artie's had line use the former president of georgia cause he's chaos in the ukrainian capital after he threatens to jump off a roof gets arrested and is then freed from a police car by his supporters. it's the day for team russia is the international olympic committee prepares to give its verdict on whether the country can compete for the twenty eighteen winter games as moscow questions the political nature of the investigation into doping offenses. and germany's foreign minister slammed u.s. sanctions on russia saying. washington has been stretched to the limits.

of our global news twenty four seven from the studios of r.t. in moscow my name's column by welcome to the news this hour first for you the former georgia president the ukrainian opposition politician. has caused chaos today in the ukrainian capital kiev in the space of a few hours he managed to climb onto the roof of an apartment block threatening to jump off after police searched his home he was then removed and arrested by security services before being freed from custody by a crowd of his supporters. the old. iggy. well here's what happened barely an hour earlier when he was removed by the security service a few days ago his political movement held a major rally in kiev demanding the impeachment of ukraine's president poroshenko correspondent dina culture has been following events. the georgian politician made

quite a scene this tuesday morning in the center of the ukrainian capital and 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 law enforcement officials broke the door of his apartment and searched the flat for. of course such a move attracted hundreds so he soon orders that gathered outside of the village and 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 wife on ukrainian t.v. now police used tear gas against the for castors really interesting sad story taking place in ukraine these days when former best friend of the current president

is really embroiled in the country's politics because our country 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 time 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 or pulled up to malta mccauley he's a russian analyst and historian and he believes it's difficult to take suckers for these seriously given his political legacy. the circus really really is like a community changes every day it changes it pinions and so on and his political solution has been absolutely astonishing. because of the communists in georgia he came to the top as a democrat somebody opposing probably them and corruption and so on he then became president and he was a darling of the west. thought he was

a great guy and george 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 went ahead he's very headstrong and he takes his old opinion he takes his own country and so on then he played his cards badly and he was forced to leave georgia and sectors as president moved into ukraine. the fate of team russia at the upcoming winter olympics in south korea will be decided in a couple of hours from now the olympic international committee is meeting as we speak in switzerland sports officials there are assessing 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 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 before this edition months before the decision there's been intense pressure for a total ban on team russia because fishelson 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. as politically motivated the doping scandal back to twenty fifteen triggered by the mclaren report back then published by a canadian lawyer however that document was 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 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 report's star witness. the former head of a moscow and 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 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 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 soap. unless cafe granya was added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick the testers. that information came courtesy 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 seen it i've seen it done in i've inspected it can be done it can be reinserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know that it can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an unprecedented scale the 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 acted swiftly with a number of strong measures after the world anti-doping agency laid out a road map it reforms to the structure of the country's anti 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 that only currently imposed by a handful of european countries now despite this last month water still found the russian agency to be non-compliant rosado met eighteen out of twenty criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two because it denies any government run doping program ever existed a sports lawyer lucien vallone thinks russia's doping scandal is highly politicized . just in the way i.o.c. is dealing with. issues and i sync they will make if decision that means no collective sanctions against the russian i think there is a political fight against russia going on board wide not only in sport but in all areas and we only can hope that i.o.c. does not fall into this trap of waddle by alleging new evidence is

out showing them to the world and i think all this made clear that it is a political attempt of war and that is the bad thing because war is an institution that should protect clean athletes and what they are trying to do is the opposite as things stand twenty five russian athletes to be banned from the olympics 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 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 there feel about russia potentially missing the games. south korea first bid to become the whole of winter olympics almost sixteen years ago in two thousand and eight young chang lost to russia's tsotsi but south korea 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. m. korea in two months with the locals. 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'm never on anything but i i heard to use some medicine yeah ok i don't know that it's true each kind of in your sleep. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit for us so the strongest country. you

have is like. international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there. i think it's unfair. that just well based on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. in 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 very soon that decision will be known in just a couple of hours from now so we're keeping close watch on i.o.c. headquarters for when it is announced will be live and listen to learn what fate awaits russia's winter. without. next the german foreign minister has slammed the u.s. sanctions on russia saying the berlin solidarity with washington has been stretched

to the limit signal gabrial added the germany must make its own decisions independent of america's will. and i don't feel shunned 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 mr gabrielle 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 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 could tell you for a domestic point of view him as somebody 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. the claims of by washington

wanting to perhaps could offer 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 in terms of that cold and increased price but when you look at the language used by the elf he 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 a new poll it's been 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 than north korea all

russia so or sobering words from the german foreign minister talking about the. relationship between his country and the united states and the deterioration in the relationship that he sees peter all of that on the way more warnings in europe about the families of eisel fighters returning home and how the tiny political party was propping up the reason maze government has thrown a spanner in the works of the brics it talks it's all that.

concentration their bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality from this entrepreneurial nation called america and the machinations and the costs associated there with 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. with the islamic state being eliminated as a military power in syria increasing numbers of eisel fighters wives and children

are now returning to europe and germany is domestic intelligence chief believes they pose as much of the threats 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 while i got some opinion on that earlier on how the return easier should be dealt with. it 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 verse 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 to the age of say sixteen something like that if that 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 and dissolution that

internet models they've taken an adult choice if they're over eighteen whatever their motivations are with his 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 is to say this and we have to didn't deal with the. 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 ministry has announced that it's placing us media outlets radio free europe and voice of america on a foreign agents list the decision comes in response to similar measures taken against r.t. in america so american has 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 dizzy or a 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. thanks the u.k. and the e.u. have failed to reach a long awaited agreement on brics should they suddenly replace to plan a news conference where they were supposed to announce to do we've short messages saying it's tough to negotiate some still that it happened off the northern irish democratic unionist party voiced strong objections to the deal it's against a concession which could have seen overnight and remain in the customs area effectively creating a border between the province and the rest of the u k. 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. virgin's which separates northern ireland economically or politically from the rest of. the reason the democratic unionists have a big say it's because that's the party which agreed to help prop up to resume a minority government after her general election gamble backfired it agreed this summer to support the prime minister's conservative party in key votes in parliament house of lords member and former n.e.p. lord coe clune thinks the problems with the irish border issue could lead to another general election. there cannot be any border within the united kingdom any suggestion that it would mean that the unionists and all 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 favoring in the united kingdom i don't belong to any party but i live on the border i'm a unionist and i do not want to be treated differently in foreign affairs from the

rest united kingdom this is the 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 decision within the united kingdom and they've done that before don't always trust the authorities i would say yes and it depends and there's a unionist i would say go for an election. finally for now what do you think your car tells people about your personality while researchers in the united states say they can determine almost everything about you even your political allegiances or by using google maps as jacqueline lugar 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 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 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 in all there are usually grains of truth in syria types this may just be pushing the limit how much science is there in political omics it's not really hard science so yeah this study is getting a lot of attention it shouldn't 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 in a parasitic piece of in quotes scholarship or fake scholarship some obvious appliance of science to round off with right that's it for me calling bright thanks for watching andrew farmers go. world news coverage in the coming hours including that decision from lympics chiefs all and next fabrice winter games he'll have the announcement analysis and reaction life right here on r.t. international.

everybody i'm stephen bach. hollywood guy you know suspects every crowd american first of all interests george washington and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well it's a little bit different. you know in those up with all the drama happening in our country and i'm sure the brood have some fun every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people.

max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know america is becoming one big ghetto with heroin eric nodding out everywhere across every socio economic plane of existence every group stacy well max the thing you're trying to bring up is the fact that if you tune in to the news where you go to look for an analysis of what is happening in your economy what is happening in your culture your politics to

understand the world around you. it's all russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia in the meantime i think russia is like five or six thousand miles it thousand miles from here well if you count the whole country it's like thousands and thousands of miles across russia but right here in this country i saw this image it's a video. of these corks at a gas station shop you know we've just driven across the country and there are many of these gas stations little convenience stores on the gas station and here are these two women nodding off while the customer is trying to pay for her goods and it just me me feel so sad for the fact that this is happening here in this country and nobody is talking about it or putting into context what is

going wrong how what is what is wrong well it's called the get off the cation of america and if you listen to gil scott heron one of the some of the spoken word geniuses of our era. you know you would know that this was coming. doesn't want to deal with the fact that it's been abusive toward its minority population and put them into economically disadvantages ghettos which have led to drug use heroin use and all kinds of problems and as a result of the necessary. infrastructure of prisons to maintain the thick ghetto of america.