headlining this hour a potential winter games blow as the world anti-doping agency refuses to lift the suspension on russia's own anti-doping body we look at the possible consequences of that decision for team russia. the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with researchers claiming social media accounts influenced. the deposed leader explains all in a rare interview and the launch edition of our team's new talk show he tells host alex salmond how he felt a violent mob referendum day. here

at r.t. h.q. in moscow where it's now one pm this thursday i'm calling bright welcome to the program first our big story today 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 keep. 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 two issues which remain unfulfilled however water also said it is cooperating with the russian agency in dealing with doping violations and meeting the requirements across developments. let me start with the fact that

there's been a lot of positivity actually towards russia by wada 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 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 limpid committee chief he said all road maps demands were met by. those points one 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 wada 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 it cuse russia of 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 head of 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 a 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 and some of. 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. really 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 out that pressure they've got to make the decision on whether or not to ban those russian athletes and that would be the worse 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 well as now they're just mentioned seem russia have been dealt a number of blows in november six russian skiers were banned for life over doping violations the former head of the moscow anti doping lab who was the first to allege a state sponsored doping screen has put forward new information on the claims and that's led to some officials calling for russia to be completely banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics or the 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 sports 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 likewise 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 cut and they're trying to take over the whole show. they're not going to do any better 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. written stepping up its search for alleged russian influence in its affairs after u.k. research has claimed more than four hundred twitter accounts trying to sway voters

on breaks that i wanted sample highlighted was an alleged russian tweeter whose profile didn't exactly fit someone usually into british politics but still posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning breck's it our london correspondent polly boycott looks at the facts behind the allegations. in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maize 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 usually if russia 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 without a conference about women in leadership in the summer and this has come up as one of the topics 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 breck's certain trumping power what the hell are we going to do. with 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. knowing to and to 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 meddle the answer is most likely to be done for questions of foreign affairs like faraway russia where people in the u.k. are prepared to suspend their disbelief to simply accept what they are told if the russians are blamed often enough people for ok we accept you don't have for us anymore what to these are mean and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their on responsibility for for the enveloping crises the political crises are taking place at home and abroad too in this context

they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target. to resume a later clarified the comment she made on monday telling m.p.'s that she was not talking specifically about the u.k. players here's a look at the speech i gave on monday that will see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom. the former lebanese prime minister has accepted the french president's invitation to come to paris so hariri sparked a political crisis in lemon lebanon when he flew to saudi arabia and then abruptly resigned emanuel mccrone stresses though that the invitation is not an offer of political exile. mr noon 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 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 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 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 and was a real initially surrounded by police and detained his phones taken away from him and he was told on that day that the saudis were very displeased with his one year premiership in lebanon when negotiator effectively nothink immediately made 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 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 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. well as for what's happening inside lebanon middle east analyst and see hadn't assad 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 leisure players a level now 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 the dictates from outside you know it's a shame that 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 the submission was not accepted. the u.s. senate has reportedly agreed to ignore a budget cap to increase military spending next year here's what donald trump had to say on the net 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. this is our take on the way the inside story of catalonia is independence battle with the region's itzhak president that and plenty more when we come back.

what holds his hands to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. want to listen. to going to be press this is what before you know more than people. i'm interested in the waters of. course. 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 corrupt congressmen in america billions of dollars and the side effect is almost make. me and do suicide me and do what you know but the american flag is inducing suicide because you look at that you say oh it's

a farmer to conquer say. well we got the spanish parliament sessions once again i lied to the divide in the country of a council on independence which cuts alone has formally leaders in belgium on potentially facing extradition one concert an 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. sure you know we will make our ballot boxes your not minister you have beaten us with sticks but we will be you with both and i hope one day with the mr a hole in the power of the. picking up on this later debuting his new show here on r.t. former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with the ousted catalan president colors put him on a rare insight into the independence referendum as 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 or has to say later about that fateful referendum day and on the future of catalonia. well it 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 or was that the violence that we all saw on our television screens from the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt that as president of catalonia when that famous day it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violence in the face school in my hometown there are a lot of injuries i was of injuries mr president you've chalons to see your avoid

to accept the result of the december elections you challenge 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 prevail. and that is right here in a few hours next the french president is blaming his predecessors for fueling the rise of extremism in the country and to tackle it manual macross announced plans for an economic boost in some of the country's poorest areas to try and prevent poverty driven radicalisation chawla do bensky has been to visit one search 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 police to. two years later proces new president emanuel much court 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 arrives touting solutions for all of that radicalization took root because the state checked out not cons 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 towards 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 on national violent radicalism watch lists and four thousand individuals who are under active surveillance calls a plan to stub out extremism is by 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 that knowledge most of it i don't think that money alone could help other things should be done as well money could help but this is not enough but did you read this probably could help but there are people who are. city have money and he 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 bungling for supper and allowing extreme wilson's wife which is fairly easy to do when you've been charged for the last year the issue of the labor sponsored decades in mexico is surely not the first president to try and tackle this so it davis caved on something the hardest. videos of people smashing their coffee makers are spreading online in protest over the manufacture of pulling its ads from a t.v. news show. thank. you.

people began filming themselves destroying their machines after the maker keurig dropped its ads from the hannity show on america's fox news channel okereke took issue with host to sean hannity who is defending republican senate candidate roy moore who faces several accusations of sexual misconduct including one woman who says she was fourteen at the time but viewers sided with hannity forcing the coffee company to apologize for what event 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 after all this blew up sean hannity gave away five hundred keurig coffee makers on a show to thank his supporters he also called for voters in alabama 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 firms should watch their step if

they want to weigh in on 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 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. a branch of noways student union is 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 was for its part hugo was

were greeted by doormen in as as uniforms and barbed wire fencing are being 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. well eventually the trondheim student union apologized and closed down the event then released a statement saying the union's got nothing to do with fascism and that the party was intended to mock naziism and i fascist campaigner 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 nazis that people

the students in they would have so little respect and i think people dressing up as s.s. uniform have an outfit. and death cattle cocktails 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. ok that shawty news route for this hour unit is going to be headed to update you on all global developing stories in about thirty minutes or so from that i'm calling bright thanks for watching. it's the cradle of jazz. this is america the america we.

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