of russia s deputy prime minister of a telling what co has temporarily stepped down as head of the country s football federation and is considering quitting as head of the twenty eight thousand world cup organizing committee resignation comes three weeks after the international olympic committee handed him a lifelong ban over his alleged involvement in state sponsored doping of russian athletes what co says he is stepping aside in order to appeal the ban at the court of arbitration for sport. at the beginning of december the i.o.c. is executive board were presented with reports containing evidence of systematic doping in russia and they came to the following conclusion that the russian olympic committee is suspended with immediate effect. russian athletes and the olympic committee were the only ones to be banned. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be accredited for the olympic winter games be on trial two thousand and
here in germany oliva will be celebrating his premier and dashing from one christmas celebration to the next. now second division german soccer team winning on berlin have been battling to reach the bundesliga for many errors but it just hasn t happened yet still every christmas the club makes headlines because of a much loved tradition twenty eight thousand fans packed their stadium to sing festive carols. that was. testifying nothing and started back in two thousand and three now ballin fans make the annual pilgrimage to their stadium not for football but for singing their moms would do exactly like we did at the start all or all music we re all bill and fans wrote amateurs on the stage and in the crowd we come that s all part of the charm only all have become synonymous with christmas in germany not just because they
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woman of color to win the u.k. s most prestigious art toward the turner prize well the judges praised him it for what they called her quote uncompromising tackling a tough issues like lonia lism and racism at sixty three m. it is the oldest artists to receive the twenty eight thousand year old prize after organizers scrapped a rule requiring nominees to be younger than fifty. what if i let you go and remind you of our top story this hour u.s. president donald trump is expected to announce plans to move america s embassy in israel to jerusalem palestinians and arab states warn it could threaten the mideast peace process and russian president vladimir putin says he will run for another term in office he s been in power for eighteen years and will seek reelection in elections next march. on iraq in berlin on behalf of all of us
a day after russia was banned from competing in the twenty eight thousand winter olympics for state sponsored doping the kremlin says that it will take time to consider its response twenty two individual athletes are appealing against lifetime bans handed down by the international olympic committee and any russian athletes that come through that they are clean of doping will be allowed to compete as neutrals but time is short with just ten weeks before the games begin in south korea. the russian team has always called the are at the winter olympics but that is set to change in twenty eight saying the i.o.c. says clean athletes can compete under a neutral flag but russia could still boycott the games and for fear that plates from competing opinion in the country is divided some feel their athletes should only compete under a russian flag. you can stick to them i think there will be very few athletes who will be great to compete under unusual flag but if someone does i would tell them to