[inaudible conversations] please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took pl
Well welcome to you this monday youre watching r. T. International with medicare and now our top story russian athletes are holding their breath with the World Antidoping Agency or wada deciding on monday whether their National Team will be disqualified from International Sports for the next 4 years is russia was accused of tampering with a doping test database they handed over to the body earlier this year where russian sport is facing a number of possible sanctions including a ban on participation in International Tournament among them next years tokyo summit games on the beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 its officials could also be barred from sporting executive bodies additionally the country could be banned from hosting or attempting to host any major sporting events and on top of all that the russian flag might not be seen at any competitions any time soon. Well the Russian Olympic Committee says waters recommendations are a lot equal and inadequate the scandal broke when wanda ana
A blanket ban and which is unfair because it punishes the innocent as well as the guilty. The leaders of france germany russia and ukraine are meeting in paris on monday to thrash out a road map to peace in Eastern Ukraine president putin has just arrived in paris for the summit are detailed to trying to report on what the 4 leaders are in to achieve. The bloody conflict in east ukraine between the pro russian breakaway republics of donetsk and lugansk and kiev has been sorted for years now theres only one crucial remark its been sorted on paper the step by step peace plan is called the mids big remains and this came into being thanks to the efforts by the leaders of germany france ukraine and russia this quartet became known as the normandy for well during the 5 years of the existence of the peace plan and weve kept hearing from all kinds of politicians from east to west that the minsk agreements are the only way to go to support the implementation of the minsk agreement because the r
There good evening and thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Rusher is being kicked out of all International Sporting events for the next 4 years punishment so says the World Antidoping Agency for moscow tampering with a key database of test results from russian athletes duplicate was that water press conference in those up. What are officials announcing a unilateral decision over a 4 year ban on russia taking part in major sporting events during that period meaning that russian athletes wont be able to compete and the ban over russia nor will they be able to fly the russian flag at those major events those major events could include tokyo 2020 and also the world athletics championships is also suggestion that this could impact the football world cup in 2022 now those sanctions go much further than that it means that russia wont be able to host nor be able to bid for any major sporting events during that 4 year period russian officials wont be able to go in an official cap
Thanks for joining us this. Pressure is being kicked out of all International Sporting events for the next 4 years punishment says the World Antidoping Agency for tampering with a key database of test results from russian athletes. Press conference in lhasa. What are officials announcing a unilateral decision over a 4 year ban on russia taking part in major sporting events during that period meaning that russian athletes wont be able to compete and the ban over russia nor will they be able to fly the russian flag at those major events those major events could include tokyo 2020 and also the world athletics championships is also suggestion that this could impact the football world cup in 2022 russia wont be able to host nor be able to bid for any major sporting events during that 4 year period russian officials wont be able to go in an official capacity to those games nor will officials in russia be able to sit on the boards of major sporting committees all boards during that time when