five more russian athletes receive lifetime ban from the winter olympics as fears grow the whole of russia could be prevented from competing in the twenty games we hear the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports street. in. new orleans it doesn't prove. you give them some time in. germany to be on track for the same coalition government had before september selections three way talks with other parties collapsed last week. police in the french port city of concern over a. related crime more than a year after the closure of the notorious jungle. c.e.o.

here the police officers are more than. i cannot remember times when so many colleagues came to me to say that they wanted to leave the police. global headlines every hour from moscow you're watching r.t. international live with me. thanks for joining us this. hour five more russian athletes have been given a lifetime bans from the winter olympics brings the total number of disqualified athletes to nineteen the decision was made after retesting doping samples from the twenty fourteen sochi games based on the findings of the report and the report also accused russia of state sponsored doping is still the possibility the entire russian team could be barred from competing in the south korea next february but the head of the ethics committee of another global sporting body pfieffer doesn't

believe there's sufficient evidence of state involvement to justify such a move. we have a mclaren report and we have in the mclaren part allegations. we need a real clear evidence. and only with an evidence i can make a decision ban or not ban but only for let's say very valid circumstances i never would ban anybody. i wouldn't do that. russia denies the allegations in the mclaren report also investigations into individuals are continuing the international olympic committee says it will release the evidence against the police in due course my colleague andrew farmer discussed the story with jacqueline . well the problems really circle around the fact that ever since the mclaren report came out in two thousand and sixteen with allegations of state sponsored doping in russia different monitoring organizations have looked into that searching for some sort of evidence to back up those claims but all we've seen is

a noticeable lack of proof to back them up and we spoke with the water president who says well it hasn't been found yet it's just a matter of time let's take a listen keep seeing it was news to each bunch of guilty and the other most of the other evidence in clean rooms. claims it doesn't prove no one to. give them some time so there we have him conceding that it's just been hinted at the idea that a state sponsor scheme was in place and saying just give us time but the question is how much time do they need and those banned outlets have actually voiced concerns that there's a possibility that a political motivation could be behind these decisions and again going back to the water present he conceded that it's impossible to divide the worlds of politics and sports politics seemed to me to be a bit of additional lives and if i played golf from the start of the reach of your lightly that politics should stop at one o'clock and start again you want to finish

it five o'clock the politics rules everybody's life savan so they are to be involved in some way in trying to clean everything we do in school just part of what we do so this point we're only three months out from the next winter olympics and it's important to remember that the whole russian team is under review at this point on the summer fit it will be announced whether or not they will be able to participate in next year's games in south korea and even if the team is clear there's still the fact that over a dozen of the teammates have been banned for life at this point and will not be participating. russian footballers are also getting caught up in the doping scandal just six months before their country hosts the world cup we go to our former antidoping official turned whistleblower says he's got plenty of evidence of players doping who are a fee for investigation has been ongoing since june this year the footballing body says there's no evidence so far of any wrongdoing. and we discussed the issue with sports journalist adam or you says the new allegations are an attempt to discredit

the world cup in russia think that six months later it will be very very unlikely simply were true or not we probably will see more of this because this is making a lot of noise to take away from the russian world cup there is still a chance in their minds that the war could be stripped from russian there could of of course be a chance that somebody will feel simply bored at this stage it looks very very unlikely russian football has been tested. in seville could we should see the players retain take of random testing. random testing is taking place around the russian premier league of course can always be better we know that it's as good as it is anywhere else in the world better and in most cases so you know this is just time to sort of like you know take care of roche's sales shall we say before friday . now all converged to nations who will participate in the twenty first fifa world cup on now known but he'll be playing against who in the group stages well that's

going to be decided that the draw in moscow this friday the first of december prior to that fee for president jonny infantino shared his thoughts on sport's biggest showpiece event coming to the world's biggest country. we are expecting smooth operations everything has been done for the fans to come to russia and to and to enjoy the world cup for instance a new concept with a fan ideas being put in place by the russian authorities or by the russian government fan idea which will allow visa free entry which will allow free transportation by train between the host cities and many other benefits for the fans we have already seen that the stadiums the twelve stadiums and eleven also it is absolutely state of the art that they were in tears are very welcoming the country is welcoming the people want to see people from all over the world to come and discover that maybe they don't know and they will be very very positively

surprised. when other news the northern french port city of tel a witness to violent incidents involving people smugglers and migrants on saturday here's how one police officer described the event. this one vehicle approaching a traffic. police went through the roadblock he then knocked down a police officer who was trying to stop him my colleague shot out you know nine people were on the vehicle including one smuggler in another incident and also a question between my aunt and smuggling smugglers opened fire on migrants injuring one seriously. at the height of the migrant crisis calla experienced

a huge influx of people into the so-called jungle camp it was used as a base by people hoping to travel to britain the camp was then demolished last year . oh.

i see you're here police officers are more than fed up i've been doing this job for twenty six years quite long and police union career i cannot remember times when so many colleagues came to me to say they wanted to leave the police on me it's shocking but keep it up with shocking because i do not feel they're motivated any more but they're stuck between a rock and a hard place ministration the legal system and citizens who do not know anymore where they are going to don't know any more. i also got a chance to speak to the deputy mayor of cali he thinks the government should be providing more support in dealing with migrants and deport those who commit offenses. it is unbelievable after all the problems we've met in the past. the government is not taking more action against those people. and that is really

only realistic it's a bit away from the city center but it could happen to the city center why is the government not acting. more strongly against those people if somebody's illegal in the country. even if he's young if an offense is done a serious offense is done most be sent back to his country a human rights advocate keith best told us that removing the jungle camp in cali has only made the situation worse destroying the jungle taking away the original refugee camp which you may remember was there some years ago in sangatte itself the run by the red cross i mean those don't help they only exacerbate the situation the fact that the police were stopping many of those refugees getting to hand out of food for example that just makes the situation worse it's

a very very complicated situation very first of all i think any right minded person will have every sympathy with those truck drivers of many different nationalities who are having their windscreens smashed their tires slashed and who are being intimidated by these desperate people who want to get on board their trucks in order to stand a chance of getting to the u.k. and. coming up to russia's calling for urgent dialogue to resolving north korea crisis we'll have more on that story and more just after this short break.

double cross you would think so if you're a kurd also just how many u.s. troops are in syria and why and the living hell that is the m. i says to. americans by the. oem fortunately by financial support of something. contrary in there. for making unsafe fuel.

welcome back to monte international the u.s. and south korea will be conducting a major joint military exercise near the north korean border next week russia's voiced concerns over the drills they will involve around twelve thousand american soldiers if a trend goes in seoul with the latest on the tensions what has been donald trump's approach to sorting out the north korea crisis in a nutshell all options remain on the table second option not a preferred option they will be met with fire fury do not underestimate us and do not try this the distance from here to the border with north korea is only about forty kilometers and once you end up in seoul which is well in the firing range of kim's artillery you can't help looking at that rhetoric from a different perspective especially if there is what you'd call a totally different approach. is absolutely no alternative to dialogue but in order

to start a dialogue everyone has to stop take a deep breath and a step back from the red line which we're almost out so why can we hope that the only option according to moscow will prevail well the south korean capital is hosting a russian valdai discussion club conference where local officials and experts have gathered to hear what the russian diplomats and researchers have come up with so russia's been saying hey we've got a plan step one north korea should completely hold its missile and nuclear tests for the u.s. that means and ends to almost nonstop war games with seoul moscow calls it a double freeze step two might be very tough direct talks between washington and pyongyang on rules of peaceful coexistence and finally they should lead to step three establishing a security framework for the entire region with every player involved. doors are

closed for the main session and one of the south korean officials who is taking part is the president's advisor for foreign policy. that offered him what do you think about the russian road map i think that the proposal is very realistic flexible i hope. and your cage in the peloton winter olympic all the parties concerned between particularly between nelson selves who do come up with the most left wrist rest training behavior do you think it's enough in this case of course not enough in the day should be some new initiative to create and sustain peace and. donald trump keeps saying that all options are on the table north korean knew that the military option is always under the table. by putting the military option and on the table. it's not

likely change you know screen behavior as the advisor of the south korean president what do you tell them about the drills you know you know i'm personally in a favor engagement dialogue and negotiation with north korea and some people in the government may have different ideas that brings us to why the russian road map may never actually work. because i think most korean politicians believe the trails must be pursued for a defense so now we're not canceling u.s. korean exercises we just want to postpone for the olympics. others openly reject moscow's plan like the neighbors in tokyo who simply can't imagine security without the drills with their allies so for now south koreans have no other choice but to welcome us raptors in co for the vigilance ace rule gates oh that's just in a few days anyway for those who live in seoul or who are here to talk about keeping

the peace in korea that's something to bear in mind. be it for war games or real strikes that would put millions of lives at risk the decision to send let's say warplanes to the korean skies may depend on one single man miles and miles away on the other side of the pacific. well eric sorkin from the national campaign to end the korean war told us the military drills are lucky to be viewed by north korea as a provocation at a time in which there is this standoff and this misunderstanding and lack of communication creates a very volatile situation it may be seem somehow as intimidating but these have never worked the proposal that anyone who cares about peace in the region is putting forth right now is that these military options are not realistic and you need to sit down at the table and when they do those exercises something could be

mistaken as invasion something could be mistaken as live attacks and such and so we put the millions and millions of people in the sole area in south korea in japan and other places at risk this seems like folly and foolishness when we have such a volatile situation. now the german chancellor and her party's leaders have said he would be willing to return to the same coalition that govern the country for september's vote. we are ready to engage in talks with the social democrats in a serious dedicated manner and aiming for success. following that invitation from chancellor merkel schultz of the social democrats accepted and said that his party would take part in coalition talks with representatives of angler merkel's christian union and the german president frank bowker steinmeyer in berlin

on thursday for mr schultz this announcement but it represents a real one hundred eighty degree turnaround on how he views the grand coalition just a week ago. you know we're not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly after the elections and we still stand by this by blimey for shut out the s.p.d. party has confirmed that i should accept the invitation from the german president to take part in talks with the chairman of the c.d.u. c.s.u. passes next thursday somebody far more insightful than myself once said that i think was a long time in politics and it certainly does seem to be true for angola merkel as well seven days ago she was picking up the pieces after jamaica coalition talks broke down she said looking at the two options that would look like the only ones available to you were a minority rule or new elections that you would actually prefer new elections over

ruling over a minority government well she has changed her mind on that somewhat saying that it wasn't a good idea right now to put the decision on who would govern germany back to the german people that they'd already made their minds up back in september and it was up to the politicians to try and hammer out a coalition so where are we right now two months on from the general election in germany lots of late nights lots of debates lots of of talks failed pour more talks on the horizon. and as it stands at the moment it looks like we could be going right back to the grand coalition that ruled germany before with people voted back in september those talks taking place in berlin on thursday i'll be back in the german capital then bringing you all of the latest. from those coalition talks here on r.t. . we heard from many in craft from the alternative for germany party believes

chancellor merkel is desperate to cling to power whatever the political cost when you look closely you can see that it's based that she has destroyed all possible churches and all possible opponents within the party so she is completely completely lost touch into the public into the public she's just trying to manage. every contract with decision democrats to remain in office if you look at the results that we have to the fact that in two thousand and thirteen to gradually reached sixty seven percent and in two thousand and seventeen it's a fifth it's down to fifty three so. there is a shot of you decreasing trust induced parties. and if they try to get all due to have. this decrease in trust will continue.

turkey has reiterated its call for the us to stop arming kurdish y p g fighters in syria and terrorists this follows an apparent pledge from donald trump to stop supplying weapons to the militia group in the us played an instrumental role in driving back islamic state. the we will not give weapons remarks from a u.s. president for the first time is important but it will lose value if it's not implemented it would be deceiving the world well since the start of the civil war in syria the united states has supported several kurdish groups the spite his protests the issue has become a key stumbling block in relations between washington and ankara so miracle has more on a complex web of alliances involving kurds across the middle east kurds the largest stateless minority in the world the kurdish population is in turkey iraq and syria and it seems for the us it's more about where they are rather than who they are.

let's start with turkey on one side and cora washington's regional and nato ally on the other on cars sworn enemy the rebellious kurdistan workers party fight against the dash terrorist organisation should not be left with another terror organization we want to believe that our allies will choose to stand beside us and not on the side of terrorist organizations well the choice is obvious and the us lists the p.k. k. as a terrorist group we support turkey in the first fight against hair and terror groups like isis and the p.k. k. . over in iraq the kurdish peshmerga were crucial when the us fight against the islamic state washington put up money and provided all the weapons they needed but with most of the fighting over so is america's benevolence iraqi kurds are losing the oil wells they fought out of terrorist control and the reserves are

now going back under government control the us a bt and baghdad. the kurdish push for independence has also received the cold shoulder with secretary tillerson stating that the referendum and its results lacked legitimacy and the u.s. supports a united iraq the disappointment is very good really although we have a long negative experience with america and wrong side they say in the two hour but he still is there a strong. position against that if iran don't encourage the body of the iraqi government to come source strongly the one in a position that they think they can even cancel or even that status off of it for the right is a man called to stop. off to neighboring syria where the kurdish y p g also got everything they needed from the u.s.

in their fight against i saw money weapons training and praise we should be using recruiting we should be doing the kurdish they've proven to be the biggest miners they really proven to be the most real doers and we should be working with them much more suitable. but they managed to hang on to the oil fields that they liberated with no questions from their american pals washington claims that it seeks a unified and sovereign syria but it also wants a syria without assad i think the united states will continue to support the kurds we heard general mattis and secretary of defense say only a few days ago that the united states would remain in northern syria or in order to give traction for that you need a process and that means that the united states wants leverage they want leverage against us against russia and it gets to iran and of course the kurdish troops that the united states has been are now own about twenty five percent of syria's

territory in the north end up somewhere around fifty percent of all the oil and gas in syria so this gives the kurds quite a bit of leverage well that's unless turkey gets its way with same terms. clearly stated given clear instructions for not to provide the way with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. in the hostel in western poland is under fire for installing a far from welcoming and provocative so i'm at it's entrance it says that entry is forbidden to jews commies and traitors of poland hostels run by ultranationalist he was sentenced to three months house arrest earlier this year for burning an effigy of a jewish person during anti migrant demonstration and local authorities are now looking into whether to charge him with incitement because of that is what some locals make of this the. what is evil well this is his opinion some day he will be hung for

things like it's better to do it this way it is simply do not like you i oppose such banners as i'm not a racist i reject such propaganda use now anyone can place whatever they want and their friends know what it's all metaphysical and not the way for people to behave oh one can do such things when this just a good old soul was trying to tell would help them to live i think we should be color and you can have them certain groups of people from ontario and no one may come from our village but the main thing is how they behave now and respect the laws. a large fire has broken out in a warehouse in the israeli city of tel aviv local media reporting that four people have been killed. i i. look. like.

eyewitnesses reports that i powerful explosion in the building which houses construction materials rescue teams are now at the site searching for any survivors who may be trapped in the schoolhouse at least eight people are being treated for burn injuries the cause of the frost is unknown we'll keep you updated situation develops. me for this hour we're watching all the international live from moscow we're back with more headlines in around thirty minutes to you that. i'm going to let you.

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