columbia this is a part of their everyday lives. yeah it's sort of strange because space coast we're looking at right here from about melbourne florida all we have to cape canaveral about a forty mile stretch here it was all i mean it's known as space coast for a reason back in the day in the sixty's and seventy's i mean it was all about now it was all about astronauts here and business is booming for everybody since the shuttle ended this is the most historic moment since the shuttle program and and they saw about one hundred thousand people from out of town and over hats or half a million people total that came out to see it people are excited because to them it means space coast is coming back that people are getting excited about space an air of space again and potentially jobs open if this becomes a regular around you know a regular industry that is going back and forth between the moon and mars and all of that this will get very quickly are going to finish up well what would you know what the next step is now now that they've successfully done this what's what are the one who got up is up the sleeve. well you know over the last couple weeks he's

still a flame thrower does he send a car into space playing david bowie i think anything is possible but i think we're going to see bigger rockets and bigger plans and much more weight to wait and wait and then have a wonderful time on the beach down there i'm sure all of us in the winter jealous because in spite of that thank you so much for your actual work as always always a pleasure to have to wait for you to get back here by the best. will be back there and thanks. as we go to break our quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our full shows that are three dot com coming up from seoul presents part two of his interview on the winter olympics doping scandal with the president of the international society political stories as they were last year's key and reductive lively camp and there's a lot left to discuss the roller coaster of inequality of wall street states.

i'm here at money field stadium the home. i'm here. in legend. a man who fought many great battles behind me now he's engaged in the greatest bottle of all his struggle against newborn disease. despite its time going into history the soviet union i know has dominated international sport however this is not about the lives of those champions from the . sort of you know. run on the children number this it that.

you knew more male there with the wind over me if you're going to get your brother this guy who is from the lord your god what the issues the list will be reserved for you if you were the first soviet and limpid team of one nine hundred fifty two with some good seeds of ifas concentration camp prisoners and frontline soldiers sort of still think maybe even that it's good to go from here with your option you get a much needed mission for the government because you're more smooth but you're in for the one for their shadow and they're going to have a cross with you that you think video we're going to go with. their actions your bush will push through personal first little enthusiasm when you know when you're at the national mourning period then you're well aware there's here we are in the world now as you know can we.

many of jokingly refer to the icy relations between washington and moscow these days as a new cold war but nowhere is that nato narrative more evident in the world today than and south korea the home of the winter olympics where for the first time since the one nine hundred eighty s. existential stand up one of the world's two great super powers will be noticeably absent yes even though the international olympic committee recently decided to allow individual russian athletes to participate in response to a. campbell over the use of performance enhancing drugs they will not be allowed to do so under their nation's wagon officially representing the russian federation but is that a fair decision considering the long history of doping in sports worldwide president

of the international society of olympic a story and david wallechinsky join sean stone to discuss the underlying issues of this debate they probably go back to the very first olympic games in some form or another but at what point do we say p.d.'s are reality they're part of life let's incorporate it into the regimen and monitor it rather than pretending that winners aren't cheating there's two arguments again this is an interesting argument to legalize all drugs performance enhancing drugs p.d.s. but there's two arguments against it the most powerful argument is if you do that then. adolescents will start using these drugs if you as a teenager you know he can be a football player a shop of whatever. cross-country runner you're going to start taking these drugs you're going to ruin your body for life because your body is still forming and so it sets a very bad precedent the second problem with legalizing all performance in it's in

drugs. is that. it's an economic inequality. we already have what some of us call technological doping. you know it's completely legal to have better equipment than in a poor rich country supposed to a poor country but overwhelmingly you know the richer countries are having a better better opportunities to to improve is individuals legally if you start legalizing performance enhancing drugs you just make that problem worse because some athletes and their countries will be able to afford these drugs no matter how expensive they are in a poor country you won't be able to take them so putting recently announced that russia will hold its own winter olympics in opposition to the ones being held in korea what does it actually mean. well first of all it may not be so necessary now that so many of the russian athletes are allowed to compete having said that when

the soviet union boycotted the one thousand nine hundred four los angeles olympics . the soviet union organized an alternative olympics called the friendship games. and in certain sports you could compare of the times of course there was no drug testing apparently on either side but but they already did this once before thirty four years ago and so the idea was to you know say while the olympics is going on we're going to use the venues that were used for the sochi olympics and you know we're going to show our our athletes are great you don't have to watch those athletes at the real impacts. but if now it's possible that russia could do very well at the contract games and one of the you know subtle stories as nothing to do with doping at all is men's ice hockey men's ice hockey for the last five olympics

the national hockey league has allowed its players to compete in tournaments have been fantastic because these players who were always playing for money are suddenly playing for their country and it's been a great experience this year the national hockey league owners. said we're not allowing our players to play period don you can't go you kicked out of league if you go. so this is very unfortunate so this will be the first winter olympics in twenty four years in which there have been no n.h.l. players but that had nothing to do with the cage which is the russian the. so those russian ice hockey players men's ice hockey players who don't play in the n.h.l. but are professionals will be at the twenty eighteen winter olympics the united states for example or canada just sending you know some old guys in the few college

players so this is a great opportunity spectator opportunity for the russian i saki team. are good friends of wall street have been on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs this week starting on monday when the dow saw a lovely sixteen hundred point freefall marking the biggest point decline in history eventually closing the day down at one thousand one hundred seventy five points however before anyone starts whispering the word crash andreas garcia c.e.o. of the wealth management firm zoe financial declared to c.n.n. money dot com that the stock market is throwing a tantrum take a deep breath i know it's been a while since we had a day like today but nothing has really changed from a fundamental standpoint. because nothing is more comforting than hearing financial experts casually infer that the stock market has the maturity of the five year old behind me in line at target meanwhile a shocking show of force by the u.s. government there's a shocking wells fargo saw the hammer fall last friday when janet yellen the

federal reserve actually held the big bank responsible for their bad actions in the multimillion dollar checking account broad and scandal in a statement the fed declared until the per makes a person prove it will be restricted from going any larger than its total. that size of the end of two thousand and seventeen and according to n.p.r. wells fargo said that about one point nine trillion in assets boy suffering so are we really actually seeing the u.s. government stand up to the big banks and is wall street going to finally fall victim to its own hubris to find the answers let us not look to a businessman in a suit but to a comedian with a mind who has spent a good part of his life calling out the streets and sam of the host of redacted some nights like it when times are this crazy going to turn the comedians are on top of it and that's how it's got to be that's how it's got to be you know lead with the with the recent kind of you know freezing of growth and growth and the rich and the demand to remove board members from wells fargo we're actually seeing

the u.s. government you know truly step up and stand up against the big banks or is assault just. smoke and. run and you run a company. actually zimmerman stand up maybe it makes no when they stand up it's an outlier and you know yes yesterday was the largest one day drop in the stock market history and people are running around hair on fire oh my god but i don't remember that ninety two percent of stock wealth is held by the top twenty percent it is largely the rich further enriching themselves while they exploit all the rest of us and that's why the quote you read about how you have no worry everything's still running fine you know what running fine is it is the exploitation of the american working class it is it you know and here's the news that was imposed i brought a real newspaper to see one of these are some of these and well yeah i went to the wayback machine they say many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the turbulence yesterday rising wages rise wages this

stock market plummets when corporations are worried that the workers will have security will have good wages ellen screen is on tape from like a decade ago saying worker insecurity. good for the market this dogs are surging because workers have been pressed down to such a level that the corporations can do whatever they want before we started the segment you and i were box con right the corporation that is known for the suicide nets where you know apple gets their phones made in china well now they're coming to wisconsin right the reason is not and everyone celebrating oh big company come to the working jobs well the reason they're able to now come to america is because workers in america have been pressed down so far we're now celebrating that basically a slave labor plant is coming to our shores. totally agreed to leave because of our you've seen over the years you've seen the destruction of unions you've seen the

destruction of workers' rights oh well minimum wage will bump it up a dollar to ten. minimum wage had kept up with when it was at its highest in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight if it kept up with productivity and the buying influence it would now be twenty one dollars an hour but the productivity gains have all gone to the top and of course then you get deeper into what is the system in productivity gross domestic product you're talking about endless growth on a planet with finite resources this is a cancer the stock market is celebrating cancer that will ultimately come crashing down here's the question really is i've known you've spoken out about this for a long time you've tried to educate people on this but what are the hurdles that you generally face when you're trying to convince people hey look at this a new way than what you kind of been raised in condition to look at yeah i mean i think part of the hurdles is getting people understand the deeper system that g.d.p. is it's a life blind and it's decoupled from health from society is the g.d.p.

the stock market is pure profit it is nothing but it doesn't matter how many people die it doesn't matter how many people starve it doesn't matter how tough it is for people get water none of that matters it is one thing and one thing all the profit it would be like a driver only measuring his driving skills by how fast he's going here. running people over these parents are interjected crash into people and just speed is only looking at and he gets to town and half the people in town have lost family members to his driving and he goes we should all celebrate look at how fast i got here that's what i was celebrating these stocks are just is like that but here's the other thing is just about people understand these people are angry they get the anger they understand they're not doing well out there they look at the stock martin they get i don't impact me my life sucks but the problem is their anger is being channeled to the wrong places a lot of the time is being channeled into support of trump or support of white nationalism or hatred of immigrants or hatred of women or whatever it's being channeled in the wrong direction but the anger is genuinely there generally there and let me ask you this now after following this and i agree the anger is there

people are going i have a feeling a benchley that the you know it's going to break at some point. you know are we going to see when that break comes are we going to see another crash is this going to take another recession is that what's on the tealeaves you know looking forward well i think it's going to want to call them we haven't as an ecological crash at the least i mean i don't think i can predict the stock markets right now we're able to inflate them and pop them up by pretending things are fine when they're not but ultimately the the environment can't support this you know not just global warming but you got more plastic apparently by weight in those in the ocean then fish you have. we're not going down tens of thousands of acres of rain forest per minute or what is it cannot sustain you know so how could we possibly can continue saying growth you know again it's a cancer on a planet with finery but i got to say thank you so much leave for coming on and it

was striking that to us and keep up the great work of a young man and you're doing good work as always thank you. and finally today when we look up to the heavens to find inspiration we must also keep an eye out for a u.f.o. which is exactly what many good folks in south america thought they were. went missing when they spotted three mysterious fireballs shooting across their blue skies almost immediately pictures and videos sprang up across the internet and social media thousands of people stretching from brazil to peru witnessed this bizarre sight thankfully over we can rule out alien invasion or armageddon meteors you can go home bruce willis as the three fireballs were eventually discovered to be a very manmade rocket re entering earth's atmosphere along with three round fuel tanks so remember everyone when you when you look to the sky to dream. don't forget to bring your camera. and maybe a helmet too with all the falling debris and what not that leaves on gentlemen is

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going to. with just two days to the start of the winter olympics hopes diminish for dozens of russian athletes fighting to overturn their ban. still made a lot of germany's two largest parties and will merkel conservative on the social democrats finally reached an agreement to form a coalition government. and the new party is being launched in the u.k. with the aim of reversing brags that the support it's getting from across the channel is leading to accusation. french meddling in britain's internal affairs.

this is r t international coming to you live from the russian capital with me thanks for tuning in. there are only two days to go until the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics in south korea and it's still unclear who will compete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the case of dozens of russian athletes but no decision was reached on wednesday with the session adjourned for the day the athletes are challenging the international olympic committee's decision to ban them from competing in the wake of the doping scandal. reports. the olympic dreams of almost fifty russian athletes right now depend on the court of arbitration for sports and for the young chang games this is their new home. the court convened for a few hours on wednesday but there was no decision we resumed the hearing tomorrow . possibly find the decision can be rendered at the end of the day tomorrow but

what if the decision after the opening ceremony the goal is really to finish before printing and well it was. for me the last moments for the in the spring should be arriving. but possibly could be thursday it is a huge court case as many as forty seven russian athletes and coaches where the queen doping test history against the international olympic committee but in a sense it's a battle between the court of arbitration for sports or cas and the i.o.c. here's why a group of russian winter athletes were and initially a few months ago banned for life by the i.o.c. their medals were taken away but then all of this was overturned by cas last week regardless of that the olympic officials decided to flash a red card plus there were more russian winter athletes who didn't get lifetime bans but despite the fact that they had never been caught cheating before as well

they still heard that they can't come to play and change so it's the careers and the olympic dreams of these athletes that a swiss law firm is trying to save and the hearings are happening right behind these doors swiss lawyers are saying that the grounds for the lawsuits are the nontransparent nature of the criteria plus the on lawful nature of the verdict itself and most importantly discrimination on basis of. citizenship and remember that some of the people whose fate is being protected here are reigning olympic champions. movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an explanation i've never given

a reason to doubt my honesty and my integrity. the games in korea were to be the first in my career together with my partner we've been working towards these olympics for many years it was my cherished dream. i was shocked to lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career i've given no reasons to doubt that i'm clean. so to put it very mildly cason the i.o.c. don't see eye to why the court clears a group of russian athletes but the olympic officials can't be bothered to situation put the two organizations almost on a brink of conflict the secretary general of cass says that there is no crisis but see for yourself who these costs are a decision is she streamlet disappointing these decision shows the

the urchin to meet for reforms in the internal structure of castes i must support my and my panel for traitors and so far i think the procedure was fully respected their reaction was very strong understand the disappointment of the i.o.c. because they expected another verdict but we should not. it's better to wait before criticizing the decisions themselves because they are not being drafted yet. so again there's very little time for cast to make up its mind the opening ceremonies coming up on friday february ninth but whatever the decision is the russian sport cas and the i.o.c. will never be the same again we spoke to a russian skater who didn't receive an invitation to the games despite being cleared by kath a week ago. it is sad for me to see other russian athletes posting videos and

photos from korea clearly the first explanation which comes to mind is that they want to get rid of the strongest competitors maybe they were upset because we were ranked first at the saatchi winter olympics they give no explanation do not share their reasons that's why the fear of losing seems the only plausible motive behind the decision i saw those looks from my foreign colleagues i heard them sneaking around some foreign athletes even took pictures of me it wasn't a pleasant feeling when other athletes refused to enter an elevator with me i felt helpless because there was no way for me to prove them wrong. a lawyer representing some of the athletes currently appealing the i.o.c. ban told us that she hopes the decision or reflect the facts i believe necessary to take all legal steps available to us to ensure our participation. in the uk. we hope that the independent panel that was composed will truly and.

at the facts and of the law in front of them and. to the right decision. the i.o.c. has almost plenary power to even ignore what the court of arbitration for sports has decided and i think nations would probably say we don't want the i.o.c. making arbitrary decisions that while it may one day affect our athletes international sports community and member nations really need to get together and create a body that can enforce rules fairly and across the board equally because we do not have that right now. earlier the i.o.c. issued strict rules for regarding russian athletes in uniforms as russian competitors are only allowed to compete under a neutral flag the uniform should bear the words a limpid athlete from russia or its acronym oh a r should also be of a single or dual color and we know it will be grey no russian flags or any of its

colors white blue and red are allowed however that doesn't stop one russian design company from showing its support for russia's athletes by launching a line of special t. shirts putting on the acronym one of its designers shared his motivation behind the move. but look when used most it's stupid to deprive people of their own country and identity because whatever uniform athletes wearing we all know that their own russian athletes that's why we came up with the project using the strange name for a limpet teen olympic athletes from russia a we wanted to show you that for us and for athletes truth and sport it would drive us and all these bonds and sanctions just political games we've really seen huge number of these prints for noncommercial use their intent to the fan this we hope that it will encourage their athletes they'll see that we support them and that we need their records in victory . meanwhile north korean delegates arrived in panjang on tuesday among them over

two hundred cheerleaders the women cross the demilitarized zone dressed in red and black wearing d.p. r. k. flags as they did some chatted with journalists the delegation is almost three hundred strong making it reportedly one of the largest border crossings between the two countries leader kim jong un sr is also expected to attend the games in north and south have agreed to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony seen as a sign of thawing relations but while the north is on the charm offensive u.s. vice president mike pence who is also going to the games has a very different message i'm announcing today that the united states of america will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on north korea ever we will continue to intensify our maximum pressure campaign until north korea takes concrete steps toward complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. a new anti bragg's the party is about to be launched in the

u.k. and it's finding its first support across the channel french m.p.'s belonging to a manual micron's on march movement not only back the idea but have reportedly been giving advice to the parties founders are to start with devinsky has the details. this is really a brand new political party that's about to launch in the k. its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think there's no chance of bragg's it being reversed the brave people have spoken and that's an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall although get is a sore head for the party is the norm in the u.k. it's getting advice from of course they can all hear it from the helping hand coming from a manual michael's party the public on the march we're.