their own way when the top of. the female russian meddling reaches a new level. prime minister. the head of the world watchdog admits it's almost impossible to separate sport politics and. political motives behind those refusal to. drugs. also this week. leader explains all in the first edition. he tells. how he felt. his mistake. start

a new. era that will start. we hear from an activist who was terrorism after releasing. headlines of the week top stories of today welcome to the weekly. britain's prime minister may have set a new low for relations with russia in a speech on tuesday after accusing moscow of military aggression and election meddling but also uprising details and apparently the key issue. seems far 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. the day after mays claims the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the vote one example was i suppose of the russian who is profile didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning burke said the political and media scare mongering may have actually had an effect now as polly boyko reports 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 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 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 but. where there's smoke there's fire usually for us i did use . the idea that four hundred twitter people will affect the movements of millions as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable the prime minister 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. evidence that. 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 down. 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 while despite many contributing to the attacks on moscow she was later forced to clarify her claims turns out she wasn't actually implying that russia meddled in brixton they learned

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 and separatist movement. in 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 you have confirmed that it is the russian government mainstream media insisted russia may have destabilized the entire country over spanish leader mario not a whole he denies all allegations saying he has no information about them. i have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the russian government nothing the blame russia card is also being played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the us entertainment industry star trek actor george takei who

was this week accused of acting inappropriately with a male model in the early one nine hundred eighty s. he denies the allegations in a now deleted tweet takei said russian bought. the allegations against him it touched a charge which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over those well the support of those on social media. he should have said that cling on to may have done it no he says russian box 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 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 anti doping agency has admitted it's almost impossible to separate sport and

politics craig read his comments follow warnings by russian sports officials that wada upheld the suspension of the country's anti drug body on political grounds. it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because over to our fates brianna straight to your loved one sports is such an important to people's lives on thursday russia has sports drug testing agency was denied reinstatement as why they claimed it had failed to meet two key criteria but russian officials are adamant those points have no relevance to the agency's work and that it had met the other eighteen despite a very tight time frame are to use and they were tutor investigates. 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 reports 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 very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. those boards want to have relevance to. 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. 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 as an idea 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 sparked a backlash from many including the most successful ever winter olympian norwegian biathlete to beyond on a top german coach who trains two of those suspended also gave us his reaction. at the beginning i think it's it's not to the political things but no. wrong one year. for you it's my my opinion that more and more political so no i don't know we are but thought it would do to a push towards the russian olympic games and one of the suspended skiers told us the ban is to comprehend. it.

is a. risk and having finished my training session i got into my car and i saw i had twenty missed calls on my mobile phone it was my coach i called back and he told me i had been disqualified first i thought it was a joke my wife who was sitting beside me was a loss just like me we sat in silence for a while i can't even begin to describe what i was going through i had no clue what to do next we attended the commission session with the intention of getting our position across we hoped the emotion we were boiling with could somehow help convey our message while we lived in a kind of limbo for a whole week we still harboring some hope that they would clear us it's a remarkable case six different athletes with very different records one in the same ruling they themselves cannot figure out what's what was that list but one thing is for sure those athletes on the list do they consider this list to be

reason enough to punish the athletes without bothering to back it up but. that's what the couple ernie and i'll wear on saturday rival crowds march in barcelona and the deep divisions over the region's independence movement. thousands took part in a unionist march under the banner catalonia is spain the latest on a serious 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 madrid crackdown on their movement. well in his new show here on r.t. former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively to the ousted cattle and president carlos butcher mont was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where is currently on bail on friday a belgian court delayed told next month his decision on whether to extradite poor

want 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 and 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 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 european union 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 by the start of the next week the spanish judicial system or rolled into action and took away the constitutional prize that catalonia had gained 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 spending 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. shortly after the new

program was announced to the media and al examines former political colleagues at a game in his decision to be another face of this channel. are you not afraid of been hosts in the rush of the program taking into consideration old their publications on the can of and to separated that question nicely thought maybe from the son of the daily mail but a bit on the west side i'd a quick scan back through the. russia today broadcasting and i counted fifteen labor m.p.'s stepped it to the m.p.'s fourteen s m p m p seven liberals friesian fain to do you be in the green a full appear on russia today programs so if and if it's good enough for john mcdonnell janet club and diane abbott john redwood crispin blunt liam fox ian blackfoot vince cable and cattle and look as though i can probably. stand any criticism that they they experienced as well who did survive.

we are lucky that the miracle happened. this is r.t. international thank you for joining us on this sunday still more of the weekly coming your way including the story of one british school teacher suspended after saying well done girls to his class we'll give you details in a moment. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to. let you go on to be close to see what the full story of the morning can't be good. interesting always in the waters in the. first six.

just on the twenty fourth here in moscow a british school teacher has been suspended for praising his students and sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done girls but that upset one teenage pupil who now identifies as male the teacher insists he apologized immediately and said it was a slip of the tongue the student in question. came in did very well 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 missed 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 the in an office not being able to teach my math lessons joshua told us that

amidst all the fallout over the years sure he believes he's actually being singled out over his religious beliefs 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 are able to. live out their faith in a professional setting the incident has provoked debate over whether the school is rightly handling a sensitive issue or are simply over we're reacting. 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 obviously the point out to him that he made

a mistake which of course he doesn't self recognise and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter transgender agenda he's getting much much too much influence in the british media and in british 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 i don't see that he's done anything wrong actual the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. and i'm 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 including terrorism and since then he has been calling for changes to lord's on

defending and the more well for two thousand and thirteen a close friend of mine tyler lange and i entered the east for coming cranch in northern illinois for thirty six years of the priscilla to you that was imprisoning and killing me inc killing children within the sight and smell of their mother's offer fashion and so we entered the priscilla t 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 that interfere

with organizations dealing with animals if an individual causes more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage they can face up to ten years in prison and 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 victims of terrorist attacks and you know an affront to the concept of what terrorism is. so it is forces of reach down and president to deal with moscow to allow dozens of russian speaking children to return from syria and softer they were taken there by their parents who joined islamic state. but i joined the kids as they prepared to go back home. with isis now on its last legs flights like this becoming a regular thing russian citizens looting the wives and children of isis fighters being collected wherever they're found whether they've surrendered or been captured and taken back to russia to rejoin their families it isn't often that a high ranking syrian could visits the russian airbase in syria but this is

a special exception nineteen russian speaking woman along with twenty six children were being held by the y.p. they came from all around from rocka they had as ordered my idea and it took time to confirm their identities and to secure their release that it was dangerous to flee directly for three or four months we try to find a way out of syria. to come over you don't see. turkey and all mothers went to the beach and then our fathers told us we were going to visit someone who got into a black car that took us to syria the children bad obvious signs of trauma stunted speech and the development excessive nervousness and other symptoms brought about by what they saw war and carnage. when we first tried to

flee eisen militants caught and imprisoned us were put in prison on three separate occasions the last time they didn't release my father and later this he had died when all is said and done there is some responsibility to be taken here these women came to syria voluntarily and that they may yet have to answer for it but. at the then you need to be honest just for the thrill. only. i didn't have a husband version less ideas and we got there they took all close. money. to track down each gonna who i'd met who fights golf but. we are not. fools it's about the passion from the fans it's the. loneliness and spending to do the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want

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