rush's anti doping agency is set to hear its fate as the international body in charge of stumping drugs in sport prepares to vote on moscow's reinstatement. also this our teenagers are the confirmation hearings for president from supreme court pick stagnates in rape accusations with. proving to be one of america's most divisive nominees ever. drug dealers only

rock pick up points are among the signs appearing on the streets of london most frustrated residents brought tension to the high level of drug dealing in the british capital. just after nine am this thursday morning here in the russian capital my names you know me a welcome to our team international our top story the fate of russian sports mt drugs agency will be decided later on thursday the world anti-doping agency is jus to vote on whether to lift the suspension over a scandal in twenty fifteen the international olympic committee athletes' commission has russia's readmission while his president himself is also for the move but the organizations vice chair and doping agencies from various countries are against it they accused of quote moving the goal posts by easing some of the

conditions placed on russian sport correspondent alexy going to shift picks up the story. for the last three years russian sport has been firmly sidelined as accusations mounted over state sponsored doping. the media has been and meltdown the b.b.c. sports editor dan ronan tweeted out what he claimed was

a letter from waters compliance review committee saying reciters prolonged suspension was already a done deal but let's take a look at the whole picture just hours after ron's report water published an official statement rubbishing these notions today the world anti-doping agency this independent compliance review committee to deliberate a recommendation for the reins teeth meant of the russian antidoping agency when the executive committee meets next on the trenches of september what are also admitted it does not reveal information like that too often but it did so this time to put any speculation to bad it also openly said that the thirty one conditions it had put forward to restart it two years ago for reinstatement have been met conditions which included allowing u.k. anti-doping experts into russian labs to provide training replacing the personnel monthly orders by wada among others with the two most contentious ones knowledge of the findings of the mclaren report and granting unconditional access to your in

samples in russia laboratories which have been under federal investigation though those remained in limbo up until last week rolling forward a bit. the b.b.c. then publishes a letter from the russian sports menace that the wada where he agreed to all the demands and hoped that the world body would reinstate were sada so if that's the case and russia has ticked off all the criteria why is everyone so mad i want to make sure that this attached of the last three years sticks even russia will be allowed back into sport they want to make sure that every time any commentator anywhere in the world mentions a russian athlete they say. three years in exile because some go in violations and they want to emphasize that point to advertise to the rest of the world how tough what it is and how difficult it can be to get round kind of the doping

regulations 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 all the russians simply been saved singled out as a kind of scapegoat and people are quitting their jobs because of it namely becky scott are retired olympic champion and cross-country skiing who stepped down from the review panel after its recommendation to wada the possibility of russia coming in from the cold is dividing the world anti-doping agency its vice president says she will vote against their reinstatement and she is being backed by australia canada the united kingdom the usa and new zealand who are all urging the agency's president to reconsider if you choose to reinstate trasher you defied the very wish of the athletes committees and organizations around the world have very clearly stated that they will not accept reinstatement now the sporting community around the world has spoken and the message is consistent and clear recite it cannot be

declared compliant until all outstanding conditions set out in the road map have been satisfied we believe that any. as to the roadmap will tarnish one is repudiation and bring global sport into disrepute essential to restart his revival is not set in stone and it could mean thousands of clean athletes in russia will be hitting the first hurdle when it comes to entering competitions all over again with their respective federations hands tied until reciter resumes its normal operations so will this decision by wada be influenced by sport politics or commonsense. let's head stateside now where the senate confirmation hearing for donald trump supreme court nominee is mired in sexual assault allegations brett kavanaugh denies the charges while the president has been uncharacteristically kerr full when speaking about the case trumped wherever insists that the alleged victim should

testify before the senate before any judgment is made. when i first decided to run everybody said the single most important thing you do is the supreme court just forget we've all heard that be done to about a president i would say this i think he's an extraordinary man i think he's a man of great is like his i've been telling you and he has an unblemished record this is a very tough thing for him and his family if he shows up that would be wonderful if he doesn't show up. that would be a fortune. killer bachmann has more known donald trump's contentious pick for the life telling position of supreme court justice the hearings surrounding the appointment of a new supreme court justice by the president has turned into arguably the most burgeoning political issue in the united states at this time as the nomination process continues for brett kavanaugh we're seeing a circus of anger and accusations. writ

kavanaugh mr chairman. mr chairman. we cannot possibly move forward mr chairman a very warm welcome not that i gave in there going on in eighty. four here. we cannot be recognized i move to adjourn. them and i move on. here's why the issue is so did visit the u.s. supreme court has the final legal say on crucial issues and justices are appointed for life no wonder both sides want to the balance in their favor so the gloves come off the accusations are now flying first a woman who is sitting behind kavanagh was accused of giving secret fascist hand signals it turns out she is the descendant of holocaust survivors then some miss

attributed quotes about birth control started flying around the internet hillary. and herself was spreading this false information he referred to birth control pills as abortion inducing drugs the set of a lot of alarm bells for me an issue for you too i want to be sure will clear this didn't happen numerous fact checks to prove this false then cavanagh's habit of buying baseball tickets became breaking news investigative reporters. scoured his financial disclosures. and learned that he had his friends tickets to a baseball game so as you can see there's still plenty of showing us to go around but then things got serious accusations of attempted rape which is career ending stuff in the age of me two came up christine blasi forward accuses brett kavanaugh the tempting to rape her back in the one nine hundred eighty s. when they were both teenagers at a party now she wants an f.b.i. investigation if the senators who have come forward and said they want to treat the

seriously mean that then they'll they'll have an investigation of these allegations so that we all go into this more informed so twenty four women who went to high school with brett kavanaugh signed a letter saying that they support the accuser then sixty five women signed another letter saying that they defend brett kavanaugh his character now those who support the democrats generally believe the accuser those is support the republicans think she is lying and i've been calling her names not surprisingly the media is now taking sides this was intended. and i've believe perfessor ford cabinet has lied multiple times she's not sure when it happened where it happened who else was president she never reported it to anybody this is nothing if they get away with this there is then you have c.n.n. running the country because this allegation could be made against anyone at any time now the us department of justice says that it's not

a federal case but it seems like proving guilt or innocence isn't exactly the issue here i think the nomination should be withdrawn the bar here is not. whether you have not criminally assaulted someone it's credibility trust integrity so who is brett kavanaugh now to some he's a well respected adjudicator who happens to have some republican ties to others he's a sexual predator now supreme court justice nominations often turn into political confrontations but rarely do they expose such a deeply divided america. art see new york. one of those most outspoken opponents to breath company nomination husband former presidential candidate hillary clinton however it wasn't long before many pointed out that her husband former president bill clinton also faced allegations of sexual misconduct which didn't stop him from reaching america's highest office. and when he was president faced allegations that were not the same as this certainly but had

connections to these kinds of allegations from years ago have we learned anything over the years about due process not just for the accusers but also for the accused but i think that you have to take each of these situations you know sort of on their own merits. of bill clinton's alleged victims reacted by asking the f.b.i. to investigate her rape accusations as well. shows you the difference in the double standard that existed back then and still does today i think it's i think this is this donna. that they can do this to mr cavanaugh it is the absolute definition of hypocritical and that's what's really disheartening especially for the american public to see these democratic leaders that have been elected being absolutely hypocritical and two faced really not only when it comes to the clinton

trials where all of this wasn't enough what we heard it wasn't enough you can't come against him whereas a woman makes one allegation is refusing to testify there's no other information nobody really has any information there's no evidence but the word of this woman that's not to say that sexual assault allegations are important but the timing is very suspicious of course so we've now shown that the congress the united states of america doesn't care about facts or evidence as mrs it's as about political differences. drug dealers only parking space kruk pickup point frustrated residents in the british capital have taken the law into their own homes in a campaign to highlight the what they see as rocketing levels of drug crime in one london district neighbors in tower hamlets in east london commissioned an anonymous group of artists to make the signs they wanted to highlight a part of police in the area however the signs were quickly removed to my consul workers activists can hines believes that residents have lost faith in the

authorities. the police are not tackling the problem of drug the room in their location in their part of of london in their community so they feel that they have to take the law into their own hands it's the same as the rest of london the police tend to not be heavy handed around drug dealing in the police seem to not tread much more cautiously than if they are in other parts of london the tower hamlets where the action took place agreed with the activists and call for more police officers on the streets he also stressed that local authorities had done everything in their power to deal with the issue ken hung's again though says the government needs to take a different approach it's quite clear that the police and the

government has lost the war on crime because what they have to dumb as a crime when it's quite clear a ship be treated as a public health issue we need to identify like places like short it where to go or hide put a pen through to you for drug dealers to be done openly and we need to stay in drug counselors to help work with those people who are addicted to drugs. living all night china is accusing sweden of mistreating tarus and even of violating their human rights that's after a runner up did between stuff at a swedish hospital and a chinese family over check into. this is a kid this is the kid. this is.

see. here. i'm. just going to think this. is like. midnight for police to toss defenseless tourists it's a graveyard this place is too much. the chinese foreign ministry has made complaints to the swedish side on the urgent . case we shoot but you know. we only know that we have done everything we could do for this guest but at the same time we cannot accept that there are staff are exposed to threats and the

other guests will suffer from a threatening situation. a delegation from the european parliament is barred from gail's i'll tell you why after this. i think we can agree that the decision to intervene in libya was perhaps too quickly taken but we also know that the libya crisis today as we see it at least as i see it is a multifaceted crisis because it's a political crisis it's a security crisis and it's an economic crisis so i think the main problem of the post twenty transition was to put complete emphasis on the political process and

not sufficient thought and strategy into the military. and completely forget the economic dimension of the crisis. we want a strong european union strong member states and we want which sticks christian heritage so number one we don't want to get rid of the christian heritage and we want a member states to all stay as member states we don't want you know our nationality we don't want to give up our culture we don't blow you up for every feature before . minutes into the program welcome back israel has prevented our european parliament delegation from entering the strip a self governing palestinian enclave that has been in this really egyptian londoner

and sea blockade since two thousand and seven. he's the first. the delegation said it's been successively denied access to gases since twenty eleven thing it's reason for entry is to monitor the humanitarian situation caused by the decade long blockade well here's some of the figures around two million palestinians live in gaza a million are reportedly struggling to feed their families with many deprived of supplies such as clean water medical care on electricity a u.n. report one that by twenty twenty down so will be on livable if nothing there changes islamist militant group hamas runs the enclave holds a weekly protests on the gaza border with israel.

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think. to bring to national community the proper legal topic so the only. sleep for me all topics in the gaza strip is war. the. variations. of the. rules of the law well israel defends its actions by saying it is protecting its border against breaches on violent protesters but is yet to respond to an r.t. request for comments on why the european union delegation was denied access to get . the much targeted promote programme was supposed to be the

biggest women's supports initiative in afghanistan but according to a report by a washington watchdog it's been an utter failure hundreds of millions were spent of dollars its goals were huge but in reality only a few dozen women where actually helped. since two thousand and one the door has been reopened for afghan women they joined the police the army and entered politics and together we can help women and girls across afghanistan develop their talents raise their voices and strengthen their communities and their country. was that i didn't know if this money was spent properly there would have been

changes in women's lives but we don't know how they spun it or who they gave it to . they haven't done so much for afghan women there's an exhibit in india a man is representing afghan women in this program in afghanistan is for women and we still get replaced by mad why don't we have the capacity. personally request of usa to support us by providing a smooth incompetently going to modernize their handcrafts section their response was negative they said they were huge to train as i have ten years experience i don't need the trainee i need the machinery. and i filled in forms last year and again six months ago they told us that they would let us know but there was no response even when we called them they never called back hundreds of thousands of women across afghanistan ready to work ready to work.

that's our news stories from join me at the top of the hour for all the latest updates from our newsroom here in moscow but next the latest alec simon show starts and ends. all of these innovations like the like button is a way to turn the one on nearly be productive workers creating wealth for themselves into slave labor creating wealth for mark zuckerberg this is all about the us library and this is all about the robots who are taking all the productivity and passing that on through labor arbitrage to the pockets of the tackling. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig

deeper to get 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 shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome to the alex savage to the house of commons is in recess again and then piece of decanted for their conferences first up this week was the liberal democrats who by just about every law of politics should not be flourishing but most talk before brighton was that of a liberal democrat search but why did you send to parties waiting in the wings to steal their mantle. i recent b.m.g. research poll shows that about george it he would not consider aborting for a new center ground political movement and this majority has leapt in the last four months the course has hit some headlines today we examine why despite poor showing that the public might want perfect a new party ensure the prospects of breaking the mold of british politics from the faint or feel as distant as ever but first to rest alex with your tweets your e-mails and your messages there was a big reaction particularly on facebook it to a series in the railways and interest only from what may be called the outer limits

angela sutherland says watching from shetland for the north koreans should mean dial says cornwall really needs it shares to more than anyone leave scotland though this mess and body cuts says i want to know why scotland has to pay for english only infrastructure yet had to pay for the queen's for the crossing ourselves some union air simon lete says that crean should be upgraded for all the u.k. with high speed lanes emailing us brian edgar looks at the technology aspects and adds for the future program i hope you might be able to include vector by flate real court of california and they are updated version of grinnell's atmospheric we'll we're fairly clear says simply fifty billion in the bill that we must learn what we could do with that now and then meanwhile the wee man is a cool scottish for us and rob campbell says simply putting the human face in this and you're on to something there because as we looked through that c.s.

on the chairs to them both the technological arguments and in particular the the arguments about what was happening to people in the way of the chairs too i began to change my mind quite a bit. no to the prospects for the new center party at first sight the romans look good both major westminster parties are badly split the tories are split in europe and labor just split unit provides an overriding issue to buy in the new party together and there seems to be money perhaps even big money on offer above all there is some evidence of a public appetite for something completely different. so why are the new party tanks already parked on the tory in labor lawns to get an answer we look back to when all of this happened before the launch of the social democratic party s.t.p. in one thousand eighty one if we understand why that enterprise finally field in the one thousand eighties then we might have part of the answer to why it's still

to take off in twenty eighteen and over to. thank you alex well we did action a by asking people for their views on the idea of a new center party and a people thought i think there are rooms there's room for a lot of parties to be honest so yes but i don't really for me most of the people that i know they're not represented by any of the parties most of us just have our own opinions about different issues and ideologies tend to lock people in so yes because i would like to see more issue based parties and people just have an opinion on one thing and then you can get around that rather than a whole ideology that tries to put everyone in boxes or with labels and sort of stuff. the s.t.p. filed it doesn't mean that there's not room for someone to do it better than they did it was my clear that the first folks as i understand was going to be the vote you can't keep going back and saying. the same thing time and time again if you

don't accept the first vote then people don't have to accept the second vote then you have a third there's no into it. because we've decided once and that's enough once you had a referendum and it was more to leave interest i. know we don't need to. now that people understand what is actually going to cost the u.k. financially and commercially. i've always felt that the european market will collapse and it's better to be in a working your way out of it than leaving and letting someone else more popular bush. there's certainly room where there's the effort so i'm not sure we tried it a few years back this. didn't seem to work but. i can't see the tory party how doing together for much longer so. i find

the future very difficult to predict at the moment back.