a former yemeni president is killed by rebel fighters close to the capital son the fighting in the country intensifies the united nations is now calling on all sides to end hostilities. also coming up this hour a day for team russia as the international olympic committee prepares to give its verdict on whether the country can compete for the twenty eighteen winter games but moscow is still questioning the validity of the investigation being used to athletes for. there is an unprecedented standoff between the u.s. government and the intelligence community the f.b.i. and justice department are given ultimatums by republicans two hundred over details of the investigation.

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know me welcome to the program we begin in yemen the country's former president ali abdullah saleh has been killed close to the capital fighting there intensifies the escalation has led the united nations to call for an end to the conflict we find the events unfolding there to be deeply disturbing with ground clashes in airstrikes having dramatically escalated in sana and surrounding governorates or humanitarian colleagues or receiving desperate calls for help by trapped families are unable to reach those who have been injured we renew our call on all warring parties for an immediate cessation of hostilities . was reportedly killed by hooty rebels us he fled the yemeni capital

please be aware that the footage we're about to show you is extremely graphic it purportedly shows the former president's body until recently sal his allies had been fighting alongside the rebels against the current president however on sunday he made a public break from the shia opposition fighters that was seen as a betrayal by the hussein's local journalist in sana gave us his views on the developments. this surge and to turn back to the domination of saudi arabia has a good many yemenis to pressure the. saudi rulers that to the killing go for thousands of civilians and also it's a devastating impacts all over its blockade of the country. such a decision that the. saudi arabia to offer that you. would

be. such a. loan so had been welcomed by some of the yemenis. well ali abdullah saleh in yemen from nineteen ninety on till twenty twelve and was the country's first president that was after playing a key role in the merger between south yemen and north human he was ousted from power during the spring uprising well since twenty twelve yemen has been riven by civil war an intervention by a saudi led coalition that's triggered a major humanitarian crisis riyadh and its allies have stepped up strikes in recent days a hundred and twenty five people are believed to be killed two hundred thirty injured in fighting in the country since friday alone now the organization that i cannot confirm the safety of its own stuff inside at the moment as well political analyst . told us he believes the saudi led coalition could retaliate for solids killing

after the ex leader said he was ready for a new page in relations with riyadh. it's not the first time he switches sides this shift has been part of his political career it's not the first time that he changed his political position and his alliances this time or the drastic failure of the people of yemen after so many years of saudi bombardment i don't think they're ready to see and talk with this as if nothing happened where they threatened to bomb the night or there's going to be more blood this failure in this can more destruction and that's very unfortunate for the yemeni people. the fate of team russia the upcoming winter olympics in sight to be decided later on tuesday the international olympic committee is due to meet in a switzerland to assess the findings of two commissions into alleged state sponsored doping in russia the i.o.c.

is considering a number of options for russia's are pleats the most severe would be a blanket ban on the entire team another is for the committee to pass responsibility onto the sporting federations like the i.o.c. did in twenty sixteen before the real summer games it could also allow russian athletes to compete but as neutrals that would mean russia's flying a national anthem will be missing from the games we spoke to the president of the european blanket ban would be the wrong move. i think that it is very bad. and i do not think that we need to do any of that as. the suit of called water that is but a civil one and the other side but you should be able to work in even on the condition of but i think that you should examine the facts. to go on little my point of view we should punish old those who made. this is but

not but legation proven dog because fences and you should allow that but dissipations of all the clean sport. the coming i.o.c. decision will be based on two commission's findings the first time has been looking into the cases of individual athletes and allegations that positive samples were swapped for clean ones the second report will be on alleged state sponsored doping violations however russia's officials have questioned the validity of the investigations in particular the initial report published by canadian lawyer richard mcclaren which triggered the probe in the first place. the damning mclaren reports on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their meadows and others prevented from taking part in major events including the olympics however a few things in the report just don't add up before we break them down it's worth

noting that the international olympic committee itself was not satisfied with the evidence in a letter to richard mclaren the i.o.c. ostrom more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate almost every athlete's name moreover it was admitted by wada but in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases dr richard mclaren's findings were issued into pogs they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let's meet the reports star witness. the former head of a moscow anti doping lab he's facing charges over destroying test samples and the e-mails presented as proof of state involvement come from his own computer. russian sports officials deny the allegations but did richard mclaren consider to get their side of the story i'd made

a decision that for fifty seven days to do my work i didn't have the time and they didn't seem to have the interest so i didn't do that that came after the first part of the report issued in july twenty sixth. the second came six months later so the investigative team did eventually meet with some russian officials but not batali much co the sports minister at the time of the alleged undercover doping scheme. the central allegation of mclaren's report is that positive year in samples were systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how salts and nest cafe granules were added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick the testers that information came courtesy of or a chunk of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security part of which is swiss manufacture it guarantees can't be tampered

with richard mclaren doesn't have an answer on how the russians did it he just says it can be done and that's enough seen it i've seen it done and i inspected it and it can be done it can be reinserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know they can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an unprecedented scale i have that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and it is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples. while we got reaction from some awfully to receive based on the mclaren report. but with up until now nothing was going on it isn't all athletes who are in good physical condition and that is why they showed great results and this whole thing is just made up by a single person. who are disappointed by this news was still training i

hope to go to the lympics then explain to us why they banned us for life from the games this is just slander and evidence for it our sport is all about skill and techniques and not taken some cocktails rochon cough claims this is the first we've heard of any of this but nothing will explain they just said there was crashes and selling in the samples i believe this move is politically motivated and is being done through this all before the whole russian team from the olympic games. well just twenty four hours before the pivotal i.o.c. meeting in switzerland an interview with a key figure in the doping scandal was released earlier trinkle has been looking at that for us. as the investigation continues the man who was behind all the end to work in accusations and the first place the former head of moscow's anti-doping laborde three grigori watching call of keeps coming up with more things to blame

the russians for just to remind you mr raja in call of is wanted over criminal charges in russia after he fled the country and disgrace he is called a whistleblower by the western media and the i.o.c. calls him a credible witness well ahead of the international olympic committee's verdict a video interview with mr watching called surface and the russian media where one of the things that he's talking about is apparently his motivation. yes. the minister is the. existing. one mr raj in

cover is referring to the documentary film he's talking about the curse film which brought up the russian doping scandal and he was one of the main contributors to it but it looks like from what he said that there are always folks that are ready to offer plenty of cash for what the doctor says or what he allegedly has how this affects his motivation you can decide for yourself but let's move on and listen to another bit of that interview sushil going. east. you know. there is. actually no. school. so once

again in a nutshell grigori watching just refer to his all lab as one of the two almighty board it is allegedly capable of cheating both ways to clear the russian team of positive doping tests or to destroy the russian sport and entirely for a few years so you might as well bear all that in mind when you listen to the international olympic committee delivering its verdict on wednesday evening when you hear words like credible witness trusted evidence the international olympic committee stands by all that evidence but remember that mr raja said it out loud that he received a whole lot of money for that evidence well we have asked. to comment on his claims made in the video but he hasn't responded to say whether it was authentic we'll be following the meeting in los on right through today on our correspondent

on the i.o.c. headquarters will be keep me posted all not final decision for the russian athletes . us republicans code hole the f.b.i. department of justice in contempt of congress both agencies have been given ultimatums to provide key details from two investigations into u.s. russia relations collusion in other words hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server while the secretary of state the deadline which was until the end of monday has now passed and it would seem the intelligence community hasi complied with the demands are to talks through it. house intelligence committee has made clear that it wants answers we've heard from devon noone is the chair of the house intelligence committee saying that if the department of justice and the f.b.i. did not come forward and provide the information that they are requesting they could be facing charges of contempt and taken to court now i'm at this point the

intel committee the house intelligence committee wants information about what happened regarding the firing of an f.b.i. agent peter struck who is investigating donald trump there are rumors that he was fired because he had a clear bias against the president and was supporting hillary clinton now they've given december fourth monday as the deadline for when they are demanding that the f.b.i. comply and provide this information we have heard devon newness the chair of the house intelligence committee describing frustration with the department of justice and the f.b.i. saying they're stonewalling and holding back the investigation not providing the information that is needed by hiding from congress i'm from the american people documented political bias by a good investigator for both the russian collusion probe. investigation the f.b.i. and the do you engage in a willful attempt to thwart constitutional oversight responsibility now donald

trump is spoken up on twitter he's spoken out against the f.b.i. said that their behavior is disgraceful that the reputation of the federal bureau of investigation is in tatters he's definitely spoken up in quite critical of the f.b.i. now at this point the f.b.i. has not provided the information requested by the congressional committee so we're waiting to see will they be taken to court will they be hit with a contempt charges as was threatened. well the agencies did a lot for two witnesses to be interviewed on the clinton e-mail on alleged russian meddling cases book as foreign policy attorney jennifer britton explains much more than that is needed if course it's not enough because you're talking about this this dusty a this person peter struck has actually he was caught having multiple phone conversations with a mistress of his who was also a lie and so there are multiple not only ethical violations but legal violations here which probably cross the desk and paths of many people not only within the

department of justice but within the f.b.i. having two people here is certainly not enough they have to furnish more people on this all in all in these facts and they're going to continue to do that you know back after nine eleven we had this wall of separation between the intelligence community and the department of justice and congress and so by by withholding this information by withholding what it is that congress wants to see they want to see how many people that are politically biased against president and pro in favor of hillary clinton have taken part in some of these quote special investigation or independent counsels and if the intelligence community refuses to hand over this information i mean it's going to show that this wall is still remains between the congress who is the voice of the people of the united states and between the intelligence community and the department of justice. a media watchdog in the u.k. is going to help you decide what's worth believing we've got more that talk to this .

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back with our t. international britain's independent press watchdog plans to stump twenty five hundred of the country's newspapers and websites with its own special seal of approval it would be to show that it deems the publications repeatable they are not producing fake or misleading news but i strongly believe that i.p.s. so membership helps our publishers distinguish themselves from the unregulated thereby demonstrating that they choose to hold themselves accountable to higher standards. well some of the publications that it is planning to give its stamp of approval to have pretty dubious reporting records the daily mail for instance back in twenty sixteen had to publish

a retraction after releasing an article suggesting donald trump's wife was working for an escort agency and the sun newspaper has also had to admit to publishing factually in october its articles in the past one story it run which drew controversy clean but one in five british muslims sympathise with islamic state that was fun to be false by regulators stating the article was significantly misleading political activist george barda sees these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. it's very much up for grabs in so many ways what what is the truth these days now what i would say from my point of view is that there is still a role for you know media organizations that have some kind of framework around them some kind of. behind them that can do it to proper investigations and you know reveal important things daily telegraph for instance which is signed up to this

self-regulation body is responsible in my opinion for enormous amounts of fake news over the last few years and about climate change and many other things that are huge important issues with this ridiculous situation where. newspapers like the sun the daily mail etc that many of us in the progressive side of spent decades critiquing and essentially trying to expose the manipulations of holding themselves up with this nice new kind of brand about press freedom and responsibility as the truth it seems. a church group in the us city of detroit have accused the democratic party of double standards especially when it comes to race the outrage was triggered by allegations of sexual misconduct against the house of representatives longest serving member. i felt i. was. the protesters are demanding due process in the case of democrat john conyers

who denies the accusations put forward by his former aides in washington and that there have been calls for the veteran congressman to resign but some believe that's just down to his age and ethnicity. but we got to tell you it is democrat republican black white or you don't need everybody should be treated with the same system by the same even by the same measure but they're saying this is america and it's time that america realize that we must treat people equally not. do you believe in profit that he is entitled to that. you know why didn't you speak. in time to do. something and i do believe. some democrats have been accused of turning a blind eye over similar allegations against another party member senator al franken especially as he already admitted to one case of assault while mr conyers who is

known as late eighty's is being viewed as someone ready to step down in any way he became prominent in u.s. politics back when lyndon b. johnson was president in the one nine hundred sixty s. i don't think that you can equate senator franken with with roy moore that it's two different things but and also his accusers have to accept an apology i pray for congressman conyers and his family and wish them well how ever congressman conyers should resign the media commentator john griffin says the u.s. public is more concerned about serious crime not allegations against politicians political reality is becoming a lot like reality television to be quite honest so much focus has been paid to scandals cause it's so easy to distract people from what matters with accusations in many cases baseless and unproven this is really pandering to the lowest common denominator we're talking about issues that clearly don't matter to the people that

actually are pushing them like let's let's look at the people who are pushing the sexual harassment controversy with roy moore these are folks that can be heard on any other day defending actual rape actual pedophiles ok so when we look at that then we really have we really can have a clear understanding that this is not really about that it's about the policies that these individuals want to prevent from becoming law let's talk about those policies let's talk about our policy disagreements and let's stop throwing mud because it's really a waste of the people's time. remember always more updates on our twitter page updates literally there are by the minute no join you again in iran how often or as time with more of the day's news stories.

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americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. they call me a useful idiot i mean you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on this too since most doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the right i should be sent to the town because i want to try to break me on the wheel but out

with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out in good company i'm in good company you're going to be you want to do this because we're free thinkers. i. this is broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm bored children filling in and i'm going to need coming out as the digital world continues to evolve the amount of money going into this start up space is staggering in the united states alone more than one point two trillion was raised by initial coin operations will go to hong kong to talk i suppose and how this new

and evolving world can add here to best practices that will make digital business is more efficient and secure for average investors in the u.s. senate passed their version of tax reform in the early hours saturday to william or something like that and can their accommodation be made between the house of representatives bill which was passed a couple weeks ago in the senate bill will ask two experts but first bianca's stories topping today's business is quite unusual at. first sixty nine billion dollars c.v.s. has bought in one of the biggest transactions of the year and it's the first time a drugstore chain has bought a health insurer and comes at a time of uncertainty for the health care industry as tax reform makes its way through capitol hill in a press release c.v.s. said its purchase helps fill unmet needs in the current health care system c.e.o. larry larry merlo added this combination brings together the expertise of two great companies to remake the consumer healthcare experience with the analytics of

atlanta and c.v.s. health and human touch we will create a health care platform built around individuals and the c.e.o. mark hurd illini echoed the same sentiment saying that the deal will dramatically further empower consumers but not too long ago the u.s. government sued to block a major telecom merger which means this deal could test the trump administration when it comes to antitrust policy. and venezuela has caught the crypto bug in a live broadcast venezuelan president nicolas maduro said that this well is announcing the creation of its own crypto currency it will be called the petro will allow us to innovate towards new forms of international finance for the economic and social development of the country and are added we are facing a financial war against the country which we have denounced and the opposition has denied there are business people who are unaffected by donald trump's blockade with this we will join the twenty first century the petrol the peg to the country's reserves of oil and gas as well as gold and was created specifically to counter

sanctions from the u.s. according to reuters the boulevard dropped fifty seven percent of its value in the past four weeks alone and even though venezuela boasts the largest reserve of crude oil in the world falling oil prices hit the economy hard over the past three years however the crypto markets have been doing famously famously well over the past couple weeks with bitcoin trading over eleven thousand dollars. if you don't states passed their version of tax reform in the early hours of saturday and the u.s. house of representatives passed their version a couple weeks ago well a conference committee be able to work out the differences and will it be done before the end of the year as christmas present here to discuss that more conservative commentator steve malzberg in the deputy director of public citizens congress watch.