artie's headline news the international olympic committee bans the team russia from the twenty eighteen winter games after a three year doping scandal that's despite a lack of concrete evidence to support the claims of a state sponsored drug program. these in righted elsley so will fall to. the individual or team competitions under the name pollution peak elsley from russia. recent deadly terror attacks in the u.k. could have been faulted by security services according to a new report from the government. also ahead the us president is expected to recognize jerusalem as the capital city of israel a move likely to ignite fury among many in the middle east.

and from a column brain the news team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow some five in the afternoon here our big story this wednesday the international olympic committee has banned 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 i did elsley so will participate beating individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing these. and under the olympics like. the olympic and will be played in is really. no one thought about what it actually means for the athletes to go to the olympics

under a neutral flag it simply emerge out of our national sport. russian athletes won't give up on their country or their flag as this is always in their hearts. the scandal broke three years ago when german t.v. channel a r d broadcast a film alleging a state sponsored doping scheme in russia the world anti-doping agency then opened an investigation into the claims russian officials denied any claims of state sponsored doping in july last year water published the mclaren report which gave a more detailed view of the alleged scheme but seeking a more independent view the international olympic committee also launched two more investigative commissions the same month russia saw a blanket ban on all paralympians and the limpid track and field athletes competing in the rio olympics for alleged doping but it was not the end of the team russia

because after the rio games the situation escalated last december the second part of the mclaren report came out with apparently more evidence that resulted in the decision to recheck all the samples taken from russian athletes at twenty forty three this year the russian doping scandal intensified even further twenty two athletes were subsequently disqualified and stripped of their medals artie's k. partridge and you know neil discussed that a little earlier. twenty five were banned in the buildup 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're innocent to be able to say what the i.o.c. kates or was the great compromise was being able to compete on during neutral flag but there's a number of issues surrounding there isn't there time constraints that you just said absolutely as i said it's now in no way are aren't you here to take part you're in your an 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 its claim and counterclaim

you have to lodge in 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 how to do it and this is cause a bit of consternation amongst the athletes themselves and one by our teacher said well if you're going to basically ban people on the basis of scratches and some elevated salt that i'm really worried and we can hear him now. that we will be able to see some evidence for what they're 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 the 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 have to be guilty and banned and come back and that's what russian athletes will be looking at now what we're seeing on our screen justin gatlin who came back to win or silver medal after being what he was burned twice before this russian markets have never dropped the majority of them proven bad as well but now they're looking at a life time bomb and a limp exporters but this is all because of the system all the the level that the i.o.c. do. monday in terms of making their judgments and this is based on a presumption of guilt given what they considered 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 sink the system of being able to override a tamper proof system by rajan covers diaries that is how he wrote about all the things that were going on the time by the medal table the people who won medals by the 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 new concerns about socially squaller in sochi double toilets and missing door handles the water that came out of the tower the problem with the door but the house games went 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 been really impressed everything that she's done so far. so it's secure but. so far well organized people are really friendly here 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 little pick bans why in twenty sixty in the middle report explosively claimed russia used an elaborate system of state sponsored doping athletes officials and the 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 damaged from the rio games which left the clean athletes wondering why. we care about how the russians completing it until they got the right policy but sure there 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 results of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe broaching course or not is looks more like a religious inquisition. where suncor bottles have 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 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 abound slapped on the innocent who are simply prison. guilty ok partridge they're all 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 ignored 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 does 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 pyongyang 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 effort the i.o.c. its 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 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 travers and so on they need to do to kind of to stay on 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 drive behind us the want to take a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond and so long as it was completely banned what next who else will go after like my my money would be on

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 to write these are clean and then as my athletes from are and are clean you're right it's nuclear clean so we can sleep well at night thinking are we ok the russians or the bad guys in the case we're not for the case that there's a lot of bad guys everywhere. you know it won't change and now with this it will change even for the. two other news now and in britain opportunities to prevent a series of recent terror attacks both in manchester and london that were missed according to a new report carried out for the government with the details. 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 that's the one that took the lives of twenty three people among them many children it 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 threat that the security services care having to deal with take a listen to the home secretary amber rudd commenting on this report not to developing more quickly from march. the attack and threats of becoming harder to detect all that's got to be said that a foil poet is clearly better said the one that has been carried out but in the run up to christmas this seve a threat level is going to be weighing heavily on many people's minds. this is

a see in a few hours donald trump's expected to confirm a significant shift on israel which could spell big trouble for the middle east peace process is among the stories when we come back. with the politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want.

to go right to be close this is what before three of the more people. interested always in the waters in the. first. hello again cryptocurrency big another record breaking above the twelve thousand dollar mark for the first time compared to where it was at the beginning of the year when it was trading at about a thousand dollars per token and since then it's been growing constantly albeit with a few regular fluctuations is just a quick reminder of how big coin works. purrs

. we will get mining on line hold your horses until we've talked to craig and he's the senior market analyst of the foreign exchange company on the craig welcome to r.t. people were saying it was getting to ridiculous levels when cowen was in the low thousands now it's broken the twelve thousand barrier how far can this go what's

the price down to. that's the most difficult question to answer with regards to bitcoin because if you'd asked him on a year ago how much further it can go and those forecasting two thousand would have been seen as being unrealistic and yet here we are at twelve thousand so the problem with that we've got we've been cornered on the thing that makes it so difficult to value is that we've got a combination of factors really driving the price right now one thing one of course is the fundamental improvements and it's. you can argue the father of these have existed quoting recently the launching of bitcoin futures on the c b o a and c.m.e. exchanges which is just come into force in the next two weeks but the others have all of the speculator in this and it's quite clear that there's a lot of speculation happening right now and big korean people have seen the meteoric rise which is happened over the last twelve months in particular and they want a piece of the action and the problem is that that makes this even harder to value in terms of where we can go next year but. because these bubbles can last a long time if this is one but when it bursts it can be quite disastrous but its

meteoric rise hasn't exactly been without problems either has or has had some spectacular falls along the way to. it has had some spectacular falls along the way but i don't think we've seen anything compared to what could possibly happen at some point the future and again i'm not suggesting that it will certainly happen in the future and i'm not suggesting can't even tell you where we will reach before this happens because as we've seen so often with bubbles and if this is one then they can go on a lot longer than people can remain solvent if you're planning to for example go against the trends the problem that we have here is like say this is not a real thing here this is a crypto currency this is just an online virtual. currency and therefore with it being such new technology and not being overly widely adopted at this stage it's very difficult to price and that's why i think the speculative aspect of this is the most concerning and i know for a lot of people it still could be considered more of an online casino game rather

than anything of real value but still shaking things up in currency markets isn't it. the line technology is sound and i think that's an important point here there are a number of crypto currencies available as well and that's another important point people many people right now i've only heard of bitcoin but there's a many of those there's ripple there's a theory i'm among hundreds of others and i think this is another important point here while bitcoin is the most well known crypto currency. does that necessarily suggest that it's going to last that one point one stage napster was the most well known music streaming service and then along came many others including spotify which now is the market leader so i think i think what we have seen here over the last ten years or so is the opening up of a new form of exchange and that's why more people most excited about the block chain. knowledge behind because more so than big corn itself but right now you

wouldn't guess that considering the price so then you think there's a danger because there are several different types of crypto currency is doing doing the rounds that one day because i might just disappear. that's certainly a possibility if the technology that's on the lying it gets improves and gets adopted by an alternative crypto currency then there's certainly the potential for bitcoin to disappear one day we've seen a number of what's called forks where people take the technology improve upon all what they believe to be improving upon it and create an alternative crypto currency for example. is one of these there's a number of all the forks planned even for later on this month there's a number of other cryptocurrency is that go by a different name and we're yet to see governments and regulators truly get involved in this and this is were one one going to be one of the biggest challenges for something like bitcoin because the bigger it gets the bigger a problem it comes from and this is something that they can't control that they can their own currencies you know i don't if you're mining for me because i still have

trouble remembering pin numbers for no a cradle of from under thanks very much for joining us. next a senior u.s. official has confirmed that the u.s. is going to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the decision by president trump's already sparked a wave of criticism across the muslim and arab world trams also set to kick start the process of moving the american embassy from jerusalem from tel aviv. ultimately he'll make what he feels is the best decision for the united states is 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 the status of jerusalem should be determined as a negotiated in a negotiated settlement between the israelis and the palestinians and jerusalem should ultimately form to share form a shared capital between the israeli and palestinian states that is you know we continue to support a two state solution we recognize the importance of jerusalem and our position on

that has not changed jerusalem which is considered holy by muslims jews and christians is not recognized as the israeli capital by most of the international community that's despite the country's government being based there and claiming the ancient city as its capital call it more pronounced more on the u.s. president's plans 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 on 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. 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 at 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 that there is indeed many people that are far from happy with this decision from the white house. r.t. new york well it will be officially announced in less than four hours we're across the developments and reaction to that your next off the news update and thirty five . from. the close up look back on the mother

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government ships that despite a venezuelan government under chavez which failed to sufficiently diversify its economy away from oil and its saudi backed price instability so why is chavez his successor nicola my duro doing so well despite u.s. sanctions perhaps because of continual revolutionary ideas like these. giving them free now i'm living out of. them are they any more now are part of the next set of african enough i mean if. we're not going to. fix it overnight yes president glassman doro is announce a new oil backed cryptocurrency called the petro some emerging economies way which will be another nail in the coffin of washington's federal reserve system donald trump's federal reserve chair person certainly doesn't know how to regulate it i think it's important to understand that this is payment innovation it's taking

place entirely outside the banking industry and to the best of my knowledge there is no intersection at all in any way between big coreen and banks that the federal reserve has the ability to supervise and regulate janet yellen there who's term as u.s. fed chair and in less than eight weeks well we caught up with yet another new cryptocurrency recently the crypto ruble to be created by the russian federation which of course is allied to venezuela what is it well we asked for much of russia's deputy minister of economic development was in london for the annual russian british business forum opposite the palace of westminster. russian federation state secretary it is the crypt to ruble that i understand the as another initiative of my department and central bank overwrote have commented in the balls to about it where we cautious in terms of i mean we as regulators in the

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