Its concerned its been such an emotional roller coaster of ours and for these athletes the real saw grafter months weeks years of preparation they had this glimmer of hope last week with the cast the solution that they could go to the games represent their flag their country there have them at cetera now though thats been overturned there are still legal routes appeals they could go down but of course the Opening Ceremony has now just finished the games are about to begin whatever Legal Options are available they simply wont have time now to budge them heres some reactions from those athletes many of whom were hoping to even make a debut at their first Winter Olympics i was hoping that cas would rule in our favor right now i dont know what to do im disappointed but of course i wont give up on sport ive still got a lot ahead of me i will compete and win medals for my country. Until the very end we were hoping the decision would go in our favor now i feel sadness and sorrow but i would. In competition i can if i have enough strength in the opportunity to compete in the next olympics i will prepare for them. I have no words. Sports columnist alan moore gave us his reaction to the cast decision its no longer sports your husband sports for a long time it really comes down to the fact that the i. O. C. Put their necks on the line by not going as hard as some people would have liked the people want to control the Olympic Movement and was of course as well they did these are not the u. K. Idea of being u. S. Underdog and they want to take control of the whole. Money train but they want to grow your to rule however. It is political to a large degree because if we say the g. O. C. Are playing politics they want to keep control so they have to be seen to be very very strong yes mind you these athletes have never tested positive as me that they havent doped however there are some who would not have dogs but theyve been tarred with a brush that is completely wrong and feeds into this kind of geopolitical narrative that russia is bad or good lets beat them well stick. Around seven hundred fifty thousand children have almost no access to medical care in the water on iraqi city of mosul as according to the uns childrens rights body unicef and estimated seventy four Million Dollars is needed to rebuild Health Facilities seven months after the euphoria that greeted the liberation of mosul from Islamic State the iraqi cities struggling to get back on its feet. I. Know youre not mature enough thank. The number of. Health care centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the Health Centers the other day the one family came in with their baby is a two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and starts who are seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also saw the baby unit there were nine incubate has six of which which were filled with premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubate as with their its a wide area wide level of levels of devastation families have to walk enormous distances to be able to get the health care what were saying is that the Cumulative Health care that is required of any child anywhere else in the world is not available yet in mosul and more than half a year since its liberation the city remains true and with corpses and warning you may find the following scenes disturbing the condition of many of the bodies is making it difficult to confirm the identity most of the victims appear to be civilians women children and elderly people didnt stop calling on the government to do something unicef representative in iraq Peter Hawkins said the situation in those still is worrying. I think what we need to understand is the extent of the problem this is a massive city mosul city probably faced one of the biggest urban warfare since World War Two and. Two point two million to two point four Million People affected its an enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people working again. Three giants of social media have been grilled by a panel of u. K. Lawmakers over allegations of russian interference on their platforms during the braggs it vote but theres been little if anything to back up those allegations be looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the referendum a very small number of suspected Research Agency linked accounts forty nine such accounts were active during the campaign which represents less than not point five percent of the total number of accounts that these are very low level things until we complete this investigation we wont know but what we havent had is. Information thats enabled us to target on a particular page or a particular phenomenon despite all their commitment enthusiasm and hard work spanning over a period of really several months when this inquiry kick started it seems like the u. K. Parliamentary committee thats trying to find out the truth about a russian any brecht that meddling they seem to be really hitting a brick wall this week they travelled all the way to washington thousand all thousands of miles presumably having spent thousands of pounds to get there and what they ended up with while questioning the executives of twitter you tube and facebook was just a frustration it seems and that was thick in the atmosphere Investigative Journalism for instance as it led to suggestion that there are lots of campaigns going to have it looks like you. Havent looked at you thats the thing you havent looked theres a Common Thread going on. Like you just well it seems who did look with twitter and what they said they found was that there were only forty nine accounts connected to russia during the time of the brics it referendum again im no mathematician so correct me if im wrong perhaps but it seems that theres this is really nothing to write home about given that twitter has hundreds of millions of accounts and despite the chair of this Committee Damian Collins saying that his quote instinct tells him that the number should be higher that did not turn out to be the case so despite this ghost chasing continuing and the committee keeping asking the executives to look harder it seems no fruitful results so far much of the media has seemingly been hungry for a scandal which the Russian Investigation is failing to provide because some of these headlines this one says twitter has finally conceded that russian accounts try to influence briggss and only a few small words of the boss makes plain the stories about a few dozen accounts the same with the times headline which admits the existence of so called russia trolls but the first paragraph then reveals there were only forty nine such as suspicious accounts one more example here you need to look even deeper to dig actual numbers out of a lengthy article radio host john korn told is the russia investigation is searching for a ghost. This is a farce these employees went all the way to washington to question to the honest on how the internet works they couldve got them on a skype call a question its fossick oh i wish a waste of my taxpayers money on it so very very annoying its a joke they had said and almost trying to root cool fashion firing questions at you and one of the waiting to listen to the answers you know well i dont think the British Public care they know why people voted for lets just get over it and accept democracy pressures of the so called geek economy have led one taxi driver in america to take his own life more details on that story after this short break. Most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest read. Truth to stand losing business you just the dance the right questions. The right answer. Question. When else so seem wrong but. Just dont. Let me. Get to seep out this day comes after. And it gets me because betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Right the old combat Human Rights Watch has accused Iraqi KurdishSecurity Forces of mass executions of suspected Islamic State fighters back in august the report claims the killings took place near the city of city of near the town of zuma when a power and mass grave site has been found the Iraqi Kurdish government denies the accusations claiming the bodies belong to i still fighters killed in battle with Kurdish Forces we discuss the findings with its all first in iraq researcher for Human Rights Watch bulky swill. Since september weve been looking for an eyewitness who can testify to the fact that the men were captured they were captured alive and later they were killed by critics the curity forces be a leash and and what we found two weeks ago is the actual great site and now we know where the bodies. Were after it was held and where the bodies were then very what was in the report that weve been seized today we include excessive material including Photos Videos satellite imagery of the straight sites as well as footage of my face that we ourselves the celts the Coalition Demands that the quick one which will cover eventually demonstrate that theyre taking the furiously in that theyre holding those commanders in place is that all its really contingent on the International Community make a very strong on this matter and make sure that this is an exception. A taxi driver in new york has committed suicide outside city hall he left a note on facebook accusing politicians of failing to protect his industry and saying services such as buddha has financially ruined him hes kind of moping the port. Douglas shifter took his own life after parking his car in front of New York City Hall it wasnt hard for Police Investigators to figure out why the for his suicide intended to draw attention to the ordeal that he and other professional drivers go through he posted this on facebook. I want one hundred to one hundred twenty consecutive hours almost every week for the past fourteen plus years there are over one hundred thousand of us suffering daily now is the new slavery i hope with the public sacrifice i make now some attention to the plight of the dry uses and the people will be done to save them and it will not have been in vain shifter had been driving cabs in a limo sense the nine hundred eighty s. However in recent years its become a far harder job with far less pay at the time of his death he was facing severe financial troubles as well as clinical depression he blames city hall for ruining his industry for years he had been writing articles for black car news a blog for drivers his articles pointed toward some of the hard hitting truths about the vehicles for hire industry he cared about other people and cared about the industry that he worked and. I met him he had sent a letter to the editor a bunch of years ago and it was an angry tune and he said some things that i thought made sense so i invited him to write for me and he did that for a few years and generally his content was you know to help the industry you know all the people that were struggling the way he was struggling he wanted them to know to help them now shifter wasnt alone hes one of three drivers in the last three months to take his own life taxing Union Officials say that hoover and other mobile app services have made a once well paying industry into a massive long hours low pay and economic insecurity now at this point in light of his death regulators are stepping up to help ease the problem. We understand to many of our licensees have been under tremendous pressure due to this onslaught of competition from this Patch Services the despair felt so deeply by mr shifter has become a topic of daily debate and concern for us and while we lacked the jurisdiction to limited licensing of drivers or vehicles we are tackling the issue of Driver Earnings protections this Year Economic analysts have talked about a gig economy where workers dont have regular jobs with regular paychecks and hours but instead work here and there with irregular service and irregular pay back in two thousand and thirteen there were forty seven thousand vehicles for hire in new york city now that number exceeds one hundred thousand and the regular pay has dropped from eighty eight thousand to sixty nine thousand the Business Model which is to bring as many drivers on as possible. Has ended up backfiring and so now the pie is spinning sliced into too many pieces and makes it difficult for all the drivers to earn a living. With legendary rock band queen recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement award of the latest grammys arties Afshin Rattansi spoke to brian may who also happens to have a ph d. In astrophysics you can watch their full discussion which ranges from the influence of music and science on our lives to fake news and the latest episode of going underground on saturday heres a quick preview for you to see the one of the major issues facing humanity is fake news from wall street yes or no i think because you know as a as a i know you want to be a political nazi which World Leaders but which will. Be one of the things he is full of people there for the wrong reasons thats my sense in that i spend a lot of time lobbying in our own parliament in england and i have to say as so many people are there for reasons that you dont want to know. And its hard to find people who actually have. Mission to make the world a better place and look after. People and rather than look after themselves i mean i hate to be critical but i do think the whole system encourages the wrong kind of people because its because people who want power and make money for the themselves and their friends you know i would love to see it all shaken up. Or the back of the top of the hour with all the latest headlines. Across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to people this is the simple song alone even some company elsewhere they invite private companies to take over the utilities many. Of us you guys who got. Us by been this is. More you. Brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water its about water but its also over much more than water its about to hurt and the redistribution of our west works. Downwards we want all. Very few now to speak paying more attention to. The north Korea Nuclear issue i personally believe the us coming can come up just lucians but i think the us has been paying too much attention for military you know solutions but i hope the us would pay more attention to solution to the north Korean Nuclear power. The. Global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battles they dont want. To do socks credit tell you that celebrity gossip and tabloid bias trials of the most Important News today. Often advertising how you think you are not cool enough and such to buy their product. These are the hawks that we along with our loved ones on. Hello and welcome to talk where all things are considered peter a little the pentagon recently released its new Nuclear Posture review its critics are stunned not only the use of Nuclear Weapons is now more thinkable but also the threshold for their use has been lowered dr strangelove would be proud is the world facing another game arms race. Across talking the Nuclear Posture review im joined by my guest Michael Ohanlon in washington hes a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution also in washington we have kevin camps he is a radioactive waste specialist beyond nucular and in london we cross to add real because he is a Foreign Affairs consultant and analyst all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate kevin let me go to you first in washington you know i read the report quite thoroughly i was quite stunned as i said in the in the introduction ill reach of my three takeaways here the report exaggerates exaggerates perceived threats to the u. S. Number two it fuses conventional and nuclear war and pushes for the development of Nuclear Weapons i mean thats quite stunning if you look at the history of arms control and by the way its going to cost about one point three trillion dollars what were your takeaways from the report kevin in washington. Well i think your title for the show is very apt i mean dan ellsberg in his new book the doomsday machine confessions of a Nuclear War Planner said at the time that dr strangelove was released in the theaters in the early one nine hundred sixty s. That it was nonfiction so here we go again were going to do this all over again a new arms race and that figure of a trillion three thats probably an undere