Debates a citizenship bill that many say discriminates against muslims. Now the World Anti Doping Agency has banned russia from the next olympics and football world cup the committee met in switzerland to impose a 4 year ban on russia using its flag and team names from a range of sporting events that means some athletes could compete under a neutral flag a government sponsored doping scheme was revealed 5 years ago lets get more on this now and bring in our Sports Correspondent lee wellings he joins us from london so. How. Is this ban towards sporting events. Well its significant and its important it covers all sporting events however it doesnt change that much about the situation weve already been in for the past 5 years after russia effectively poisoned its own Winter Olympics in sochi the widescale state sponsored corruption was of course uncovered from that position on words its been about the politics of the situation there are very few if anybody who believes that russia isnt dop
Leaders of ukraine and russia meet for the 1st time theyll be in paris for a summit that aims to put an end to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine so will the 2 leaders find a solution and charge of a way forward and whats at stake this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im home here in ukraine elected a president in april whose top priority was to end the conflicts in the east more than 13000 people have been killed during the fighting there between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed separatists and i for the 1st time since he came into office lot of years are in ski is meeting russian president Vladimir Putin where french and german leaders are mediating the talks taking place in paris on monday the socalled Normandy Group last met to discuss ways to end the fighting more than 3 years ago but president selenski is optimistic he can bring peace to Eastern Ukraine but his critics see him as a political novice and fear he might give away too much in his quest for peace as
Widescale state sponsored corruption was of course on covered from that position on words its been about the politics of the situation there are very few if anybody who believes that russia isnt doping the question is is what are people going to do about it and in this instance its this perceived 4 year ban but its a ban really on the flank of russia will have the same situation weve had in rio and. Olympics in that there will be neutral athletes from russia that are effectively a russian team that situation is going to continue the hosting of events becomes a big deal as well russia has some big world Sports Events coming up in the next few years and its whether they can find a loophole by the court of arbitration for sport to actually continue to host those events we know that big figures in world sport want to keep russia in the game rather than push them away from it despite this clear evidence of doping. Police in new zealand say theres no sign of survivors following a volcanic er
We hear from the russian authorities that its more likely to be hit by an asteroid than a disaster for one of these floating plants but as you say its a new design and to some degree is unproven. Indeed i mean we know the. Result of must take precautions and they say that its a new variable to tsunamis but we also know that this wessel is going to be sent to the arctic to the far north where changing weather conditions and to some degree severe medical missions can become a problem for any vessel and to transport it could become a problem for the tugboats are helping in the rest of the movie because it doesnt self self propelled and at its destination we know that its very far from Emergency Response capabilities which are based more to the west in russia boucle him and that makes us worry that in emergency situation. Russia would have problems responding quickly enough to any unfortunate events. Could we see a situation this being a prototype if its successful or the like it would mea
Agency says various parts of the country remain under very high or extreme risk of fires russia is launching the worlds 1st Floating Nuclear powerplants it will be towed thousands of kilometers to the east to provide energy to remote communities but environmental activists are concerned about safety saying it has the potential to be a should not pull on ice so fast and reports from. A Nuclear Power plant sailing decease russia says its one of the safest and cleanest ways to provide energy to remote areas the academic loman north of combines both the technology of a Nuclear Powered icebreaker and that of a land based Nuclear Plant it took 10 years to design and build the power plant will be told by 3 bows from more months to the region of 2 got 5000 kilometers away on a journey that could take up to 6 weeks depending on the ice the 2 reactor unit is one of the key projects of president put in socalled northern sea route a faster sea connection between europe and asia which has become ac