but anything else this is a very very very dark day for the olympics and this is a very very very dark day for clean sport if there is such a thing if. people are saying they can prove they were dirty in the same breath you can prove that they were innocent or you say they are not guilty or you say they are guilty and they have ruled that there is not enough proof for a doping offense hence they are not guilty and this is very important also because it makes the mclaren report to become not. a basis which is enough to convict athletes and everything that was. up to now was based on the mclaren report and if this is now not basis enough to convict at let's then i do not understand why also all the russian at

plates could have been banned collectively without having any any proof of the hoping. but the mood was of course very different for the russian athletes are some of whom we spoke to share relief was the overriding emotion for those who thought of their dreams and careers were finished. loyal i'm assuming you know i found out about the decision during my training c.i.s. decided to overturn my disqualification my ban i had only positive thoughts in my head about that i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but it just you know i was waiting for the results of a pill when i came back from practice it's amazing yes then my skeleton team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty in the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date only those close to us knew it's not true.

i've been training with my push through the whole season and now because of what's happened i've been paired with someone else we'll have to adapt our techniques and make adjustments for way differences and work a lot in our start. give you some of my mojo is for me and for those who can prove their the whole situation has only me me angrier and even more determined to win. twenty eight sportsman's of russia are found not guilty and now the i will see states that does not mean that they will participate in the olympics the upcoming winter games that means that practically we have a court decision that will not be enforced and i see a new population here as there was a violation by the i.o.c. when banning the sportsman so this is actually a little bit odd to me and when we see we have not seen the reasons

for the decision right now the mclaren report didn't find any individual violations of. individual sportsman's. at least five migrants are in hospital after being shot during a mass fight at a food bank in the french port of cali another twenty two people have been injured . is in california now this is one of the many food distribution points in cali just take a look behind me and you'll see a group of migrants who have come here to receive food to receive clothing and other items and it's one of these distribution points that the clashes broke out on thursday hundreds of migrants i in with sticks of. gun fighting over what was on offer now we understand that more than twenty people were injured in that violence which over numerous parts of cali

including. wife who is injured from the shooting and for those teen age is said to be critically injured this is the latest round of violence in cali and the french interior minister has described it as reaching new levels. i came to carry because what happened here is extremely serious we have reached a degree of violence not known until today the government will propose a bill in the coming weeks to try and help asylum an immigration problems that will violence between groups of migrants is nothing new in cali but this is the worst it is being in many months and people here in cali say they just fed up of the situation. i think we need a structure put in place to protect us there's a lot of delinquency here because get damaged every day we have issues young girls can't go out alone at night it's a catastrophe for the french and especially for the people of cali the violence is

really damaging residents of cali have lived in fear for several years now. living together we migrant is complicated those coming here now are but different from to refugees who were coming here initially they're more violent and aggressive we're bridgeland people are still being shot it's still dangerous and it's true that people who live near these areas are constantly being disturbed it makes the city look bad. so the big it is starting to get scary firearms were not in the united states here this is still a country where weapons are banned kalai is probably best known for the jungle ruling camp with thousands of people living in squalid conditions it was dismantled back in two thousand and sixteen but still my quince come to cali hoping that one day they will be able to cross the channel to get to the u k. the latest incident

comes just weeks after the french president proposed a draft a bill that would tighten current migration policy the legislation would make it easier to deport documented newcomers who do not qualify for asylum you also increase the length of time authorities can detain illegal migrants for forty five to ninety days france received a record one hundred thousand applications for asylum last year. major police corruption scandal is unfolding in the u.s. city of baltimore with astonishing claims of wrongdoing continuing to emerge six former elite officers responsible for reducing gun crime have already pleaded guilty to running a criminal racket and four of them are now testifying against two other ex colleagues who have denied involved that they came at me like a gang or something i remember one of the officers saying i looked like someone who needed to be robbed everybody's life is destroyed because of this my kids are

afraid to go in the house the gun trace task force was made up of plainclothes officers and was supposed to be tackling the city's spiraling murder rate it was however dissolved in march last year and the officers arrested the units of detectives have faced a slew of charges including that they stole from and extorted residents as well as committing fraud and falsifying evidence in criminal cases american reports now from baltimore on how the unit's crimes were exposed. well it all started with an investigation into drug trafficking in new jersey then as the case unraveled federal authorities found out that the baltimore police department was also involved mostly its elite gun traced task force unit months of recordings recovered from a device planted in a police cruiser reveal that officers were involved in drug trafficking robbery falsifying reports and planting fake evidence in one case a high speed car chase resulted in a crash which the officers tried to cover up one of the indicted acts attacked is

involved actually broke down in tears in court it was a really bad accident none of us stopped to render aid to see if anyone was hurt we were foolish although i was doing so much wrong it got to a certain point where too much was too much altogether six officers have already pleaded guilty and two are still being tried but there are indications there's more to the story than just one rogue police unit court records show that the city paid over half a million dollars to settle claims of misconduct and falsifying reports involving the very same officers and dating back as far as twenty fourteen so why did the author just leave it all under the rug with a comma you see this goes all this is a very well known in the streets for door without any door and this isn't the first incident where it came up it's been it's probably been plenty of complaints you can't go an x. for help because you afraid that you know this particular of so it might just do

some so you might pencil it's common when we see them come we go to opposite direction if we can and if we can't we deal with the circumstances has been corruption for a long time you know just because this is one as it was though they decide to come forward or you know they got caught for what they done is stuff that particular as it had but at the same time as not going to stop at the option of law has to be done to stop the corruption from these criminals are cops and the cops are criminals then there's the unsolved murder of detective shawn souter that took place in. november last year souter wasn't part of the country's taskforce but worked with some of the officers were now under indictment and the day before he was set to testify in the corruption probe he was shot in the head with his own weapon while on duty and in another unfortunate twist which some might find suspicious a patrol car transporting the dying officer to a ospital got into an accident there's no suspect in the murder so far and no eyewitnesses except one unnamed partner and when the police commissioner tried to

redirect the investigation to the f.b.i. the agency refused saying that the case had nothing to do with the corruption probe i'm growing increasingly uncomfortable that my home side detectives do not know all of the facts known to the f.b.i. or the u.s. attorney's office that good if revealed to us assist in furthering this murder investigation in the wake of the scandal baltimore police have launched an overhaul including a new commissioner vowing to rein in city violence but investigators still seem to have a very complicated plot to unravel samir khan r.t. reporting from baltimore. medical professionals across russia have been left outraged after the conviction of a renowned moscow him a tall just and she was found guilty of medical malpractise after the death of a patient but many doctors and legal experts claim that the case against her had significant flaws as more it was doctor unanimous you had a nose job to come to this clinic every day and work to save people's lives she was

the mastermind behind this brand new unit which was when to become the most advanced center for bone marrow transplants in moscow the plan was to open it in january but instead a court ruled that she must go to jail. this is mr arenas office she has been gone for two weeks already we miss her she had a lot of plans and there are signs for the next week on her desk it all goes back to a tragedy that happened almost five years ago she was treating a patient with leukemia and that required a morning by obscene a routine procedure for a doctor me suited up it all went fine and the patient went off to work by evening he was suffering severe stomach pains and an ambulance took him to a private hospital then he underwent surgery and in two days passed away if

a patient dies he is or her relatives always want to get justice when someone's life is taken due to somebody else i think that some punishment must follow but what caused the person's death the biopsy the surgery or something else it took the investigators and the court for years to determine that for now the verdict is that this office will remain empty for two years. but some of russia's top hematology called the ruling nonsense while dr masood in this call leagues and former patients were simply stunned now i feel that a future is being taken away from the person who saved my life and lives of many others that's unfair i am getting the michoud into. every scene magic understood that a person who fully deserved to be acquitted was being put behind bars and that means all of us doctors may end up in prison where all you learn the missile if we get punished just for following correct procedures are then will be afraid to do our

jobs as doctors the support campaign online is gathering pace with ages we starved hash tag. me suit in our social network posts profile pictures being changed as native wish there was that is so that did you know that in the courtroom after she was already handcuffed the last thing she said to her husband was not about her child but about our patients she asked that they be taken care of so a doctor was already convicted who should have been angry had not cared but was still thinking about her patient we've tried to get a comment from the private clinic that carried out the surgery following the biopsy and the stomach pains but they're refusing to talk to journalists though in their online press statement the clinic stands by its doctors and their work the case is so controversial tragic and has grabbed so much attention the authorities are scratching their heads over what to do with that prosecutor's office request to

overturn the court's decision the reason violations committed in the process of investigation. the prosecutor and the she had no doubts and found no basis for an additional investigation request and only often a public outcry the prosecution appealed sizing violations of g. process the office's position cost doubts on the competency of its own offices yeah i do not know all the details of that case i think it's the coolest business and if necessary that can be a follow up to find out if there's a link between the doctor's actions and the death of the patients the staff at this clinic they want justice to prevail so as the relatives of the patient who want the person responsible punished we might never find the truth but after talking to people who work at this clinic i believe there is little doubt that experts should be given another chance to look at this case. clashes have broken out between

palestinians and israeli security forces in east jerusalem after the palestinian liberation organization called for a major day of rage. was low. the unrest began in the palestinian neighborhood following friday prayers israeli defense forces let off smoke and stun grenades to disperse the angry crowds and there has been a spike in violence in jerusalem and the west bank following the us president's controversial decision to recognize the contested city as the israeli capital. a battle that turned the fortunes of allied forces both in the east and west during the second world war and it took the lives of over two million people friday marks seventy five years since the soviet army's victory over the nazis at stalingrad have two months of desperate combat.

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the sheer magnitude of the suffering and sacrifice of stalingrad is still etched in popular consciousness in many parts of the world and several french cities including in paris streets and squares are named after the battle that's also the case in the belgian capital brussels and there's even a street in the ancient italian city of bologna or that it commemorates the soviet victory. today stalingrad is known as volgograd special memorial ceremonies took place throughout friday here are some pictures from a military parade held there earlier. ok troops and military vehicles pass through the city center some of the soldiers carried photos of their relatives who fought in the battle and some veterans from the battle of stalingrad were also at the ceremony one of the heroes who shared his memories. i was decorated five times during my service and received twenty five medals as well when i asked which of them is more important to me i answered the one for

defending starving grad here during the battle for starting grad the fate of the whole soviet union was decided the whole world cheered our victory here after starting grad the red army never retreat we never doubted anymore that we would defeat the nazis and we did it. and that does it for me i'll be back in thirty one minutes with a look at your headlines you're watching our two international.

welcome to. shevardnadze the u.s. is again threatening fresh sanctions against russia moscow cope with a comic pressure and what does a trade war mean for the global economy today i talked to russia's finance minister and. the russian u.s. standoff sees washington release an extensive blacklist of kremlin officials threatening to slap individuals with sanctions will the measures really change the

political that russia or the u.s. are stuck with you know making personal sanctions designed to fix and how much longer will the two heavyweights continue to mirror each other in this financial conflict. against a lot of russia's finally in finance minister with us here in the studio and against that mr show on a welcome to our studio and your first century you're with us great to have you here we have a lot to discuss first off you're number sixty four in the so-called kremlin east and i don't know whether to give you condolences on caret to let you let me at least you're not in the top ten. at least i'm a good company at least make you quite good no one is going left out. well yeah. so i don't know whether congratulations are in order. to do in your job you know someone doesn't like it and doesn't want us to keep on doing it because they want to put businessmen and politicians and government officials on so-called sanctions lists if you want to make it difficult for the government to perform its duties but

i'm sure it will backfire on them over these measures on stopping us from working as usual from business as usual also when someone wants to one russian anyway you know i think it's an arm and you take it in stride so its presence into action. on the contrary if you. have it. that's right now speaking of my area of work which is the economy where no on the contrary is stepping up our efforts to do for business what hasn't been done for business. for years hasn't even been planned to be done for example we're not going to liberalize our currency regulations our existing currency laws are a holdover from soviet times and until recently we just haven't had the chance to change them so all these sanctions make us improve our domestic business climate to make it more attractive to russian investors and by extension to foreign investors as well with a good. dozen of questions regarding that i promise you will come back to them

later but what i want to do now is discuss to criminal is because i'm not even sure as to what it actually means when your counterparts from the us treasury presented it to the congress to quote it's just a list no need to worry about what was that all about does it mean that for instance when you apply for a loan in a bank when there is no telling whether you will get it or not what are the questions of being on the list what does it all mean to you personally being on that list with some funds. as you observe the list itself was an initiative by the u.s. treasury and the final decision is up to the u.s. congress not to say that the treasury hasn't expressed its own position on the matter now as for what the list means for our kind so since before officials in the ministry use an agency well at the end of the day she doesn't really mean much we don't have any foreign bank accounts or own any property abroad everything using

russian technologies and russian banks are good the property we have in russia i didn't feel in any way limited or restricted after the list was published. and we heard the theory that because the confrontation between the trumpet ministration in the congress runs so deep r. and b. cost of congress pressured the treasury to put as many people on the list as possible the creators of the lease just include it the entire russian government almost as if they were mocking the congress. looks like she wants even trying you know it is silly yeah just listed all of the officials and all of the business before with considerable assets both in russia and abroad she didn't really specify any criteria they used the person to the list which could be anyway just frankly all the sanctions especially this latest initiative look someone half hearted and.

i guess we'll just have to see what happens next but i don't think my colleagues or i will be affected in any significant way. but sanctions in general i mean this whole story has been unfolding for several years now with moscow never even considering backing down or making any concessions in other words sanctions failed to reach their stated political goals and they were all we never will moreover when you ask people on the sanctions have affected them i mean you hear the standard answer those who didn't buy parmesan cheese before don't buy it now those who didn't fly abroad before hardly do that now could it be that the sanctions have absolutely no effect on the russian economy and the other people's lives and that's not possible right. of course on one hand these sanctions limit the deliveries of our military goods they restrict the ability of our country to attract investors who could receive the loans naturally this affects our economy because we don't receive as much investment as we otherwise would for example we

could have had higher rates of return on our securities and we have today we could have been obtaining more loans from western banks to develop our industry and production clearly there's an impact. on the other hand i believe we can always find a way out of a tricky situation. if they are imposing their sanctions we just start developing our domestic capabilities topping our internal resources member how to turn. the previous u.s. administration they said that the russian economy will be in shambles but pointing to falling oil prices and sanctions and all that stuff well are we in shambles now because the opposite we have mobilized our economy we now have the lowest inflation rate in all of russia's history we have overcome the economic crisis very quickly and this gave us an additional push to undertake structural reforms mobilize our

financial resources so you know really say what did rather well and get out of this difficult period without any significant losses or even credit rating agencies recognize this by upgrading our ratings are going to go against them. we'll talk about that little later. yeah i do agree that there's nothing more stimulating them being in a hostile environment but let's remember to get in there after said in an interview to financial times i asked him if the u.s. were to employ scale sanctions against russia last night a cold war would seem like child's play would you agree with assessments. unless you know if we look at the record of sanctions used against other countries like iran we can see that in their case sanctions run much deeper and include such steps as cutting the country off from the swift banking payment system and freezing its assets in western banks are basically a form of financial warfare it really is of course i hope it won't come to that

in russia so this. could i mean we've been hearing this idea of excluding russia from this with the system quite a lot recently a.j. have a back up plan in case it actually happens this would affect russia sure but also it would affect our foreign partners because they will force us all so use alternative less practical and less modern payment systems we know that this is a double edged sword this would hardly be a pleasant experience for russia but it will be just as bad for our foreign counterparts you know what if you have a plan being case that has. forced we do we have first of all we have developed the proprietor technology for interbank message exchange that we can use in russia and we do use it already for domestic transactions it has already been tested and is now used by a number of banks so in terms of domestic transactions we have it covered as a banking operation involving foreign parties that's the area that will be affected

but i believe we'll find a way out of these. external debt is decreasing and that is understandable since externally investments are shrinking and russia's internal debt is growing is and it's about one hundred twenty five billion u.s. dollars now what are there risks involved here. is the our internal debt which is really small little was only about fourteen percent of our g.d.p. if we look at other countries for example in europe it ranges from sixty percent to one hundred percent of g.d.p. from country to country. in the united states exceeds one hundred percent of g.d.p. so russia's internal debt is not growing in relation to g.d.p. and that's what matters our goal is to have a state budget unaffected by oil price fluctuations or any solutions what does it mean it means that our budget deficit should stay around the possible minimum and that we would generate the budget primarily from domestic investments so if we keep

our budget deficit at the minimum. won't grow. the internal and the projections for the next few years will stay within the range of fourteen to sixteen percent of g.d.p. so i cannot agree with you saying that internally that is cronus because it might be growing in terms of numbers or money but it's not growing in the relation to the g.d.p. . it's. myself and there's also the oil you mentioned it before the russian diplomat succeeded in bringing a deal with saudi arabia an object finally great to curb global production so all prices began to grow again and it seems to me that whether we like it or not or oil is sometimes more important than politics geopolitics political statements and so turns out that we see where it really matters to us have a say russia does call shots is it really soured is it an illusion that he did they

do. in this case it is still yes we have indeed brokered an extension for the oil production cap deal and that played a role on the global oil price of course a growing global demand for oil has also been a contributing factor here and the fact of the demand is growing as a positive effect on the market and the prices so does bush's ability to negotiate because without russia major oil producer and exporter the opec are going ization wouldn't have come through with a solution to cap production when you more vision was that it is much. they have a certain degree of predictability in the situation and strike certain agreements that we can rely on that is why we made an effort and i think we'll continue down this path yeah so isolate russia are not sanctions are not moscow still has some influence on the world economy can serve me well question can you tell us actions of that russia's overproduction i'm guessing we as a lot of the.