actually. breaking news an r.t. after months of speculation president putin officially announces his bid for reelection in twenty eighteen he also commented on the unprecedented ban of team russia in the winter olympics. usurped without any doubt we will not amount to any block trade or prevent our athletes from compuserve if we want in a personal capacity. for the i.o.c. banned 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 and after years of terror i still no longer hold with any terror at three in syria the russian military says the group is being defeated that.

i feel. welcome come july from moscow you watching r.t. international now will start that breaking news because lattimer putin has officially announced his bid for the twenty eighteen presidential election in russia with the details his. it was widely expected that latinate payton would decide to run for reelection next year however he has played coyle on the topic so many times i in recent months and one con help but wonder whether he was genuinely conflicted on whether to run for the presidency again or whether he was just being really good at keeping a secret and playing the media nevertheless we were put out of our misery when he said this but you go i'm the parent you for your support yes i will present my candidacy for the president of the russian federation. but see below make sure thank you for your reaction but first of all for your work

. and i was rumored that this big announcement would come earlier in the day when he attended a volunteers forum here in moscow in fact i was here ready and waiting to bring you the breaking news of his decision however he played quite a once again and also seemed to seek validation from the audience there and they seemed very clear on what decision he should make. sure you if i make such a decision. and the people close to you support it. but it still should prove to be an interesting race over the coming weeks and months with quite an eclectic mix of candidates throwing their hats into the ring one of the most prominent being a stop child who's been gaining headlines around the world she's the former reality t.v. presenter she's also a poster playboy amongst other things that she's considered to be the russian paris

hilton and what's also quite interesting about her is that she anti putin she's attended opposition rallies and she's promised to unite people against vladimir putin one all the other interesting thing about her is that she happens to be the daughter of the former mayor of st petersburg a man who vladimir putin himself has referred to as his mentor in those early days so that should prove quite interesting but it goes aside there are an unprecedented number of women entering the race for the presidency next year which is quite extraordinary because it's the first time we've seen any woman enter the race for the presidency in russia in fourteen years and of course there are the usual suspects as well including the liberal democratic party head of lady mir she were not scare the communist party is again r.d. zyuganov and the liberal yabloko parties grigori yavlinsky are fired from that also business on but boris titov who is from the party of growth he has pledged to

a champion the rights of entrepreneurs so. quite an eclectic mix that for the russian people to think their teeth into ahead of the elections in march next year . reporting there we also spoke to adam garry about this he's the managing editor of the news website the dot com president putin will be all too aware of the unfinished challenges that remain ahead and that will certainly remain after march of next year these include further consolidation and cooperation of the one by one road project of which russia is incredibly important it includes finalizing the peace process that russia has instigated for the syrian arab republic finding a last thing peaceful solution for the free people of donbass finding a peaceful solution to the our. car bar conflict as well as using the momentum of the brics and other international bodies like the shanghai cooperation organization to the rise the rising east and south as people tend to

call them this will include making the gold system more centered in asia rather than in europe and north america it may include increased trade will certainly include i should say increased trade in national currencies between partners in southeast asia and your asia even africa in some cases especially if we're talking about metallic standards we're talking the russian federation is going to introduce a crypto ruble next year joining venezuela being the only two countries to officially have the crypto currency and then of course there's the matter of increasing people's wages without damaging inflation so all of these very important things are on the table of any president and it seems that flooded near putin wants to ask the russian people for their trust so that he can continue to work on all of these incredibly crucial matters. ok let's move on to other breaking news this

evening because the russian military has announced that syria has been completely liberated from islamic state terrorists r.t. if you go down off as the latest now from the middle east. there's one important thing you you have to understand about it the fact is it doesn't mean that i saw gone from syria doesn't mean that every last terrorist has been killed or captured know what it means is that i still just doesn't hold any significant territory whatsoever it doesn't hold any cities at all and this is a picture this is a drastically different picture compared to what we've seen it to what we had seen in say twenty fifteen when the russian coalition stepped in when the russian coalition started bombing. and here are some of the key landmark points of the russian operation in syria.

i still used to control very large swathes of syria in fact before russia started bombing its position bombing terrorists there at the request of the syrian government some pundits some geopolitical experts voiced concerns that i still could very well and to damascus at some point now of course this is no longer the case at all the u.s. had had their role in coalition in the country for a long long time lives conducting air strikes against isis before russia started this operation and now with i still essentially losing all of its territory russia is saying that it could very well consider joining american coalition and conducting conduct ok well we've just interrupted that report because a donald trump is making

a speech where he's expected to recognize to resign as the capital of israel and that is it that that city and so importantly is israel's capital. this act passed congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was reaffirmed by unanimous vote of the senate only six months ago yet for over twenty years every previous american president has exercise the laws waiver refusing to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem or to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital city presidents issued these waivers under the belief that delaying the recognition of jerusalem would advance the cause of peace some say they lacked courage but they made their best judgment based on facts as they understood them

at the time nevertheless the record is in after more than two decades of waivers we're no closer to a lasting peace agreement between israel and the palestinians it would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result therefore i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. well previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise they failed to deliver today i am delivering i've judged this course of action to be in the best interests of the united states of america and the pursuit of peace between israel and the

palestinians. this is a long overdue step to advance the peace process and to work towards a lasting agreement israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital acknowledging this is a fact is a necessary condition for achieving peace it was seventy years ago that the united states under president truman recognized the state of israel ever since then israel has made its capital in the city of jerusalem the capital the jewish people established in ancient times today jerusalem is the seat of the modern israeli government it is the home of the israeli

parliament the knesset as well as the israeli supreme court it is the location of the official residence of the prime minister and the president it is the headquarters of many government ministries for decades visiting american presidents secretaries of state and military leaders have met their israeli counterparts in jerusalem as i did on my trip to israel earlier this year. jerusalem is not just the heart of three great religions but it is now also the heart of one of the most successful democracies in the world over the past seven decades the israeli people have built a country where jews muslims and christians and people of all face are free to live and worship according to their conscience and according to their

beliefs jerusalem is today and must remain a place where jews pray at the western wall where christians walk the stations of the cross and where muslims worship at a lock's mosque however through all of these years presidents representing the united states have declined to officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital in fact we have declined to acknowledge any israeli capital at all but today we finally acknowledge the obvious that you're a slim is israel's capital this is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality it is also the right thing to do it's

something that has to be done that is why consistent with the jerusalem embassy act i am also directing the state department to begin preparation to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. this will immediately begin the process of hiring architects engineers and planners so that a new embassy when completed will be a magnificent tribute to peace in making these announcements i also want to make one point very clear this decision is not intended in any way to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement we want an agreement that is a great deal for the israelis and a great deal for the palestinians we are not taking

a position of any final status issues including the specific boundaries of the israeli sovereignty in jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders those questions are up to the parties involved the united states remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides i intend to do everything in my power to help forge such an agreement without question jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in those talks the united states would support a two state solution if agreed to by both sides in the meantime i call on all parties to maintain the status quo at jerusalem's holy

sites including the temple mount also known as. a reef above all our greatest hope is for peace the universal yearning in every human soul. with today's action i reaffirm my administration's longstanding commitment to a future of peace and security for the region there will of course be disagreement and dissent regarding this announcement but we are confident that ultimately as we work through these disagreements we will arrive at a peace and a place far greater in understanding and cooperation this sacred city should call forth the best in humanity lifting our sights to what it is

possible not pulling us back and down to the old fights that have become so totally predictable peace is never beyond the grasp of those willing to reach so today we call for calm for moderation and for the voices of tolerance to prevail over their purveyors of hate our children shouldn't herit our love not our conflicts i repeat the message i delivered at the historic and extraordinary summit in saudi arabia earlier this year the middle east is a region rich with culture spirit and history its people are brilliant proud and diverse vibrant and strong but the incredible future awaiting this region is held at bay by bloodshed ignorance and terror.

vice president pence will travel to the region in the coming days to reaffirm our commitment to work with partners throughout the middle east to defeat radicalism that threatens the hopes and dreams of future generations it is time for the many who desire peace to expel the extremists from their midst so it is time for all civilized nations and people to respond to disagreement with region to debate not violence and it is time for young and moderate voices across the middle east to claim for themselves a bright and beautiful future so today. let us rededicate ourselves to

a pair of mutual understanding and respect let us really think all those subjects and open our hearts and minds to possible and possibilities and finally i asked the leaders of the region political religious israeli and palestinian jewish and christian and muslim to join us in the noble quest for a lasting peace thank you god bless you god bless israel god bless the palestinians and god bless the united church thank you very much thank you. we were just listening live to a press conference from the american president donald trump way he has officially recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel he says it is in the best interests of the usa and the pursuit of peace between israel and palestine he said this does

not see a departure from america and their commitment to find pace and he says that we are not taking a position either on any contested borders we want to find a peace agreement for both sides that's how he justified his decision that was the announcement made by donald trump just a couple of minutes ago well later on in the program a correspondent from teresa and the west bank will bring us the latest reaction to trump's announcement among spect there will be a lot of that. you know what you know it's a president putin says that russian athletes competence a fight in the twenty eighteen winter games in south korea under a neutral flag we'll have the details plus all the stories told in a couple of things. seemed wrong. just don't hold. me to it is yet to shape

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welcome back now russia will not boycott the upcoming winter games in south korea that's despite olympic chiefs insisting that russian athletes can only take part under a neutral flag following accusations of widespread don't ping president putin says though he will not prevent anybody from competing if they want to but he did criticize the i.o.c. saying their decision was based on claims from an unreliable source that being good god he got a chunk of the former head of russia's anti doping agency. which. most of this has been certain accusations that are not proven and are generally baseless they are founded on the testimonies of a man whose moral ethical as well as psychological condition is questionable there's nothing more. but it's a privilege or it's. the process continues and there is the threat they will all of

our best athletes one by one. what symbol will be left with not the team of the first but the team of the fourth and the fifth. on tuesday the i.o.c. did ban team russia from the winter games in south korea however it claims that individual athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know i did elsley so will participate be eating individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing decently and under the olympics like. the olympic anthem will be played in. 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. where 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 those claims russian officials denied any claims of state sponsored doping in july last year whatever and publish the mclaren report which gave a more detailed view of the ledge again seeking a more independent view the international olympic committee also launched two more investigations the same month russia then saw a blanket ban on all paralympians and elim picture i can feel the athletes competing in the rio olympics for alleged doping but that was not the end of it for team russia because after the rio olympics the situation did escalate 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 the sochi twenty fourteen games throughout this year the russian doping scandal been intensified further and twenty two athletes were subsequently disqualified and stripped of their medals will artie's kate partridge and union o'neal discuss this early. 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 and be able to say what the store was the great compromise was being able to compete on neutral through arg but there's a number of issues surrounding the time constraints that you just said absolutely as i 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 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 had to dodge 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 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 then i'm really worried and we can hear of him now. i hope 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 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 have 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 ban on the limbic sports but this is all because of the system or 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 of it but all those different layers so what they're saying is that by being able to replicate they think the system of being able to override a tamper proof system by rajan covers diaries that is say he wrote about all the things that were going on in the time by the 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. 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 have pointed out that this scandal has become a political symbol and that the move likely north punishment for those people who are dug. what a sad and complicated situation i feel sick for the clean affected deathless 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 deaths here at least competing dishes 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 pyongyang chang but it's so sad that russian athletes weren't be able to compete under the flag of the country raise them. well the international olympic committee does say it's unclear who was behind the doping efforts in russia the i.c.'s report also mentions it was unable to find evidence to suggest the russian government was responsible at side 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 right exports host alan moore from moscow's capital f.m. believes the i.c.

has found a profitable strategy in demonizing russia. discord and a simple simply yes 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 stay on top and us into doing a new russia is very useful to keep this it's very very unfair in russia and are doing this tour is of course a political drive behind us the wanted a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's buying and so on and it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would go on nobody because they will want to keep beating or sikkim beaten to draw and say russia's bad russia's bad because if russia is the only bad one in order at least are clean and then there's my athletes from our inner clean your artists nuclear it was so we can sleep well at night thinking all we're ok the russians are the bad

guys in the case we're north of the case that there's a lot of bad guys over were. you know it's just it won't change i never would if they want to as you. well remind of our top story tonight donald trump has recognized you recently as the capital of israel that announcement made in the last few minutes we've got plenty of reaction to come.