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there was some suggestion from the deputy mare that this was to do with russian shelling herb others are telling us that this is a way of making sure the streets are empty. so the ukrainian forces can try and find russian saboteurs that may still be in the city now in butcher and at a pin and a hostile. all of that fighting is still continuing. there were air raids, her sirens last night. we did a shelling from where our position is, were about 15 kilometers away from those 3 front lines. and once again, the russian strategy has stalled outside of the capitol years. president joe biden is warned. there are signs that russia might use chemical weapons in ukraine by the said rushes vladimir putin as his back against the wall man. he says that strong resistance mccraney enforces may push, put him into using more brutal tactics. our russian court has find jail trembling, critic alexi no vomit. guilty of fraud is accused of embezzling donations from his

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last week during a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accused him of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat. the neighbors and family members insist they were innocent, taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's, defense minister, bloody made by the re, you know, said the armed forces were applied to the friends that come through from irregular groups that added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border with be investigated. russian artists and sports figures are being asked to condemn the invasion of ukraine or risk being banned from performing in the west. so should they be forced to take a political position? this is inside school. ah

hello, welcome to the program on has them seeka across the western world, russian artists, musicians, filmmakers and athletes are being excluded from events and competitions. they are under growing pressure to denounce the actions of russian president vladimir putin . that's despite laws to protect the freedom of expression for all people living and working in europe and north america. the munich philharmonic has sacked its stock conductor and puts in support. valerie, get a give the soprano, anna nath, thread cur, had to withdraw from several events, including new york's metropolitan opera. she wrote on instagram opposing the war only to delete the post, but she stayed silent on president putin. and in tennis, the partition sports minister has warned russia tennis plays especially world number 2, daniel mcvey, dave, they may be bought from wimbleton unless they denounce, let him uprooted. and talking about the british government is

like i said, i think we should the so a great example that dennis is out should be out of politic. and then your general support goes where outlets we want to compete. we were sacrificing so many things. the sports should be outside of the politic because everyone say this, but in then loosely, steel is not happening. so this way i hope that we will support they will so that there is no politics. and we will be a good example to have a like, a huge step forward. but some cultural figures, say artists should take a clear political stance on the war in ukraine. russian born german pianist and political activist ego levitt, wrote on instagram, being a musician does not free you from being

a citizen from taking responsibility and bringing up music as an excuse to remain vague is an insult to aren't the. so let's talk more about this now with our panel in doha, we have the talia levine, a british russian play, right, political activist and blogger in moscow, alexia to ship ski, a russian sports reporter, based in moscow. also in doha, daniel right. visiting associate professor at georgetown university katara, his research focuses on sports policy and politics. welcome to all of you, natalia. if i could start with you, and if you could talk about the, the circumstances of how you, you came to doha and your position on, on people going off to russian artists and sports people over this position for

a very long time. i was raised back, rushing well precisely to work again and again, his regime, which i felt and knew as we all did in the opposition, will come to something like this, something critics and. and since then we was brutally biting with not much result. unfortunately, i had the criminal cases against me. i was prosecuted by, by those in power for, for my opposition, but i kept myself in russia fighting for all those years. i haven't left up until this point when i realized that not only am i in danger because i'm local, my physician or you. but my child is in danger and that's when i are back them. we went to the house where we are now we're, we're re,

period of time. hopefully this will be over the world be always over doing. and then i hope to go back to russia and jesus, what else doing with regards to all the public people for men and people in the us and, and their stance on the, on, on the war. well, i believe anyone who is for the life where many, many followers meet the very 1st best and the staff needs to be in line with what the civilized world has already expressed and the civilized world has condemned. so this is what those people who want to work and, and compete and, and it just the global they need to take a very 1st stance, whether it's tennis player mid. whereas whether it's new tropical, the 1st thing or they need to, they need to do that. this is important not only be,

not only because the black world otherwise should not really accept them in the future, but also because this is a moral thing to do. i believe we're in a position where it's very much black and white. i'm very much against what generally speaking, we're in a unprecedented career point in our, in our law, in our civilized life on the planet. we haven't said anything on this matter. we're to. so this is time to be on the right side, on the side of the good. and the end of those people payments, people well to be worldly people. if they're not prepared to make the sacrifice a couple of contrasts with gas from to be on the right side, then that shouldn't be part of that life. well, they shouldn't be allowed to compete globally. it shouldn't be. it should be with the, with the normal people and working with the normal people and what were the normal people for the time being at the very least. and i think in honesty,

i think that will be probably blacklist the anyone who doesn't want to comply with with what's, you know, what is the right thing to do really at the moment. i think that will reflect this, that for a very long time. and i think that should be, it really is a breaking point. ok for all of us, alexia, chef, sky. you are shaking your head earlier. is it right to, to punish athletes? an artist of this? well, of course not. i mean, i agree with a general notion that stances should be heard and people should express their opinions on what's going on right now in ukraine. well, obviously it's a free world. then we have to express our approval or disapproval of that. but let's be real about it. i think it's a big i think that if you did that or i think some that are in or any other prominent russian athlete, or global sporting celebrity, or cultural every g says no to war, get out of your grade. this will not stop anyways,

we've seen it time and time again. we have an example of a famous russian football java, small off who was among a few beaten a markets here in russia, saying his disapproval of what was going on in ukraine. did that stop the bombs falling? did that stop the military conflict? of course not. the one thing that people have to understand is that we have obviously elite athletes like an exam that i've used in the n h l. who did say his no to what's going on and ukraine, but did not take down the avatar on instagram, where he is with the russian president. obviously getting a lot of abuse for that, but he continues playing. he continues scoring goals and trust me, the washington capital fan absolutely love what i was doing on the field of life. but on the other hand, we have sports men, not least from different types of sports here in russia who being castigated from the world sports community for no reason whatsoever. they never supported emergency contact any grades, they've never voted for it. they've never vocally supported it. and yet they are

being cast aside by you know, you know, the license thomas by the president of the c for basically started this whole process off, castigating rather than that. and you know, in the case of then young as it is the aforementioned tennis player and again, so probably some that many out of football for instance, rush across the planet. they are very well to people. there are multi 1000000 has in many cases, but talk for instance, about berry berry olympic athletes who are kicked out from bay james a day before the games were supposed to start. let's talk about sky is, let's talk about biopsies. let's talk about june and all of the people who only have one means to survive, it's doing sport. here they are. we're already cast out from the international sporting family. and if they speak out here in russia and trust me, you, you are, you know, what i'm talking about, they will have problems here as well. so they basically have nowhere else to goals . we have to think about these people as well, of course, saying, you know, or yes to what's going on in your grade is

a vital thing. but i think in the case of athletes, this is just a little bit too risky for them and they're likely within the future. daniel, right? well, what's your, what's your take on this? and for those who say sports and politics in particular shouldn't, shouldn't go together. that's the history of that shows that this is not on charted territory, is it? yeah. cause but in general, when it comes to sporting play, cuts of wanting pop had, and we had a little boy in the seventy's and eighty's and ninety's, $76.00, ethics and kind of putting them on to protest. a part of that insult. epic 9080 the us and as always, some space for the most current process. the nation if one of the internet that was by faith. but since the end of the code was everything again the number

i can be increased. so we did not see boy got any mos in the 90s, and for the coming years there has been a couple of individual points by ever asked me on the spot in general at your end. so this is a very special situational. it maybe a bit like 948 when germany and japan were not allowed to participate in some on a big game as a punishment for the 2nd world war. and this time, russian se sum teams like this to prevent the 3rd world war. natalia pell, even if i could turn back to you on this, you know, alexi made the point there that this is, this is punishing a lot of athletes, particularly in russia who don't make a huge salary. and they're being caught up in this through no choice of their own.

i mean, you know, foreign based athletes who, who have a, the notoriety and, and are able to are in a position to, to speak out if they want. but others are being punished unnecessarily. honestly, everyone has been punished necessarily at the if, if those people in the 4th, they still vote right? i mean, they don't really just do sports. they have the right to go and vote all those years. they voted, or who to. this is their punishment. if they just kept silent and did nothing, this is their punishment. i'm very sorry, but that's just how it is. anyone who didn't stand up in time. so this dictator will lead us to this point where we're in the middle of a horrible and just completely necessary bloody war. it's punishable along with this is not just what's the point why people have to realize it. if the russian people who allow him to get to the point where punish should be punished as well.

not just that the general public which has been punished with the sanction another sense. but that's not what we're talking about that. but going back to the famous atlas that, that meant that was mentioned, i firmly believe that the global was community should not, except in its rank atlas who don't have the yacht and the decency stand up against the bloody war that rushes leading in ukraine. they just should not be accepted, period, alexia, now you want to respond to some of that. and i also want to ask you, i'm sure you're aware of the, of what happened a couple of days ago with the the russian autistic gymnast even coolie act. here in doha, he displayed the the said sign on his vest, which is, as you know, as seen as a symbol of support of russia's actions in ukraine. and he was on the metal podium and what, what offended a lot of people,

particularly the international gymnastics federation, was, was not just that. but the fact that he was standing next to the ukranian actually who want to go metal. so they are opening up an investigation into that all day. right. to do that well, to be honest with you, i'm not a big fan of political statements in the field of play. i've been long sought that sport and politics are 2 different beast and they should not be in the same board. but even judging by what natalie was saying, that you know, that these should be, you know, not let in to participate in the international competition. simply on the basis of the fact that they belong to russia, but they are russian and whether they have voted for booting or not. we don't know that i think it's just the repository that we have come to this stage where culture, sports, and things which are so distance away from politics are not being completely politicized . and you know, in the case of this, the gymnast, i don't approve of what you did,

and i do believe that you should be punished for that. but at the same time, let's remember multiple cases when athletes as you know, express their opinions in the field of play and they were punished as well. so if that is the principle, it is applied equally to every single athlete. and there was also a gates during the aging olympics where ukrainian athletes brandish a know war slogan. he wasn't really punished, but there was, you know, there were, there was talk between him and the representatives of the i see that you shouldn't be doing that even though he wasn't actually supporting anything. he was to the country saying that there shouldn't be, will happening in ukraine. this is a very dark territory, but i'll give you another example. we're talking about russia. yes. who may or may not be allowed to participate in national competitions. i mean, i respect that. you know, different opinions on that matter, but i'll give you a different example. there is a big football style in russia who is georgia. you can check out the play for urban

and the latest information that is being widely speculated. now in the reports, media is back, his family is receiving death threats right now that if you continuous playing in russia, the family will suffer consequences. so basically, one, i don't know whether that's someone english speaking or ukrainian speaking doesn't really matter for that point. they're hounding out a player and sending that rescue to family, so that leaves russia and go somewhere else. and now there's an international breaking, football going on. so he left russia, he may not be coming back. how is that? all right? can someone explain to me? is this the bottom part of what is this part of the sports without politics kind of thing? see, it's just crossing all the boundaries and i don't think to be honest, that athletes should be buying the price for what governments do. because we don't remember any us athletes or u k. or any other athletes being banned by national boarding vision when these countries were engage the military conflicts all over the world. and now with the

case with russians, and i think it's unjust, unfair, and it's killing russian sport effectively. just like guys must be happening over the last 4 or 5 years, you know, different reasons. let's, let's put some of that back to natalia then is, is there a line that's being crossed here when you go off to not just sudden athletes, but their families as well? well, i feel bad for anyone who gets death, threats, and threats. general, i've been getting breast in years from around and around movements and things. so i know what that's, that is about i feel bad about that, but there's always an extreme reaction to the obviously i, i think that people were, you know, taking it to that, that level. it's very stupid, completely an app for it and shouldn't be happening. however, i still do believe that if you, if you're rough annapolis, and unless you boca lee, especially if you're famous, if you're not famous,

then you don't have many followers that there may be, you know, the, it doesn't make much of a difference. but as some of those people are, there are some disaster stuff, very famous. they have lots of followers and social media. if they talk, don't take the bath because they, they are afraid of consequences. but then there are russians sort of whatever life and then and workplace, of whoever they work for. that's just, that's refined to me that the, they should be back from, from the rest of the global at the community. because if you don't have the guts, you don't have the moral fancy you to react to something. yes for as what we see going on in your brain, then we don't want to deal with the period is, is, is what i feel. daniel rice do boy costs of whether they're of athletes or artists, or any anyone in culture, do they ultimately make a difference?

and by making a difference, i mean, do they force the, the person or the regime that's being targeted to, to change their position, to change that policy? it to pass. i mean, the boy called on africa was suddenly successful. and south africa was for a long period of time excluded from international spots. when we study the highest spot in what might have been one reason it was a boy called the station games in the sixties and seventies and was then expand from sporting ration and is now a member of your case. so this has been success fine. but overall, architecture, as far as we can compete with each other, we've got of different i don't know if politics, religions, and so on. so this should be like really an exception to boy because

otherwise the entire nationalist system what not sanction. i can just share something from discussions with my you my so they had been critic and said they are dotted because many western countries was accept the treatment, also part of finance. and not quite why he is now different actually the case of russian ukraine. this is true, i assure the criticism i think wrong acting in one case doesn't justify wrong in another case. and we're really in a very tragic situation. give him a sense since russia has at nuclear weapons. so there's really the risk of like the conflict. so i think why i'm in general again as part of what i think in exceptional circumstances like this one is justified what you view and that then l

alexi. sometimes things like this are justified and culture and sport in general, as unfortunate as it is, will become a kind of collateral damage to, to, to action, serve such as rushes actions in ukraine was left. i'll be very blunt about it. i don't support what's going on in ukraine. i lived in ukraine. i know this country very well and i, i've been in shock since day one. there is no justification to me as to what's happening that cannot be justified in any way. but at the same time, there's another side to the story that almost i feel like i am russian and i'm and even by default. and that is not true. because if you look at how much this country has given to the world culture, why sports, why i just came back from aging olympics. i spoke to numerous from all over the world from australia. it's a more way and you know, we already had a situation in beijing when everyone started talking about russia. yeah. not for

a good reason, not for about reason, but for another doping scandal adobe allegations against i speaker states and i spoke to minneapolis and they said listen, if they kick you out from sports, this will be a big loss to us because russians are among the strongest, atkins to compete against russians are moving to be a very hard competition for us. so if you are just gone from the face of the sports, you will just win all metals and would normally be fun for us. it's not going to be as competitive as what we never tend to think about that and talk about that in the context of what's going on in your grades. especially if you look at what's happening, what's been happening in the past with military things all over the world and very few countries were actually punished for it. remember, you were slightly, of course they were kicked out, but he woke up for their onslaught which, which was happening there. but other than that, there are just very few examples of the same thing happening to russia right now. indeed, the world is coming together, criticizing rushes,

actions and ukraine bus the long lasting. in fact, of, you know, it has them culture and sports will be, will be felt that the shops will be really racing across the black. again, simply because russia has a big place in sports and culture worldwide, and you know, what started me the most on this matter is that things like sports and culture. they should be uniting people. and in this case, they are only like putting people even further apart, especially in the game. when can you essentially use? and i can tell you that the reaction here in russia is being very negative about that you add to the notion that you know, to those who are watching the actions. and you great to say ok there, sanctioning our athletes where they're kicking out our musicians and things like that. it makes people even more angry. so what good does for resolution on this matter? i have no idea. let's, let's put this back to natalia briefly to point to alexi makes there, i mean, our, our sports and also both and acted as a bridge between cultures and nation. so by punishing the practitioners of those

things don't, don't risk burning bridges. well, great bridges have been burned by this rid, there's really not much to repair them on the walk divides everybody which is the one who is making this world and why work late by his action. unfortunately, it is, as has been mentioned, that some of those athletes don't make too much money or not. well, without that, i put in a position where they can't compete. well, it's unfortunate, but that is the price you pay for the country that is led by a bloody dictator. that is just how it is ok and that's, that's the term we used for a long time when he wasn't completely justified. now, unfortunately, it is either like that. all right, so everybody else collateral damage on that we're going to have to leave it. thank you very much to all 3 of you, natalia, and even alexia, shep sky, and daniel, right, thanks very much, being on inside story. and thank you, as always,

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