among the stories that shaped the week. of provoking the accidental drowning russian military plane in syria in which all fifteen servicemen on board were killed. all to cover the world anti-doping agency reinstates russia is. a major step toward seeing many of the countries. competing on the world stage.

the confirmation hearing for president gerald ford stagnates. with brett kavanaugh proving to be one of america's most divisive nominees ever. with the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment. well this is the weekly on r t international law and welcome. russian military plane on monday night's off the syrian coast the blame game has been intensifying between the main parties directly or in directly involved in the incident our senior correspondent the of breaks down the mouth it's a bad really bad situation there's the tragedy fifteen people dead to friendly fire . and then there's the fallout everyone's blaming everyone i meet on the jets

deliberately created a dangerous situation for the war ships and aircraft located in that area while it may have been a syrian missile that down the plane it was israel that set the stage says russia israel bomb syria again the syrians defend themselves and the russian jet gets caught in the crossfire the israeli military though blames iran and hizbollah israel holds the sod regime whose military shut down the russian plane fully responsible for this incident it was their fault israel had to bomb syria you see iran was transferring lethal technology to hizbollah via the syrian military apparently so israel had to stop them the syrians panicked and started launching missiles everywhere israel is blameless says israel as for the united states can

you comment on the shoot down of the. russian jet yesterday and whether or not the us had any visibility in it over de confliction mine or any other means as far as the tractor we did not the coalition was not involved with this did you have any visibility into it as it was happening through either your own radar or through the confliction line we did not that i'm tracking and see what happened usually when one doesn't see what happened one doesn't blame anyone unless one can get in a cheap shot against iran i would like to express sorrow to our council partners russia for the tragic loss of life. when the russian plane was downed yesterday if russia was interested in bringing peace to syria it should make sure its militias leave syria once and for all the risk of a broader conflict and leave with them. ariana's responsible for creating the syria

we see today it's an interesting argument israel's been bombing syria monthly sometimes weekly in order to prevent iran from launching an attack on israel to date they have been zero tax and a whole lot of israeli ones to deano be ninety to one that we condemn this new active israeli aggression against my country the un security council must bring israel to account for its violation of international law israel attacked syria twice this week but apparently some are unaware of that strange isn't it how selective people are about international law and bombing but others seeing this as a warning wake up call the risks of conflict escalation a huge risk of miscalculation a misunderstanding that led to the downing of aggression and catch late on

a small scale the much and even more frightening with of a wind miscalculation we call of all parties especially when we are getting this type of positive news regarding what could have been a dramatic military escalation to refrain from military action israel has expressed its condolences even said in the head of its air force to russia to report on the incident putin's. saying this was a tragic fluke struck a certain racial slur when you know the situation is different from the one when a turkish jet shut down our plane but then turkey intentionally shot down the aircraft but now it looks like a chain of accidental events. fortunately it appears a military escalation has been prevented verbal one is in full swing of course but there's a lesson here five nuclear powers of fighting in syria on different sides and

the tiniest spark there could cause the biggest inferno the world's ever see. as the of all later in the day we're expecting russia's defense ministry to release a detailed report on what exactly happened in the skies over the mediterranean we will be following not so to stay with r.t. for the latest updates. well to recap just what we know so far though a syrian. battery shot down a russian military plane killing everyone on board missiles were launched in response to an airstrike by israeli f. sixteen fighter jets and accidentally struck the russian plane the tragic incident happened around thirty five kilometers off the syrian coast just as the earth craft was returning to base we asked regional experts about how the tragedy could affect relations between the main players in this syrian conflict. israeli regime put the

russian service men at risk intentionally in order to be able to carry out this attack on syria which is of course illegal in itself. the arrogance of netanyahu has caused him great difficulty now because he has to be answerable to the russian people and instead of apologizing as usual the israelis are looking for scapegoats russia changed a lot in recent years also in its foreign policy russia used to be or used to be considered israel is totally pro. and even auntie's israeli in soviet times russia is now quite even handed in the middle east and he tries to keep good relations with all the parties which is with the arabs with the palestinians because turkey was israel and. i wonder how long will it last that you can be a friend of everybody because by the end of the day we are dealing with

a very fragile reality in the middle east and it was very contradictory inc powers and a lot of atrocity as we know it violence until now russia really succeeded to keep this balance polisi and to be a so-called friend of everyone which is quite an achievement i must see. moving on the world doping agency has voted to reinstate russia's un teatro gauge and say thursday's decision ended a three year suspension for alleged state sponsored doping. the great majority of the world anti-doping agency's executive committee decided to reinstate the russian anti doping agency and is compliant with the world anti-doping code well given russia a list of commitments to be reinstated one point two has access to data and samples stored in the moscow lab just russia's agreement to do it was enough

however the main sticking point had been the report by canadian dr richard mclaren which alleged russia run a state sponsored doping scheme not the list call for russia to acknowledge its complicity in doping moscow deny such a program ever existed but in a letter to wada russia's sports minister admitted that they're aware issues within the country of the doping agency but russia's reinstatement was widely met with the sent sports correspondent alexy go to shift ski reports it's definitely been a very difficult decision for water and even in that statement at the college that the decision would be unpopular and would be met with a lot of criticism the u.s. anti-doping agency chief. he went as far as saying that why that needs to be completely reformed after that decision it's a blow to clean sport and we have to move for reform to ensure that whether it's a new organization whether it's a change in leadership was

a change in governance structure that the global watchdog truly becomes out of not one it's going to turn its back on going out and in fact for the past week or so the criticism coming towards was way you know everywhere on social media in the in the articles on television. not only that the 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 you know it's surprising because how would you expect the country to purify it sport if you're saying that it's agency which is destiny which is tasked to purify the sport should not be operational it's a chance that watergate. to the russian anti-doping agency to have pure screen 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 athletes the door is not shut open for them it's only they've been given a chance to open that door into the sport because one of the main conditions of the international association of athletics federations to reinstate the russian

athletes was that 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 restart it will be heavily scrutinized and will be heavily checked by water so it's definitely a long road ahead of the deputy head of russia's anti-doping agency says the organization went to great lengths to ensure compliance. 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 knee team it's been hard work for russia sports ministry as well as wada there provided international expertise to rebuild the capability of russia's anti-doping agency from my viewpoint it's a well earned i think terry and it's not a victory of just one and it is the logical result of all the hard work of those

involved at the reinstatement of rules of the i mean this is a turning point in the in this whole story and i'm seeing it will help the rush to get back to. championships. to celebrate a lot of restructuring. has been made but it is what makes this decision very important it shows that there is a willingness to change seeing. these cards. donald trump supreme court pick. proven to be perhaps the most divisive figure to be nominated for the job bret covenant's conservative views have been praised by most republicans and heavily criticized by most democrats the controversy intensified after his confirmation hearing got mired in sexual assault allegations this week calvin o. strongly denies the accusations leveled against him saying that he is ready to

clear his name while his accuser has also agreed to testify to congress and has more on trump's contentious choice for the lifetime position. 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 evident mr chairman. mr chairman. we cannot possibly move forward mr chairman a very warm welcome not they are given their meeting. for here. we cannot be recognized i move to adjourn. them and i move. on here's why the issue

is so diverse to 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 put 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 mis attributed quotes about birth control started flying around the internet hillary clinton herself was spreading this false information. hidden for to birth control pills as abortion inducing drunks the set off a lot of harm both to me an issue for you to i want to be sure will clear this didn't happen you were spanked chicks to prove this false then kavanagh's habit of buying baseball tickets became breaking news investigative reporters scoured his

financial disclosure. and learned that he had a 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 believe. offensive forward judge kavanaugh has lied multiple times she's not sure when it happened where it happened who else was present 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 u.s. 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 is 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 the most violent spoken opponents to breath cover knows nomination is former presidential candidate of the however it wasn't long until 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 her husband 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 well 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. the difference in the double

standard that existed back then and still does today i think i think this is this donna but 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 says about political differences. the much talked to promote program was supposed to be the

biggest women's support initiative in afghanistan but according to 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. i'm not. 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 you know who they haven't done so much for afghan women there's an exhibit in hell's 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 training i need the machinery. plus i thought until 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. airplanes and and i miss all systems from russia sanctions by the united states against. the chinese military will further review the incentive on the chinese proverb to improve its relations with the united states and i think eventually term let me completely disregard the about the state . will china is also embroiled in a row with sweden beijing has accused the country of mistreating chinese tourists and even of violating their human rights that's after an altercation between stuff a stockholm hospital and a chinese family over check into. this is the key this is the key.

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we only know that we have done everything we could do for these guests 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. all right we're back on the road next doctor and activist stephen baldwin continues his great american pilgrimage this time he's getting swept away by the windy city this is marty. it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't tell was still active rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at ashwood. a german company going until it develops in the demise

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