artie's headline news the international olympic committee bans team russia from the twenty eighteen winter games after a two year doping scandal that's despite a lack of concrete evidence to support the claims of the state sponsored drug program. these in righted elsley so will participate in the individual or team competitions condos and the olympic elsley from russia. dismay written on the faces of team russia's athletes as the i.o.c. announces the ban of its headquarters in switzerland there's now a question mark over whether they will now boycott the games entirely. also ahead the u.s. president prepares to recognize the capital city of israel a move that's likely to ignite fury among many in the middle east.

from in a team here moscow money is called embrace no two in the afternoon here just one story really dominating our coverage today the international olympic committee has banned team russia from the twenty eighteen winter games in south korea the body made the decision on tuesday night resorting to what it had earlier described as the nuclear option individual athletes who can prove their clean however will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know i did elsley so will participate between individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing these unable and under the olympic flag. the olympic and slim will be played in is there really.

no one thought about what it actually means for the athletes to go to the olympics under a neutral flag it's simply the murder of our national sport. russian athletes won't give up on their country or their flag as this is always in their hearts. the decision to ban russian athletes follows an investigation by an i.o.c. backed commission headed by the former head of the swiss department of sport samuel schmid. partridge discussed the unfolding situation earlier with you know neal basically what it amounted to is we heard there thomas frank the president of the i.o.c. effectively banned russia for the winter olympics which start on the night of february and that doesn't give them a great deal of time the athletes then to appeal against those decisions they've been twenty two athletes have already appealed twenty five were banned in the buildup to this decision twenty two an hour paling and as i say not

a great deal of time either to appeal all or to prove whether or not you were innocent to be able to say what the i.o.c. kate saw was the great compromise was being able to compete on neutral flag but there's a number of issues surrounding it isn't there time constraints that you just said and also the the prestige of of actual competing for your country that will be taken away from them absolutely as i said it's now in no way our own chief here to take part you are in your and the olympic now from russia as we have now anthems no flags and also as you said that sense of prestige that sense of patriotism the whole point of what. because about these are all claims effectively came its claim and counterclaim because you have to dodge and go off and metatron saying this is how they this is how they did it then you've got schmidt saying yes we believe this is how you can do it as well you can replicate this but we don't see any photos we don't we haven't seen any cameras we haven't they haven't filmed it as what we seem to say ok yet this is the claim we can prove it and we're going to show you how to do it all starts with coffee was the head of moscow's the anti doping lab there and

he turned whistle blow by effectively saying in claiming that the bin systemic doping that it was state sponsored in this had been going vacuum effectively before the sort she winter olympics and he described a system he claimed was where effectively the russians had managed to override a tamper proof system so in other words there was a way that you could get into your samples and you could effectively affect those samples get into those bottles also swap them also there was a means of being able to hide to cover up all your traces of doing this and of course this was absolutely explosive and or the lack of that that's why they had some of the russian team the russian track and field team in particular was suspended from the rio games while this was being investigated the mclaren report came out which everybody has heard about now for so many years effectively said yes the state sponsored doping this is how they did it and explained the elaborate system of how the russians had allegedly managed to get into these tamper proof bottles and on the back of that the i.o.c. is saying well ok you're making these claims and what we now want to do is we want to go in and have our own investigation so we had the schmidt report comes through

which was then if it to be trying to find a way to replicate what they claimed was the means of getting into those bottles and also changing the system and what they saw were by scratches on bottles effectively proving what they thought was how you could get into the samples also they said there were elevated salt levels that meant that these samples weren't true flexions and basically all of this evidence that they put forward backing up roger and off and mclaren is on the basis for now these decisions and this is cause a bit of consternation amongst the athletes themselves and one by athlete to said well if you're going to basically ban people on the basis of scratches and some elevated sort that i'm really worried and we can hear him now. i hope that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and it is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples was not only fear of giving samples there's also been some other sort of worries that have been raised by athletes and also across the organization as well by saying that this is a this is sort of double standards here because effectively you've got a blanket ban for one country but looking over time as well we've known of athletes

who have been banned tyson gay justin gatlin and they have been bang to rights they will prove there wasn't a presumption of guilt there they were actually proved to be guilty and banned and come back what russian athletes will be looking at now what we're seeing on our screen justin gatlin who came back to win her silver medal after being what he was done twice before this russian markets have never doped the majority of them proven that as well but now they're looking at a lifetime ban and the pick sports but this is all because of the system all the levels that the i.o.c. demanded in terms of making their judgments and this is based on a presumption of guilt given what they consider to be all the different factors taken into account not direct evidence of it but all those different layers so what they're saying is that by being able to replicate they think the system of being able to override a tamper proof system by roger and covers diaries that is a he wrote about all the things that were going on in the time by the medal table of the people who won medals by the the so-called duchesse list of all the people who were taking who were meant to be taking drugs they said by taking all these into account it's

a presumption of guilt but as we were looking back over the past few days as i was covering before this is a presumption of guilt that covers that covers everybody and therefore it's a blanket decision but they're obviously they're going to be cause as we were talking about before four years ago there was skepticism that russia's first winter olympics would go without a hitch due mongers predicted not enough flights not enough hotels and not enough snow concerned about social squalor in sochi double toilets and missing door handles the water that came out of the tower problem with the door of the house games were. and so well even critics have to admit they were it things are going to mazing it's running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well as i'm being really present everything rush is done so far. which they care about. so far well organized people are really friendly here and having a good time through our accommodation for 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 sixteen the mitchell 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 and retribution as its track and field team and entire hour live from the rio gave which left the train athletes wondering why. 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 fact 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 results 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 tempered with as the russians must have affected their technique and left no marks and no argument basis for an on mass ban the cane 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 a barren slapped on the innocent who are simply prison. guilty. ok parter to that now some western athletes had heartfelt messages for their russian counterparts who are now set to miss out on the games that was in contrast to some of the gloating headlines in parts of the media as news of the band broke a number of international athletes expressed sympathy on twitter with some pointing out that the scandal has become a political symbol and that the move likely ignores punishment for those who have

actually doped. what is said in complicated situation i feel sick for the clean affected deaths and fully sympathize with whatever emotions they may feel. this decision by the i.o.c. is just a political symbol but really there's nothing to punish the actual cheaters there is still a large number of days yet please competing this just opens the door for them to continue through the olympics. it's a victory that only officially cleared and clean athletes will be able to compete in p.r. in china but it's so sad that russian things weren't be able to compete under the flag of the country the rays the. the international olympic committee itself says it's unclear who was behind the doping efforts the i.o.c. report also mentions it was unable to find evidence to suggest the russian government was responsible outside 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. radio sports host alan moore from moscow's capital f.m. believes the i.o.c. has found a profitable strategy and 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 barker and mr reedy and travel and so on they need to do to kind of the state of on top of us into doing a new russia is very useful to keep this is very very unfair and russia under doing

this there is of course a political drug behind us the one is a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's been so long as it was completely banned what next who else will go after. my money would go nobody because they want to keep beating a new draw and say russia's bad russia is bad because it is the only bad one in order these 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 a lot of the cases that there's a lot of blood goes everywhere. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change and for the the world anti-doping agency had laid out a roadmap for russia to become compliant after the allegations with moscow taking unprecedented measures to help counter any possible doping among russian athletes the structure of russia's own anti drugs agency rosado was reformed allowing international experts to take control of its tests doping has also been made a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence

a law that is currently only imposed by a handful of european countries resolve them at eighteen out of the twenty criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two because it denies any government run doping program ever existed but last month still found the russian agency to be non-compliant the head of water tonight the decision was political but did say that sport cannot exist without politics. it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because of the affects every aspect of the sport is such an important part of people's lives that well such comments may be at odds with perhaps the most important document in sport the olympic charter it clearly states that there can be no political or commercial abuse of sport and the athletes. and the international olympic committee president thomas back gave his assurance that the decision was not politically motivated the eye you see is 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 brags 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 this is r.t.

our other big headline news ahead donald trump is expected to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital later on wednesday no major policy overhaul we'll look at the potential ramifications of that move after the break. eh eh eh. eh eh. eh eh. eh eh global. dropping bombs brings peace talks forcing you to fight the battles

they don't lead to new thoughts credit tell you that plenty of the public by fell for the most important news today. telling you are not cool enough to buy their product listen. to all the hawks we along with all love me. welcome back senior u.s. officials say president trump is going to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is also set to kick start the process of moving the american embassy to the city from tel aviv the white house says the decisions which are expected to be announced about seven hours time will be in america's best interest 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 that ultimately he'll make what he feels is the best decision for the united states the city of jerusalem which is considered holy by christians muslims and jews is not recognized as the israeli capital by most of the international community despite the country's government being based there and claiming the ancient city as its capital donald trump's announcement where made will be a landmark decision and will likely inflame tensions in the middle east. images have already emerged in fact of several men in bethlehem burning pictures of the american leader u.s. citizens of also be warned to stay away from the west bank and the old city in jerusalem be used foreign policy chief being quick to respond to trump's initiative to she says it needs to be discussed with the palestinians who also claim to roost as their capital. a way must be found through negotiations to resole the status of jitters them as the future of the states so that the escalation of both can be

fulfilled its 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've 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 at a two 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 caleb r.t. new york donald trump said in the past that he believes he has a good shot at bringing peace to the region but journalist mark told us that he doesn't think that's really on the president's agenda 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 trump needs to keep himself in office and needs to pretend that he's president and that different constituencies should not oppose. presidents of course have the power to influence millions but few if any are as adept at using social media to get their message out as donald trump next my girlfriend says santiago looks at the u.s. leaders unique form of twitter diplomacy and the stare it causes in the news. 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 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 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 guess where range say and what i say and with the mainstream media are i don't his 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 thank god for him because they have nothing to say he does all the work for them think about this you are 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 stories no reporting no research no scouring the world nothing about honduras the thing about syria that i 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 . i'll tell you who else is going to tweeting the altie news desk because of this at a time like right that's it for me for now i'll be back in thirty five minutes to thank you again.

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palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos a member of the commission to you i can do this using my combustor he is going out on sunday how we did it you know john you tell me they should be the only palestinians who gets the most hope from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there is some of those who were on the vision didn't know who could do this. and the us does not often have the knowledge to how to display any of the muscle that you have and i'm going to continue muslims you might do more in the middle sauced don't piss off.

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was about east of the speech but some of you know in the room that he builds a little i tunes i think it's. just because i'm is h.d. to. the police i mean it's not a quarter the for us that the control of us through media publisher that will let you decide to leave no she wouldn't is clouded with this it does expose but samina is the biggest draw on finish at the touch in the input of what you are suggesting it's used to misspoke when you submit is there was to my answer is we don't know is do you have travel in the shell you have to get those. several months before the rio olympics elaine a symbol of us still believed in justice got those going into as if you're going to

the most of those that we have let's face it it was let them evaluate the view that was to me and there's an umbrella of i would that but that's not just it was maybe it's because then you do it's obvious that they did a lot but then we go it's an additional it's you misspoke when we have invited the by us but i discard them into the room sloots if this didn't happen they banned the entire russian track and field team from the rio olympics. to void and announce a stern union b.s. because it's. not going to. be you valuable lessons this event provides your butt out of that but i want you to do just that in this ticket or. above this of the past the super bowl this is just like that together that chelsea of the group was more than a stick by you did which in no group that needs to please the line from far gone there could be this poor thing that i waiting i see one in this kind of i'm not the

boss that he watches goals that those guys deal with they have the view the sport the scimitar they don't get anything with that i says could you go with a book that they didn't. michael rasmussen is a mountain biking champion king of the mountains of the two thousand and five two thousand and six two hundred fronts he builds a meteoric sports career and became one of the world's most famous cyclists. many people a wants to keep alive. and. i'm sorry if i have to break the news that. i do not believe in illusions. and. i think that this sport in general has lost its virginity long time ago. barely known at the outset of his career it took eight years to become a cycling icon today rasmussen's over forty years old it's only now after his sports.