because you look at that you say oh it's a former. news the world anti-doping agency blocks russia's own anti-doping body from being reinstated amid a lengthy scandal calling it non-compliant the details coming right up. the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with research is claiming that social media accounts influence. the deposed leader explains all in a rare interview in the north tradition of artesia new talk show he tells host alex salmond how he felt the day mylan violence marked the referendum. to see. the violent face.

of you watching this thursday the sixteenth of november this is r.t. international news with me. first off our breaking story that the world anti-doping agency has blocked russia's own anti-doping body from being reinstated after a lengthy scandal calling it non-compliant let's bring you up to speed now r.t. correspondent across all this hi again there give us an overview. as you can imagine this. issue has been going on for a long time there's lots to talk about it's quite complicated but let me start with the fact that there's been a lot of positivity actually towards russia by praising the efforts that russia have made towards doping they said that there was a huge amount of work to be done and they all said the board decided if we receive and i'm sure we will the necessary information that the russian anti doping agency would be able to resume its testing program and that was said by craig. the world

anti doping agency president ok there's been a few hours for this to sink in so what's been the reaction so far well as you can imagine there's been lots of reaction and i've got a couple of quotes for you here alexander as you cough russian limpid committee chief he said all road maps demands were met by those points want to refer to have no relevance to restart his work and the russian sports minister said these two demands that russia allegedly failed to meet are obviously of the political nature we want a dialogue not a dick tatts now if we recap as to what's happened so a few hours ago the anti doping agency is saying that is still not compliant to the world anti doping code what happened is that criteria was laid out so there were twenty points time criteria that we had to comply to and according to water those two that they failed on so the first one is denying the

allegations made in the mclaren report and that was of state sponsored doping the other being that they the water experts were not apparently allowed to investigate and test one of their athletes. that's pretty drawn out throughout and it goes back a long way it certainly does it goes back to twenty fifteen when that mclaren report came out. state sponsored doping which russia always said and always denied in fact russia was very clear in saying that there wasn't enough proof in that report and there wasn't enough added evidence and one of the conditions for result is requirement reinstatement requirements was that the russian authorities publicly accept mclaren's findings and that's despite the clash of opinions that we have there. actually if we go back to september twenty seven water did clear ninety five athletes in fact of doping due to lack of evidence and also the.

president himself president putin he did come out and say and acknowledge that there was a problem with doping he denied the state sponsored doping let's have a quick listen to what he said. the main thing is that we have to listen to the results of the independent commission despite flaws in its work but we have to listen to what those demands because we have to admit that we have confirmed cases of doping which is absolutely unacceptable this means that the anti doping control system which we had until now hasn't worked and it's our fault we have to be frank and admit it. if we look at the consequences there could be very severe consequences with the olympic games coming up. many is on february the ninth and twenty eighteen not far away so the timing of this latest announcement is crucial from a russian perspective it doesn't leave a lot of time for russia to solve those issues and also if we look at the olympic

committee itself it's putting added pressure they've got to make the decision on whether or not to ban those russian athletes and that would be the worst case scenario of course for russia and its athletes and also we can't ignore the fact that there is some negative press there has been some negative press that has been rearing its ugly head yet again over the last few months troubling times of day for russia's winter sports athletes ok for now on a day or two to thanks very much for that. last hour i spoke to alan moore he's the host of capital sports on moscow's capital as he describes russia's being caught in the middle of a huge geopolitical sports battle i do believe because of the civil war that's going on at the moment and within sports you have water who are desperate to hang on to their relevance you have to see who are likewise are trying to try to keep the show on the road you have these individual. independent national organizations like. you card and they're trying to take over. the whole show. they're not going

to do any better you know they want their piece of the pie so good instinct i do believe that russia's going to face for like in the paralympics it is political i think i did there's no way we can look at russia unfortunately is the whipping boy it's caught in the middle of this civil war in sports it's caught in a greater geopolitical battle and russia is a very convenient scapegoat. britain is stepping up its search for alleged russian influence in its affairs after u.k. researches claimed more than four hundred twitter accounts trying to sway voters on bricks it one example highlighted was an alleged russian tweeter whose profile didn't fit someone who's usually into british politics but yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning brax it a london correspondent 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 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 so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg believe through some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's usually russia did this growth the idea about four hundred twitter people will affect. 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 interference is interfering in everything these days it just about a conference about women in leadership at the summit and this has come up as one of the top it 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 you know breck certain trumping power what the hell are we going to do and the topic of. russian let's say interference. 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 now. 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 karen martin has said that russian hackers have attacked british media telecommunication and energy sectors when 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. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a member of the public care if russia did magill the answer is most likely to

be dar for questions of foreign affairs like faraway russia where the 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 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 day vet attention from their own responsibility for for the enveloping crazies political crazies are taking place at home and abroad too in this context they don't need evidence russia know is seen as an easy target. next the french president's invited the former lebanese prime minister and his family to paris saad hariri sparked a political crisis back home when he flew to saudi arabia and abruptly resigned a week ago president mccrone insists though that he's not offering political exile

. 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 you know that the french sort of is very curious i mean it's quite a thunderbolt what's happened just yesterday is that mr marquand has offered hariri 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 france would be the obvious country to make such an obvious have to understand that there's a history of course a 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. simple to quote a smart move so this all started on november fourth when hillary arrived in riyadh

in missouri initially surrounded by police and detained he had his phones taken away from him when he was told on that day that the saudis were very displeased with his one year premiership in lebanon where a negotiator effectively nothink the middle e-mailed a speech which more or less said that i'm resigning and i blame hezbollah for that and then just a couple days later after that you were on the record and did a live interview with lebanese television saying that he would be back in lebanon within a few days i think that reassured a number of people in lebanon that that things could be things could calm down if we move on to just recently just yesterday the patience of the lebanese president michel own snaps and he went public and stated that this was international law being broken only pollutes the lebanese prime minister was being detained by the saudis so the french have come in an interesting moment we don't know for sure if he will go to paris with reuters or citing elise sources who has said he will certainly be there but there's a question mark over how long it will be some news agencies are using the words for

a few days certainly i can tell you there's enough people in lebanon who are eagerly waiting for him to come back to beirut and to kick start negotiations which have not really moved forward for a whole year now with hezbollah. as for what's happening inside lebanon middle east analyst says the government there appears to be pulling together in the face of outside pressure it's not easy it's not there somebody else will lead the government and all the laser players a level now will still be in the government of the saudis are trying to dictate their opinion on the lebanese government and today we find the lebanese actually united in no position to the dictates from outside you know it's a shame that a lot has to be forced to become a battlefield between the saudis and the ends 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 in the amount 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 on solution he says which is why the submission was not accepted. the u.s. senate has reportedly agreed to ignore a budget cap to increase military spending next year and here's what donald trump had to say on the near seven hundred billion dollars being set aside for the u.s. military the houses just passed a nearly seven hundred billion dollar defense package and it could not come at a better time.

on the way the inside story of catalonia as independents battle with the region's sacked president and we take a look at why some americans are taking a homage to that coffee makers soledad after the break. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the. early show i go out of my way to. the really packs of. the john oliver of party americans do the same we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of love for the night president of the world bank. seriously send us an e-mail. what politicians do something to.

put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be. too great to be for us it's like them before three of them or people. interested in the water. question. welcome back the french president is blaming his predecessors for fueling the rise of extremism in the country now to talk a little manual mccraw announced plans for an economic boost in some of the country's poorest areas to try and prevent any poverty driven radicalization schemes being to visit one such area near paris. 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 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 but good news these neighborhoods with close schools cut aid for the oldest and youngest and other groups arrived town to be 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 the list of people fly depth of being radicalized towards violence that's up almost

twenty percent since last year and it's still growing of those four 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 how all the 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. subhash was the

first to know 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 white which is fairly easy to do when you've been in charge for the last year the issue up to neighborhood spermicide decades in mexico is surely not the first president to try and turn. charlotte davis case own teen son to be powerless. the spanish parliament session has once again highlighted the divide in the country over catalan independence we catalonia is formulated in belgium and potentially facing extradition one catalan m.p. in madrid flirted with the idea of the spanish prime minister being arrested for his actions against the breakaway region. senior minister will let you have made your prisons into our nightmare but i assure you that we will make our ballot boxes

your nightmare minister you have beaten us with sticks who will be without both and i hope one day with the mr a whore in the power of the. debuting his new show here on r.t. former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with ousted catalan president colors put him on for a rare insight into the independence referendum just to remind you put him on was sacked as president and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he's currently on bail here's a look at what colors put him on had to say about that fateful referendum day and on the future of catalonia let me take you to that the extraordinary day in the first of october. tell me what your emotions were that the in the one hand there was the celebration of. millions of your fellow country people coming out to

exercise or vote for self-determination on the other hand or was that the violence that we all saw the television screens from the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt as president of catalonia on that famous day. it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violent face school in my hometown there are a lot of injuries i was of injuries mr president you've challenge. to accept the result of the december elections you've challenged the european union to respect democracy in catalonia you've said the united nations can see advantages in the success of a peaceful movement but you're a president of a country what is your message to the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail.

at an hour later today next videos of people smashing their coffee makers are spreading online in protest over a coffee machine manufacturer which pulled it ads from a t.v. news show. people began filming themselves destroying their machines after the neko keurig dropped from the hannity show on america's a fox news channel and keurig had taken issue with host sean hannity defending republican senate candidate roy moore who faces several accusations of sexual misconduct including one woman who says she was fourteen of the time but they were 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. well the program so sean hannity gave away five hundred to the coffee makers to thank his supporters they also called for alabama voters to make their own decision at the polls when they vote for their representative in the u.s. senate political analyst charles will tell things firm should watch their step if they want to weigh into politics i think is a big mistake for a publicly controlled companies to start meddling too aggressively in the political minefield particularly in a country like the united states which is so sharply divided you have to understand that you know 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 does a 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. a branch of norway's student unions in trouble for hosting an offensive party at the weekend the nazi themed event included a menu with a picture of hitler and drinks named blitzkrieg and i wish that party goers were greeted by doormen in s.s. uniforms and barbed wire fencing had been put up on the walls visitors were also given mock visas with an image of hitler on them the party led to a furious backlash online. oh ventura the trondheim student union apologized and closed down the event every statement saying the union has nothing to do with fascism and that the party was

intended to mock now theism and anti fascist campaigner 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 nazis out that people the students in there would have so little respect and i think that people dressing up as s.s. uniform have outfits. 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 and now you're up to date stay with us on r.t. international i'll be back in half an hour you're next. they

call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots great special pink why not ban the color painter brick me on the we'll put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you going with me you want to do this because we are freezing cold. every single minute there's a new drug for some families days like shaky like sentiment they make up then they get a grant from some you know corrupt congressmen in america billions of dollars and

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i. mean this is a boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton filling in and i'm beyond the machine coming up we'll talk cuba after president barack obama visited the island nation last year and the various restrictions there is an expectation that there would be a fall in relations from the once and tell going to stick circumstance we've had for board fifty years now president trump is reversing course why we'll get into that now after the failure to pass a repeal and replace of obamacare and focus shifted to getting tax reform initiative here and now republicans on capitol hill are trying to do it and are adding health care to the tax legislation could we see two major legislative victories this year he will tell us plus hotels and a home run away like air b.n. b. home away and b r b o co-exist in the shared economy how's that working out we'll get

both sides but before he gets all that bianca talk about the major stories in finance and business on wednesday were turned cordray director of the consumer financial protection bureau announced his resignation in an e-mail sent to the agency's staff he wrote i'm confident that we will can that you will continue to move forward nurture this institution we have built together and maintain its essential value to the american public he added that he'll be gone by november adding year after nearly four years there the news follows lots of previous speculation in the past few months about him leaving to run for governor of ohio where he once served as attorney general it also comes after frequent attacks by some republican lawmaker.