oh. the former yemeni president is killed by rebel fighters close to the capital son fighting in the country intensifies the united nations is now calling on all sides to hostilities. also ahead on the program the d.j. for team russia the international olympic committee prepares to give its verdict on whether the country can compete of the twenty eighteen winter games but moscow questions the doping of the political nature of the doping investigation. 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 to. details of key investigation.

live from moscow every hour of the day this is our two international my names you know neal in yemen the country's former probably escalated in and surrounding governorates or it purportedly shows the former president's body until recently. been finding alongside the rebels public break from the shia opposition fighters and that was seen as a bit trusts his view on the felt. the decision to turn back to the domination of saudi arabia has a good many yemenis to pressure the. to the killing. thousands of civilians and also it's a devastating impact. of the. such the surge and betty. saudi arabia to open

a new chapter with. such. yemenis. ali abdullah saleh led yemen from nineteen ninety until twenty twelve and was the country's first president that was after playing a key role in the merger between saif yemen and north pm and he was our state from power during the bring our pricing since twenty twelve yemen has been riven by civil war an intervention by saudi led coalition has triggered a major humanitarian crisis well riyadh and its allies have stepped up strikes in recent days the u.n. fears for the lives of civilians its aides are trapped in the city where one hundred twenty five people have been killed since friday alone it also says it cannot confirm the safety of its own staff and sana right now political analyst martin a sharpie told us he believes the situation in yemen may no worsen further. 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 was a drastic failure 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 there was a statement by the saudis actually where they threatened to bomb the night or there's going to be more blood this failure in this conspiracy perhaps will push the saudis for more aggression more destruction and that's very unfortunate for the yemeni people. moving on the fate of the upcoming winter olympics in south korea is to be decided later today tuesday the international olympic committee is due to meet in switzerland to assess the findings of two commissions into alleged state sponsored doping in russia and the i.o.c.

is considering a number of options for russia's athletes the most severe would be a blanket ban on the entire team another possibility would be for the committee to pass responsibility onto the relevant sporting federations it could also a lot of russian athletes to compete but as neutrals that would mean russia's flag and its national anthem will be missing from the competition. well a month before tuesday's i.o.c. meeting there were growing calls for a total ban on team russian officials and even athletes from other countries requested a full suspension of the country all allegations are based on the so called mcclaren report published by a canadian lawyer accusing russia of creating a state sponsored doping system however this main report which is meant to prove athletes' guilt sparked a number of questions. 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. in a letter to richard mclaren the i.o.c. ostrom more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate that 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 of 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 riposte 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 schools officials deny the allegations but did richard mclaren consider to get their side of the story i'd made a decision that with 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 reports issued in july twenty sixth. the second came six months later so the investigative team did eventually meet with some russian officials but not by. 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 was systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how salts and next cafe granular. well added to clean samples to make the match dirty worms and

tricks attached to. that information came courtesy of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security posture which is swiss manufacturer 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 have seen it i've seen it done and i've been inspected and it can be done and 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 you know the we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and that is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples. of some figures so far twenty five russian athletes have been from participating in i.o.c. events after the commission examining their cases presenting its findings and just

twenty four hours before the fate of the rest of the team will be decided an interview with a key figure in the doping scandal while the released at this stage we have been unable to independently verify the video it must be said and we betray clasping looking into the story for us. as the investigation continues the man who was behind all the anti 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 going to seeing this. in the position. where mr rajan 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. well you can these effects you need. if you actually need. school. so once again in a nutshell grigori watching just refer to his all lab as one of the two almighty laborde theories 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 rotting cough said it out loud that he received a whole lot of money for that evidence we've asked grigori broad chain koff to comment on his claims made in the video but he hasn't responded to say whether it was authentic we also spoke to the president of the european a limpid committees he say's a blanket ban would be the wrong move. the for the c. of international olympic committee and to the international olympic committee is zero tolerance to doping but on the other side the basic orientation is protection of clean sport sport just so little my point of view of you should punish old those

who made those people says this and you should allow that but dissipations of all the clean sport distant law expect the executive committee of the international community believes the deal of is the problem and just is the violence the protruded but are they. report was a report. in the certain stage but set. one thing legations and the other seems proves the gulf as a skiff to be put over. to basic produce the purpose of olympic movement out of one universality the additive on the best quality in the world and con see a possibility that big games would be uni was the top level of the quality

result the biggest country in the world. due to my knowledge due to a lot to be helpful to put dissipate and i would appreciate it i think that the doping of this is in any county including you can do without the collaboration of the county itself and i think that that ass and really be community international authorities did a lot to conduct or nest and just investigation. the basic principle producible of autonomy of sport of course politics. of social life and to relieve circumstances we have to take in the guard to leave us but i think that it is a very bad you for you to exclude build this war. i do not think that

we need to do sports or any of that as. the atmosphere of called water. but we will be following the meeting in liaison right through right today on our correspondent the i.o.c. headquarters will be keeping us posted on that final decision from russia's winter olympians. us republicans could hold the f.b.i. and department of justice in contempt of congress both agencies have been given ultimatums to provide key details from two investigations into u.s. russia collusion and hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state the deadline which was until the end of monday has now passed and it would seem the intelligence community has been compiled with the details of the demands artie's killam open though he's got some of those details let's listen in. 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 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 was 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. investigates 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 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 now the agency's did a life or two witnesses to be interviewed on the clinton e-mail alleged russian meddling cases the foreign policy attorney jennifer braden if you will sufficient.

if course it's not enough because you're talking about this this does 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 island 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 and media watchdog in britain is going to help you decide what's worth believing more in about like a second. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night is it actually just pull on ourselves the only show i go out of my way to do you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is going to say we are apparently better than nothing. as a people you never heard of love or death for the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. like too many clubs over the years so i know the guy even so i got. the ball isn't

. me about what happens on the beach with a funnel school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the superman to kill you know spending to twenty million like. it's an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful guy greek so well will transfer. the case it's going to. twenty minutes into the program welcome back russia's ministry of justice has announced it is designating radio free europe voice of america as foreign agents the move comes in response to r.t. america being forced to register as just not a foreign agent in the u.s. the measure will mean they too are clips on their subsidiaries will not need to

mark their content being produced on behalf of washington on monday russian lawmakers also voted to prevent foreign journalists from being granted access to the national parliament after r.t. america's accreditation on capitol hill the senate was revoked last week. britain's independent press watchdog plans to stump some twenty five hundred of the country's newspapers and website with its own special seal of approval it would be to show that it deems the publications repeatable and that they're not producing fake or misleading news. 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 but some of the publications that the heart if so is planning to give its

stamp of approval to pretty dubious reporting records the daily mail for instance back in twenty sixteen how to publish a retraction after releasing an article suggesting that donald trump's wife was working for an escort agency and the sun newspaper has also had to admit to publishing factually inaccurate articles in the one story at run which through controversy claimed that one in five british muslims sympathise with islamic state that was found to be false by regulators stating the article was significantly misleading political activist george barr to say yes these types of examples are really 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. media organizations that have some kind of framework around them some kind of. news 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 hugely important issues we end up with this ridiculous situation where. newspapers like the sun the daily mail etc that many of us on the progressive side of spent decades critiquing and essentially trying to expose the the manipulations of now holding themselves up with this nice new kind of brand about press freedom and responsibility as the truth it seems. heading stateside where the us democratic party is under fire in the city of detroit where some locals are accusing the party of double standards especially when it comes to race was triggered by allegations of sexual misconduct against the highest of representatives longest serving member protesters there are demanding due process

in the case of democrat john conyers saying he is being treated unfairly conyers has denied the allegations put forward by his former aides he's being accused of five cases of sexual misconduct in his late eighty's it's believed some politicians are using this against conyers to force his resignation meanwhile the democratic party has apparently turned a blind eye to similar allegations against another party member whose career is just on the rise senator al franken he's already admitted to one case of assault but isn't facing calls for him to step down. 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 media commentator john griffin though say as 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 when 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 us and 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. ok well that is all the news for this or all be run thirty five minutes more for a busy news hour do join me then but in the meantime more arty programs right ahead . ah. ah. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. it's a going to be for us it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the wives in. this city. the wealth concentration the bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality from this entrepreneurial nation called america and the machinations and the costs associated their way of keeping the prison population in place are draining money away from all aspects of society and you've got the problems that you would normally associate with the ghetto like people nodding out in the middle of the day in the middle of the street. here's what people have

been saying about rejected in the us is it just. the only show i go out of my way to see what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of party americans do the same we are apparently better than nothing. and see people you never heard of redacted the night president of the world bank. seriously send us an e-mail. greetings and salutation. so today show host matt lauer and mr prairie home companion himself garrison keillor are now the next two major media figures to fall in the vitally needed law overdue purging of major us institutions at the hands of the me too movement but while the corporate news media reacts and dissects and

holds back tears of shock over the latest to dragon slaying of the sexual harassment alter of justice there is another group of victims that have been conspicuously absent from all the television news coverage since bravely coming forward and telling their stories of harassment and assault they are the over two hundred women who work under the very large umbrella of national. curity here in the united states who jointly signed and published a letter on november twenty eighth declaring that they too have been victims to various forms of sexual harassment assault and abuse well on the job working to protect the united states of america in their letter to their letter entitled me to nat sec the women state that quote this is not just a problem in hollywood silicon valley newsrooms or congress it is everywhere these abuses are born of imbalances of power in environments the permit such practices while silencing and shaming their survivors one of the co-authors of the letter

retired ambassador nina hachigian stated assault and harassment are just as much as a problem for women working the night shift cleaning offices as it is for diplomats . you know from the navy's tailhook scandal in one nine hundred ninety one to the marines united social media scandal last spring i think it's about time the national security state and the military industrial complex that feeds it finally be forced to answer for it sexually abusive past and present so that we can better protect the future of women in service of our country now let's start watching the hawks. that got.