Officials and wada and by extension also Richard Mclaren who has reported on alleged doping across russian sport started all this back in two thousand and sixteen of course so where is the blood coming from between these two organizations well according to the emails it looks like water is pushing back against the i. O. C. Reportedly was one point was actually making attempts to withdraw from i. O. C. Jurisdiction i mean they could both tast and punish athletes that they found to be guilty of any sort of doping violations and apparently the i. O. C. Was strongly against the idea of water become becoming jury judge and executioner on that front and an email about a meeting where such a move was discussed detailed mistrust and tension aimed at i. O. C. Members and i say that according to one of the leaked emails i. O. C. Officials even accused mcclaren of flat out lying about their level of communication between the two organizations as well is that correct yes theres another email from the i. O. C. Is director general to richard michael. There and reportedly showing that the i. O. C. Has been baffled by statements that mclaren was making to the press saying that the i. O. C. Leadership had never gotten in touch with him and according to the i. O. C. Thats one hundred percent false they claim to have reached out to him a number of times offering assistance and further cooperation with him and if that is true that those statements to the press were completely false the question becomes why would mclaren be making statements such as that if theyre not true what was the motivation behind such a lie and we talked about the i. O. C. Was talking about what they were talking about mclaren im going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes thats one of the really interesting bits according to an email allegedly written by i. O. C. Officials in response to mclarens reports they believe that those reports had a very very specific aim lets take a listen to an excerpt of for the problem was created by your report seemingly being used to try and justify total burn of the complete Russian Olympic Team from the rio games in the chuang games when in fact the International Olympic committee and the International Sports federations were simply not of the view that a collective punishment should be or should have been imposed upon russian athletes so there we have the i. O. C. Concluding that the mclaren reports goal was to achieve a blanket ban against the russian team and the email goes on to say that that was something specifically that the i. O. C. Was against that they wanted to be able to go after individual athletes found to have been using doping but want to force them into a corner and put them on the path of getting the blanket bans and then also further lamented the lack of cooperation between the two are going to say sions and it really shows a pet a potentially disturbing divide between those two huge antidoping organizations. Lets get more details now discuss this with sports journalist brown thanks for joining us good to have you on the program what do you make of it all do you think there is a rift between water on the olympic chiefs. Around the time. The wasnt it. Because the i. O. C. Wanted to go down the path of sanctioning the individual athletes because that is its jurisdiction whereas the where the u. S. Courts and the u. S. Olympic committee actually commissioned a law firm to investigate the possibility of appealing against cod sea decision not to ban russia so its clear u. S. Courts once its actually banned russia and the fancy bears hack. Alleges basically that water wanted to go down the pass all of banning russia in fact it was a suggestion made in an email by the u. S. Olympic committee. So it wasnt actually what a suggestion until in fact that suggestion wasnt docked it has been put forward by fancy bears and picked up by the media as being that i dont think is actually correct i dont think that water were pushing entirely for a ban i think was pressure on water to the to push for a ban of russia but i dont think that pressure was coming in certainly from water as france you does suggest so if you think u. S. Sports officials actually played a significant role in the scandal i mean do you think its possible that water could actually take over the i. O. C. No i think that i think thats frankly cloud cuckoo land i mean you know i dont know that i think that what the u. S. Olympic committee wants it and they clarified this in the same email if you read the actual evidence transceivers hacked in syria they dont mention this in their in their sort of statement. They actually clarified what the u. S. Wanted was an independent testing with r. T. And when the i. C. Said well you know would you support the idea of an independent testing with or as they said whether the i. O. C. Runs that where the water runs that or whether its a completely independent body we support the idea of an independent Testing Authority and that seems to be the road were now heading down the i. C. C. Has already commissioned water to research that the idea of setting up the ita and were now down the right to producing that we should be used by federations offensive as far as honest and also just mclaren was given a sort of political order here i mean whats your take on that. Well again i dont i dont think thats strictly accurate i mean like i said it was it was a suggestion made in an email. That was actually. Im sorry im struggling to remember who the email was from i think it was from the u. S. Olympic committee suggesting that basically. Sorry ive got confused on that one could you repeat the question again sorry yeah that the facts about as hack you mentioned that leak theres evil to start with they suggested that there was some sort of political aspect here but the mclaren was you know given an order to push you dont think thats the case then no i dont think it was given a political order i mean to start with what has no jurisdiction axel to russia from the olympics is the i. C. s decision to make now they can put political pressure on it and i think a lot of the tension that was spoken about in your Previous Report was due to the fact that the what it did actually recommend the the idea that russia russia should be banned from the olympics even though they didnt have jurisdiction to do that they made they put forward a recommendation in a press release at the time saying that russia should be lympics this obviously infuriated the i. O. C. Because it already seems made a predetermined decision before seeing the second mclaren record. To exclude russia sorry excuse russia to sanction the individual athletes and not exclude russia excuse me. Just just very briefly how do you think those tensions between the i. O. C. And water affect any decision to sanction russia you know to to ban them from the tournament to think that any impact loping scandal. I dont think it did but i think what the fans what is interesting about the fans is it does show the extraordinary tensions that were going on as you report mentioned between the ive seen water about this decision there was clearly a lot of pressure being put on wada and the r. A. C. From various parties to take a strict decision and like i said before the fact that the the u. S. Olympic committee and the canadian. Gradiant schools employed a law firm to investigate the a plus possibility that appealing against the i. O. C. Decision not to grant russia just shows what was the level of anger and level of the arms of outrage was prevalent at the time so i dont think theres anything actually new in a lot of the times you leaks documents it just shows the discussions that were being had at the time and like i said before a lot of the emails that were leaks didnt actually develop its policies or anything like that it was just discussions between officials that turned out thing but to be a fly on the wall during those discussions if only we could do that sports journalist and the brown that bring us the latest update thanks so much thank you our tech drones are becoming an increasing threat as they can be easily assembled from parts brought online thats according to the Russian Defense ministry well have more on that after this short break. Out of what the idea of dropping bombs brings in to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battle of. The new flock to try to tell you the gossip the public profile. Of the author hasnt had. Enough. Of a heart for a lot of hard work. This is an amazing story because now were seeing a real geo political impact of that going on a g. Twenty country g seven countries japan actually spending power they called it the rise of big going in the millions of people who are buying it in japan multi billion dollars that they have appreciated in value is causing a genuine the fact that in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eight. Of the currencies have this geo political influence. The program. Has plunged thirteen point five percent after south korean officials said theyre planning to ban crypto currency trading. There are great concerns regarding Virtual Currencies and the Justice Ministry is basically preparing a bill to ban crypto currency trading through exchanges. Full of bitcoin means its dropped to its lowest level since the new year the highest value so far in twenty eighteen was reached on the seventh of january when it hit seventeen thousand dollars to discuss this issue lets cross live to professor of economics at Kingston University steve keen thanks for joining us been a rollercoaster for a bit going has the last few months why do you think south koreas promise of trades. Well ive heard anecdotally that about one third of the Industrial Workers in south korean corporations invested in bitcoin and quite a few of you borrowed money to do it so theres certain worry about this being biased on the belief that the corn price always rises so theyve got cheap figured money theyve borrowed and rising value in bitcoin its a nice way to make a fortune of course is the big con process going the opposite direction will be lots of potentially bankruptcy of south korean workers so thats one major issue the other of course is if it can is actually being used to evade tech session. In those countries have every right to say were going to crack down on it weve cracked down all of the forms of tax evasion why not this one i mean if more and more countries are going to ban or at least you know have a restrict the use of crypto currency the crypto currency trading markets do you think it has a feature toll if its going to face this clamp down. I dont think that quinn has a future as money because this is one of the fallacies about it people are saying it is money the people who designed it were in a large way like what you might call an syndicalists or anti capitalist anti the government at the same time and want to have a form of money which was beholden to banks and all the government i think thats a myth a total myth and unforeseen what theyve done is set up in such a way that of seeing calculations saying the maximum number of transactions that can support is somewhere between ten and twenty Transactions Per Second now there are probably more transactions that many seconds an absence of them right currently am rather than the entire planet so it simply isnt capable of becoming money and i think this is whats slowly becoming a bit where the people who for example had a big conference now theyre no longer accepting bitcoin as payment because the transaction fees are too high. I mean big corn still falling is that thirteen percent full of record of twenty thousand dollars last month i mean if you were a betting man would you say it could go up or could it you know is this rock bottom for bitcoin or could there be more fools that dissipated. Just dont see that cone as being well enough designed to work as money so once people realize that its only the tensional as if its an asset which always rises the days of that happening are over because before there are futures exchanges almost all the pressure was on the boss sawed and of course you can buy one virtually one billion at the coin so you can put a small amount of money in and drive the process up a lot sugaree its perfectly designed for speculation its very very badly designed for money now once people can see speculation to lead to down as well as up then all this left is its used as a form of money and i dont believe it has that capability so i think the the downside is a damn sight larger than the upside theres a whole row other cryptocurrency isnt there that ive also seen quite rapid rise is a report i know one of them for example do you think if bitcoin does keep falling if it loses its crowd as the sort of prime crypto currency could we see another currency perhaps replace it yeah i think we can i mean the actual a concept of having a a an algorithm replacing having a trust that the body for transactions can work if the transactions are going to occur at the speed we need which is something of the order of you know one hundred thousand or more Transactions Per Second so i know there are some crypto currencies that are working in that direction there are even block chain technologies that dont use a crypto currency they use existing currencies that enable you make the transactions through the algorithm rather than through a Banking System so one of those more than one more law is going to survive but i dont think big coin is going to be the one that does ok steve keen professor of economics can think of us thanks for joining us here at all its a great to get your insight into this. Ok sheaves his goal at this stage of getting hold of Nuclear Weapons on long range missiles and any progress in making the Korean Peninsula nuclear free can only be achieved if north korea receives safety guarantees those were the thoughts of president putin whos been talking to a panel of russian journalists and what guys if was listening in for us lets go live to him now see what was said more about north korea wasnt the only subject was it putin touched upon what else did the president after say. Well with with north korea putins dance it was actually very interesting in he said that kim jong un got everything he wanted he got his nukes he got his