john there don't let your kids touch them wipe them off with baby if people who handle them a lot are encouraged. very hard to wear gloves when they're handling the thing also. is there any alternative we store our store so people get on the orleans have a great time to grow their own let down on the ground one of the alternatives that are out there from the lab party favors the start early we've all been using right at least put them in the proper guard garbage disposals and don't dump them out so that they caught up these very old drains because we do know that you know hurricanes make that even worse there are some groups and new orleans some of the groups that have these out there screw like crude floors that make it a point. sorry for interrupting your viewing that we're going to take you to central moscow now where the russian president is talking to his closest aides and business people that's listening to. before may be. disliking

this is one line of attack on russia let's we call it support. what was happening when we were preparing for this so it shouldn't be games back in twenty four teams let's recall that. try to recall the news in everything many things. that now we just don't remember it because a person of human mind always leaves all the bad things behind probably it's for the good. they want to but let's still. times lot of accusations. russia would fail there would be no security everything would be awful but the olympic games start that you all keep those who are saying these bad things they were shocked. and they saw for

themselves that we did that. we did it successfully some sad that it was one of the best olympic games we have nothing to regret because we. have tainted with another infrastructure of the deep. region in our russia thanks to these are the games back in the south which is now. and all year resort for every kind of sports and recreation now as you know there is a national syrian dialogue congress and other events also take place in sochi and there is a huge should occasional santa for our talented you've sold the city is there really a new life the whole region is living in your life today that's great that we've had that limb pick up addition by back with. just recently they've raised some.

issue why because it was invented back in the soviet union in latvia and if i'm not mistaken it was used by soviet or fleeced by the russian the fleets and fleets from the former soviet republics and the west but actually it's never used it never ever anyone has to be. pretty but i've got to read it open substance. doesn't give you any competitive edge it just helps you to recover to recover your hard after confrontations. but they said there is no money doping today now they took the mr rochon cough and they grabbed it and took it to the united states. that person has problems he's at odds with the law he's saying if you sell he was doing some lawful things

he shouldn't be jailed for that but instead he was pulled a top of the russian anti-doping agency then he tried to commit suicide and he was i wish him good health but that just makes them certainly. makes you think of some certain because then you. might be. true when it comes to that person can we trust him at all can he be trusted moreover so they say he works under the guidance of the us intelligence it's good they say for whom is the good works under the control of the us intelligence is that's not good not good for us not good for anyone but let's go further round. imagine some of the. which had not been accused of doping but they've been banned from the competitions because of some other reason so they

say complex a variety of other reasons which they do not want to disclose what reason they mean . some intelligence is doing that because sports like art should be open transparent everything should be transparent crystal clear and clear cut otherwise we'll see distrust towards every decision made in that field that is regretful saddening. we should not make the international sporting movement the olympic movement. back yard of some dirty political kitchen. should we work with the international denies asians yes we should and we will do that first but let's say that up front we gave them the reason to doubt we are to be blamed for making them we had the doping cases yes that's

true. the whole country should know you should know that we have cases of doping across the world but they are not being promoted towards the international information. about that because the name of the performance enhancing drug scene take which is not banned when it comes to people who have the necessary medical. instructions what that we can give our department necessary instructions about kerry's smile they're all there he can create one of that instruction medical structure so that our sparkle and our leads will be able to take those drugs because they would have some certain medical conditions as they say abroad and. making it possible for their families. to take the direct in hand saying drugs support is not a battlefield. for politicians. should we work with

internationalization yes we should again and it's difficult this situation is difficult for them to and they have their own problems but some of the nies ations . very much positive about our country about the international sporting movement and i hope that this page will be turned over in the immediate future and i would encourage our past my our police to follow every rule of the international olympic committee which is going to every rule they set for. for the upcoming olympic games we will support each and every one in terms of financing in terms of the moral support even those who are banned from these competitions i hope that their personal and professional careers would not suffer that was our duty to support them in every way we can.

we could. be rich mr putin strong i'm right here. you more question has something to do with the previous one. the kremlin the songs. board for us publisher dates has nothing to do with sanctions is not goes together with sanctions but still it's made on the basis of the act against the enemies of the usa means that these people who are on the list they are enemies of the united states but it's unprecedented it includes everyone on the when you strain of the press then the government of russia had of the state carper a. major businesses. that used to kaspersky mr wallace they are on that list that's incredible unprecedented because they say

that these people are the enemies of united states the whole government except for you probably the they're just not allowed to make you were an enemy of their country oh well maybe i should hold the grudge maybe i should. find that a fantasy. let's say. so i have a feeling that they had a half a years to compile the document but judging by the words in the wording it seems as if a student was working the student who was copying your words from russian websites like all the things relating to the position send everything just poorly translated into english and also take it from the forbes websites or magazines and they say these people are the enemies of the usa so first question what are we going to do about that. how do we respond we'll be surrogates who need to know that

and the second things. on the list this morning when reading that could be no. drinking their coffee actually if they were in lard or california that very moment but a man this surrogates i've heard one discussion of how can we be on that list how can we be distinguished by this maybe you can suggest a way to do that. well as for the people in california and london reading about this this. should do everything at home don't go to california stay stay in russia well. i haven't seen the document itself i haven't seen the least and the tend to the least study this secret identity since this is yesterday in the morning today my colleagues informed the other lists i haven't looked at the lists itself what can i say about this on the whole in general on

this issue he was swimming. i think first of all we need to think about ourselves our own interests and about an hour of own economy our agriculture one need to promote and export our health care education. and only then. and when we also improve the defense industry of our country only then we put a piece they will see that there's no need to have any lists and there is no need to threaten us to try to prevent us from developing this is something that we should engage in we are going to want to. if we need to pay no heed pay no attention. to what they say we need to act and we need to move forward now as for the list itself. but. you

see all the president's administration all of the government all of the business. behind every agency behind every industry there are russian people ordinary russian citizens there are a labor collective industry collective. and. basically they included all of us all of the one hundred forty six million of us into some least what's the point what was the point of doing that i don't know that certainly it was not a friendly act aids exacerbates the relations between us and russia we were already at a low point and it also damages the international system and those who engage in this and using it well so your point and. they are basically engaged in their own domestic policy is they're trying to attack the

president you know when the police are trying to adopt a budget. he wasn't even able to go to switzerland to attend an international event they are arguing with him regarding me with regards to health care and the economy and the alleged. attempts by russia to interfere in u.s. elections. and at the same time they were going to listen just how foolish it sounds and. they place russia on the same list with north korea and iran yes and at the same time they ask us to participate in resolving the north korean nuclear crisis and. thinking about what can we do with regards to you around. what what is this. this is ludicrous.

the go what we need to think what we should do about. it with the strategic reduction treaty should we. should we fight terrorists should we fight terrorism together. with as you know the us and i've said this publicly and i've called mr trump personally and told him that they provided information. about a terrorist act in st petersburg that we were able to prevent things to the u.s. and we also share our intelligence information with the u.s. and just recently. u.s. intelligence shared this information with us and we share information with them. and. and there was an explosion at the boston marathon the years ago and.

they weren't able to prevent that because they didn't cooperate with us. so you do you do they want to cooperate with us we believe that everyone is interested in this cooperation we were expecting the list and. we can say frankly we were ready to respond when you are ready to respond with such measures that would put our relations to or even greater low which but we would refrain would like to refrain from taking active measures right now against the u.s. and what he could get in these pieces but we will see what what will be happening in the future because we've heard about some secret laced about. some other list containing other names and we need to look into it and see what is happening what is going to happen where not interested in stopping our relations with the u.s. we're interested in promoting and developing our relations with the u.s.

and i'm convinced that the american people and the russian people are both interested in that and people of the world on the whole would be happy to see two nuclear superpowers actually building relations based on trust. when you might but. everyone needs to realize. that. we cannot expect. to retreat in the gulf because we should like that after we've dealt with the terrorists in northern caucasus. and you can actually as you say thank you but i was a shit when some shit with the rights activists started protecting some al-qaeda. militants. and. we were so we could get what it was. it was my person for advises me. the russian council russian

human rights council but as a part of what she was also added to the do these people to the one to fight for human rights or do they not want to do that so it wouldn't let me sort of another person on the list. ministration an official. who is responsible for the. i get it in for the children's policies for the youth policies. do they not want. to our country to develop in these areas what do they want we named him we know what we want. we wanted to develop a long. table relations maced on international law what we cannot allow. things to happen like insult your city in two thousand and eight when you don't

look at when there was one person one individual we don't know whether he is ukrainian or georgian right now or not you know who i'm talking about attacks our peacekeeping troops and killed our people are we going to just retreat are we going to just accept that and we think that we are not going to act that we are going to just look at what's happening was that we don't know what. we were goals from the so. they used the situation in ukraine. or they supported it who that's happened in ukraine so it's a clear fact everybody knows that the west supported this coup when you've been really good and. didn't like that crimea left to create an joined us of course we supported. the crimean sort of decision to return to russia and. what did the west one to achieve with that and we. will not bust the budget we're not going to

exacerbate the situation any further and we are going to be patient in building our relations and we're going to do as much as our counterparts as our american counterparts are ready to do. and they're willing to do colleagues i wouldn't like to get back to the agenda mr. deputy of the at the group but. russian social chamber. just came to the issue of the trio to give you. the last question first of all let me return to mr putin. all the trust. for your trust towards well i've just been listening in on the russian president vladimir putin speaking live from moscow. discussing the ongoing olympic doping saga calling into

question the reputation of grigori road chen course also calling for a distinction between politics and sports sport is not a battlefield for politicians he said also touching upon the so-called kremlin list and that's one of the stories we're going to be bringing you more details on in today's program so stay tuned for that. now and then we know what russian flag at the twenty eighteen winter olympics in south korea the international paralympic committee has upheld its ban on team russia though it's allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months earlier a similar decision was taken by the international olympic committee but while all eyes are on russia now allegations of doping violations are surfacing elsewhere in the world. in the run up to next month's winter games the issue of doping has taken the main stage once again seeing the majority of russian athletes banned and those eligible to participate forced to compete under a neutral flag and frankly at this point when you hear doping you think russia but

is the problem really reserves just the one country i'm afraid the answer is a resigning no an investigation conducted by a group of international researchers at two separate sporting events back in two thousand and eleven produced a rather shocking conclusion where more than two thousand and the athletes were surveyed anonymously to encourage honest answers doping abusers are remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remains largely unchecked despite convent logical testing that report revealed that at the thirteenth athletics world championships in south korea over forty percent of those competing and made it to doping in the past year and almost sixty percent at the pan arab games in doha whereas was only came back with point five percent of test positive in south korea and three point six percent of the pan arab games needless to say that is a massive discrepancy and the other surprising thing is that the research was actually funded by wada and yet no one heard a peep out of them about the results which they've known about for years we would

note that there was a delay of nearly six years between the completion of the data collection and the publication of this paper due to negotiations between wada and i double a f. and subsequently between i w f and the authors regarding the authority to publish the results now it goes on to say that neither of the organizations impose restrictions on the writing of the report although i'm not sure how a six year delay isn't considered a restriction the president of germany's athletics federation for one was infuriated by the hold up banning that publication has impaired the possibility of taking important measures in the anti doping complain much of this is more than annoying you could also call it this condo and guess what the report was actually released months ago but i'd bet good money that you haven't heard a thing about it because for some or. it wasn't made into nonstop breaking news no probes were conducted and no bands were seen this was a study which of course would raise alarms with the world anti-doping agency

instead of pursuing it and doing further tests to determine the accuracy to try to verify or disprove the results of that study they simply blocked the publication so in my mind it's an example of the lack of transparency and the bias and the efforts to censor. studies and news that is problematic from their standpoint we managed to speak to the office of the report they told us that that was that indicate a doping epidemic. to international track in the us we are still forty six percent. and fifty seven percent of the athletes at these international track meets were dog being much higher than we expect our quarterly results are this paper i would call it. i mean when you're when you are talking that half of the athletes at an

international track me are asked to remain to be doing some kind of don't. i think that's a serious problem for asked radix where there is certainly a problem how big it is again i go back to my previous answer that having a record prevalence estimation we don't know but even if we settle for a lower figure than just for the sake of argument i'm not saying this is the actual figure but for the sake of argument if ten percent. it was so important where do you stand for stand happens if then percent of all the medal winners it is a big problem had them all and based on the way what we published is quite high they couldn't. figure. is we don't know much about the the athletes compliance. we're bringing you breaking news this hour the pentagon has

apparently told the inspector general for afghanistan to hush up power much of the country's territory is under the control of local taliban insurgents that's according to his latest report. this development is troubling for a number of reasons not least of which is that this is the first time sigur has been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer. we can get some more details on this now i'm joined in the studio by r.t. . thanks for coming in why are they classifying the areas contested by the taliban well nikki the united states military have been in afghanistan for like almost twenty years now and the war they've been waging there has not been fairing very world to say the least i mean and it's not just my words it's the words of the united states military as early as last year their defense secretary admitted that this is the war that they're having

a hard time with and listen to understand the urgent understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now. so there you have it this is the war we are not winning right now and this is despite all the efforts the united states has been taking you know to defeat the taliban i mean only in twenty seventeen alone they carried out some forty three hundred air strikes in a way it is a wrecking it is a record breaking number because this is this is the do this is the amount of airstrikes carried out during the trumps administration it's more than the two previous years combined and what do we have the taliban is all but expanding their presence in the country they gain more territories they are gaining in a foothold along with the islamic state of course because islamic state is making a resurgence is in the country and it is also you know capturing more territory more ground and also also contained also concealed i should rather say in this

report is the casualties and the attrition of the afghan army the army that is being trained by washington and washington is relying on on those security forces to maintain the set security which they're not doing a very good job of apparently so all of the factors above they've contributed to the latest spike of violence in the country have a look. what's. your point perhaps one

or or. so what is washington game plan now world washington is trying to keep a straight face here from just recently. just because of this spike in violence he said there will be no talks with the taliban you so the children and children families innocent people are dying in their bombings so he's not intended to you know to negotiate although it has been somewhat of a goal for the united states because this would somewhat allow if a deal if a peace deal is reached with the taliban then this would allow nato is somewhat of an honorable you know departure from the country this is not happening of the taliban is feeling pretty confident i should say they are trying to even more washington stance of saying that well you know you better talk to us sooner than later and you can easily reach us in our office in doha they have a four and you know this is it they opened it a few years ago exactly to talk with the taliban and to talk with gamester and with

the afghani people and with the united states and with foreign powers so that's where you have the stalemate is still ongoing and so is trump is saying there won't be any talks and there will be if there are no talks there's more war and the war the card apparently when a complex situation as he goes down i thank you for those details. the u.s. treasury has released a declassified list of russian individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august last year the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top tier business speakers but the treasury denies those on the list start being sanctioned parties medina concha never has the details. it is quite a big list with a lot of names that includes almost all top russian politicians and businessmen including prime minister dmitry me to be deforming minister sergey lavrov and russian ministers now in total there are one hundred fourteen politicians and

ninety six a businessman those businessman whose fortune is over one billion dollars and they've got business in europe or the united states are also according to the u.s. treasury department and the inner circle of the russian president now the publication as. saying sions bill which was signed by u.s. president donald trump back in august last year but the u.s. treasury department denies that it is a sanctions list it is not a sanctions list and the inclusion of individuals or entities in this report does not and in no we should be interpreted to impose sanctions on those individuals or entities the u.s. ambassador to russia has already called for the russian side not to react emotionally to this publication the kremlin spokesperson said that this list does not represent anything in particular but they will still look into it a possible impact on the russians.