the world anti-doping agency hopes to reinstate russia's drugs the decision signals a fresh start for russian athletics after three years in the cold. also the. leaked memo circulating in the british press reveals plans within the prime minister's own party. who's in the running to fill the shoes. of the french quarter far right wing leader bringing the pen to undergo a psychiatric examination after she published photos of ice over.

twenty seven news and analysis from moscow this is r.t. international column by welcome to the program. the world anti-doping agency has voted to reinstate russia's anti drug agency the body was suspended in twenty fifteen over an alleged state sponsored doping scandal got more details earlier from our sports correspondent alexy our ships. going back after twenty fifteen november when the allegations of state sponsored doping campaign kicked off. why the basically told there are thirty one things rosado has to do in order to be reinstated there's been no problem whatsoever with the twenty nine of them which included inviting the u.k. and i don't think agency experts to hold training for the personnel change the entire staff. hold monthly ordered by the world anti-doping agency. no problem

whatsoever the two things that remained on the compliance list were public admittance of the findings of the mclaren report and here is what the sports minister mr cole of course we caught up with him earlier had to say about that the decision is crucial for russia we've worked for a long time together with the international anti doping agency the sports community we have reformed and he doping system we never denied the existence of anti doping violations we will fully contribute to fulfilling the demands left on the russians legislation in fact what a splendid in detail in that statement which it was published earlier today saying that on september thirteenth the russian minister of sport sent a letter to wada which amounts to an acceptance of all the findings of the international living could be to report which itself indorse the core findings of the water commission to mclaren investigation report including that a number of individuals within the ministry of sport and it subordinate entities were involved in the manipulations of the anti-doping system in russia you can see

that this was enough to persuade wada to reinstate restarted and the second point very important one was granting access to ring samples kept in the moscow board story under federal investigation that hasn't happened yet but what it was very clear that it has only until december thirty first which is less than four months from now to give access to that laborde sorry if that doesn't happen. goes back into the wilderness of noncompliance so you know people are saying that russia hasn't comply and. you know they're they're wrong basically because we can see by the statement that it's in the works but it couldn't just be about ticking boxes on the checklist he must have been a difficult decision after everything everybody's been through on that it's definitely been a very difficult decision for water and even in that statement. that the decision would be unpopular and would be met with a lot of criticism and in fact for the past week or so the criticism coming towards was way. you know everywhere in social media in the in the articles on television.

not only that number of and i don't think agencies in the world including the u.k. the united states new zealand australia poland canada they were all urging the president of water not to take the step to reconsider but eventually nine members of the executive board off twelve voted for him and two of them were against it one of them clearly is the vice-president of water who said that she would never vote for him statement and one person abstained but even now the amount of criticism on the water is going through the roof namely the u.s. anti-doping agency chief. he went as far as saying that water needs to be completely reformed after that decision it's a blow to clean sport which you know is surprising because how would you expect the country to purify its sport if you're saying that it's agency which is destiny which is tasked to purify the sport should not be operational again. the decision that it made was a hard one but it made the decision and now the hard work begins

a good news tentatively then what about the school side of things the international expend aeration the russian athletes themselves what's next for them you know i would say people who are criticizing why they're heavily now and people who are celebrating this on this side are wrong as well it's not about a win it's not a last minute goal that russia scored to win the game it's a chance that wada gave to the russian anti-doping agency to have pure clean sport in the country this would change nothing for those athletes who have been accused of doping are serving their bans this is all about clean up leaves the door is not shut open for them it's only they've been given the chance to open the door into the sport because one of the main conditions of the international association of athletics federations to reinstate the russian athletes was that it should be operational meaning that you know athletes have to be checked for doping in order to be clean and in order to be participating international competitions flying the russian flag so essentially this happened now but

a lot of work is ahead and make no mistake about it now risotto will be heavily scrutinized and will be heavily checked by water so it's definitely a long road ahead. well the reaction the deputy head of russia's anti-doping agency says a lot of efforts being put into getting back into compliance. with the blood of what you believe it's been a lot of work this saga has lasted for almost three years a lot of things have been done the russian anti-doping agency now has a completely new team the russian anti-doping agency now has a completely need team it's been hard to work for russia's sports ministry as well as wada they're provided international expertise to rebuild the capability of russia's anti-doping agency from my viewpoint it's a well earned victory and it's not a victory of just one and city is the logical result of all the hard work of those involved. well let's go live now to alan moore who's a russia baseball my sister columnist and host of capital sports on moscow's capital f.m. i got them going to talk to. the u.s.

anti-doping agency the name of their wants while the to reform i was sort of in a position to actually dictate to the world watchdog just thinking to wait sir and an explosive leaked memo the unconfirmed dossier originally published by the telegraph newspaper not only reveals plans into reason may's own party to but also lists possible successes we've got more on that. the big question is who comes next that appears to be the question that the conservative party is mulling over privately and rather actively on whatsapp conversations that seems to be where all the political processing takes place nowadays and the list has been leaked to the press and it goes through all the potential candidates to succeed to raise that may and their chances i believe we can go through some of the candidates now let's take a look at the first ones which boris johnson. book is fruit after a jury could breathe smoke but the front runner never wins that's really

interesting because as you heard that boris johnson is the bookmakers favorite but he's controversial within the party but he's got sort of this strangely ceaseless. feel but as you saw there they're saying the favorite never wins so let's take a look at the next person on the list germ of it. trying to recover from referendum positioning well the current home secretary now of course is sajid javid does the post that to resign may have old for six years before she became prime minister so it is seen as a doorway to the premiership he's young he's made some welcome changes in the home office he's kind of emerged as a real possibility to succeed although he has one thing going against him and that is that he is a lever that so. one who voted to remain but is now committed to leaving which doesn't sometimes doesn't convince the hardcore leavers so let's go to the

next politician that is the current foreign secretary take a look at what the list said about him jeremy hunt course knew that from some of the perk coming up in the room so that's the current foreign secretary but he was formally the health secretary and he's seen as a bit of a political survivor despite the fact that he presided over the junior doctors scandal here so he's not likely to have many fans amongst the medical profession but as the list goes on to point out he is a real dark horse in this potential race to succeed to reason may and then last but not least we have the current defense secretary take a look at what the list says about him. in full campaign mode but very reliant on controlling her own departure point yet given williamson is very much treasonous favorite but the likelihood of her having a say in who succeeds her succeed isn't seen as very big to me i have to

say this all reads a bit like the byrne book from the movie mean girls but the list is important because it appears to confirm that regardless of the mechanics of it and how it happens britain is leaving the e.u. in march twenty nineteen added that it appears that once this quite frankly task is over once the poison chalice of bragg's it can at least be pushed a little bit to the side the party is going to want a fresh face to take it forward now downing street in the conservative party never normally comment on leaks we've approached them about it we've asked them about it downing street have said asked the conservative party the conservative party have said speak to downing street about it so it doesn't look like there's much desire to talk about it. and i think the list pretty much speaks for itself. the much touted promote program was supposed to be the biggest women support

initiative in afghanistan but according to a report by a washington watchdog it's been an utter failure hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. taxpayer money was spent the goals were huge but in reality only a few dozen women were helped. out. 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 and. then 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 and they

haven't done so much for afghan women there's an exhibit held in india a man is representing afghan women this program in afghanistan is for women and we still get replaced by a man why don't we have the capacity. personally request of usa to support us by providing a smooth and carpet weaving to modernize the handcraft section their response was negative this said they were huge to train us i have ten years' experience i don't need the trainee i need the machinery. length of time from you 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 learn ready to work. germany has approved an arms deal to saudi arabia despite a previous commitment not to export military hardware to those fighting in the yemen conflict berlin's given the green light to the delivery of four artillery systems to riyadh chancellor merkel promised not to agree any new deals with parties to the war in yemen when her own government formed a coalition earlier this year i just last month saudi arabia conducted an airstrike that killed at least twenty two children according to former german intelligence officer raina rupp elin is saying one thing but doing another. will be a borough all that rather surprised to hear two days go about their. secret meeting that road security council route with the syrians to three

nations in the war in yemen this is absolutely ridiculous how it's being just to quote explode all the human rights. privileges so during yet at the emirates are regarded according to a statement by berlin government regarded as close partners who don't love in the fight against international terrorism. to fight international terrorism and just accept. military. bases and i'm. sure. you could lose. a french court has ordered far right leader marine le pen to undergo a psychiatric evaluation it's connected to twitter post that she made three years ago which show victims of islamic state are paris correspondent following developments well those photos were published towards the end of two thousand and

fifteen just weeks after the paris attacks in the november of that year and it came of a criticism from a t.v. journalist who tried to say that le pen's party which was then called the national front was essentially the same thing as the terror group isis over so no shame france she tweeted those pictures along with a statement saying this is trying to distance her party away from that group well since her immunity as an m.e.p. was lifted earlier this year she is now facing those charges of circulating violent messages that could incite terrorism or seriously harm human dignity and as a result of this ongoing investigation the court has ordered her to have psychiatric assessment to see if she can understand remarks and respond to questions she's firas so many people on twitter. we learned that justice is ordering a psychiatric examination of marine le pen for tweets targeting isis and after that

we're giving lessons on democracy to poland and hungary subject political rivals to psychiatric treatment that's more like brushing your attorney orders a psychologist for marine le pen i have no words solidarity with her and the french who love freedom or judge's orders a psychiatric assessment of marine le pen i thought it was fake it's incredible psychiatric zation of political opponents is an old communist practiced practiced in the u.s.s.r. until one thousand nine hundred seventy s. well during the painters said that she will refuse point blank to go along to that court mandated psychiatric assessment and she's also suggests that they could be some political motivations for that so called that assessment because let's not forget we are leading up to the european parliament in twenty nineteen where parties like the national rally are hoping to make big gains but of course if she

is found guilty of all of that offense which is circulating violent messages that incite terrorism or seriously harming human dignity then she could face three years in jail up to three years in jail and a fine of seventy five thousand euros this is deemed as a potentially very serious offense here in france. over here has come to light which is the last to have been produced by wiki leaks founder julian assange since his internet was cut off of the ecuadorian embassy in march he's been holed up there since two thousand and twelve and has had no access to the outside world on the world wide web for several months now it came to light from a group called the world ethical data forum and covers a range of topics including the use of artificial intelligence through to modern cyber threats. you're going to freak out a little bit because yes i'm bringing in the aliens into this part of the talk all this stuff which ones are in some sense hypocritical and rely on. keeping a different interior world to exterior presentation i don't think it's really

possible for his actions to come up with borders. that are predictable and are unstable enough to eliminate conflict therefore there will be more conflict for most human was have come about as a result of lies and that seems absolutely clear in democracy i'm a fan of the idea of intelligence agencies because it has the word intelligence in it the notion that there's a place that powerful people can hide from or skilled people can hide from this phenomena and that's the way to get. all those people who have an ability to make a difference to make a difference julian sound has been stuck in the ecuadorian embassy since twenty twelve after he entered the building to avoid extradition to sweden where he was accused of rape the u.n. panel later described the situation as arbitrary detention and twenty seventeen that rape allegation against a son was suspended but he still faces arrest if he leaves that embassy for

breaching his bail conditions early this year as he mentioned ecuador cut off the wiki leaks founder is internet access we talked earlier to the whistleblowers lawyer about his living conditions right now and the status of his asylum case. we have been making a number of appeals both to the british government through the ecuadorian government and more broadly about his health situation he has been inside a building for the past six years without access to sunlight or outsource outdoor area to exercise his health is deteriorating we're worried about permanent impact on his health as a result of the situation if he was in prison he would being required to have an hour outside every day that is the un standard he's not had that he's had a counsellor to help work with those people who are addicted to drugs. playing is accusing sweden of mistreating chinese tourists and even violating their human rights it's after a rupture between staff at

a stockholm hospital and a chinese family over check in. this is the key this is the key. this is. just for you see well you must be here. just come to think i believe. this line. at midnight for police to toss defenseless tourists graveyard in this place is too much. the chinese foreign ministry has made complaints to the swedish side on the urging of the office to gauge the case.

we only know that we have done everything we could do for these guests but at the same time kind of the except that there are staff are exposed to threats and the other guests will suffer from a threatening situation. now you're up to date i'll have you next all to news after worlds apart look at how libya is being left alone to enjoy years of ungoverned unpredictable. twenty forty you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protest to be preceded by

a. revolution is always spontaneous or is it. spilling into the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. party

among the recent regime change experiments lidia's stands out as no one's liability in western powers have never publicly accepted breaking it let alone owning the mast and as some of them now try to mediate among the various militia groups running what's left of the country what should guide the process well to discuss that i'm now joined by cloud xeni a senior analyst at the international crisis group thank you very much for coming over it's good to have you with us in the studio it's a pleasure to be with you now first of all let me ask you what brings you to moscow because. the international crisis group is viewed in this capital as a western based institution i know you stress your nonprofit non-governmental status but i think there are a lot.