the british prime minister launches her strongest attack yet on russia over alleged meddling but gives no examples of moscow's supposedly interference in the u.k.'s affairs. head of the world anti-doping agency admits it is almost impossible to separate sports and politics after moscow slams waters decision to uphold the suspension of russia's anti-drug agency. and hear from an animal rights activist who was jailed for terrorism after releasing thousands of makes from a fur farm. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international

recapping our weekly stories with our weekly program now the prime minister pointed the finger ad russia in a speech on monday accusing the country of military aggression and election meddling but she offered very few details and apparently the stalled bragg's at talks are 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 my speech a group of researchers claimed to russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the birds a vote or two point boycott looks into the story for us in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the brags 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 that could be a lot more yeah 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. if russia did this. the idea that 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 down. to these or me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their on responsibility for for the enveloping crazies the political crazies are taking place at home and abroad to in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target may was later asked to clarify her attacks on moscow and apparently she hadn't intended to imply that

russia had actually meddled in bragg's they don't care to look at the speech i gave on monday that we see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom. which in years now the head of the world anti-doping agency has admitted it is almost impossible to separate sports and politics craig reby comments came shortly after russian sports officials said that water upheld the suspension of the country's anti-drug body on political grounds of. impossible dream isn't it because it was afraid it is realistic to look on sports as such an important part of people's lives on thursday russian sports drug testing agency russo i was denied reinstatement by the world watched on what i claimed it had failed and to me two key criteria here is how the russian olympic committee chief commented on it shortly afterwards. demands were met by rosado boost.

relevance to restart his book. according to water russia failed to admit of the allegations made in the mclaren report the russian agent agency also said russia refused to grant access to closed laboratories in the country and russian sporting officials have question the mclaren report saying it lacks conclusive evidence besides a recent decision by wada to clear ninety five athletes who had been accused of doping in the mclaren report on the basis of insufficient evidence and the latest move from water has raised doubts over whether russia will be able to compete at the two thousand and eighteen world olympics. the russian national team has lost some of its key figures in the skiing alone six russians have been banned for life from all international olympic committee competitions and stripped of their medals the decision has prompted some in the world of sports including the most successful ever winter olympian or region by athlete dahlan to voice their

concern it's by fleet said that he would like to see some justification as to why the russian athletes have been punished and beyond don went on to say that he hoped scratches on the vials would not be announced as the reason behind the ban adding that if they were he would be afraid to take any doping test himself and a top german coach who trains two of the suspended athletes believes politics is behind the crackdown on team russia. at the beginning i was thing gets to the political things but no. for me it's my opinion. more and more political so. i don't know what to do a push of the russian would be good to talk to for skiers currently suspended here is one of them thinks the latest back. to.

being if we really sickens me to 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 bust eleven months this situation has thrown us off 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're not at fault she replied i know but there is nothing we can do.