a year and then here we are just a few weeks before the olympics you've got these rulings and then here we are the day of the olympics this final. this final ruling this final ruling comes down with the court of arbitration for sport i was going to ask you rick i'm sorry for jumping in there but if clean athletes can get banned for doping issues and yet they have nothing to do with that whatsoever i suppose i want to ask you what kind of precedent does it set for the world of sport it's a terrible precedent and when you hear water talk they're always talking about clean athletes but apparently russians don't tell that by their ruling so this is really a travesty of justice and there needs to be a lot more scrutiny of the mclaren report itself i have documented major contradictions and errors in inconsistency in that report so the whole foundation of this is is very wealthy it needs to be pursued into the future and the olympic the international olympic committee and the olympic.

campaign they limp harder needs to be restored rick i want to ask you for your comments on what came from the russian loose team coach who said that the cast decision can be explained by heavy pressure on the i.o.c. your thoughts on that i think that's pretty accurate there was another rather russian athlete who said we're we're we're pawns in the game and i'm afraid that the reality of this is this is happening because the geopolitics alright investigative journalist rick starting to just stay with us if you will for a moment here i'm going to come back to you in just a minute thank you for this i phone. it is not just russian athletes that participation in the olympics that has led to controversy of the north korean teams visits for young china has also seen an angry reaction.

yes. the south korean activists protested so say as a north korean orchestra gave a sold out for a full month on the eagles the games they were holding up placards reading no pyongyang the olympics while the event is supposed to be about sport and peace it seems these games are becoming more and more about politics and that of the korean crisis. today's military parade will show the powerful status of the democratic people's

republic of korea as long as hostile policies from the u.s. continue the mission of the korean people can never change. the united states of america will tell you to stand shoulder to shoulder to bring maximum pressure to bear on north korea and. finally a permanent verse of. their nuclear and ballistic missile and.

investigative journalist average starting out joining us here back on the program once again if we move away from from the sporting aspect of the olympics some people are saying politics are getting too heavily involved in the olympics in chiang of course you've got trump and kim jong un that back and forth back and forth going on mike pence the vice president he's making his rounds in the region telling all sorts of people particularly america's allies we're going to keep reminding people about the crisis on the korean peninsula so rick some people are saying there's too much focus on politics during these winter games your thoughts. well the olympic movement began with the goal of promoting. peace between nations so what we're seeing with the with the u.s. administration and actions there is really contrary to that they should be celebrating the fact that north korea are. reducing their differences and making

some effort and reprimand that should be celebrated not condemned sharing sharing a type of sharing a type of local national song as in i'm from watching other one flag a north korean ice women's ice hockey team as well you're seeing you'll see this reproach month between the north and south korea but then you're seeing war rhetoric from washington is it costing a shadow the whole korean crisis it can cost a bit of a shadow over these winter games perhaps well i think it does cast a shadow and then there's what's downstream what's going to what's the situation going to be after the games really is the administration doesn't seem to believe in diplomacy it seems to believe been threats and belligerence and it's really up to the american people significantly but other people around the world to say that's not acceptable well i mean typically the war the war rhetoric

or the dropping of the peace of the drums of war is really coming from washington here you've got other people around the world other world leaders who are saying give peace a chance you've got the koreas coming together it seems though that washington is in a way isolating itself with this continued rhetoric. well i hope what i hope is isolated because it really is unacceptable and it needs to change the goal so the olympic movement are honorable and we've seen in the past that when when international tensions get too high the at the olympics you know has been suspended times there's been a boycott i think and and frankly i think this conflict now the at the accusations about the russian. athletes is connected to that. it's it's really incumbent on on people of goodwill around the world to call for

a common sense call preparedness athletes who don't who are who are basically. who are engaging in that can be proven they need to be excluded but you can't do blanket. condemnation or or. banning of athletes just because they are from one country or another investigative journalist rick sterling joining us live here on our c international thank you so much for your time and your insight thank you. around seven hundred and fifty thousand children are struggling to get basic medical services in the war torn iraqi city of mosul that's according to the un's children's rights body unicef and estimated seventy four million dollars a needed to rebuild health facilities for children seven months off of euphoria the greater the liberation of mosul from islamic state the iraqi city is still struggling to get back on its feet.

the number of. health centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the health centers the other day and one family came in with their baby isn't two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and stuff we were seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also thought the baby unit nine incubate is six of which which were filled with

premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubators with that it's a wide area wide level of levels of devastation families have to walk enormous distances to be able to get the health care what we're saying is that the cumulative health care that is required of any child anywhere else in the world is not available yet in mosul. and more than half a year since its liberation the city remains strewn with corpses and warning you may find the following scenes distressing the condition of many of the bodies is making it difficult to confirm the identities of most of the victims appear to be civilians women children and the elderly residents are calling on the government to do something about the situation given the risks to health unicef's representative in iraq peter holkins describes the situation in mosul as worrying i think what we

need to understand is the extent of the problem this is a massive city mosul city probably faced one of the biggest in warfare since world war two and. two point two million to two point four million people affected and then enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people again. the u.s. government is in shutdown mode again just weeks after the previous one that's after senator rand paul of kentucky blocked lawmakers from voting on new budget deals the republican says he objects to a planned two year budget deals with massive spending increases which will result in result in higher deficits the senator is demanding a vote on an amendment that would keep in place strict caps on spending. republican lawmakers in the us are now threatening to cut funding to the world health organization's cancer research program as agency for research on cancer said

america agency for research on cancer said america's most widely used weed killer made by monsanto is probably carcinogenic the international agency for research on cancer is part of the world health organization that coordinates and conducts research into the causes of cancer in addition it leads cancer prevention activities and helps shape the international agenda agricultural giant monsanto strongly disagrees with the classification of glyphosate and some u.s. lawmakers share the same view. unsubstantiated claims i are responsible handling of why i arc should receive any government funding in the future they're disputing the organizations findings regarding its leading herbicide called round up round up is made by months santo and it's the world's most widely used weed killer since the seventy's it's been sprayed on corn soybeans a cotton and other crops and republicans believe that the study was flawed and

relied on cherry pick science accusing the agency of lack of transparency an anti industry bias they say that it's quite a state is designated as carcinogenic it will require manufacturers and retailers to warn workers and consumers and plus it'll increase costs and instill fear in the public some have disagreed with republicans it is important that we review the methods and tactics that industry has used to influence this administration and attack independent scientific organizations like the world health organization's international agency for research on cancer or i or would like to say that fundamentally this hearing is about the ability of a public health agency to call a carcinogen a carcinogen even if that carcinogen makes a huge amount of money for powerful corporations according to the center for responsive politics monsanto lobbied more than four point three million dollars in twenty seven team the environmental protection agency which is not an international

organization concluded that the same ingredient does not cause cancer and i are says that they've been under attack ever since they published their conclusions against life a state at the same time monsanto has been pushing against these findings through several different means and the company is seen as well quite controversial not only in the u.s. but all over the world president micron promised in november that life of say would be banned within three years danetta clean modified crops have been banned in over thirty five different countries but not banned in the u.s. international organizations have concluded that life is it could be cancerous so these lawmakers intentions are quite unclear the republicans seeking to cut funding to the w.h.o. or the u.s. house science committee the views expressed by current and former members of the panel have sometimes raised eyebrows.

we don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past could be dinosaur flatulence. what happened when the c o two was greater since then and now there's been the new cycles of up and down warming dinosaur flagellates. all this illusion of. reality. oh la us. think about if your ice cube melts your glass it doesn't overflow it was displacement i mean this is the thing some of the things that they're talking about mathematically and scientifically don't make sense. the jewish diaspora in iran has grown to become one of the most significant and a well established in the world and it continues to thrive despite living through some turbulent times under tehran's regime and decades after an exodus during the

islamic revolution iran's jewish population is now the second largest in the middle east there are over sixty synagogues across the country a sickening significant number of them in the capital tehran and since two thousand and eight iran's parliament has also had a jewish i need to represent the interests of the community that. drumming. the jews of iran can freely worship and perform the traditional rights they face and the kind of pressure a synagogue here is safer than in the u.s. or in europe that the iranian government supports us. and the whole lot of them i come to this restaurant because jews come here my

children can read the torah in hubris they cannot speak it there is no one you can talk to in hebrew so there is no need for. it as we have to wear the we allowed to drink alcohol but only in specific places but we've got to is told that we have by the law. a taxi driver in new york has committed suicide right outside city hall he left a note on facebook accusing politicians of failing to protect his industry and saying ride hailing services such as that financially ruined his life and reports.

on the home front of. the. video douglas shifter took his own life after parking his car in front of new york city hall it wasn't hard for police investigators to figure out why the for his suicide intended to draw attention to the ordeal that he and other professional drivers go through he posted this on facebook. i want one hundred to one hundred twenty consecutive hours almost every week for the past fourteen plus years there are over one hundred thousand of us suffering daily now is the new slavery i hope with the public sacrifice i make now some attention to the plight of the dry uses and the people who will be done to save them and it will not have been in vain shifter had been driving cabs in a limo sense the nine hundred eighty s. however in recent years it's become a far harder job with far less pay at the time of his death he was facing severe

financial troubles as well as clinical depression he blames city hall for ruining his industry for years he had been writing articles for black car news a blog for drivers his articles warning toward some of the hard hitting truths about the vehicles for hire industry he cared about other people and cared about the industry that he worked in. i met him he had sent a letter to the editor a bunch of years ago and it was an angry tune and he said some things that i thought made sense so i invited him to write for me and he did that for a few years and generally his content was you know to help the industry you know all the people that were struggling the way he was struggling he wanted them to know to help them now shift or wasn't alone he's one of three drivers in the last three months to take his own life casting union officials say that boomer and other mobile app services have made a once well paying industry into

a massive long hours low pay and economic insecurity now at this point in light of his death regulators are stepping up to help ease the problem. we understand in many of her licensees have been under tremendous pressure due to this onslaught of competition from app dispatch services to despair felt so deeply by mr shifter has become a topic of daily debate and concern for us and while we lacked the jurisdiction to limited licensing of drivers or vehicles we are tackling the issue of driver earnings protections this year economic analysts have talked about a gig economy where workers don't have regular jobs with regular paychecks and hours but instead work here and there with irregular service and irregular pay back in two thousand and thirteen there were forty seven thousand vehicles for hire a new york city now that number exceeds one hundred thousand and the regular pay

has dropped from eighty eight thousand to sixty nine thousand the business model which is to bring as many drivers on as possible. has ended up backfiring and so now the pie is being sliced into too many pieces and makes it difficult for all the drivers to earn a living keep in mind that yellow cab drivers have to rent their vehicles cover their own credit card service fees plus supply their own gas a lame at the end of the day they're not left with much money to take home in the most expensive city in the country a little oppen artsy new york approaching eight thirty am here in moscow more of your world wide headlines at the top of the hour on.

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a lot more about this ball at the world cup and we go behind the scenes of an evening with yours truly first though let's go to meit's in germany where i interviewed a man who could have played. for the defending world champions germany instead chose to play for nigeria i sat down with a very interesting man to talk about the super eagles hopes for the summer's world cup. nigeria of course one of the two teams that will be russia at the world cup in the summer very very tough group as well argentina croatia and our favorites of course that we featured earlier on in the series we've come to chat to f.s.b. mights defender i know a cheery and super eagles defender. let's go have a chat about outs. you were injured last so.

disappointed were you to not make that squad and how excited are you if you start. to go to russia for them to the biggest football tournament in the world i think when i got that injury in two thousand and fourteen and the first moment i didn't even realize that i'm going to miss the world cup because it was my first cap. but the coach back then was quite serious and he told me afterwards i think he even made a statement after they got eliminated by france and he missed me i think that was the moment i really realized what a big chance that would have been i saw him there with the super ego flying and they did quite well off and was it was tough i still don't realize that this is going to happen i think i start to realize. more and more but i think the first reaction when we had the final whistle when we qualified to win is that i broke down crying and froze and used to call it was that really the super and also

because i wasn't relief i just realized ok. it's going to happen but still that feeling that that big excitement is not still to come. when all of the change came out so i'm sure you will and you know what subgroups got you why did you fail i joined the was a group later because i was actually out training at the time they made to drop some of my team mates and the physios they told me already you want to know you want to say let me know if you have argentina again i think it's everyone but yeah it's a big challenge but also it's a big opportunity to teach because i think again nobody will have it on their list and say i think going to be eliminated but i say and most are on my complete team is with me on that point we're going to say we're going to make it through to the quarter final to beat whoever whoever comes then if we beat them we will see but of course we want to leave the group saying that the biggest course so far. is an

african country when enough which includes he's going to win the world cup it's going to be nigeria huge amount of players huge amount of players that have always played in europe and been successful connie culture of players do you feel that the team spirit now we speak strong enough to carry the expectation of the noise here in ny should always awful lot of noise here in liverpool fans that follow may not all seriously hold on their club teams when they support them and they're always called on the on the national team as well i think it was one coach we had before the super easy always said we have one hundred seventy million coaches out right exactly you know to come up to the expectations i think we can make up all expectations but i think we can make them very proud and of course it would be a big sensation and i think if you ask any nigerian like serious. what will you do if if nigeria brings on the world cup they will they will they

will reply something like i would have never expect that even though they tell us even on twitter everybody said yes bring home this world cup make us proud to get that. but if we if we would really minister get it then it would be beyond expectation i think that would be what i want to do the world's biggest party probably one year of celebration i'd heard of and as a kid growing old with having to have it's just didn't have really shit what was it like well i was just with all those ones life analogy or somehow i want to of course sometimes you thought ok playing for germany certainly in the bad thing they won the world cup two thousand and fourteen but since i never gained the attention it was quite clear from the beginning and i always probably you feel the same because people do view you different because you look different so you always feel more attracted by that foreign side so yes same with me and therefore it

was always this very strong relation to to my nigerian having to. have been told lots of things in the media don't go there and i was told the sun in ukraine i was told to sign the south africa and brazil before world cups don't go if you block don't go to the. area this rice is a lot of got to be honest i haven't seen any russians have been very friendly to me does it concern you at all not one thought because. i think football as the international language and of course we still see racism in football but if i would think about racism before i think about playing the game and enjoying the world cup then something will be wrong i guess from what you fit enough to keep i'm sure he hasn't when he acts and always gets into that stage tonight with being a global guy everybody playing in each of these late where it's going to happen sooner rather than later i hope but i think the main problem is that if i see germany fights for an example they they build a new structure and it starts with the youth african football as

a as in total you see that there are a lot of problems besides football the focus is not just on building up the future and therefore become. successful as a nation. but it's more like temporary things then you have maybe political issues inside of the inside of the boat or something like there's a new president he is lucky that there isn't someone with somebody who's telling the challenger him so it's almost it's too many different problems that are not for the cost of being successful those structures that you need to build. in african football you have to upgrade the league you have to have to build better conditions for training better facilities you have to kind of misleading test custody is that something you'd like to be involved in because i know that people like colin and we're going to go out on the sharks in nigeria to one of the things we'd like to it's approach he wants to formulate use looking to meet as well is that something

post career you speak very well very bright draw your priest very you would like to be involved in post football career to give something back to north korea nigerian football is definitely an thought but. i'm not too well connected right now because a lot of players in my team and i do a national team and they come from academies i mean they are ready but it is as i said they need to improve everything everything around it thank also the education apart from football and but definitely would be something that i'm interested in like to bring up this nation even more because as you said before you have we have amazing football talents god knows how many talents they are i can't even tell you because it's too many it's unbelievable i've spent think i've seen around forty or fifty players since i have a joint the super eagles coming in and out most of them stay but you always have another one which is just there for a trial who gets a chance at the end of the the day.