olympic chiefs dismissed media claims is premature that the russian national anthem will be banned at the upcoming winter games. revelations about the offshore tax avoidance and 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 that it would agree on increasing troop numbers for training missions in afghanistan the move would boost the number of its personnel to sixteen thousand. hello there welcome you watching r.t. international where it's just gone midnight here in moscow must start this hour with breaking news because the un joint commission investigating the chemical

attack in syria is it lead province back in april has found government forces to be responsible the watchdog says they've looked into various scenarios questioned hundreds of witnesses and examined thousands of pictures and files to however they did stress they never made it to the site of the attack damascus denies it carried out the attack hearing at the u.n. security council is currently ongoing and we'll bring you more later in the program as we get it. in the meantime 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 shouted devinsky reports 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 what 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 questions 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 well earlier i spoke with the sports columnist who believes that russia has been caught up in a crossfire between the i.o.c. and water. they are caught up in this war with the international national doping organizations grouping of the outliers like you know the us. you cut and so on that are trying to take over the world the water association our

own deal you see during the v.o.c. they've been 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 did like russia has been hit because it's a nice kind of whipping boy for them to to make some political ground. no excuse is an embarrassment to appear to be the order of the day for some of the world's wealthiest people and companies to it comes in the wake of the leaking of a massive trove of financial files the so-called paradise papers have exposed where the richest are hiding their money and how they dodge paying taxes.

trillion dollars. offshore and there's. hundreds of billions of dollars worth of taxes go on collected and you end up with what i would call apartheid but the billionaire relating we know this and meanwhile the poverty levels are continuing to rise because people are being gouged they're being ripped off. into the mix comes the social uprising more violence because naturally if you have everything stolen from you nothing so you become violent so then as you can

see there's a whole host of famous faces in the papers not least these five queen elizabeth is here she's got millions invested in the cayman islands and then next to her we have rex tillerson he is the u.s. secretary of state he is named as the director of an offshore firm. in oil and gas fields too and the man next to him is the billionaire cure. for him he used the law firm based in to help man the offshore companies and then at the end there's a couple of famous was a couple of famous pop stars veterans bono madonna techno word for it they made investments through companies and. but for the mainstream media it is all about finding a political scoop amongst the mass of information now the member of the trump white house is now under scrutiny for his ties to russia to be hearings and if he fails to provide a convincing and compelling explanation he ought to resign well it probably won't

surprise you that a lot of news outlets have been trawling through the paradise papers in an effort to find enough areas to links between russia and the u.s. then hawkins takes a look now at how they've been getting on. it's one of the biggest leaks of private documents in the world revealing the financial dealings of the super wealthy and powerful four royal families to global corporations but for most media the focus has been east putin's cronies kremlin meddling team trump's ties to putin's family all the elements to grab the reader's attention so let's break it down meet wilbur ross u.s. commerce secretary and investor now he has interests in a shipping company called navigator and one of that company's clients is russian energy for siebel now two of the shareholders there are fish alley under u.s. sanctions with another claim to be putin's son in law and those alleged ties to the

russian president and his family could create a conflict of interest for ross now the commerce secretary himself left navigator's board back in twenty fourteen having joined it two years before that he's adamant he's done nothing wrong i don't know when the of those individuals have never met them so there's nothing wrong with the fact that it happens to be a russian company does not mean the only evil in it though it's important to note to see war as a company is not subject to sanctions and it's been left pretty buffel by the reaction so i bore it sort of was there in saying sion is. expresses its surprise at the politically charged interpretation in certain media publications of regular could push an activity over many years which from the outset were reflected in the company's published accounts now if all this sounds

complicated and 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. you have a catchy headline now if you're still with me the evidence of russian influence goes even further from these airlines one might think the kremlin all that owns these social media giants but again let's take a closer look at two banks controlled by the kremlin provide the cash to third parties or investment vehicles to buy stakes in some of the world's biggest companies russian tech investor you remailer is a key link in these operations and also invested in cards that's a start up founded by jared krishna donald trump's son in law surely they're the smoking gun on russian meddling and here's what the protagonists in this conspiracy

have to say themselves we announced via an august twentieth. that d.s.t. global lead a round of investments in twitter they have since divested their interest from twitter in me twenty four tomb the investment was made eight years ago and d.s.t. global has since sold all of their holdings in facebook their stake ended five years ago when we went public and if russians apparently influence your social media do they also control your music taste and your holiday bookings d.s.t. global's investments in facebook and twitter were just two of the more than thirty internet companies around the world that d.s.t. global funds have invested in including air b.n. b. spotify g.d. dot com the lando and alibaba offshore financial market nations are seen by many as morally questionable at best this doesn't stop the wealthy and influential from engaging in them but money has the final say business is business unless you have any link to russia then it's political. max kaiser again says that focusing on

russia is about diverting attention away from more serious issues. they're trying to look at this big scatter shot of information and with little tweezers they try to pick out you know some what they perceive to be incriminating data points and then they build a scenario there's only approximately six major media companies in america those are owned by the same kleptocrats that are hiding all these billions of dollars they then put that story out there to deflect and confuse is that oh my gosh russia is involved in this scandal russia's involved black lives matter russia is involved with hillary losing the election because she is completely inapt russia russia russia russia needs to cash in on this incredible brand awareness in america from coast to coast everything's about russia you know russia needs to start opening up shop here in america to cash in on this russia craze instead of just sitting back and trying to figure out the mentality of the american consumer the american

politician because clearly there is no logic behind it it's pure scapegoating. skies there now another nice evening they say we set to boost its mission in afghanistan with an additional three thousand troops bringing the total number of service personnel to sixteen thousand in the country here's what the nato secretary general confirmed and after that our correspondent peter all of it was in the details. we have decided to increase the number of troops the current level is around thirteen thousand. around sixteen thousand. trained assistant advise nato is set to increase their contingent on the ground in afghanistan they strip increase had been rumbling along since may it also came alongside room is that each of the member states would be asked to kick in an extra one billion dollars to the the ground to nato part but that hasn't been spoken of

any more just just at the moment we understand that half of those three thousand troops will come from the united states the other half coming from the other twenty eight member states that make up nato and they will be in addition to the three thousand extra u.s. troops that were announced back in september by u.s. defense secretary jim mattis this was all part of trump's strategy on how to tackle the taliban in afghanistan sixteen years u.s. and nato of being on the ground that we have seen that in some areas the taliban have been rooted out they've been rather catered in some areas plain others they've i think gained ground all they've proved particularly troublesome to out from particular tribal areas of the country and just this year alone in twenty seventeen the taliban's claimed responsibility for around one hundred attacks which killed nearly a thousand people. 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. u.s. forces bombarded and everyone including children men and women in 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 that 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 so an extra three thousand nato troops will be making their way to afghanistan 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. hundreds of anti donald trump protesters are out in force in the south korean capital to show their disapproval of the american president's visit there at the same time pro trump rallies are all saying taking place. is the second stop on his historic twelve day asia tour he got under way in

japan where trump did outline what appears to be the major topic of the trip the sale of u.s. weapons and it's left some asking if he is sticking to exactly the same script from country to country. the prime minister. is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment as. we make the best military equipment by far. make the greatest military equipment in the world whether it's planes whether it's missiles no matter what it is we have the greatest military equipment in the world and south korea will be ordering billions of dollars of that equipment while in japan on monday trump did ask congress in washington for an extra four billion dollars for missile defense and huntsman's to counter the north korean threat and another billion to support his plans for the wider region. and i refuse trump's tour of asia so far.

after meeting with triumph the japanese prime minister said it was time to apply maximum pressure on north korea suggesting that intercepting pyongyang's missiles was possible to coronation to which trump responded that if tokyo purchase arms from the us they'd be capable of hitting him down he will shoot him out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states he will easily shoot them out of the sky why because north korea is apparently in dangerous state most importantly were working to counter the dangerous aggressions of the regime in north korea. the regime continued development of its unlawful weapons programs including its illegal nuclear tests and outrageous launches of ballistic missiles directly over japanese territory are a threat to the civilized world at international peace and stability. we will not

stand for that the era of strategic patience is over while this is expected to be a major theme on this sweeping easer tour but it all sounds too familiar in essence almost identical to what he said throughout his middle east does it earlier this year and we will be sure to help our sort of friends to get a good deal from our great american defense companies this past summer trump signed the largest arms to u.s. history saudi arabia worth one hundred ten billion dollars but who's the enemy in this america for decades around has fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror threatening the region and causing so much of by alliance all nations it is indeed a threat there's no question sparely simple buy us weapons and the world will be a better place i would love to be able to get along with everybody right now the

world is a mess but i think by the time we finish i think it's going to be a lot better place to live with selling weapons as diplomatic outreach it's been an age old tradition of the west presidents the question is doesn't it just adds fuel to the fire. our team in washington d.c. . now today we have been marking the hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.'s we've been running a real time news feed to you on twitter and you can follow all the latest by searching for hash tag nineteen seventeen live and that will show you how events were unfolding minutes by minute back then we're on the timeline right now there are reports the revolution is ongoing with some firefights and we also know that the winter palace has gone dark with no lights inside the revolutionary leader vladimir lenin says that the seizure of power by the soviets is nearly complete so

that is what was happening exactly one hundred years ago tonight he's more against the effort more now on our project. there's never been a revolution quite like it the world of today was shaped by reddit tobar one hundred years ago in the one hand it borders socialism international borders as they are now racial and class equality woman's rights universal health care and education on the other hand it led to a bloody civil war nato and the cold war imagine living through such a pivotal moment in human history well you can almost feel ever

dreamed of time travel. brings you a digital time machine that sexy back to. the looks of the revolutions and wonders what if twitter existed a hundred years ago. lenin nicholas the second and dozens of the big players of the revolution live tweeting as though the revolution was happening now. this is your chance to interact with them log on to twitter and tell lenin what you think about his plans he know not us but the russian telegraph of one hundred years ago has also been posting live updates until the takeover.

information is power and no one weaponized it like the reds the russian telegraph became the revolution retires and you needn't just read about it you can see it happen. it. seems from the past three hundred sixty degree videos

short as authentically as possible will give you a taste of those monumental events events that largely shaped modern history in the world we live in nineteen seventeen live history today. well you might be wondering why we are talking about the october revolution in november it's a fair enough question but there is a simple answer it's because soviet russia did adopt a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october back in one nine hundred seventeen that is november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used today in most of the world so now here's a short recap of what happened then in russia one hundred years ago. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down by

the february revolution and exhausted by the first world war the whole country floundered in a cold and of anarchy enormous russia bearing the new world writhed in pain zonday calista second living in exile in siberia with his family following his abdication seven months ago the provisional government occupying the russian monex main residency the winter palace moderately liberal and aiming to create a new constitution then their friend in me the petrograd soviet group formed workers and soldiers the two institutions are supposed to share power but in reality are competing for it and that's where the bolsheviks and vladimir lenin come in. it must be explained to the masses that the soviet to work his deputies is the only possible form of revolutionary government place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poor a structure of his injury the bolsheviks promises essentially boil 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 key railway stations the state bank the port and other strategic 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. well the nine hundred seventeen revolution is also being remembered outside of russia. an improvised parade was held earlier on tuesday in lynn here their soviet era vehicles to take part in

a reenactment of the revolution regiment stationed in petrograd with communist flags and photos of the store called the. ok well let's return to the present because the catalonia crisis is making itself felt in belgium at the moment supporters of spanish unity have taken to the streets of brussels to oppose a gathering of separatist cathal and politicians mez from a number of cattle and savoy support for their deposed colleagues the region's government is 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 in the restive region are also being held in detention in the treat us have triggered widespread anger in catalonia the former leader carlist boojum on has been among those addressing the pro independence politicians in brussels. ok let's just bring you up to date on that breaking news the un joint mission investigating the chemical attack in ceres italy province's back in april has found government forces to be responsible the watchdog says they looked into various scenarios questioned hundreds of witnesses and also examined thousands of pictures and files however they did also. i stress that they never made it to the site of the attack damascus denies carrying out the attack russia has criticised the way

the chemical attack was investigated saying that the investigators hadn't visited the site of the attacks be said and didn't use the most modern means of carrying the probe so that's the latest we'll have a live analysis for you in about half and asked. if. i.

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on. seventeen the bolsheviks led by vladimir lenin seized power and set out to build the most equitable society on earth before long the other countries followed russia's example but so far the recipe for universal happiness remains of use if people are still searching to this day. so manu could be believed in the fair. i was shown it by did it got up there we were shown to.