just for 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 latest speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after a 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 and there have been claims from the head coach of russia's news team that the i.o.c. was pressuring kath in this decision is that the case that the i.o.c. president thomas spock was certainly scathing about the decision when that came through it would have been viewed very much as a decision that undermined. and also very much put a spoke in the wheel of water of their investigation and undermining also the credibility of the mclaren report house a decision is a extremely disappointing and surprising for. the the i.o.c. we would never have expected these these

a decision of the need for reform. in know the internal structure of a cause and that was probably sparks reported out of original cast rolling which effectively upheld the principle of innocent until proven guilty saying that there was insufficient evidence that those russian athletes had been doping this was the original cast. in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that being rule violation was committed by actually concerned. so what about these athletes who have been cleared but i still not allowed to attend again it's been such an emotional roller coaster imagine for these athletes a real saugor of the months weeks years of preparation i had this glimmer of hope last week with the cast aspersion that they could go to the games represent their flag their country their them etc now though that's been overturned there are still

legal routes appeals that could go down but of course the opening ceremony has now just finished the games are about to begin whatever legal options are available they simply won't have time now to buy just to hear some reactions from those athletes from those athletes many of whom are hoping to even make a debut at their first winter olympics. i was hoping that calf would rule in our favor right now i don't know what to do i'm disappointed but of course i won't give up on sport i've still got a lot ahead of me i will compete and win medals for my country until the very end we were hoping that the decision would go in our favor now i feel sadness and sorrow but i will compete in every competition i can if i have enough strength in the opportunity to compete in the next olympics i will prepare them. i have no words. heartbreak there for those russian winter athletes and of course made all the more difficult given that they had you know kept the hopes up until the very

last minute until the very last day the opening ceremony and now those hopes of course have been dashed and these things that daniel that daniel hawkins that i guess a lot of possibly broken dreams have been crushed today have been a bit thanks for coming in. both economist alan moore gave us his reaction to the cast decision. it's no longer supports your husband's voice for a long time it really comes down to the fact that the i.o.c. put their necks on the line by not going as hard as some people would have liked to people want to control the olympic movement and water of course is well these are not always like the u.k. and u.s. i don't think agency don't think they want to take control of the whole. money train but they want to grow your to two however. it is political to a large degree because if we say the g.o.c. are playing politics they want to keep control so you have to be seen to be very very strong yes many of these athletes have never tested positive as needed to have

been doped wherever there are some who would not have dogs but they've been tarred with the brush that is completely wrong and feeds into this kind of geopolitical narrative that russia is bad and good less beaten was sick. three giants of social media have been grilled by a panel of u.k. no makers of allegations of russian interference on their platforms during the break that but there's been little if anything to back up those allegations. we looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the press at referendum a very small number of suspects its research agency linked accounts forty nine such accounts were active during the campaign which represents less than point normal some 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 despite all their commitment enthusiasm and hard work spanning over a period of really several months when this inquiry kick started it seems like the u.k. parliamentary committee that's trying to find out the truth about a russian any brecht that meddling they seem to be really hitting a brick wall this week they travelled all the way to washington thousands thousands of miles presumably having spent thousands of pounds to get there and what they ended up with while it questioning the executives of twitter you tube and facebook was just a frustration it seems and that was thick in the atmosphere investigative journalism for instance that this led to suggestion that there are lots of campaigns going to have that sign you haven't looked at you that's the thing you haven't looked this economy. going on in the horror like you just well it seems who did look with twitter and what they said they found was that they were only fourteen nine

accounts connected to russia during the time of the bracks that referendum again i'm no mathematician so correct me if i'm wrong perhaps but it seems that there is and this is really nothing to write home about given that twitter has hundreds of millions of accounts and despite the chair of this committee damian collins saying that his quote instinct tells him that the number should be higher that did not turn out to be the case so despite this goes chasing continuing in the committee keeping asking the executives to look harder it seems no fruitful results so far. much of the media has seemingly been hungry for a scandal which the russian investigation is failing to provide because some of the headlines this one says twitter has finally conceded that russian accounts tried to influence briggs's and only small left in the bowl so explain that the story is about a few dozen accounts the same with the times headline which admits the existence of

so-called russia trolls only the first paragraph reveals there were only forty nine such suspicious accounts one more example here you need to look even deeper to dig actual numbers out of a lengthy article. but we are joined by radio host john going to discuss this further now thanks for coming on the program mr goldstein first of all do you think readers want speculation on the russian investigation instead of real facts in the newspapers. nothing people on real facts from the mainstream media in this country is wholly corrupt they're involved in this campaign not only against russia but also against the social media giants i mean this is a farce these employees went all the way to washington to question to their understand how the internet works they could've got them on a skype call question them it's far soko a waste of my taxpayers' money and it's a very very annoying it's

a joke how can you explain that the head of the investigation damian collins is now pressing tech giants to carry out further research. i can't explain it it's ridiculous as you said in your piece just a moment ago only forty nine counts less than nine hundred or six hundred retreats this is not even a story it's not even a one line story and it's about pretty time people started telling the truth this narrative that russia is somehow the enemy is so outmoded so outdated and people i speak to within my pod casts of my e-mails and on twitter itself they know this is a joke but somehow the mainstream media play along i don't know i think it's interesting the damien says that his instinct is there's a lot more one of his instinct is that good could he tell me the numbers for this

week's national lottery because i'd like to put some money on it's a joke it's a false on our curry apologize to the russian people this nonsense has got to stop nobody interfered breaks it breaks it was the democratic votes of the people of our great country they wanted out and the establishment and their friends in politics and their friends in the mainstream media just don't like the results they can't understand it and so it was got to be a federal it's got to be russian influence it's nonsense was also interesting is how mr collins gets so angry when the tech giants show no proof of russia interference as the head of the investigation should he be a bit more impartial on the matter. yes it should but i've been up before these committees myself they act in an almost kangaroo court fashion foreign questions are you and hardly waiting to listen to the answers he yes he should be

he should be trying to get to the truth then it would appear at the moment another on the biggest farm by the way of twitter or facebook and the people who run them but it would appear at the moment that there is no real evidence of russian meddling in bricks it so why shouldn't mr cullen just accept that and move on why does he have to go to washington there's are as cross party seems to me lots of fantastic joly that they've all been on and i think now he needs to drop this and also you know or i don't think the british public care they know why people voted for rex and they know it was nothing to do with donald trump or russian influence let's just get over it and accept democracy radio host ongoing thank you for your time pressures of the so-called gig economy have led one taxi driver in america to take his own life more details on that story and plenty more after this short break

. the 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 uses to work dr strangelove would be proud of is the world facing another dangerous arms race. the bond market will not crash this time it will continue yields a go even lower and negative yields on various bonds will increase from the multi trillion dollars worth of negative yielding sovereign debt now to even more multi multi multi trillion dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and we're going to go down the rabbit hole even further but it certainly smells like what the comic strips all in places like china and west sell off in all these various markets and with the oil prices climbing higher and gold looking better than we've got here

fashion reversed. welcome back around seven hundred fifty thousand people have almost no access to medical care in the war torn iraq he says here in mosul that's according to the un's children's rights boni body unicef and estimated seventy four million dollars is needed to rebuild health facilities seven months also the euphoria that greeted the liberation of mosul from islamic states the iraqi cities struggling to get back on its feet.

that there are other shargel to open up opportunities. the number of. health care 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 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. as more than half a year since its liberation the city remains strewn with corpses and warning you may find the following scenes disturbing the condition of many of the bodies is making it difficult to confirm the identities many of the victims appear to be civilians women children and elderly people residents are calling on the government to do something unicef's representative in iraq pays hawkins said the situation in mosul is worrying i think what we need to understand is the extent of the problem this is a massive city mosul city probably face one of the biggest urban warfare since world war two and. two point two million to two point four million people affected

it's a an enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people working again. i talked to dr in new york has committed suicide outside city hall as he left a note on facebook accusing politicians of failing to protect his industry and saying services such as it had financially ruined him and he's kind of multiple. 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 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 and. 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 shifter wasn't alone he's one of three drivers in the last three months to take his own life taxing union officials say that hoover 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 our 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 protection 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 many pieces and it makes it difficult for all the drivers to earn a living with the latest headlines will be back at the top of the. if united states pay more attention to peace would lucian of north korea nuclear issue

i personally believe that us come can come of just solutions but the deicing the u.s. has been paying too much attention for military you know solutions but i hope the us will pay more attention to the peaceful solution to the north korean nuclear problem. a patch or sudden passing i've only just learnt your insults and taken your lots to bong turn. you out but up to us the all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. did i write these posts what he hopes to. put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly

promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who hate interviewed by a little sample song alone even find company guests will elsewhere though they invite private companies to take over their utilities anybody tell us drop off. you guys you've got to be well on the program because. i've been this is a member of us they got them out of your corporate overall roberson or your valuable billet bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than war

it's about the hurt and the redistribution of our worst birds and their debt down wars the war and all. well come on old first time calling will show this week which i can you just hear it for the announcement video assistant referee as you can hear a lot more about this ball at the world cup and we go behind the saints of an evening with yours truly first though let's go to mine in germany where i interviewed a man who could have played for the defending world champions germany but instead

chose to play for nigeria i sat down with a very interesting man to talk about the super eagles hopes for the summer as well called. the interior of course one of the two teams that will be in russia at the world cup in the summer there in the very top group as well argentina you know messy croatia and our favorites of course that we featured earlier on in the series we've come to chat to f.s.b. minds defend i'm not a cheery and super eagles defender. let's go have a chance if. you were injured the last will cause so disappointed were you to not make that squad and how excited are you if you stay fit to go to russia for the for 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 in a minute and i thought he missed me i think that was the moment where i really realized. what big chance that would have been i saw them there with i saw the super eagles flying and they did quite well for the us and 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 bit of reaction when we had the final whistle when we qualified it with is that i broke down crying and froze and used to call it was not really the secret also didn't always know i wasn't relief i just realized ok. it's going to happen but still that feeling that big excitement is not it's 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 of training at the time they made the drop some of my team mates and the physios they told me already you know you want to know you want to say let me know if you have argentina again i think it's everyone forgets it's a it's a big challenge but also it's a big opportunity what unity because i think again nobody will have us on the list and say i think going to be eliminated but i say and most of all 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 could whoever comes then if we beat them we will see but of course we want to leave the group science in that the biggest go so far. enough that you can treat all well 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 hundreds of

players do you feel about team spirit now we speak strong enough to carry the expectation of the noise here and nation and all of a lot of noise here in liverpool fans that follow may not all seriously hold on their club james when they support them and they're always called will be on the national team as well some 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 today 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 say they were they were play something like i would have never expect that even though they tell us even on twitter we wouldn't say yes bring home this world cup make us proud to get that trophy but if we if we would really minutes to get it then it would be beyond

the expectation i think that would be what i want to do the world's biggest party probably one of celebration and i'd heard of it as a kid growing old with having two parents just didn't have really she always like well i was just we're 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 gave you different because you look different so you always feel more attracted by that foreign side so yeah same with me and therefore it was always very strong relation to to my nigerian everything. i've been told lots of things in the media don't go there and i was told to sign 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

surrey dugouts diary this rice is a lot of got to be honest alviso you know that your she's been very friendly does it concern you it's 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 you know make us feel what you feel enough if you can treat 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 build a new structure and it starts with the youth african football as the 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 becoming successful as

a nation but it's more like temporary things and you have maybe political issues inside of the inside of the boat or something like as a new president he is lucky that doesn'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 mysteries have custody is that something you'd like to be involved in because i know that people like calling are we going to go out on the sharks in nigeria to one of the things we'd like to it's a pros who wants to form a legit use but go in looking to make this well is that something post career you speak very well very bright draw your priest. you would like to be involved in post football career to give something back to nigeria 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 national team and they come from academies i mean they are there already but it is as i said they need to improve everything everything around it and also the education for football then 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 a. using football talents god knows how many talents they are i can't even tell you because it's too many it's unbelievable i think i've seen around forty or fifty players since i have a joint a super league of coming in and out most of them stay but you always have another one was just there for a try or who gets a chance at the end of the day depends on the coach a little bit only a full minute tell him to play that i can't even tell how many because as i said before i'm not too well connected in nigeria finally are you always so you'll swear it's not a big one to rice and company you know a big company

a clothing company. puts a little black kid in ice what your city is. coolest little monkey in the jungle you felt compelled to tweet about do you feel it's your responsibility in the public or you as a professional footballer to comment on social issues and if so i want i think because we have we have the range to address a lot of people and with this issue in particular and i just know that it's not just one person of course there's online there's a couple of persons who look over it and i say it's either. some kind of ignorance maybe those people today they just didn't realize the fact how people would react on this but then on the same time i saw in two thousand and eighteen we see what's going on in the usa but also although a lot of the workplace was just consulted two or three days ago again and running sterling as well in manchester.