so the idea. of the. the headlines in r.t. the world anti-doping watchdog says it will discuss reinstating the russian anti-doping agency is a member after the suspended in twenty fifteen amid claims of state sponsored cheating also to come in are saying more than half french people polled say that the u.s. is no longer a trusted ally that is present micron prepares to cozy up to trump once more ahead of an official visit and it is day for boss stop twenty eighteen russia's largest military drills in decades exercises in the country's far east switch from land to

sick. days about is a little mabel action. and the world's biggest women empowerment program by u.s. aid in afghanistan turned out to be enough of failure that's according to reports by washington's watchdog in the country. hello there is not hey seven o'clock sorry meeting here in moscow you watching r.t. international now the russian anti-doping agency could be reinstated has been suspended since twenty fifteen amid allegations of state backed cheating and it comes after the compliance review committee of the world anti-doping agency recommended it's brought back 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 sports to water and we're satisfied that this

letter is sufficiently acknowledged the issues identified in russia therefore fulfilling the first of the two outstanding criteria for starters roadmap to compliance it is important for us to reinstate the next world executive meeting with the decision on september twentieth with hope believe me we did everything that we could and we already to further cooperate with our foreign partners to continue to work in this direction and follow common leans which is equal for all. well when it was suspended while they gave russia a list of commitments to win reinstatement majority of which it says russia has now failed a key point has been a lack of access to data and samples stored in the moscow lap world anti-doping agency now says though the offer of access to an independent expert would actually meet its criteria however the major sticking point in the road map of compliance has always been the report by richard mclaren stating that russia ran

a state sponsored the paying scheme the list is called for russia to acknowledge its complicity in paying russia though their nice such a program ever existed but it missed it there was widespread doping and there were issues with this anti doping system here's a look back at the allegations the damning mclaren report on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their medals 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. asked for more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate almost every athlete's name moreover it was admitted by water but in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases dr

richard mclaren's findings were issued into pads they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let's meet the report star witness. the former head of a moscow anti doping lab who'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 made a decision that for 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 batali much co the sports minister at the time of the alleged undercover doping scheme.

could. the central allegation of mclaren's report is that positive urine samples were systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how salt next cafe granya was added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick the testers that information came courtesy of or a chunk of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security part through which is swiss manufacture it guarantees can't be tampered with richard mclaren doesn't have an answer on how the russians did he just says it can be done and that's enough have seen it i've seen it done and i'll be inspected and it can be done and can be reinserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know they can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an

unprecedented scale ahead of the we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and that is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples. on international authorities as well as that plates have lashed over the possibility open side of being reinstated even dubbing it a catastrophe earlier my colleague neil harvey discuss the details with r.t. sport correspondent alexia chefs. i suppose anybody's guess at this stage what's your opinion how do you think it's 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 it stinks to high heaven why should 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 of your clip that they posted on twitter basically urging white and not to take this u. turn there is a wider vote taking place on the twenty fifth attempt which is critical to the future a clean spool get behind hash tag no u. turn order thank you do not you turn on the russian brain math do not fail all athletes across the world protect clean sport i think they want to make sure that this overtaxed of the last three years and in other words you know if 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 you know example because some go in 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 at the moment we're not about 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. the majority of french people no longer see the united states is a reliable partner at least according to a new poll which suggests a deepening crack in transatlantic ties despite what many of the brain mounts between presidents and trump dubinsky picks up the story. it was all wrong dave in the city of love cemented a new brooding relationship to world leaders plenty of hugs and the odd whisper it was all in the handshake.

previously at the g. twenty mack or had cozy up to trump making a bee line for him during the family photo or what other would be just looked on in astonishment but since there was a first intimate moments it seems the relationship has somewhat cooled as if we are from sure fruits who have come to our aid in the united states of america is one of them the prisons to the of the american president by my side 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 trump has 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 up. the u.s. 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 says i don't have confidence in the us they don't care about france for them it's just the way to impose their ideas but i would say to me is the most important french ally and england the u.s. used to be important but not anymore 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 worse because keep trying takes decisions that are only reasonable and secure me a little bit he 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 him in presidents he's not a good person might call him isn't firing back at the trump when it comes to winning the french but now he has a charm offensive to deal with his own people and the u.s.

president show it to. paris but with french people not particularly fond then of the u.s. and its leader it is unlikely that many new parents would currently settle on the name donald for their son while many often struggle to to choose the right name is not actually always up to them to decide.

the site is day four of vos top twenty eighteen russia's largest military drills in decades and the exercises of nice which to you from land to see what artie's meant to get as there is there for us in the countries far east. we're now into the last few days of the vostok two thousand and eighteen war games we've seen almost everything from lost ahmed formations rushing at simulated enemies to. have helicopters and jets dropping that payloads and defense missiles crisscrossing the sky with trails what's today's about is

a little naval action. every branch of the militaries involved air force navy together. now that the beaches speed cleared of hypothetical mines here come the big boys that's literally a big marine ship translation from russian and it's about to discourage its contingent to take the beach in force. yet another dusty truck ride later where it's another exercise.

don't expect a show like this every year it's tremendously expensive both in money and effort but the experience knowledge gained is invaluable. now five people have been killed since tropical storm florence made landfall on the east coast and began battering north and south carolina police had reported seven casualties but of ny river. that tally will florence was downgraded from a category one hurricane on friday afternoon but it is still causing widespread devastation bringing with it strong winds and also heavy rain currently over six hundred thousand homes and businesses are without power and residents are being warned to there will be quote catastrophic flooding throughout the weekend officials out that around one point seven million people in the carolinas and virginia have been told to evacuate their homes although the teams have been

deployed amid reports of a growing number of locals who did choose to stay behind becoming trapped by the rising. without a still to come this hour u.s. program costing millions to empower women in afghanistan has been branded a complete failure we'll tell you why just after the break. still dollars dollar bills ten dollar bill for the both bill thirty seven billion of those are printed every day there's no backing there's no collateral there iou against a system that has twenty or twenty one twenty two trillion in debt. don colluding with the medicare medicaid social security that would give it a under two hundred fifty trillion and that.

was already on the table which. that's discrimination and emerge in the way zation of the ukrainian orthodox church one. that 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. way puts in the. yellow star on the jordanians the in the job. come back with r.t. now the world's largest program for female empowerment has been branded an utter failure in afghanistan at least that's according to the head of the us watchdog

agency in the country john asako also said that usaid actually oversold the promote project and light american taxpayers when it started back in twenty fifteen back then the project was budgeted at more than two hundred million dollars and the all the organization also hope to persuade other countries to contribute and double the funding was designed to help more women in afghanistan find jobs and other opportunities to to ensure their inclusion in politics and business 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 join the police the army and entered politics but this is just the beginning for still hundreds of thousands of women across afghanistan ready to learn ready to work to help build your nation's future. that's what promote is all about. so far the project has cost

american taxpayers almost ninety million dollars been out of the seventy five thousand women it's only resulted in fifty five of them finding a job and the watchdog even said it's unclear whether the program can even be credited with that we spoke about the situation with antiwar news editor jason ditsy says that many could actually see the problems from the outset. i don't think it's surprising. there's this is kind of bell hundred usaid behavior in afghanistan and other countries to get these ideas there something they would be done that would help afghanistan right and that's empowering women they don't really have a great idea how to even do that there's over ambition there's a tendency to over promise there are still you ministration and there's also a tendency to simply not care if things don't get done so long as there's temporarily be 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 are

most only it's too expensive they deliver a little about things and then there's not much accountability a. place book is under fire after the left wing 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 exercise tighter control over what users see on their news fake. news outlets are the only players 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 well according to its new policies facebook to most articles deemed to be fake by its fact checkers significantly reducing the post distribution it would also now start fact checking videos and means posted on the platform has been expects. 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 if 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 ad where a 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 posts get suppressed they don't just risk losing their authenticity as a first lies platform in which users get to represent themselves they also risk becoming another dead dry news source losing their sense of humor. artsy new york and that's how things are looking say foss today here in the international thanks me company we're back again with more news in the headlines at the top of the.

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one of the largest storms creating truly apic weather of vannes you know it'll be a category four hurricane it will not not be good you know not be good to not share that it is very serious three thousand seven hundred seventy seven days less than twelve years is not very long i've had crazy nights in vegas that lasted longer than that. and it's going to suck for the like the kids born after that twelve year mark where you know when they finally hit four or five you got to set them down. so it's all of humanity. you kind of showed up toward the end of the party like you know we're already out of beer the strippers laughter i don't know what to tell you is over but this does mean we have three thousand seven hundred seventy seven days to try to change our course and obviously getting fossil fuels you know getting off them that's step one step two is getting off factory farming step three.

three is locking all of congress in a small cellar with duct tape over their mouths. their mouths and above all it's all right because you never know which end the speeches are going to come out you never know they don't tell you but step four is what this segment about step four we have to greatly alter the amount we waste in this society not only does it destroy resources and create pollution but consuming as much as we do it uses a tremendous amount of fossil fuels creating. greenhouse gases now recycling luckily has become part of our daily lives in most countries where the garbage cans in the recycling bins are at the garbage cans are filled with old food containers used to shoes dead in turns out stuff to recycle. the recycling bins have the stuff that can be re-used you know they often have the little specialty lids shaped the lids to serve to show you what is suppose.