the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. was. i. place of. the claims of the twenty seventeen world championships the competitors though deny the charges and say the room is a nonsense. right in ramallah and checkpoints around what is

the defacto capital of palestine but after two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting in the palestinian city and the manhunt for the terrorist behind choose they shoot intensifies and extend to other countries it's reported he shouted god is great in arabic during the attack. seven pm here in moscow you're watching international. back in the headlines because police are looking into claims that russian biathletes violated anti doping rules at the twenty seventeen world championships earlier i spoke more about this with r.t. sport correspondent. now we know that on wednesday night the austrian police went

into the hotel where the russian national biathlon team was staying in austria during the world cup actually it was the night before some of the athletes accused were supposed to hit the track and participate in the world championships they put forward the accusations that at least four of the athletes and six members of the staff violated the anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen during the world championship in austria just a year ago. this is a very serious accusation because in austria it entails a criminal punishment so the athletes were pretty shocked judging by their reaction and i believe we can listen to some of those i've been accused of something i haven't done i can assure you one thousand percent everything i've been accused of is full so i want to ask a rhetorical question do russian athletes really value their sporting curious so little that they do the things we're accused of. accusations against me all the rumors are nonsense total nonsense i've always been true to myself to the biathlon family and to the fans i have nothing to feel bad about i have to say alex on the

log you know one of the biggest stars of russian biathlon at the moment has a very good point in the question he raised in that instagram post now he knows what doping like he was actually on the disqualification up until twenty sixteen and after that he was never tested positive for doping again he actually reinforced his words in that post on instagram with a printout of all the doping tests he has taken since then in twenty sixteen seventeen including that championship in austria and although those tests were negative in terms of doping we've had a reaction also coming from the foreign ministry of russia which said it was not notified of any kind of you know. investigative actions by the austrian police and here is what the spokesperson of the foreign ministry had to say then the money and what you can see is being defensive 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 they receive any political campaign into these two

or three or attempt to exert psychological pressure depression athletes our reaction will be quick now the russian sports ministry confirmed to us that they have received a formal accusation from the or store authorities on the matter but it gets a little confusing because the austrian side on their matter they say that they have notified the russian authorities before bringing in the official accusations into the hotel of the of the national team on wednesday night with regard to russia's anti doping agency what are they said well we you know seeing this story happening in the times when the russian anti-doping agency looks to be reinstated by water the world anti-doping agency that decision in september caused a lot of surprise among many nonetheless i actually had a chance to go to the russian anti-doping agency this morning and spoke exclusively to the head of russian and i don't think agency i believe we can listen to that. inspection yesterday it was completed in food it was a thorough in serious all the documents through

a thorough loop through the results so good we confident the charts will reveal no violations we will take the results seriously and implement further measures to fight do. so in regards to the latest scandal in austria mr gunness they had. said that he was cautiously optimistic yet still had some concerns about the story that needs to be investigated needs to be looked at but next week water is here in moscow he has every reason to be concerned it's a big meeting when they will enter the laboratory with urine samples which is the key condition for result as reinstatement and obviously will be all over that story on tuesday next week and we'll update our viewers with that legal advise from professor of international law michael believes that the results of previous tests for the athletes will actually be strong evidence in their favor. he says turn it into a it's a bridge meet he will tell it it's big if it leads to effectively.

into it it is preliminary in this recent. good release it interim asian print stanbury it might be lower. to the day we did the information we get this information or a great deal of time but they waited until the moment when the innocence that they wanted to hear that information burial nosed in territory in good in he said it. in this occasion is it will be too quickly it's. another nice tonight a palestinian has attempted to ram his vehicle into a group of israeli soldiers in the west bank the army says the man was neutralized without explaining whether the person was killed or not it has come just hours after another attack where two israeli soldiers were killed in another injured in

a shooting at a bus stop in the area which led to israeli forces imposing strict checkpoint was around the paddy and palestinian city of ramallah local reporter and i cassius has been according to reports and initial reports was that palestinians opened fire on israeli soldiers on of flying checkpoint near i'm a little bit or as soon as that happened all roads were closed their israeli army has entered dhamma lodges the defacto capital of the palestinian authority and there are currently confrontations happening between palestinian youth and israeli forces the model has been completely closed off by the israeli army and there are also problems on the main roads between palestinians and israeli settlers settlers have been throwing rocks at palestinian cars so those real army has been over the. asked for notes conducting raids searching houses searching stores even taking camera footage from cameras throughout the area israel has put the blame on the

palestinian authority and at the same time the palestinian authority is putting the blame on the israeli government. now having bowed to the demands of large scale anti-government protests president is facing trouble on another front today because the french parliament is at this very moment debating a motion of no confidence in his government the vote was tabled by left wing and pace the minutes i 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 the french yellow vests movement has been protesting on mass for four weeks now and what started as a rally against and i scrapped the increase in the price of fuel did evolve into people airing their grievances against the government more generally students paramedics and even police joined in the demonstrations micron's approval rating meanwhile this is a record low with just one in five backing his work down from sixty six percent

after last year's election and despite the president's concessions that he's made as he bids to get back his support many people are still unhappy there's just an awful lot question 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 branches are lower than social security we were a taxes as all other citizens do and even if you have no income you still have to pay taxes. meanwhile the elephants movement is spreading worldwide with people protest. for different reasons against their governments for example in canada demonstrate is a daunting high visibility call you being at rallies there among them is a commotion he says that the protesters want to remind officials that they work for

the people and 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 in the 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. or the french government's meanwhile is now asking citizens to stop the protests saying that enough is enough. good at it explain the they've expressed their anger and this is being heard we ask you to be reasonable and not to attend any protests.

french media too is suggesting that all anti-government rallies should stop in the wake of wednesday's gun attack in strasburg police are currently investigating that incident they have cordoned off to the strasburg district where the suspect is said to have fled to after the assaults but officers reportedly added that they have not yet found him a third victim died on thursday from injuries following the christmas market attack when it is reported meanwhile that the suspect shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire on the crowds authorities say he was a strasbourg local who'd likely been 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 it appears to that the twenty nine year old suspect is causing concern both within france and also beyond its borders because a large scale manhunt as we've said for the suspect has been launched and the

terror alert in france has been raised to its highest level he was reportedly known to being part of a radicalized network in stroudsburg the italian government meanwhile is said to be closely following the events amid fears of a copycat attack and cooperating in the search of the german authorities two to whom the suspect was already known having served time in prison there for robbery amid the manhunt a french prosecutor spoke of how the threat is still very very new to all these considering who target the perpetrators way of his profile and the testimonies of those who hold him you know a lot of a 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 but the threat is still very real what we heard from two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum although they did agree that europe's current anti terror policy does need reviewing. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing

every day more and this is getting good and bad because we were doing the work of though this a lot of time this mandate so that means we have to change policies to find the sources of the terrorism and to attack the sources of the readers or that there are those who have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to reinvigorate the youth of the suburbs of paris and brussels as their eyes move in the wake of two to two to work together with a moderate islam to the wake of two to establish some long term goals and try to achieve them marial as much 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 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 elation 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 scared 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. about the clan we all front and we want france to live in peace. in hungary thousands of protesters gathered in front of the country's parliament and budapest on wednesday evening. i was i was the earlier lawmakers approved the controversial amendment the label all proposed by the prime minister branded though the slave law by critics of. this is the amount of overtime an employer can demand of workers some demonstrators waved

european union flags there were also minor clashes with police. now after google c.e.o. testified about the company's alleged control of information the issue of speech regulation has popped up for all media platforms although one democrat has found himself in broad and what could actually be an even bigger scandal by simply commenting on it with the details his donald quarter. if you're perhaps looking for new ways to put your foot in your mouth democratic congressman ted lew is the guru for you especially after his recent statement to c.n.n. regarding free speech i would love to be able to regulate the content of speech the first amendment prevents me from doing so conservatives immediately slammed lou in the media and on twitter they met his statement with skepticism with some of them accusing him of harboring secret tyrannical desires but according to him his

statement was actually made in defense of the first amendment i would love to regulate your speech but thank goodness the first amendment prevents me botha's and republicans from doing so get it i'm defending the first amendment perhaps the republicans just wanted an opportunity to grab their pitchforks but lose timing made everything worse came after google c.e.o. sun dar pinchas testimony before congress amidst accusations that the company is censoring conservative voices and the accusations themselves they came along with bright parts leak of e-mails from google employees e-mails that allegedly outlined an entire conspiracy to censor the right wing news outlet for hate speech and you want to hold the news and look through broad don't come from hate speech the e-mail said breitbart was quote on their radar and that google had a moral argument according to pinch i though google employees had no means of

manipulating search results it's not possible for an individual employee groups of him demanding plato or so it's just those you know we have a robust framework including many steps in the process whether or not there are actually procedural problems that google the company embodies a much bigger problem one highlighted by a protester who came to the testimony in the monopoly man's clothes but lou didn't seem to think a monopoly on him for. mation was the problem he'd rather pin the blame on people who don't do positive things if you want positive search results do positive things if you don't want to research results don't do not do things and do some of my colleagues across the aisle of you getting bad press articles and bad search results don't blame goo go or facebook or twitter consider blaming yourself so as lou continues to take criticism from the media and twitter it begs the question who's to blame for that lou google you double quarter reporting there still to come

this hour we'll have the latest on turkey's plans to launch a new anti terror operation in syria that story plus others on the way just off the break. thank. you.

they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. that you'd like to be cross with what the before extreme or can't be good. interest to all those in the waters of our. city. welcome back he's president deploy troops in northern syria to fight what he calls terrorist groups in the area. we will start an operation to free the east of the euphrates from the separatist terrorist organization in the coming days our target

is not american soldiers but rather members of the terrorist organization active in this region however chris plans apparently don't sit well with turkey's nato ally the u.s. the pentagon has issued a statement morning that you know that for military action in the area is of grave concern it added that u.s. personnel may be present in the area and any such military action would be unacceptable now let's get the thoughts of you this morning is a central committee member to fatten party party you very welcome thanks for your time tonight eunice how serious do you think is this dispute between the two countries right now. is very seriously there's no long coming to the don't dish nation is very decided in the government seems to be very well we interpret this as a last call to the united states to seize its support for north. port for armed groups in the north east of syria and to retreat its troops which are internationally recognized as illegally present in syria so i think the we all

think here in turkey that this is a very serious situation and a very serious last call from turkey to the united states in particular the united states is afraid that its own troops could potentially be hit by turkish soldiers valid concern you think. well. that depends on the point of view because as i mentioned the united states troops are in positions in syria illegally they were not asked to be there by the syrian government so they are not present at the territory legally they are violating international laws and they're part of a bigger plan of the united states that was presented in the last week openly presented to syria james. geoffrey who proposed a kind of federation to syria that is dividing the country into different

provinces which is an acceptable to syria as well as to turkey to year on iran and all the countries of the of the middle east of west asia so this operation this threat of turkey also aims at this plan of of the united states to convert syria into a federation very calling is an interview that the president of syria mr bashar al assad has given and the terms of november that i'm correct in december where he said they will follow the example of the turks and not allow any other political identity on syrian soil but the identity of syrian arab republic so the conflict is a bigger one is a huge one and the turkish threat and the turkish possible operation will put an end to american plants on a broader line and it will also open the wait. for the real

solution of the serial problem that he's the finishing of the terror and reestablishing stability and peace in the whole of syria which affects even europe as your news report mentioned before european countries are also affected by terror resulting from this year and crisis of the first games the first targets here is to finish all kind of armed terrorist activities on syrian soil by maintaining the syrian national unity and reestablishing the government's power on all of our syria in that sense this operation this threatened operation will provide very important support for even internal international. stability as well. so i mean this is the sumption isn't there i think i'm right in saying from turkey that the u.s. would back down if it goes ahead with this anti terror operation but what if it

doesn't what could be dishonored the worst case scenario. well. we think here in turkey the operation of of the turkish armed forces happens in consultation with the russian government as well as with the iranian government and even further than that last friday and so did the international conference on fighting international terrorism has taken place in part around here because these are countries even afghanistan pakistan and china are participating in all six countries declared their cooperation against international terrorism so we might assume that even these countries in the direct the support. reestablishing of stability in syria excluding u.s. plans to divide the country in that case is assuming this and i think we can assume that the u.s. has no other option but to retreat because the americans are not adventurous they

are realists and they know that such a huge coalition. will not have a chance to fight so i think we think here in turkey step by step the u.s. will acknowledge. the defeat of its plan for the middle east for syria specially and start. retreating as they already retreated partly from their plan to topple down the president of syria and as a culture as are you this we're going to have to leave it there fascinating though to get your insight that was in the sauna of turkey's fattened party party thanks for your time here and i. am repeating a russian national detained in the u.s. and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent has appeared in a washington d.c. court she has entered a guilty place let's get more details now from kalamata and he's covering the case for us good even see calipso then what do we know then about to events and at this

point. also what's happened what preceded today's guilty plea. well at this point we know that the hearing has started and maria buttin a has entered a plea of guilty and now apparently in her signed statement of offense she declared that she quote sought to establish an official lines of communication with americans having power and influence over u.s. politics that is what she apparently has confessed to now this is after being held in solitary confinement and treated like she was some kind of very very dangerous criminal as she's been held she was denied bail and not released and the accusations against her remain vague and even the statement of offense remains somewhat vague the allegation is that she was an unregistered lobbyist in violation of the foreign agents registration act and it's not exactly clear now she has entered this guilty plea but it's not clear if this guilty plea has been entered in

an arrangement with the prosecution for a lesser sentence or for what exactly we do have we have heard this statement of offense and now at this point we have also we also understand that the prosecution is speaking and making their case against her are referring to to their allegations against her so we're waiting to see what ultimately comes out of this hearing now that there's been a change of plead she has pled guilty and we're waiting to see what will come next . ok thanks kelly i will come back. the latest on that story in the first in the united states and thank you for watching till you thought international stories on our website you can find that at one.

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