bridge. the track. reports starting june eleventh on t.w. . this is d w news live from berlin russia is hit by new allegations of doping with less than three weeks to go until the start of the football world cup an investigation by german journalists alleges the test results were covered up. also coming out nicolas maduro wins a second term as president of venezuela he is calling it an historic victory but the opposition says the vote was a farce and is calling for

a new election. plus they don't consider themselves to be men or women but they say they're not transgender either we talk to a group of people in southern mexico sometimes referred to as a third gender. i'm sumi so misconduct to have you with us russian sports authorities have been accused of covering up doping test results from footballers in russia's world cup squad the revelations come just weeks before the tournament kicks off and russia investigative reporter who's effort helped reveal a state run doping program in russian athletics and now says some of their footballers may have questions to answer. the russian doping scandal may also extend to the national football team russian officials also suspected of covering up test results in the past making samples disappear which have the potential to

implicate footballers some of whom have been selected for the hosts world cup squad german t.v. channel has a list containing player names and code numbers of doping samples this list is based on information from investigators and intelligence gathered from a two thousand and fourteen raid of the moscow doping control board there the world anti-doping agency water seized samples which contains noticeable findings but have not been investigated further players from the current squad were among them what we labeled the disappearing positive methodology. which is the labs mechanism by which they falsely reported their results according to the water has found dozens of irregular test results from russian football is in the database and pos these all into feet. following a request for comment football's governing body said investigations are under way and they are hoping to report new developments in the coming weeks. journalist

whose apple too broke that story and many others concerning russian doping joins us in our studio now thank you for joining us good to have you have you with us right now russia is again the focus of your investigations how is this going to impact the world cup if you don't know yet sets in or in a couple of weeks i guess the moment it looks like that if you file is really investigating at least on. the outcome of the results or for dr bass which has been given from a whistleblower to wada last year in two thousand and seventeen sixty three cells and samples from different sports nine talk nine thousand of them have been suspicious and i guess. almost hundred of them are now under investigation and coming from football so. we don't know what would be the outcome what we can say you just talk about a presumptive screening which might be doping must not necessarily be doping it can also have other reasons but it needs to be. scrutinized that is to be checked great

news be scrutinized you know how solid is this evidence that we could be talking about doping in russia's national football team what we can say is that in two thousand and fourteen and this is not related to the database i was talking about in two thousand and fourteen after the first revelations in energy german television about state run doping of that takes the world anti-doping agency the major weights in the most called depth and at that point they seized more than three thousand samples from different sports and among them as i have been samples from football players and we got information that from two thousand and fourteen at that point they have been samples from players who are currency as a team rose or of the russian team for the world cup for him to get to that means we talk about samples which have ridge are unclear from two cells and fourteen from players who are now in the squad and that is a question and fee for has said said they have done some testing but the os seven

is a question have you done a retest for all forbidden substances fall for prohibited substance a fall for purgative nothing and they didn't answer that question last week you mentioned the doping in a flood x. which there is evidence of a question some people are asking is is it really beneficial for footballers to dope how does that help them ok what do you need in football is power what you can . increase with and of what makes is power. what would you need as endure instance in football you need to compete nation of power and in durance so what does it make sense for insurance e.p.o. for example so as i don't lot of things and if you look at the history of doping related investigations into football you will see that e.p.o. was a subject and a bollix have been the subject so it makes really sensed. dope so it's there's no doubt the level of doping might not be the same as for example in weightlifting or whenever that takes i'm going to say that doping doesn't play any role in football that's nonsense so in durance and stamina things that footballers need surely not

just russian footballers or other teams also helping why we just focusing then on russia here they're not focusing on russia you have a state run doping system rather four years we are in very good no twenty us but also. investigators and world anti-doping agency in different international sports federation reckons of subject few files no working on that issue so it is there's no doubt that that is really hot suspicion and evidence about russia and doping and stage one doping your computer right when you say that sam must be in as also doping in other countries but if you don't have a proof if you don't have evidence and a particular note on state run doping in that countries then that makes really a big difference i want to ask you about one of the russian footballers a couple of he was named to the world cup squad despite being investigated for doping he's now been dropped due to injury is that due to your investigation you don't comment on names absolutely not because again we're talking about. clear

heart hince we're talking order strong suspicion we don't talk about proofs because we don't do drugs or talk about proofs you don't reveal any names in that investigation now you weren't able to get a visa that originally to report on the world cup it was feared because that's because of your reporting on doping in russia of the german government stepped in and now it appears that you will be going to russia to report is that correct you know it says that i have a visa no and i never decide at a later stage there are different concerns we have to consider and then we will make a decision at a later point as you can imagine some people in russia don't like at all what we have investigated so you have to consider if it's really worse or maybe there's a bigger risk we don't know so we have to discuss it internally and recommit to induce to do a decision investigative journalist who has settled with us and here in studio thank you very much for sharing your reporting with us thank you. let's catch up

now on some other stories making headlines around the world the democratic republic of congo is launching an ebola vaccination program today to try to stop a new outbreak of the disease health workers have shipped four thousand doses of the vaccine and more is on its way and the first wave of the program will target health professionals treating ebola patients paraguayan has opened its israeli embassy in jerusalem the second country to do so after the united states paraguayan president or to a cart this and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu attended the inauguration ceremony the u.s. relocated its embassy to jerusalem a week ago the u.s. department of justice will investigate whether the f.b.i. spied on donald trump's two thousand and sixteen election campaign in a tweet trump said he demands to know whether any such requests for spying on his campaign were made by the obama administration one person has been severely injured by molten rock in hawaii as lava continues to flow from the killer way of all kaino it began erupting more than two weeks ago and has burned dozens of homes and forced

thousands of people to flee the hawaii national guard has warned of mandatory evacuations of lava makes any more roads impossible impassable. nicholas mother wrote has one venezuela's presidential election he beat his nearest rival and we felt called in by a wide margin model called his victory a triumph over imperialism but the opposition boycott of the poland said it was not a fair vote the u.s. says it will not recognize the outcome and is considering new sanctions against the socialist government. for nicolas maduro and his supporters a celebration with few surprises. it's a second six year term for the venezuelan president who won over two thirds of the vote. thank you for overcoming so many aggressions so many laws. thank you for joining me in so many battles and thank you for making me president. but it's

a hollow victory the country's electoral sardi's say only forty six percent of voters turned out at the polls. opposition parties say the real figure is closer to thirty percent. the main opposition party boycotted the election claiming it was rigged two popular candidates were barred from running one challenger who ran on little more than a prayer says the vote was marred by irregularities. we don't recognize this electoral process as valid as having taken place. for us there were no elections. new elections in venezuela need to take place. the jurors opponents say the empty polling stations were kept open for hours past the prescribed closing time in

a desperate bid to draw in voters. voting was very low one it didn't used to be like this and they're hoping more people will eventually come out but the truth is it's been very very weak so we pulled the floor and there were only a few voters but it was not like this in other years when there was a lot of people today i've been walking through town and the voting centers are mc . there haven't been many people because there was a campaign asking people not to vote they told people not to turn nights but some people from the other side have voted and we should be stars have gladly come i. don't. know but you know. victory has been rejected by several countries including the u.s. which says it may impose new oil sanctions against the struggling state. in

southern mexico a group of people known as mushy are born with male bodies but take on feminine roles as they grow older they do not identify as men or women and they don't describe themselves as transgender either in one area which shows are said to have been around for centuries it as we see in our next report today they're facing a number of challenges. it's friday in santiago kneel to pack and diana ross is getting ready to go for a drink with her friends. both people born with male bodies but. men at home they often take on traditional female roles but they're not viewed as women either share often confused as transgender but their identity is unique to the region and cities for the most in other communities move said to be less accepted and more discriminated against and it's said that this region is the new ship paradise when it really isn't there's

a lot of discrimination and violence it's still necessary to work hard to change the way people treat us. it was yesterday for. the iron inseparable part of the zappa tech culture life here revolves around family social events and keeping the men company despite their long history of mexican law yet recognize them. back in society generally except the new chef say there's still much progress to be made. from a very early age we identify with our feminine side we dress up as women at ten twelve thirteen years of age but we can no longer access secondary school dressed as women so we leave school and devote ourselves to informal trades such as embroideries stylists six workers and cooks. there's a kind of a glass ceiling over our heads society would allow us to advance it all.

every year. from all over the region to celebrate their identity in the festival of candles they wear traditional dress and dance to compete for the title of festival queen. hacker is an example for the rest of mexico with acceptance and tolerance of gender diversity that may still be a lot of work to do but for the people here the existence of a third. it's a way of life. you're watching d.w. noosa still to come with president mahmoud a reluctant in venezuela will be taking a look at one of his biggest challenges reviving venezuela's failing economy mother to his make significant promises but the country's reality looks very different. we'll have that story coming right up in business. don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go up from google player from the op store that will give you access to

all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the data you have to send us your photos and your videos. thanks for watching. as you accidentally shed some trying to get. the trodes. time in the field. how can you get out. with him code always seemingly. shift this week on d w.

every journey begins with the first step and everyone reaches the first word i heard from the nico music.