headlining this hour supporters free the former president of georgia from a police car shortly after he threatens to jump off a roof in the ukrainian capital. russia is the international olympic committee prepares to give its verdict the country can compete at the twenty eight hundred winter games as moscow questions the political nature of the investigation into doping offenses. killed by rebel fighters close to the capital as fighting in the country intensifies calling on all sides to end hostilities.

worldwide from the studios of r.t. in moscow four pm on tuesday here in the russian capital his your news this hour supporters of the former president of georgia mikheil saakashvili have freedom from police custody in the ukrainian capital kiev. threaten to throw himself off the roof of a residential building where he lives after police arrived to search his apartment but his supporters managed to release him from a security protest against his arrest. well here's the moment good strikers but he was removed from the roof by security service offices few days ago his political movement held a major rally in kiev demanding the impeachment of ukraine's president poroshenko

altie correspondent but in a culture of its being following event. the georgian politician made quite a scene this tuesday morning in the center of the ukrainian capital now mikhail saakashvili a was arrested over charges assisting criminals and concealing their criminal activities before that happened the politician confined himself to the roof of the building reported these threats ning to jump off a roof in protest low in force mint officials broke the door of his apartment and searched the flat for avid of course such a move attracted hundreds of his soup orders that gathered outside the building and calls out this really was seen shouting to the crowds while emergency services were arriving to the scene carrying a ladder and all that was even transmitted to life on ukrainian t.v. now police used tear gas against the protesters really interesting facts are taking

place in ukraine these days when former friend of the current president as radium broiled in the country's politics because our custody is known for his quite a turbulent political career he was a georgian president for nine years till two thousand and thirteen back in two thousand and eight he was practically on the verge of a nervous breakdown when he was filmed for the b.b.c. news. poured chewing his own timeline he left his native country of georgia he was charged with corruption and abuse of power as well as other multiple criminal charges in two thousand and fifteen saakashvili gave up his georgian citizenship as he accepted and all for to become the governor of the i desk region well that didn't last for a long and he resigned back in november twenty sixth scene and the following year the president of ukraine petro poroshenko personally removed his citizenship well

that happened when he was not in ukraine so he tried to get back to the country and he tried to cross the border of this and his supporters practically carried him across the police line at the polish border so while he is appealing this decision in court right now he remains to be a politician with no valid citizenship while talk about all this last hour with multiple coley he's a russia list and historian and he believes that it's difficult to take saakashvili seriously given the political legacy. it's really really it's like a community changes every day he changes opinions and so on and his political career has been up your status is because of the communists in georgia he came to the top as a democrat some of the opposing problems of the corruption and so on he then became

president and he was a darling of the west. thought he was a great guy georgia they were talking about georgia becoming a member of nato and so on and then came his very foolish attack in two thousand and eight the war with russia which was really his nemesis. the americans want him not to do it but he was behaved very headstrong and he takes the field a trillion you take his own conscience on and then he played his cards bad and he was forced to leave georgia and sectors as president moved into ukraine. the fate of team russia the upcoming winter olympics in south korea will be decided later on to say the international olympic committee is meeting right now in switzerland sports officials there are assessing the findings of two commissions investigating alleged state sponsored doping in russia the i.o.c.

is considering a number of punitive measures against russian athletes the most severe would be a blanket ban on team russia another possibility would be for the committee to pass responsibility on to the relevant sporting federations the third option is to allow the athletes to compete but as neutrals meaning russia's flag and national anthem will be absent from the games. even months before the decision been intense pressure for a total ban on team russia officials and even athletes from other nations are demanding a full suspension of the country however russia denies any systematic nature to the doping violations calling the unprecedented actions already taken by the i.o.c. to be politically motivated the doping scandal was triggered back in two thousand and fifteen by the mclaren report published by a canadian lawyer however the document that was meant to prove widespread and stayed back there when violations is still being questioned over its supporting evidence the damning mclaren reports on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their medals 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. asked for 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 pads they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let's meet the report's 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 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 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 batali. the sports minister at the time of the alleged undercover doping scheme. the central allegation of mclaren's report is that positive urine 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 that. that information came courtesy of or

a chunk of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security part to 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 have seen it i've seen it done and i'll be inspected if 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 hope 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. of russia acted swiftly with a number of strong measures after the world anti-doping agency laid out a road map it reform the structure of its own drugs agency and allowed international experts to take control of its tests it also made doping

a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence a law only currently imposed by handful of european countries despite that last month water still found the russian agency to be non-compliant restart a med eighteen out of twenty criteria saying that it couldn't meet the final two because it denies any government run doping program ever existed we spoke to the president of the european a limpid committees who says a blanket ban would be the wrong move. i think that it is very bad. and i do not think that we need to use sports or any of that as. the atmosphere of called the water to my knowledge due to a lot to be helpful to participate and i would appreciate it. see a possibility the big games would be. the top level of the quality result the biggest country in the world my point of view should punish old those who may

go play golf as is but not. proven dog because this is and you should allow the participation of all the players. so far twenty five athletes have been banned from participating in i.o.c. events after the commission examining their cases presented its findings many of them have been stripped of their medals toppling russia from the top of the salty twenty fourteen medals table trying to travel to the host country the next winter olympics to find out how locals feel about russia potentially missing the games. south korea first bid to become the home of winter olympics almost sixteen years ago in two thousand and eight young chang lost to russia's saw cheap but south koreans hung in there and eventually did manage to make their dream come true. but at the had over ceremony and saw it she who would have thought that russia a winter sports powerhouse could end up missing out on the games in four years no

washing flags in korea in two months what the locals missed them. having heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i've never heard this on the lack of anything but i. heard to use some medicine. and her face i don't know the history of each kind of you see. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit for us as the strongest country. but i. feel people have just like to. leave the national soccer game

space in the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and you don't come to the right and. i think it's unfair on the if you haven't checked as well based on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's your political stuff a million trying to go and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia. well that's being decided right now in switzerland where across what's happening there our correspondent at the i.o.c. headquarters will keep us posted on that final decision in a few hours from now on russia's winter olympians. yemen's capital came under intensive asteroid's overnight according to the red cross on monday the country's former president ali abdullah saleh was killed close to the city since then there's been an uptick in violence and the u.n. is calling for a humanitarian polls 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 are receiving desperate calls for help by truck families but are unable to reach those who have been injured we renew our call on all warring parties for an immediate cessation of hostilities in sana. the former president saleh was killed by who three rebels as he tried to flee so now please be aware that the video we're about to show you is extremely graphic it's said to show. until recently his militias had been fighting alongside the hooty rebels against the incumbent saudi backed president hadi however on saturday he made a public break from the shia opposition fighters and was open to talks with the saudis that was seen as a patrolled by the who things next a journalist in sanaa describes the deep divide in yemen society overselling dealings with the saudis. this latest decision to turn back to the domination of saudi arabia has angered many yemenis specially the saudi has led to

the killing of. thousands of civilians and also it's a devastating impact over its blockade of the poorest of the country. such a decision that the. saudi arabia to operate in you would work with the. yemenis. ali abdullah saleh was at the helm of yemen from the one nine hundred ninety until twenty twelve was the country's first president that was after he played a key role in the merger between south yemen and north yemen he was ousted from power during the arab spring uprising since twenty twelve yemen's been torn apart by civil war and intervention by a saudi led coalition that's triggered a major humanitarian crisis political analyst i'm on a shabby believes the situation in yemen may now even get worse. 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 sit and talk with the saudis as if nothing happened there was a statement by the saudis actually where they threatened to bomb son are tonight there's going to be more bloodshed this failure in this conspiracy perhaps will push the saudis for more aggression more destruction and that's very unfortunate for the yemeni people. in other developments who the rebels have also reportedly taken dozens of journalists hostage at a t.v. station in sanaa among them is a freelance correspondent who was working for russia's sputnik news agency at this stage his fate is on the. this is coming up concerns in german intelligence that the returning wives and children from islamic state members are just as dangerous as the jadis themselves reaction to that among all stories after the break.

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to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game a great chance for. peace. welcome back now what do you think your car tells people about your personality researchers in the united states say they can determine almost everything about you even your political allegiances and all that using just google maps which explains . scientists have been poring over google street view images eager to know what cars are and what neighborhoods why because apparently that's how you can reveal troves of demographic information about the area including race income and most importantly political persuasion sounds like blatant generalizing based on stereotypes but it turns out it's actually backed by statistics stanford

researchers took over fifty million images in two hundred cities from google street view and compare the results of the presidential voting data it appears that if a street has a greater concentration of pickup trucks people there are more likely to swing to the republican party whereas those streets filled with trusty sedans are probably casting ballots for the democrats using easily obtainable visual data we can learn so much about our communities on par with some information that takes billions of dollars to obtain via census surveys by you know what your car is saying about you behind your back but it doesn't stop there apparently certain food choices also give away your political leanings one study concluded that hamburgers and mozzarella sticks appeal to republican taste buds while veggie burgers burritos and avocado salad are democratic foods and heaven forbid we leave out man's best friend apparently poodles in yorkshire terriers are the perfect companions for the democrats leaving boxers and border collies for the republicans that's also not a joke but an actual study well there are usually grains of truth in stereotypes

this may just be pushing the limit how much science is there in political science or even economics it's not really hard science so yeah this study is getting a lot of attention it shouldn't be you really don't need to do this type of study to conclude that there's a high likelihood somebody who owns a prius my be a democrat or somebody who owns a pickup truck might be a republican it's really i think give them an over kill it seems to be to be really an embarrassing piece of in quotes scholarship or fake scholarship. with islamic state being eliminated as a military power in syria decreasing numbers of fighters wives and children are returning to europe to germany's domestic intelligence chief believes they pose as much a threat as the militants themselves. there are children who have been brainwashed in highly radicalized schools and i still held areas it's a problem for us because many of these kids and teenagers can sometimes be

dangerous women returning to germany from islamic state have become so radicalized and identify so deeply with isel ideology that by all accounts they must also be identified as jihadists we have to keep them in our sights last hour i was joined by a couple of guests to ask how they thought the returning should be handled. i wouldn't say that necessarily people have been brainwashed some of the the wives of isis fighters probably have been more ideologically committed to the caliphate than even some of the men there are certainly those who have been duped or who are simply following husbands or lovers who may not be very much committed and kind of were foolish enough the isis. terrorists who have declared war on us and i submit to absolute clear they are planting sleepers around the whole of europe who will be called upon to rise up and blow up innocent citizens we need to take this seriously

but quite strong reports coming out of isis that they've been training child soldiers children look can come back alone without their parents of their parents are culpable enough to fly without with isis then come back up to the age of say sixteen something like that if that's it seems in the best interest of the child but the parents who have chosen to go and join our enemy who is trying to destroy all civilization should not be allowed back into this country should put be put on a no fly list i'm not allowed back in what i would like to see is criminal justice rendered fairly and according to the proper standards we've seen that there are a lot of examples of people who are not very committed they've gone there for a variety of reasons and they're quite. disengaged in this in the dissolution that internet models they've taken an adult choice if they're over eighteen whatever their motivations all with is ideological or whatever they've chosen that decision in full knowledge of the facts of the information they've taken the choice they've

been into the need to live with the consequences that does directly play very much into the hands of the whole salafi jihadists ideology and it's a very racist and sexist one it's a very aggressive type of ideology that has to be condemned wouldn't it be better and this is what was done after the second world war was to say listen we have to didn't deal with these. he. says i'm not just base continuing the war for every you know draconian approaches if you resort to that kind of thing you have basically legitimised the same thing from from isis all through the war of course it becomes more complicated and so on but we are in a nine hundred forty three forty four situation that once we have defeated the isis ideology then of course we can look at the issues we can look at individuals and so on but at the moment we are at war. u.k. and the e.u. have failed to reach a long awaited agreement on breaks it they suddenly replaced a planned news conference where they were supposed to announce

a deal with short messages saying it's tough to negotiate it's understood it happened after a democratic unionist party which was a political party in northern ireland voiced its strong objections to the deal it said it would not accept the terms concerning the irish border issue. we have been very clear northern ireland must leave the european union on the same terry as the rest of the united kingdom and we will not accept any form of regulating a very tense which separates northern ireland economically or politically from the rest of. the democratic unionist party made an agreement of confidence and support with major conservative party in the summer it agreed to support the prime minister's party in key vote member of the house of lords and former m.e.p. lord coe clune thinks the problems with the irish border could lead to another general election. there cannot be any border within the united kingdom.

any suggestion offered would mean that the unionists and all of the especially the g.o.p. which is the largest party and all that would withdraw support from the government and we'd have a general election for every in the united kingdom i don't belong to any party who put a livable border over unionist and i do not want to be treated differently in farm affairs from the rest you know to keep this is a farm a first matter not a devolved matter and all foreign affairs applying to united kingdom equally to all parts united kingdom and if the tories in any way are trying to weaken position within the united kingdom and they've done that before don't always trust the tories i would say absolutely and and as a unionist i would say go for an election. 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 the outrage was triggered by allegations of sexual misconduct against the house of representatives longest serving member.

i. i. dozens of people gathered at a rally demanding due process as you heard there in the case of democrats john conyers saying that the rule of law to be the same for everyone just as claim that congress is being treated unfairly in comparison with similar allegations against another party member john conyers is accused of five cases of sexual misconduct and denies all of them it's believe that some politicians are using his age and race to force his resignation meanwhile the democrats have apparently turned a blind eye to allegations against a senator al franken whose career is well supported by the party he's already admitted to one case of assault and has been accused of five more but isn't facing calls to step down. i don't think that you can equate senator franken with with roy moore there is two different things planted 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 says the american people are more concerned about serious crime rather than claims 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 us in 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

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