olympic chiefs dismissed media claims as premature that the russian national anthem will be banned at the upcoming winter games. revelations about the offshore tax avoidance of money making schemes of the super rich become a gold mine for the media with many publications rooting out and focusing on links to russia. and nato is set to agree on increasing troop numbers for training missions in afghanistan the move would boost the number of its personnel to sixteen . hello welcome is just on eleven o'clock in the evening here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story this hour the international olympic committee has

dismissed reports the russian national anthem could be banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics the claim was made in the new york times ahead of the i.o.c. decision on what action to take against russia for alleged state sponsored doping reports now from the limpid headquarters in switzerland. well the article by the new york times suggests that unnamed sources from the international olympic committee have said that they are discussing a possible ban on the russian national anthem at the winter games in twenty eighteen there also it says in the article discussing a menu of other possible penalties against russia including not allowing delicate and athletes to take part in the opening ceremony now we are asked the i.o.c. for a response to that report and whether those suggestions of those possible sanctions being discussed was actually true this is all premature speculation before the world and schmidt commissions have even completed their work and before due process

to which any individual or organization is and try to hold has been followed well it all comes amid allegations of widespread doping following the sort she games in twenty fourteen against russian athletes that led to the the russian track and field team being disqualified and barred from the rio twenty sixteen olympics and the entire team being barred from the rio paralympics in the same year now the i.o.c. is currently investigating some of the allegations against russian athletes from the sochi games in twenty fourteen and so far they have removed two medals from russian athletes both from the skiing events now the athletes in question have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen. ok let's

get the views now of the house of capital sports on moscow's capital f.m. . good evening eleanor just listening to that report there we must remember that this shouldn't shouldn't really be seen as an isolated case because there's been a lot of pressure put on the i.o.c. in the run up to making their decision. so i mean they are caught up in this war with the idea the international national organization is grouping of they say outliers like you do you are. you card and so on that are trying to take over the world. water association our own deal you see during a v.o.c. so russia our own forces caught in the crossfire of them just to let people know those organizations work all in for a blanket ban not so long ago yes i mean and also they've been you know going kind of around the laws like outsider basically around the laws and using a lot of kind of nasty p.r.

as well and of course they have some very strong backing but ultimately it's basically a corporate takeover so they're trying to take over water and then take over the oh you'll see so you would like russia's been here because it's a nice kind of whipping boy for them to to make some political ground and ok and with regard to the new york times publishing this story just run through a bit of background on that with regard to the whole doping scandal well i mean the oh the you know the i.o.c. said not so long good at like you had new york times or one of the best and one the worst sort of appalling some proponents of doping because i mean they were the ones who paid for. dr death dr archer go his story and they also have supported the movie as well david one of the even though he is in hiding or not hiding story in protective custody he's still able to get his articles published in the new york times so intel is the one that lifts the lid supposedly on state sponsored terrorism daily you know he's one of the the world leaders how to avoid getting

caught doping so this is a guy who was doing doping for profit and avoiding getting caught for doping for profit as well and now he's in the pave new york times so i mean it's not unusual it's not too strange that new york times do because this is this is quite regular for them ok but despite all that said the i.o.c. seems to be resisting this pressure doesn't it i mean. thomas back i think the head of the i.o.c. has said previously you know we don't believe in collective punishment of course lucky he'll go like you know. it's wrong he understands that in terms of human rights it's a wrong thing to an entire country because he knows himself and the insiders know that there's a very small group in every country who were able to facilitate this were doctors were coaches so in a year to ban people already as we know russia have tens of thousands of leads by around from competing from track and field especially so he knows and yossi movement knows well the early group knows all of

a blanket ban is just completely wrong you know because the olympics brought people compete and you better get that set out they do need to take action i don't know because there are two inquiries going on at the moment at the i.o.c. one's looking at individual cases of doping the other one's looking at the bigger picture of perhaps a conspiracy state run conspiracy of organizing doping practices within the country i mean what sort of action would you expect them to take ok you've ruled out sort of collective punishment here but what could they be expected to take that most people would be happy with do you think if it turns out that these allegations are true well look let's put this way if someone is doping and is because repeatedly doping them they have to use the maximum effect so we have two skiers who were you know the evidence point that they were doing something wrong or to doping or we don't know so they've got lifetime bans which is so unusual when we've got you just gotten has been caught a couple of times or people have missed tests and so on and so forth but you don't

get like twenty pounds so if people are caught doping it is at least a dog will then ok bond them do it go ahead would you cannot say that everyone is bad because that straightaway i mean how many regimes have fallen that sounded like you know one person is bad so let's condemn them all that it's just very very wrong but if an athlete is open to them. that's it pure and simple but you cannot blanket everybody would you kind of tire of we would say bush russia has said or threaten that it might effectively boycott these games if the punishment is too harsh i mean that would be an absolute disaster wouldn't it for the lympics it would be bad for russia more money because russia should be better than the us and say look we you know and fight as much as possible however not a way it's kind of like is it all worth us you know do you want like if our athletes for their clean are not winning medals and we know people are dropping because of they would be one hundred feeling we would see the guys you know ourselves from for work in sports you you know you had a few people are doing if you have to dope to compete there are some good good

things and maybe we should step back but i would very much hope not i would hope that people come to senses that the people who are trying to do this like kind of corporate takeover. that they would use global political bit and just let sports people compete and just leave it out ok well plenty more speculation to come because we expect an announcement don't we at the beginning of december so that gives us another couple of weeks yes yeah again we are very depart libyans they are already like they were under a banner going to consider individual cases hopefully hopefully will should be allowed to compete i think we do know just before the last olympics the daily mail came out just as the new york times did and said oh it's by a complete ban a complete ban we you and i were sitting in the studio saying this can't be right i have to learn not to be right because all these inside sources i mean typical pandemonium to say this and of course the new york times they might have no sources but it sells newspapers and says advertising space to say that russia is bad

because if. it's good for business. maybe we'll see you again within two weeks. the capital sport of moscow is capital f.m. alamo thank you thanks tony. nice leases in the barracks meant to place wealthiest people in all same companies happens to because of a russian company does not mean that there is any evil in it now it's important to note siebel as a company is not subject to sanctions and it's been left pretty buff hold by the reaction cyber war itself was. sanction is not an els sieber expresses it surprised at the politically charged interpretation in certain media publications of regular commercial activities over many years which from the outset were reflected in the company's published accounts now if all this

sounds complicated i'm confusing it's meant to be offshore dealings through third parties often aim to avoid regulation and taxes but that's not the main thing find a connection any connection to russia and you have a catchy headline now if you're still with me the evidence of russian influence goes even further for me is that a lot but again let's take a closer look to banks controlled by the kremlin provide the cash and on the ground in afghanistan be around nato pot but that has just just at the most trumps strategy on happening others dave i think this year alone in twenty seven to around one hundred attacks.

well it's not just the taliban the islamic state of also have been operating within afghanistan and it's the people of that country that bear the brunt bear trapped on one side with terrorists trying to kill them while on the other many have been killed as the result of u.s. airstrikes. and u.s. forces bombarded everyone including children men and women our houses have been destroyed under the bombardment children and women were killed there are houses left are gone some homes were burned by islamic militants and others were hit by u.s. drone strikes. the fight is ongoing islamic state militants came and started the clashes they wanted to cut our heads off when u.s. troops bombed the area so we left and came here so an extra three thousand nato

troops will be making their way to stand we expect that statement from the end stoltenberg to be rubber stamped and confirmed when the nato defense ministers meet in brussels this coming thursday. now today we have been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and we've been running a real time line news feed on twitter for you you can follow all the latest by searching for the hash tag nineteen seventeen live and that will show you how events were unfolding minute by minute back then on the timeline right now the revolution has taken a dramatic turn the cruiser a ruler has fired at the winter palace the last holdout of the counter revolutionary forces the provisional government has surrendered to the red guards under the revolutionary leadership of guests he fled a mere lenine power is now officially in the hands of the soviets so that is what was happening exactly one hundred years ago tonight with more on our project is not

against the. yeah the russian revolution did a hundred years ago now. wracked with that log on to twitter. thank information. and to vent events floundered in a cold and of anarchy pieing the russian monex main residency constitution then but in reality. and vladimir lenin. it must be explained to the masses that the soviet who wouldn't place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poorest structure of them as injury the bolsheviks promises essentially boiled down to this power to the soviets peace to nations lands of peasants and bread to the hungry it took them just two days to come to

power on october twenty fourth and twenty fifth they swiftly seized post offices locations across the city at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot fired from cruise aurora signaling the start of the storming of the winter palace by two am on the twenty sixth of october the revolutionaries occupied it and arrested the provisional government the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm. the nine hundred seventeen revolution is also being remembered outside of russia an improvised parade was held earlier on tuesday in berlin this soviet era vehicles to take part in the reenactment of the revolutionary regiment stationed in petrograd with communist flags and photos of historically. i i.

ok well let's go back to the present because the catalonia crisis is making itself felt in belgium this evening supporters of spanish unity have taken to the streets of brussels to oppose a gathering of separatist catalan politicians mayors from a number of cattle and times are there to voice support for their deposed colleagues in the regions government was sacked after declaring independence from spain at the end of october it's ex leader and four ministers then fled to belgium where they are now facing extradition proceedings eight other politicians from the rest of the region are also being held in detention in the treat the arrests have

triggered widespread anger in careful lonia all my lead ecologist bustamante has been among those addressing the problem independents politicians in brussels. so that brings you up to date here on our table back with more news in just over half an hour. with more make this manufactured. public world. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. need.

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