prime minister of france says it's not a hacksaw. in the wake of saad hariri resignation. to the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. it builds momentum with researches claiming social media accounts influence in the kremlin is played as well for an attack on britain's and then she would take the streets of london to see what people there think about it. others are mourning the sixteenth of november here in moscow. thanks for joining us to give the latest details on that view is just no salary in saudi arabia still under mysterious circumstances if. lebanese leaders say he's actually being held in detention bring us up to speed on what this french side of it now is.

what the french sort of is very curious i mean it's quite a thunderbolt what's happened just yesterday is that mr macron has offered her riri some sort of x. are they not using the word excel of course but they're stressing this is an offer to him and his family to come for just a few days that may well be a euphemism for to come here indefinitely we just don't know there are more questions than answers at this point but i think it's logical that some first of all these national committee would step in but it's a logical that france would be the obvious country to make such an offer you have to understand that there's a history of course of colonial history with france and lebanon but also that hariri is had a home for a number of years in paris so there seems to be seems to quite a smart move and what if we look back if we go back to the very beginning of this all kicked off and of in the fourth when mr hereis jet landed in riyadh airport and was surrounded by police officers he took his phone and ushered him into an office and explained to him that the new crown prince was very unhappy with his one year

in office as prime minister of lebanon because he hadn't actually succeeded in the go seeing anything at all with hezbollah in terms of redressing this balance of power in the region he merely made a speech which was obviously scripted by the saudis which more or less said that i'm resigning and i blame hezbollah for that and if you that caused quite a lot of tension shock in lebanon but we've moved forward to november the ninth we saw that an interview which he conducted with lebanese t.v. his own network in fact. and most people assume here in lebanon was entirely scripted for him he said that he would be back in lebanon within just a few days at the same time i'm kuwait bahrain the united arab emirates we're told that they should remove their nationals from lebanon that was directly from riyadh orders i suppose to create a certain man tension there so just recently yesterday fred if we bring ourselves up to speed with this drama the lebanese president has finally lost his patience.

michelle own went public and sighed in international law saying that the prime minister there in riyadh is actually being detained modeless a great up some kind of right in a time a bit we're going to come back she would bit more detail throughout the morning as well and pick this apart a bit more about where this is going to go from we've got to leave it thomas again this is a bit martin j. barrett based journalist sorry to cut you off when you provide in there so you see where we go it's full super middle east on lezard nath says the lebanese government appears to be uniting now in the face of outside pressure. it's not easy it's not there somebody else will lead the government and all the later players unlevel know will still be in the government and the saudis are 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 who 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 this 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 a moment and that's what the general belief onselen has which is why the mission was not accepted. if you're joining us for the morning choose from we know in the big world. sports stories come from the world doping agency is blocked russia's anti doping agency restarting still the top one in the red from being reinstated after a lengthy scandal non-compliant basically that's been the allegation all along russia was accused a state sponsor of doping following a two part investigation it's the agency banned from operating until it approved it had met agreed standards this came in the last couple of hours the dia chewed is in the studio cross it in essence what's being come clued into kansas so long and complicated and long drawn out where are we at the moment what does this latest

twist mean yeah i mean it has gone on and on and on as we know and it and the these few details are just come out so you know as you said why are the world anti-doping agency has said that result which is the russian antidoping agency is still noncompliant to the world anti-doping code what happened is that they haven't met the criteria that was outlined for them to continue as they were what outlined twenty points for russia to comply to and according to them there are two key points that they haven't had that they failed on the first one being denying the mclaren reports now you remember back in twenty fifteen that report came out and it accused russia of state sponsored doping now russia has not admitted to that that's the criteria number one and number two is russia did not give the water experts permission to investigate and test one of their athletes so there are two points there so hence the reason why they say you were treating elements is sort of

but to not. to the dribble got it so what are going to mean of course these are the winter olympics are coming up in pure and showing what next year could it potentially mean that the russian libyans are going to go or it could and we've had a bit of reaction as you can imagine from these rate latest revelations of russian sports. mr pawel collop coffey said on wednesday the country has done everything in its power to have its anti-doping agency reinstated after it was suspended over allegations of state sponsored doping. one of the conditions that reinstatement requires of us and thorough in this mystery sport a national him pick committing to publicly accept those findings which they obviously as i just said haven't done if we put it into context i mention that it was back in twenty fifteen at that the mclaren report came out. however having said that russia has admitted since that there you know there is a problem like many countries have admitted that there was

a problem with doping. and in fact putin spoke out about it but they still have died that it was this huge state sponsored scheme so yes the olympic games are moving up yeah and what this also means is that you know the timing is very interesting those russian athletes might not be able to compete well as will get more official reaction from the russian side little bit later to this news or a media from now i'll let you get back across it thanks for so much. well meantime . written stuff over the search for alleged russian influence and it's a first after u.k. research has claimed over four hundred twitter accounts tried to sway voters on the big vote one example of such questionable activity was highlighted by an alleged russian user apparently there was not supposed to have any interest in the vote but none the less posted or or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning bricks it what effect could that really end of the day our london correspondent polly boyd who looks at the facts behind the allegations. 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 changed the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. where i think it could i think it could sort of and there could be a lot more yeah i think it would you know you know i read so 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. women in leadership in the summer about the world we live through and i spoke to you had anything to say you didn't.

care if russia did magill the answer. for suspended disbelief to simply accept what we are told that the russians are playing doctor enough people so ok we accept you don't have to tell us the war what to these are me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from there on responsibility for for the envelop increases political crises are taking place at home and abroad to in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target. for the nexus one if you suspect that hundreds of islamic state fighters have been allowed to flee the liberated syrian city of raka 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 to the allegations. there were four foreign fighters that

were identified and were detained by the syrian democratic forces out of the rest of me 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 i still 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 amount 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 are reported that convoy so that did not happen you can you say that new isis fighters leave the cities and go somewhere else can you say that they 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 let deisel terrorists leave rocker with their weapons instead of eliminating them from the cd is this your strategic tactic to come. aeration now

we see the results of these key deisel members 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 in a kind of open reporting that we spot a journalist putting henningsen from twenty first century why he says there have been reports of the west colluding with ice will befall. 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 and

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 well with that in mind it also been revealed the u.s. senate and i was reportedly agreed to ignore a budget cap to increase military spending next year is what donald trump had to say on the nearly seven hundred billion dollars set aside for the u.s. army that. the house is just passed a nearly seven hundred billion dollar defense package and it could not come at a better time.

if you want to for me cover though in the rest of team here in moscow this morning this is r.t. international on the way the french president turns on his predecessors over radicalism in the country and we look at why some americans are taken out how much of their coffeemakers so after the break. the project over. the roots of. possible radicalization with more of the pricing power that's. now the machines after the make sure exotic ads from the hallowed tea show america's fox news channel current took issue with host sean hannity defending republican senate candidate roy moore

he faces several of his ations of sexual misconduct including one woman who says she was only fourteen at the time but nonetheless view is sided with hannity forcing the coffee company to apologize for what it described as taking sides the decision to publicly communicate our programming decision fire on twitter account was highly unusual this gave the appearance of taking sides in an emotionally charged debate that escalated on twitter i apologize for any negativity that you have experienced as a result of this situation and assure you that we will learn and improve going forward. political analyst charles alltel thinks firms should watch this step if they want to weigh into politics i think is 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 the hard right in 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 does. more this morning the long time president of zimbabwe is under house arrest after the military in that impoverished southern african country seize power of course of the last twenty four hours made to achieve took control of the state broadcaster to insist that their actions lodo who but they were simply trying to protect this said the president from corrupt individuals there are also reports of gunfire in the north of the capital on wednesday this upheaval sparked of the ninety three year old gabby sacked a key minister during an intense power struggle within the ruling party the multi

national african union now is calling for an immediate return to constitutional order. with the crisis unfolding in zimbabwe let's take a look at who the key players are in the country first the president robert mugabe he's ninety three years old and has been at the helm for almost forty years next his former vice president known as the crocodile he's been mugabe's right hand man says the very start his most trusted and loyal supporter and was tipped to become the successor. that was until mugabe unexpectedly sacked him earlier this month for disloyalty disrespect to seed fullness and unreliability why would mugabe do that many point the finger at his wife grace rumor has it mugabe wanted to pave the way for the fifty two year old first lady to become the next president over the years greece has been ascending the political ladder thanks to her husband back in twenty

fourteen she was appointed the head of the ruling party's women's league and despite enjoying some support for her charity work she's widely known in the country as gucci great for her extravagant shopping sprees and lavish lifestyle. that doesn't sit well with many zimbabweans especially at a time when the country is suffering a financial crisis given him a god 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 even charge you can also give me your position given the job and that we did very well because i am 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. a branch of norway's student unions in trouble hosting an offensive party at the weekend just gone it was a nazi thing the event included a menu with a picture of hitler and drinks named blitzkrieg and auschwitz party goers were

greeted by doormen apparently an s.s. uniforms and barbed wire fencing have been put up on the walls visitors were also given visas with an image of hitler on them the party led to a furious backlash online. well eventually seems to trondheim student union did apologize to close the event and then released a statement saying the union's got nothing to do with fascism and that the party was intended to mock naziism his campaign or that we spoke to says parties like these should always be unacceptable when the nazis were expelled from norway shocking all those laws that were lost trying to keep the law says that people the students in there would have so little respect and i think people

dressing up as s.s. uniform have an outfit. and. 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 could rule anywhere and i think that we have to make sure that people respect those traditions as well you can. put a lot of stories causality dot com which will keep across there the big news of the day you can see and read on the screen the world anti-doping agency in fact that they blocked russia's anti-doping agency from being reinstated calling on compliance more than in the coming hours for me from kevin oh and by.

greetings and salutations sometimes in life it's good to take a step back and rethink the decisions and choices you've made your or i have yet to make sure i really take one more shot of tequila right now so i have spent all my tuition money on that vegas stripper name jazz about maybe and most importantly should we really leave all our nuclear large discretion up to just just one person one this is that is exactly the kind of self examination that was taking place in the united states congress this week when the senate foreign relations committee held hearings on the us president sole authority to launch nuclear weapons yes unlike most other nuclear powers around the world even in russia we here in the

united states actually leave that great doomsday decision in the hands of just one person the president of the united states and given the recent style promo wars between us president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un over twitter many are just a tad nervous.