this is our breaking news after months of speculation president putin officially announcing his bid for reelection in twenty eight. also headlining this hour the international olympic committee bans team russia from the twenty eighteen winter games after a three year doping scandal that's to buy the lack of concrete evidence to support the claims of a state sponsored program. so will participate be individual or team competition condos in the olympic elsley from russia. the recent deadly terror attacks in the u.k. could have been forged by security services to a new report from the government. also ahead in the next few hours the us

president's expected to recognize jerusalem as the capital city of israel a move that's likely to ignite fury among many in the middle east. this wednesday the fifth of december at six pm here in moscow my name is khan and busy news day here at r.t. h.q. breaking news to begin with that we learned in the past few minutes the officially announced his bid for the twenty eighteen presidential election here in russia across the details for us now. what exactly is mr putin said. well mr putin really does know how to keep us on the edge of his seat doesn't he i've been here all day because we were really expecting that he would announce that he would be running for a fourth term earlier today as he attended the volunteers forum and most guys there were waiting around and of course he still remained tight lipped take

a look. especially going to support your school thank you for your support yes i will present my candidacy for the presidency of the russian federation. so very as mr putin teasing the audience and journalists like me across the country earlier today is seemingly as seeking some validation from the younger audience that earlier in moscow now long gone how does wonder whether he's genuinely been conflicted about whether to decide to run for a fourth term after he's been asked so many times over the the recent months countless times in fact that he. preferred not to say whether he's going to run or not or whether he has just been teasing us all this time but of course eventually just in the past hour or so he did make a decision here it is. yes you're going to show you i mean if i make such a decision. and the people close to you support it here's. the

. now posts that peyton's approval rating hit record highs this year in twenty seventeen so although it his him throwing his hat into the ring has been widely expected returns and have quite a few interesting contenders up against him including want to spend years sobchak i reported on this a few months ago when she decided to run for the presidency is quite a controversial figure she's a former reality t.v. presenter she once modeled for playboy she also hosted a political show and she's come out she's also attended opposition rallies against president putin i might add and she's said that she wants to unite people against putin so that was quite an interesting feature about the coming elections i was also interesting is that she also happens to be the daughter of the first. former

and there us that peter is a man who president putin himself once referred to as his mentor so quite an eclectic bunch in the mix for the elections next year saw to make it a very interesting race indeed. now the campaign game starts in earnest i guess now that we know this particular detail for the other here in central moscow thank you very much for that. other big news today 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 are clean will be allowed to compete but 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 naval and under the olympics like. the olympic and will be played in is a 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. of the scandal first 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 was 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 i wasn't there and for the same russia because after the rio olympics the situation escalated last december the second part of the mclaren report came out which apparently had more evidence that resulted in the decision to recheck all the samples taken from russian athletes at sochi twenty fourteen throughout this year the russian doping scandals further intensified twenty two athletes who subsequently disqualified and stripped of their medals a partridge and you know neal discussed that earlier. 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 were innocent to be able to say what the store was the great compromise was being able to compete on doing neutral flying but there's a number of issues surrounding the time constraints that you just said absolutely

as they said it's now in no way aren't you here to take part you're in 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 olympics about these are all claims effectively came its claim and counterclaim 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 and this is cause a bit of consternation amongst the athletes themselves and one by a teacher said well if you're going to basically ban people on the basis of scratches and some elevated salt then i'm really worried and we can hear of him now . that we will be able to see some evidence for what they're being punished and that 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 would prove there wasn't a presumption of guilt there they were actually proved 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 a 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 the level that the i.o.c. do. 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 roger and covers diaries that is how he wrote about all

the things that were going on in the time by the metal table the people who won medals by the the so-called justice 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 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 of the house games went so well even critics had to admit they were it we think of an amazing it's running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well as i'm been really impressed and everything russians and so forth. which they care about.

so far well organized people are really friendly here having a good time through our accommodation. 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 sixty in the middle report explosively 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 the entire paralympic team from the rio gave which left the clean athletes wondering why. we know 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 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 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 result of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe broaching court or not is looks more like a religious inquisition. questionable 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 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. co-partners there were reaction to the olympic decision from president putin who. said he won't prohibit any clean athletes from participating next february winter olympics they will have to do so under

a neutral flag of course just to let you know that while they'll have to jump through for this they have to have a completely clean record if they do want to attend that also have to apply to an i.o.c. panel to prove they've got a clean doping record they won't be able to wear the team russia colors and if they win a medal they won't do so under the russian national anthem with that in mind the athletes themselves are due to meet and discuss this themselves on the twelfth of december on whether to go ahead and take part under a neutral flag or boycott the games we'll let you know what happens there now despite some of the 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 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 really does nothing to punish the actual cheaters there is still a large number of days here please competing dishes opens the door for him to continue through the olympics. it's a victory that bernie officially cleared and clean athletes will be able to compete in pure in china but it's so sad that russian these weren't be able to compete on the fly across the country to raise them. 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 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. it 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 target and so on they need to do to kind of state of the on top of us are doing a new russia is very useful to keep this it's very very unfair and russia and are doing this there is of course a political drive behind us to what is a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's barn and so on and it was completely banned what next who else will go after breaking my money would be

a nobody because they will want to keep eating pizza new drums a russia's bad russia's bad because if russia is the only bad one in order at least for clean and then there's my athletes from our inner clean your it is nuclear clean so we can sleep well at night thinking or 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 were. you know it won't change and now with this it will change and for the. amount of our breaking news president putin has officially announced that he will run for reelection in twenty eighteen the announcement came at a meeting with workers at a russian car factory who is celebrating eighty five years of production mr putin also said russian authorities will not prevent the country's athletes from going to the olympics under a neutral flag earlier on wednesday mr putin was asked of the volunteer forum in moscow about his intention to run for the presidency in twenty eighteen at the time he didn't give a direct answer saying that a decision will be announced soon russia's ruling party has already said that it will support mr putin's candidacy the first round of the presidential election in

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other hats in the ring for that election and discuss now with marcus papadopoulos who's publisher editor of politics first magazine hi there marcus anything in the timing of this announcement today less than twenty four hours after the i.o.c. did it thing against team russia. no i don't think we should look at this announcement from our perspective i think the decision of letting the appearance in to stand in next year's presidential election it's all no surprise whatsoever us no surprise to myself to read mr putin seventeen year leadership with russia he has been exceedingly successful indeed he saved russia from the catastrophic cleat disastrous. tenure of boris yeltsin and indeed the russian people are very very grateful to president putin for what he has done for their country the russian federation had it not been for mr putin's policies for his very

strong leadership could have disintegrated as did the suit be. and although as we mentioned the approval ratings have been high doesn't necessarily mean it's a done deal and no doubt there will be cynicism from abroad which rather treats russian voters with a degree of contempt there what international reaction do you expect. well quite frankly this is an internal matter for the russian federation the russian federation is a independent suffering country and if the russian people next year during the presidential election choose to reelect president who's in that lead then they have every right to do that and it has nothing to do with america or britain or any other country in the west or indeed any other country in the world with people in america and britain needs one to stand. requires

a very strong lead. people historically support the need for a very strong leader back country that mightn't be to the taste of american and british politicians and journalists but that is irrelevant all that matches is that russia is kept on the very strong leadership of president putin provides that strong leadership one of the points russia is not the west and there is no reason why bosses should be like the west given that we're at an age where countries complain of interference in their own actions and it's been several of them over the paul feig is is that anything that you think might trouble the shelf. whoa i think that it's gone it cal the americans are complaining to the rest of the world that russia allegedly interfered in their presidential election last year i say ironic because the americans are the biggest violates is of international law the

united nations charter in the world is there an opportunity is there the potential for the americans to try and interfere in the presidential election next year yes i believe there's the potential for the americans to be successful. because the russian people are overwhelmingly unified in their support for president putin it doesn't mean that they're wrong serious challenges. we've seen for example the need to diversify the russian economy. but the russians want to be ruled by a strong leader and someone who will ensure that the west's influence that the west has in russia junot easy and yeltsin never return and that is another reason why christine putin is so very popular amongst ordinary russians ok for now thanks for your insight into this market publisher and editor of politics first magazine thanks for your time. the other big headline news today

a senior u.s. official has confirmed that the u.s. is going to officially recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel the decision by president trump already sparked a wave of criticism across the muslim and arab world 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 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 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 in our position on that has not changed. which is considered holy by muslims jews and christians is

not recognized as the israeli capital by most of the international community has despite the country's government being based and it claiming the ancient city as its capital but morgan has 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. 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 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. live now to dr mustafa barghouti who's leader of the palestinian national initiative. we're less than three hours away from mr trump making this announcement but it's all been confirmed by officials how do you expect the palestinian people to react. well it's not very surprising to us this president is reckless and this is another reckless decision that he's taking. this is a very serious matter and very dangerous one because in this way mr trump is declaring that his administration is participating in violating international law. and in

committing our crime practically by accepting the annexation of occupied territory is. this we normally find the role of the united states as a mediator in any future peace process and he's practically aborting his own in peace initiative before it is born i don't think this is a responsible behavior and this will be met of course with a very serious not only unguarded but steps from the palestinian side yes there will be a popular but month violent uprising nonviolent. that would resemble maybe the first intifada because we are left now with the death of a peace process that continued for twenty five years and achieved nothing. but there are several other steps that we can see including joining all you only agencies immediately referring israel to the international criminal court take the side of diplomatic confrontation of as with israel and with those who are supporting israel and demanding that enhancement of boycott divestment sanctions

against israel like the apartheid system in south africa was treated because israel practically has created another system of apartheid after the longer of your position in modern history and what about of wider reaction because just looking through other countries that have person from his team have been speaking to other leaders egypt syria turkey spirit jordan syria when the list goes on i'm yet to see anybody who actually in that part of the world who sits back says all will be ok then how damaging is it going to be to the fragile what the rest of it peace process in that part of the world. this will be a very serious act that will definitely destabilize the situation not only in palestine but in the region as a whole and it really puts the united states in isolated and isolated position in relationship to the rest of the world. and yes there will be reactions from other countries the this man in the white house does not understand what you lose

a limb means to one point six billion muslims and what it means to two point two billion christians and what it means the three hundred sixty million arabs he cannot allow the jewish israeli government to monopolize with a solution and even not respect the rights of the palestinians who live in jerusalem for their freedom in their own city this is a very serious act and of course you have to expect the reactions from all over the area but also worldwide and i think we will have every right now to our here to address the european union and on countries that have not recognized palestine clear of the chablis for negotiations and tell them now we have to recognize not only palestine but also if you lose a limb as a capital. because one side with united states is unilaterally imposing facts on the ground killing the whole negotiation process and the whole

agreements that is called were limited he would have said that all these final hours cannot be decided with elizabeth and the signals i'm putting off and possible getting thank you very much for joining us on the program i guess when imo when president from speaks in the next few hours about his reasoning behind all this for now there thanks for your time thank you. x. a night in britain opportunities to prevent a series of recent terror attacks in both manchester and london were missed 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 job 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 attack is that they were looking at they were on m i five radar so the domestic security services were watching them.