that the public. has been telling you on the whole and by. all the hawks that we all look like. a potential winter olympics below us the world anti-doping agency refuses to lift this suspension on russia's own doping body we look at the possible consequences of that decision for the athletes also the. leader explains all in a rare interview in the launch edition of our tease you talk show host alex. violence marred referendum day was a tragic day to. see. the filing papers. in

my hometown. the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with researchers claiming social media accounts influenced the breaks of six. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal welcome to the program our top story the world doping agency has potentially dented russia's chances of competing at the twenty eighteen winter olympics after it blocked research russia's antidrug body itself from being reinstated after a lengthy scandal calling it non-compliant. as far as possible please our seats should be allowed to do. in international sports competitions but in the meantime

the greed of compliance for the russian ninety dropping agency has been fulfilled in many ways but there are still two issues which remain unfulfilled however while also said it is cooperating with the russian agency in dealing with doping violations are meeting the rule requirements across the developments for six moving more into richer the russian doping scandal has been playing out for years already every time we think has died down there it is again but despite the outcome of walter's latest announcement it appears to be pretty upbeat about the future and the steps needed going forward according to the world anti-doping agency was only non-compliant based on two points out of twenty criteria one being of the refusal to admit to state sponsored doping claimed in the water back to mclaren report the other for failing to give water experts access to close labs as they want to test a russian athlete being only two points short of fulfilling the road map to

continue to spend and has seen russian officials make their feelings very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. baseboards water food to have relevance to restart his work the mclaren report itself created a clash of opinions it was contested by the russians who claimed that the report lacks sufficient proof to be deemed it legitimate and water itself did speak out when they cleared ninety five out of the ninety six russian athletes accused of various doping allegations in the report their reason being yes you guessed it lack of evidence and hence their cases were closed the russian sports minister has said his disappointment to these two demands are obviously of a political nature we want dialogue not addict at. however russia has made it clear there is a doping problem and has since become one of only five european countries that have

criminalized doping austria france italy and spain being the others president putin had a clear message on the issue in russia when he spoke out some of 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 awful we have to be frank and admit it. one of the reasons why russian officials could be implying that politics is embedded in this latest decision is possibly down to the timing and the upcoming elim pick games with the opening ceremony on the ninth of february twenty eighth. that leaves little time to resolve the problem and left the olympics committee under increased pressure as well ultimately they'll have to decide whether to ban team russia or not the worst case

scenario for russia and its athletes would be a blanket ban and we can't ignore the fact that in the last couple of months some negative press has reared its ugly head once again suggesting that russian athletes should take no part in the winter games but the i.o.c. and water say the decision on restart it will have no impact on whether russia's athletes will compete or not the final decision will be made by the i.o.c. the international olympic committee on the fifth of december but for now russian officials are angry having performed and the a miracle to meet nearly all of the roadmap criteria in a short space of time to them this latest decision would likely come as a bit of a slap in the face. r.t. . well as the euro mentioned team russia being dealt a number of. blows during november six russian skiers were banned for life over doping violations while the former head of the moscow who was the first to allege

a state sponsored doping program 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 eight thousand winter olympics well we got reaction earlier from alan moore 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 yossi who are. trying to trying to keep the show on the road you have these individual. independent national organizations like. they're trying to take over the whole show. not going to any better you know they want their piece of the pie so good instinct i do believe that russia is going to face 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 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. living on a spanish parliament session has once again highlighted the divide in the country over cattle on independence with castle only is former leaders in exile in belgium potentially facing extradition one council 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 night minister you have beaten us with sticks who will be you without a boat and i hope one day see mr wrong horry in the. media or debuting his new show here on our t.v.

former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with us that castle on president carter's puja demand for rare insight into the independence referendum just to remind you preach the mount was sacked as president and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an arrest warrant there international i thought after he fled to belgium where he is currently on bail here's a look at what carlos pushed him out 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 was that the violence that we all saw on television screens from the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt as president of catalonia on that famous day

there was a day of the victory of catalonia and the other hand of course there was a day of the extremely violent. i couldn't imagine the direction like that from the democratic state in the european union it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violent in my face school in my hometown there are a lot of injuries oh of injuries by the start of the next week the spanish judicial system all rolled into actual and took away the constitutional prize catalonia had given well this mistake in fact start a new era in the end of his era that will start a catalan rapidly because in these conditions is not possible is not possible there is no future at all and to remain misplaying these conditions what is your message

to the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will win. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail. british prime minister treason may has signaled a step up in the hunt for alleged russian hackers u.k. researchers claim over four hundred twitter accounts were used to meddle and sway voters on preg said now one example that was highlighted was an alleged russian twitter whose profile didn't fit someone usually into british politics but yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning brags that our london correspondent polly poitier 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 was 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 i believe there is some of the bush movie and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire. in for russia did this growth the idea that four hundred twitter people will affect groups of 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 interference is interfering in everything these days but just about a conference about women in leadership at the summit 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 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 no. no you're right to do 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 there on responsibility for for the enveloping crises the 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. ali boyko with the report treason may felt she had to offer some clarification on the matter following her scathing attack on moscow during an unusual bunk with with parliament members thank you 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's trip to saudi arabia annexed all parts could spark a crisis in the middle east the reasons why alter this. global blog sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do so for the tell you that because of the public. advertising telling you pull it out

and look like the product. of the hawks that we along with all the one. i. look back with r.t. the former lebanese prime minister has accepted the french president an invitation to come to paris saad hariri sparked a political crisis in lebanon when he flew to saudi arabia and abruptly resigned the lebanese president's official twitter account posted that the government's next steps the pentagon harare's return from its well the money will mclain stressed

that france's invitation was not an offer of 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. also the french sort of it is very curious i mean it's quite a thunderbolt what's happened just yesterday is that mr macron has offered to riri some sort of x. are they not using the word exile 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 he really 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 saudis were very displeased with his one year premiership in lebanon when negotiated effectively nothink the emilia 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 day. i think that reassured a number of people in lebanon 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 snapped and he went public and stated that this was international law being broken only by 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 we are citing elise a sources who 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 is happening inside lebanon middle east analyst ziad not serious ses the government there appears to be pulling together in the face of eisai pressure it's not easy it's not there somebody else will lead the government and all the later players and lama will still be in the government at the saudis are trying to dictate their opinion on the lebanese government and 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 and 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 iraq and yemen they seem to be losing their strength all been ignored for the moment and that's what the general belief onselen has which is why the mission was not accepted. big topic of the year the french president is blaming his predecessors for fueling the rise of extremism in the country to tackle it among your micron's and once plans for an economic boost in some of the country's poorest areas to try and prevent poverty driven radicalization well sure aduba has been to visit one such area forests 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 power of terror attacks in november two thousand and fifteen led police.

to years later proces new president emanuel much call it says the state is guilty of the wing extremism in france's poor us suburbs. these neighborhoods with close schools cut aid for the oldest and youngest and other groups arrived at the 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 the depth 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 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 that plan to stub out the stream is and is fight powering money into housing improving public transport and offering subsidies to. companies hiring huge storm targeted areas but is it too little too late to stop them from being radicalized and. i don't think that more me alone 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 but there are people who already have money and he still can be terrorist money alone want to have people forest produce terrorism. so are passionate. 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. lashing out at french authorities for bungling for supper and allowing extremists right which is fairly easy to do when you think in

charge or last year the issue of to my neighborhood spermicide decades is surely not the first president to try and tell us. a. son to me powerless. videos of people smushing their coffeemakers are spreading online in protest over the money factor pulling it's from a t.v. news show. thank you. people began filming themselves destroying their machines after their maker courage dropped from the show and america's fox news channel. took issue with host sean hannity defending republican senate candidate roy moore who faces several accusations of sexual misconduct including one woman who say she was fourteen at the time but you were sided with her maty forcing the coffee company to apologize

for what at the scribe was taking sides. the decision to publicly communicate so 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 shown how many then give away five hundred correct coffee makers to thank his supporters and also call 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 orton thinks firms should watch their stamp 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

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 more r.t. programs right ahead and then i'm back in just over half an hour's time with more including live reaction to the news that russia's winter olympians may be facing a blanket ban that next year's games.

i would see him you don't have any protection for whistleblowers at all if you do have to close on thing 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. and. that business in favor off the public. acts as a slight angle survival does stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm not so i can hear a police response thanks have to fight. thank you for. the story that's right. slavery.

readings and style you take. 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 bag a 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 u.s. president's 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 w w e style promo wars between u.s. president donald j. trump and north korea's kim jong own over twitter many are just a tad nervous that these two how shall we say overcompensating leaders have their small finger on the nuclear hair trigger so for the first time in forty one years hearings were held and media showboating ensued as senators and retired pentagon types testified to the various scenarios and fears that come with leaving the power to end the world in the hands of just one retired general robert keller commander of u.s. strategic command from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen told the committee that he would refuse a launch order from the president if it did not meet the requirements of

proportionality and assess of the under the law of armed conflict. but when asked what would happen then after the refusal the general simply stated i don't know it would be a very interesting constitutional situation i believe. well you know one thing i do know is that the only way to fix this irrational system of nuclear responsibility here in the us is by watching the hawks. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this. week so. well for the watching the hawks i am i

rove and her and on top of the wallace and i do not have the power. yes the power to launch nuclear weapons is not in your hands but it is in the hands of the gentleman right behind you right now one president donald trump. i don't like up and i don't like it here and the whole here's the very unsettling thing about that power and were we are the exception to the norm for for nuclear powers in the world the us as of september twenty fifteen sits on about forty five hundred nuclear warheads nuclear missiles all in the power one man that's legally it says the president at his discretion can decide if it's offensive as you know often so he can launch and everyone says oh yeah not during happy about that yeah i think it's very disturbing because we're supposed to have a set their idea of democracy is that one person can put us in the situation one person can't and that's sort of where we're in the problem.