the head of the world anti-doping watchdog admits it's almost impossible to separate politics that's after war and political motives why behind why does refusal to lift the suspension of russia's drugs agency. also this week when our t. was deposed leader well this mistake five star a new era. for terrorism after releasing thousands of animals from of. the weekly top headlines of the day turns prime minister may have now said in a speech on tuesday scanned on details and i prefer among those today of course is russia but it is russia's 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 in the day after may's claims

the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the vote one example used to suppose that russian who's profile didn't fit a typical british political observer however the person posted or retreated nearly one hundred posts mentioning that the political and media scare mongering may have actually now how can effect as poorly boyko reports 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 them a 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.

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 there 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 but. where there's smoke there's fire usually as it were mostly most british electoral systems and this was the way the foreign set. but that most likely to be the four for the enveloping crazies the political crazies are taking and abroad to in this context they do lead evidence russia is seen is alive despite may contributing to the attacks on moscow she was later forced to clarify her claims it turns out she wasn't actually i'm lying about russia brick said they were there to look at the speech i gave on monday that will

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 allege moscow meddling this time in catalonia separatist movement. 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 insisting russia may have destabilized the entire country however the spanish leader mario not a whole he denies all allegations saying he has 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 that forced sexual misconduct in the us entertainment industry now star trek actor

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 but now in a recently deleted tweet takei said russian balls were fine the allegation against him he had touched a charge which claimed to show he was talkative by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over 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 there are 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 not. they should that's forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense was denied reinstatement as was points have no relevance to the agency's work. scandal has been playing out for years already every time we think has died needed going forward according to point 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. 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 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 case is 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 elim pick 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 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 i was in the dia it 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 in our beyond all in the top job and coach who trains two of those suspended also spoke to us with his reaction. at the beginning i was doing good it's not to the political things but no. wrong one year. for you it's my my opinion that more and more political thought no i don't know well what thought it would do to a push towards the russian olympic games we spoke to for skiers currently suspended here's what one of them things about the latest.

in the commission while on my way to the commission session i was in high spirits i thought it would turn out to k. because we had received the transcript where the data was compared and the d.n.a. tests matched there was no salt in the violets no were there any scratches we had the court ruling that stipulated that we were able to participate in contests so i thought we would be ok during the hearing they just wouldn't listen to arts they said they had rotten cops testimony is and that they trusted him and the mclaren report they said that lean on this list was reason enough for us to be disqualified because i believe that the truth will prevail that what will be ok and out it will go to the winter olympics they have nothing against us they have no evidence we were involved in anything. all returning to catalonia now where on saturday rival crowds marched 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 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 madrid's crackdown on their movement. now in his new show here on r.t. former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively to the ousted cattle and president carlos put them on he was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant offering threat to belgium where he's currently on bail 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 cell of size of want for self-determination screams from that the state

police or what were the conflicting emotions that you felt that as president of catalonia on that famous day there was a day and the other hand of course there was a day of the extremely violent. i couldn't imagine. the directly the violence in my face school in my hometown there a lot of injuries i was of injuries by the stop of the next week the spanish judicial system or rolled into action and took away the constant stake in fact starts a new era in the end of his era that will start a couple of rapidly because in these conditions is not possible it's not possible there is no future for cattle 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. this is all to the international light plane crashed in eastern russia on but amid the tragedy there was the mark miraculous story of a three year old girl who survived. and i think you know on the clearly show that they can overcome she was foreign line and the sooner the endless close campaign was just a child. we're

lucky that the miracle happened. or. the weekly continues in a moment. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts and neither one.

nor middle of the room. thanks for joining us a british school teacher suspended for praising his students joshua sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done girls that upset one pupil who now identifies as male teacher insists he apologized. the student in

question. came in did very well and i said rather than girls you started really well and i was met with a fierce rebuttal. and i sincerely apologize. i then found 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 and joshua told us that amidst all the fallout over the years two he believes he's been singled out by the school over his religious beliefs i think i've been bullied really for them along to the bible club and being interested. it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause

a phone so i think that his suspension is disproportionate i think that the school should obviously 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 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 ah i don't see that you've done anything wrong actual the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. and animal rights activist jailed for releasing thousands of mammals from of farm has been speaking out kevin johnson was locked up

for three years on charges including terrorism since then he has been calling for changes to laws on defending animal welfare. 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 as a facility that was imprisoning and killing manc killing children within the sight and smell of their mothers all for 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 passed in two thousand and six and that interfere with organizations dealing with animals and individual causes more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage they can get up to ten years in prison kevin 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 experienced 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 war and carnage something that's when we first tried to flee i saw 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 that these women came to syria voluntarily and that they may yet have to answer for it but to me at the then you need to be honest just for the thrill. of the only. thing i didn't have a husband version less idea is that the family got there they took all close money

watches rings everything they could so it was just me. and. let's move up after we divorced i came to tell my husband i was going to leave the country in the fall when day he took my son and told me i would never see him again almost have family relatives who are more than willing to help. job which we. don't want i want to go home to my grandma. your weekly returns at the top of the oh. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with you i suspect it is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of our three americas do the same we are apparently better than blues. and see people you've never heard of love attack to

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