the world on t. day pin watchdog says it will discuss reinstating the russian anti doping agency as a member after it was suspended twenty fifteen and made claims of state sponsored cheating. also it is more than hoffa french people polled say the u.s. is no longer a trusted ally as president micron prepares to cozy up to trump one small and the head of an official visit. day four of russia's largest military trail since decades ceased the focus of the exercises shift from the mound

to see. today's about a little bit larger. u.s. aid sim powerman program for women in afghanistan is labeled a total failure by washington's watchdog in the country. and. live from the russian capital we are watching r t international wherever you are thanks for joining us the russian on to dating agency could be reinstated almost three is after it was suspended over allegations of state sponsored cheating it comes off to the compliance review committee of the world taping agency recommended it sports back the final decision will be made following a votes 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 ever sought as road map to comply and 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 rules which are equal for all when it was suspended was it gave russia a list of commitments to win reinstatement the majority of which says russia has now filled a key point has been the lack of access to data and sample stored in the moscow lab the world anti-doping agency now says the offer of access to independent experts would meet its criteria however the major sticking point in the road map of compliance has been the reports by richard mclaren stating russia run

a state sponsored dating scheme the list has called for russia to acknowledge as complicity in taping russia denies such a program ever existed but has admitted there was widespread a ping and there were issues with this anti doping system here's a look at the allegations. in 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 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 in two pods 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 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 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 reports issued in july twenty sixth. the second came six months later so the investigative team did eventually meet with some russian officials but not that salim the sports minister at the time of the alleged undercover doping scheme.

with. the central allegation of mclaren is that positive year in samples were systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how soaps and. cafe granules what i did is a clean sample 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 posture which is swiss manufacturing guaranteed scrumpy 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 not seen it i've seen it done and i have inspected and it can be done completely inserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know that it can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an unprecedented scale i have the

we will be able to see some evidence of 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 authorities as well as athletes have lashed out over the possibility of result it being reinstated even calling it a catastrophe neil harvey discuss the details with his sports correspondent and xers have. i 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. particular from the u.s. anti-doping agency frankly 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 water and even

a clip of video clip that they posted on twitter basically urging water not to take this u. turn there is a water vote taking place on the twenty for september which is critical to the future of clean sport get behind hash tag no u.-turn order thank you do not use on the russian. do not fail all athletes across the world protest please support canadian the limb pick champion becky scott's one of the six members of waters compliance review committee reportedly resigned on saturday reports suggest she quit over sardis possible reinstatement a move that former sports lecturer alice cashmore believes we can expect to see next week. they want to make sure that this stigma that though the tach of the last three years and in other words you know even the russian 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 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 big 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 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 really good. the majority of french people no longer see the united states or several liable partner that's according to a new poll which suggests a deepening crack in transatlantic ties that's despite what many have dubbed the

brain mounts between presidents micron and trump china dubinsky 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 the handshake. previously at the g. twenty mack or had to trump making a beeline 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 have found sure 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 i 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 i don't have confidence in the us they

don't care about france for them it's just the way to impose their. i would say timoney is the most important french ally 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 prosecuted i think the most important ally on the political level is germany today france and the usa are in 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 says only works 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 he's people 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 who is not a good person mccormack 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 us president show it to. paris. with french people not particularly fond of the u.s. and its leader is unlikely many new parents would currently settle on the name of their son while many often struggle to choose the right name it's not always up to them to decide.

it stay for a false talk twenty tain russia's largest military day trails in decades and the exercises have now switched from lands to say more and gas stands as that for us in the country's far east.

we're now into the last few days of the stalks two thousand and eighteen war games which seem almost everything from lost almost formations rushing at simulated enemies to release of helicopters and jets dropping that payloads and defense missiles crisscrossing the sky with trails what today's about is a little naval action. every branch of the military's involved air force. to get them. now that the beaches be clear that hypothetical mines you call the big boys that's literally a big marine ship translation from russian and it's about the discourse it's contingent to take the beach in force.

yet not that dusty truck right later where it's another exercise. don't expect a show like this every year it's so bad this week spent by the death of the experience knowledge gave is in value. the world's largest program for the same impoundments has been branded an us a failure in afghanistan according to the head of the us watchdog agency in the country jon so i will say said usaid eva sold the permit project and lied to american taxpayers when it started in twenty fifteen back then the project was

budgeted at more than two hundred million dollars as they organize ation hope to persuade other countries to contribute and double the funding it was designed to help more women in afghanistan find jobs and other opportunities to ensure the 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 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 ninety million dollars but tells 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 but we spoke about the situation with until one you said jason

day it has many could see the problems from the outset i don't think it's 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 afghanistan like in this case empowering women they don't really have a great idea how they can be but there's over ambition there's a tendency to over promise the rest ministration and there's also a tendency to simply not fair if things don't get done so long as there's 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 here and.

facebook is under fire off the left wing think progress website found itself senses by conservative fact check is the fake news hunt is part of facebook's publicly stated plan to prevent election interference and to exercise tighter control over what uses say on the news feeds. news outlets on 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. according to its new policies facebook to mozart's the calls deemed to be fake by its fact check is significantly reducing the post distribution it will say now stuff checking videos and means posted on the platform can have 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 facebook 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 could not tolerate political service or ship 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 with a 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 reasons it's so important is because when people come to facebook and they're throwing their news they could see information in a link but they could also have 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 sixteen 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. is real and which news is fake will this will have what's known as the shilling effect on free speech in the united states and there are 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. art see new york . u.s. officials say eleven people have been killed since tropical storm florence made landfall on the east coast and began tearing through north and south carolina florence was downgraded from a category one hurricane after it struck on friday but authorities are warning it will bring so there flooding in the coming days almost eight hundred thousand properties across the carolinas a said to be without power at the moment rescue is a way to save people in the two states who've been trapped in their homes by rising

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told of welcome two worlds apart the christian history is full of schisms and it looks like it may be another one of commie gets three hundred million strong global orthodox community may soon be forced to take sides as they picture a case of goes the internal poll and moscow wrangle over the fate of baseball in your brain this is already a positive point of no return to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by richard cole at the. hilarie on how to foreign relations at the russian orthodox church here and nancy it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time just a few days ago constantine announced in pretty stark terms its decision to eventually ground the suffer the ukrainian church whatever it might be revealed discuss it now and i say to the ukrainian church keeping in mind that it is public primarily a political process because it were the politicians the state that lobbied for that

what do you make of this very tight association between state and religious affairs first of all i should explain what fully means because not everyone would understand how to sift through the tradition means independence the orthodox church unlike the roman catholic church consists of fully independent local churches they are not subordinate to one and there is no single here do of this churches except for jesus christ himself and here from what i understand the constantine ople church gay does claim divide of determining which church is supposed to be independent and which is not yes exactly as a pitcher of constantinople it's as if he were the pope for the course of the church but it has not been the traditional sources extraordinary to have such group and we do not recognize the rights of the preacher of consent in opal to.

carry bring you back to my initial question about constantinople granting a ride all of ukraine not the ukrainian church but actually to ukraine as a state because this is what we actually discussing at this point of time ukraine does not have. a united religious organization can claim that document for itself it's more a political necessity for the current elites what do you make of it and the reason i'm asking is because in most democratic liberal societies. the separation between church and state is unquestionable and yet it's not the case for ukraine. in the ukraine there is one canonical ukrainian church it is the ukrainian orthodox church . which is recognized by all orthodox churches as canonical it twelve thousand parishes more than two hundred monasteries and millions of.

and there are also two non-canonical groups which were called schismatic groups which are not recognized by any of the orthodox churches. it is this schismatic groups which are supposed to constitute the basis on which constantine ople wants to be able to build this out of surface church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church or for churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and baghdad and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political schism a religious schism but i think present person cut deep change

a tactic a little bit and he presents it as him striving towards the unity of the ukrainian faithful i'm sure you dislike it but don't you think that it's a clever tactic for him we certainly like the idea of the unity of the church and we certainly dislike schisms but the broken silly ation between schismatics and the canonical church. should go through. the process which we call repentance and it is not repentance in the sense. in which we use this word for example when we talk about. personal life about morality and so on it's a canonical term the return of mights a group into the body of the church. is done through the recognition of the fault of the schism in this case it is actually the schism which

is good and to be the basis for the outer surface church and it will not be recognized by the majority of the force of the face while in the ukraine so it is on the one hand it is the desire for unity which is proclaimed on zazzle hint it is impossibility to achieve this unity by these months that's what we usually call politics it's only applied today really just fear now the constantinople patriarchate is determined to proceed it just dispatched you know it's an invoice to ukraine to prepare for the granting of a subtle and i wonder if you could lead us through this process i wonder if there is any task that the church needs to pass in order to be recognized and in this particular case since we're dealing with different communities religious communities i mean are they supposed to be united first or the constantinople

arcade is going to issue this really just license and do the church building later in order for the church to become outer surface should receive a special document in which is this out of self really proclaimed and is recognized now as the canonical orthodox church in the ukraine did not ask for such a tours and even if it is given such a document it will not accept it. the promise of how to cephalic and not be addressed to whom it may concern it is always addressed to a particular person who is in charge of a persecutor church so before a grand sings this thomas of out of several if they need to find a person who will be considered as head of the church there is no such person at the moment there are two schismatic groups each of which is headed by a person equal or person.