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know. if you speak french. i'm here that muddy field stadium the home in the heart of. i'm here to interview scotland legend. a man who fought many great battles behind me now he's engaged in the greatest battle of all his struggle against motor neuron disease so . when you when you realized that there was an order. something couldn't be explained because you're developing neuron disease so i had to. post. last summer

to me detected the person i was moving nearly two years ago now and today that i caught my eye my hand in a door on my farm and been a ball this boy and been a farmer you can. be fine and with the last a little bit power and so three months later this is not very clever it's not healed in my skin started to throw up just to be a mean effect guy because you know you. and the family fancied notice yeah i did it was definitely noticed just when i got called israel fingers starting with a little bit more then this is in the way of time when i was fine and so i knew there was something up there again just never for one they thought what it ultimately ended up to be so a few months later my skin started twitching and kind of make their way here and then did did the deed of having a look on google and she got in space in a bit trouble here this test after that after a man with

a midi there is no official test. she will go through a number of tests to see that this is not what it is so lumbar puncture this is quite pain for your brain scans which kinda didn't find anything go shock therapy. blood. tests and stuff and it was just and december just fourteen months ago that india was was the issue honestly when you get that confirmed that there must be a. extraordinary moment to realize it wasn't fields of concern. when we get more or less settling your mind that's what you hide or we might do something else i mean explain the settled law that's hard but i've always taken. the negative side of things so when the rugby i always thought when the team announced that was going to get dropped so i've always. i was expecting that so it

wouldn't be a shock if i was in the team i was quite delighted i'm back and i was little bit too often touchy. and i want to get into the and the reason why not in the same was the attitude for. an idea that this is what it was and everything propelled to what it was so when i got told it was ok what do you know it's a ticket that someone has given me so let's get on and just try and see if we can try and get something sorted the first people you you tell you be your family a good place. and. willing to tell the way the family that little something really serious it was a difficult there because we good lady and i find the twenty third of december so pre-crisis so we didn't see anything till mid january to everyone because we were at my mum's and my sister's for christmas because mum at the time wasn't very well she had cancer and simply she's still here with treatment and one thing and so that

didn't really when i want to prepare a way i get in and things with so we kept it to mid january told the family just briefly what was going on because it makes life a lot easier and you're not trying to hide so much when you're when you have to go to maybe doctor's visits and stuff and also visit so they were able to cover. eventually we told the way the world went public can join which was which was. possibly to collect payment we thought about it do maybe mid february. this kid was on exams and we didn't want that affect his exams so hence we kept it to june so it's been pretty well timetabled because of a great team behind me of trustees who mentioned they've been very helpful so you decided not just the public with. your condition but also to get a friend ation going to try and do something do something about. so that's only if

you talked over the family because obviously when you decide to go public with some late means that the public interest in your condition is quite a different thing from handling of an illness to feel self and your family so that was a big decision to me it was but it was an easy decision and i can say this and move to ask your question every second because when i go diagnosed the professor basically said this is your masses go and see what you've got to do and since then it's been like taking your comment your broken down car into the garbage and you've got to diagnose the issue and you've got to go and fix it that's been the frustrating thing for him and the the the medical profession really been helpful. on the drug side of things to try and stop or cure this issue the nasties behind the scene of being upset fantastic because there is only one drug available and that's who really is or i came out twenty two years ago so the reason for my

frustration that there's been no clinical trial since then in school and so the question has to be did you know this this was a kid i don't know is one be a clinical trial but my expectation would be as to why i needed more drugs developed as a number of people who suffer from the condition is quite limited there's a real condition and drug use in just going to target the drug development. conditions are going to sell to and that may be crazier but there is you know in this condition going on for a number of years it's not a new condition and that's where my frustration wants to tell you that the should be a public intervention to get the the scientific research going the space is this is a terrible illness a moment as well and we want it to scientists at seven who really has them because lifespan many people in scotland so there are five hundred when we were there. and so a small percentage of it and it's a select group and risking to. a few people were quite fortunate as i mentioned for

maybe fourteen months to spend with family and friends and some great experience and good memories of people doing a lot of things for me where so many was on the e-mail the other day he got three months under one days of being told today he's only thirty eight too young kids so you've had a tremendous public. pitch. and. extraordinary warm loving emotional response on the kind of put it that ditty when you saw just the police violence was so let's get by and already it was just fun all i think liking a fast company is so quick adrenaline members music very special came as well but things have to be for that to great atones and he's been a fantastic support same with this team sirius koso reunion but same with. behind

the scenes it's very difficult to put in words of support and generosity received it's just everybody messy semester sending me a little letter to say best where she's buried mantis people donating quite large sums of money to people coming in the street to see what you're doing here's twenty pound towards your foundation and stuff and i'm with everyone's embraced the story stories to try and get a fix on how much the only thing nation raise to date but. there's a there's a couple of power in the name at the moment who just come off the back of a fantastic called the tartan giraffe balder and kelso. clad in description at a much that raised money through some very old friends who have grown up with and david beards to have been the biggest even put together but a function they did them were a lot of support from from people jackie stewart the video footage ricky ross from deacon blue was involved on bt ponder who said that was fantastic the day before were. friends to

a. support in newcastle of which twelve to twenty old clothes walked fifty five miles from the harvest to take a decent i guess from jed but they're into newcastle on and i still think you know a lot of those there would be a walk on the way home. and with that there's there's a lot of things happen can you logan put a massive tonight on the road in london to propel the awareness and again fun so the funds are building but what we've gone and done is a sanctioned. review of where i am indeed in the world and we've done as a team to try and pursue a business structure to where i am in the oversea once we find a solution where the professors and the people involved in n.d. think the best ways to go and that's that's the route we're going to propel so so with the funds that's what we've done at the moment said sir jackie stewart video feed jackie's and hold some of campaign because lady helen has dementia

and they say he's targeting has his efforts. in the clinic and one of the great american shooters says are you looking right in the world to see who the cutting edge of reception is and in the conditions yes we obviously. do not just now but. just recently come out from new york last week and a good imitation of brian kennedy who's involved in the rugby israel was involved he was sort of surreal for inviting me across the to see some specialists and with come back with a lot of people who were willing and trying to give and they gave my question always is why why should we need to do that to go to grow the scottish health. been to see. the health of some of the other. and it's

a piece of the directors of the health service and we have an education i've been putting a lot of my trust into my professors doctors and at the moment we're we're always coming up against a closed door because again going back to the commonality of being could not thanks to them because the medical boards in the n.h.s. there are strict rules it's just doing our things to happen but we're not very special situation as a terminal illness and people want to try and some to try something gives a little bit hope and any hope is good hope but at the moment it's not happening here and we've got to go but i'm the fortunate one that's able to get friends and family out to new york to try and look at some new treatment because a lot of people back home but uniter and we need to change the course has a great record in drug trials for a number of conditions because we have a relatively stable population which we're told trials is one of the but of the. real illness is you have to have enough people for for the trial but essentially you'd like given the breakthroughs

a skull that's been responsible for medicine that would be a fantastic thing if you could if it apply a mainstay to this condition and it's there this is all good people doing a lot of good work we just need to maybe relax who's a bit to try things because myself and our situation require how to do something because the moments know the americans seem to be more up to trying things and getting things we go and as you say when you're facing less condition. then it's a pain to let some things a little be sealed to take a dig a few arrests and this is probably why i think it's bringing this this into the game to give it that is an issue here and i relate to it is a battle ahead it's like sculling a big battle big important battle and i'm certainly here we're going to i'm going to go to you and the welsh in uniform means a special match for you the snow than the inn in the wheels that's going to be some

occasion isn't it pretty special and very scary on a. happening came a moment but. i'm looking forward to see the size of the cup it's got big handle from that can to represent maybe isn't quite that way and sinisterly it's quite nice at this is happening because normally happens when you're not here so quite a second witness and have a good time being the same so thanks to both parties for doing and again it goes back to generosity. and support received to make people aware of this horrific condition because basically it's a muscle wasting condition and. debilitated can't do anything for yourself eventually can't eat can't move. can't breathe even so it's not i'm a sui to the end and this is why we need to just publicise tell our people that we needed help the timeframe a solution or at least a stoppage and with there will still be unesco should be in and all the other

people through the world it's just been phenomenal plus i'm hoping one day we can find a reason to mobilize lots and lots of people behind to go do you know that. every every success it's one last thing and it's not quite literally a top but every f.p.s. in the show gets there alex sullivan clear the whiskey of course shelf to supply yourself a list of the biggest we have seen. is given to the daleks militias and supports thank you very much for the thank you very much very nice. when we listen to stories such as that to you here we are left in all of the personal courage it quires to face down such an illness dodgy to mark to alex that this was the hand he had been dealt and therefore he should get on with the task the same steely resolve which he displayed on the pitch he will now devote to this his

greatest challenge of all. my to feel stadium is famous for a special rule from the stand for the scotland team sorry just forwards from out of hope that the international group which now support started his battle helps propel humanity for went to finally humble the plain to see so from all of us here at alex salmon show we hope to see you next week. so. i'm completely confused about why a republican a bit astray should made a change that was essentially. part of the democratic philosophy i can only think

that somewhere deep within was what they call the deep state in the us treasury there were left leaning bureaucrats who implemented this chase through a territoriality based system protect sation without anybody actually being aware of what was going on. everybody i'm stephen barbee. hollywood guy expects. that americans first of all i'm just george bush in our view to say this is my buddy max bemis financial guru well just a little bit different. going to. your windows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm good to have. beat every day americans. look silly start to bridge the gap this is the great american people.

despite its title and history deceive us union i know has dominated international sport however this is not about the motives of those champions from the. sort of you know that go. right on the children number that. the woman will bear one from the window offered me just remember if you would rather describe proof for the lord your what i was sure was the first to be reserved for your you were the first some of your lympics team of thousand nine hundred fifty two minutes and did seeds of ifas concentration camp prisoners and from slime soldiers sort of still think maybe even the earth is good for me there is corruption because you are

a much more of an issue for the government because you are more significant than one for their actions or with or without a flaw with you if you think that the area or go with. the variations you'll push over through personal personal enthusiasm will you do when you're at the national more secluded than yours or where are the workers here we are in the wealthier guys you can we. yes. i. know i.

don't know why. syria calls on the united nations to hold the u.s. led coalition to account when states strikes pro-government forces u.s. central command says the attack was to defend an american bank group. is the final day before the start of the winter olympics and dozens of russian athletes are still awaiting a ruling on whether or not they can actually compete in south korea tensions over the games. norway now faces doping allegations. until the public and lawmakers in the u.s. are threatening to cut funding to a globe cancer research program america's most widely used killer angry business giant monsanto to cancer.

very good evening to you appreciate your company as you follow us here with the latest news on our international. syria has called on the united nations to hold the u.s. led coalition to account for wednesday's airstrikes against pro-government forces the number of casualties that's yet to be confirmed but some reports claim up to one hundred people may have been killed and u.s. central command described the attack as a defensive move but russia's defense ministry said the unit was hit as it was carrying out an operation against an islamic state cell. while carrying out an operation to locate and terminate an eyesore sleeper so near form oil refinery a unit of pro-government forces was suddenly shelled and then hit by airstrikes by

the u.s. led coalition vis was overkill pure and simple if the numbers are true i would see a demonstration of she have brute force perhaps you know to send perhaps the send a message that nevertheless the united states says that it's its in syria and it will defend itself and it has the right to defend itself in this instance in defense of coalition and partner forces the coalition conducted strikes against attack and forces to repel the act of aggression against partners engaged in the global coalition's defeat danish mission if the situation is like how they describe that they were indeed attacks while fighting isis demi have the right to self defense well if you take them at face value you could think so but the people they just killed were also fighting isis and recently they had been making much better progress against isis then the united states led coalition or their partner forces

the the s.d.f. the syrian government has of course called all of this an act of aggression unwarranted and unjust but just for your information all of this happened in there is or near a rich oil field and refinery chronicle it's called it was liberated last year by the u.s. led coalition very quickly and in fact. u.s. partner forces seem to have a knack for liberating areas with oil under them much quicker than they do those areas that don't have oil under them since since all the oil rich areas were taken in that as ordered by the s.d.f. progress against isis seems to have dropped to a snail's pace but you know regardless. here america has said that it is in syria only to fight isis today isis has been all but defeated in syria but you don't see the pentagon packing its bags our military policy in syria has not changed our

priority remains to defeat of isis whether it's in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring that isis cannot reemerge total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore assad who continue his brutal treatment against his own people was to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreement that is typical of current u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria rex tillerson peter he stated that their only goal in syria was the defeat of ice or now they've got far more ambitious plans with more of the most with the mixed messages here is the pentagon staying general mattis said that the united states will stay in syria we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange to go

to syria and a vital and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self defense. experts told us that with islamic state practically gone now from syria washington is targeting the country's government instead. they are not just in syria to fight there are. have been in syria for a long time because they want to through our side as the spate of feeds as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves at large who defeated di age the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white snow so i think that's really the answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the probably got prominent reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes and sword they were diverted from that by no with the possibility of

a defeat of diet inside syria that policy that reasserts itself this is coming at the end of a long war the united states has taken about twenty eight percent of syrian territory and over fifty percent of its oil is this lead british in order to roll back iran and get rid of. us i just i get it he wants that oil for himself there was a raise only a few months ago that would get those fields and he's broadening undoubtedly under the pretext of biting isis the united states didn't think it was so the united states is trying to lay down the law here and not let anybody pro and as we know the turks threatened in mendo to take on the americans over there so the united states i think it's very patients that well syria and turkey will begin to push america out and try to push america out of northern syria but he likes.

the start of the winter olympics in south korea is just one day away now but the fate of dozens of russia's athletes they still hang in the balance forty seven sports men and women from russia have appealed to the court of arbitration for sport to overturn the i.o.c. has decision over alleged doping violations that ruling is due to be announced. on friday among those who have filed appeals are some of russia's most celebrated athletes for example six time olympic gold medalist victor and sochi games champion anton she pulled it out easily by trying to reports from the olympic host city. for almost two and a half hours the court of arbitration for sport was listening to the russian side which have now left led by their lawyer so these people won't get another chance to give their arguments to the court and now it is all up to the cast members they promised to announce some sort of decision by noon korean time on friday.

the phone we continue to depend on the can spam listen to our arguments and the decision will be reached within twenty four i was so things won't be decided to with a few hours before the opening ceremony which of course puts extra pressure on the russian athletes on wednesday the secretary general hinted that still their mind to be at delay now here we are looking at three scenarios either cast decides to do nothing about the international olympic committee's move not to invite the russian athletes who have never been caught for cheating and without specifying the particular reasons for doing that or the court of arbitration for sport chooses to give the green light to the russians and in that case that would be a massive blow for the audio scene and that would in turn mean that the international olympic committee discriminated against the russians the third

scenario we heard about from an online leak that cannot be confirmed but reports are suggesting that there could be a split decision on the russian athletes i'm standing by here at the temporary home of the court of arbitration for sport and i'll give you any news as soon as it comes out. showing their support for russian athletes sports fans are projected a light show onto a building that's opposite the world anti-doping agency headquarters in canada said the only doping among the russian olympic team is the support and love of russian people russians are coming but the athletes whose participation in the games is not in question then our broader controversy to the staff to a documentary published the list of drugs that norway's team doctor had brought to pyongyang a remarkable amount of medication was noted six thousand doses in fact containing banned substances now that is ten times more drugs than for example neighboring

finland took to south korea. the quality of us medicine that's raised as you might expect a lot of concerns most of them most of these drugs contain substances that have been banned by wada that open watchdog argues that they can enhance an athlete's performance by expanding lung capacity the norwegian anti-doping agencies also admitted that the country has a problem with the over use of aspirin medication it is common practice in norway to occasionally use asthma medicine in major elements in the respiratory system even with the diagnosis vastly is not specific or the latest revelation comes after the release of a documentary that alleges the existence of that all good ised doping system and norway ski federation we spoke to one of the journalists behind that film the riggin ski federation is very angry about this.