headline news the world anti-doping agency blocks russia's own body from being reinstated amid a lengthy scandal non-compliant. for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with researchers claiming social media accounts influence. the defoe's explains all in a rare interview with a long tradition of new talk show he tells host alex salmon how he felt the violence mark referendum. giving the.

world wide this is r.t. international day here in moscow i want to welcome to the program first to update you on a story we broke a few hours ago the world anti-doping agency has blocked russia's own anti-doping agency from being reinstated after a lengthy scandal calling it non-compliant as far as possible. should be allowed to do. international sports competitions but in the meantime the greed for compliance for the russian ph and she has been fulfilled in many ways but there are still two issues which remain unfulfilled however water also said it's cooperating with the russian agency in dealing with doping violations and meeting the roadmap requirements across developments. let me start with the fact that there's been a lot of positivity actually towards russia by. russia have made towards

doping they said that that was a huge amount of work to be done and they also decided if we receive them 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 reedie the world anti-doping agency president 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 olympic committee chief he said all roadmaps 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 a robbed of the political nature we want a dialogue not a time now if we recap as to what's happened so a few hours ago water the anti-doping agency is saying that result is still not compliant to the world anti-doping code what happened is that criteria was laid out

so there were twenty points to our criteria that we saw to comply to and according to water there's two that they failed on so the first one is denying the allegations made in the mclaren report and that was state sponsored doping the other being that. the experts were not apparently allowed to investigate and test one of their athletes 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 restart is a requirement of reinstatement requirements was that the russian authorities publicly excitement clarence findings and that's despite the clash of opinions that we have that. actually if we go back to september twenty seventh water did clear

ninety five athletes in fact i think due to lack of evidence and also the president himself president putin he did come out and say and acknowledged 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 we have to listen to one of those demands because we have to admit that we have confirmed cases of doping use 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. could be very severe consequences with the olympic games coming up. 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 out the 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 that has been some negative press that has been rearing its ugly head yet again over the last few months i got reaction earlier from alan moore who's the host of capital sports on moscow's capital f.m. he describes russia as being caught in the middle of a huge geopolitical sport battle. i do believe that because of the civil war that's going on at the moment in which in sports you have water who are desperate to hang on to their relevance you have the i.o.c. who are like lawyers are trying to trying to keep the show on the road you have these individual already you're the independent national organizations like usada 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 is 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. research is claimed that more than four hundred twitter accounts try to sway voters on bragg's it one example highlighted was an alleged russian tweeter whose profile didn't fit someone usually into british politics but posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning 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 briggs 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 so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is something. and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire. for us i did use. the idea that 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 because they are on a conference about women in leadership in the summer and this has come up as one of the topics of why is it a topic for women in leadership well it was more about the world we live in today unsettled nature of it and the topic of breck's certain trumpet 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 no. no you are 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. for questions of foreign affairs like faraway russia 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 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 de verite attention from their own responsibility for the for the enveloping crazies political crazies are taking place at home and abroad too in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target. on tourism a later clarified her comments that she's made on monday telling m.p.'s that she was not talking specifically about the u.k. . here to look at the speech i gave on monday that was in the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom. for another story we're

covering this morning the former lebanese prime minister's accepted the french presidency invitation to come to paris i was confirmed by president across office within the past half an hour or so saad hariri sparked a political crisis in lebanon when he flew to saudi arabia and abruptly resigned about a week ago emanuel mccrone stresses though that the invitation is not an offer of political exile. i spoke with crown prince mohammed bill sammon and prime minister saad hariri 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 contribute restoring calm and stability in lebanon that 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 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 offer you 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 this seems to be simple to quote a smart move so this all started on november the fourth when hariri arrived in riyadh in missouri initially surrounded by police and detained he had his phones taken away from him and he was told on that day that saudis were very displeased with his one year premiership in lebanon when negotiate 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 it reassured a number of people in lebanon that 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 he believed the lebanese prime minister was being detained by the saudis so the french of coming to an interesting moment we don't know for sure if he will go to paris with the 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 of not really move forward for a whole year now with hezbollah. as for what's happening inside lebanon middle east analyst ziad in a sauce 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 ledger 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 opposition 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 iranians 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 they are submission was not accepted. 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 net seven hundred billion dollars 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 is independence battle with the region's sacked president that and plenty more when we come back.

i would see him we don't have any protection for whistleblowers at all if you do have but i. think the public sector as well as in the private sector that information would have to be can be made public and that actually puts pressure on the parliament to become more on this. in favor off the public. high again a spanish parliament session has once again highlighted the divide in the country of a council on independence with catalonia former leaders in belgium and potentially

facing extradition one council an m.p. and the dread 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 in your nightmare minister you have beaten us with sticks who will be you with our boats and i hope that one day with the mr a horse in a power of the. media or debuting his new show here on r.t. former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with aston catalan president colors put him on for rare insight into the independence referendum i just 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 colour's put them all had to say about that fateful referendum day and on the future of catalonia let me take you to that the that 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 it was the 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 when that famous day it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violent in the face school in my hometown there 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 could 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 provide. that as later today here on r.t. now the french president blaming his predecessors for fueling the rise of extremism in the country how to tackle it emmanuelle mccracken's announced plans for an economic boost in some of the country's poorest areas to try and prevent poverty driven radicalization. has been to visit one such area near paris. in song to the housing project 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

police. later roles he's new president emanuel much says the state is guilty of the wing extremism in france's poor us suburbs that's good news these neighborhoods with close schools cut aid for the oldest and youngest and other groups arrived solutions for all of that radicalization took root because the state checked out the cons would come as the reality of how severe the problem of radicalization is becoming sixteen there are now eighteen thousand individuals on a list of people fly to depths of being radicalized to wards violence that's up almost twenty percent since last year and it's still growing of those four thousand believed to be the most dangerous. there are eighteen thousand people in

france who are a nation old 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 new targeted areas but is it too little too late to stop them from being radicalized and. i don't think that money alone could how all the things should be done as well money could help but this is not you know but did you read this probably can't help but there are people who already have money and they still can be terrorist money alone want to have people boris produce terrorism. 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. which is fairly easy to do when you've been charge for the last year the issue of to my neighborhood spermicide decades is the first president to try and talk with charlotte davis own see something the hardest. videos of people smashing their coffee because a spreading online and protest over the manufacture of pulling its ads from a t.v. news show. ok. people began filming themselves destroying their machines after the maker keurig dropped its ads from the hannity show on america's fox news channel. keurig took issue with host sean hannity defending republican senate candidate roy moore who faces several accusations of sexual misconduct including one woman who said she was

fourteen at the time but the u.s. sided with hannity forcing the coffee company to apologize for what it described as taking sides. the decision to publicly communicate our programming decision viro 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 sean hannity gave away five hundred curie coffee makers to thank his supporters and 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 therm should watch their step if they want to weigh into 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 united 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 of 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 . ok that's it for now i'm back in half an hour to update you on headline stories including the fallout from world anti-doping officials keeping russia's main body on the sidelines for the third year saying it's noncompliant thanks for watching this exhausting international.

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has by now wolf into a full blown weapon of mass destruction practiced as early as it is denounced at a time when digging and releasing sense a different from ation is to preferred political tactics is there still room for chani and whistle blowing well to discuss that i'm now joined by rudolf elmer a former swiss banker turned tax haven whistleblower mr elmer it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now back in the early two thousand when you tried to share with the public some of the compromising material on the practices of your former employer that it was a fairly rare thing to do but now these everybody's laking usually for self-serving purposes but. also saying that it is for the good of the public why do you think this phenomenon of flicking has caught on to such an extent. i do think. there is

a public interest in it in general. is also interest from a money point of view. in respect off. let's say increase. the newspapers but there is also a interest in it in respect of power i mean. to powerful organizations and people like to money pull a. society with information. it tests changed in that respect that. main industry or can use information make it public for instance as i did with e.q. leaks and talk to the world so there is a inflation information which definitely needs to be looked at it very carefully what is true what is fake that is much money palatial going on and

people that means me have to be aware of it ok and mr omar i'm sure you would agree with me that the accusations of attempted money placed on a flying both ways and you know to illustrate that i just want to mention that there was a an article in the atlantic magazine recently which referred to wiki leaks the organization that you cooperated with as a radical transparency organization i found these phrasing very interesting i know you have your differences with wiki leaks but just as a matter of principle do you believe that there is such a thing as transparency radicalism or perhaps even transparency extremism yes. i still believe that certain information shouldn't go public still have to. respect privacy off. people and organization. it is really

a matter all of you see it in the public interest. that the public interest is more important that the interest of the company. to keep the information. away from the public. that's that that's that's important to do value with that. information how it gets public and what sort of information gets public but speaking about we kill leaks do you think they they could be indeed accused of being too radical in that quest for transparency he do think so i mean the key leaks of you have to look at it fundamentally wiki leaks is a or used to be a platform to provide information i know mostly and it is made public weiqi leaks has changed the last few years.