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and a limp dick athlete from russia is suspected of doping at the winter games in south korea the world anti-doping agency is expected to announce the results of a second round of tests later on monday now the athlete in question is a mixed doubles alexander crucial need to keep he and his wife one bronze and the first medal in the sport for russian olympic athletes. he and his wife. got of made headlines after winning the medal they were called the hottest couple

at the olympics and were compared to the famous movie duo mr and mrs smith and the drug suspected of using as. and boosts endure and soon proves the rehabilitation after exercises and hans's nervous system activity of the drug made headlines back in twenty sixteen when the whole russian track and field team was banned from participation in the rio olympics because of that drug. now due to the doping scandal many russian athletes were banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics that prompted many russian sporting associations to form new teams taking wary young athletes to the games and looks at how this new generation of competitors is already winning medals. when fans read through the final list of russians who would be allowed to attempt some gold digging into riyadh weren't left expecting an outstanding treasure trove the team would surely secure medals and figure skating ice hockey plus possibly

a couple of surprises in other sports that was the thinking but with the russian ski racing star athletes love to sit out these games at home these juniors had some pretty big ski boots to fill but against the odds state did exactly that all you need to know about the performance of russia's cross-country skiing team is this board. believed. bull almost half of all the way our medals so far were won by the inexperienced cross-country squad to the delight of everyone including the likes of this summer sports specialist which it's great that we see new sports stars emerging even during these hard times now the norwegians aka russia's number one rivals in the sport know they'll need to keep looking over their shoulders b.o.h. american diplomacy is the best. but i think the younger ones will come to think they're on so who's hot on norway's heels made twenty one year old dennis speed

solve who's already won a bronze and a silver n.p.r. chuang again that's despite his vastly more experienced team leaders sitting it out saw cheel a big champion aleksandr left off who spotted by the i.o.c. was ruled illegal in court two times world champion surrogate was still go who has never been involved in any doping scandals but still got sidelined by the i.o.c. and others but an immensely weakened russian squad is on the podiums no matter what thanks to athletes who were just teenagers are a year or two ago. dedicated himself completely to the sport how is it possible not to support such passion and the effort and of course the athletes feel our support . i feel proud for splits off everyone was talking about last year gough invalid john and we see this young guy winning bronze here this was

a great surprise for me the performance against all the odds wouldn't have been possible without. a former olympic champion now in charge of the washing cross-country skiing federation she wasn't allowed to come to korea as an official or a coach so yes here at all the races as a stand crying tears she was the one who raised the new generation of olympic medalists in skiing. before our athletes were suspended from competition the initial plan was to get one gold medal one that's a silver and then one of those who bronze but given the fact that we came to the olympics missing eight athletes six zero which our team leaders in world skiing i said if we win only one prize it will mean though we've done better with planned five medals and counting by the key. determined olympic cross-country athletes from russia. all right to i discuss this i'm now joined by the host of

capital f.m. moscow's capital sports or alan moore a very good morning to you got you outside in the beautiful moscow weather this morning this set this whole story does seem a little bit bizarre allan considering how much scrutiny of the olympic team from russia has been under as of late i mean what do you think is it likely that this athlete was taking him. good or were yes we've all come to this in italy i can say snow so heavy snowfall here in moscow. the word right now and a city of people i spoke with here on others for sure and says that he will be supremely stupid to be caught for don't you know he has said christmas because he said that's his drink might have been spite or training camp that you. do see on like he got he took it however it one bit of information came out overnight that

his former or his coach dimitrov it said that many cops who do too many go said that all he has done he stopped taking them back in two thousand and sixteen when it was banned so you know it is a bit confusing we do know that money athletes and gym rats used to give it a boost before work i was put in disgrace it seems supremely on likely does he he would take it before is there are other options for him to take so to take medallion just it just seems quite unbelievable certainly one question that seems to be on a lot of minds right now is why would a dope i mean you might imagine an athlete deadlifting six hundred kilograms might be tempted by doping but a color. you you've had. or i would ask these are players of bridge to card game who have tested positive. i think three of the canadian curling squads.

one male and two females who were diagnosed eighty hasty and had to take the attention in hand sing and medicines like in money of the. us a generous have done so if it does give a benefit like if they take majority make it a burst of energy burst of speed he could work hard because you're courting is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport itself but again going back to it it seems very very unlikely that he did take madonna and i display stage because everybody on the dog in the street knows that it's bond and he could not have his will stoop to take majority of before or during the olympics now the color in question alexander crucial netsky claims that he may have been set up by a disgruntled teammate a ban from the games your thoughts on that. do seem likely because we are not still not sure the life of the mill told him because

even within water there are debates of how long it stays in the system whether it's one day two days or a month for example so that could have happened we do know that late for example ben johnson. after or during your live exactly living back in eighty eight i had said that he wasn't don't think then his coach said he was doping dead and that an american sprinter did you know spike his beer or spike his coca-cola so you know this this could be the case this has happened so we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we still know of the beast be sample tested positive we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it will be we we said last week you and i sitting as you say not to get caught for dope in the olympics you have to be very very silly and i don't think that the ski is really a lot more the host of a capital f. at moscow's capital sports fuck you so much for joining us this morning thank you. israel has hinted it might get involved in syria to counter iran tensions between

tel of even tehran have been on display yet now the munich security conference is ready prime minister used his speech at the summit to warn against a growing threat from terror. this is a brief. a brief description of the middle east as it looks right now i call it the red in the black the red is isis. the radical the sunni's the black is iran and its offshoots the radical shiites as the red compresses. and it will be wiped out very soon from the map of the middle east iran is moving in and iran's involvement in syria has long been a critical issue for israel but now the prime minister's rhetoric may even be time for actions to speak louder than words so he won't is changing the ground rules in syria i've said we will not allow them to do that if mr us invites iran in

militarily. that changes our position such words weren't enough benjamin netanyahu brought them visual aids said to be part of an iranian drone the israelis intercepted as it crossed the syrian israeli border worryingly the drone incidents being called the first known direct confrontation between the two sides militaries and prompted israel to hit iranian targets in syria mr zarif. do you recognize this. you should be george. you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of tyranny. do not. use rules resolve the rainy and foreign minister mohammad job and serif later took his chance to hit back you are. the audience for a cartoon a secret sip is. because we were on the right side of

history fighting the taliban fighting the. fighting fighting consistently instead of joining those who supported. in creation in financing. our should israel's confrontation with iran break out as netanyahu hints where do you think the likely battleground would be syria a terrifying thought considering the country's already devastated by conflict the situation there is complicated enough with the turkish kurdish americans triangle in kurdish regions and syrian armed forces battling the remains of terrorist groups with the help of russian jets and just when you thought the situation in syria couldn't get any messier iran needs trying to strengthen its influence in syria not because of israel because of its own regional interests.

prevent any kind. in the war in syria it is none of its business and therefore we get to tease i understand these really cool. i understand the fears for me runyan military presence on the border but in any case the think that iran is present in syria is something that can will be solved by force kiddle be solved by war will be solved by. these or should realize that israel's prime minister who's obviously a vigorous opponent of the iran nuclear deal didn't miss the chance to criticize the agreement at the conference he said the deal had quote unleashed a dangerous iranian tiger and called for it to be scrapped and surprisingly even the fashion industry is apparently interested in iran's nuclear program and iranian american fashion blogger was taken aback when a u.s.

news station suddenly began grilling her about tehran's nuclear ambitions however she did turn the question around then asked our interviewers about america's presence in the region here's a snippet from the interview let's talk about nuclear weapons because some of our viewers may say we cannot trust around what are your thoughts i mean i don't think we can trust this country i mean what has this country done for the majority of the countries in the middle east. surprised what occurred there be further by claiming that she didn't quote sound like an american when she questioned washington's foreign policy. spoke to us about this interview. i was really shocked by by the question of the statement but also i think it also goes back to sort of the place that muslims in america are constantly put themselves in that we have to constantly prove that we're american enough to deserve respect deserve not being bombed or banned which all of which this country and other western countries are also

involved in in the middle east and then the second that we sort of criticize the state for what they've actually done we're redeemed an american honda could there be also told you that she's being flattered by the many positive comments she's received online tweets ranged from surprise the grilling from the t.v. host to praise for the blogger for speaking freely. again commenting on freedom of expression and on going viral. i. unfortunately i guess after the fact i wasn't too surprised because muslims and people of color in this country and across the west are constantly put in positions where we're constantly kind of being used both as a term as a way of sort of talking about our maybe having to respond for our government policies back abroad but then having to blindly questionably sort of pray

allegiance to this country who might be involved in violence in our country. i think that it's sort of these are sort of underlying microaggression that happen every single day and it's not just me this is happened to i was just lucky enough that this is live and i was able to record it and then being able to share online but this happens constantly every single day all the time for any single person who is a person of color a muslim that they consciously are kind of having to do with micro aggressions that are so normalized within society and so that's why one thing that i really appreciate about sort of the viral of the of this is that people are really standing up now and saying this is not normal this is not ok we shouldn't allow this from happening. cia director has admitted to us into food in other countries elections on domestic affairs when it was quote for a good coach but i guess d. of takes a look at whether double standards are in play. no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections

they're hooley pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just don't mess around other people. are only for the very good to see them through online video and former cia for a very good cause. said the former director of the cia it's funny because and when america does it when someone else's even suspected of doing it no no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no a lot of cool said

a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root a book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven we've used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it we've planted false information for newspapers we've used what the british call king george's calorie suitcases of cash add to that assassinations coups information warfare hacking and that's just the stuff we know about this that johnson that helped oversee that cia's activities he'd know the difference is they say when russia does it it's to destroy the world even when that meddling has no actual impact on the elections as even the justice department just admitted when america does it so the greater good democracy and all that you could ask of course how on earth overthrowing democratically elected leaders as the cia has done is

helping democracy how selling billions of dollars worth of guns to gulf dictators is helping democracy but don't well the u.s. is not allowed to interfere in other country's affairs it just gets away with it because the only organization that really could sanction the you know the us in terms of what it does internationally is the united nations and the us has a veto so the u.s. can stop any kind of action being taken against it when it chooses to act internationally as it has done recently in syria as it did in iraq as it has done and afghanistan. so mali. libya yemen and there are many examples of what the u.s. has done and basically it's able to get away with these things because it is able to exercise its veto. a dutch shipping group is facing accusations of

dumping several vessels with a. waste on indian beaches ultimately creating environmental and health problems though. kooks. the such. utter

get. cut secure. it. the case is playing out in dutch courts the prosecution is alleging the ship's dumped to be broken apart in india and turkey contains a number of toxic substances including lubricants and bunker oil that also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on a recycling workers and the environment in those countries have to find of a breach of e.u.

waste laws is being sought if convicted of shipping boxes face up to six months in jail now for its part the company has rejected any wrongdoing at the defense for the sea trade group argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as turkey and india are beyond his jurisdiction and lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by the ship breaking platform and. the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently

broken on three total beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated. former cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling has been released from prison he revealed cia mismanagement of a classified program to the us senate and was later sentenced under the espionage act to three and a half years sterling was freed after serving over two years of that sentence but sterling was not jailed for what he told senators instead he was accused of leaking classified information he shared with the senate to a journalist his sentence was softer than the minimum by

a nineteen year prison term demanded by the guidelines for such a case reportedly the reason for that was the fact that all the evidence against him was circumstantial only. macone a former u.s. senate candidate who petition for sterling's release explains how we ended up being treated as a traitor. there are times reporter james right now with the intercept was having about fifty conversations back and forth with jeffrey and then james writes and released a book about two thousand and five called state of war in which he disclosed the cia's botched release of nuclear plans to iran even jeffrey tried to tell a senate intelligence committee about this information they tried to go after james rise and to find out who his source was just around that same time they arrested jeffrey they dropped the rise in case because obama did not want to go after a reporter because the heat was on obama in the obama administration because he was

going after a journalist the judge who sentenced a starling stated that while in a perfect world every criminal case would be decided using direct evidence often enough not possible on my mind carney again says that they had nothing but sucking stansell evidence they went and took jeffrey to court the only type of evidence that they had was circumstantial evidence and cia agents saying that it was a disgruntled employee that released information because of his discrimination case jeffrey has maintained his innocence for almost seventeen years. the new york times which originally published the story of starlings lawsuit against the cia has not covered his release on that main county says that so many journalists jeffrey starting essentially became an invisible man. journalists are never asked about are asking about jeffrey sterling or talking about it and this is a man who has become an invisible man a forgotten man who is in my mind

a hero the a.c.l.u. with me even handled this case and so we have to reach out to other types of outlets unable to tell his story. the capital of libya is in danger of losing its historical heritage due to the current instability in the country tripoli's ancient sites have been left without maintenance and exposed to risk i want to talk are from the city has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the city's monumental extra. putting the here thirty three the old city is our history it's our past historically it is the oldest traded for treaty with africa. and i would think. you know i like to take photos of the old city is my passion.

to me in the sea and i know there is no restoration of any preservation of ancient buildings and. this but also people took part on twitter and their plated photos of the old city taken by me and other people they wrote about the city say that was in fact.

the concerns about the historic heritage of libya by unesco as well they're going as ocean has put five of the country's sites on its world heritage in danger list citing the conflict affecting libya and the threat of further damage that opposes to his legacy some of those side stayed back centuries and even millennia. all right we're back in about half an hour with more of your monday bald headlines. stein is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos him in bill fails to miss it looking like a million pieces and my compass he is going up the study hall maybe. john does. the only palestinians is who gets the most help from its jerusalem

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