the international olympic committee says it will conditionally reinstate russia twenty nine months after the country was banned. state sponsored doping. great numbers from washington.

stepping up the pressure the united states rules on the possibility of told with venezuela's embattled socialist government and revoke the visas of some of president maduro officials. and becomes the latest fashion giant to face claims of racism releases a sweater that many say resembles a black face we get reaction. what they actually we can use it as a marketing strategy and will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people speeding's it doesn't matter if it's racist if it was a white. black person i would certainly be ridiculing me. it's. watching all to international line from a studio with. welcome to the program the international paralympic committee has

announced it will reinstate russia's membership within two years off of the country was banned over widespread doping it says though there are a strict criteria that must be complied with going. only conditionally. 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 month in its 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 on the 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 and 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. systematic doping system there i mean these people have suffered enough already and there was a lot of outcry about not letting 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 get go to tokyo next summer what toll has this taken on them while 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. 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 chan 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. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is continuing to resist america's

calls to resign and has launched a petition demanding washington stop meddling in his country's. blue marching. greek numbers from washington even go to the white house to deliver more than. asking for. and demanding peace i just signed it says. we should respect the less the united states is continuing to dial up the pressure on venice when its crisis stricken government washington revoked the visas of new us officials working for the president to his administration american special envoy has also repeated calls for the international community to deal with the leader of the opposition instead instead of trying to accommodate the group through come to groups for dialogue we urge countries to recognize one why do always interim president and join us the time for dialogue

with the group as 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 i know that in fact. 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 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 has also said that president maduro should leave the country to allow for a transition to democracy political analysts out of a king tell us washington's actions amount to a brazen attempt what we're seeing from abrams is just shameless deplorable on behalf of us interventionism you where superior lives in the i mean there's really no debate here it's immoral it's illegal in the u.s. government in the trumpet ministrations using including humanitarianism humanitarian intervention in spreading democracy. but you don't have to be a left socialist to understand what you know what u.s. 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. be they have the right to make their own mistakes. the us democratic party has been plunged into crisis office top three officials in the state of virginia were accused of racism and sexual misconduct and adding to the controversy the party's leadership is now facing claims that her poxy 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 justin 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 he is all the political to. the if you wish it was the plea of 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 the type of behavior is unacceptable. there's a there's you believe that. no. fairfax's accuser first went to the washington post in two thousand and seventeen but the paper didn't run. 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 see aside 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 nine hundred eighty when i was a nineteen year old undergraduate and college some friends suggested we attend to to dress like rappers we dressed up and put on a weeks and 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 eat 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 going to pretty much say if you're a republican a conservative or anything like they we're going to choose you much worse in which we are soo dess pretty much we do they're clearly hypocritical they're not clearly fair and i think that is very unfair to people who they happen to have different points of view than they do the governor of north them he's on record talk oh no ball people being racism being anti-racist be here use doing the exact same thing

that he would condemn him so so but his own standards by their own sort they're going to be over within a it's their fault nobody else's because they set the standards by which they're now being judged. with that scandals no balling the republicans haven't quite escaped unscathed either the republican senate majority leader in virginia tommy norman has been accused of racism too he was the managing editor of the virginia military institute in one nine hundred sixty eight do you 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 yearbook. more racism claims this time in high end italian fashion gucci has found itself in broad in controversy over this poll and next wetter quite a few people were quick to point out that the eight hundred ninety dollars garment

resembles a black face cost you. klavern it topped 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 said it will no longer be selling the palin x. wetter the company also issued a statement stressing its commitment to diversity. gucci isn't the only big name italian brand to be called out recently with claims of racism in december product with drew a line of monkey key chains after consumers complained they resembled racist caricatures of black people we got the thoughts of political commentator andrew walker and body confidence advocate 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 feel is actually we can use that

as a marketing strategy will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people speeding's 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 received the backlash if you'd of had 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 a an opening for your mouth it doesn't look like a black person i've ever see the my life i cannot see any connection firstly with black history month as we were just talking about a second but also ridiculing black people in any 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 that's so similar i mean firstly can i just point

out that not being formally 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 which of work i would say it was ridiculing me for being white i mean what is that racist look the problem. is that we're going to look imagine he's got a great sense of genuine problems with discrimination a dog about rupert's like this just rope if we had suffered to raise him back in back in 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 your 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 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 will use the i. outrage or was it just a few members of what i call the racism industry people whose job it is to be offended by this so they can talk about it let me ask you this of the professional

deeds race it's an industry that's a friend the vice 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 happen with product do you agree and prod out and let me ask you another question why didn't it bring out in every other color why black with red lip on the board i don't know when i go in i'm not right and pink why black or white why black or red white why better 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 of whites why are people offended well 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 they're going to say they're fed they in reality it's a turtleneck you pull over your face there happens to come in block goodness me you get to get elias turtleneck some black face clinic. china's tech. has

hit back at aspinall's claims coming from the west a story at all after this break. dancers financial survival guide i don't find any i caught on a teacher's. face almost friday as a lesson in finance from the future cracker watch kaiser. when you look back truth pays off problems between bush and the last kovi i left. it's clear about this treaty is coming to an end. because of the lack of interest of both sides both in washington and off was.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down lose business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. question. welcome back to there's been another development in the script in case reports are now emerging that britain's security services have identified five suspects in the nerve agent attack on a former russian agent and his daughter in law much of last year and a said joe has the details according to several reports circulating in the u.k.

press this morning u.k. authorities are now looking at five possible suspects in this poisoning saga we are waiting for more details on that to be revealed that has 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 are 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. identified those two 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 is a third suspect is linked to a case in twenty fifteen and bowl garia where a businessman fell sick and was taken to hospital on 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 vose. 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. the chinese telecoms giant huawei has hit back at its critics in the west flatly dismissing claims it could be used by beijing first spying purposes recently who

always been under constant attack by some countries and politicians were shocked or sometimes feel amused by those ungrounded and senseless allegations. alive. thanks for coming on to the program now you've got an update about all this talk us through response. well the chinese telecom from the united states after receiving another blow in the five g. race. and news and shock of how the united states government is lobbying european governments against the firm the united states envoy in the european union threaten western allies that if they will use any chinese infrastructure supplies for their projects in europe they will actually face. they will be in a disadvantage point with the united states and the consequences were the chinese

our firm has been recently under a lot of pressure from lawmakers around the world and the united states on how it will be actually preserving and. ties in the five g. network. someone from the pollute bureau in belgium picks up the phone and since i want to listen in on the following conversation i want to run a certain car of the road that's on the five g. network and kill the person who's in it there is nothing that company legally can do today in china to prevent the chinese government from making that request successfully. it seems that the u.s. government has not choosing the better time actually to to do this and the european nations right now reviewing sanctions against companies and countries that cyber espionage and then selectional property theft. has come under five from the united states in the past and being accused that the closely work with the johnnies with the chinese state on gathering intelligence for them. actually just last month.

lawmakers in the united states actually filed to criminal cases against the way one was on team obama and how they're collecting information from then on the other is how they were scored in the u.s. on u.s. sanctions against iran. but again that has no proof the haven't found any proof against them. but as all of this happening in europe actually according to government sources workers government has actually ruled out the idea of banning any chinese equipment suppliers as germany right now is walking closer and will be building a five g. network. but it's not only the germany's doing that i've been doing this another of it's of the u.s. allies italy actually following the same path italy's and this three minutes they're actually also denied any reports saying that the country will bad five g. pathways five g. network for operating in the country and as

a lot of people would not know actually quaff we is europe's europe as a second largest market they actually have been invested billions of dollars into digital sectors in europe and has been working very closely with a lot of the telecom companies in europe such as the telecom sea. and other major ones in the country and that as as the united states government donald trump's administration is actually trying to throw. a blanket ban on chinese telecom for europe is actually on the horn of the dilemma ok evangelos reporting from beijing thanks very much. that's your news this hour be back around thirty minutes with more but first his politicking with larry king.

donald trump's second state of the union address was conspicuously light when it came to foreign policy why is this was his aim to avoid disappointing his base while at the same time wishing not to spar with the deep state what are these mixed signals all about is an elaborate strategy or an indication of indecisive.

the clock is ticking on another government shutdown lim a bipartisan congressional group shows signs of progress on averting one and members from both parties have asked the white house to stay out of it is that possible with our president that and more on this edition of. the politicking on larry king donald trump delivers his state of the union to tongue or song tuesday and talked at length about his signature campaign issue his long promised border wall unmentioned was another looming government shutdown over that wall a group of bipartisan lawmakers have indicated as showing progress on a deal that could avert another shutdown in mere days but members from both sides of the political. lalo signal to the white house to stay out of the no negotiations is that possible for donald trump let's get to that and more with eleanor clift

columnist for the daily beast political commentator and author she's an old dear friend she joins me from washington we surprised. me as a c.n.n. poll shows seventy six percent viewer approval of the state of the union address. well first of all larry it's always good to talk with you i thought the president did a good job last night in all of this the at tricks of the state of the union the memorable moments that people in both parties can appreciate or a young girl you know battling cancer world war two heroes people surviving auschwitz i mean it was it was a great made for t.v. movie he even brought me to tears at one point but the substance of the state of the union he didn't give an inch on the wall he's still holding out the possibility of declaring

a state of emergency over the so than border and he really stuck it to the democrats you know basically saying that any chance of bipartisan accords on any of the issues he raised including an hiv unissued event and big reducing drug prices that nothing can happen as long as there are these ridiculous partisan investigations going on so if you separate the. kind of the warm fuzzy moments of the evening from the hard jab so you've really got you know two different speeches and you really don't have a very different donald trump going forward not that i really expected that you see a breakthrough in negotiations over the shutdown and we won't have another shutdown apparently they'll come to some agreement well i think the republicans and the democrats can come to an agreement they did already once before remember and the

president decided at the last minute not to sign it because rush limbaugh and ann coulter you know called him a wimp and said he caved so they are likely to come up with something involving a smart wall which would include barriers in some places and then if the president doesn't want to accept that i think a government shutdown is. possible but he is got so much pushback from his own party the republican brand took a nosedive during the shutdown that i think the best worst option for the president and i think then would be to invoke the state of emergency and i don't think that's such a bad idea because i think the courts would push back and it would be overturned and the president could make a run to try to get the money for it he probably wouldn't succeed and then he would get what i think he really wants which is.