the i.o.c. to establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete. at least from russia could not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision so there you have it according to the court of arbitration for sport ridding the russian athletes of their olympic invitations isn't equal to punishment and cast is perfectly happy with the criteria that the i.o.c. and mission we chose for these invitations the president of the world anti-doping agency is pleased he says that the timing is great and that all the clean athletes should now be reassured the i.o.c. are happy to they have applauded the verdict as you can see and this tweet though the russians are obviously totally devastated i don't know what to say i'm really disappointed i can't understand the cast decision first they cleared 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 kass to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas buck in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after ruled in our favor he was literally threatening the court he was only saying he would dissolve the court if it route again in favor of russian athletes coach albert denting co who was by the way one of those to the i.o.c. was referring to all the things that were being said about the court of arbitration for sport ahead of the hearings including the statements by the president of the i.o.c. council of the decision is extremely disappointing this is a decision shows so the need. for reform. in the internal structure of. here thomas fox was referring to the

previous cast verdict and that requires a bit of background the forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were suing the international olympic committee were from two groups thirty two hadn't been sanctioned by the odyssey investigators as a result of the russian doping scandal at all fifty received lifetime bans their medals were taken away by the i.o.c. a few months ago but then the very same court of arbitration for sport last week cancelled these lifetime bans due to insufficient evidence the if you held the sanctions on those and the individual results achieved in such a reinstated so the decision that we have right now completely contradicts the previous one and this is a real disaster for the country the athletes both the ones who are still going to compete and young saying under

a neutral flag and those who are banned the coaches the fans they are baffled by how unfair it could get i have no where. i was hoping that calf would rule in our favor right now i don't want to do i'm disappointed but of course i won't give up on sport i still have a lot ahead of me i will compete and win medals for my country. to the very end we were hoping that the decision would go save them 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 lympics pre-payment. i have merely motions left we had all our bags packed you were just waiting for a decision making such situations make you stronger emotionally. three of the world's biggest and social media companies were grilled on thursday by british lawmakers they took the unusual step of conducting a parliamentary hearing out. side of britain and they tried to pin down the

organizations over alleged to russian interference in the break that referendum. we looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the classic 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. 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 this. 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 russia and any brecht that meddling they seem to be really hitting

a brick wall this week they travelled all the way to washington thousand thousands of miles presumably having spent thousands of pounds to get there and what they ended up with while 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 is led to suggestion that there are lots of campaigns going to have it looks like you haven't looked have you that's the thing you haven't looked this economy. going on in the horror well it seems who didn't 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 break 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 call and see. saying that his quote

instinct tells him that the numbers should be higher that did not turn out to be the case so despite this ghost chasing continuing and the committee keeping asking the executives to look harder it seems now fruitful results so far there is seemingly a huge appetite for russian meddling stories in the media let's take a look at some of those headlines for you this one reads twitter has finally conceded that russian accounts tried to influence brag but the article goes on to admit this is based on just a few dozen twitter accounts meanwhile a london times headline says twitter admits russian trolls posted about bridget the first paragraph then reveals there were only forty nine suspicious accounts radio talk show host of john gaunt told us the meddling claims may be just a wild goose chase. this is a farce these m.p.'s went all the way to washington to question didn't understand how the internet works they could have got them on

a skype call and question the aides fossil crew on issue a waste of my taxpayers' money and it's very very annoying it's a joke in an almost strangled route fashion following questions and one of the waiting to listen to the answers you know well i don't think the british public care they know why people voted for breakfast let's just get over it and accept democracy that does it for me my colleague colin bray will be in about thirty five minutes with a full look at your news you're watching arts international glad to have you with us. it's in american interests to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or

elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. and studying so hard it requires tranch if it's going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the us. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm

sorry i could so i write these last words in 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 more fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be 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 as there are no other takers. to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. look at.

the end. was the end if. i. going welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm here all about well washington's political chatter endlessly about memos the u.s. continues to deepen its role in the syrian proxy war of course there is no public debate about this and are the two koreas giving peace a chance. some

real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have a political analyst with international right gentlemen crossed the girls in effect i mean to can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let's first talk about what's going on in syria here. as a avid watcher of cable news in the west and i don't always enjoy it but i feel obligated to watch it. the coverage of syria is it's very interesting there's only one angle primarily and that's how trump is defeated isis that is the when you hear about syria the president of the united states believe it or not. there is almost no mention of the role that russia has played since september two thousand and fifteen that was the tipping point but you know you know i'm quibbling

i suppose but you know. one of the programs i do like to watch is tucker carlson i think as a conservative i can identify with him on many issues i think he's right on some i disagree and he brought up. talk about syria which was i thought was you know i was very happy to hear maybe you critical view of what's going on. he had a guest and well that gets repeated the usual bluster let's give it a watch but you've got bashar al assad is obviously a dictator but he was against isis too and now we're fighting him it seems demented to me and i bet you if you polled most americans they would agree with me well what i think you know the administration is doing now and what president trump is doing now is shifting from isis to iran. and russia is heavily involved in there's a lot of people i think rightly asking why not just let the russians take care of it well i'll tell you a couple of reasons one the russians don't care about isis they care about defending assad to they're aligned with iran and iran has made more gains in the

last decade under the obama administration in terms of advancing its had germany which is not in the united states' interest or israel's interest than they've made in the last thousand years and three i'll quote a former nato commander who said the russians have weaponized refugees pile them into europe allowed isis to infiltrate and have done more to destabilize our partners in europe and the warsaw pact ever did so i think all of those things that are in with respect that's just pure propaganda in my opinion. picture react to that because i mean we could spend the entire program deconstructing only that one small part of that segment that played on february it's going to essentially michael it's. but why because he has to explain he has to respond to to dr carlos of the simple question. assad is fighting isis the united states officially so has that it's fighting isis so why is the united states

. forces istead isis. the simple question no simple lesson well one that we got a non answer we got it we got to do exactly what inflection it was it was a deflection because he did not want to say that through the official american policy is very different from the neo policy that washington use and the real policy that washington pursues is aimed at eliminating assad is that he that of syria that's and that's one of the reasons by the way that isis florist is syria without the support that the assad forces initially got from the u.s. from britain some other countries some other allies of the us i says would not have flourished here i mean if there had been the illegal invasion of iraq in two thousand and three of course i'm here i'm. sure that's what you say as you know iran has been gaining more influence you know spread into july and that is why it's probably because of why because of what will now be able to speak clearly clear to

our viewers it's weak is it because of what iran is doing or what other actors are doing because well obviously it is other well not been for the us invasion of iraq in one thousand nine hundred one you know if it had not been for the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three iraq would have not been so influential it's a simple us that even the mainstream media. in the constant attempts to combat what they ludicrously call iranian have gemini which is simple the fact that iran has some influence against the overwhelming middle east germany of the united states israel and saudi arabia this tripod alliance. they refuse to allow any other country particularly a weak country like syria to be.