competing in his home country are looking rather dim at this point and while condemnation of the decision has continued to flow in but unlikely to change the i.o.c. is mind. a number of international athletes as well as the heads of olympic committees have condemned of the banning of athletes who have never tested positive for banned substances the head of the bulgarian olympic committee says everyone who broke the rules must be punished but the measures taken against russian athletes have been politically motivated one french biathlete has also said he believes the finger is being unfairly pointed at the whole country and the international long union head has claimed that the organization has not been involved in the decision making process russian athletes from seven different disciplines are said to be missing from the list of eligible competitors for the list includes five prominent russian short track speed skaters there are also three champions and a two time world champion cross-country skier none of them have ever tested positive for doping

a number of russian ice hockey players bobsledders and figure skaters who did not even participate in the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympic games are also missing from the list some sport unions and federations have already demanded that the i.o.c. clarify its decision the i.o.c. head has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean 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 the president of the french federation of ice sports gave us his view on that the exclusion of queen russia athletes because. sport should not be used as a tool for politicians games should be a celebration for the sporting world and for the athletes who've worked so hard for this event and done nothing wrong sport should unite people should be sanctioned if

the allegations are proven as anyone should but there is no country that has never been guilty of doping the north americans in lecturing the rest of the world but we haven't forgotten where lance armstrong came from open johnson. ellis cashmore as sociology professor asked him at university in the u.k. says ban the athletes have not been given enough time to appeal. b. a limb pick 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 or eighteen months we know that it isn't getting a fair shake and 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 the start date with a couple weeks away now 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 in korea to compete. as democrats are

claiming russia is behind an online campaign to release of classified republican memo parties come up and has more. well according to the democrats there is yet another russian conspiracy against the american way of life now this is all regarding the hashtag release the memo there is a memo that has been seen by top republican leaders that purportedly had allegedly shows that 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 and now the democrats say that this is a kremlin plot and they are calling on facebook and twitter to reveal the role of russian bots are in allegedly promoting this hash tag release the memo we are witnessing and doing it by the russian government through kremlin link social media actress directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process we urge your companies to need to take necessary steps to expose india to counts 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 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 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 by 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. is here is a world economic forum in davos is supposed to be about creating a shared future and a fractured world but judging by the speeches from the leader of france and germany that message of unity is really about europe. ladies and gentlemen my my my first missy he said france is back france is back at the call for europe because we will never have any forensics is without a european success the i know this albeit we have to strengthen the eurozone we need to capital markets union 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 then we will feel nuts and. marco went on to denounce a protectionism and 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 davos to feel very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum. 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 of

thousands of people marched through the streets of zurich to denounce johnson's visit to switzerland and the entire gathering in davos in general several smaller protests took place elsewhere in the country including geneva political commentator dave perkins believes europe's criticism of trump's america first policy is misguided america first is misunderstood and i think is deliberately misunderstood by the people in davos because they don't like the implication which is less centralized power and less power for the globalists and more economic freedom trump is not a protectionist mode and he's not in america only the preparation. for trump's appearance there having been may day leaves 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 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 to the extent that this just becomes completely one single culture and one single economic entity i'm not seeing that happening and i don't think it's a bad thing if that doesn't happen. u.s. government's chief of the scale of destruction in the syrian city of raka is almost beyond description however so far washington seems reluctant to pay for the rebuilding of the city which was left in ruins by the u.s. bombing campaign. commentary the end justifies the means they say some things no matter how horrible just have to be done these are hard core find says they have to be rooted out this is an ugly business but it is necessary business it's only when the dust settles and you see what you've done that you start having second thoughts this is when you say. what did i just do. the

devastation goes back as far as you can see it is almost beyond description how deep the damage is as many as a thousand strikes a month on record alone just strikes not including. tanks and all that more than eighty percent of the city was deemed unfit to be in by the u.n. a city hall but raised so let's start with the obvious incredible work has to be done just to get people back into their homes except we won't pay here is the disclaimer stabilisation not reconstruction the us will help fix the pipes but someone else is going to have to sort out the rest of this mess no sir the coalition freed you you do the rest we humanity ariens including the un did not have access to iraq a city because of the presence of explosive has a certain time

a nation which is endangering people trying to return to iraq a city and it's also endangering humanitarian access over two hundred people have died while trying to return to their homes and hundreds more have been injured from our understanding of the reports that we have only a limited number of neighborhoods in iraq a city have been cleared and that's mainly in the outskirts. so who is going to pay to rebuild an entire city the guys who held the straw it say they won't the civilians returning from tents in refugee camps the syrian government which doesn't even control rocca who. record has been destroyed by us aggression our top priority is to liberate iraq a from the us aggressive from those who cooperate with the united states we need to restore iraq or another syrian cities which has been freed by the syrian arab on me our soldiers have already liberates homes terrorists or northern latakia.

asking where a person is from might be considered normal in most countries but in sweden to that question has become a surprising source of controversy and he says seti explains. well from sounds like an innocent enough question doesn't it but it could land you in trouble here's what i actually had to explain that i first need to tell you about an online campaign launched in sweden to help expose racism hash tag no stranger we hope to raise awareness regarding the extensive issue of racism that actually does exist in sweden although many want to believe that we live in the world's most tolerant country their dearest shakespearean says of being subjected to racism and ten south asking why are you from rob some people up the wrong way even though i was born here people always ask me where i'm from i hate it when they do that nobody put on a decide where my home is where i come from doesn't concern you and it shouldn't

matter i say shouldn't we ever ask people about their country of origin to be on the safe side. well here's some advice from a man behind the hashtag no stranger campaign you can also question just make sure you do it right it's ok to wonder about someone's country of origin but it should not be the very first thing to ask a stranger about because the reaction that follows is usually very stereotypical and racist like oh you're from viet nam i think it's quite terrible that you guys eat dogs so its name fest originated and no follow up questions got it.

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i'm after him we're going underground is the architects of neo liberalism in davos face the fact the forty two people have as much wealth as the world's three point seven billion poorest coming up in the show is britain enabling the world's worst humanitarian crisis is angular marco rules out selling german machines to kill children in yemen we ask labor m.p. lloyd russell boyle whether the u.k. set to become the post breaks it international weapons deal or of choice and unacceptable and unsustainable that's what u.k. and geopolitics found says about the global system it claims but eighty two percent of all global wealth in twenty seventeen into the hands of the richest one percent plus on the headlines how the grenfell towers like to see it go up in smoke and who's been whitewashing a blacklist all the more going up and today's going underground but first how

disunited is nato today the usa is supporting the neo marxist white b.g. in syria its leader is a lot to learn and who and where is or chill are now de facto backed by donald trump's u.s. taxpayer dollars for almost fifteen years john has languished in a turkish prison as the only inmate guarded by fifteen hundred turkish soldiers of the larger one is a solitary figure sitting in a remote turkish prison of the sea of marmara he thoughts had lots of time to rethink the strategies of the struggle for cuts rights and independence he also reflected on other key issues the violent guerrilla tactics and strategies obvious marxist inspired peter yes donald trump is backing and he isis near marxists against his fellow nato ally turkey which is using warplanes against them that's what britain drazen may continue to factor aid i says an al-qaeda linked groups in syria amid so many bizarre. our alliance is opposed breck that u.k. looks forward to selling more arms for more conflict around the world joining me now is labor m.p. a member of the u.k.

arms export controls committee lloyd russell more lloyd welcome to going underground to your fellow member of the u.k. arms export control committee bully let them sit on monday's show that we have the strictest weapons control system regime in the world just like tourism a said usually agree couldn't agree. with that statement at all i'm afraid we have on paper a. relatively stringent system even on paper we don't have the strictest system we follow the consolidated criteria which is a criteria to sell weapons which is an e.u. set of standards so on paper we just follow the east and. two years ago this government weakened that so they changed the presumption to allow arms sales if there was a political dimension and to override other conditions which other weak and she's done if it's a repressive regime even if it's so oppressive regime and. one example would be in

twenty fifteen a company that was exporting from norway via the u.k. to afghan warlords was found guilty in norway of corruption and bribery in that deal the directors of the norwegian part of the company and now in jail the warlords have been prosecuted in africa and in britain we are still giving arms export lessons is to that very company so that is an example of where the idea that we have the strictest in the world is just not true clearly this is a prime minister keep saying it is a standard response to every question in parliament when she is asked about yemen or of other countries where british arms are involved because they're getting themselves because they don't want to face up to the reality that britain is sanctioning weapons that go to places like saudi arabia and i used to kill innocent people at the un report was very clear that there is little evidence that is. it is for self defense and it is just an aggressive attack on the m. and by saudi and that is the reality the conservatives don't want to face up to so

they just continue this mantra in the hope that if they say it enough it will come true they do it with all things that they know schools funding in the n.h.s. there's no winter crisis they say but we all know that it's there it's the same with the arms trade they all pretend that there's no problem because then they don't have to live up to it the only ritual for vice chair of the tory party is being on the show one of the few european politicians who visit yemen and seems some of the college unicef has been on this road they've talked about it pulling they feel it was a safe zone your committee as well said saudi arabia is now beginning to allow women to drive because so things are changing in saudi arabia yes but the argument is not that the sound is a bombing we mean in saudi arabia the argument is they're bombing the heck out of people in yemen you know kind so what they're doing for people in saudi is neither here nor there when we're talking about the arms now actually the fact they're allowing them in after many many years of not to drive in saudi arabia is hardly the gold standard of we means equality in feminism but again what would the tory

party really know about those kinds of things well i was sure the point of view will probably was just. told us that exporting arms to saudi arabia does not enable violence and when the r.a.f. is training these pilots these are the war planes they're not it's not britain that's creating the mess and the death destruction of europe this is why there's an america say we don't need gun controls it's not guns that kill people it's the people firing them saying in a kind of exports do not help contribute to deaths well yes if they were put in a box and not used by the saudis they don't contribute to death but do we really believe they are putting them in storage after spending billions on them no the point of the consolidated criteria the point of having a huge humanitary. basis for how we export licenses is we do not want to have a knobs export system a bit like the russians do for example where it's just

a political decision the point was to make sure we took it out of just the hands of politicians to work out who our friends and who our foes are and to something where you're looking more objectively of all these weapons going to be here because it's pretty rich for a labor m.p. just talk like you we know tony blair close down the serious fraud office inquiry into the systems in the biggest arms deal of this country's ever signed of saudi arabia i mean various senior tory figures have been on this show and even former ambassadors saying saudi arabia could threaten to stop security counter-terror cooperation if we don't sell them killing machines well in terms of former labor party governments selling weapons and closing down investigations that was totally wrong of course it was the labor party with robin cook first of all started actually even publishing where we were selling arms they were the first we were the first people to put in a consolidated criteria and adopt the e.u. standards but that doesn't mean that there were no phones most people i think have

seen the labor party is under new management now and then back on to the other point the idea that the saudis will suddenly have us over a barrel and they were cooperate with we just start cheering effect there be a drop zone british really we didn't sell them weapons we had here is some of the saudi ideology is the ideology that is causing terrorism around the world this is causing danger to our streets and actually to not cooperate with saudi would probably make our country a great deal safer do you think there's a growing understanding in parliament to the british weapons are now ending up in the hands of isis. in the middle east in other battlegrounds years of war there is some understanding and there is some cross party support to the idea that we need to start monitoring where weapons go bearing in mind with our supposedly so robust regime. we only look to see where the first owner of that weapon is now if only doesn't use it they sell it on second hand weapons we don't monitor that and so

could go anywhere we saw when we had friend after and get afy he was in libya we sold a huge amounts of arms and weapons they were put in stashes then of course we decided he wasn't such a nice chap and we caused him to his regime to fall and those weapons light weapons and heavy weapons then across the mcgregor in the hands of some of the most violent and nasty people that you can imagine british weapons being used to cool danger to british citizens and citizens around the world and that is the problem if you don't monitor where the weapons and end up in when you're on this committee i'm sure there will be people saying what most people say to defend the arms industry. best the weapons are used to implication is to kill people in yemen then we lose vital jobs in britain well let's see as it was being allowed let us through some perspective on this first of all we are talking about not point to five percent of our g.d.p. this is about the same size of the beverage industry or the plastics industry now

we're just talking about planning plastic cups and straws and putting charges on bags and trying to stop we don't hear people saying well you can't ban plastics because it will make jobs be lost what we say is that we will transform those jobs into things that are environmentally friendly well is the same with killing machines now we can still do ship building because you need ship building even without arms being attached to those ships you can still do car building in manufacturing all those jobs are transferable and actually they wouldn't even need to change company because the companies would just diversify as well so much where they would surprise you receive new conservative groceries have also made the argument on this program that if we didn't sell the weapon someone else would oh that's fine someone's being mugged down the end of your road well if someone else is doing the mugging i might as well because i'll get a few bucks that is that kind of moral argument is no morals at all i'm afraid. if we have overall less weapons in this world overall the world will be a safer place we knew that corbin is your leader is a minority you are

a minority of the parliamentary labor party it wasn't that long ago that people like hillary burned all the leadership candidates trying to destroy his premiership voted to bomb damascus. you sure the labor party in parliament agrees with you on these ideas and issues about the arms trade the labor party is not just a party in parliament we have a party of trade unionists and members of activists of peace campaigners and i know the party is on our side on this matter though of course there is an argument to be won for some people that need persuading but i'm sure the members of the party will make their voice very clear to their m.p.'s and i'm sure their m.p.'s will come on side do you think they'll be any investigation of british support for moderate rebels as they were called once by your parliamentary labor colleagues little of the conservative party in parliament other any british weapons in the hands of what are now al-qaeda or in isis in syria trying to get rid of president assad of syria

i have not seen evidence directly that british weapons are being used actively by diane but it would not surprise me if there were because we don't track them and we should track them and we should investigate we also don't prosecute when export license is not abided by last year we prosecuted only one person the year before no people two thousand and fifty no people are prosecuted you can go back you've got to go back almost in two thousand and eleven for the prosecution before the most recent one there's only geopolitical right would say what you are doing is in effect supporting russian foreign policy iranian foreign policy you're not helping our allies like saudi arabia in the great game that is the middle east right now i'm afraid i don't consider saudi arabia one of our allies so maybe that's where we. differ with the. to be ministration of course we need to make sure that we would use arms trade multilaterally that's why i am pleased of course that

britain has signed the arms trade treaty something russia hasn't and we need to persuade russia and coerce russia to do that and we need to make sure that we do that in a diplomatic way not in a aggressive way but the danger is that if we keep watering down our own requirements we will become no better than russia no better than iran and that is not what we should go to they have been selling arms to countries trying to defeat us is going to reenter yes but what i mean in terms of arms sales we become no better in the sense that we don't have an independent body monitoring the russian around sell weapons according to political decisions rather than looking at the whole humanitarian issue you can make sure those weapons are not going to be used to breach international humanitarian law you can make sure that those weapons we know that britain is really the center arguably over whether it be destroying africa's respect you have a country of libya whether review iraq war or to your party's leadership of this

country or are trying to attack iran through because only exactions or afghanistan are totally wrong those actions that's why we need to start speaking up now we need to realize the awful atrocities that this country over generations and over hundreds of years has committed in its international foreign policy and its policy of exporting weapons and it is now is the time we need to realize that jeremy to me in the iraq war and in the syrian discussions we were out on the streets arguing our case now we are in parliament and now he is the leader of our party we now need to start making sure that no longer do we have to have people out on the streets protesting to try and stop these kinds of things but that we create laws and we create scrutiny so that never again we learned as human beings we must learn from our mistakes and if we can't we are not human beings at all lord russell boyle thank you after the break as the powerful tinker with neoliberalism in switzerland the british n.g.o.s.