the international olympic committee bans team russia from the twenty eight thousand 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. so will participate be it individual or team competitions under the name olympic elsley it from russia. other news the recent deadly terror attacks in the u.k. could have been thought of by security services according to a new report from the government. and the us president is expected to recognize the capital city of israel a move likely to ignite fury among many in the middle east.

from in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow is wednesday afternoon for here in the russian capital our top story this hour the international olympic committee has banned the team russia from the twenty eighteen winter games in south korea the decision was made on tuesday night however individual athletes who can prove that they're clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know why did elsley so will participate be to an individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing this name and under the olympic flag. the olympic and slim will be played in any several. no one thought about what it actually means for the athletes to go to the olympics

under a neutral flag or is it simply in 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 the results of two special commissions launched to investigate alleged doping in russian support artie's kade partridge and you know nail earlier discussed how it all unfolded. basically what it amounted to as 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 buildup to this decision twenty two an hour and as i say not a great deal of time either to appeal all or to prove whether or not you're innocent and be able to say what the store was the great compromise was being able

to compete on during neutral flying but there's a number of issues surrounding the 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 they said it's now in a way aren't you here to take part your and your and the olympic now from russia as we heard now anthems no flags and also as you said that sense of prestige that sense of patriotism the whole point of what the olympics about these are all claims effectively came it's claim and counter-claim because you had lodging golf 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 in 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 affect 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 have 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 they 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 rajan cough 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 then i'm really worried and we can hear of him now. i know that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and it is not that there is 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 would 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 her silver medal after being what he was burned 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 exports but this is all because of the system or 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 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 they say 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 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 you're concerned about socially squalor in sochi double toilets and missing door handles the water that came out of the tower the problem with the door but the hosts games were. and so well even critics had to admit they were it three things going to mazing it's running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well as i'm being really impressed and everything russians and so forth. which they care about. so far well organized and people are really friendly here and they're having a good time like our accommodation our food almost four years later and russians who triumphed in sochi and now being stripped of their medals and given life a little pick bans why in twenty sixty in the middle report explosive he claimed

russia used an elaborate system of state sponsored doping athletes officials and ministers were implicated like the plot of a cold war novel the attitude to russia a return to skepticism then retribution as its track and field team and entire paralympic team were banned from the rio games which left the clean athletes wondering why. we care about how the russians completing it so they got it the right policy but sure they are a clean nation never mind cleaned out they are 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 logic of 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 was questionable 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 the 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. despite some headlines saying the i.o.c. decision wasn't harsh enough a number of international athletes have been expressing sympathy on twitter many 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 here please competing dishes opens the door for them to continue through the olympics. it's a victory that only officially cleared in clean athletes will be able to compete in pure on chang but it's so sad that russian athletes weren't be able to compete under the flag of the country raise them. the international olympic committee itself says it's unclear who is behind the doping effort the i.o.c. is report also mentions it was unable to find evidence to suggest that 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 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. 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 parker and mr reedy and travers and so on they need to do to kind of stay on top of us into doing a new russia is very useful to keep it's very very unfair in russia under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us the one is a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond and so on and it was completely beyond what next who else will go after. my money would go nobody

because they will want to keep beating new drums say russia's bad russia is bad because if russia is the only bad one in order at least are clean and in this my athletes from are and are clean your it is nuclear clean so we can sleep well at night thinking are we ok the russians or the bad guys in the case for the case that there's a lot of blood goes everywhere. you know it won't change and now with this it will change and for all of the world anti doping agency had laid out a road map 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 brossard it was reformed allowing international experts to take control of its tests doping also be made a criminal offense punishable with a jail sentence a long running currently imposed by a handful of european countries restart a med 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 while still found the russian agency to be non-compliant the head of water denied

the decision was political but did say sport cannot exist without politics. it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because nobody affects every aspect of 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 document in sports 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 gave his assurance that the decision was not politically motivated. the i you see is a politically absolutely neutral we would not allow her to be influenced by any kind of political considerations in. such a sporting matters just listening to the press conference and they fielded exactly

that question and they said this isn't a political decision but of course the world knows that it's exactly that this has been a controversy that has been clouded in political judgment and it's impossible to separate this particular decision from what's going on in the rest of the world regarding fake news and the allegedly intervention of russia into britain's bragg's it vote and even the american presidential election so there is a lot of this kind of stuff swirling around the world at the moment a lot of it is beyond belief frankly about people are accepting some of it so i don't think you can disentangle the two things. he had lined news ahead british security services missed opportunities to avert recent terror attacks that's according to a new report and it's among all stories after the break. here's

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think what i know about the beautiful guy great chance for. peace. welcome back in britain opportunities to prevent a series of recent terror attacks in both manchester and london where mr according to a new report carried out for the government with the details his party boy. well this is come from an independent report that was carried out by the u.k. home office and it was looking at how well the security services did their jobs in the run up to the string of terror attacks that took place in the u.k. over the past year and one of the things that it found was that three of the six attackers that they were looking at they were on m i five radar so the domestic security services were watching them already perhaps more worryingly the reports

concluded that the attack carried out by soundman a baby in manchester arena in may the one that took the lives of twenty three people among them many children says that with hindsight that attack could have been preventable the cards fall and differently that's natural quote from the report take a look at how the cards did end up falling. but to give you an idea of the extent to which the perpetrator of the attack in manchester was all the security services radar well m i five were meant to have a meeting about whether or not to up his surveillance nine days after he was able to carry out that bombing the report also says that m i five denies that the

bombing was preventable and all this is coincide with a rather dramatic story here about two men who have been arrested for plotting to bomb downing street and assassinate to reason may so that gives you an illustration of the sort of constant threat that the security services care having to deal with take a listen to the home secretary amber rudd commenting on this report that a developing move quickly from march. attack and threats of becoming harder to detect although it's got to be said that a foil plot is clearly best said the one that has been carried out but in the run up to christmas this said their threat level is going to be weighing heavily on many people's minds. the other big development this wednesday a senior u.s. official has confirmed that the us is going to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the decision by president trump has already sparked

a wave of criticism across the muslim and arab world trumps also set to kick start the process of moving the american embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv ultimately he'll make what he feels is the best decision for the united states 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 this is a decision that makes you believe. that the. american proposals will believe these bruises and prove. that you're going to happen so it is a matter of probability jerusalem which is considered holy by muslims jews and christians it is not recognized as the israeli capital by most of the international community as despite the country's government being based there and it claiming the ancient city as its capital has column open 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 we call them all our people in israel and the around the world together in city centers and israeli embassies and consulates with the aim of demonstrating our general popular anger. 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 i mean we'd like to warn american once more not to take this step which my deep problems in the region. look we will keep up our fight against this decision to the end this situation could take us to the point where we could end diplomatic relations 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 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 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 protests over the impending official announcement in about five hours now

have already started in palestinian territories several men in bethlehem been pictures of the american leader tom said in the past that he believes he has a good shot of bringing peace to the region but journalist mark presume ski told us he doesn't think that's really on the president's agenda. the bigger picture is not a peace process not doesn't even really exist nobody really expects that to happen what's really happening is the region is being flooded with all. 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 that. that's your auto news route for now get out of the off the apps and

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i. i'm part chilton this is boom broadcast around the world from washington d.c. coming up the organization of petroleum exporting countries has agreed with them their one point eight million barrels per day production cut through the end of twenty eighteen have the cuts had any real impact on raising oil prices and what does the future hold for the u.s. and global oil commodities and how might that impact consumers how might it impact you we'll drill into it with tyson slocum plus we'll examine how sexual harassment allegations are affecting the entertainment industry then the u.s. securities and exchange commission's new cyber unit jumps into action its first target and initial claims offering by

a canadian company we'll talk to alex mahela veggie about the latest but first let's check out the news stories topping the headlines. jay powell is on track to be the next chair of the federal reserve after being approved by the senate banking committee vote today by twenty two to one with only one democrat democrat senator elizabeth warren opposing the nomination the full extent it is expected to occur firmly in the not too distant future mr powell who has received bipartisan support in the past he's sort of the federal reserve governor since two thousand and twelve mr powell also is set to replace he said to replace chairwoman janet yellen who's term expires in february and that same senate banking panel today also consider legislation to scale back some of the wall street reform and consumer protection act of two thousand and ten provisions known as dodd frank as the regulations relate to small and medium sized banks it's one of the areas where even a few democrats agree the law may have gone too far. under

a proposal offered by chair might create though the threshold at which banks are considered too big to fail would be increased from fifty billion dollars to two hundred fifty billion recall the government bailed out many banks with hundreds of millions of dollars in the wake of the two thousand and eight financial collapse chief among those were the bank of america and wells fargo both fed chair yellen and gov powell have voiced their support for the idea. that coins rise to the top is not over yet as the london markets opened on tuesday morning bitcoin posted another record high with each coin in the upper eleven thousand dollar area the rise comes as more and more investors and financial companies are showing growing interest in crypto currencies bit coins rise however has not been easy and the volatility has been a rock n roll roller coaster help pushing confidence and bitcoin and perhaps the price was the recent announcement from the chicago mercantile exchange group c m a

group that the world's largest most diverse futures exchange would offer a bit coin futures contract on december eighteenth not to be outdone the chicago board options exchange announce their own bitcoin futures that will be starting on december eleventh and even nasdaq is jumping into the digital pool they say they will offer a bit coin futures contract some time next year. opec the organization patrolling expert in countries and other oil producing nations importantly russia have agreed to extend their one point eight million dollar barrel day cut through the end of next year those cuts which were agreed to at this time last year have a had any real impact on raising oil prices and what does the future hold for us in global oil and how might that impact you and businesses which really rely on

a. horrible fuel costs let's drill baby drill sorry into this issue with tyson quote cloke i'm the director of public citizens energy program tyson thank you again for being with us it's always my pleasure so tell me how has this impacted this cut opec in the other countries how has it really impacted prices or has it since they agreed to it about a year ago you know not much it's really just a couple dollars a barrel and you know last night we saw oil prices go down two percent after going up a couple dollars right after the announcement the fact is that opec isn't as big of a deal anymore yes they can announce taking one and a half million barrels of oil off the market but the real drivers right now are what's going on with consumption and the biggest question marks there are what's going on with the chinese economy is it going to grow or is it going to contract and of course replacing gasoline powered.