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today welcome to the program the international paralympic committee has announced it will reinstate russia's membership more than two years after the country was banned over widespread pick it says though that there are strict criteria that must be complied with going forward. only conditionally lifting the r.b.c. says be substantial. by no later than fifteen march the i.p.c.c. will publish. criteria identifying the core how a level requirements are p.c. must continue to meet two months conditional statement of membership of the a.p.c. well i suspect that there's more there yet to say terms of what conditions must be maintained and fulfilled for the full time reinstatement the current reinstatement is conditional they promise to publish it by march fifteenth as we've just heard the most important thing voiced in germany today by the i.p.c. was that in twenty twenty in tokyo and in twenty twenty two in beijing during the

next two lympics the russian paralympians will be able to go out and represent the country and a russian flag and twenty sixteen they missed it completely in rio in twenty. they went as athletes representing rush hour or a are essentially not under the country's flag right now it looks like they have a chance to finally compete under the country's flag which is the most important of so many athletes who you know suffer the consequences of the doping scandal and it is of course a recognition of the work that's been done even though there are those conditions there's a recognition that progress has been made in those two years along two years take us back to how all this began it began obviously with the so-called mclaren report published by the world anti-doping agency twenty fifteen the allegations of state sponsored doping system in russia obviously a lot of federations were banned the russian paralympic committee was among those federations i do remember distinctly that press conference where the previous head

of the i.p.c. philip craven was rolled into a wheelchair on the podium and said that the entire russian paralympic team will not be going to the real games and twenty sixteen a lot of who are back then because in the in the case of the paralympic team there was no proof of systematic doping system there i mean these people have suffered enough already and there was a lot of outcry about not. having them go to those games in any case now we have this conditional restatement which is the first major reinstatement of the russian sports body. of the russian anti-doping agency was reinstated early last year twenty nine months is a long time for any athlete to be out of international competition paralympians of already has two big lympics although the big face going to tokyo next summer what toll has this taken on them well we remember interviewing several of those paralympians when the whole scandal happened they were obviously in tears nothing can rectify the fact that they missed out on the twenty sixteen games in entirely

and we're talking about champions like. a swimmer or. wrestler they've won so many medals and yet they missed out on the chance to go to rio nevertheless and twenty two when they went to be on chang as athletes representing russia not russia per say they want twenty eight medals which was the second highest result in the entire games now all that is gone they will be able to compete under the russian flag but most importantly today's move represents a major step for clean sport as many have already noted and the russian paralympic committee has done a lot over these years sixty nine conditions they fulfilled as far as i know that's a lot to to have a conditional reinstatement now if you go to the website of the russian paralympic committee you can see a tab which says report doping that's not something that hadn't existed before the scandal so let's just hope that moving forward everything will be clean the athletes will be able to represent their country finally and we can only be happy

for them. president nicholas continuing to resist america's calls to resign and has launched a petition demanding washington stop meddling in his country's affairs. we will march in great numbers to washington we will even go to the white house to deliver more than ten million signatures asking for respectful. and demanding peace i just signed it it says. we should respect unless the united states is continuing to dial up the pressure by this way as crisis stricken government washington is now revoked the visas of numerous officials working for president to his administration american special envoy for venezuela has also repeated calls for the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead it instead of trying to accommodate the group through country groups for dialogue we urge countries to recognize one why do always interim

president and join us the time for dialogue with the girl has long. don't fall into a trap the guru has said many times before where there's a fully dialogue rather than a strong message to him it's time to go now why joe is claiming that he has met with european officials and as we know the united states is very much on his side the united states has said that all options are on the table regarding their support for and they push for ousting madero we've also seen countries like russia and china have it in fact and said that he should stay as the president and so on top of that now the united states is claiming that they are not able to get humanitarian aid into venice way and venezuela has also made the claim that they found some cargo that included weapons and ammunition that were made in the usa so

there's a lot of different statements going on here but at the end of the day we really have to ask the question about what the people in caracas are actually believe and are actually seeing. the u.s. special envoy for venezuela also said that president should leave the country to allow for a smoother transition to democracy political analyst told us washington's actions amount to a brazen killer attack but what we're seeing from abrams is just shameless deplorable on behalf of us interventionism you where superior lives in that i mean there's really no debate here it's immoral it's illegal in the u.s. government in the trouble ministration is using including humanitarianism humanitarian intervention and spreading democracy. but you don't have to be a left socialist to understand what you know what us empire is doing here we saw how we they spread democracy forty five years ago to chile to iraq to afghanistan

to panama to grenada the list goes on the venezuelan people have the right to determine their own power. the they have the right to make their own mistakes. during his highly anticipated state of the union address donald trump outlined some of the threats he believes america is facing among them were illegal immigration terrorism and socialism and with income inequality continuing to grow in the us leftwing ideas do seem to be on the very back and caliber more pin takes a look. and those who watch donald trump state of the union address would have a hard time missing one particular moment the topic of socialism america will never be a socialist country. not mild words at all and it's not the first time the trump has raised the specter of socialism all nations of the world should resist socialism. and the misery

that it brings to everyone. but the socialists they say that he's just afraid of their rising popularity i thought it was fabulous because it shows that we've gotten under his skin he has no vision for this country everything is about what he doesn't want everything is about the boogie man and they've got a point after all bernie sanders is one of the most popular politicians in the country but. it's not only republicans that are fearing the rise of socialism you've also got the establishment in the blue corner concerned as now at this point a majority of democrats say that socialism is the way forward for america where we can say one of these this didn't show is that democratic socialism is the said in the for her to be ready to know. that disunity perhaps but.

i do accept any station that the party presented by the republicans trump media going as far as printing guidelines on how to inoculate your children against the rising ideological danger. so we decided to go out to the district here in new york that elected alexandria cacio cortez the rising star of democratic socialism and we decided to see how people here feel about the ideology that went pretty far in defining the twentieth century and why do you think people here voted for her by the vote of her because she was pretty she voted her because he's charismatic and i think they also voted for because of the change from the guy that was in it before who's very much like

embedded a lot of people are afraid to show up so i mean anything to rear away from what trump is doing i think to fill people feel more confident about what's going on you know trump recently said the usa will never be a socialist country do you agree with him. i guess so yeah i think he's right. i don't see that happening in the states being great now we know anything that comes out of his mouth is a complete observation of those or world so if he says america will never be so it was going through i feel very good nor going to miracle will become a socialist country are you afraid of socialism. will. to some extent year i don't think that would be appropriate for this country i don't know too much bought it so i don't know if i could be afraid of it no no we also got a chance to speak with journalist dan was there dan can you tell me is socialism no longer a dirty word in american politics was a dirty word still in certain quarters but it's more acceptable now in other quarters and it was

a few years ago next to bernie sanders and. alexandria ocasio cortez now do you think it is possible that bernie sanders might run against trump there saying he's the most likely to be trump is it possible that we could get a trump versus sanders ticket in the upcoming election i think it's very possible i don't watch for that predictions but it's very possible yes and is that something the democratic party leadership is afraid of the things they're terrified of i think that if that happens every democratic politician in the country would running for cover. as a member of sanders is not a democrat just as trump is not really a republican so we'll have to have an eye on democrat versus republican and everyone in between just just hiding their head in the sand and trying to forget gore what's going on for a long time it seemed like the s. word was almost profanity and we see the establishment trying to stoke up the same old fears once again however it seems like in twenty nineteen socialism is back on the table for debate came up and r.t.

new york. there's been another development in the script poisoning case reports are now emerging that britain security services have identified five suspects in the attack on the former russian one thousand town his daughter in march of last year well the latest on the story let's cross over to london to honest now say you've been following this obviously what's all the latest details on this case. well it is there are according to several reports circulating in the u.k. press this morning u.k. authorities are now looking at five possible suspects in the poisoning saga we are waiting for more details on that to be revealed that is yet to come we have contacted scotland yard who have told us that they don't really have any news to share and that they're continuing to pursue several lines of inquiry now at the same time we're seeing u.k.

based opensource investigative team belling cat announcing that they have according to them conclusively identified the third suspect in this poisoning case if you remember previously they said that according to them the names of the first two suspects are in their identity to men. who are you officers now they're saying that this third suspect is a forty five year old daughter of who according to belling cat is a senior g.r.u. officer of that are saying that all of these three men have their covers created at the same in the same year back in twenty ten and according to them this third suspect is linked to a case in twenty fifteen and bowl garia where a businessman fell sick and was taken to hospital long with a son and his executive and the story very never led to nor the chalk and the

substance use on him was not really identified but billy cat is now linking those together and we have heard from the kremlin spokesperson say that it's not really clear where this connection comes from and what this revelation is based off of. we're going to him more on this case on the situation reporting in london thanks very much for the update thank you. now the us democratic party is under fire over its handling of a slew of misconduct claims against top officials in the state of virginia we'll take you through that after this break. when lawmakers manufacture consents to public wealth. when the

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welcome back to the program the us democratic party has been plunged into crisis office top three officials in the state of virginia were accused of racism sexual misconduct and adding to the controversy the party's leadership is now facing claims of hypocrisy double quarter explains it wasn't so long ago that virginia was a republican party stronghold but these days the democrats are running the show. it's going to be a good day for democrats but now all three of the men on stage are sinking in scandals in the middle is democratic governor ralph northam out of the blue a picture from his nine hundred eighty four med school yearbook surfaced featuring people in black face and k.k.k. robes first he apologized and confirmed that that was him in the photo and then he

said well now he wasn't it is definitely not me i did participate in a dance. in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson fellow democrats were baying for nor thems resignation and to right the wrong here's the alternative for the job just in fairfax who could become virginia's second black governor in its history except now he's being accused of sexual assault what began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault mr fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch fairfax's and as willing to apologize as northern is though he says the accusation is a cry for attention is all the political to. them if you wish it was but we are guilty until proven innocent right well not always how we deal with survivors who

come forward right now is unacceptable we should listen to women. i think we should be focusing on what's right now happening with the governor and this is an epidemic type of behavior is unacceptable. listen there's you believe that. no. fairfax's accuser first went to the washington post and twenty seventeen but the paper didn't run with it due to lack of evidence which didn't stop the post from going headline happy a year later when brett kavanaugh his accuser came forward all the packer c.s.i. . though if fairfax resigns there's always democratic attorney general mark herring to take his place surely he's never done anything offensive in one thousand eight when i was a nineteen year old time to graduated from college some friends suggested we had time to part to dress like rappers we dressed up and put in weeks on brown makeup but of course the democratic leadership takes

a firm stance against such and moral behavior we must hold everyone from the highest offices to our own families kunal for racist words and beat high standards but if those three are ruled out the next guy in line for the top job in virginia is a republican the democrats like to be the party with a moral high ground when people take notice but when it's their people on the chopping block well that appears to be a different story the moral clarity is not really clear what it is saying to them it is is not clear as far as it being consistent but it's clear that it going to be inconsistent is clearly to going to pretty much say if you're a republican a conservative or anything like they were going to choose you much worse and which we are so desperate in which we do there are clearly hypocritical they're not clearly fair and i think there's very unfair to people who they happen to have different points of view than they do the governor of north them he's all records all cobol people being racism being anti-racist be here use doing the exact same

thing they he would condemn him so so by his own standards by their own sort they're going to be over with in a it's their fault nobody else's because they set the standards by which they're now being judged. without the scandal the snowballing the republicans haven't quite escaped unscathed either the republican senate majority leader in virginia tommy normand has been accused of racism too he was the managing editor of the virginia military institute nineteen a sixty eight year book it included racial slurs about a student from thailand and contains an image of a man wearing blackface norman has denied however that he was responsible saying he was one of seven people who worked on the book. and more racism claims this time in high end italian fashion gucci has found itself in broad in controversy over this poland next sweater quite

a few people were quick to point out that the eight hundred ninety dollars garment resembles a black face costume. balaklava knit top by gucci happy black history month your i want to hear from the brains behind this design and from the people who approved it for production this is raw you need a diverse workforce for a company of your stature it's really shocking. she has since apologized and removed the palin neck sweater from its website it says the item will also be withdrawn from his stores company also issued a statement stressing its commitment to diversity. she isn't the only big name italian brand to be called out recently with claims of racism in december prada withdrew a line of monkey key chains after consumers complained they resembled racist caricatures of black people we got the thoughts of political commentator and a walker and a body confidence advocate and joanne morales i think the fact that it was released during black history month in america shows that it's very intentional toward

something i mean this isn't the first major brand to do something so silly so i think they didn't learn from prada what they thought actually we can use that as a marketing strategy will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people's feelings it doesn't matter if it's racist and i think that they they planned every step of the way completely well you would have to see the backlash if you defied the idea that this looked like a black person which of course it did not just explodes those your viewers who haven't seen it it's effectively a black turtleneck that goes up just to around here and then has opening for your mouth it doesn't look like a black person i've ever see that my life i cannot see any connection firstly with black history month as we were just talking about a second but also ridicule of black people in the only way you can say is not something that would offend someone because we're not the people that have been offended in history with something so similar it does look like blackface again from the minstrel show it's

a huge resemblance and with prada getting it so wrong and causing such backlash why would you then bring our product out so similar firstly can i just point out that not before there that black people are not black in the same way that white people like me are not fully white if that was a white t. shirt with a black person to work i would say it was ridiculing me for being white i mean why is that racist. look the problem here. is that we're in the international he told me that race is a genuine problems with discrimination a talk about rupert's like this just reopened if we had suffered a major setback in back in the history back in history how how black people did we would also be offended we can't stand here and say that's not offensive when you're when you're not the one suffering from it is actually in fact black people that find it offensive and they have every right to feel offended if they were the ones that suffered racism they were the ones that went for the ok ok ok how many people are offended by this well who's the outrage or was it just a few members of what i call the racism industry people whose job it is to be

affected by this so they could talk about it let me ask you this of the professional deeds race it's an industry that surprised us not real people let me ask you a question do you think if there was a black person in the production team in the management team in the marketing team they would have said yeah no that's fine go ahead of it especially after what happened with prada did you see what happened with product do you agree with prod out and let me ask you another question why do they bring out in every other color why black with red lip or the board i don't know what you are in i'm not right and pink why black and white why black or red why why before we're going to read and post one orange problem again why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular colors for garments a block or whites are why the people offended will actually in truth i think you've offered no evidence to suggest that most people are fed that i think very few people are offended but i think the racism industry of course i'm going to say that if i did in reality it's a turtleneck you pull over your face there happens to come in block goodness me you

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