actually we're i've. a day for taking russia as the international olympic committee prepares to give it perfect on whether the country can compete at the twenty eighteen winter games as moscow questions the political nature of the investigation into don't ping offensives. also to come the former president of georgia called his payoffs in the ukrainian capital after he threatens to jump off a roof gets arrested and then is freed from a police car by his supporters and germany's foreign minister at his house the u.s. sanctions on russia saying good in solidarity to washington has been stretched to the limit. the as cruel as.

the good evening welcome you're watching r.t. international where it's just turned eight o'clock here in moscow now the fate of team russia at the upcoming winter olympics in south korea will be announced in about an hour and a half from now the international olympic committee meeting on the issue is now underway in switzerland and officials are assessing the findings of two commissions one focused on alleged state sponsored doping in russia and the other on individual cases at the sochi games will even months before the decision there has been intense pressure for a total ban on team russia antidoping officials in the athletes from other nations demanding a full suspension of the country however russia does deny any systematic nature to the doping violations calling the unprecedented actions already taken by the i.o.c. politically motivated well joining us live now from los and is and see it york good

evening to nastia not long to go now before we finally know what sort of decision the i.o.c. will make but i was just wondering what's the sense there is there a consensus that there could well be a blanket ban. well andrew that's what we're waiting to find out well what i can tell you is certainly interesting is in the atmosphere just behind me there is a press conference room packed with journalists since earlier today who have been camping out here for hours in hopes of getting leaks about what could potentially come out of the i.o.c. executive board meeting that is being held as we speak and indeed within an hour and a half the president of the i.o.c. is expected to appear in this room to make a final announcement a final decision of the international olympic committee when it comes to the future of russia and its athletes out the twenty eight winter olympic games in south korea something that's certainly being watched all throughout the world because this is going to be potentially quite a moment given all of the really hysteria that's been surrounded not by the least

by the media following the developments involving russia and its participation in these games now certainly it has to be said that the executive board of the i.o.c. today has been considering the details of two separate commission investigations and by reason one the old commission that was looking specifically into individuals and as of the beginning of december has disqualified twenty five russian athletes as well as stripped about eleven medals and also another commission this commission that's been looking into speed state sponsored participation something that of course let's keep in mind russia has been denying throughout these last couple of years since this issue has started being discussed now some of the possible options this is been largely debated in speculated by experts in the media as well as of course the sporting world people discussing what potentially this decision that is going to be announced later tonight could be now of course the lighter version

that's being talked about is a hefty fine that russia would have to pay but really few are expecting that this could be possible and even lighter outcome of course would be a complete green light for russia to participate in these. games but very few on the ground are expecting this to happen given amounts of pressure that have been put on the i.o.c. to really punish russia according to people who have been insisting on the i.o.c. taking a very tough stance saying the decision to allow individual federations to make decisions about specific athletes in the lead up to the real games was not enough so one of the two more serious options that are being looked at here on the ground are a complete ban of russia taking place in the olympics which of course would be quite an extreme one and another one which is the decision to not allow russia to participate but allow certain leads to partake in the twenty eighteen winter games under a neutral flag now this is being discussed as the most possible most likely announcement to be made however it has to be said that this would mean that russian athletes

participating would not be allowed to feature a russian flag you know russian. uniforms depicting the word russia on them all of these symbols that are traditionally seen as very important as the olympic games and of course given the lots of talk unraveling in russia that this kind of decision could be boycotted because it's seen as something that's him admissible since russia has been denying the allegations that have been made against it now obviously we're going to be here watching this the press conference is going to start in an hour and a half so will be here with all the latest details as soon as this crucial decision is made given how big of a double olympic powerhouse russia has traditionally been in the history of these olympic games. now the doping scandal triggered by can twenty fifteen by the report published by a canadian lawyer for the document to prove widespread. doping violations is

still being questioned 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 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 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 batali. 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 so. 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 chink of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security parcel 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 valid seen it i've seen it done in i'll be 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 i hope that 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. russia did act swiftly with

a number of strong measures after the world anti-doping agency laid out a road map it did reform the structure of the countries and agency and allowed international experts to take control of its test it also made doping a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence a law that's only currently imposed by a handful of european countries despite this last month while they're still fanned the russian agency to be non-compliant if saddam met eighteen out of twenty quite criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two as it denies any government run doping program ever existed sports lawyer lucian maloney thinks that russia's doping scandal is highly politicized. i still trust in the way io see east dealing with these issues and i sink they will. make a fair decision and that means no kollek thief sanctions against the russian at blitz

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 waldo by alleging the dances weeds out showing them to the world and i seen all these made clear that the decent political attempt of volatile and that is the same 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 the lympics after the commission examining examining their cases presented its findings many of them have been stripped of them at all stopping run the top of the sortie twenty fourteen medal table in the next winter olympics to find out how thousand eight young chang

lost missing out on the games in four years no washing 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 if these are real people here i have never i don't know any small but i i heard to use some medicine. and her face i don't know that it's true each kind of it was the. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. it's a little bit boring a little bit for our strongest country. but i feel everybody is like. you international soccer game spain the way you go

and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there without campsie writes this i think it's fairly obvious you haven't noticed well this isn't the people that the winter olympics but you know russia you've got a whole country that's so your political stuff i mean we have a triangle in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia. well that decision will be known in about an hour and a half's time and we are keeping a close eye to eye on the i.o.c. headquarters when it's announced and we'll be live in less than what fate. awaits russia's winter olympians. the former georgia president crane opposition politician mikhail saakashvili has caused chaos today in the craning capital kiev in the span of a few hours he managed to climb on to the roof of an apartment block threatening to jump 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. her and his what happened barely an hour earlier when he lived by the sea with a few days ago his political movement held a major rally in kiev demanding the impeachment of ukraine's president poroshenko r.t. correspondent dina course has been following events. the georgian politician made quite a scene this tuesday morning in the center of the ukrainian capital. 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 minta officials broke the door of his apartment and

searched the flat for avid ends of course such a move attracted hundreds of his soup orders that gathered outside the building and really was seen shouting through the crowds while emergency services were arriving to the scene carrying a ladder and all that was even transmitted life on ukrainian t.v. now police used tear gas against the person asters 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 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 tiny 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 a desa 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 at this september and his supporters practically carried him across the police line at the polish border so while he held saakashvili is appealing this decision in court right now he remains to be a politician whereas no valid citizenship or martin mccauley russia analyst and

historian believes it is difficult to take zach is fairly seriously given his political legacy. is really mickelson has really is like a chameleon it changes every day he changes opinions and so on and his political career has been absolutely astonishing. because she was a communist in. the top as a democrat from the opposing forces of corruption and so on he then became president. and he was a darling of the west the americans 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 want him not to do it but he went ahead he's very headstrong as he takes his old opinion exulted congress moves on. he played his cards badly and he

was forced to leave georgia. as president moved into ukraine washing out international still to come few mornings in europe about the families of i still fighters returning home we'll have a look at that in detail just after the break. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the section just pull on. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than that to see people you've never heard of love back to the night i'm president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an e-mail. a plate for many clubs over the years so

i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money will be their own to spend spend be true to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else on it because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great chance for. me it's going to. sell out again the german foreign minister has slammed u.s. sanctions on russia saying berlin solidarity with washington has been stretched to the limit. jim many miss my kids and decisions independent of americans will.

in our own food 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 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 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 from 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 cook 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 in terms of that calm and increased price but when you look at the language used by. 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 in the deterioration in that relationship that he sees it. peter all of the reporting now 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 domestic intelligence chief believes they didn't pose as much of a threat as the militants themselves there are children who have been brainwashed and 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 we got some opinion on how their attorneys should be dealt with. and 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 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 at their over a team whatever their motivations all with this ideological what about they've chosen that decision in full knowledge of the facts and 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 listen we have to didn't deal with these. the nazi ism not just place 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 mine nine hundred forty three forty four situation up 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 for the moment we are at war. russia's justice ministry has announced that it is placing u.s. media outlets radio free europe and voice of america on a foreign agents this decision comes in response to similar measures taken against in america america on small 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 archie america 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 it's 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. finally this what you think you will cartels people about your personality will researches in the u.s. to say that they can determine what everything about you even your political allegiances and all that using just google maps is. 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 fifteen 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 the tigs 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 the author of

sticks appeal to republican taste buds while veggie burgers burritos and other kind of 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 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 overkill it seems to be to be really embarrassing piece of in quotes scholarship or fake scholarship. so that brings you

up to that that's how things are looking so i thought tonight they were not say we're back with more in about half an hour's time. coach showed. me what. i say. oh yeah. it's all t. we have a great scheme we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and you're

better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that much qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last world cup in that story two or three. thousand zero zero zero zero hitter here i called russia. i fly strike. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good. shots seemed wrong why don't we all just don't hold. any goals that he's yet to shape out these days because that's ok and in games from an equal speed

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