welcome back to worlds apart that you are seeing is a check a candidate in the two thousand and eighteen russian presidential election and seen just before the break you mentioned the name of alexina volumnia i assume a former friend of yours was precluded from running in this elections his supporters. took to the streets in a series of unsanctioned rallies just the other day apparently you didn't make much of it but i think that it was a notable event and they defied the government several times in the it's only it was only two thousand people it's not all this goes away were you given then things are unsanctioned this is what i mean given that you're running the atmosphere is that he just went out without those who don't let people go on the streets and then the sake so not so i think you saying the two thousand on no no support of a position thousands of people would go out and you're arguing with yourself now because as i said the people took to the streets and you earlier denied that they were trying to argue that the streets they took two thousand people it's not enough

it's not what you said you said but look people went out. they did what small quantity was not even a little small quantity but because the i never heard try to qualify if you tried to do it but let's still wrangling about it i think the reason why people took to the streets and why alex and of only called them to go out. she's call for the boycott of those elections and boycott means not participating at all isn't he the real candidate the candidate who is really against old rather than let's say yes i think he's a real candidate and i think that he should be let to the elections unfortunately that was not made and here we share different ideas because i don't think the call out is the fact i think by caught will play only on putin not against putin because of the less number of people would come. and vote out of protest the more

percentage of those who will be for protein this is obvious and i am against this idea that's why i decided to participate to unite those who go and vote on those elections to say how many people are against so that you personally would not get any vote a year earlier accuse the current authorities of trying to downplay the opposition support and russia. i know that i mean everybody everybody knows that there have has been a bit of a falling out between your campaign and the only complaint it has been a number of very public spats yesterday election of only published a calm and that was not very complimentary of the post of each you were attacked more than me well i think he accused there was a rumor that you visited him in the detention facility somebody wrote about you visiting human the detention facility to which you replied that it was a lie anyway it is really why what does it have to do with me i did my best i

brought some food i spoke with policeman i never said i saw him first yemeni it shows that there is. not the kind of agreement between various of position forces or you going to happen because this is what i share as democracy you shouldn't be all agreed like this like all the people who work there a lot lots of personal attacks if you guys are united by the common goal which is personal attack so this is not a question to me i think about it with. cheese he's campaigned manager on camera but i never do personal attacks i just wanted him to a polish and i certainly wanted to show the opposition in the very. little i can only answer for myself i can tell so for all the people yes i think some of the rules say the opposition leaders deeds were not really sensible as in this. well in terms of uniting us all but i tried to do everything to.

complain manager quite deliberately chasing i just wanted his apologies i didn't get them and they said enjoins you think by doing that you're playing in the hands of those who are actually looking for any pretext to. college i was because you said lie i don't think it was ground that's up to you you said that your share a lot of common ideas and i think politically and vali stands on both leftist and nationalist positions he is on record saying that when he comes to power he is going to expropriate the properties of the current elite and i think in russia that is something that could be very appealing to the people especially the poor the young. would you personally like to see another expropriation redistribution complain in this country well i think we should be very definite in our terms i don't think that he says about ticks procreation over the elite i think he in his

program and if i'm not mistaken speaks about expropriation of the people connected with corruption with this i totally agree you know that he's not just a leftist i think he is a revolutionary leftist he's pretty much about. blowing up the current system and building something new in its place and that is a fundamental question for russia how do you change russia whether you change it from scratch starting to build from a clean slate or whether you work with the current system it's very important for me to get your position and i in favor of revolution or evolution our view or future russia is really different because i think that unfortunately the only good way for us is a long way i know that many people want to foster change but change only have as a revolution i am against to dilute on that you agree with birds and rather than only luke what do you mean i agree i don't agree with putin put in doesn't fade.

the real things about these you know if a person says i am for everything good and against everything bad of course you will agree with. that he prefers an incremental change in russia which will then why he doesn't do it for you to yours he knows the troughton steals he knows that made the team. is probably stealing he knows many many governmental people hostility from the state why he is not punishing them why he is only punishing. who stole from satan and he spawn is not because he stole from state but because he stole something as you really believe that putin has the same kind of authority to deliberately target any give. no that putin has all the powers in russia and he has word is the last word here understand that in such a big country like russia knows every question could be addressed to a president for sure and that's the problem because all of the people around him sit and think ok what do we think about this or maybe we can treat the already set

top as we can do this and then hundreds of intrigue has become the reality of our lives but the problem is that we don't have laws we have in truth what putin will think about this and this is i think a really bad situation because i want to leave in a country where everything is ruled by law not by president well i think many people over the agree with you on that but i think the problem in russia is not what but how and this is actually what. one of the architects of liberal reform in russia said recently of the gaidar forum but the problem is not we all agree that the russian future is doomed democratic but the question is how to change that then from his position it's not just about political will it's about the energized citizenry what have you done in your campaign to encourage the citizen muscle i have done a huge tour. i've visited more than eighteen regions of russia already and in every

cd i gather the halls where i speak with people i talk about the need for change i talk about the problems we face i educate all around russia and my main goal is education i want to educate people i want to bring them truth and i want together all their problems to make them federal so i go on all the regions of russia and they give those problems and they want to. know what it is i've been following your campaign and sometimes it really looks like a more hip version of it which is annual call in show because you would go to some rundown hospital people will tell you how bad things are and they would be hoping that the publicity will make the local officials pay attention but it's the same old russian paternalism waiting for the officials to fix the problem rather than being the change you want to see in the world don't you think that you are

essentially playing the very same kremlin tactic no i'm not i am the change people want to see because with me comes the light to their problems when they come to those who are using cheese if you want to see in russia that you want to see in the world somebody who actually not only talks about the problems but who fixes them i think them by doing this this is my way of fixing you know you can see city two during the list of course because off to drive doesn't solve the problem in a why does it mean i can give you already some examples for example the hospital we matt already there. pronouncing a program of. building works because of my visit and this is the real doing thing because i can take the lose money out of my pocket and it is being spaced by the same prison system that you criticize so you drew the attention to their own i am saying look those guys got money for building a hospital. but they never build it they never rebuild it then i call with t.v.

and everyone writes about this they know they stole those money and they have to do something because otherwise they will go to prison because the scandal around this becomes really huge so what they're doing the compensated and starting building it this is how i think things this is my way of doing i go for example and speak about it but you do understand the reason presidential work is not drawing attention to some problem it's actually of course but i'm doing now what i can do now i was talking loud that you did need to if i'm on with other very famous people who were also against these charges that it was really a gentle you read this or that he what he was released i take on all of us this credit on all the citizens who were involved in doing something for him to make this case public and when you say what do you do. if you're on all the talking you know talking as you remember in bible first was the word being is the most

important thing when you stop talking about things that were allowed that all russians are exploiting these fish even much they like to talk but they don't like you know no one likes to talk no one on federal channels talks about the things i talk and people know this and that's why they go and want to support me now i want to two more questions if i may and we don't have that much time so i would appreciate a relatively short answer your i think one of the first prominent female candidates in the russian elections after that and a few. interviews she encountered a lot of sexism and not just sexism she encountered a lot of open bigotry and her negatives were very high but not as high as yours i saw some polling agencies putting them down to eighty percent do you think that's just the typical prejudice of the russian a lecture the against women or do you put more to. own personality well first of

all i don't believe in those a kind of polls because of those polls done in the same ways of everything as they count votes it's like the same kind of organizations and you do not think you have that i know i don't see it around me i see so much support especially when i go out of big cities i see so my support of people who come like this is an interesting time but i mean in many countries do you encounter more challenges to iran i formerly with i feel it too sometimes but i think we shouldn't pay attention to this we just should do what i think is right because while yes it exists many men don't think that it's a right for women to rule of their lives they don't think that in poetry are you cold society that's a good thing to do but what we can do about this we can just prove that this is not try but i think far less agreeable then the most russian women certainly know how

to get your way and i have one last question i don't want you to take it as a personal attack i think it's an important one a few years ago you were taped having a conversation with your neighbors about the repair work on your part and i don't think it's correct to discuss criminal cases because this was a private talk on telephone which was voice it wasn't it was yon by face so it's a criminal case and it was criminal reported so i don't think it's ethical to discuss my private telephone conversations and i will telephone conversation don't think it's correct to discuss any private conversations all my private analyse you all my old i haven't read it and i think it was a criminal case and you know this it's unconstitutional to do this to discuss it and even to report it if you would show these on your t.v. i was knighted zoar and they will closely because it's a lawful i won't do this but i'm just. thank you we can discuss unlawful things

uncles it's easy you know it menial to really see how these movies are deemed unconstitutional and you know if you are no hughes movies i discussing corruption i'm going to share only palaces over the people who are you doing this that we discussed please don't kill the people please hold these on my money and when. we release was it my telephone private telephone in which you said that you wouldn't hire outgoing wouldn't care for legal to discuss my time voice calls listening working with phase b. i want to get this calls once again if you're if you're cooperating with them i know you can do it. as is certain oleson millions of people in russia listens you know i don't want to listen to any calls i'm not listening to an unsolved calls who was killed ok let me ask goals were also there so no i won't see us my private calls which were illegally taped by phase b.

as i was not listening and never would listen to an insult calls that were also distributed through all the internet let me ask you if i think that people don't do it unless they call and my mother. was ill you know it gives you a miser about the whole you have force and the son has to go because it's my private i can say my home whatever i think is right and in my letters private letters i can write whatever i think is right and my mom i wonder if i would like that i would should never read someone's samantha someone's letters and. then shipped moderate tell you had i was in our research if you talk on the phone i didn't she never doing this and to tomorrow why should i say to you my advice to you and be ethical enough not saying anything here i am having and i know you say something and it's important question for me as and i as a first this is a legal question again it's not business as will be and michael kay. right because

we're running out of time and let me pose it in a way that would not impeach him on that call but i will still have the same message across you know i'm a somebody who has a very snobbish each other people and i think you've demonstrated that whole how can you explain apart from this call which was my private life and which will state and now they can give another example of this snobbish attitude i think i just want to give them and i want the journalistic example while i was a legal journalistic example well even now i think you are. as a journalist i think this is you don't want to discuss this problem i understand why so legal is because it's illegal so now we know it all because i mean if we just sort of don't require specific degree all consideration for the people at janney an accommodation of their concerns do you think you have it in yourself to show that accommodation to people who live next door to you to people who live across the street or to people who live at the other end of the country of course

this is what i'm doing now and this is actually what my complaint is about actually this campaign change will all too because when i go to people when they see how many problems they have and when they see that i cannot solve them all right now i'm trying hard i'm doing my best but i see that sometimes i can only hog them i can only cry with them and that's maximum that i can do of course it touched me very much and it touches manaul and i actually am not a person i used to be when i came to this campaign and now because i saw so many suffering already and i am now every day with it so of course it gives me a future how to say a huge burden when you can do only so little things now but you see how many people are really needing help and support and the fair state and they don't have it now since male radia grossly over time they will have to post

a whole version online and make some changes that we will agree but you'll for the error marriage and let's start with i make and it would be already over time but i was well let's finish it thank you so much i will really don't want you to cop the interview thank you was nice meeting if you're not going to accommodate my last question i just don't want you to cut anything think it thinks they. are. entire perfect currency market itself is still on track to eclipse the global

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sports highest court lifetime olympic. two dozen russian. doping violations. the bipartisan the fine deepens in washington with the white house expected to release a classified congressional memo on friday the documents allegedly detail surveillance abuses by the f.b.i. . spy on trumped selection. plus german intelligence warns that the children of fighters could be recruited. in the country describing them as living.

live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story in the court of arbitration for sports has overturned a lifetime a limp big of twenty eight russian athletes accused of doping apel the results the sort she went to games back in twenty fourteen down off the story. this ruling has to be the olympic equivalent of having your execution cancelled at the last minute twenty eight previously banned for life from the games and are fully cleared of all doping allegations sanctions against them dropped nine a hard won medals in sochi are set to return to their rightful owners named and shamed they refused all along to accept the punishment for being guilty by association you're done with it's such a relief for us because we're really are innocent the public is now where of that

many people believe that we don't but our close ones of course knew it wasn't true i'm really disappointed with the olympic movement it's a complete mess. there's a lot of uncertainty the bans were justified in some cases in others not i'm happy that the athletes in my sport. have been partially acquitted and i'm sure we'll be promoting our movement further. with the legal mechanisms exist and we hope we'll still have the time to fight for our rights if not at cas then in a civil court switzerland has a long history of considering cases if there are agents have always sat the truth and justice always prevail in the end yet the verdict came with a catch. this does not mean that these twenty declared innocent but. due to insufficient evidence held the sanctions and old individual results achieved in such reinstituted so hold on

a second you yourself proclaimed there's no proof to convict these athletes what part of innocent until proven guilty in my not getting here this short remark is the latest twist in what's been a nerve racking roller coaster of a doping scandal for russia's athletes the international olympic committee initially slapped the russian team with a blanket ban following a report accusing the country of a state sponsored doping program the court of appeals heard both from the author of the report and its key witness though and didn't find their testimony convincing enough these two men who were involved in exposing all of this mess basically gave us enough evidence to say listen mcclaren water you see we don't believe you guys the tribunal's conclusion has poked a sizable hole in the reasoning behind the i.o.c. his decision to bar russia from the olympics but the not guilty verdict does not

guarantee a ticket to south korea later this month it's still the i.o.c. that gets the last say in who does go and who does not since the russian olympic committee is suspended russian athletes can participate in pyongyang only on invitation by the i.o.c. the result of the cast decision does not mean that athletes from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games so for now even without an invitation to south korea the twenty eight russian athletes have potentially paved the way for other clean athletes to achieve justice but even with this battle won the war is far from over. igor's you don't know for we discussed the issue with a number of experts including renowned sports lawyer r. chimp parts of you welcome the ruling. by the it's a victory for common sense and the fundamental principles of the olympics over political whims we've always stuck to the principles journey i.o.c.

inquiry and we cast as well charter is based on that's what appeared to cool it in leftist when he created the olympic movement of first of all it's a great victory for those twenty cleats fart over a year to claim their innocence and cares this is confirmed that they have not committed any wrongdoing and had wrongly sanctioned something they had not done theoretically. could challenge those decision the grounds on which you can. this is before the streets supreme court are very limited and i don't see how they could be successful. and you can see here the reaction of one russian cross-country skier after hearing the verdict tell the end my theory it was one of the twentieth athletes cleared of doping nearly overjoyed at the court's decision.

ok moving on now the release of a classified congressional memo allegedly detail and abuses up survey glints powers by the f.b.i. is expected to be approved by president trump on friday the possible move has already led to a major backlash from both the agency and the democratic party with the details. well a specter of anticipation is hanging over washington d.c. as everyone is anticipating the release of the memo now at this point we've already heard from many republicans who say they've seen the memo and that the content is shocking they're calling it worse than the watergate scandal now essentially the memo is purported and expected to show great abuses by the f.b.i. essentially that they have the f.b.i. and the u.s. department of justice were abusing the foreign intelligence surveillance act in order to spy on donald trump that is what is being alleged now we've already got

a recording of donald trump on a hot mike saying that the memo will be released just released. right now one hundred. the f.b.i. is saying in complaining essential that they didn't have enough time to review the memo out before it's pending release and we've also heard from adam schiff a top democrat who is saying that changes to the memo have been made without prior approval and it's called on the white house essentially not to release it he's saying it's not ready to be released there have been changes that have been made to it that we've also heard from devon newness spokesperson devon's known as the chair of the committee and he said that some of those changes actually came at the request of the democrats it was minor edits some grammatical fixes as well as two edits done at the request of the f.b.i. now this medal is set to to really kind of challenge and kind of throw away some of the credibility of the f.b.i.

as well as the entire russia investigation in response to this we've heard a number of democratic leaders say that the calls to release the memo are somehow a plot by the kremlin that as the hash tag released the memo went up on social media top democrats sending a letter to social media basically saying that they wanted them to investigate whether or not russian bots were. behind the release but it's gone further than that at this point we've now heard allegations that perhaps the force is responsible and the chairman of the committee could actually himself be a russian agent. is it possible that the republican chair of the house intel committee has been compromised by the russians as a possible of the actual russian agents running the house intel committee on the republican side i hope that's not the case i mean this is behavior speak about the

i mean i'm not the first person who's raised this he's behaving like someone who's been compromised an. investigative reporter that you're interested in stein's advocacy for better relations with russia any vote for stein is a vote that otherwise would have gone to hell or. donna brazil would seemingly buy into full fuel propaganda spread by both the russians and her opponent or candidates. if those objections. from kentucky on the floor before i read this if there was objection you are achieving the objectives of the adamant. germany's domestic intelligence chief is raising the alarm over children of islamic

state fighters that have been brought to germany he says the youngsters are living time bombs that can be used in terror plots inside the country all of our reports. said the children all german parents who went off to join isis in iraq syria. pose a potential security threat when or if they return to germany in fact he went as far as to refer to them in some cases as ticking time bombs they were confronted early with islamic state ideology learned to fight and were in some cases forced to participate in the abuse of prisoners or even the killing of prisoners we have to consider that these children could be living time bombs there is a danger that these children come back brainwashed with a mission to carry out attacks or mustn't also went on to say that there was a whole network of online i use this headhunters looking to recruit.