the russian flag will be alps in from the twenty eight winter olympics the ban was hounded by the international olympic committee after a two year long doping scandal however there remains no concrete evidence to claims it was state sponsored. these. individual or team competitions. from russia. this may and disappointment was first of all along the russian athletes. headquarters in switzerland. to make the decision on whether it will boycott the games entirely. also coming up this hour the u.s. president prepares to recognize jerusalem the capital city of israel

a move likely to provoke fury among many in the middle east. live from our international news center in moscow welcome to our team my names you know neal good to have your company this hour our top story team russia has been competing at the twenty eighteen winter olympics the international olympic committee announced its decision on a years long doping scandal on tuesday night resorting to want it earlier called the nuclear option however individual athletes that can prove they are clean will be allowed to participate in neutral flying. olympic athletes from russia. these you know i did ask lee so will participate be to individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia with the acronym.

they will compete with a uniform bearing these neighbors and under the olympic flag. the olympic and slim will be played in the several. i mean every one of the guys thought they might have such a decision could be made to the no one thought about what it actually means to go to the olympics under a neutral flag. the worst which is the ruler this is hard for them as well and all the oblique glances from the foreign after each will be very unpleasant and make it harder for them but in my opinion we must turn the page live through this day gather ourselves and go on to prepare for the olympics the athletes are preparing for the start and are ready to compete under the white flag or any other for the honor of russia this is what we're hearing from the athletes who won't give up on their country or their flag as this is always in their hearts and patriotism has

always distinguished russian people. alycia turkana has been following the results of the i.o.c. meeting in switzerland and can tell us more about the measures taken against team russia. 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 hear their anthem when they win and this is actually the first time one country 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 on 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 sochi 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 upcoming games provided these dishes decisions are fully respected and implemented by russia but let's hear what the president of the russian olympic committee had to say we still believe that all restrictions on russia will be canceled on the final day so that our athletes can march under a russian flag together with other teams from the rest of the world. this decision

will be discussed further and the final decision will take place later with. the main point of my speech was my rivals during the olympic games will have a chance to compete two times. it's a d.v.d. and in a team but if it isn't allowed to take part in team competition every sportsman will have just one chance to win the medal i think that is not clear well given that these winter olympic games are just two months from now we'll see how the events will unravel moving forward but it's safe to say that this announcement here has been a huge blow for athletes and sports fans in russia but we'll see what happens next . western earthly it's hard heartfelt messages for their russian counterparts to miss out on the games well that was in contrast to well some of the own kind of headlines and parts of the media news of the broke a number of international athletes expressed sympathy on twitter with some pointing

out that the scandal has become a political symbol of the move likely ignores punishment for the real cheaters. the question of whether russia will accept competing under a neutral flag is of course a tough one and that is going to be a tough decision and it will depend on the individual athletes but on the other hand you may like it or not but it will somehow be influenced by the russian olympic officials in any way if russia chooses to boycott yung chang twenty this will be a direct result of that i.o.c. ruling 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 in 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 the i.o.c. has taken this decision it is an important step in protection then. and gives comfort aztlan it's their 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 the scratches and the ways to open sample bottles shaun 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 still ongoing. there are all sorts of details in the for n c 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 from this side. well the doping scandal was triggered back in twenty fifteen by the mcclaren report published by a canadian lawyer in two parts it claimed over one thousand the meat's were involved in a state sponsored doping conspiracy with positive some pills being swapped for clean ones however the document meant to prove widespread and state by doping violations is still being questioned over its supporting evidence the international olympic committee itself say's it's unclear who was behind the doping efforts that the investigations highlighted between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen the i.o.c. is report also mentions it was unable to find evidence to suggest the russian government was responsible side of the sports ministry which has seen its officials bombed from the limb pick events to 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 a 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 at a higher level of the state. earlier we spoke to alan moore host of moscow's capital f.m. sports he believes the i.o.c. have found a profitable strategy in demonizing russia scored on a simple simply is 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 travel and so on they need to do to kind of to stay on top of just living and you know she 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 to want to take a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond so long as it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would be on nobody because they want to keep beating or she keep beating the drums a rush is bad russia is bad because it is the only bad one in order to write these are clean and then there's my athletes from our and retrieve your artists nuclear clean so we can sleep well at night thinking are we ok the russians or the bad guys in the case you know not for 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 further. well ahead of last night's this isn't twenty five russian our cleats have already been banned from participating in the games many of them have been stripped of their medals toppling russia from the top of the sortie twenty fourteen medal table.

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the thing you did that just. to share what did you. watch and. well we were told anti doping agency laid out a roadmap for russia to become compliant after the allegations moscow took on preceded measures to help counter any possible doping among russian athletes let's take a look at what they did the structure of russia's own drugs agency rossana has been reformed. to international experts to take control of its tests authorities also made doping a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence a law only currently imposed by a one full of european countries resell them at eighteen out of twenty criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two as it denies any government run doping

program ever existed but wada still fun the russian agency non compliant last month in its latest review they had of what they denied big decision was political but did say sport and politics are inseparable. it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because it feeds. on sports as such an important part of people's lives that were valid knowledge meant perhaps shows that athletics is now at odds with some of its original goals set out in the olympic charter it clearly states that there can be no political or commercial abuse of the sport and its limits of thomas back the president of the international olympic committee gave his assurances the decision was not politically motivated. 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 did 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 elections 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 but people are accepting some of it so i don't think you can disentangle the two things. ok if you'd like to find out more and

what the i.o.c. is decision means to the athletes involved and it's wider consequences r.t. special documentary can bring you a lot of info. real reason. to speak. these fall for. walt and the industry. and the world. by storm politics ever since its waterfront started people have been trying to increase the formants by using berries. and i've been doing exactly the same what happened with martin. and weeds and dr charles to minister. rasmussen and the usual way where he used a machine that was almost ten times the legal limit we have use for

medicine for people who do not have enough money still it's legal but i think it's i will call it the grey area i don't think rush is being picked on and i didn't personally pick on russia i was given him in due to. moving on now a senior u.s. official say president trump is going to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the united states expected later on wednesday the white house says the move will be in america's best interests. i'm not going to get ahead of the press he did speak with a number of leaders this morning and he's going to continue to have conversations with relevant stakeholders but ultimately he'll make what he feels is the best decision for the united states. to jerusalem a city considered holy by christians muslims and jews is not recognized as these

really capital by most of the internet when made will be a landmark decision and will likely inflame tensions in the middle east be used diplomatic chief has already responded she sees the issue needs to be discussed with the palestinians who also claim jerusalem as their capital. a way must be found through negotiations to resolve the status of jerusalem as the future capital of the states so that the aspiration of both artists can be fulfilled and he was killed my pain with more and the implications of the united states policy change on to reach them. donald trump is once again at the center of controversy he is now talking about moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem president of the palestinian authority has already denounced the move saying that it could have dangerous consequences for the peace process we've also heard from hamas which has talked about the possibility that they would revive the intifada a longstanding u.s.

allies in the region such as turkey and saudi arabia have also criticized the move turkey has even talked about the possibility of cutting off diplomatic ties with israel the u.s. state department has sent out a cable warning people at american embassies around the country about the heightened the need for heightened security furthermore we also heard that the u.s. consulate that is already in jerusalem is at this point warning u.s. citizens living in the city this seems like a dramatic move and it seems to fly in the face of an earlier statement that we heard from donald trump let's take a listen to what he said so i'm looking to state and one state and i like the one that both parties like and i'm very happy with that one that both parties look like one party the palestinians and their allies is already deeply offended and there's a possibility of retaliation and if that retaliation materializes then the other

party could also be suffering it seems that there is indeed many people that are far from happy with this decision from the white house. r.t. new york journalist miri brzezinski two of the she does not believe the u.s. president is really interested in bringing peace to the region. the bigger picture is not a peace process that doesn't even really exist nobody really expects that to happen what's really happening is the region is being flooded with arms trump laughs when he talks about the tens of billions that we're selling around the world not only in the middle east but now in asia let's not take trump at his word this is a tremendous mistake and it's even a waste of time the real policies are needs to keep himself in office and needs to pretend that he's president and that different constituencies should not oppose or . presidents have the power to influence millions but few if any are as adept at

using social media to get their message out donald trump miguel francis santiago now looks at the u.s. leaders unique form of twitter diplomacy on the stir it's causing in the media. after days of binge watching t.v. i think i finally discovered one thing that keeps the media buzzing from tweeting the president from trading the president trump tweeting in part there's a new saying gaining prominence there's a trump tweet for everything the president tweeting president trying to but it's hard to keep up with a president who uses twitter to make us public statements trump rarely misses an opportunity to tweet so here's your usual day in the american media starting with some trumped tweets you might think that several reposed in the middle of the night is no biggie but it got thousands of the tweets and became one of the first things americans saw after turning on the t.v. in the morning president has been busy this morning on social media re tweeting in

quick succession a series of alarming videos there such a volume of tweets from the president we can't lose our ability to be shot in fact the media got so caught up that towards the evening the whole world knew every detail about an organization that had previously been known only to a small audience in britain this string of incidents from the president now includes the president reach waiting three that he is from the far right anti muslim fringe political party but don't you worry that's not the only news that made headlines that day there was also a heated debate about the murder of a former trump inturn that in fact took place years ago president trump has said and done things that are not only unpresidential they're really out of control the president the united states has used the firing of matt lauer to advance his false claims of fake news and to spread wildly inappropriate accusations against media figures including joe scarborough wonder why that story received so much attention

both online and on t.v. well that's right because it came straight from the president's twitter feed of course it might be surprising to see how much airtime is being given to trump's tweets and it seems well either like a perfect way around for the media not to talk about things that matter or just the perfect scheme used by trump to get a grip on the news cycle. donald trump is a genius or insane or both i don't know or yes we're waiting same as what i say we the mainstream media are i do because they keep following and hanging on every word of what they do is they don't even have an agenda ed let me also tell you they should take god for him because they have nothing to say he does all the work for them think about this you're a news producer you take what trump tweets get make a graphic out of it you put it up you have somebody read it and talk about it and

the new short story no reporters no research no scouring the world now think about honduras think about syria that think about anything no no no just trumps tweet he's a genius they are the cat he is the beam of light and they're running into the wall . it's been revealed that a u.s. military agency is pouring millions of dollars into a project to wipe certain pests including malarial mosquitoes but there are major concerns about the technology darpa is helping to develop including that it could be used to create bio weaponry. what's concerning about a dream dr is that genetically engineered organism that's designed to spread and it will spread next ripley until it takes over an entire population so that means you just have to release one single specimen of this organism say a single mosquito or a single mouse and then through sexual reproduction it spreads straight until it

takes over there's a strong concern that you could use a gene growth system to stretch to spread a deleterious trait you could for example try to cause. of asst to fail or there have been suggestions that you could genetically engineer a flying insects such as mosquitoes to potentially deliver something that's harmful and then spread that through a whole population skeeters if you have a military agency or a couple of military agencies in the driving seat of a technology that could be used as a very powerful carrier for a bio weapon. obviously the question comes up whether it's going to have dual use well the gene editing research aims to wipe out species of animals that carry deadly diseases the hope is that this will lead to the eradication of the illnesses the u.s. military has invested one hundred million dollars so far in the technology but as mentioned there are concerns over the potential for abuse the nature of darpa's

activities has long been secretive the agency says they are in the interests of national security a law though no mention to the use of gene tech for military purposes has ever been made the united nations recently raised the alarm here's jim thomas again. we knew that the u.s. military was interested in june drives and we were funding to a certain level but what's become clear is that probably the major fund drive research and development files seem to suggest that they have in the case of darpa the defense advanced research projects agency around one hundred million dollars worth of funding the idea of a gene drive which spreads the genetic trait through an entire population is a potentially very powerful carrier for a bio weapon they say the reason they're interested is so they can pick up this bio weapon if it was used by hostile actors that they could be able to detect to

monitor and disable gene drives that but what's concerning of course in the process they're actually building this technology and acquiring the ability to use that although it's known that there's these military tensioner uses the field is always described as being about trying to be conservation uses but what we're now discovering is that the u.s. military can i wear the national police in honduras have gone on strike following days of violence in the country they were forced by the government to impose a curfew in public we have been here for over fifteen days and what is going on problem continues and every day there is more and more crisis like the call is for this to win because we're not in the mood to go out and confront. our people our slaughter in the polls right up until the final moments. well despite the unrest just several days after the vote the u.s. certified assistance package for hunters at washington said that all the necessary

criteria had been met and that included combating corruption reducing violence and protecting human rights we heard from a lot in america expert who believes that the u.s. evaluates countries and regions differently on those issues. state department of united states uses a different metric a different means of evaluating progress or the absence of progress in countries throughout central america the criteria as far as the state department is concerned focuses on maintaining order internal security and peace and hopefully also following the rules of the game and i think that's the issue not so much human rights violations although there has been unfortunately the issue as far as the state department is concerned has to do with the way in good taste of the folks were counted in the recent election and the state department has decided not to take issue with the way in which the so-called

electoral council has counted the votes you've been watching the top stories this morning on r.t. international as promised coming up at the special documentary on the athletics' doping scandal on the political edge behind it dope the new proxy war he's next.