top stories the former president of georgia of course is chaos in the ukrainian capital after he threatens to jump off a roof gets arrested and then freed from a police car by his supporters. it's a team russia is the international olympic committee prepares to give its verdict on whether the country can compete. as questions the political nature of the investigation into. germany's foreign minister sanctions on russia. with washington's been stretched to the limit.

in the afternoon here in moscow thank you for choosing us update this hour first for you support the president of georgia mikheil saakashvili of freedom from police custody in the ukrainian capital kiev. threaten to throw himself off the roof of a residential building in which he lives after police arrived to search his apartment but his supporters managed to release him from a security big protest against his arrest. here's the moment he was removed from the roof by security service offices a few days ago his political movement how the major rally in kiev demanding the impeachment of ukraine's president. but in

a culture that has been following event the georgian politician made quite a scene this tuesday morning in the center of the ukrainian capital. was. 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 forstmann to officials who broke the door of his apartment and thirst the flag for avid ends of course such a move attracted hundreds of his soup orders that gathered outside the building and was seen shouting through 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 pretty interesting facts are taking

place in ukraine these days when former best friend of the current president is really embroiled 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 report chewing his own top i 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 it all for to become the governor of the i desk region well that didn't last for 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 tells saakashvili it was not in ukraine so he tried to get back to the country and he tried to cross the border or 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 was no valid citizenship although about a month ago before surlier of malta mccauley he's a russia analyst and historian and he believes it's difficult to take saakashvili seriously given his political legacy. because really it really is like a comedian it changes every day he changes opinions and so on and his political career has been absolutely astonishing. because of the communists in georgia he came to the top as a democrat some of the opposing problems of corruption and so on he then became

president. and he was a darling of the west. thought that 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 the war with russia which was really his is. the americans want him not to do it but he was behaving very headstrong inclusions he takes the. heat exhaustion congress moves on. he played his cards badly and he was forced to leave georgia sectors as president moved into ukraine. the fate of team russia the upcoming winter olympics in south korea will be decided in a matter of hours the international olympic committee is meeting right now in switzerland sports officials there are setting the findings of two commissions with one of them 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 onto the relevant sporting federations the third option is to allow the athletes to compete but as neutrals meaning russians flag and national anthem would be absent from the games even months before the decision there's been intense pressure for a total ban on team russia antidoping officials and even athletes from other nations are demanding a full suspension of the country however russia denies any systematic nature of doping violations calling the unprecedented actions already taken by the i.o.c. 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 meant to prove widespread and state backed doping 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 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 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 dr richard mclaren's findings were issued into pogs they claim that over one 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 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 but. 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. unless cafe granules were added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick the trash. that information came courtesy of or

a chunk of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security part two 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 instructed if it can be done in 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 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. russia reacted swiftly with a number of strong measures after the world anti-doping agency laid out a road map to reform the structure of russia's own anti drugs agency and allowed international experts to take control of its test and also made doping

a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence a lower only currently imposed by a handful of european countries just by this last month water still found the russian agency to be non-compliant eighteen out of twenty criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two words it denies any government run doping program ever existed of sports lawyer lucy envelope he thinks russia's doping scandal is highly politicized. i. trust in the way i will see dealing with these issues and i sink they will. make if fair decision that means no call active sanctions against the russian at blitz i think there is a political fight against russia going on board not only in board but in all areas and we only can hope that io c. does not fall into this trap of waldo by alleging new evidences weeds

out showing them to the world and i seeing all these made clear that it is a political attempt ovando and that is the bad thing because wada is an institution that should protect clean athletes and what they are trying to do is instead the opposite. so far twenty five russian athletes have been banned from participating in i.o.c. events after the commission examining that cases presented its findings many of them have been stripped of their medals toppling russia from the top of the sort of twenty fourteen medal table here for trying to travel to the host country of the next winter olympics to find out how locals that 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 cheat 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. have you 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 on the lack of any stripe but i. i heard to use some medicine yeah her face i don't know that it's from each kind of you just. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. is there a bit boring a little bit boring i was just the strongest country. but i. feel

people everybody is like. the international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and you don't get into the right. i think it's unfair on the f.e.c. you haven't they just well they should on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few 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. and we'll know in the next few hours whether that's going to be the case that meeting happening like i said right now in switzerland we're going to follow it through the next few hours and our correspondent at the i.o.c. headquarters will keep us posted on that final decision for russia's winter olympians. germany's foreign minister signal gabriel has slammed u.s.

sanctions on russia saying berlin solidarity with washington has been stretched to the limit adding that must make its own decisions independent of america's will and i don't feel. in all cases germany cannot afford to wait for a decision from washington act on them we must define our position ourselves and if necessary make it clear to our allies where the borders of our solidarity are stretched to the limit. of the lowdown on this now live to berlin our europe correspondent peter all of us there peter german in america alone long close friends for years and years and years why this sort of talk now. well the very short and simple answer to that is donald trump relations have changed as well and what we're hearing from the german foreign minister signifies that mr gabriele was speaking at a forum about the the future of german foreign policy and where we saw german germany's role going forward in the world he was speaking just before what we used

heard him talking there he was talking about u.s. imposed sanctions on russia and in particular he brought up red lines regarding the energy russia's energy sector and that energy of course that gets provided here to germany i can tell you from a domestic point of view in a saudi who pays german energy bills they are rocketing up at the moment cross the country so a particularly big issue here for germany he said that. claims of by washington wanting to perhaps cut off russian gas to german markets was one of these red lines he wouldn't accept that at all especially when it did seem that the u.s. were also trying to put forward their own alternatives to taking russian gas it turns as that cold and increased price but when you look at the language used by that my gabrielle talked about the relationship between the u.s. and the other side of the atlantic being weakened that it was beginning to crumble these type of words would have been unthinkable pre trump when they were talking

about that transatlantic relationship but it does seem that the words coming from the foreign minister reflect well the public view here in germany of a new poll it's being put out suggests that donald trump is the biggest foreign policy problem that germans perceive in the world the only thing that was was more pressing for germans was the refugee crisis but around twenty percent of them said that donald trump was their biggest fear that's much higher the north korea all russia so or sobering words from the german foreign minister talking about the relations. ship between his country and the united states and the deterioration in that relationship that he sees. i do have another might even have a government to try and solve some of those things out in a few weeks stranger things have happened. thanks very much for that more from germany to come in fact there are concerns from the domestic intelligence chief that returning wives and children from islamic state members are just as dangerous

as the jihadists themselves we'll have reaction to that among all stories after the break. the local blogs dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. for new socks for the tell you that the gossip the tabloids are. telling you. like. all the hawks that we all. want. concentration of 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. how do you think your car tells people about your personality researchers in the united states say they could determine almost everything about you even your political allegiances and all about using just google maps is jacqueline who grew explained. 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 sense of surveys 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 salads are democratic foods and heaven forbid we leave out man's best friend apparently poodles and 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 by the 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 in a paris in piece of in quotes scholarship or fake scholarship. with islamic state being eliminated as a military power in syria increasing numbers of ice or fighters wives and children are returning to europe and germany is domestic intelligence chief believes they pose as much of a threat as the militants themselves there are children who have been brainwashed in highly radicalized schools in ice or 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 i was joined by two guests earlier to ask how they thought the return easy 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 to isis and diverse all a terrorist group 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 and of by without with isis then come back up 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 at their over a team whatever their motivations all of this ideological what about they've chosen that decision in full knowledge of the facts of the information they've taken their

choice they've been into that 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 is 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 the individuals and so on but at the moment we are at war. russia's justice minister has announced that it's placing us media outlets radio free europe and voice of america on

foreign agents list american as the details. well the russian justice ministry has registered two media outlets and seven of its smaller subsidiaries as foreign agents which include voice of america radio free europe as well as present time but the decision is only a mere response to r.t. america's head company being forced to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. while other state funded outlets like b.b.c. all just zero c.c.t.v. and france twenty four somehow didn't fall under the same category while under russia's measure the outlets will have to mark their content as produced on behalf of washington disclose their finances and provide reports to russian lawmakers but when it comes to washington's response when our team was forced to register as a foreign agent we were told that it wouldn't inhibit our ability to report however just last week the u.s. government revoked r t america's capitol hill press credentials so as a response to that move russian lawmakers will be voting on legislation to block foreign journalists access to parliament so tit for tat measures indeed however is

also worth mentioning that russian lawmaker also said that moscow may review the decision if washington halts the crackdown on russian media so that of course all remains to be seen. the u.k. and the e.u. have failed to reach a long awaited agreement that 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 political party in northern ireland voiced its strong objections to the deal it said it will not accept the terms concerning the irish border issue. we are being very clear northern ireland must see the european union on the same terms as the rest of the united kingdom and we will not accept any form of regulatory divergence which separates northern ireland economically or politically from the rest of. the democratic unionist party made an agreement of confidence and support with may's conservative party in the summer and

agreed to support the prime minister's party in key votes member of the house of lords and former clinton thinks the problems of the border could lead to another general of. the kind of any border within the united kingdom any suggestion offered would mean that the unionists and all about of the especially the g.o.p. would just that are just party and all about and would withdraw support from the government and we'd have a general election in february in the united kingdom i don't belong to any party but i do have a border i'm a unionist and i do not want to be treated differently in foreign affairs from the rest united kingdom this is a foreign affairs matter not a devolved matter and all foreign affairs applied to united kingdom equally to all parts united kingdom and if the tories in any way are trying to weaken decision within the united kingdom and they've done for before don't always trust the authorities i would say as an independent and as

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