there are also three champions and a two time world champion cross-country skier none of them have ever tested positive for doping the number of russian ice hockey players bobsledders and the figure skaters who did not even participate in the two thousand and fourteen olympic games are also missing from that list some of the sport's unions and federations have already demanded that the i.o.c. clarify its decision the i.o.c. head was has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean in generation the i.o.c. wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport or we asked a former sweden hockey center anders carlsen and the canadian hockey coach scott macpherson for their views on the exclusion of clean russian athletes. i think it's awful i think russia should go with the best team because they have the best hockey

players side show and it's going to be sad for the tournament but the best russian is not coming to i think have to be able to do it a little older so they aren't affected just like three four weeks before the olympics so it's a big. might think it's somewhat misguided in that i think most of the players on the russian olympic team or other athletes from russia team that are going to be in korea they weren't even in the last olympics everybody knows really a cultural joke is everybody knows who you know the great figure skaters are so at the end of the day you know if the russians win in hockey or if an individual figure skater or somebody wins they know who they are and everyone knows who they are in the appreciate them as athletes and you know all the hard work and sacrifice that they've made to be able to compete at the olympic level the players that are on the russian team are guys that we played against from the time we were little kids we know that they're clean that yeah i mean it's really and unfortunately

politics seems to be slipping into athletics and that's really not that. well as cash maurice's sali sociology professor at aston university in the u.k. says band athletes have not been given enough time to appeal the olympic tournament itself is an invitation only event and that means that the organizers have the power to exclude nations or individuals willy nilly they can do it as they please there is some kind of attempt to ostracize russia russia is the bad guy of sport at the moment has been for the past twelve eighteen months we know that it isn't getting a fair shake that we haven't seen evidence to support these allegations that there is state sponsored doping but the world or most of the world at least seems to have accepted that there is some kind of systematic doping going on in russia because of that. reason i think that anyone who is associated with russia is automatically

lumped together with a nation that is collectively guilty of doping which is not to say of course that the rest of the world isn't taking dope. to enhance their performances in sport because i think every other country is participating in some kind of doping but the point is that russia has been stuck with that label and that stigma is going to be awfully difficult to erase in the years to come the closer it gets to the start date with a couple weeks away and of course the more difficult it is to appeal this decision it's going to be too late to go to the court of arbitration for sport it's unlikely to get a favorable decision from that court so in other words they've excluded them in the full knowledge that they won't be there in career to compete where us democrats are demanding an investigation into alleged russian bought that story much more still watching our two international.

days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in revised america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint without it. imagine i'll be another tax reform bill next year just simple bring it. bloodaxe before you know that i'll bring in a fifty percent tax rate across the board to be the best possible solution to the

next you know question in the us. i'm broadcasting live again from moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us the french president and the german chancellor have set out their vision for a united europe able to stand up to the leading world powers mannion micron and chancellor merkel spoke at the world economic forum in davos ladies and gentlemen my my my first missy he said france is back france is back it's a call for europe because we will never have any forensics this is without a european success the i know this all of us we have to strengthen the euro zone we need to capital markets you know and a banking union and we have to cooperate on the foreign policy front between our twenty seven member states they're not able to send

a clear and united message to major powers such as china india and the united states if foreign policy is made on the national level and then we will feel not so nice all right merkel went on to denounce protectionism in what was seen as a direct attack on donald trump's america first agenda u.s. transportation secretary responded to criticism of the president's role at the davos for america first is a continuation of the american affirmation of american exceptionalism so i don't think well i think this you know all these questions are why the president is coming and again i think all of us to feel very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum. and so for those that don't want to listen to him you can they can leave you know this is part of what discourse and discussion is all about. earlier this week thousands of people marched through the streets of zurich to denounce trump's visit to switzerland and the entire gathering in davos in general and several

smaller protests took place elsewhere in the country including in geneva. hard to discuss this further we can now bring in political commentator dave for it and they thanks for being with us here on our team to national as always. so davos it's always an interesting time of the year merkel and both called for a stronger europe and rejected trade protectionism is that a direct challenge to trump's america first agenda yeah i think it is but the problem is there are overstating the positions that are taken by the parties coming in trump is not in protectionist mode and he's not in america only mode what he's doing is essentially undoing the maneuvers and the agreements and the arrangements made by his predecessor over the last eight years which were actually quite punitive to america in economic terms america was practically kneeling in handing over its spare cash to people in other countries to do it as they wished and the

american people were deeply upset by that and drum pez promised the people in the course of his winning this election that that's one of the things he's going to repair is our needless bowing and scraping to foreign countries as demonstrative lee showing that we are not better than them by allowing them to rule us in an incautious way and trump i think is leaning back towards freedom and less regulation rather than toward protectionism and economic you know brutality on america's part i think everyone needs to be talking from the same level and i think the preparations for trump's appearance there having been made they leave little maneuvering room for people like the german chancellor and president mccrone and it's unfortunate they should hear him out before they take their positions i think about that hearing him out. very obvious that you have a pro trump idea at least when it comes to davos but not everybody is really happy

that he's going what kind of a reception do you think that he will get there. i would not be surprised if some of the elites pulling on the puppet strings behind the curtains either don't turn up or somehow orchestrate standing and turning their backs to him or something i mean it's happened before it's always a behavior driven by emotion there's this there's this repulsion to trump on the left that simply makes them incapable of seeing the things that he does objectively trump has conducted i think an economic revolution here with his policies with his executive orders with the tax law that he just got passed a few weeks ago things are doing so well here and people are so happy unemployment at all time lows tax burdens diminishing people promising new investments companies bonus ing their employees based on a brighter future and people don't understand that trump is the guy that's making that happen if they listen to him

a davos who knows you might have some good ideas as an international billionaire businessman to help prosperity in other parts of the world as well so going back to the european side of things. inequality among countries comes up in every speech and discussion do you think that the business and political who attended davos are serious about tackling this issue not just around the world as well i do not i am a naturally suspicious person when it comes to people with power gathering together in private expensive rooms to add to and enhance their power and that is the way that i see the davos gathering is the economic elites gathering to make plans to bring ever more of the world's economic productivity and opportunity under their rule not necessarily just or diminish it but their first. bit of business is not to enhance the living of people in the rest of the world it's to enhance themselves

in their own power assuming that this will result in the people of the world doing better and having more prosperity and. i'm not at all convinced of that i'm very suspicious of smoke filled rooms shown and this is the biggest one in the world economically speaking that's a great way to put it smoke filled rooms always interesting to hear thoughts dave dave perkins political commentator there has been with us for an arc international thanks for having me sean thanks. top us that democrats are claiming russia is behind an online campaign to release a classified republican memo artie's came up and has. well according to the democrats there is yet another russian conspiracy against the american way of life now this is all regarding the hash tag release the memo there is a memo that has been seen by top republican leaders that purportedly had allegedly shows vast misconduct by the f.b.i. in their investigation of trump in russia and possibly spying on donald trump now

there has been a huge call on social media for this memo to be released now the democrats say that this is a kremlin plot and they are calling on facebook and twitter to reveal the role of the russian boxer in allegedly promoting this hash tag release the memo we are witnessing in and doing it by the russian government through kremlin linked social media actress directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process we urge your companies to need to take necessary steps to expose and deactivate accounts involved in this influence operation now how do they know that it's russia that's to blame for this social media upsurge well all of the the citations in their letter is simply media reports that are rather unsubstantiated now what's particularly interesting is that this cast tag release the memo it was started by top republican leaders who saw the memo called it job dropping were outraged by its content and demanded that the american people be aware of how the f.b.i.

was conducting its work i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. . that's how serious this is there has been a real attempt to undermine this president that is the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately the american people deserve. they must say they want to know what's in this document sadly much of the mainstream media will not be covering this today but in this house on this day let us know that indeed we are still one nation under god and willing to protect life now they hash tag release the memo originated with top republican leaders concerned about the activities of the f.b.i. and now it's been taken up by millions of americans however it looks like the democratic party which seems to be quite concerned about the calls to release the memo is falling back on their old canard russia did it meanwhile americans on

twitter have launched a new hash tag not a russian bot campaigners have been tweeting that they are in fact real people and not working for the kremlin. it's not factually possible but it certainly is a great distraction and there's one thing that the extreme left is very good at and that is distracting people from from the facts there is definitely i believe evidence of criminal conspiracy in this memo and frankly the people that should be concerned are hillary clinton and all the democrats in the d.n.c. that took part in trying to undermine election integrity in the united states so there is a good reason why a number of democrats do not want to be seen by the public so that is that is why you are seeing what you're seeing now when that does it for me in thirty five minutes of back with more news.

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illegal immigrants pouring across our i delegate southern border but it's not just a republican issue remember that more immigrants were deported under democratic president barack obama than any other administration in u.s. history so don't feel to write cheap a.n.c. there democrats. don't do you know what i think the real problem is hawke watcher's it's not an illegal immigration problem though. in truth it's a compassion problem take for example the current issues between the faith based humanitarian group death no more in the u.s. border patrol just last week the group issued a damning report on the u.s. border patrols mistreatment of humanitarian aid workers supplies and efforts along the us mexico border including the destruction of thousands of water bottles left along crossing hotspots to prevent the dehydration and deaths of those undocumented immigrants looking to better their lives the report states these actions call into

question the border patrol's own claims to be humanitarian the practice of destruction and interface with aid is not the deviant behavior of a few ro border patrol agents it is a systemic feature of enforcement practices and a logical extension of the broader strategy of prevention through deterrence. you see that's that's not in the illegal immigration problem where where is your humanity when you deny your fellow men and women a basic element of life water why do that because a piece of paper saying they're allowed to be here is more important than their own well being. that is a compassion problem not an immigration problem i want to start watching the hawks . want to. get the. real

deal with. the blood of. what they like you know that i got. this. week so. well the watch box i am so well and on top of. so tyrrell here we are twenty eighteen twenty a team and we're still arguing over immigration in the united states i mean most of our ancestors anybody whose ancestors came here you know at the at the dawn as i was there and was their native american or were forced to come here and ships and write that for free yeah if you like me and your immigration your family came here in the last hundred so they were probably undocumented i don't think the mayflower peeps were like getting their english passport stamped and how their view says

ready to be and plymouth rock i mean this is just this is we have a statue give us your tired report this was the whole point of this country and then twenty eighteen we are seriously arguing that just giving water to people who are trying to get the american dream. is considered a crime and that's a crime for them and that's the thing that's ridiculous about this i mean you you know what this group report found by the these two tucson based groups the no more that some of the a large coalition on the richest models what they found was that from twenty twelve to twenty fifteen at least thirty five hundred gallon jugs of water were destroyed in approximately. eight hundred square mile area is kind of core gore in arizona. that's a lot of water to be destroyed you know and there's like the group will just kind of leave jugs of water basically along right areas where they know like ok a lot of border crossings happen here it's

a to mulch was horrible awful journey it's not fun trying to illegally get into a country you know try to get through the border and do all that and a lot of people die i mean i think they've they've said there's some like seven thousand people have died in that journey over the course of many years that they found bodies in the desert of gaffa just to hear stories about people just literally losing their lives and these are these are just adults i think that's the part where washington insider and politicians and the people in the know on the right side of the aisle have this idea that they're like whoa this is what this is the immigration problem they make it about it can they make it about economics they make it about all this other things that honestly it's about human life i don't care if i get it i get it if everybody is freaking out about it at five am we're going to get the problem under control we've got to figure out what's going on here and find a system that works a lot better but we need a system that is humanitarian at its core that is what the priority should be

because if the roles were reversed and you had to run from the united states into mexico i don't think you want people you would find you don't i think you'd want to be sitting there wondering why someone would dump out water that's there to just say it just is there to save you and then you know and that's why i think it's like look i understand like yeah if you catch someone in there undocumented they're going to send them back because that's the rules of the system today ok fine but there's no reason that person should die or be allowed not die or be allowed to be to you know deprived of potential water or that these people who are there for humanitarian reasons are just trying to help just trying to say look we're not trying to say this is right or wrong we're just trying to like help these people suffering as they cross this desert to hopefully make their life a little better and. absolutely ridiculous and what was interesting is that is that while these groups in this report says that you know that they can't exclusively claim that it's u.s. border patrol. but what they put in their report was that given the scope and destruct of the destruction they concluded that the only after it was sufficiently

large and consistent presence across a sufficiently wide area of the desert during the period when hunting is about authorized and prohibited are agents of the u.s. mourner patrol now there was a response to vest from border patrol to these people who are out there because activists what was that response well i was worried yeah i mean the response of the from the border patrol is that you know basically when this when this report came out they went out and you know is that their official response to the report but their actions speak louder than words this report comes out they immediately arrest one of the members of no that's a more when he was you know this kind of cabin you know providing some help for these people who were crossing the border and williams you water to some based attorney who represented no more you know as volunteers for more than a decade he's represented these people he told the other said quote the border patrol in the u.s. attorney knows about the activities has surveilled the activities has permitted the

activities has recognized that we're out there helping to save lives and all of the sudden it's all changed and that raises a lot of questions because let's remember one thing if the u.s. border patrol is out there doing this with which a lot of circumstantial evidence says it is that they're crushing these water bottles and now they're arresting these activists i'm sorry that's our that's my tax dollars and living us that's your tax dollars then suddenly paying to allowed undocumented people to die in the desert because they couldn't get a jug of water that's ridiculous to me i'm sorry. and now for the illegal immigrant you really should be concerned about about i'm taking your job your house your city and even possibly an entire state it's an abstract an asteroid roughly the size of burj khalifa the over eight hundred meter tall so. scraper in dubai which is currently speeding towards earth larger than the world's tallest building and moving at a rather brisk speed of seventy six thousand miles per hour the asteroid is set to thankfully fly past earth on february fourth according to nasa artie's david miller

has the details a skyscraper size asteroid will be passing the earth and will be ten times the distance from earth to the moon which is about two point six million miles or four point two million kilometers according to nasa that asteroid is about a half a mile to a four mile in diameter for comparison the world's tallest building is about a half a mile tall while the new world trade center building in new york is nearly a quarter of a mile tall all right now for the good news nasa says there's no chance actually two thousand and two a.j. one two nine will collide with earth the center for near earth object studies at nessus jet propulsion laboratory said in a statement our calculations indicate that actually two thousand and two a.j. one to nine has no chance zero of colliding with earth on february fourth or any time over the next one hundred years also according to nasa rockets of this size flying close to earth somewhat regularly and fact recently two space rockets came

significantly closer to our planet on september first of two thousand and seventeen the ash read florence passed within about four point four million miles of earth or about eighteen times the distance from earth to the moon in another bus size asteroid zoom within fifty four thousand miles of earth on october second of two thousand and seventeen and as per protocol nasa did make two thousand and two a.j. one to nine as a potentially hazardous actually however it's important to note that this takes the nation is given to any asteroid larger than four hundred sixty feet in diameter that gets closer to the earth by four point six five million miles but again have no fear as a space rock is no threat to our existence yet that is reporting from washington d.c. david miller r t america. just in time for the super bowl i know it doesn't time for the simple but i mean anyone growing up in the ninety's and you know love in the ninety's filmmaking you know we've all seen armageddon at some point you know

and deep impact deep in that you know. you know these things are you know put like this i would rather see the money that we're probably going to end up wasting here in the u.s. i would rather see the money that we probably in the wasting building a wall separating mexico and the united states spent on tracking nearer you know potential asteroid collisions or i would rather see the money spent there. because because to me that is a bigger potential danger down the line of least knowing if and when something like that could happen because of the size of these things and that these things could destroy the entire planet that to me is way more scarier than some guy just trying to look for a better life crossing the border i'm sorry you don't get it i just don't get it you don't get it i don't waste your money on but it is the super bowl asteroid yes it is the super bowl asteroid pretty big yet amazing so they're saying that this asteroid has no chance of colliding with earth on february fourth and also any time in the next one hundred years so this specific gosford we're god it's not going to

bother us and all of that but i think there's others there's others maybe it's. common. and well i mean look at the magazine i use the thing you've got to be watch out for because it was in one thousand nine hundred seventy university of colorado geosciences brian to his college they predicted this work comes of this is where they've suddenly said we need to pay attention to these rocks right wing through the galaxy is that a space rock just half a mile wide would produce an explosion that's equal to the release of one hundred million tons of t.n.t. on the planet as a lot. so. that's enough to cause like you know widespread damage and earthquakes and pretty much things that we've seen before you know that we live with you know we're way but all in the same time all the same time but still things that we've kind of we can deal with this we can make it through this however once the collision threshold exceeds the one hundred thousand tons of t.n.t. million tons of t.n.t.

then you're looking at a catastrophic you know basically the worst thing to ever happen in human history at that point i think the dinosaurs would beg to differ human history human history we have certainly had that we both existed together we did but right. now a meteor isn't crazy a meteor just a mile long would be of this size that could create that kind of catastrophe and that's i mean it's like that to me put the money in nasa put the money in things that look that way you know because a it's fascinating b. let's figure out a way to keep the mile long asteroid that could potentially collide with us from happening yes something a little better than bruce willis and steve buscemi i think. maybe going to get a pretty good job they did as we go to break god was developed to get a lot of what you think about the government facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our teeth dot com coming up sean stone digs into the real forces behind the sudden push to privatized school systems.