look suspicious. this hour's headlines stories and media blitz funded by the u.s. government are new to follow they may have to register as foreign agents in russia the move mirrors similar requirements and. also ahead the deposed leader talks about his region's independence polish and the turmoil it triggered in a rare interview in our new talk show he opens up to host alex salmond about how he felt those violence marred the referendum day. because of. the. tone. of injury. look at the possible consequences for team russia after the world until

doping agency refuses to lift its suspension ahead of the winter olympics. live from moscow to the world this is r t international my name is you know neal good to have your company we start our program with breaking news the russian justice ministry sent two letters to two major u.s. funded media outlets on their subsidiaries notifying them that they may soon be designated as foreign agents the move comes in response to r.t. being forced to register as a foreign agent in america what's america joins me live now with the details hi some euro which tell us how be notified and why well among the nine outlets are a voice of america radio free europe radio liberty but the ministry also sent

letters to radio liberty band of branches based in russia and now this is a mere response for washington's demand for our teacher register as a form. agent or else have their assets frozen but this is the first time russia has specified which companies would be listed as foreign agents but we're still waiting for the official announcement and the details are still being discussed at the moment ok so that is what we know this moment samir account bring this up to date thank you. for the world anti-doping agency has a block. drug the body from being reinstated after a lengthy scandal calling it compliant the decision comes less than three months before the winter olympics get underway. as far as possible please our seats should be allowed to do so in international sports competitions but in the meantime the

greed of compliance for the russian onto dropping agency has been fulfilled in many ways but there are still two issues which remain unfulfilled or over water also said it is cooperating with the russian agency in dealing with doping violations are meeting the rule requirements across the developments for us here in . 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 wada 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 has seen russian officials make their feelings a very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. relevance to restart his book 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 out however. 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 we have to listen to one of 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 it makes 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 impact games with the opening ceremony on the ninth of february twenty eighth in china that leaves little time to resolve the problem and left the a lympics 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 the road map criteria in a short space of time to them this latest decision would likely come as a bit of a slap in the face. altie. allies in the euro mention team russia have been dealt a number of blows this november. six russian skiers were banned for life for doping violations while the former head of the moscow anti doping lab who was the first to

allege a state sponsored doping program has put forward new information on the claims a nazi led to some officials calling for russia to be completely banned for the twenty eighteen winter olympics. so lots to discuss and let's try and get through some of it now because we can cross live to attorney dr lucy in vallone you're very welcome to the program the consequences of this decision by what it what do you think they are. well i see especially the timing makes me a little bit believe water wants to put pressure on i.o.c. because we all know. i.o.c. will decide and i seeing with this information. that went out today they want to really make pressure and to push the i.o.c. to ban the russian athletes that's what i think is the goal of this message so what

comes from now as you rightly say the final decision on russia competing in the winter olympics will feel fall to the international olympic committee what do you expect to happen. well only gas rot can happen but the important thing is what i hope should happen. and what should happen legally i think the most important thing is a case by case decision and that means that every athlete that is proven to be clean should be admitted to disk any other decision like the quality of ban as it was decided against russian paralympic. members not correct and not illegal and i think we should aim at a proportionate decision and that's what we can expect from i.o.c.

to make a proportionate decision that's the issue though isn't it because it does going to take a lot of work the actual games are in february to start a fair read the decision by the i.o.c. is fast approaching much sooner than that russia has a little time to prove to the sports authorities that its athletes are clean what can the country actually do in the time frame. well it's a little bit difficult because all the time they try to to back the meckler and report the problem is the backlit and report as i stated already different times has not enough proofs in itself and ease basing on confidential information which are not transparent to be taken seriously and now they are desperately trying to back this mclaren report with other approved to try to

say that they have found new proves so i think there is a problem that is mclaren pretty poor lacks a real beat real proofs and that's also the reason why a lot of athletes has been cleaned and. i think it's an attempt to to force see to to decide which blind eyes which is not correct and you're almost like a case of politics taking over from from sport attorney dr lucy in vallone thank you for sharing your thoughts on the program this hour. living on a spanish parliamentary session has once again brought the divide in the country over the issue of catalan independence sharply into focus one kathlyn m.p. in madrid has suggested the spanish prime minister be arrested for his actions against the troubled region it comes during a sustained crackdown by madrid against catalonia is the posed leadership. so you

know many still you have made your prisons. but i assure you now 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 one day with the mr a whore in the power of the. debut during his new show here in r.t. for a scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with our state castle on president cars put them on for a rare insight into the independence referendum put him on it was sacked as the catalan president and is no facing charges of sedition rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he's currently on bail speaking to r.t. carlist puts them on record the region's referendum day until. he views the future of catalonia where they take you to that the extraordinary day in the first

of a talker 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 in our 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 to day because i see directly the violence in my face school in my hometown there are a lot of injuries i was of injuries by the start of the next week the spanish

judicial system all rolled into actual and took away the constitutional prize that catalonia had gained while 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 misspending these conditions what is your message to the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will we. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail. in addition to all of the most bizarre stories of this month lebanon's former prime minister accepted an invitation to paris from president micron we'll fill in the blanks on that story right after this.

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because i want to share what i think from what i know about the beautiful game like great so what will transpire. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back british lawmakers are urging the prime minister to open a probe into alleged russian interference as u.k. researchers claim over four hundred twitter accounts were used to meddle and sway voters in rags that one example highlighted was on alleged russian twitter whose profile did not fit someone usually into british politics but he posted or retreated your one hundred posts mentioning brags that our london correspondent polly book looks at the folks 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 on the problems facing to raise them a government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pull right 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. ok 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 something at the bottom of it and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire usually russia did this. 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 yuki or anywhere else is just ludicrous in fact. it's almost comical it seems russian interference is interfering in everything these days because i did on 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 breast certain trumpet power what the hell are we going to do and the topic of. russian that state interference at 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 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 kiran martin has said that russian hackers have attacked british media telecommunication and energy sectors when i asked for proof he said he couldn't get into precise detail. 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 per set i haven't seen. the. solution. 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 done 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 divert attention from there on responsibility for for the enveloping crises 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 for treason may felt she had to give some clarification on the matter as she gave a scathing attack in moscow during an unusual with parliament member. they were there to look at the speech i gave on monday that was the examples i gave of

russian interference when not in the united kingdom. the former lebanese prime minister has accepted an invitation from the french president to come to paris saad hariri has caused the political crisis in lebanon after flying to saudi arabia and on expected to be resigning from his post lebanese officials say they believe he's being held against his will by riyadh the lebanese president's official twitter account posted but the government's next steps will be decided upon after return from paris emanuel has made clear that france's invitation is 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 contribute restoring calm and stability in lebanon that the french sort of it 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 except 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 seems to quite a smart move so this all started on november the fourth when he arrived in riyadh and was a real initially surrounded by police and detained 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 when negotiating effectively nothink the emilia made a speech which smallest said that i'm resigning and i blame hezbollah for the. 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 we believed 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 of not really move forward for a whole year now with hezbollah or riyadh has long been a supporter of her very whereas the country's president is an ally to hezbollah the

militant group backed by iran a low though the current crisis risks worsening this sectarian divide in lebanon the middle east analyst zeid nasr sees the government appears to be pulling together in the face if i side pressure. if not it is not there somebody else will lead the government and all the ledger players and let them know will still be in the government of the saudis 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 lebanon has to be forced to become a battlefield between the saudis and the and in fact if you do that look at what the saudis are trying to do is on their confrontations with us with the iranians whether in syria and iraq and yemen they seem to be losing these and they're just trying to open a new front and lebanon and that's what the general belief onselen has is which is why the submission was not accepted. by returning to front with the country's

president has accused his predecessors of huling the rise of islamist extremism in the country by a bundling deprived areas to tackle the problem of money ses he plans to give needy neighborhoods an economic boost he also sees offshore tarion measures may be used to address the threat reporting from from china to penske. ok in santa the housing projects dominate the skyline their home mainly to low income families and generations of migrants that the state has failed to integrate something new is also where the trail of the paris terror attacks in november two thousand and fifteen led police to. a few years later proles says the 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 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 flagged up the 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 a plan to stop out extremism is fight powering money into housing improving public transport and offering subsidies to companies hiring new strong 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 how all the things should be done as well money could help but this is not enough but did you read this probably could help that there are people who are. redi have money and they still can be terrorist money alone want to have people boris produce terrorism. so our precious you 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 wife which is fairly easy to do when you've been in charge who are less than good at the issue of deployed neighborhood spans of decades and mccall is the first president to try and

target show that deal with a state altie sultani paris. well that is our news for now just a reminder that the polls cut the president's karla's puts them on to one on one sit down with alex salmond on his new r t show can be found right now on our web site and i'll see you in thirty minutes. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with two other senators the law and author of the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch. bleep yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than food let's see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight not president of the world bank no. because we're going to. send us an

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i . this is 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 to you but after president barack obama visited the island nation last year and eased various restrictions there was an expectation that there would be a fall in relations from the once and taken this circumstance we've had for board fifty years now president trump is reversing course why we get into that and now after the failure to pass a repeal and replace of obamacare and focus shifted to getting tax reform initiative here 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. 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 of 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 am confident that we will can that you will continue to move forward nurture this institution we have built together and maintain at the central value to the american public he added that he'll be gone by november adding your 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 lawmakers over certain regulations post two thousand eight.