as a. first. please . please please. the headlines in r.t. austrian police launched an investigation into russian biathletes over alleged violations of. the twenty seventeen world championships. the manhunt for the terrorist behind choose day shooting strasberg intensifies extending to other

e.u. countries reported he shouted god is great in arabic joining the attack also. called faulty dogs have called for the. u.k.'s treason through to survive a no confidence vote securing her position as conservative party leader and prime minister she like a parliamentary vote on her breaks that deal. an r.c. fix is to tell you after the release of a documentary on cambodian child prostitution has been accused of spreading fake news says wife to speech the. mediation to meet the cambodian galvin want to see him.

otherwise. i'm just going to pan here in moscow you're watching the international now top story this hour russian scandals back because austrian police have accused russian biathletes now violating anti doping rules at the twenty seventeen world championships let's get more on this now from. the sports correspondent good afternoon what are the details and if these accusations. well now we have it confirmed from the russian sports minister that the russian governmental body did receive an official a formal complaint coming from the austrian authorities regarding possible violation of anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen when the country held by a law in the world championship and russia took part in that championship this comes after on wednesday night the austrian police came to the hotel where the russian

national team was staying and put forward the accusations to the members of the russian national bias on team where understand that at least ten people were on the list of the accused including four athletes to all of them are actually in the team today as well as for as well as six members of the team including doctors and coaches as well now we've heard reactions from the biathlon athletes right now in austria particularly the two big stars of the russian biathlon on the log in of and and on supporting here is what they have to say. i've been accused of something i haven't done i can assure you one thousand percent everything i've been accused of his false i want to ask a rhetorical question do russian athletes really value their sporting careers so little that they do the things we're accused of. accusations against me all the rumors are nonsense total nonsense i have always been true to myself to the

biathlon family and to the fans i have nothing to feel bad about. the question the question raised by alexander logan of that makes total sense he himself was in the doping scandal he served a two year long disqualification not only he has been never tested. positive for doping after that he's also been very top form he won a bronze medal just a few weeks ago at this part of the world championship in slovakia so he completely denounces all these accusations relating to twenty seventeen now there's also been some reaction coming from the russian authorities particularly the ministry of foreign affairs it spokesperson that he has a heart of a said that they would never be notified by the austrian authorities regarding these accusations and she said that this may have serious political consequences in case in case that you know these accusations go any further let's listen now then

the money and considering the fact that we don't have only information we can't say with certainty what is happening it's too early to talk about the political character of the cetacean but if there were any political company into the story or attempt to exert psychological pressure on russian athletes our reaction will be quick. now this latest scandal come comes amid interesting times when in september the world anti-doping agency reinstated the russian and i'd open agency in its rights which basically should pave way for many different federations of russian sport to be reinstated as well including the union of biased lawn athletes in russia there's been a lot of talk about this possibly happening in the nearest future now this scandal happens and i just spoke exclusively to the head of the russian anti-doping agency u.-t. gunnels he was slightly pessimistic about this current situation he said we need more details to find out what happened but he still expressed some hope that these

new accusations will be unfounded and are nothing more than a formality and nothing. then a mistake he also told me that the reason or did held by the world and i don't think agency here in russia of the russian aboard tories proved to be successful and on december eighteenth next week the water delegation will come to moscow to visit the daubing lab at the anti-doping lab where the urine samples have been kept that's one of the conditions to keep the reinstated and obviously we'll be all over that story and we'll keep our viewers updated with all the details on that sure ok thank you. there for us outside the headquarters of russia's anti doping agency in moscow. now having bowed to the demands of large scale nationwide anti-government protest french president a monument is facing trouble on another front because leftwing m.p.'s have tabled a motion of no confidence in his government with a vote to take place later on thursday. may have given the impression that it

wasn't my concern that i had other priorities. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers or france's so-called yellow vests have been protesting on mass for four consecutive weekends what started as a demo against the now scrapped increase in the price of fuel evolved into people airing their grievances against the government generally but even after micron's concessions a still unhappy. this just shows a lot of caution emanuel markram speech was addressed to hard workers only the minimum wage has nothing to do with us we're not even talking about working overtime because when you work seventy hours per week you just can't understand what that is you forgot that every other farmer earns less than three hundred sixty five years for a month that our fanchon is are lower than social security from we were you taxes

as all other citizens do and even if you have no income you still have to pay taxes . while the other verse movement is spread beyond the borders of france with protesters in canada also donning high visibility clothing at rallies among them is cutting to come oshie says that the protesters want to remind officials they work for the people not the other way around. we're still in the process of establishing ourselves and organizing everything here so i think what's most important is the combined intention that we have here to create positive change we are against carbon tax because history has shown that we can't possibly tax a nation into prosperity i think that that only serves to make economic life even more difficult for all of us families and small medium size businesses here already struggling basically what we want to do is just be heard by our government we want to know that our government has our best interests in mind we just want to remind

our elected officials that they work for us and we don't work for them. now when our to fix has been detained in connection with our documentary my mother sold me which is about the fates of girls who end up in prostitution authorities accuse him of faking testimony something his family denies he was done of takes a closer look at the catch. these girls cannot hold back their tears as they recall their lives going from bad to worse and then to a living hell just over a month after the oxy documentary channel revealed their ordeal the companion police said one of the families had later confessed that they'd made up the story for money this story but. they did not know that our. phone number was the hop. but. that.

the filmmakers suspect the family's police confession was given under duress. it looks like those children were forced to do it they might have told them that they'll arrest their mothers and offer them some kind of deal of course i cannot say for sure i don't know but it was surprising for me that the girls would be pushed like that their sorties now have a warrant out for one of the films produced. says it is now awaiting extradition and as his wife put it to me legal persecution the accusation has been inside. monye help the crew document the nightmarish life stories of several girls who say they were forced to sell themselves to make ends meet one of them told how she was too young and naive to understand that she was being pimped out by her former boyfriend no father signs one of the planes i thought they were in the know to move but let me in on something coming out that lame or not well you know they've got to behave. but i believe.

in some time before today she's a teenager often with no place to call home but dreams of running her own beauty salon so that she no longer has to resort to prostitution as her profession it's a dream she shares with her close friend also a victim of sex trafficking forced into it by her own mother because of debts the documentary's director says there are countless stories like these around combo deal which we've spent a lot of time with these girls and their families we became a part of their everyday lives they were just living their lives and we were just observing it. r t documentary is not the only channel exposing the ugly truth about underage prostitution in cambodia the un is trying to tackle it together with you can body in government it's quite shameful that some people in cambodia are so poor

that they would consider selling their daughters to money they're quite desperate there is a very large sex industry commercial sex industry in the country that you know that's no secret the issue of child sex and child sex prostitution this is one that has been an issue in cambodia for many years and many people believe that cambodia has made progress on this but obviously it's still it's still going on bottle says the r.t. crew travel to combat deal with the goal of showing both the human side of the suffering and how the police are endeavoring to deal with it the authorities were initially hopeful but then became distant and less corporative suitable our main goal was not only to shed light on the problem but also to show the other side how the government solving it we wanted to film a police special operation to find such children. and you didn't manage to film that no we couldn't do it the government promised to help us with everything but

when we went to the police station twice the human rights department was locked. artsy documentary released the film and it went viral the producers wife says the authorities are trying to smear the filmmakers to cover their own failings to me they cambodian galban want to be skinny that she and the ladder sold me three feet and more right now thousand people around. the gallon one of the people i felt bad about what that rest that is so that even a bite of she and i asked pavol and mrs long if the crew paid the girls for their testimony. she made any money for that did she want to be paid out of that no no no no no we didn't promise any kind of payments to these girls and they didn't ask for anything no they didn't after we finished filming one of the families we went to

buy diapers food and a crib for the baby this is the best help we could provide for them when you see the conditions in which these people live and he wants if they have the chance we're trying to help them the family of the girl that went to the police has said that we gave them two hundred dollars that was the money that we wanted to spend on a washing machine for them we just didn't have the time to buy it for them so we just gave them the money instead so that it would help the laundry business. bible says he's puzzled and frustrated he'd hoped their word could how both the girls and the authorities not make things worse mrs long told me she wants to compete in government to fight child sex trafficking and persecuting her husband won't help because they still have eight investigation not that they try to tell people that may investigating and settle this uptick in the right to address the producer this is not a good way are the appropriation for it in the getting this is the. dawn of r.t.

. now the u.s. president donald trump has reportedly agreed to a pentagon request to increase next year's military budget to seven hundred fifty billion dollars just last week though he slammed this year's defense budget as crazy but he's kind of locked in as more. the us defense budget is already enormous and it might get bigger which some politicians find to be funny i'm pushing towards seven hundred eighty billion i just now thought of it it's a good high number last week donald trump thought this spending was crazy but now he's pushing for an even bigger figure but hey what's a few billion between the american taxpayers and the president right the pentagon budget is so big that at this point the numbers seem abstract to most americans but what is worse is that at this point we don't even know how they're spending the money between one thousand and eight and twenty fifteen there were twenty one trillion dollars worth of unaccounted spending now somehow these discrepancies were

actually bigger than the overall budget itself let's make these numbers real twenty one trillion dollars that's roughly three thousand five hundred trips to mars or seven million bugatti's the world's most expensive car. now recently the pentagon tried to pass its first ever audit and it failed but the defense department doesn't seem so worried we never thought we were going to post nor did it right everybody was betting against us that we wouldn't even do the audit now a journalist from the nation magazine recently tried to unreliable how so much money could be unaccounted for here's what he told us it's actually larger than all the u.s. debt in the history of the country it's a huge number if the pentagon was being honest they would tell congress each year when they submit the financial statements for the prior for the current year and prior years. accounts that what they're giving them is garbage the money that

they don't spend each year gets stashed away in secret places within the pentagon and gets used without any accountability at all so this means that they're able to do black parishioners that get no. oversight that fund. could be as large as one hundred billion dollars which i would note is larger than russia's entire. military spending and close to china's entire in your military spending since two thousand and eight the mantra in the western world has been austerity tighten our belts cut spending well those are seriously want to cut spending ought to look at the pentagon if one kept the books that way in the private sector they'd be locked up but it seems pretty clear that the u.s. military plays by a different set of rules mop and archie new york. naturism

a will continue in her role as british prime minister after surviving a no confidence vote in her leadership the vote was triggered by conservative party rebels over what they consider her mishandling of the brics negotiations interest dose of confidence. following this but we now need to get on with the job of delivering bricks it for the british people and building a better future for this country a make or break vote for the british prime minister has taken place in westminster three hundred seventeen tory m.p.'s have cast their ballots in the secret to vote and the result allows theresa may to breathe out a sigh of relief at least for the moment two hundred votes in her favor and one hundred seventeen against the british prime minister so she believes this won't vote with a majority of eighty three she was expected to be able to win if she gains one hundred fifty nine so with the results that we have seen on ravel on wednesday two

thirds of her party does in fact still support the prime minister despite all the political turmoil that has been unraveling in the u.k. over some analysts have been saying that despite being able to keep the. events of her own party that does not seem to be the case within the house of commons where of course. heart breaks the tears remain remain ors remain and those people are not being expected to shift their opinions any time soon and of course we have to keep in mind that theresa made has been having an extremely hard time trying to convince them to back the deal that she has been able to negotiate on bracks that with the european union where she has also travelled to try to resuscitate that deal following having to cancel the vote back home so where all of this is going to be headed after this vote of no confidence remains unclear for the moment it's safe to

assume that theresa me is sticking around because for the next twelve months there can be no such similar vote taking place but nobody's expecting times to be easier ahead when it comes to the next developments on bracks it says short in reporting there will one of mays' fiercest critics labor party leader jeremy called in reacted strongly to the news in a tweet he said that the vote was irrelevant to she was still failing to deliver an acceptable bricks deal he also demanded that she bring her draft deal forward for a vote in parliament something that was supposed to happen early this week before it was by may amid fears that it would be rejected the former mayor of london ken livingston says the low treason has won the confidence vote there is still great uncertainty in westminster he's won enough to hang on. but this hasn't resolved the crisis in the tory party three miners who continue to undermine deals. quite

frankly i mean i know she's off to try and get a better deal tomorrow but your isn't going to give her a different deal they've made it absolutely clear virtually every european leader. the leaders of the european. community got drum full younger. it absolutely clear the deal that they've spent the last two years negotiating is a take it or leave it and the problem is there isn't a majority in parliament for her deal there isn't a majority to leave and make might just weird georgie remain wearing chaos and i think it makes it much more likely now that we will have a hard bret's that we will leave without a deal or there might even be a triggering of a general election where locked teams to practice and not be here in decision and just try and decisiveness your international more news on the way just after the break.

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now is police in france step up their search for the gunman behind tuesday's terror attack near a christmas market in strassburg more details about the shooter emerging he is reported to have shouted a low bar arabic for god is great as he opened fire on the crowd authorities say the strasberg local was likely radicalized in prison and it's been revealed to he had an extensive police record and was on the french watch list of possible extremists and it appears to that the twenty nine year old suspect is causing concern both within and beyond french borders in france a large scale manhunt for the suspect has been launched and the terror alert in the country has been raised to its highest level he was reportedly known to have been part of radicalized networks in stroudsburg the italian government meanwhile is said to be closely following the events amid fears of a copycat attack corporator thing in the search for the german authorities to whom

the suspect was also known having served time in prison there for robberies made the manhunt a french protesters the threat is very still very. the always considering the target the perpetrators way of parading his profile and the testimonies of those who how the human bar and to terror police have been called into action terrorism has once again struck our country in strasburg reminding us in a dramatic fashion that the threat is still very real sorry french prosecutor speaking there we talk to two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum they agree though that europe's current anti terror policy needs adjusting. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing every day and does good is good and bad because we were doing the work i've done this a lot of time this mandate so that means we have to change policies to find the

sources of the terrorism of and to attack the sources of their readers are the terrorists we have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to reintegrate the allies the youth the suburbs of paris and brussels as they arise work and work of to who to to work together with the moderate islam to the week of two to establish some long term goals and try to achieve the middle as more as i think this was expected this is proof that this is a must terrorist has committed a crime that was relatively easy to commit i believe it is time to react the terrorist who carried out this massacre yesterday was a well known to the police so why wasn't he detained in advance we discuss a heron stross book with the e.u. having opened its borders this free such a nation of people has bought a loud criminals to move about freely every time we have such tragedy we get back to the topic of border control and i think we should take back control of the

borders and make the criminals afraid again because now they are not scad yet ordinary people are scared of going to christmas markets with their kids scared to go outside it is not enough to light candles to cry to say like they do all the time just. because we bought the clan we all france and we want france to live in peace like. washing out international that's news for this hour back again with the headlines and more stories for you in just over half an hour. just manufactured consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go

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