Say out for little girls everywhere prepare some of the young ladies for a reality feel that we dont push them into a cold hard world where they have to fend for themselves and there is no one there to face them on a whiteboard. Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 2 pm welcome to the program its a moment of anger and frustration for russian sport after the countrys flag was banned for 4 years from all major world tournaments the decision was made by the World Antidoping Agency or water let me put in has expressed his support for russian athletes. Because any more punishment must not be collective affecting people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are no complaints against the Russian Olympic Committee if there are no complaints the country should compete under its National Flag as stated in the olympic charter it means that while this decision contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal to cas. Water says moscow is being punished for tampering with a database of drug test results clean athletes will be able to compete under a neutral flag but russian officials are now prohibited from attending major sporting events while the country wont be allowed to host any tournaments either now the list of events russia is being excluded from is extensive it includes the olympic and Paralympic Games in tokyo in 2020 and footballs fifa world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was the last host about about it and its players will now have to go as neutrals if they qualify russian swimmer. Is among those athletes will have to prove their queen she failed a drug test in 2013 and was suspended for 16 months before the rio olympics she received another suspension for dornan use but took the matter to the sports highest court and won she was reinstated and went on to win it to civil or medals heres what she thinks about what decision. Look like with the shots still struggle how could they punish the whole country all the athletes no matter whether they deserved or not they should just punish those who were guilty one of they are from risotto athletes who were involved in something but punishing the whole country all our Young Athletes just because someone did something wrong athletes shouldnt be deprived of the opportunity to represent their own country i believe it shows that politics has come into sport because they do allow clean athletes to compete on the neutral lead but they dont want to see the russian flag there or anyone representing our country. So many as it is if you were in the book i have already hired a lawyer however funny that to my sound in ordinary life if you break a rule once it doesnt matter if its a drive in the fans were fired not to be punished twice for that i hope which we werent now but i cant be sure about that but it could be worse than it was before rio i was reinstated for the olympics almost on the very day the games began and i was sick for half a year. No not to me at the same way even if im not allowed to compete im almost a grandma for the world of sports then thats my fate and what can i do i just want to advise other athletes not to worry and to hire lawyers dont expect anyone to help you help yourself. What has given the russian Antidoping Agency 21. 00 days to decide if they want to pursue that course if it helps to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport Alexy Garcetti breaks down the water rolling forests. Imagine a person that robs a bank steals lets say a 1000000. 00 gets caught gets prison time gets out like a near your early for Good Behavior but then the police tells them you know were not sure you actually stole millions maybe your stole more so were going to push imprison back again or that is basically the logic which the World Antidoping Agency applied to the whole nation of russia in their decision on monday to ban the country from major sports competitions in the world saying that russian athletes can compete individually but they have to again prove that they have not used any kind of doping but. The position of the Russian Olympic Committee stays the same the sanctions are inadequate not logical and too severe we would do our best for the Russian Olympic Team to participate in the Upcoming Games in japan under the colors of the russian trickle or due to the terms of the olympic charter. Whether someone committed a crime fair enough he or she should be punished for that but it is quite unclear how exactly stripping a nation of its flag in a major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve the problem of fighting against doping youre not. In to. Reduce justice system. You could think about whats on. Well and he. Has jurisdiction does it and jurisdiction over the russians who are to become sanction russian. Can do essentially resettle and take actions relative to scoot so its come up with this International Standard to code compliance with signatories which is used to sanction russia this time around. On top of everything it seems that what his decision from monday was made in such a haste that they have no clue how to actually navigate in that decision the biggest example of that is probably the situation with you wait for and feel for tournaments well where you are where you quite expect to. These sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming euro. First of all its a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented to. Is again within the competence so you have a should it make it to the 2022 world cup in qatar it may be stripped of its flag of its anthem and it may be participating as a neutral country and if youre not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas the court of arbitration of sports and this process takes longer than the official preparation for next summers olympics russia will go to next summers olympics in tokyo as a full fledged nation but then if the ban is implemented late it might miss out on the 2024 summer Olympic Games in paris so this is all surrounded by a lot of confusion and at the same time russia says that its not planning to give up the sports minister of the country bible club cough insists that all the information for the reinstatement of rosado has been provided to the World Antidoping Agency says renewing it with who are experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they havent heard us resign or has time to appeal the mission. When we handed over the database we said lets investigate the database together so that we can make a full decision we wanted to have a kind of mechanism if we dont want to be objective decision lets do it like this has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach from whichever side you look at it mondays decision by water looks like a vocal and very harsh indictment of the Russian Sports it might send shock waves and reverberations in the country sport for many years to come but it might actually be the beginning of a new struggle of a new battle the legal one when russia takes its case to the court of arbitration for sports in switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this yeah this is a punitive action against the law including begin to shoot once. More and just if you. Think youre right if its not its particular with theres no evidence of this against them this may be raising a human rights issue whether. Theyre going to raise this before the court of protection or im not entirely certain we have to accept but there is a when we think of them and theyre involved. I think theyre actually applying a very ambiguous moral and multi of course. They once were in terms of Collateral Damage are they russian the innocent russian expect with great anticipation to see what the i. O. C. To respond. Point in thats what its doing its like saying im going to come into your state because somebody from you and i will decide who comes and goes on. Peace efforts for Eastern Ukraine are showing signs of progress with both moscow and kiev finding Common Ground on a number of issues the leaders of Russia Ukraine france and germany held 6 hours of talks and paris on monday aimed at resolving the conflict that broke out back in 2014 with eastern regions seeking independence from kiev president bottom or putin and his ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Putin landscape both describe the meeting as positive. Just to put deeply you conclude is there a thaw in our relations i think yes of course we have discussed a broad range of issues and made progress on many of them all of that gives grounds to believe that the process is moving in the right direction. Which shook us its a subject with regards to our peace efforts we have met and i think its a great step towards peace the meeting was long and difficult but the mood of the meeting was positive. And the written statement both leaders agreed to implement a complete ceasefire by the end of this year and a complete all for all prisoner swap as well they also committed to withdrawing troops from certain conflict zones before april of next year and to ensuring that these are deemed mined in the trunk o. Reports. So has there been a breakthrough in paris or not well the new president of ukraine and president Vladimir Putin of russia shook hands for the 1st time they spoke one on one to each other for the 1st time and spent an entire day and the residence of french president emmanuel back crawdad with 2 of europes key peace brokers the leader of france and the leader of germany and we do have to remember that this is something that hadnt happened for 3 years while in some cases after such tough difficult talks the sides cant even agree on a joint statement after a day of negotiations well this time they did provide a list of common conclusions and one section from that document is very important because it paves the way for potentially a complete cease fire along the front line and east ukraine and also an overwhelming Prisoner Exchange between the 2 sides which is supposed to happen before new years eve during the press conference blatter mare selenski was absolutely frank that he was delighted that this was made possible as now you know come to want to choose to be honest i dont know how to control the situation 20 times in nearly 6 years decided to try to reach a cease fire and 20 times the cease fire has been violated here in paris we have treated the issues very seriously now that its being dealt with at a high level i think its going to be sold by the end of the year. I can tell you that russia has so to say prioritize the following elements of the midst agreements that is the need for key have to grant special political status to the breakaway republics of low gods and donetsk and that has to be somehow reflected in the constitution and also the demand that needs to hold free and democratic elections and this republic this is something that kiev it seems hasnt been keen to do seem at all however for of the government in kiev the element that is absolutely essential is the one that is supposed to lead to the full handover of the control of the border between russia and the breakaway republics of lugansk and that he had skipped a lot of our approaches and did remind everyone that when it comes to the minsk accord the control over the border does come after the political section by. The musics of listening read the minsk accords they say ukraine will begin to establish control over the russia dont bust border the day after elections are held in the region that is what the documents see why undermine the agreements and rewrite their content see if we alter one article then the others are likely to be altered as well and will ultimately lose everything i do have to say that there have been concerns that the government of the legs wont be able to fulfill their part of the agreement to at all in the near future because of the pressure thats been mounting on him domestic only the anti russian prowar lobby is still very strong and that any baby steps that selenski could potentially make towards russia could lead to some serious political damage for him at a whole common conclusions being made by the normandy quartet that say that the russian and ukrainian sides will remain interested. In trying to find ways to somehow reach a compromise when it comes to these most difficult elements of the minsk agreement that i mentioned and also most importantly there will be another summit of the normandy quartet in 4 months so the contacts on the most high profile level between berlin paris kiev and moscow will continue. And for reaction inside and updates on this story head to our web site r t dot com we have some indepth analysis there from former Austrian Foreign minister and i. Mean all coming up in the program russias top diplomat has touched down in washington d. C. Working as expected to hold talks with President Trump details on that story and more after the break. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. You know world a big part of. Lot of things and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. Welcome back a writer in germany has penned a feminist version of the classic tale snow white and the adaptation has a surprise twist. Give you the chance to teach kids about sequels and values and i think diversity is simply not so just media you know this is such an important concept and i really want my children to grow valuing. Its not the 1st time a classic tales been given a modern make over and a new version of a lot released this year princess jasmine has High Aspirations to become sultan in the original she just wanted to find her soul mate. And then a remake of the 1989 classic Little Mermaid a black actress plays the lead role that cost a backlash some criticize attempts to alter traditional characters but others were enthusiastic saying it was a win for diversity we discussed the trying with karen turk a t. V. And radio host and Reece Everson a womens rights advocate. This is Political Correctness god mad i am sad for little girls everywhere that its no longer ok to be a housewife and a princess you know on the one hand we want to tell little girls that you can be anything you want to be and less it means being in a traditional relationship maybe being a housewife wanting to be a princess that its not ok you know im all for equal rights and im all for feminism but this is just wrong theres no reason that we should take away fantasy and fairy tales and this story does just that this german father has rewrote this thing in a way where it just slaps reality in the face of children absolutely not i think weve done young ladies a disservice for many many years by promising them this fairy tale and pushing it into their head as little girls so that when they grow up theyre expecting to meet this guy whos ready to take them on as their wife and marry them and pay the bills and and be the head of the household and for a lot of women those the statistics say that thats actually no longer reality the reality for so many women unfortunately is that we wont get to have that fanciful stay at home fairytale story it sounds good and many of us would love to have it but lets prepare some of these young ladies for reality so that we dont push them into a cold hard world where they have to fend for themselves and there is no one there to save them on a white horse im sure grease you would agree you know if you could find a guy on a white horse to just take you away and sweep you off your feet that would be a good fantasy doesnt mean its going to happen but its nice to read the story and why take that away from little girls rather than getting into this fanciful tale lets just as the elements that allow us to bring it to the future and allow our girls the chance to you know probably create a future for themselves that looks more like what they would like it to or what theyre capable of having versus some. Far off this new fairy tale that may never happen you know just forcing down their throat that the only way that you can have validity is to have a career and being a housewife is no longer ok i dont know that thats necessarily the right thing here and it sounds good to allow children to live in this fantasy world but weve got to give them some truth so that they can begin to grow into skill sets in people who can actually function in the real world taking the 7 dwarfs and making them women and then having snow white travel around the world you know with the prince and are not romantically involved i mean this is just changing the entire story i do believe we need to empower women but i dont think we need to emasculate men in the process and i think we should let the door speed worse than they should be males. Russias foreign minister has arrived in washington d. C. For a working visit Sergey Lavrov is expected to meet with secretary of state mike compare possibly President Donald Trump the meeting hasnt been officially confirmed yet but it would come just a day after the u. S. Justice departments watchdog ruled that the f. B. I. Is russia probe was justified of her office visit also comes against the backdrop of the impeachment inquiry into trump over whats being called ukraine gate r. T. S. Looks at the backlog of pressing International Issues that moscow and washington hope to make pr