the russian paralympic team remains banned from the upcoming winter games with the final decision set for january just weeks before the event starts. twitter starts posting accounts in an attempt to combat hate speech but it's accused of being selective over the profiles its founding. the german anti for movement and police clash once again this time with both publishing sharing photos of their adversaries. and a politician and there is a meeting just officially in oxfordshire in the u.k. over a sign banning people from eastern europe. thank

you for watching the headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. first let's start with some live pictures from bethlehem in palestine people there are continuing to protest against donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel today is another so-called day of rage with mass demonstrations expected to take place in the region on monday the u.n. security council trying to reverse trump's decision but the u.s. veto to that resolution and as a result palestine called for the u.s. to be excluded from peace negotiations meanwhile boast most of the muslim world is calling for east jerusalem to be recognized as the capital of palestine. moving on to our top story russia will remain bound from the upcoming winter power lympics in south korea the i.p.c. the international paralympic committee. will make

a final decision about the russian team in late january just over two months before the competition starts anastasio check in a. life details from high then that's decided the fate of the paralympic team is still not one hundred percent clear that isn't. that's right kate here in london the international paralympic committee today has announced that they're maintaining the suspension of the russian paralympic committee and that they will indeed be announcing their fine cision on the future of whether or not the parlin peons from russia are going to be able to compete and. in february now this is of course quite important because this leaves the russian athletes really holding their breath until more or less the last minute to find out whether or not they're going to be able to participate in those games so they will find out of evening of when the games are supposed to kick off another part of this decision announced today has been that they're going to maintain a measure that was implemented earlier in september that says that basically in fort sports russian athletes are going to be able to qualify in events and those

four sports under neutral flag which is quite important and those sports include cross-country skiing alpine skiing snowboarding and buy off lawn and now what's important is that it has been said that five criteria are still not being met by russia for the russian parliament committee to be reinstated and what's crucial here is that it's been said that for that to happen one of the key criteria is for the russian anti-doping agency to be fully implemented by the world anti-doping agency and for that to occur what's important is that one of those demands is that russia basically accept the allegations on the doping issue that have been made against it and this is something that russia has been denying throughout this whole time on these latest announcements we've been gauging some reaction from russian paralympians let's take a listen. now fleet should compete any way they can prove their strength their

righteousness will be on the track not in court but in stadiums and sports grounds some have just one chance some might have another but they've been preparing for the games for them they are life goal for many guys with disabilities sports is the only thing they can do and this dream is being taken away one can see their lives are taken away what's going on is just one huge injustice but well obviously all of these developments have been seen as a very painful for russian athletes looking forward to participating in those games let's keep in mind that back in twenty sixteen ahead of the olympic games in rio there was a collective down on russian paralympians partaking which was also seen as a huge blow by athletes who are looking forward to participating and while we wait for this new final decision to be announced at the end of january just earlier this month in laws and of course there was an announcement made that there will be no team russia at the olympic games and that clean athletes will only be able to

participate under a neutral flag and i want to thank you very much and assessor churkin in london thank you. well joining me in the studio now to discuss the aipcs decision is artist daniel hawkins and alan moore the sports host and capital f.m. thank you very much indeed for joining me gentlemen to dan if i can start with you while we had all the information there on the decision itself the initial decision from last year do you think in the fact that it still the blanket that it's just on is a political decision well there were only three options really available to the p.c. in this case which was lift a ban all together maintain status quo which is what's happened or perhaps go for a third option of allowing athletes of prove their claim to participate underneath flagons the doing already as nasa said there and several several sports as the russian athletes will be doing in so i think that's a decision and did yeah but if you look at some of the statements that have come out from before president phillip craven for example i believe earlier this year is

demanding that russia prove not only that their sport is clean but that their nation is clean we can actually take a listen to that now max perhaps this gust that without of what you make of it was that quick listen. about how the russians completing it until they got the right policy but sure they are clean nation never mind cleaned up actually they are to be a clean nation i mean you can take that to mean what you will but certainly questions are raised what exactly you mean xylem and sounds of you know the measures that russia have taken have been quite conference affan in fighting these allegations of doping far more than i need to control the moment guys because right now from the children the youth schools the whole way your they are now educating children. of course parents and coaches and directors of the schools what not to do and why did should not do it so basically don't take this these by a subset because it's detrimental to your health both physically and mentally so in

terms of a clean nation. this could mean anything by we've got a very cheesy weather here in moscow at the moment or could be at the road. makes no sense whatsoever and i think that mr craven he's been well known to be not a fan of russia so you know if you like clean athletes come from a clean nation if you want to extend that kind of like your link or your discomfort to sleep from one factor of. ten to nation scream it can't be the way around it doesn't make sense whatsoever so i think it just maybe makes up and of course deliberate charter itself as we discussed earlier that actually says very clearly that they oppose any political abuse. sport and certainly as we discussed last hour it's called on president a thing to ban an entire team for doping to have a blanket ban and you gave the example i learned of south africa very similar measures for the apartheid regime but in terms of blanket ban for doping that's

certainly quite a president and certainly questions are being asked whether this could have political meaning behind it and also is it a case of sort of the practicality of them are one thing i couldn't quite get my head around with this decision was kind of it's a lack of a decision it's a delay they've made a decision in the i.o.c. the i.o.c. say that ok we have a system here now that we think is what they say it's a presumption of innocence therefore russians who can prove that they can take part in the olympics so one of the paralympics i mean it does make sense if he said ok look we want you to prove x. y. and z. ok russians will go and prove it if they don't work tough luck you didn't prove it but there is nothing being given it is in terms of the grabs or you're on the out is that you know this is the greatest event for a minute these people's lives and we know in every society people who compete to scores and partly because they you know this is one we can be included in society. has great strides in two weeks who had big switch basically was the biggest ever

gathering of people with. you know who are invalids in russia where they came from all over russia to take part in your work work skills. and sports as well you know started in japan know in russia how the it was the biggest ever gathering globally so russia's be huge strides to get this inclusively for people with difficulties were to be education and physical and they would have been told sorry you're not good enough and there's also the psychological aspect as well isn't there we not only is it a logistical problem for those people who are organizing the whole event but also in terms of psychologically for the athletes they've got the sword of damocles hanging over their head they still don't know that well this press conference was planned for friday originally that will go forward with this half a page statement defectively put up with a final decision as you say will be in general you know that's just a few weeks before the actual event itself so that these athletes are neither here nor there do we train to be prepared to support it and we will go under a neutral flag or what's going to happen and it's affecting athletes really not

only russians themselves because i think a lot about the leaks now as i don't rightly mentioned earlier their own certain now of the burden of proof the level of evidence that's required to prove that one is clean we have one here all are beyond done and who expressed his take on the whole situation how that's affecting him let's take a listen to what he had to say. i hope that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and that is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples just just going to the evidence which we discussed earlier would struggle to stand up but really in a court of law i mean the investigative committee themselves they've said they're pretty sure that there was you know high state level masterplan programs they've even presented some evidence to to back up those claims but they themselves have said that there is no. you know conclusive stedfast evidence that would prove this beyond a doubt and something you'd need to enforce a decision like this by adding an entire to. the point that when we were looking

straight at the test case before the one that they put forward from the i.o.c. decision was that overall it's based on a presumption of guilt because they said they couldn't definitively prove it because of you know they said there wasn't enough evidence they missing samples and so forth and the lack of computers but the presumption of guilt rather than innocence here but in this case it's a blanket presumption is now completely i mean and this is remember this all goes back to what one man who was already been warned about money many times even more that this person probably is this is a group of who is now in protective custody in the u.s. so this is a guy who you know was sort of a first sale chemist and helping people to cheat and to cheat the system developing ever better drugs sort of people would not be detected to be caught out. everything the mclaren report which all this comes from is based on his word his word a lot of the thousand athletes named enough report it's now boiled down to less than three hundred of all the names were presented to the o c a couple of weeks ago

there were only russians yet we already knew he himself had said and we it's well known that he worked with her for not leadership this has been geared towards russia so you know. this is the reason you are perfectly correct in saying that the look the presumption of guilt is already there. for people to prove themselves innocent that's not the way the justice system works and also they don't have a lot of time to do it and that's the key point isn't it here by the time this decision comes for you guys it's got to be the twenty sixth to the twenty eighth of january and the games start what the paralympics is like night of march so it's not very long is it and they had lot of the day and also for an appeal as well so. we're talking with financial implications as well because while some. able bodied athletes would have big marketing companies or big big sponsors they can afford to waste their time and waste money in serious for. what these people don't they're being brought into society and using sport as the media i know they're being told

sorry you can't because we can't give you a reason which you just can't on friday going to have to make it better when we run out of time alan moore sports host and author daniel hawkins thank you very much guys i think you. now in other news british lawmakers have slammed social media giants for failing to crack down on hate speech one m.p. was particularly tough on a twitter official for not deleting a certain anti semitic tweet. tweet is still our on your platform why is it i don't know the answers that question. what is it that we have to do to get you to take it down we are constantly looking at these policies looking at these processes i will take that away and i will come back to you with a definitive answer as to why it is still there when social media giants have been facing growing pressure to combat hateful and abusive behavior online in response twitter has recently introduced new policies the target accounts calling for violence but the platform has been accused of being selective over whom it decides

to purge. data has more details. the twitter purge the social network has launched its campaign to root out hate speech we will require offending tweets to be removed and repeated violations will result in pumpkin suspension among the first to go offline the account of the far right u.k. political group britain first known for offensive anti muslim post as well as personal pages of its leaders paul golding and his deputy j. to franzen donald trump came under fire for retreating her anti muslim post last month so far terms page a still up and running the white supremacist magazine american renaissance and its editor were also booted off along with the american nazi party space age racist and discriminatory accounts like these surely have to be shut down but the problem is so far the punishments don't seem to be being doled out with an even hand something clearly shown by the number of users who recently posted scores of death threats and promises of violence to the federal communications commission chief over his

campaign to scrap net neutrality in the us this user employed both racist terms and call for violence but the account is still active another tweet laying out a desire to kill pie is still readily available and it goes on from there active account school or fine and inciting violence even his wife and children were named and attacked and the past pie himself has called twitter out as one of the problems with an open internet thirty years ago still we don't believe your mind serve it uses. both those. this is the. this is playing right. now twitter has admitted it will make mistakes in the quest to make the platform a safer place but so far it's hate purge seems more than a little messy and on even the people at twitter just like other social media platforms are under tremendous pressure because they just see themselves as sort of neutral players but in reality twitter is an active participant in

the political process. on the side of the left hateful speech i just i just don't know where i don't even know where that begins and ends and it it seems like it's always up to someone else what what hate is just hate speech in and of itself the phrase itself is always used against conservatives it's never that you never hear about hate speech from the left the restrictions are always on conservatives never on liberals and so i don't i don't take any effort to sort of police twitter or facebook seriously as a fair exercise. for me while facebook has also been accused of abusing its monopoly in germany and of an limitless collection of its uses data well arty's feature of it joins me live now with more details on this quite a bit so what's going to jim north r.t. so i can send well this all comes out of

a statement from the wonderfully named federal cartel office there the main competition watchdog here in germany they've slammed facebook saying that its uses of no idea and have given no consent for the levels of data from them which is being a pertained by the social network and that is then being used to target the directly on them we're mostly concerned about the collection of data outside facebook's social network and the merging of this data into uses facebook accounts we're not convinced the users have given their effective consent to facebook's data tracking and merging of data into their facebook account. well it also comes as facebook's been accused of being overly intrusive after introducing new facial recognition software that can recognize a person's face even if they haven't been tagged in a picture now it's worth noting this investigation is ongoing here in germany by

the competition watchdog they say they are looking into how data is obtained but they're more looking into the fact that facebook seems to sit by and what should observe our lives and interests and then gets information that way for facebook's part they say that the the federal cartel office have misrepresented them by saying that they dominate the social media remit here in germany as far as facebook a concerned there are alternatives that and if there wasn't alternatives only then would they be dominating it's put across but what we are seeing and what we have seen already is sharing data with a third party here in germany is illegal and it's becoming more and more of an issue and more focus falling on social media outlets not just here in germany but across widely europe if we look over in france that's where what's up with the messaging application is facing a fine from the french authorities that's after they shared their users data with

facebook of course if we do remember facebook bought bought out what's up back in twenty fourteen what we won't expect from this report when it's published in full in the summer is a fine for facebook but what we're hearing from the main competition watchdog here in germany is they're going to tell facebook they need to change the way they go about doing things when it comes to their users personal data. and fascinating implications that peter oliver in berlin thank you. now the conflict between german police and the finest anti family in france turns to graphic details after the break.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure more somehow want to be preached. to be like to be for us to see what the forecast for you in the morning can be good that i'm interested always in the waters and look out. for six.

welcome back now who has the right to fish in the u.k. well if you go by this sign as a lake in oxfordshire nobody from eastern european countries and particularly poland can engage in the sport that's out rate one polish angler who is now trying to take legal action rather popular skate asked the owners to remove the sign but his request was ignored they also haven't responded to a letter from the equality and human rights commission almost about the esky claims he's had no support from the local storage fees. so has actually been reported to me by to remain universe and because of a project i'm running for the last seven years which is the cation of integration into eastern european migrants they decided to sort of you know ask people how i followed the rules of the this country went to the police police told me it is nothing to do with then i've appealed and appealed has been upheld so it means they

did everything in their power to you know to deal with vinson and then equality and human rights commission they keep saying that they only advisory body so they can do anything apart of giving advice you know i for exactly probably like many other people that if we see in a discrimination resign we're going to be able to go to the police and the signs going to be taken unfortunately the reality is a bit different and we have to learn to sort of corporator within this reality but we also trying to get a comment from the fishery however on some machines says the farm is currently twelve used almost above you have now launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for legal action has already received more than nine thousand pounds. quite positively actually positively surprised. you know i have a lot of positive comments about you know about the fund raising and a lot of commons encouraging me to me and others you know to fight to get this signed removed if they want to ban all fisherman they more than happy to do so because he's a private line but banning a specific group of people is

a wrong thing to do and you cannot refuse your services to a person only because he was born in the country this is not how ethical business should work and this is i'm sure this is illegal. violent clashes are becoming a frequent sight between german police and the far left just taken on in huge i mention with by science publishing online galleries ashame against their will might .