surprising words from the russian president coming off the back of the successful normandy for a meeting yesterday you know very strong was indeed given there was some Movement Forward yesterday with agreements on the Prisoner Exchange on some disengagement zones even a potential cease fire the key Sticking Point though as we heard there remai
Behalf of each of our 2 countries in a way that keeps each of our 2 countries consistent with the vienna conventions and consistent with the important relationship between the United States and russia and were determined to do that we talked about that today there have been conversations among my team and for mr lavrov team in the last handful of weeks on this very set of issues more working to make sure that any of the problems we work through we can resolve im very confident the United States concer service is every bit as efficient as the Russian Consular Service and that we can we can deliver on behalf of the fisa program in a way thats consistent with the important relationship between our 2 countries you asked me 1st about the commercial relationship between our 2 nations i i mentioned a moment ago in response to a previous question we hope theres some significant progress that we can announce here in just the next short period of time about how we would move our economic relatio