to be taken serious. when considering it's definitely taking into account our conversation and your response thank you we were. i was thank you it was to put it i was. i when. it was the it was as the president of russia vladimir putin at a gathering of social volunteers at a packed arena in northwest moscow they were celebrating the work of volunteers who form the backbone of most of the organization of the big events that take place in russia sporting and on sporting events also presenting some awards there he was asked a very directly the question that's been on everybody's lips and the thing that we were possibly waiting for a direct answer for but we didn't get one and that was whether president putin will be standing for

a fourth term come the election next march he did ask whether the crowd would be on his side you heard the cheers there among the people in the arena but he says if he does take this decision will you and those close to you support this decision there was a cheer and then we got the response a decision will be taken soon so no answer just yet but it does happen though you know where you hear it first. you're watching r.t. international just turned three o'clock in the afternoon here our top story this hour the international olympic committee has banned team russia from the twenty eight team winter games in south korea the body made the decision on tuesday night resorting to was a day 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 this label and under the olympic flag. the olympic and swim will be played in really. no one thought about what it actually means for the attlee's 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. over 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 someone else made a partridge really discuss the unfolding situation with you know neil 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 in the athletes then to appeal against those decisions they've been twenty two athletes have already appealed twenty five were banned in the build up to this decision twenty two are now appealing 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 athletes being able to compete on during neutral fly but there's a number of issues around there 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 is now in no way our own chief here to take part your and your an 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 the lim. it's about these are all claims effectively came its claim and counterclaim because you have to lodge and go off and mclaren 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 bean systemic doping that it was state sponsored and this had been going back 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 effect those samples get into those bottles also swap them also there was a means of been 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 if it to be 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 our theatre 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. 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 will 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 burned twice before this russian markets have never doped that majority of them proven that as well but now they're looking at a lifetime by exporters but this is all because of the system or all the level 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 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 the people who won medals by the so-called duchess 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 locals 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 concerns about social squalor in sochi double toilets and missing door handles the water that came out of the tower the problem with the door. but the house cables went so well even critics had to admit they were it rethink going to mazing it's running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well as i'm being really impressed and everything rush is on so far too much to care about. so

far well organized people are really friendly here having a good time through our accommodation our food is almost four years later and russians who triumphed in sochi and now being stripped of their medals and given life a little pick bans why twenty sixty in the middle report explosively claimed russia used an elaborate system of state sponsored doping athletes officials and 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 power live from the rio games 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 lodging 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 course or not it looks more like a religious inquisition is less than full bottles had no visible scratches they were presumed tampered with as the russians must have perfected 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. among the reactions some western athletes had heartfelt messages for their russian counterparts who are now set to miss out on the games i 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 scandals 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 the really does 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 pune chang but it's so sad that russian athletes weren't be able to compete under the flag of the country the rays the. international olympic committee itself

says it's unclear who was behind the doping efforts the i.o.c. its 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 discord 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 travers 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 under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us the wanted 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 will want to keep beating new drums a russia's bad russia is bad because if russia is the only bad one in order to write these are clean and then there's my athletes from our inner clean your athletes nuclear clean so we can sleep well at night thinking all we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case you know a lot of the cases that there's a lot of bad guys over or. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change you heard of the world anti-doping agency it laid out a roadmap for russia to become compliant after the allegations with moscow taking unprecedented measures to help counter any possible doping among the 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 nor only currently imposed by handful of european countries result the met eighteen out of twenty criteria saying it couldn't meet the final two because it denies any government run doping program ever existed but last month water still found the russian agency to be non-compliant that of water denied the decision was political but did say that sport cannot exist without politics. it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because politics affects is straight to the law and sports is such an important part of people's lives that such comments may be at odds with perhaps the most important documents in sport the olympic charter it clearly states that there can be no political or commercial abuse of sport and the athletes. the international olympic committee president thomas back gave his

assurance that 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. 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 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. this is our take our other big headline news ahead donald trump is expected to recognize to reduce limits the israeli capital later on wednesday in a major policy overhaul will look at the potential ramifications of that after the break. with lawmakers manufactured sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes reject them so. the final merry go round be the one percent. nor middle of the room six.

if you trust the mainstream media well then you're in the minority sadly a great deal of media today is not designed to inform but rather confirm political biases this approach of the news is not only polarizing but it's also lowering journalistic. is this way readers and viewers seek their news elsewhere. again new in this opportunities to prevent a number of recent terror attacks in both manchester and london were missed according to a new report carried out for the u.k. government looking across all this for us in london is artie's polly boy from the still good now probably hollywood if we learn from this report well this is yes

from this independent report that was carried out by the u.k. home office and it was basically looking at how well the security services did their job in the run up to this string of attacks that took place in the u.k. terror attacks over the past year and one of the things that is found on the big headlines is that three of the six attackers that they were looking at were on m i five radar and perhaps more worryingly the report concludes that the attack by soundman a bady on manchester arena which killed twenty three people among them there were many children as young as eight years old well with hindsight this report says that attack could have been preventable and this is a quote from the report it says it could have been preventable had the calls for learn differently take a look at what did take place. and

to give you an idea of the degree to which. how on the radar this the perpetrator of this attack was of the security services there was going to be a meeting scheduled to discuss whether or not his surveillance should be increased but that was nine days of he carried out that bombing of manchester arena now the report also says that m i five denies that they could have prevented this attack and all of this has coincided with another piece of news this making big headlines here at the moment and that is that two men have been arrested they're now in court accused of planning on boring the entrance to downing street and then running in

with knives and in a suicide suicide vest with the intention of killing the prime minister to reason may say this is an illustration of the source of a level of plots that the security services here are dealing with take a listen to amber rudd the home secretary talking about the severe threat level here in the u.k. recently plots are developing move quickly from article as nation to attack and threats becoming harder to detect although a four yr old plot is of course much better than one that's been carried out but in the run up to christmas this increased the threat level is going to be weighing heavily on a lot of people people's minds home experts really really does not ok. thanks very much for updating us on the. thank 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 in about six 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 but ultimately he'll make what he feels is the best decision for the united states of jerusalem which is considered holy by of muslims jews and christians is not recognized as the israeli capital by most of the international community despite the country's government being based there and then claiming the ancient city as its capital donald trump's announcement were made will be a landmark decision and it's likely to inflame tensions in the middle east. in fact images have already emerged of several men in bethlehem burning pictures of the american leader of u.s. citizens of also be want to stay away from the west bank in the old city in jerusalem the use of foreign policy chief being quick to respond as well she says

initiative needs to be discussed with the palestinians who also claim jerusalem as that capital. away must be found through negotiations to resole the status of jerusalem as the future of the states so that the escalation of both can be fulfilled 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 is 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 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 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 the. 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 has said in the past that he believes he has

a good shot at bringing peace to the region but journalist mark radomsky told us 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 a poser. i am not sure headline news at this hour i'll be back in about thirty five minutes with your next altie international world news update and see them.

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elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it loving you i can mislead this is my complicity is going up to study hall maybe you. know john. the only palestinians you get the most hopeful is jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world over vision know only could do this. and though it is unfair advantage to have to display any of the muscle that you have i don't know if you can t.v. a muslim seem to do more in the middle sauced some piss off.

they call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots were expressing my opinions on t.v. there's two things missed doing it behind this record is a simple strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the arc of 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 hour stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town because i'm to try to break me on the wheel i have put up with a long time 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 be you want to do this because we're free thinkers.

greetings and salutation. in the quiet canadian city of montreal this week a fascinating and potentially future altering conference is taking place the ad hoc technical experts committee on synthetic biology may sound like just another brainy working group of the united nations convention on biological diversity but this year's debate and putting a moratorium on the controversial gene drive research has implications that could not only change the face of the natural world but the future of warfare as well you see gene drive or genetic extinction technology is essentially the ability to manipulate the d.n.a. of a species in order to control its population or or ultimately even in sort of genetic

kill switch and wipe a species off the face of the planet while many scientists see this as a potential breakthrough in the fight against overpopulation of invasive species or even as a way to eradicate a mosquito mosquito carrying diseases like malaria which unicef estimates kills over one million people per year and many in the community the scientific community are still very nervous about this according to one you an expert who spoke to the guardian he said quote you may be able to remove viruses or the entire mosquito population but that may also have downstream ecological effects on species that the penned on them and other words ecosystems in nature are a lot like jenga the more blocks you are move the more you know everyone's played jungle but that's not the only appears on display at this year's conference because like flies on feces whenever words like manipulation mask. destruction and extinction are thrown around you can bet your bottom dollar that the pentagon is

not far behind me hess the guardian has uncovered that the depends advanced research projects agency or darpa the good folks behind the creepy backflipping robots and other such horrifying things we've seen online well darpa has invested roughly one hundred million dollars into genetic extinction technologies making the us military now one of the biggest funders of gene drive research in the world think on that lovely lovely thought as we start watching hawks. as it gets to the bottom. like you that i got. hit with. this.