we've been marching peacefully quietly but but in bigger numbers more and more and that's what they were scared of. ukraine's willing to to elect to which is someone who was born in the country look up i'm not running for office right now i'm running i'm just trying to rescue this nation from absolute oblivion of corruption . well well right now i'm deleting the proper process whatever whatever it is no future prepares for me to see but but michael course i'm going to run for president if you can't for sure thank you. he's an interesting character to say the least standing there talking to you he's got the ukrainian flag draped around his neck and he says he's not going to run for office but at the same time he says he is they are in ukraine to rescue the country from the oblivion of corruption how is he going to do that. well quite and beyond that

brant he is the leader of a new party albeit one that has ratings in the low single digits so far but it's difficult to see how institution he's going to bring about much change i think the real the real interesting question will be whether the second really turns out to be a crystallizing point not just the people who necessarily trust him directly but just a trigger for people who are on dissatisfied with the current system with the current government who have seen years of war drag on in the east the country comic situation is still so if any worse than it was before the modern revolution livingstone is really suffering here if he's able to bring these people out into the streets now he's promised that he will do that this weekend he's called a meeting a demonstration on sunday in which he plans to call for president bush's impeachment if he manages to really bring out thousands tens of thousands of people rather than the hundreds and thousands we've seen at previous events then that will be a sign that he really is

a serious threat to the current government and he still says that he's the biggest enemy to the russian president vladimir putin and people watching this you know you can understand it they say well then what's a former president of georgia doing mixed up in ukrainian politics well brant this is one of the more. extraordinary stories of posts of history that this region seeing the last few decades so he second really finished his second term in office in georgia back in late twenty's thirteen he lost the election and handed over power peacefully something that isn't common in this region as to be said and that was about the time when the protests on the square behind me got going the last my don and the new team that came in headed by current president poroshenko actually brought in they invited him over and said that they needed his experience in in. bringing in western style economic liberal economic reforms and at first it seemed to go very well it was

a sort of political love story between poroshenko and his friend second civilly they were even remotely personal friends second really was made the governor a very important region of a desk and stayed in that post for over a year but then things turned sour they fellow fell out sexually accusing chorus think of protecting the old corruption the old corrupt systems and not being willing to break with the past and now we have this former friend second spinny out on the streets calling for his impeachment so it really is a pretty extraordinary reversal of fortunes an extraordinary day too especially when he managed to escape the police and the connally on the story for us tonight in kiev nic thank you very much. oh there will be no athletes competing for russia in the winter olympics the international olympic committee today banned russia due to evidence confirming state sponsored doping some clean athletes however will be able to compete under a neutral flag but under strict conditions with just ten weeks before the games

begin in south korea i.o.c. president thomas bach found that the evidence of doping presented to him in the committee today was enough to stop athletes from competing under the russian flag at the games this is the second time in a row that russian athletes will miss out on an olympics because of doping they also missed out on the twenty sixteen summer games in rio. and the i.o.c. president held a press conference in luzon a short while ago here as part of what thomas bach had to say to the russian olympic committee is suspended with immediate effect individual russian absolutes will be able to participate under strict conditions at the olympic games. two thousand and eighteen. invited will participate be it individual or team competitions under the name. from russia with the acronym.

our met her and from our war words destroyed we now are the evidence that convinced the i.o.c. to make the take this decision again was basically found in urine samples indeed the urine samples which russian athletes who had been doping they were switched with urine samples from the same same athletes that they had given up several weeks before when they were so to speak clean and this was not only a sort of one time thing at the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen but apparently this was part of a highly orchestrated state sponsored doping program involve not only the russian olympic committee but the russian sports ministry the russian you know special police so this was something that was being directed from very high levels and the evidence for this really came out last year after the mclaren report and that happened basically too soon before the summer olympics for the i.o.c.

to be comfortable to put sort of blanket ban in place so they decided to really look at the same evidence and lo and behold mr schmidt which was the that the head of the new commission which gave his report today said yet the evidence checks out we need to ban russia and what happens now to the clean athletes and how are we going to prove that russian athletes are clean well to answer your second question first i think time will tell one of the big things that happens in a lot of reason to lympics and you can go back not only to sochi but to you know london and twenty twentieth's that are cetera you have to keep these samples on file let's just say and maybe a few years down the line might found find even more athletes who are ostensibly clean it is a linux will turn out to have been dirty but i think the compromise that they have struck for this games which is coming up in two months time really is about as good as a compromise as they can get and basically saying we banned russia we banned the country

the flag the anthem etc we banned the sports administrators who orchestrated this program but if you're a russian athlete and you haven't been caught doping just yet we will let you compete under a neutral fly and quickly before we run out of time does russia have any recourse now. i mean i think they do i think that if russia's actions in the past are any guide i think that they will probably try and take this to the court of arbitration for sport i'm not sure having gone down the road twice with the same strong evidence they're going to get any more joy with them than they have ups and yeah we'll have to see it's going to be. and even colder winter olympics for the russian athletes that's for sure met her but thank you very much and still to come on the day germany's foreign minister says his country's ties with the united states are changing and one reason he says is because the face of america is change and absent in the foreseeable future majority of us americans will no longer have

european i don't know about latin american asian and african roots and that's why the relationship of the united states and europe will no longer be the same as it once was including after donald trump. says and. u.s. president donald trump today phoned palestinian president mahmoud abbas and confirmed his plans to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem it's a step that would be tantamount to recognizing the disputed city as israel's capital something that trump promised during his presidential campaign reiterating statements made earlier in the week abbas ward truong that moving the embassy would endanger the middle east peace process and provoke unrest in the region. all right we've got team coverage on the story now i'm joined from jerusalem by my colleague .