so well done t. doping watchdog says it will discuss reinstating the russian anti doping agency as a member of the it was suspended in twenty fifteen and it claims that state of cheating. more than half of french people polled say the u.s. is no longer a trusted ally that's as president prepares to cozy up to trump one small head of an official business. and the world's biggest women them power program by us a idea in afghanistan turned out to be an utter failure as according to

a report to the spy washington's watchdog in the country. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me if you are in our top story this hour the russian anti doping agency could be reinstated it's been suspended since twenty fifteen amid allegations of state backed cheating comes off to the compliance review committee all of the world anti-doping agency recommended its reinstatement the final decision though will be made following a vote on thursday. the c.r.c. reviewed at length a letter from the russian ministry of sport to water and was satisfied that this led to sufficiently acknowledge the issues identified in russia therefore fulfilling the first of the two outstanding criteria of resigned as road map to comply and it is important for us to reinstate the next world executive meeting we

decision on september twentieth with hope believe me we did everything that we could and we all ready to for the cooperate with our foreign partners to continue to work in this direction and follow common rules which are equal for all but when it was suspended want i gave russia a list of commitments to win reinstatement the majority of which i says russia has now fulfilled a key point has been a lack of access to data and some polls stored in the moscow lab the world anti-doping agency now says the offer of access to an independent expert would meet its criteria however the major sticking point in the road map of compliance has been the report by richard mclaren stating russia run a state sponsored doping scheme the list is called for russia to acknowledge its complicity and doping russia denies ever ever such

a program existed but has admitted that were issues with its anti-doping system let's take a look at the allegations. the damning mclaren reports on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their meadows and others prevented from taking part in major events including the olympics however a few things in the report just don't add up before we break them down it's worth noting that the international olympic committee itself was not satisfied with the evidence in a letter to richard mclaren the i.o.c. ostrom more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate that almost every athlete's name moreover it was admitted by wada but in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases dr richard mclaren's findings were issued into pogs they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let's meet the riposte star witness. the

former head of a moscow anti doping lab he's facing charges over destroying test samples. and the e-mails presented as proof of state involvement come from his own computer. russian sports officials deny the allegations but did richard mclaren consider to get their side of the story i'd made the decision that with fifty seven days to do my work i didn't have the time and they didn't seem to have the interest so i didn't do that that came after the first part of the report issued in july twenty sixth. the second came six months later so the investigative team did eventually meet with some russian officials but not by. the sports minister at the time of the alleged undercover doping scheme. with. the central allegation of mclaren to court is that positive year in samples were

systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how so. cafe granya was added to clean samples to make the match dirty worms and tricks attached to. that information came courtesy of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security part of which is swiss manufacturing guaranteed can't be tampered with richard mclaren doesn't have an answer on how the russians did it he just says it can be done and that's enough have seen it i've seen it done and i'll be inspected it can be done anything can be reinserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know that they can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an unprecedented scale that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and it is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples. meanwhile

international says well as the athletes have lashed out over the possibility of russia being reinstated even dubbing it a catastrophe well earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed the details with r.t. sport correspondent alexei. suppose anybody's guess at this stage what's your opinion how do you think this is going to play out it's not set in stone obviously because the opposition has been very vocal and it's been a lot of opposition to the russian reinstatement within water. particularly from the u.s. anti-doping agency frankly stinks to high heaven why did she stop the sleight of hand and release the new compliance review committee recommendation as well as any information received from russia now showing their compliance also the u.k. anti-doping agency came out with statements and even letters to wider and even a clip a video clip that they posted on twitter basically urging water not to take this u. turn there is a water though taking place on the twenty fifth which is critical to the future of

clean spool get behind hash tag no u.-turn order thank you do not. you turn on the russian read math do not fail all athletes across the world protect the sport i think they want to make sure that this stigma that the overtaxed of the last three years sticks and in other words you know if and russia will be allowed back into sport they want to make sure that every time any commentator on any radio or t.v. station anywhere in the world mentions a russian athlete they say they make mention of the fact that they've served three years in exile because of go ping violations in reality of course every sporting nation on the planet is engaged in some kind of doping violation it's just that they've been a bit cleverer about it the russia or that russia has simply been singled out as a kind of scapegoat which would be my view frankly but i don't moment we're not

back to go into that we're about to deal with the facts as they confront us and i think we will know the truth seven days from now but my feeling is that russia will be rude so that. the majority of french people no longer see be united states as a reliable partner that's according to a new poll which suggests a deepening crack in transatlantic ties without despite what many have dubbed the bromance between presidents mccrone and trump depends picks up the story. it was all wrong dave who in the city of love cemented a new brooding relationship to world leaders plenty of hugs and the odd whisper it was all in that handshake.

previously at the g twenty matt go ahead cozied up the trunk making a bee line for him during the family photo or what other will be just looked on in astonishment but since those are first intimate moments it seems the relationship has somewhat cooled because if we are found sure is fruits who have come to our aid the united states of america is one of them the prisoners to the of the american president by my son is the son of a friendship which has stood the test of time. the palmer with whom you are. post-war multilateralism seems to turn his back on this common history but could the bromance be about to be rekindled trumpets already confirmed he's ready for paris part with his next visit scheduled for november and while mcewan still seems

open to a special relationship with the u.s. and its president it's clear the french public are want a recent poll showed that only forty four percent of people here still see the u.s. as an ally a partner plummeting by thirty three percent since two thousand and fourteen so what parisians make of the us a country that for so long has being a trusted ally and who has replaced america is old you know our vision of europe and the world is quite close to germany's this book i don't have confidence in the us they don't care about france for them it's just the way to impose their. example i would say to me is the most important franchise and england the us used to be important but not anymore i'm among those who think that we'd rather ally with germany than with the united states france and germany are interested in hearing each other to give europe a better future. i think the most important ally on the political level is germany today france and the us a divergence. i'm pro-american i travel to the us barrie often but it's true that

the french in general are not very favorable of the u.s. but mostly they're not against the people but against the government and the american president donald trump fares only works because keep him takes decisions that are only reasonable and secure me a little bit to tracks everything which is not good he creates tensions only thinks about himself not about his speech or neighbors. i'm not in favor of him but we need to recognize that his politics protect the american economy he's very disrespectful toward everyone who's met in presidents who is not a good person much corn isn't fairing a lot better than trump when it comes to winning over the french but now he has a double charm offensive to deal with his own people and the u.s. president show it to. paris. where the french people are particularly fond of the u.s.

and its leader it's unlikely many new parents would currently sasol the name donald for their son and while many often struggle to choose the right name and not always up to them to decide.

the. promote the world's largest program by usa id ever created for female empowerment has been a failure in afghanistan less according to the head of the us watchdog agency in the country also john saw up close said usa id oversold the project and fly to american taxpayers when it started in twenty fifteen well back then the project was budgeted at two hundred sixteen million dollars and the organization also hoped to persuade other countries to contribution doubling the funding it was designed to help more than seventy five thousand women in afghanistan find job sound other opportunities to ensure that inclusion in politics and business a great promise for a new generation of afghan women. since two thousand and one the door has been

reopened for afghan women millions of afghans have sent their daughters to school women join the workforce they joined the police the army and entered politics but this is just the beginning there are still hundreds of thousands of women across afghanistan ready to learn ready to work ready to help build your nation's future. that's what promote is all about. so far the project has cost american taxpayers almost nineteen billion nine hundred million dollars excuse me the report by the watchdog agency says over the past three years only fifty five out of seventy five thousand women found a job adding it's unclear if the program could be credited for that we spoke about the situation with antiwar news editor jason did who says many could see the problems from the outset i don't think it surprising. this this is kind of bad usa behavior in afghanistan and in other countries they get these ideas that

something would be done that would help in this case and power when they don't really have a great idea. there's overambitious there's a tendency to over promise the rest of ministration and there's also a tendency to simply care if things don't. temporarily the illusion they're tackling the problem if you read special inspector general reports on a regular basis you see that this happens all the time that these programs are almost only it's too expensive they deliver a little bit about things and then there's not much accountability of. u.s. officials say at least five people have been killed since tropical storm florence made landfall along the east coast and began battering from south carolina florence was downgraded from a category one hurricane on friday afternoon but it's still causing widespread

devastation bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain currently over six hundred thousand homes and businesses are without power and it's expected there will be catastrophic flooding throughout the weekend officials there that around one point seven million people in the carolinas and virginia have been told to evacuate their homes rescue teams have been deployed amid were. it's a growing number of locals who chose to stay behind have become trapped by the rising waters. was there was a calm facebook is under fire after it's a war and fake news led to a leftwing website and being censored but the details for you after the break.

two thirds of american host schools do not have five hundred dollars. that's crazy you know for your population doesn't have money and money maintaining thirteen aircraft carriers around the room why why did you change your policies and do something that is good for the legacy. and good in the long room.

welcome back well facebook is under fire after the left wing good think progress web site found itself censored by conservative fact checkers the fake news hunt is part of facebook's publicly stated plan to prevent election interference and exercised tighter control over what users see on their news feeds. news outlets on the only player is a risk under this system as a legal matter facebook is treading on very dangerous ground by providing no oversight of its own fact checking operation according to its new policies facebook demotes the articles rated by its fun checkers as falls significantly reducing the post's distrait distribution it will also now start fact checking videos and means posted on the platform auntie's can look more pain reports. facebook's new fact

checking efforts are going a splendidly now that's a statement that definitely would not pass their fact checkers face book the social media giant has recently begun efforts to crack down on fake news now the result has been a fight bigger than they could have expected the first side to come out swinging was the right wing with the president himself speaking up you look at google facebook twitter and other social media giants and i've made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship blacklisting admiring search results but it didn't take too long for the left to start crying foul with roughly the same grievances as the right but the fake news crackdown in which an anonymous fact checker gets to decide what's true and what's not won't stop with news articles at this point facebook has announced it's going to start fact

checking videos as well as photographs the reason that's important is because when people come to facebook and there's no internet they could see information in a link but they could also seen a photo or video and some pieces and photos or videos might be more believable so perhaps this crackdown on photographs is based on allegations that somehow russia meddled in the twenty six thousand election with facebook memes but where do you draw the line what's an obvious joke and what's considered to be fake news let's take a look at some social media favorites is it laughing or lying. i don't think it's possible for any social media platform certainly not facebook with its track record to actually determine fairly. which news is

real and which news is fake will this will have what's known as a chilling effect on free speech in the united states and there there have been very few efforts to take this into the courts to make this a free speech first amendment issue but mark mark my words because of the chilling effect that this will have on free speech this may indeed even reach the supreme court so when facebook has someone behind a keyboard someplace determining whether or not your post gets suppressed they don't just risk losing their authenticity as a personalized platform in which users get to represent themselves they also risk becoming another dead dry news source losing their sense of humor. r.t. new york. has blasted a car into space plans to put people on models and now says he's sending a mystery passenger around the moon but while the world follows every eccentric

endeavor of ten billion a long musk it seems few are hanging on to his words when it comes to his spooky predictions for the future as polly boy explains. even in moscow a real world tony stark would just start praising nods we have to decide because in case you missed it if you can't you may depend on it. the thing with the eleven is that none of us can be really sure that he's one of us he's building spaceships to take people to mas but it is not because he's just trying to get home it's odd listening to warn you about the dangers of artificial intelligence when you are seventy five percent sure he is a road boy himself i'm not saying you looks all that well of leave but you know what i'm saying. of course there are signs of humanity from within i mean the guy put a cog into orbit around the sun just and giggles which is what any of us would do if we could. rescue this kid from the predicate entire amount last summer we

must return to this point learning the rescue of a peter twice you don't get much more human than perhaps musk is most useful as a barometer for human stupidity. broadcast he had some fifty dire warnings about the dystopian nightmare we are walking into with our eyes glazed for example that google is basically just to try and say i'm going to be programmed by the entire human race robots will soon move so fast that the easy of all to see them using straight light and airy machines assume that a god as insignificant and relevant monkey love is a headline that everyone came out with they even must smoked weed legally. to see all that coming you'd be smoking something stronger than that in back to the old stock in tesla simply because the last time i do believe when they are ignoring the fact that a man who has learned that ismay ship in the sea is probably less pressing on a long time and a bunch of brainiac bankers are actually hedging against

a man making electric cars to protect the environment that means that they will rush in if the mosque fails to save the world nice once you complete and utter. thanks for joining us on r.t. international for all the latest headlines you can join my colleague andre fama at the top of the hour.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often very dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partners. logs and conspiracies it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bat. shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. and. their walls already on the table which are directed at discrimination and marginal way zation also ukrainian orthodox church once such a law if except it will presuppose that the ukrainian orse of the church should change its name and that it should be a name to the russian orthodox church in the ukraine it is something like put sings the. yellow star on the georgians the infeed this.

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