runs the blood business. five more russian police receive lifetime bans from the winter olympics as fears grow the whole of russia could be prevented from competing in the twenty eight games here the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports chiefs. but the. claims it doesn't prove you want to. give them some time. and germany could be on track for the same coalition government that it had before september's elections three way talks with other parties collapsed last week. police in the french city of concern over a. crime more than a year after the closure of the notorious jungle. here police

officers are more than fed up i cannot remember times when so many call came to me to say that they wanted to leave the police. global headlines every hour on the hour you're watching are to international live with me. thanks for joining us tonight five more russian athletes have been given lifetime bans from the winter olympics that brings the total number of disqualified athletes to nineteen the decision was made off the retesting doping samples from the twenty fourteen sochi games based on the findings of the report. let's take a look at some details of that report accusing russia of state sponsored doping there's still the possibility the entire russian team could be barred from competing in south korea next february but the head of the ethics committee of another global sporting body pfieffer doesn't believe there's enough evidence of

state involvement to justify such a big move. we have a mclaren report and we have in the mclaren port allegations. we need a real clear evidence. and only with an evidence i can make a decision banned or not banned 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 banned athletes in due course our colleague andrew farmer discussed the story with jacqueline vivie. 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 that 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 saying it was no state sponsored doping and the other most of the other david clinch. claims. 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 sponsored scheme was in place and saying just give us time but the question is how much time do they need and those band l. plates 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 sign of additional you've played golf from the start of the shield to me to be on lightly that politics should stop at one o'clock and start again want to finish it

five o'clock the politics rules everybody's life savannah 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 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've got a lot chunk of a former anti doping turned to doping official turned whistleblower so he's got plenty of evidence of players doping however a fee for investigation has been ongoing since june this year the footballing body says there is no evidence of any wrongdoing sports journalist tyler moore thinks

the new allegations are an attempt to discredit the world cup in russia. i think that six months later it would be very very unlikely simply would turn up we probably will see more of this because this is making a lot of noise to take away from the russian world there is still a chance in their minds that the war could be stripped from russian there could of course be a chance that somebody will fail simply at this stage it looks very unlikely russian football has been tested. in seville could we scored three to players retained to take a random testing. random testing is taking place around the russian premier league of course could always be better we know that it's as good as it is anywhere else in the world better and in most cases so. this is just time to sort of like you know take the air rushes sail shall we say before friday. all thirty two nations will participate at the twenty first field for world cup on no no but we'll be playing against whom in the group stages well will get that answer at the draw in

moscow this friday the first of december prior to that fee for president johnny 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 stadiums and eleven host 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

. of course have full coverage of that draw for you on friday now in other news the northern french port city of cat a witness to violent incidents involving people smugglers and migrants on saturday is how a police officer described those events. sold us what we call approaching a traffic check by c.r.s. police went through the roadblock he then knocked down a police officer who was trying to stop him my colleague shot at him nine people were on the vehicle including one smuggler in another incident and also cation took place between migrants and smugglers smugglers opened fire on migrants injuring twenty one seriously but. at the height of the migrant crisis calley

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 later demolished last year. i. hear. more than fed up to say that they wanted to leave the police for me it's shocking you do not know any more where you are going to do you know you anymore i also spoke to the deputy madras and deport those who commit offenses. it is unbelievable after all the problems we've met in the past that. the

government is not taking more action against those people. 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 illegal in the country be sent back to his country . 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 me those don't help they only exacerbate the situation the fact that the police were stopping many of those reference just makes the situation worse it's a very very complicated situation very first of all writers of many different nationalities who are having their windscreen 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. now another top headline is 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 which will involve around twelve thousand american soldiers in a patrol goes in seoul with the latest on those 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 and 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 with them

but in order to stop everyone has to stop at those take a deep breath and step back from the red line which will my stuff so why can we hope that the only option according to moscow will prevail well the south korean capital is hosting a washington 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 halt 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 the. president 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 pentagon winter olympic all the parties concerned between particularly between nelson selves to come up with the most at risk rest reigning 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 peacefully impatient donald trump keeps saying that all options are on the table north korean knew that the military option it's always under the table. by putting the military option and under the table. it's not

like we 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 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 trills must be pursued for defense for now we're not canceling us 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 into peace in korea there's something to bear in mind be it for the decision to send

let's say warplanes to the korean skies may depend on us and miles away on the other side of the. on the drills in south korea will be going ahead despite a low in military activity from the north the regime has conducted no misato nuclear bomb tests since september you heard from eric so it can from the national campaign to end the korean war 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. 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 know. there are reports coming in from my witnesses they've said they've heard a powerful explosion in the building which houses construction materials rescue teams are now at the site there searching for survivors who may still be trapped in the warehouse at least eight people are being treated for burn injuries the cause of the blast is as yet unknown we'll keep you updated as that situation develops.

the german chancellor and her party's leaders have said they would be willing to return to the same coalition that govern the country before september's vote. we are ready to engage in talks with the social democrats in a serious dedicated manner in our schools 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 anglo merkel's christian union and the german president frank bowker steinmeyer in berlin on thursday for mr schultz though this announcement of 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. 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 angle and 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 actually preferred 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 fail porks and 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 people voted back in september those talks taking place in berlin on thursday i'll be back in the german capital then and bring you all of the latest as it emerges from those coalition talks here on r.t. . we heard from max million craft from the alternative for germany party he believes chancellor merkel is desperate to hang on to power whatever the political cost when you look closely you can see that it's basted cheers destroyed all possible churches and wall possible opponents will and fourteen so she is completely completely lost touch into the public into the public she is just trying

to manage and she will sign every contract with decision rights to remain in force if you look at the results that we have to the fact that in two thousand and thirteen to gradually reach sixty seven percent and into talking seventeen it's a shift it's down to fifty three so. there is a shot of the decreasing trust can do to parties and you know. if this had to go all do would it have todo it wouldn't this decrease in trust will lower continue. turkey has reiterated its call for the us to stop arming kurdish fighters in syria who own crew views as terrorists this follows an apparent pledge from donald trump to stop supplying weapons to the militia grouping that has played an instrumental role in driving back islamic state the we will not give weapons remarks from the us

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 despite these protests the issue has become a key stumbling block in relations between washington and on korea so america has more on the complex web of alliances involving turds 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 us supports a united iraq the disappointment is very good although we have

a long negative experience with america and wrong size the sin of the two are but the solution had a strong. position against the front on encourage the body of the iraqi government . comes or strongly believe we are one in a position that they think they can even cancel or even. start us off of it for the right is a man called the start. off to neighboring syria where the kurdish y p g also got everything they needed from the u.s. in their fight against eisel money weapons training and praise we should be using the kurdish we should be doing the kurdish they've proven to be the best minders they really proven to be the most really do it and we should be working with them much more suitable more 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 the 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 against iraq and of course the kurdish troops that the united states has been arming 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 the same terms that mr trump clearly stated given clear instructions for not to provide the wife with arms

and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. and other news moscow has been hosting a forum promoting domestic goods on the global markets miguel francis and so it was that is what this report. at the made in russia international business export forum the main objective of which is to see ways to improve business next port of local products abroad and see ways to better the dialogue between russian government and russian brands for export the message is clear we are here we produce good products and we are ready to do business with you let's take a look. this is a wine i actually did have the pleasure of trying out a few weeks ago where is it from who is behind this project. and are you exploring

overseas that and this is a russian wine made not far from an opera by reno bin yeah who comes from a long long awfully nice wine maker and his russian wife marina quite the wine is a high quality because it is made with high standards it's concrete being supported with the neck from cindy to me. and where is the export headed right now. expected only weeks by the german in france in the netherlands as well as singapore and you have a lot of that you soon go to. it's very nice sturdy you know i like it the products come from all kinds of industries and second school energy i'd say you medicine and even the beloved washing the dishes are all in the mix nevertheless the international experts form also means business for ex-pat companies operating in war with russia so we were good to make it is easier for the diamond companies that are russian companies to get in touch and often the results of this cooperation is

. an export to russian exports the fraud that made with it that i'm representing india and we have come here for this. red meat industry estimate it been invited by the export center and we are here to promote the business export of russian go to school india so all we have got from that in the schools and the somebody one of the best bet funds and i think they should continue this good job that of which it is the canyon is not the first of all you want to introduce russian products to the world and they have all the potential to be popular and brought her here with a prominent russian producer actor musician and a man of many talents alexander to col alexander pleasure meeting you. could question in the prospects of russian entertainment content is it interesting for the western buyer and western audience three times in the year i

visit in l.a. . because i have meetings with different show runners writers producers and i never i never had any conversations about. conflicts so about sanctions vote for between our countries the made in russia concept presents a window into russia for western partners and by us it is definitely picking up speed as more and more companies see the opportunity to sell their products abroad as well as western client eager to see what benefits using russian products may bring out of moscow russia francis and thiago r.t. . that's hard lines for this i was just going five so it's. a national do come back to the top of next hour for more news from around the world susan.

i'm beyond that you need this is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up we'll hear from one company trying to disrupt the multibillion dollar were made in market in cuba and other key correspondent peter all over tells us how paris went over the banking authority post the first let's get to the story is topping today's headlines. it's no secret that china has a problem when it comes to debt while the government has promised to issue reforms and rein it in and analysis from reuters suggests that has yet to happen by the end of september the debt at over two thousand chinese companies jumped twenty three percent from a year ago and that only covers about three fifths of the country's firms the

report follows the now famous comment from china's central bank chief at october is national congress where he warned of a minsky moment it was a direct reference to a collapse in asset prices after a long periods of growth fueled by debt into so.