president mccrone invites the former lebanese prime minister to france but says nonetheless it's not an exile offer in the wake of salaries that brought resignation. the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with researches claiming social media accounts influence rex and the kremlin's blamed for an attack on britain's energy grid. but two or three hundred islamic state fighters of belief fled the liberated syrian city of rocket the pentagon admits that only a few suspected militants were detained as they left. the can you say that no isis fighters leave the cities and go somewhere else can you say that we can't say would be one hundred percent certainty that.

either one in just past eight am thursday morning the sixteenth of november here in moscow one is kevin zero in first as more of this breaking news in to tell you about the world anti-doping agency committee within the last few hours has recommended that russia's own anti-doping agency rosado not be reinstated after a lengthy scandal they've said it was noncompliant russia was accused of course of a state sponsored doping scheme following a two part investigation and its agency banned from operating into that proved that it made agreed standards now russia's sports minister said the country had done everything it could to get restarted reinstated but felt the decision now is politically motivated however another twist to it russia's limpid committee chief hopes the decision won't impact russian athletes to compete of course in this

forthcoming twenty eighteen winter olympics in south korea bit more on it since you saw. it was declared non-compliant two years ago it's taken numerous positive steps to improve this a first of an independent anti doping commission was set up while it was also changed the it also changed the source of its funding to the body also established criminal penalties for those complicit in doping course is going to a lot more coming in on this throughout the day and if we get any official announcement from the russian side we'll of course bring it to you can follow this story as well online r.t. dot com or any of our platforms. it's suspected that hundreds of islamic state fighters have been allowed to flee the liberated syrian city of racket they reportedly left in convoys as part of a deal brokered to bring an end to the fighting in the area is the u.s. central command responded. there were four foreign fighters that were identified and were detained by the syrian democratic forces out of the rest of the out of the

three thousand five hundred civilians approximately three hundred were identified and screened as potential isis fighters as we see there were four detained but two hundred ninety six are missing now the colonel didn't go into detail when he was speaking however it is possible that they posed as civilians that's a common tactic used by the ice all fighters they tend to pose as civilians they've done this in the past now there have been reports of a convoy leaving the city and it is being reported that it's possible there could have been a large amounts of ammunition and i still fighters among that convoy now a pentagon spokesperson was actually grilled on this point here's how he responded we followed these buses as they departed if in opportunities presented themselves to conduct strikes against any potential isis fighters that were had decided to

flee then we would have we would have provided strikes that did not present itself and there were many civilians a report of the convoy so that did not happen you did can you say that new isis fighters leave the cities and go somewhere else can you say that i can't say with the one hundred percent certainty that every single fighter was identified coming out of rocca so the question now is where are these i still fighters going there no longer in iraq us so where would they be heading towards while one potential place the nearest location they could flee to would be turkey and the turkish government has voiced some serious concerns about that some have left i still terrorists leave rocker with their weapons instead of eliminating them from the cd is this your strategic tactic to come. now we see the results of these key deisel members who will be the reason for the deaths of innocent people in every

corner of the world including turkey europe and america now at this point we have the united states declaring victory in the city of raka but it's looking like quite a few isis fighters may have potentially escaped from rocka and begin setting up shop somewhere else as the fight continues justice project henson from twenty first century why new soldiers the reports of the west colluding with ice will be full. i think there's a great great reason to be concerned about allowing hundreds of battle hardened and in this would be some of the most hardcore fighters of the ones the last ones to basically leave and this isn't the first time by the way but this is also isn't the first time that we have reports of. multiple reports on aug twenty fourth of u.s. choppers air lifting isis commanders out of dairies or as that city was falling in isis was being routed out of there is or so there's a number of these reports we've seen over the over the months and in many cases

we're seeing reports from the middle eastern press of the sort of this collusion with isis so this should get a lot more attention in the western media and this is a really important issue actually while paramount in mind meantime with those issues at the forefront the u.s. senate's reportedly agreed to ignore a budget cap to increase military spending next year is what donald trump had to say on the namely seven hundred billion dollars set aside for the u.s. army now. the houses just passed a nearly seven hundred billion dollar defense package and it could not come at a better time.

the world smalling a french president has blamed his predecessors for fueling the rise of extremism in france to tackle it micron's now announced new economic projects for some of the country's poorest areas in a bid to try to prevent possible radicalization. paris than. ok in santa the housing projects dominate the skyline there home mainly to low income families and generations of migrants that the state has failed to integrate so dinny is also where the trail of the paris terror attacks in november two thousand and fifteen led the police to thank. you years later proles is the new president emanuel much call it says the state is

guilty of the wing extremism in iraq says poor us suburbs that's good news these neighborhoods with close schools cut aid for the oldest and youngest and other groups arrived the solutions for all of that radicalization took root because the state checked out not corns would come as the reality of how severe the problem of radicalization is becoming sinks in there are now eighteen thousand individuals on a list of people fly depth of being radicalized to wards violence that's up almost twenty percent since last year and it's still growing of those full thousand believed to be most dangerous. there are eighteen thousand people in france who are a nation of violent radicalism watch lists and four thousand individuals are under active surveillance. calls

a plan to stop out stream is in its fight powering money into housing improving public transport and offering subsidies to companies hiring youths from targeted areas but is it too little too late to stop them from being radicalized noiseless told me i don't think that money eleven could help with other things should be done as well money could help but this is not enough but did you read me this probably could help that there are people who already have money and they still can be terrorist money alone want to have people forest produce terrorism stop us our superspy but no this won't change much because terrorism is everywhere across the country it might help on the one hand but on the other hand it does nothing. much is lashing out at french authorities for funding for suburbs and allowing extremists to white which is fairly easy to do when you've been in charge for the

last year the issue up to my neighborhood spermicide decades and this shooting will the first president to try and tackle that show that davis a multi something the hardest. videos of people smushing the coffee machines the coffee makers are spreading online in protest over the coffee machine manufacturer pulling its ads from a t.v. news show. ok. it. seems people began firmly themselves destroying said coffee machines after the make a keurig dropped its ads from the hannity show on america's fox news channel couric took issue with host sean hannity to defend the republican senate candidate roy moore who's facing several accusations of sexual misconduct including one woman who says she was just fourteen at the time but viewers sided with hannity forcing the coffee company to apologize for what is described as taking sides now the decision

to publicly communicate our programming decision via our twitter account was highly unusual this gave the appearance of taking sides in an emotionally charged debate that escalated on twitter political analyst charles or tell things firms should watch their step if they want to weigh in the politics. i think it's a big mistake for publicly controlled companies to start meddling too aggressively in the political minefield particularly in a country like the states which is so sharply divided you have to understand that you know the hard right and the hard left you know represent only a portion of the target market there's a a large percentage in the middle that doesn't like either party it doesn't like politics intervening every day on television in every aspect of one's life trying to meddle in what a voter might want to do in the ballot box which is really none of the business of a company or encouraging one's employees to support one candidate or another that's

just not a province that i think makes any real sense for for profit companies just doesn't . longtime president of zimbabwe he's ninety three years old next he's former vice president and was tipped to become the successor many point the finger at his wife husband back into any fourteen she was appointed they had of the ruling party's women's league especially at a time when the country is suffering a financial crisis given mugabe's each she started openly pressing him to choose a successor stating her interest in no uncertain terms so i have said to the president you can also leave me in charge you can also give me your position given the job and i did very well because i'm good i can do a great job but the sudden appearance of military in the streets of zimbabwe's capital could very well crush those aspirations. branch of norway student unions in trouble for hosting an offensive party at the weekend let me tell

you that it seems the nazi thing to vent included a menu with a picture of hitler and drinks named blitzkrieg an auschwitz party goers were greeted by doormen and s.s. uniforms and barbed wire fencing or be put up on the walls visitors were also give more visas with an image of hit their on them a party led to a period but on mine. eventually the trondheim student union apologized and did close the event and it released a statement to say the union's got nothing to do with fascism the party was intended to mock naziism and anti fascist campaign ever we spoke to says parties like these should always be unacceptable when the nazis were expelled

from norway shocking all those lives that were lost trying to keep the losses out that people the students in there would have so little respect and i think people dressing up as s.s. uniform having outfits coat tails and death cattle coat tails are not really a joking matter it's not about political incorrectness it's about making sure that we remember the people that laid down their lives so that the nazis couldn't rule inside norway and couldn't rule anywhere i think that we have to make sure that people respect those traditions as well it's sixteen minutes past eight moscow time thanks for tuning in the small in my name is kevin go in there's a lot more after the break including the lebanese president accusing saudi arabia of holding its prime minister hostage.

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surprise resignation an announcement while in the saudi capital and then failed for a mountain jase called the latest. it's reading more and more every day where nobody really knows the ending we received a statement in beirut which i could go to sort of attention to the present here michelle loan is losing some patience with the situation personally but of course and i'm back to sunday where the nation here was grips by our live television interview which is the background of the story if i can just summarize is that the last critical critical to this is. the shift of hezbollah forces and in the last couple of weeks. to hezbollah forces being in the on the table we can then go see it and wrangle with and there's a certain amount of pressure on now he come if he comes back to lebanon and most people suspect he will next few days he would have a lot more leverage on his side to negotiate a deal has been. made while in another twist of this french president manuel

micron's invited riri and his family to france but mark rodman says he's not offering political exile here. i spoke with crown prince mohammed bill sammon and prime minister saad hariri and we agreed that i would invite the prime minister in his family to france for a few days is also a gesture of friendship in the willingness of france to contribute restoring calm and stability in lebanon the middle east nasser told us the lebanese government appears to be uniting in the face now of outside pressure. if not it is not there somebody else will lead the government and all the later players and love and i will still be in the government of the saudis trying to dictate their opinion on the lebanese government and today we find the lebanese actually united in opposition to it from outside you know it's a shame that lebanon has to be forced to become a battlefield between the saudis and the and in fact if you really look at what the saudis are trying to do is on their confrontations with us with the iranians

whether in syria and iraq and yemen they seem to be losing these and they're just trying to open a new front in lebanon and that's what the general believes onselen he says which is why the submission was not accepted. britain has stepped up its search for alleged russian influence in its u.k. research has claimed over four hundred twitter accounts try to sway voters on breaks about their u.k. cyber intelligence chief is also blamed moscow for hacking britain's communications and energy grid now to care martin said that russia is seeking to undermine the international system and promise to resume a highlight of his concern in her annual speech on monday to london correspondent looks at the facts though behind the allegations. the whole russia hack the u.s. elections thing is so passe in case you haven't heard the kremlin is now also accused of meddling in the u.k.

is affairs seeking to undermine western values and doing a bunch of other evil stuff to russia's actions which threaten the international order hostile russian activity hacking the danish ministry of defense and the book bundestag the strange campaign of cyber espionage and disruption in elections plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the west and undermine our institutions and when it comes to choosing the right tool for state of the art meddling any regime determined on threatening international order is going to need an army of these. according to researchers at the university of edinburgh twitter trolls are the weapon of choice for the kremlin these days the academics claim to have identified four hundred nineteen fake twitter accounts attempting to influence and destabilize

british politics in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia is enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more yeah i think it would you know you know. so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg slowly slowly creeping

up creeping up through lonely all these stories that go. and i believe there is something at the bottom of it and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire usually if russia did this. the idea that four hundred twitter people will affect. millions as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable the idea that four hundred social media are capable of swinging an election in the u.k. or anywhere else is just ludicrous in fact. it's almost comical it seems russian into. ference is interfering in everything these days because about a conference about women in leadership at the summit and this has come up as one of the top oh why is it a topic for women in leadership well it was more about the world we live in today

the unsettled nature of it and the topic of. trumping power what the hell are we going to do and the topic of. russian birth so interference at some level was discussed no one i spoke to had anything to say about evidence that maybe because there isn't much of it do you think the prime minister is wrong to be putting the emphasis that she put on this last night on russia no no you're too old to accuse them of meddling well i think she probably has evidence to indicate that that was the case probably there's also britain's head of cyber security kiran martin has said that russian hackers have attacked british media telecommunication and energy sectors when i asked for proof he said he couldn't get into precise details the prime minister's spokesperson has said that downing street didn't have

any evidence of successful interference in british electoral systems and this was the way the foreign secretary put it on. the loose. if you ask a member of the public area of russia did magill the answer is most likely to be. for questions of foreign affairs like faraway russia their people in the u.k. are prepared to suspend disbelief to simply accept what they are told if the russians are blamed often enough people will say ok we accept you don't have to tell us anymore what to these are mean and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their own responsibility for for the enveloping crazies political crazies are taking place at all and abroad too in this context

they don't need evidence russia know is seen as an easy target. or right wing politician in denmark is caused by calling for a ban on doctors with islamic beard scholars names henrich therapies from the danish people's party he's been highly critical of the growing muslim presence in his country but his latest idea has drawn widespread ridicule.

all of the scientists from from every corner of the planet were probably had beers a point or another i believe in jesus christ had a beard and he was there literally healing the sick throughout his mission there the whole idea of being against a particular religion but being forward other religion just sounds very antiquated in the twenty first century and so banning beards is about as ridiculous as it sounds for all the wrong reasons so before i leave you with me recap you just joined us hi good morning let me recap that breaking news story that's coming concerning russia the world anti doping agency has blocked russia's own anti doping agency that's called. from big reinstated after a lengthy scandal has gone on for a couple of years now they say it is known compliant russia was accused of state sponsored doping following a two part investigation and its agency banned from operating until it proved to the agreed standards now on russia's side russia sports minister said the country

had done everything it could to get rosado reinstated again back into the table felt the decision was politically motivated here however russia's a limb pick committee chief says he hopes the decision won't impact on russian athletes looking to complete the course of that very close no twenty eighteen winter olympics in south korea in chiang cintra solder was declared non-compliant two years ago it's taken numerous positive steps to get back onto. remind ourselves what that is so far it's established an independent anti-doping commission while it's also changed its source of funding for transparency to. president putin also signed a new law you may recall making complicity in doping a criminal offense in russian law not just the sports offense more reaction of course coming throughout the day and. would be able to tell of a lot of guests lined up throughout the morning for now though i'm going to say goodbye cross a big news story with the next thirty minutes dot com or any of our other platforms

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