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we are running down the top headlines of the day of the week. a new low for relations with russia in a speech on. military aggression. spreading fake news but all surprising. details and the. self seems less important. chief among those today of course is russia

but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it all of the day after may's claims the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the brecht voting using internet trolls one example was a supposed russian tweeter whose profile didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning breakfast in london our correspondent polly boykin now we're looking at the facts behind the allegations. in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the brags it talks on 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 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 that 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 some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire. if russia did use. the idea about four hundred twitter people will affect. millions as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable 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 done. to these or me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to de verite attention from their own responsibility for for the enveloping crazies the 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 theresa may was later forced

to clarify her attack on moscow and it turns out she wasn't actually i'm flying that russian about old and the process. to look at the speech i gave on monday that was see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom but britain was far from the only one to dig deeper on anti russian claims this week spanish officials also alleged moscow meddling this time in catalonia so protest. sassy's many messages and many interventions that have occurred through social networks come from russian territory and they use the expression russian territory that does not necessarily mean that we have confirmed that it is the russian government therefore we have to act through a lot of prudence here more than anyone could imagine mainstream media insisted russia may have destabilized the whole country however spanish leader mariano hoyer denied all allegations revealing he simply had no information about any of it. i

have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the russian government nothing to blame russia has also been played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the united states and to tame an industry star trek george takei was this week accused of acting inappropriately with a male model in the early one nine hundred eighty s. he denies the allegations and then now deleted tweet takei said russian bought. the allegations against him he attached a charge which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over the backing of those on social media.

he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says russian bots so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or what an accusation is forty years old i mean

it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary. the head of the world and he doping agency has admitted it's almost impossible to separate sport and politics craig read his comments follow warnings by russian sports officials that want to help the suspension of the country's anti drug body on political grounds it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because it was a free real story of your life and sports is such an important story on thursday rushers a sports drug testing agency. denied reinstatement as wada claimed it had failed to meet two key criteria of russian officials are adamant those points have no relevance to the agency's work and that it had met the other eighteen despite a tight time frame aussies and their attitude of tells the story. 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's anti-doping agency was only non-compliant based on two points out of twenty criteria one being that 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 has seen russian officials make their feelings a very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. those boards want. to resign as 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 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 shared his disappointment to these two demands are obviously of a political nature we want dialogue not addict out 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 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 on chang that leaves little time to resolve the problem and left the olympics committee under increased

pressure as well ultimately there. i'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 i was no dear i just noted the russian national team has been hit hard in skiing alone six russians were banned for life from all international olympic committee competitions and that has sparked a backlash from many including our the most successful ever winter olympian norwegian biathlete in our beyond eleven top swedish ski coach marcus kramer also gave us his reaction. at the beginning i was doing good it's not to the political things but know. after rod one year. for me it's my my opinion that more and more political thought no i don't know we're about thought

about it tried to do a push towards the russian olympic games and i one of the suspended skiers you have . told us no one could have imagined how this situation would develop a thick. the allegations surfaced eleven months ago during the sochi twenty fourteen olympics no one could have imagined that anything like this would happen to us three years later it feels as though we've been living on the volcano for past eleven months this situation has thrown this balance both psychologically and physically it's very hard to keep training not knowing what will come next whether you'll be disqualified or not when i learned the news i burst into tears i called the president of our federation i told her we are not at fault she replied i know but there is nothing we can do. to return to catalonia now here on the program

where on saturday rival crowds marched and boss alone over amid deep divisions over the region's independence movement thousands took part in a unionist march under the banner catalonia is spain it's the latest in a series of pro unity rally since last month's referendum which was branded illegal by the spanish government meanwhile a group of pro independence activists gathered denouncing widget's crackdown on their movement. now in his new show here on our c form a scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively to the ousted catalan president because putin want was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant officer who fled to belgium where is currently on bail on friday a belgian called delayed till next month his decision on whether to extradite him on and for other members of his former government to madrid and speaking to r.t. he recalled the region's referendum day and told alex salmond how he sees 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 the vote for self-determination on the other hand 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 as president of catalonia when that famous day there was a day of the victory of catalonia and the other hand of course there was a day of the extent that i couldn't imagine the will start coming rapidly because in this kind of possible there is no future at all and to remain in spain these conditions 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 still plenty of the weekly coming your way here on r.t. international including the story of france where the streets of paris thronged with crowds on saturday in a protest against president back on social policies more on that just a few. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch school it's about the passion from the fans it's

the age of the super money. and spending twenty million. it's an experience like. the beautiful game. great chance for. us. thanks for joining us for the weekly today here on our international thousands of people took to the streets of paris on saturday to voice their anger at president social policies the crowd was blocked by police as it moved towards microphones official residence the. protest was against labor of forms which the president claims will scruggs growth on unemployment but critics say they simply help the

rich and reduce job security. now i saturday's rally was the latest in a string of protests in towns and cities all across france. has been tracking this story. well what we have a thousands of people who have decided to join this small watch which was set up by the trade unions some of the three biggest trade unions in france called on their members for a day of national action and this is one of a number of protests taking place across france. and nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest into the shops to cool

some of this damage. and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor cost to be at a minimum and we're here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers. the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code to survive and the fact that although much has signed this and given his of still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by showing how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get parliamentarians in france to change their mind. british school teacher suspended for praising his students sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done girl that upset one teenaged people who now identifies as male we spoke to sutcliffe the student in question. came in did very well eyes and then i said well done girls you started really well

and i was met with a fierce rebuttal. and i sincerely apologize. i then found out six weeks later that i was going to be under investigation for a mis gendering within the community and initially for one day that transpired to be two days and then three days and then it's now been six days where i've been sat in a in an office not being able to teach my math lessons or joshua actually believes he's being singled out for another issue i think i've been bullied really for you know for who i am within the school setting up a bible club and then it being shut down with an iron fist really having so many people coming along to the bible club and being interested in the bible i feel like i've been discriminated against within the community and i think that's

a trend. nationwide is that christians aren't able to. live out their faith in a professional setting or the whole incident has provoked debate over whether the school might be over reacting. this particular teacher accidentally missed gender by calling a trans boy pupil a girl it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause offense so i think that his suspension is disproportionate i think that the school should obvious to the point out to him that he made a mistake which of course he doesn't recognize and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter is absolutely stupid he called the girls girls because he thought it was a class of girls made an honest mistake and apologized that should have been the end of the matter this whole transgender agenda he's getting much much too much

influence in the british media and embrace society there are very small minority i feel sorry for anyone who thinks they are trapped in the wrong body they should be treated with respect and tolerance but where is the tolerance for this man he's a christian but of course you're not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain and say that he's done anything wrong actual and the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. like a plane crash in eastern russia or on wednesday killing six people or they were made that there was one miraculous story.

we're. less same deal as it related to shoulder the go the body should this fall in line and in the soon to be endless close games with just leach out of it this. or. we're lucky that the miracle. that of all rights activist jailed for releasing thousands of mammals from a farm has been speaking out kevin johnson was locked up for three years on charges which included terrorism since then he's been calling for changes to laws on defending the wealth. two thousand and thirteen

a close friend of mine tyler lange and i entered the east fork make ranch in northern illinois for thirty six years this is a facility that was imprisoning and killing manc killing children within the sight and smell of their mother's offer fashion and so we entered the facility we opened all the cages in the facility to free two thousand mink and saved their lives and we painted the words liberation is love on a barn to demonstrate that we weren't trying to threaten anybody we were trying to have a message of compassion. when we were arrested we were sensed under state law for possession of burglary tools we were already doing time for the crime in illinois state and the federal government intervenes to indict us under this terrorism legislation you know which ended up being a nightmare and i was in prison for three years the controversial law under which kevin was jailed was pos in two thousand and six it bans actions to damage will interfere with organizations dealing with animals kevin johnson gave us his views

on being treated as a terrorist court essentially found was that the government is permitted to apply the label terrorism to virtually any activity that it doesn't like in this instance the court said it was not quote utterly unreasonable so that's their standard for determining whether the government can call something terrorism and is always when you worry about with employers landlords it's a serious thing even if people look at it and they say that's kind of silly whatever at the same time they take pause which was the entire purpose of the federal government when they passed the law even if people look at it and say well that's silly they still take pause people are nervous i think that it's incredibly cynical for legislators to try to use the rhetoric of terrorism you know in order to essentially repress activists on behalf of industry and finance you know terrorism we all know we've all experience in this country sadly terrorism is the killing of civilians in order to intimidate their populations you know it's it's

a desecration of the of the victims of terrorist attacks and you know an affront to the concept of what terrorism is it's an international thanks for joining us so far for the weekly back research. seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think they are inheriting one of my my babies since my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by forums in the us and we had a thought to me as i did this this is

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