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 to get pictures of me it was an unpleasant 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 appealing against the i.o.c. is banned says all legal channels are being explored we believe is necessary to take all the legal steps available to us to ensure participation of them in the upcoming olympics we hope that the independent panel that was composed well it will fully and for only look at the facts and of the law in front of them and come to the right decision. the i.o.c. has almost plenary power to even ignore what the court of arbitration for sport 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 the. quality of the i.o.c. issued strict rules regarding clothing for russian athletes and they're only allowed to compete on their neutral flag the uniform should bear the words and then pick athletes from russia or the radiation a bar and any color combination should not represent russia's trickle of red white and blue russian flags are not allowed. on a russian design company showing its support for the athletes along with a touch of humor they've launched a line of t. shirts carrying a pun on the acronym. designed into me cheapish call thinks the ban is political

and wanted to back his country simply. with no constructive q. is stupid to deprive people of their own country and identity because whatever uniform now he's wearing we all know that there are only russian averages once again that's why we came up with the project you need bring his name with our olympic team for the limiting athletes from russia. wouldn't we want to be there for us and for at least a week and still it would drive other cities we're going to leave the fans and the sanctions just place against things because we've really seen huge number of these prints you know noncommercial use their intent and the foundation we have it will encourage around fleets they'll see that we support them and we need their records and victory graciously. well meanwhile north korean delegates arrived in pyongyang on tuesday intuiting over two hundred channel eight is that arrived in south korea all dressed in red and black wearing their national flags and some chatted with. analyst's the entire delegation is almost three hundred strong making it one of the largest ever border crossings between the two countries north korean leader kim

jong sr is expected to attend the games on the north and south have agreed to launch together under one flag at the opening ceremony seen as a sign of improving relations but while the north is on the charm of 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 our maximum pressure campaign until north korea takes concrete steps toward complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. a disturbing video has surfaced online showing young children in libya staging a mock execution. was no. no.

no. no one. was no no oh. well the boys in the clip our report today under the age of nine they appear to be mimicking a real life mass execution which happened in benghazi in january in that video which were unable to show you a gunman is seen shooting blindfolded prisoners in front of a mosque where a deadly bombing had just taken place. our panel of guests had contrasting views on the story and the trial more experienced by children growing up in a war saying what we see now is just a mocking video or actual scene actual videos where children has been used to be heard. to behead people in syria and in iraq in iraq as well we heard stories when terrorists groups using the young people to be a spy on their families the individuals that are actually carrying out terrorist

attacks and in particular suicide attacks often have been escaping chaotic lives that actually that the gauge went with what we call extremist material it doesn't happen until many years down the line. and often substance misuse was a big problem and if we understand that the reasons that people engage in substance misuse is because of childhood trauma and if we understand that if we've got a large number of young guys of children who have experience that kind of trauma could they is it possible that they were partially they will follow maybe it's not a lot or not the whole truth that's not the murderous well i'm talking about the battle of this year of july terrorist attack and it could be this could be extremism but but but the idea the idea behind this those kids are coping with a scene like like what they do when they watch. a wartime movie or when the play

a game of. somebody walking or fighting game they copy this kind of stuff if they're mirroring and they're executing their friend got mock execution what at they'd been watching was it online or really were they watching it firsthand and if they watched it firsthand guaranteed they're going to have struck are going to struggle with mental health they can have a great number of issues and i think we are going to invariably we are very so we can only use the human psyche and i'm sure all feeling i'm going to we're not going to run out of the car really at all. this is not that you know first of all if you look into the history of islamist terrorism recently in a country where i was born by like this you will see most of the terrorist attacks in the capital of dark i was carried out by youths who in fact came from affluent families they had a very good life in fact they were brainwashed by this islamist terrorism not only by videos but by theological understanding of it and when it comes to children children are not being able to be children because of the are bringing they are

getting because they are of the islamic extremist ideology it in fact denies you of any kind of creation that children can will need to grow up with all that happiness in all the everything horrible culture is not right now or some of the occasion in some countries they educate the younger kids on radicalization only extremism right from the young age so we that's what we call them for because from regulations to prevent such a behavior even on online videos or what you know we have to regulate the education curriculum some of the countries require to be looked into and see how the education curriculum is being taught in schools. and you anti in practice it party is about to be launched in the u.k. and it's finding its first support from across the channel french m.p.'s belonging to emmanuel marchand's on marsh party not only bank the idea but have reportedly been given advice to the parties founders r.t.

shallot do bensky has more. 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 but all the get is a sore head while the party is launching in the u.k. it's getting advice but of course they can all hear it from the helping hand coming from a manual much calls party the republic of march with advisors said to be at a recent meeting consulting about tactics and its north one your girl friends was glad you came here like us and like many other countries looking for

hope because it was feeling despair i think and today july increasing you can look at the future musical and i think the movement that greece and others i meet with when you use the future you can embrace. during the ideas of mcewan's which invited in every day people regardless of their experience in politics were new also calls on everyone to join and those behind it hope it'll work for them too we don't have much time the only way of winning is by the same miracle as michael. the u.k. electoral commission says there is no issue with the british party receiving advice from a foreign political party providing it receives funding from it so it's fair enough but what the reaction be if the advice was coming from

a russian party world would be a great outcry as there would be if politicians from any political or from any other country were trying to advise politicians or tell them what to do but i mean what we should all be doing of course is talking to politicians from other countries not to get advice from them not to be told what to do but simply to find out what's going on in those countries we are stringing for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our clear saying that r.t. would look to undermine that it also accused the channel of being up propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the brig's boat dividing the u.k. from europe despite a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing bragg's it

a referendum in which the majority of voters or pleased to leave you so it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved challenged even ski ati paris. now a man interrupting a woman to explain feminism may not be the wisest idea but that's what canada's prime minister has done justin trudeau told a woman to correct her suppose it gender bias language and is now being called sexist himself. i am a feminist being a felon and the feminists and i will give me a good marriage repeating my. maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind so we like you to love what we like as

a people kind not necessarily mankind. is one thing you can do to be your debtor feminist as a man but here's a simple one i don't interact with. people coming to. russia or is mourning the loss of an air force pilot who died fighting in syria

after his plane was shot down by militants commemorations are being held across russia including the far eastern city of la they've all stuck near where major amman phillipe often lived he will be buried on thursday the pilot of the plane supporting major phillipe of the shared details of the last conversation. his voice remained calm when i was there all of the you get out of the maneuver yes i see them was the commander's reply and then he said so evenly as if it was something ordinary and unimportant i got hit hard the right is on fire moving south the little slowing down too and about twenty seconds later here i did a google search and rescue and then he ordered me to gain altitude of course i didn't do it to leave my commander is the last thing i would do i always try to have his back during flights and now i have to do it on the ground while he was

fighting i stood there and made several attacks to vehicles that were getting closer to the olive groves where room on touchdown i stayed until the fuel was extremely low i barely made it back to the airfield. after the pilot was shot down he was alone and surrounded by terrorists and fired back an unverified video of what happened later appeared online and awarding the following images are disturbing. major phillipe of could be heard shouting this is for our lads as he detonated a hand grenade and killed himself the pilots bravery has touched hearts around the world r.t. received this letter from a veteran u.s. servicemen offering support and asking if there is a fund collecting donations for his widow and child we've asked the russian armed forces for such a fund is being created and we're waiting for clarification the man who wrote that letter steve solar gave r.t.

his views on major filipov story he knew world of this church as war. and he knew what he had to do. and he knew he was never going to be captured. that's a decision he had the burke. very hard to say but. actually . he did what he had to do the most was a personal decision. he knew what could happen to him he knows what can happen to other troops. and what has happened to his comrades these are very important people to you. and you do most anything for them . even risk your life he had to die like this. here. i wonder if i would be brave enough to do what he did. he was he was

a good i wish i knew it all back at the headlines in just over thirty minutes meanwhile for more on all our new stories and other. i'm here at money field stadium in edinburgh the home of the high school. i'm here to interview a scotland legend. a man who fought many great battles on this behind me now he's engaged in the greatest battle of all his struggle against motor neuron disease.

i mention are times you were going underground just forty eight hours since british courts prevented the extradition of british finnish freedom activist larry love to the united states that learned the u.k. arrest warrant decision in the past twenty four hours concerning wiki leaks founder julian assange coming out of the show why did washington post boss katharine graham praised in the new spielberg film the post tell bob perry to water down his journalism we pay tribute to the reporter whose work was archived by the cia after he exposed defacto british back to us government smuggling of drugs and weapons around the world and forget fake news here on earth what about fake news in outer space astrophysicist and founder of the stormers festival israelian argues for international cooperation instead a mere liberal collusion from the headlines we are spreading stones are killing who

in syria and who's fighting who in yemen all the civil coming up in today's going on the ground but first we're around ten days from britain's answer to the academy awards in arguably reflecting the state of british journalism no award this year will go to a film purportedly about the pentagon papers steven spielberg's the post this even after recent years a reveal that britain's pride in not joining the us a war which killed around four million vietnamese may be misplaced that in fact there was indeed covert support for the kennedy johnson nixon carnage in the spielberg film meryl streep backed and supposed heroine katharine graham of the washington post newspaper now a subsidiary of the online retailer amazon but. if you publish the screen quarter next meaning. well we could all go to prison. i made this decision. to get a fortune in

a company that's been hired by. my space but was katharine graham really so heroic because that's not the way she's seen by many of the journalists filmmakers and whistleblowers around the globe who paid tribute to journalist and founder of consortium news robert perry who passed away last week seymour hersh described perry as not even so much as a critic all of us mainstream media as a critic of lousy reporting and from the iran contra scandal the mainstream coverage of russia and ukraine his work cut through propaganda and skewered lazy new liberal journalism joining me now via skype from san francisco in the usa is norman solomon the founder of the institute for public accuracy and longtime friend of bob parry norman welcome back to going underground so for those who haven't heard of robert perry why was his journalism so relevant to the lives of people say living in nato countries like britain well here's a guy who came out of the mainstream what i call mainline media was associated

press then on to newsweek and the p.b.s. frontline show and his year was always very international he became well known in the mid 1980's by raking stories the first story it's really about the iran contra scandal the arms for hostages deal and i think most importantly the us against american law was arming the contras in nicaragua the cia backed army against the electorate sent at least a government but kerry was somebody who was. committed to an independent journalism and that increasingly i think put him at odds with not only the conservative part of the us power structure but also the liberal part as well ok well that take us back a little what was a scale of u.s. backing for defacto drug smuggling that bob perry exposed. yeah there was one of the big stories i mean not only the weapons flying in from u.s.

sources to the contras in nicaragua and then i'd seen eighty's but the planes would come back not empty with drugs to supply. in the united states some of the drug. conveyance ally and of course money coming from that as well so they were called off the shelf deals we are if the cia or the u.s. government couldn't through legal channels fund the contras with the weapons and the so-called non-lethal way the drug trade could help. free up a whole lot of money and so perry really exposed that the reagan administration from the top down wasn't just oliver north contrary to medium it but the reagan administration from the very top or was involved in that illicit and deadly warfare against u.s. law and then just wipe it out perry went to guatemala and el salvador just the slaughter house that was being funded by the u.s.

government in the reagan administration at that time and i think if we look you know the last several decades since then but kerry didn't really change in that he was always a very tough investigative journalist he believed as the great reporter i of stone said many decades ago all governments a lie and nothing they say should be taken on faith and it's because of that commitment that robert perry continued to be a very important reporter after he was a.p. newsweek in recent quarter century really he was crucial and remains even having passed away a crucial the important journalist as the independent reporter who exposed crimes going on from the top of the u.s. government reagan of course a great ally of mrs that has here in britain he went he went on to win the i have stone medal but hill through expose their own reagan deliberately delayed the

return of the u.s. hostages from iran. yeah reagan campaign so-called october surprise. four hundred forty days the u.s. hostages being held in the embassy former embassy in tehran and bumper he made a convincing case just shoe leather journalism that in fact the reagan administration ahead you know vien with iran saying you know you can get a better deal from us if you don't give jimmy carter the release of those hostages until after the election and in fact symbolically and notably those hostages were elected or rather released you know gratian day for on the break and these are the kind of stories that bob insisted on doing meticulously going through documents and really granular level of research there earned him a lot of disrepute among the mainstream media he simply became a pariah and that was more and more the case not only for the right wingers

in the media and government to adore it ronald reagan but it also became true of those who adored barack obama yeah i'll get on to the growth in a second i know you want the d. that i'm not sure if you see this steven spielberg hanks film the post but it's certainly extols the virtues and one of the great journalists so r.h. katharine graham. yeah i don't know how you have to think to share the same ideas about her as the tom hanks and steven spielberg. well perry actually worked for what was then called the post newsweek company the washington post being the owner of newsweek and as he told me later on. bob was working on a story about u.s. foreign policy and he was told it would have to be watered down because katharine

graham had henry kissinger as a weekend house guest and this is an example of what bob was willing to say in public that was routinely kept private you know inside the sanctum of the media and because he was willing to disclose that kind of sum on a scale of what's supposed to be objective journalism. he really became somebody in disrepute for someone like katharine graham i have to say you know i have not gone and seen the film yet opposed but i did perhaps one of the very few know if only negative reviews katharine graham's pulitzer winning one of our graffiti personal history when it came out a couple of decades ago it was very self-serving it was exactly the kind of slop and idiot logically driven material that bob kerrey rejected fundamentally his work ok let's get to how he then in later life before he died annoyed the liberals

because eat eat try to debunk the idea that russia was responsible for basically all the ills of the united states that these to be going on in your country right now. well i should say in context it was always finely attuned as a washington reporter to the way that the intelligence agencies of the united states and the news media tended to work in lockstep certainly in tandem and so it was the same sensibilities that caused him to go against the grain on the reagan administration's line on central america it also caused him to go against the careen in terms of the received wisdom what everybody was supposed to believe in us media and politics about russia and as is the case with me bob kerrey was no fan of the russian government what he was an enthusiastic that was to look at

history past and current and to look at facts rather than spin and that led him to fundamentally dispute on the basis not of idiology but of facts the claims that russia had engaged in some kind of nefarious and effective plot to sway that twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and that further you know he needed neutrally i think him from the big power brokers u.s. media i mean he just in consortium news dot com the website that he founded almost a quarter century ago he was daily ripping into the latest. launched propaganda from the new york times in the washington post of russia and it simply made by a not only a pariah as i said but also a trailblazer he burned a lot of bridges in the process but that's what independent journalists should do and some people even try just where i'm going him so i'm going to putin useful

idiot because he also different about ukraine didn't but he fundamentally had a very different narrative about ukraine a different narrative about nato in general in terms of its expansive efforts he like anybody paying attention really saw. there was a pledge made and broken from the u.s. government after the end wall fell about not moving nato eastward in. current events in that context and he frankly would not do well in other countries either in terms of power structures you would be under tremendous pressure if you were a journalist in russia you would be in prison if you were journalist in china he simply had an independent mentality that said that journalists should not be functionaries for any political party or any government and in the current context that made him someone who to my mind was a truth teller about the conflicts now between russia and the united states because

he saw a very clearly that it's the united states with eight hundred military bases overseas it's the united states that has encroached upon and moved upon or what have traditionally been the close in border areas of russia and you know he saw that journalists either they're going to be independent or they're going to be flunkies for power interests in their own country and the journalist can't really do both will be saved by the chinese government to respond to that allegation from you norman but if one lasting legacy of people like you saying grady is do you think another one is the fact that the cia took such an interest in him and developed i visit material his work and himself no doubt cia always attentive to authentic journalism that runs counter to its own dominant narrative but always had a very adversarial relationship to the cia after all he exposed its deadly machinations in central america during the reagan administration and always

understood the difference between journalistic intelligence and government intelligence and that has to say the least interest from the cia and certainly the opposite of admiration no involvement thank you after the break. physicist and founder of the festival dr garrett is rangy and tells us why collective economic punishment to bail out the banks shouldn't be extended to space exploration if we want to human kind some buy on from the views we reveal by double trump should have private health insurance if he comes to britain and why one woman's terrorist is another woman's freedom fighter told a similar coming up about to have going underground. the. national.