team russia will be absent from the twenty eighteen winter olympics the ban was hundred dollars by the international olympic committee after a two year long doping scandal however the remains of no concrete evidence to back claims of a state sponsored program. these. fourteen complications. from russia. dismay and disappointment was visible among the russian the i.o.c. announced the ban of its headquarters in switzerland. to make the decision on whether to boycott the games entirely. also ahead the u.s. president prepares to recognize jerusalem as the capital city of israel a move likely to provoke fury among many in the middle east.

just after ninety m. here in moscow this morning this is r.t. international my names you know neil whatever you're joining us from around the world this hour welcome to the program our top story russian winter olympic squad has been banned from competing at the twenty eighteen games the international olympic committee announced its the solution on a years long doping scandal on tuesday night resorting to what it earlier called the nuclear option however individual athletes that can prove they are clean will be allowed to participate in neutral flying named us olympic athletes from russia. the scene righted elsley so we'll see brains individually but you shouldn't of the name of them the council eat or run. they

would compete with the uniform bearing police made. before. the olympic council will be played in any sort of. yeah clear shock and disappointment at the announcement on the situation has been following the results of the i.o.c. meeting in switzerland and can tell us more about the measures being taken against him russia. i 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 and twenty 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 this is spent on of the russian olympic committee from the commencement of the closing ceremony of these upcoming games provided these decisions 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 still this decision will be discussed further and the final decision will take place later with. the main point of my speech was that my rivals during the olympic games will have a chance to compete two times is a d.v.d. and in a team but 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 . well the controversial decision to ban comes following claims made by the report of an i.o.c. disciplinary commission headed by federal member and former swiss president some people schmidt at the main findings claim the moscow tampered with samples are scratches had been found on some also said that excessive amounts of salt had been found in some of the others. brings us the latest on the. 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 and the clean doping test samples which according to the you see couldn't have been produced by a human body though have we been shown any visual proof of the i.o.c. conclusions about scratches and ways to open sample bottles shawn that is the question and 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 examinations and

investigations are still ongoing. as far as the details and the forensic reports and examinations i certainly do not wish to go into details here and now i do not wish to divulge too many of these details however the fact remains that we can is certain that there has been there were many people asians in tempering 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 to go and 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 of the doping scandal was triggered back in twenty fifteen by the mix. lauren report published by canadian lawyer in two parts it claimed over one thousand the athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping conspiracy with positive samples being swapped for clean

ones however the document meant to prove widespread and state doping violations is still being questioned over its supporting evidence the international olympic committee itself says it is clear who was behind the doping efforts that the investigations highlighted between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen the i.o.c. has report also mentions it was unable to find evidence to suggest the russian government was responsible side of the sports ministry 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 at a higher level of the state a little 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 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 parker and mr reedy and travis harbor and so on they need to do it because this is a you know on top of just living with a new russia is very useful to people it's very very unfair in russia under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us. the wanted to question that i have my mind is ok soros has been so long as it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would go on nobody because they want to keep beating the drums a rush is bad rush is bad because it is the only bad one and i'll do the right things are clean and honest my athletes from are and are clean your athletes nuclear clean so we can sleep well at night thinking are we ok the russians or the

bad guys in the case you know enough of the case that there's a lot of blood goes everywhere. you know it won't change and now with this it will change the report of. the world anti-doping agency laid out a roadmap for russia to become compliant after the allegations and moscow took an unprecedented steps in measures as well to help counter any possible doping among russian updates the structure of russia's own drugs agency has been reformed allowed international experts to take control of its tests authorities also made doping a criminal offense here punishable with a jail sentence a law only currently imposed by one full of european countries through sabah 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 fund the russian agency non-compliant the head of water denied that it was political but did

say sport cannot exist without politics it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because to face. to. one sport is such an important part of people's lives. for such comments may be at odds with perhaps the most important document in sports the alleged pick charter it clearly states that there can be no political or commercial abuse of sport and the elites. thomas back the president of the international olympic committee gave his assurance 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 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 briggs's vote and even the american presidential elections 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 well some western athletes had heartfelt messages for their russian counterparts no said to myside on the games and that was in contrast to well some of the unkind headlines in parts of the media as news of

the band broke a number of international athletes expressed sympathy on twitter with some pointing i thought the scandal has become a political symbol and that the move likely ignores punishment for what they're calling real cheaters. well before the i.o.c. decision twenty five russian athletes hundred ready been banned from participating in the games many of them are stripped of their medals doubt they had won twenty fourteen winter olympics. the store is a little more as we get almost nose markel at the things presently with your fear of the stranger that she only now believes knows if it is going to be that slow i mean almost a. dozen years national you're the. first

of do it just reasonably just really should sit on the. board from us pressed me and i want to shoot of that is to get used to shoot anybody just. a goody good national boy in there which sickly chariot that was over it's but almost a thing even though i've been doing it you one you're absolutely enjoying the more of your time with this thought so you. to be nearer to the bush a stinger the opinion leadership in europe where they see you giddy with the notion of watched. it all which in. the morning is not. the thing if you did that just. to say of what did you. watch and if you. what if you'd like to find out more of what the i.o.c. is the city and means to the athletes involved and its wider consequences r.t. special documentary can bring you all you need to know that will be showing through

right today when a stay on r.t. . real reason and i don't see how you can be indiscreet exists these fall from. the wall of the industry they represent and the world. is by still in politics ever since it's what affronts thought it people have been trying to get increased at the moment spy by using various substances. and i've been doing exactly the same what's happened with. the norwegian doctor chose to administer. investments and then very unusual way where he used a machine i was moses with almost ten times the lead of the limits we have used a medicine for people who do not have a smoke still it's legal but i think it's i will call it

a gray area i don't think russia is being picked on and i didn't personally pick on russia i was giving them into the fold and. senior u.s. officials say president trump is going to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel he's also said to kick start the process of moving the american embassy to the city the white house says the decisions which are expected to be announced later on wednesday will be in america's best interests i'm not going to get ahead of the president's remarks that he'll make tomorrow 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 drew islam which is considered holy by muslims christians jews is not recognized as the is really capital by most of the

international community that is despite the country's government claiming the ancient city cop at all spent when made will be a landmark decision on will likely inflame tensions in the mideast the 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 of the states so that the escalation of both this can be fulfilled well here's with more on the implications of the united states policy change on jerusalem. 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 are going 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 time for a quick but more news right after this. when i was still seemed wrong but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this thing becomes active. and engagement because the trail. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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leaders unique form of twitter diplomacy on the stir it's causing among more traditional 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 tweeting 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 its public statements trump rarely misses an opportunity to tweet so here's your usual day in the american media starting with some trump tweets you might think that several repose 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 are 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 guess we're in same as when 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 and 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 there are new short story no reporters no research no scouring the world nothing about honduras think about syria that think about anything no no no just trumps

tweets he's a genius they are the cat he is the beam of light and they're running into the wall . things stateside it's been revealed to us 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 to collect. it's concerning about a gene drive genetically engineered organism that's designed to spread and it will spread in the 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 is a strong concern that you could use a gene drive system to stretch to spread a deleterious trait you could for example try to cause

a first 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. the gene editing research aims to kill off species that carry deadly diseases the hope is that this will lead to the eradication of the illnesses the u.s. military has invested a hundred million dollars so far in the tech but concerns remain over the potential for abuse well the nature of darpa is activities has long been secretive the agency says its work is in the interest of national security although no mention to the use of gene technology for military purposes as ever been made the u.n.

recently raised the alarm here's jim thomas again. we knew the u.s. military was interested in jane 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 as a bio weapon 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 potential uses the field is always described as being

about trying to deal with malaria or trying to be conservation uses but what we're now discovering is the u.s. military that seems to be significantly in the driving seat as promised right ahead on our team international our special documentary on the athletics doping scandal on the political edge behind it dope the new proxy war is next. they call me a useful idiot. you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on r t there are thousands of us doing it his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking

about the org what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one outstretch me all the right i should be sent to the town of london because i want to try to break me on the wheel without what i long term of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you're going to see me you want to do this because we are freaking clue.

i was a very talented cyclist and i was one of the the best climber spinning in the world in my age group there was since the tour de france started people have been trying to increase the performance by by using various substances and and i've been doing exactly the same. we have used the medicine for people who do not have enough money still it's legal but i think it's i will call it the gray area it's so close to both this and legal and what is not and for me personally it doesn't represent fair play. so how are you going to be in the street is the charge is absurd it's full of contradictions for the for chrissake it's not trying to lie with lies when the money comes from work are used to spend spend spend spend old.

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justice that those going into is it the most of was it we were it's faith it was let them evaluate their view that was to me and there's an umbrella devolve with it but that's not just it was not it's just that i was in your do it should be yes that they do is the law but to me go it's in a dish it's you misspoke and we have to buy it is but i discard them into. this didn't happen they banned the entire russian track and field team from the rio olympics. to void in your. time here because because it's. not going to. be you valuable lessons it's about growth that's your butt out there but i want you to do just that if this ticket or. this of the past the super bowl is just like that that you know that i felt was more than a stick by you which in the group i think to please the line from far gone.