the athletes and now they say sorry you can't go to the olympics this is some kind of madness it's terrible not just for our athletes but for all of international sport did i expect cas to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas back in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after rule in our favor he was literally threatening the court he was almost seeing he would dissolve the court if it ruled again in favor of russian athletes. now it's interesting how the head coach of russia's news team says the i.o.c. was pressuring path is that the case. as we've said what made his views very clear he almost said that the catherine was undermining i.o.c. orthe already that it was throwing spokes and in the wheels the entire water investigation the mclaren report so certainly he viewed that original ruling very negatively take a little house a decision is a extremely disappointing and surprising for. the

i.o.c. we would never have expected these these a decision of sholay so the need for reform. in no the interludes structure of couse laws box response that original castle in which of course overturned the lifetime biomes of many russian athletes i don't return there sorry to into fourteen winter olympic results every fully upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty with sufficient evidence take a listen in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that's looking at rule violation was committed by concerned. so what about these athletes who have been cleared but are still not allowed to get well it's been a very long saga for everyone involved here after months weeks or years of preparation and legal wrangling there was still hope among many athletes that they

could attend given that cast decision a week or so ago albeit as neutral salutes of course not under the russian flag rushing out some of that cast decision there are still legal avenues they could take that you have some options but with the game is just kicked off there we showed the opening ceremony any new ruling would simply make it too late for them to attend so it remains to be seen what the legal implications are here for those other athletes of course which have received a collective ban from a sports event and how that will affect future events as well. 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 and

we've been working towards this olympics for many years it was my cherished dream. a dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career i've given no reasons to doubt that i'm clean. some of the very sad stories from athletes that were hoping to even make their debuts at these winter olympic games although this has been presented as a battle against doping to serve justice by organizations such as the i.o.c. and water others have viewed this as an unprecedented political pressure by owning an entire national team refusing the rights of march out of the flag. certainly has left many russian athletes devastated this latest decision it is indeed a heartbreaking decision for those athletes daniel hawkins thanks for coming. around seven hundred fifty thousand children are struggling to get basic medical

services in the water one iraqi city of mosul that's according to the u.n. children's rights body unicef and estimated seventy four million dollars are needed to rebuild whole children there seven months after the euphoria that your children seven months after the euphoria that greeted the liberation of mosul from islamic state the iraqi city struggling to get back on its feet. that there are other shargel likud for it. the number of. health care centers or hospitals is very limited the

stench of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the health centers the other day the one family came in with their baby is a two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and starts were seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also saw the baby unit there were nine incubate has six of which which were filled with premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubate as with their 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 identity most of the victims appear to be civilians women children and elderly people residents are calling on the government to do something about the situation given the risks to health unicef representative in iraq peter hawkins 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 urban warfare since world war two and. two point two million to two point four million people affected it's an enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people working again still to come on r.t. u.s. funding for the world health organizations cancer research program could be cut that and more news after this short break.

our. pentagon recently released its new nuclear posture review its critics are stunned not only the use of nuclear weapons is now more thinkable but it's also the threshold for the use of the word dr strangelove would be is

a week facing another game risk arms race. welcome back the republican lawmakers in the u.s. are threatening to cut funding to the world health organizations cancer research program that's off to the international agency for research on cancers that america's most widely used weed killer made by monsanto is probably cost an agenda well agricultural giant monsanto strongly disagrees with the a r a a aussies classification of glycine states the international agency for research on cancer is part of the world health organization it coordinates on conduct research into the causes of cancer in addition it leads cancer prevention activities and

helps shape the international agenda some u.s. lawmakers found the organizations findings doubtful. i understand she claims i or your response. why 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 and anti industry bias they say that it's quite a status 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 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 est at the same time monsanto has been pushing against these findings through several different means and the company is seen as quite controversial not only in the u.s. but all over the world president micron promised in november that they 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 like this it could be cancerous the so these lawmakers intentions. quite unclear. three tech giants have been grilled by a panel of u.k. lawmakers over allegations of russian interference through their platforms during the break vote but it transpired there was little if anything to back up those allegations be looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the referendum a very small number of suspected research agency linked accounts forty nine such accounts were active during the campaign which represents less than not point five percent of the total number of accounts these are very low level things until we complete this investigation we won't know but what we haven't had is. information that's enabled us to target on a particular page or

a particular phenomenon. for joining me live with more details now is and i see a choice now still good to see what else did the tech giants reveal during the meeting. well you know nick it's quite ironic that despite all the commitment and do the asm and really months of hard work that the u.k. parliamentary committee that are trying to find out the truth about russia and breck's it now seem to be really hitting a brick wall because this week they did indeed travel thousands of miles presumably at the cost of thousands of pounds to washington d.c. from london to be able to question these twitter you tube and facebook executives but it seems that they told me they left with is some frustration because it was revealed that twitter had found only forty nine accounts associated with russia that had tweeted just over nine hundred times re tweeted just over four hundred fifty times and liked over six hundred times now you know i'm not

a mathematician so correct me if i'm wrong but it seems like this is really nothing to write home about given their hundreds of millions of accounts on twitter and this despite the chair of the committee saying that his quote instinct told him that it should be more numbers we also heard that youtube said that despite having looked at all ads with any connections to russia and broke that they found no evidence of russian meddling we do know that facebook said they're going to continue looking into this and should reveal some of their results in february but we do know that earlier they said that they found that russia connected accounts had only spent seventy three p. on any posts connected to perhaps it so really despite all this ghost chasing and the committee demanding that these online platforms dig deeper it's quite clear that this whole inquiry has not produced any results quite yet and it's

to check and i thank you for those details. that's next a driver in new york has committed suicide outside city hall he left a note on facebook kucing politicians of failing to protect his industry and saying services such as financially ruined his life and he's kind of more pain reports. dumbest. 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 before 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 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 pointed 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 taxing 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 to many of her licensees happening 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 in 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 will be back at the top of the at the event. don't look now that the government may be working has bipartisanship returned to washington we'll take a look at that on this edition. of politicking on larry king it's been

a while since it's happened but the senate is showing signs of bipartisanship leaders in that chamber announced wednesday an agreement to fund the government for two years which would bring an end to a series of short term stopgap measures which have become the norm of late democratic leaders senator chuck schumer called this agreement a sprout of bipartisanship can the goodwill continue in the house which takes up the measure next and what will the spending bill old and mentally look like let's talk with david jolly who knows very well the workings of the house of representatives republican former congresswoman from florida he joins me from west des moines illinois iowa hey dave in iowa. everybody vacations in iowa and february larry you know that in iowa days. listen i it likely going to use this this visit to inform

a book but i have also said very clearly that i intend to be part of a team of republicans that mouth a primary challenge to donald trump we have yet to determine who that candidate might be but i think it's important for republicans to find a place in the party that they can call home and prevent splitting off to a third party at the budget deal the overall budget deal as going to go through. well you know certainly it has to because even when we have government shutdowns they can simply cannot last forever i think the numbers will get worked out we're seeing indications of that this week the bigger question larry though what is not worked out this week and will we'll see for another month is what happens on this comprehensive immigration debate will the president get funding for his wall and what will happen to the status of the dreamers those who are here without documentation what we call the doc a program in the united states that is largely unresolved and so look in the in the

house particularly you have house conservatives saying they don't want to spend money you have house democrats saying we're not going along with anything if we don't fix the status of dreamers you have a president who for all of his criticisms and i have laid many on him the reality is you have a republican president finally talking about creating some type of pathway for the dreamers and i do think that's an important conversation for the country to have and you're in iowa laying the groundwork for someone to come forward to run against trump in the primaries in twenty twenty or is this group going to pick someone like maybe david jolley or someone to be someone to run against trump rather than eleven people. i think it has to we have to find a candidate emerge and you know you hear names like a sick you even here it will mitt romney run. the realistic the lessons of history suggest a primary challenge to a sitting president would be unsuccessful we saw that in ninety two with pat

buchanan and george bush forty one but larry for many republicans particularly those more center right not hard right conservatives there is no political home in either party right now and so you face a question do you split off a third party which largely would be unsuccessful or do you commit to saying we're going to mount mount a primary challenge to donald trump create a landing place for reasonable republicans within the party and even if we lose it has made an effort to keep in the party together i don't know if that will be successful even in that mission because i can tell you with each passing month of the trumpet ministration many republicans wonder if we can stay within the party why did they stay silent why is we know we know that so many republicans put him down off the record but won't go on the record that says they're putting party above country one. they are it's a moral failure and they've all negotiated with themselves what they can get out of the trump administration and for some it's as simple as keeping their jobs and

elective politics for others it's accomplishing certain political winds in the policy arena i think paul ryan is a great example of someone who probably does not personally support donald trump but has been willing to look the other way so he can accomplish a political agenda larry politics can be used as a leading indicator or lagging indicator most republicans right now are just following along they are lagging indicators of where the party is going under trumping the base we need more republicans to be leading indicators to say we can have these conservative convictions but it's going to look very differently and we want to take the party in a different direction those leaders within the party we are trying to have emerge and coalesce around a candidate and two thousand and twenty david can we have a big military parade like russia or china or or in north. korea why don't we just marjoe these visits and bombs and the president stands in the middle maybe high up maybe

a salute maybe even never mind can we do that you know. larry few issues provide such a perfect example of the conflict of the trumpet ministration and what i mean by that is this a parade to show appreciation and honor our military and our veterans is a net good we see it in communities across the country it is part of the spirit of america it is a wonderful thing to honor our troops and so in a typical environment if we were talking about that i think the american people would embrace it the anxiety and suspicion and questions you're hearing is because people are questioning donald trump's motives they're questioning his sincerely and they're doing it based on this distrust that donald trump himself has created is this intended to truly be something that honors our troops or is this something that's being done to spotlight donald trump we know how he and my are strong and on the world stage and those are the questions we have about why the president is pursuing this i will say politically larry if you have one hundred thousand

americans honoring our troops walking down pennsylvania avenue you though it may feed the wrong beast that is donald trump many people across the country i bet folks right here in iowa would be appreciative of honoring our military and i have not for a democrats might overplay their hand and push back on this one to be grading the one hundred thousand americans not military march down supporting the military do we have been i will be on that list when she runs and tanks. exactly so are we doing this to kind of honor the greatness of america or are we doing this in the role of kind of a strongman would and when you paint a picture of some of these parades there is a a noticeable difference in some of these parades there are those that you see in north korea where their troops are marched down the street and they turn and they pledge their allegiance and they honor the state leader right in this case donald trump and then there are those that you experience in hometowns across the country

where families come out to pay tribute and participate in the parade themselves the reality is i think there is such controversy around this because of the distrust of donald trump and the fact that it would cost twenty million dollars that could be spent elsewhere on other things it's probably best to just leave this one alone and let state of the typical events and fanfares we see in the capitol around fourth of july memorial day veteran's day and so forth there is a march that happens near washington unfortunately most days and it is the case on marching through arlington national cemetery where some of our veterans are laid to rest those are the parades perhaps this president could pay tribute to thank you's o's day was good to be with you thank you larry i'm now joined by lanny davis the famed democrat and former white house counsel to president bill clinton he's author of the new book the unmaking of the president sixteen how f.b.i.

director james cone the cost hillary clinton the presidency he joins me from new york city we'll talk about the book in a couple of minutes lanny thoughts on the proposed funding bill what do you make of this whole meeting in the minds of you know nolan and the schumer. there is such a need for bipartisanship in this country and in the congress that this looks like a good start that we have now twenty thirty senators in the commonsense caucus republicans and democrats the best of the senate and if this is a president i'm all for it. all about the house the house is completely dysfunctional paul ryan is a moral failure as far as i'm concerned because he hasn't stood up to donald trump on anything especially the dreamers legislation that trump is manipulating these poor young people and paul ryan doesn't have the spine to pass

a bill in the house to save this heartbreak by a number of young people that were promised by the prior administration and even by donald trump in his campaign so the house is dysfunctional i don't see much opportunity for bipartisanship there nancy pelosi indicate she won't support the budget because it doesn't address the they do the dreamer's republicans will then say that the democrats are obstructions well that's a position of principle that i respect nancy and a lot of democrats who take that position but i'm also in favor of the democrats winning back the house of representatives and it was because of an absolute standard with no compromise that the government was shut down embarrassingly was then we opened after the country including a lot of democrats who were opposed to using the government as a bargaining chip for getting what we want on the dreamers sorry that speaker i

hope she speaker minority leader pelosi feels that way but i think in the final analysis the democratic party needs to keep the government functioning and needs this budget bill as much as i really support the dreamers legislation is the democratic party have a leader. no but it isn't unusual in opposition party years especially when one party controls all sides of pennsylvania avenue and the only thing that donald trump can brag about is something that he had nothing to do with which was the writing of the tax bill and that is his one success claim but with all sides of pennsylvania avenue six hundred in both houses of congress by the republican party is dominant the democratic party has a hard time having leaders emerge and i think we have maybe ten or twenty that are thinking of running for congress in two thousand and twenty whoever does get the

nomination will be donald trump and that will be our next party leader is it joe biden might close to the ring. he is certainly one of the strongest candidates that we have and extremely likable especially for him in my case what. was his chief of staff and when he was first elected at the age of thirty from the state of delaware so i have a long history with joe biden quite frankly i would love to see a younger generation in the same age as joe so nothing disrespectful here i'd love to see a younger generation emerge and begin to reassert the youth base of our party a comma for caris your senator is one such person i would love to see emerge as a party leader lanny stay right there we'll have more politicking right after the break.

very few now to steve p. more attention to peace who had to shoot from north korea nuclear issue i personally believe the u.s. coming can come i'm just solutions.