the very very fragile situation which the government doesn't want to provoke urban riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over france. president mccord says he wants to reorganize islam in a bid to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say he's already far too deep rooted to take out. r.t. trap. the u.s. is joining in the chorus of growing concern coming out of europe over foreign eisold fighters returning to their countries of residence and washington has osha its allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terrorist organization earlier the u.k. defense secretary said they should not be allowed to return home i don't think they should ever set foot in this country again they turned their back on britain our

values and everything we stand for they are the worst of the worst we're working with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees and generally expect these detainees to return to their country of origin for disposition. for now i saw terrorists of u.k. origin who come back do face prison sentences all other european countries have tried to well reintegrate former i sold fighters back into society in denmark exposito hardest if you've received apartments and jobs to promote reintegration. earlier we heard opposing views from our guests on how to deal with returning jihadists but initially britain said we're going to make them stateless remove their passports not going to allow them reentry other countries themselves take a more light approach some of the nordic nations said let's try to be patrick that have radicalization programs which in part have actually been quite successful in some areas at the same time then the u.s. is now taking the lead and the u.s.

said foreign countries need to repatriate their own citizens and deal with them using the rule of law and i think that's a sensible way to go they should not come back here it's as simple as that because they've committed the crimes abroad so why should the church which foot the bill all this rehabilitation and all the. probably they do in jail for quite a while that cost move only when these crimes have been committed of course let the authorities deal with it under the rule of law in them. you know there are lots of different stories about what happens to these people if we make them stateless stand simply they will stay out there they will keep breeding extremism terrorism and radicalization and they'll keep killing and they'll keep hating us so we have it's a problem have to deal with you can't hide from it you cannot fall back on this british passport so you know i committed atrocities abroad but all for me british possible into the mix so i get sent back oh no how do you know people have committed crimes without putting the evidence in front of them and putting them on trial just to

assume people went out there so i don't want to go out of here i'm in london regularly on trial here i think i'm in my own regularly well these are way but obviously the the un is so weak. the you again is so weak just nonexistent the should have. should about the un peacekeeping forces making safe and so we could properly categorize these people. so ok these people go in to fight for whichever side these people fight. against but now because the fight for the kids to be class is to. here it becomes a ridiculous situation. the twenty third winter olympic games in south korea have just passed the halfway mark the olympic athletes from russia or they are a team has nine medals so far russia is officially not represented at the games because of alleged state sponsored doping in recent years and the scandal prompted the international olympic committee to numerous russian athletes for life the

athletes appealed that decision and the court of arbitration for sport overturned the lifetime bans for twenty eight russian athletes at the start of february however then the court did an apparent u. turn saying it actually supported the i.o.c. is decision not to allow some of the cleared out the leads to compete at the winter games and we spoke with the court of arbitration for sport secretary general asking him about the reasons behind both decisions the full interview available online at r.t. dot com for now a quick preview these athletes applied but were united access to the games because the i.o.c. decided not to invite them so it was not just sanction it was eligibility issue that's illegal this difference for us. only review the question of the application of the law of the rules of the i.o.c. it's reviewed only the process whether it was fair whether it was nondiscriminatory

discriminatory. it found that it was not critical there was no. the rules were not unfair and they have complied with the i.o.c. so it was only a legally stick approach again there was no review of every. for the entire yuki's of the sochi case was not discussed here the report was last discussed here. the fact that you cannot establish the give evidence of that. doesn't mean that you have established the innocence of the athlete this is the other way around with the sochi case because the i.o.c. had to show that the athletes were guilty the fact that the unable to show the guilt of an athlete doesn't mean that the athlete has nothing to do other with the case. we are not acting in the pressure so it was not a pressure for us because we have different panel of arbitrators they work

independently and they are not really. they are not employees of caste they are independent people. once they have been notified to the parties we will publish them. with russian athletes prohibited from competing under their country's flag. reaction from fans around the world in pyongyang. it will take a long while for russian athletes journalists like myself that i can tell you first sure to forget the acronym oh ok r after chang twenty eighteen well just before the winter games a group of russian designers thought they could take advantage of the international olympic committee's language sanctioned. i put one of those on myself and decided to walk around near the olympic park

a little bit. what kind of team did people with this kind of sweatshirt support i'm broaching. it's a limp a calf really believes he can beat the russians north korea i think north korea russia the russians believe there will be here because they do that if you lose a limb and then sell for a limp think athletes of russia what would you chant if you weren't away our team supporter oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh we come from really people on our. own. leg some people say a russian animal can make it sound like that they're the russians their siberian tiger the fear was. fear will make it

sound like it's not really. gold medal well judging by the first few days of the winter olympics the russian fans have chosen to stick to the more traditional chants and symbols. you know we have a train go our t. and young chang. the u.s. justice department has indicted thirteen russian nationals and three companies in connection with alleged meddling in america's twenty sixteen presidential election but as there's no such criminal offense in the u.s. as meddling the defendants were charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states among the three indicted enterprises is the same petersburg based internet

research agency which is accused of conspiring to sow political discord in the u.s. another is a catering company which is suspected of having helped fund the whole scheme of thirteen defendants allegedly used methods ranging from organizing political rally used to posing as a grassroots activists some of their supposed methods though are off the wall for example driving around a hillary clinton impersonator dressed as a conflict in the back of a truck and they also allegedly bought facebook ads to promote a rally titled support hillary save american muslims but despite their supposed lengths gone to these ploys apparently had zero impact no one elevation in the indictment that the charge conduct alter the outcome of the twenty sixteen election they wanted to quote so discord by. breaking into elections no stealing their numbers no changing the numbers no voter fraud no

vote by merely providing information through advertisements thirty listings in social media accounts that were shared by americans the only ends of dollars that have been involved in the russian investigation so far. special constable council muller has indicted for people for that so that's all he has to show and so far nothing has been done let me remind you that we still don't know what russian collusion is we still don't know because deputy attorney general rosenstein today made it very clear that there was no evidence that anything that these russians or any russian did russian nationals or people who speak russian or people in the russian government but there was no

evidence that any of this affected the election whatsoever isn't that fascinating and if it didn't affect the election what's the point of this meddling allegation saw go has been going on for over a year now but it's still taking surprising twists and turns with one top democrat investigating allegations of trumped russia collusion doll finding himself in broad holding controversy as jacqueline further explained. in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin clan russia has harness the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media and truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm

concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and could in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam wildman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the pasta and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all under the table warner repeatedly refused to make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time

telling wildman that the pair's efforts would be helping america and apparently in his mind the way to do that is to be in coos with a confidant of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole senate intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if neither the democrats nor the republicans care about warner's conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess one or said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i don't want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if you're going to talk to a lobbyist about getting a one on one face to face with christopher steele then you should know who you're dealing with in trying to arrange that need. the fix was in the ta is there between

the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the american media just ignores these things. i suppose a link with russia has also landed the dutch foreign minister in trouble he's resigned after admitting he lied that he had a meeting with president putin in two thousand and six but in a full. dozen he won't. let me use that we both want to. excuse. you've overlooked but if for if it is. an emotional resignation how departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart in moscow and let's look at whether those false claims well worth it because. in early two thousand

and six i was invited to meet putin's countryside house but i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia roups ukraine and the baltic states and that cancelling stand would also be nice to have but one of them will has now acknowledged that it was a lie and that he wasn't even in russia in two thousand and six he said he did it to protect his source a person the presumably attended a meeting you know describes it as the biggest mistake of his political career better to have as well in response to the news the dutch prime minister said that their remarks of his now former top diplomat accurately reflected a russian policy at the time and we asked author and russia analyst martin mccauley about confession. there are two reasons why he made that statement one is that the projected him into the public newspapers the headlines and so on this was

a sensational statement to make and the second thing would be that of course it fed into the need to. the needed narrative the narrative of the west at that time still is which is basically under russian seas put in as a threat to the national security and it fed into that and therefore for these two reasons then it appeared to be from the dutch point of view this is a very good very good thing to do. emanuel macron is on course to take another campaign pledge off the list he's promising to bring back compulsory military service two decades after it was scrapped at the first french president not to have been called up for service once all junk people to receive quote a direct experience of military life polls three years ago suggested eighty percent of people were in favor of the move but now that's dwindled to a little more than half and we asked people in paris what they now think. but you

play as if you're ready to serve your country yes i have even tried to get in the army. of amazing there are many ways to help your country and not only in the army but it's not all about taking a weapon in your hands. but. army training is definitely way strict sort of in the school curriculum but this experience gave me a new perspective on things i was. growing. up as well i think military service is something good this creates unity around the country but serve and should be optional. at the moment until seems quite crazy her as they say it with the obligatory this is them they say not.

the french national anthem at all it's all fall. just out of how fast on sunday morning here in moscow the weekly returns at the top of the hour. so they have all the season his and he practices they are precious oppressive measures being deployed against afghanistan and people everywhere he said letter calling it is and the facts go forward now and then and the many many. you know gives us stating things that they'll be his undoing of course they can cause that's the end of the uprising. palestine is getting

international recognition with the help of israel. at least in the world of zoos the middle of it to listen to it loving you i can hear you this is my compass appears to be going out to saudi albeit you do hear their old charge no doubt if you go over there you should be the only palestinians who gets the most hope from its jerusalem counterpart i don't think this is about those who endure under the oak vision there's no one who could do this. and no it is unfair advantage to have to this lady of the muscle that you have i not going to continue in gaza as you know do more. don't put results. lexington in the central east of the united states it is within this city with a population of three hundred thousand that the university of kentucky can be found . it is barely nine in the morning david and brandon two first two students are in

the middle of a video game. jewel as a warm up before the first match of the season for the university's american football team the wildcats are going to drink a beer before you can start the race so you're waiting to hear cheers and a lot of. these students have found themselves a great way of supporting their team since breakfast is into. a large supply of strawberry banana flavored vodka david and brandon down four shots in less than two minutes on empty stomachs. because good. for the students university sport events are a great chance to get away from the pressure of their studies but also a particularly good opportunity to party and that is all the more. your grandson isn't twenty one years old yet the legal age for drinking alcohol in the

usa. but on campus circumventing the law has become a national sport. about the other on the way to the stadium they get to the city again their competition has started. in the streets of lexington the behavior of these young men doesn't seem to shock anyone you go there. these students even walk along with a bottle of vodka in their hand however as is the case on many other american campuses alcohol is legal here the cops don't care that is if there was a default down to hammer though like arrested as long as you can spare. the gold rush or somebody on university match days anything goes for almost anything. just outside the stadium the traditional parade has started. led

by kerry their leader the cheerleaders galvanized the crowd. here a triumphant parade announces the arrival of the uncontested stars of the campus. around fifty student football players accompanied by their team of staff. all eyes are on this group of players good enough to play for the big professional team. in the usa the love of university sports goes much further than the campus borders. in the stadium parking lot many supporters tense have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. is beyond me me me me me me but we will bring. it to. the fans are very loyal and also very generous. tickets sales related merchandise

supported donations last year the football team voted more than thirty. a million dollars for the university a cash machine which contributes to its fate. inside the stadium the great event of the sports business has begun. the brass band on the cheerleaders provide a great show. for the play it's a rifle. that cheered on by a crowd of sixty thousand supporters. twenty two year old frenchman tom giambi has a front row seat. look it's a touchdown i missed it almost a tester. tom as a top level tennis player recruited by the university to defend their colors. with. the

frenchman was awarded a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory . a nun attainable treats for the majority of students because behind all the show and the american universities hired a reality that is very different. columbia dartmouth new york university american universities are among the best in the world renowned for their teaching their sports establishment but also for campus life. and party. studying here can cost up to eighty thousand dollars a year so when students don't receive scholarships like tom they take on a debt in order to finance their studies. thirty two thousand. two hundred

twenty. to get by financially some female students like it don't hesitate to look for support. or to take the first two hundred dollars. aside openly matches of generous donors with indebted students and so the controversy breaks out . you are a prostitute and you are a mighty educated printer. on campus the pressure to succeed is so high that american students often overindulge binge drinking to let their hair down. but also taking amphetamine derivatives to boost their academic results there's a real trafficking of substances going on. the fraternities are symbol of prestige in american universities they attract students who want to be part of the elite. to join these influential and secret societies some are willing to be put through all

sorts of humiliation we would get points for vomiting on each other. diving into the heart of american campuses where the obsession to success justifies all manner of extremes. lexington is the second largest city in the state of kentucky. over the last three years tom giambi has become one of the local tennis teams mainstays and thanks to this he lives in this residence with the swimming pool free of charge also known for the eagles and to those in need. or keep. the lexington campus holds more than twenty eight thousand students cost of studies up to twenty thousand dollars per year. but even so the tennis player doesn't pay a penny it gets better in order to enable him to succeed on the tennis court the university adapts to his sport schedule. while here interest to read three.

hours for. thomas and his final year. communication studies now with the many matches he has scheduled for the season he will often be absent with such students the university asked that the teachers off lexical. scope to physically. all right is for the spirit official university sponsored event yet that's not a problem so teachers have to be accommodating was students like tom yeah we have to be able to work with work with them in their schedule believe we can do that. because at lexington the campus lends itself to sport and the olympic size swimming for a climbing wall abounding track the city is also home to the largest basketball stadium in america. to attract the best athletes the university lays out its red carpet. almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year.

but the schedules of the sports students are not restful in the slightest. most students are still sleeping with thomas back at the changing. the world. with a new university term new supplies await him in his locker. that's always on the georgia today with us there are. those who think like you few. gifts bearing the acronym of a big sports equipment brand the university's official sponsor are your team in the more than. your eyes are just in the form of your. career well this is a new emotion for. tom and his eleven team members to train on average for four

hours a day. coached by fellow frenchman city called. louis told about. this former professional player has led the kentucky tennis team for the last two years . to strengthen their teams american universities recruit internationally the contract is simple they have to wait for the destruction the snow on the corner from the beautiful. and the university of kentucky certainly provides the means. there are almost two hundred people to ensure the welfare of the athletes footballers basketball players tennis players after training that all meet in the state of the art care facility. with a mandatory dip in the high spot. for the. children or their. families on american campuses the athletes are

not quite like the other students. every year they bring in about one hundred four million dollars for the university. on the top of the podium american footballers and their indispensable cheerleaders. nineteen times university champion the kentucky team holds the most titles in the history of the united states toned flexible agile here cheerleaders are reluctant. kiri is twenty two years old she's one of the team captains. like tom no school fees are completely covered so this young woman likes to get things right. today is official photo day these photos will grace the posters on the calendars for the upcoming season carrie therefore wants to look perfect they are actually the image of the school we are we are us along with the why.