i. our breaking news story this hour russia is banned from the two thousand and eighteen whimpers winter games but the international olympic committee will allow individual athletes to compete under a neutral flag. there is dismay among team russia as athletes watch the announcement being delivered at the i.o.c. headquarters in switzerland. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us now russia has been banned from the two thousand and eighteen winter olympic games however individual athletes will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag it will participate under the name olympic athlete from russia with

the country's anthem and symbols banned from the games this means the abbreviation o a r will be written on russian athletes uniforms and an olympic flag will be next to their name also when a medal is awarded to them the olympic anthem will be played rather than russia's yosi has explained its decision by saying that some russian athletes doping test samples were manipulated during a such a games in two thousand and fourteen these in writing desailly will participate between individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing. and under the olympic flame. the olympic and slim will be played in he said really. russian a figure skating coach who talked him out of a broken down in tears when she learned of the decision slows me at food store

because they say there are no words it's you know i don't want to cry i want to scream it's sad that we won't be at the games as a team but the russian flags will be flying it's devastating that there will be no tears of joy as you hear your national anthem but nobody is prohibited from singing the anthem i think that if there are victories and if there are athletes who want to participate and when i think we'll hear them singing it was that was displayed. our correspondent an associate you're going to is now in lausanne no she has briefed us on the decisions made concerning the russian olympic team. it's been a very difficult day here obviously with russia watching the announcement that would come from this room here in los down where the international olympic committee executive board made a final decision on the future of russia when it comes to these next winter olympic

games coming up in just two months from now now obviously it was a huge disappointment for all of those sports fans and athletes who have been preparing for so long to be able to compete in these olympics under their own flag and their anthem when they win certainly these are very important things for any athlete of course not just russian and of course it's been a huge blow to those who have been looking forward to that taking place now as you said obviously the latest is that russia has been we will not be seeing team russia perform at these olympics and this is actually the first time one using it. for doping reasons so this is certainly something that's seen as a very major step that's being considered as an anti russian one by the athletes who have been watching closely what the decision would bring now this is not the only sanction that was imposed here effective immediately by the i.o.c. they've also said that russia has to pay a very hefty fine of fifteen million u.s.

dollars for these inquiries that were carried out the alleged doping scandal that russia now has to pay for also we do know that it's been announced that russian officials from the sports ministry will not be credentialed for these upcoming games also the minister of sports at the time of the olympics in two thousand and fourteen as well as his deputy will be excluded from any participation in all future olympic games the president of the russian olympic committee is going to be suspended as an i.o.c. member and all of these factors taken into account it has also been said that the i.o.c. may partially or fully lift the suspension of the russian olympic committee from the commencement of the closing ceremony of these up. coming games provided these decisions decisions are fully and in quite vocal about this seeing this decision as something that would be inadmissible in the days leading up to this announcement but let's hear what the president used what russian athletes will participate but

we still believe that almost final how the events will unravel moving forward but it's safe to say that this announcement here has been. what's in the. last week to let it go right up to the. border to border it is the iraqis making it so. difficult the thing. that's. occurred. it's just. that's just worked up to that since the opponents get the. last fifty years to see what the deal is it better that we settle for a school that's on the slope or not. you know be

a little worse than even the so that you know for those that are led to bloomberg it's still. a lot of that initial world war of choice and lamb for you. report though that it is unclear who might be behind the possible doping efforts states there's no evidence that the russian government is responsible. nevertheless the independent and impartial evidence do not allow the i.o.c. d.c. to establish with certitude either who initiated or who headed this scheme on many occasions reference was made on the involvement at the minister of sports level but no indication independent or impartial evidence appeared to cooperate any involvement or knowledge and a higher level of the state i earlier we spoke to alan moore a russia based sports specialist and columnist he thinks demonizing russia is

a profitable strategy for the i.o.c. it scored on a simple simply yes there is no fair play in sport i mean at this level the simple truth is that in order to compete at the highest level you have to do something to stay there and when you have a very well paying job at the level of mr packer and mr reedy and travis tiger and so on they need to do to kind of stay on top i just don't live in a new russia is very useful to keep this it's very very unfair in russia under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us the want to take i would question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond and so long as it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would go nobody because they will want to keep beating or sick a piece of new drum say russia's bad russia is bad because it is the only bad one an order of things are clean and then as my athletes from our inner clean year at this new character it was so we can sleep well at night thinking oh we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case you know enough of the case that there's

a lot of bad guys everywhere. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change even for the. now to remind you the international olympic committee says russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag and they will participate under the title olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and the symbols banned from the games next tuesday russian sports officials are expected to hold a meeting on how to react to that decision but earlier president putin said the neutrals option would be humiliating for the country. there are two options either forcing russia to compete under a neutral flag not letting it go to the olympics to either is a humiliation for the country or joined me earlier in the studio to discuss the details of the i.o.c. his decision to ban russian athletes. it's a tough decision that will have to be made it will depend on the individual athletes of course on the one hand but then still we understand that the russian

olympic officials will somehow influence that they are of course responsible for the facilities they provided them they were in charge of the training but anyway if russia goes for this boycott of the winter games in twenty eighteen that will be the direct result of the r.c. decision that we heard on tuesday but the i.o.c. probe has already resulted in more than two dozen russian winter olympians being banned for life and we understand that there is more to come and questions have been raised along the lines of why do athletes who test positive from different countries get bans for only a few years and then they're allowed to compete and then when it comes to the russian athletes they're supposed to be kept away from the olympics for good so you bring up these lifetime bans has the i.o.c. given any reason for these specific lifespans while it's been said that the russians are being disqualified because of the scratches on the doping test bottles

and also the excessive amounts of salt and the clean doping test samples which according to the you see couldn't have been produced by a human body so these two elements of evidence but the question is is that enough to blame individuals for cheating while they could have been unaware of this kind of tampering is this enough to produce life bans and strip the queen washington b. and of their right to carry the russian flags during the winter games the answer for many people here in russia would obviously be no unlike the reaction that we heard from some of the national olympic officials in europe and. has taken this decision it is an important step in for attacks and then for it and gives calm for it asked lantz now that competes in a level playing field. it's a good day for international sport a good day for german sport and so have we been shown any visual proof of the

i.o.c. conclusions about scratches and ways to open sample bottles sean that is the question that also one russian journalist asked. executive board press conference and the answer from mr schmidt was you will be able to read about it in the forensic reports the figures fluctuate because the analysis is the examinations the investigations are. all sorts of details in the reports and examinations and i certainly do not wish to go into the details here and. i do not wish to divulge too many of these details however the fact remains that. we can ascertain that there has been there was money and tampering while this

brings us to the concerns here in russia over the transparency and also allowing the russian side access to some of these experiments because we understand that the officials the athletes and the fans who are sympathetic we understand that they are two going through a lot of stress right now these people have been really eager to see some of the visual elements of that and i guess that sums up the concerns for this side you were in south korea recently what do the people there make of the russian doping scandal and were they expecting to see team russia appearing in the games there and puncturing well i want to seoul which is in the capital of the winter olympics when eating which is chang but in seoul people are too and to supporting this and some of them or of course going to see it live on t.v. some of them are going to go to. and the people. were telling me that yes they are expecting the rules to be enforced they don't want to doping but they will indeed

miss teen russia and they realize that in some winter sports like for instance always hockey or figure skating you just can't imagine the competitions especially if it is the winter olympic games without russia so let's have a look at how i spoke to these people in the streets of seoul south korea first 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 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. in korea and 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 have never done anything but. i heard the news that. her face i don't know the history of each kind of. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit or i was so strong. but i. feel. it's like. the national. game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get the rights that. i think it's unfair. that just well this is on the fifth. not the winter olympics but no rush to move out of the country that's so few for the good stuff.

and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without t.v. russia will continue discussing the future of russian olympics after a short break you're watching international. war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw for the tell you that will be gossip and probably. off the bat as you tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks we along the border will watch. the concentration the bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality

from this entrepreneurial nation called america and the machinations and the costs associated there with keeping this 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. back this is r t international line from moscow no most of the russian athletes who were handed the life bans dispute the evidence that was presented against them they insisted they are innocent and accuse officials of violating their presumption of innocence when he could partridge looks at how russia has been treated as guilty from the very start. four years ago there was skepticism that russia's first winter

olympics would go without a hitch due mungo's predicted not enough flights not enough hotels and not enough snow concerns about socially squaller in sochi double toilets and missing door handles the water that came out of the tower problem with the door of the house cables went so well even critics had to admit they were it rethinks been amazing it's running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well as i'm being really present everything russians and so forth. which they care about. so far well organized people are really friendly here having a good time through our accommodation our food almost four years later and russians who triumphed in sochi and now being stripped of their medals and given life a live picture why twenty sixty in the middle report explosively claimed russia used an elaborate system of state sponsored doping athletes officials and the

ministers were implicated like the plots of a cold war novel the attitude to russia a return to skepticism then retribution as its track and field team and entire paralympic team what damage from the rio gave which left the clean athletes wondering why. we know about how the russians completing it so they adopted the right policy but sure they are a clean nation never mind cleaned out they ought to be a clean nation. the i.o.c. and i p.c. have now definitively backed up mclaren supporting the claims of former lab boss cricketing don't think of who's under criminal investigation in russia and saying that infamous sample swapping system has finally been replicated but questions remain the i.o.c. standard of proof is not beyond any reasonable doubt but rather the balance of

probability the presumption of guilt is enough it was rajan called who was the original and only source of so-called proof against russian fleets this evidence has been grossly overvalued we can see we are seeing the result of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe broaching court or not it looks more like a religious inquisition. less than full bottles had no visible scratches they were presumed tampered with as the russians must have affected their technique and left no marks and no argument basis for an on mass ban to clean condemned without any guilt no presumption of innocence for team russia what we see here is actually a violation of the olympic charter which is. which stands against political national racial discrimination so it appears that in the name of protecting clean athletes they are actually taking away the rights of russian clean athletes and in my opinion the mclaren accusations are unfounded and

they are very politically biased. surely any athlete should be denied a medal and banned from competition if he or she cheats it undermines others' lifetime's work as does abound slapped on the innocent who are simply presumed guilty. after the world anti-doping agency laid out a road map for russia in two thousand and sixteen the country acted swiftly with a number of strong measures it reformed of the structure of russia's own anti-drug agency and allowed international experts to take control of its tests and also made doping a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence in law only currently imposed by a handful of european countries met eighteen out of twenty criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two as it denies any government run doping program ever existed but last month wada still found the russia agency non-compliant the head of denied the decision was political but did not say sports cannot exist so excuse me

but did say sports cannot exist without politics it's just sort of. impossible dream isn't it because. it's very straight to the sport which is. now such comments made may be at odds with perhaps the most important document in sports the olympic charter and it clearly states that there can be no political or commercial abuse of sports and athletes. thomas bach to be president of the international olympic committee gave his assurances the decision was not politically motivated. you know you see politically absolutely neutral we would not allow her to be influenced by any kind of political considerations in. such a sporting matters just listening to the press conference and they fielded exactly

that question and they said this isn't a political decision but of course the world knows that it's exactly that this has been a controversy that has been clouded in political judgment and it's impossible to separate this particular decision from what's going on in the rest of the world regarding fake news and the allegedly intervention of russia into britain's bragg's it vote and even the american presidential election so there is a lot of this kind of stuff swirling around the world at the moment a lot of it is beyond belief frankly about people are accepting some of it so i don't think you can disentangle the two things for the i.o.c. decision youngsters from hockey clubs across russia showed their support for the nation's athletes by organizing a flash mob on line chanting we want to go to the olympics.

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occur firmly in the not too distant future mr powell who has received bipartisan support in the past he's sort of the federal reserve governor since two thousand and twelve mr powell also is set to replace. he said to replace chairwoman janet yellen whose term expires in february and that same senate banking panel today also consider legislation to scale back some of the wall street reform and consumer protection act of two thousand and ten provisions known as dodd frank as the regulations relate to small and medium sized bang.