russia's being investigated over claims it gave when it related data that to the world anti-doping watchdog casting doubt over its participation in the summer olympics next year the russian side says it's fully complied with all regulations. also this hour the u.k. says there is a high degree of probability brown was behind the attack on the oil facilities in saudi arabia. 2 months ago. and u.s. democrats say they may again try to impeach president donald trump for alleged pollution with another porn power would seem less concerned by accusations of corruption against 2020. have been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but that may be the only remedy by failing to act congress is complicit

in trump's latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to the us elections do your constitutional duty and impeach the president. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the world anti-doping agency is investigating its russian wing amid claims moscow provided manipulated data the probe could have serious consequences for russia's participation in next year's tokyo olympics. solders and food compliance with the crude this is confirmed by the fog we have been asked to audits in 2 years i was responsible for them i can guarantee this was absolute certainty is committed to meeting international obligations however we have nothing

to do with the moscow laboratory or the samples. are to somebody in the course of a joins us live in the studio with all of the details now what do we know at this point while with the olympics already. the world anti-doping agency is actually investigating a bombshell allegation that could see russia suspended from tokyo games next year now let me give you some details and one what actually is happening now russia has been given a 3 week deadline to explain why data from moscow drug testing lab or a tree provided to the world anti doping agency might have been tampered with now eve this suspicions of tampering prove correct then the country could again be suspended and that just a year after was after russia was reinstated and actually handing over that particular data was among the critical requirements for the reinstatement of course

there's been different types of reaction on to these news coming from moscow already and the sports minister has already commented on this ongoing development situation now he said that all the conditions for the restorations were mad and he ought actually added that they were told that the inconsistency which is in question was related to the information that was provided by the whistleblower now there's going to be an emergency meeting. later today where there is going to be a water as board discussing this particular situation there's going to be no decision made before well before this. that was given to russia ok if we could go back just a little bit how exactly did we get to this point well it's it is really quite a long what's happening with the russian anti doping agency now russian anti doping agency was actually suspended it's already and that happened back in 2015 it was

reinstated after 3 years but there were claims that there was the why state run doping scheme in the country actually there was a number of some strong accusations that we heard back then however not everything was actually proved with some harsh asked for moscow will moscow deny that it was state sponsored but still there was enough evidence to ban scores of there were allowed to participate only limited extent and that the winter olympics in south korea they participated in neutral flak and now this is the latest twist in the story we see this again as they said it is a very developing story and we keep receiving reports and that and of course we wait for the meeting and talking. about thank you for staying across the latest for us. british prime minister boris johnson has pointed the finger

at iran over the recent attacks on saudi oil refineries has also pledged to help the us secure the gulf region without joy in life fire 1st only if allie who is in london is that what did boris johnson have to say and why right now. well it appears the british prime minister is pointing fingers at iran for that attack on those saudi oil facilities which of course the movement in yemen responsibility for mr johnson saying it was likely done by a combination of missiles and drones and such technology the iranians of course have steadfastly rejected any allegation that they were responsible for that attack but mr johnson has been accused by some previously and up until now of pursuing an atlanticist relationship a very close relationship with the u.s. and in particular with donald trump it would appear that he's repeating that theme by saying that he would be willing to contribute u.s. u.k.

military personnel and sources which some say are already overstretched to any u.s. led military action in the region. the u.k. is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to iran for the aramco attacks we think it's very likely indeed that iran was indeed responsible we will be working with our american friends and our european friends to construct a response that tries to deescalate tensions in the gulf region clearly if we are asked either by the saudis all by the americans to have a role then we will consider in what way we could be useful. now of course the iranians again have rejected and denied all allegations that they were the ones responsible saying that it's the who sees who have been fighting the saudis all this time really and really resisting them in the attack on yemen and the iranian president hassan rouhani has also been making his own comments us to the best ways

to achieve peace in the region. if foreign powers are sincere in seeking peace and security they must stop deploying dangerous weapons to a region and provoking an arms race they should stay away because their presence is always pain and misery. now the iranian response to american and british actions in the region has always been somewhat of a tit for tat we saw that recently when the iranian tanker the oil tanker was seized just by the u.k.'s royal navy the iranians responded in type by capturing and halting the progress of the u.k. flagged timecode well a rainy and co was released just a few weeks back and now the iranians themselves have announced that the u.k. flak time career is also free to go so the iranian message very clear that as far as they're concerned they're willing to deescalate. as they would see it u.k.

escalates but that they are willing to see any aggression against them and much is in kind is allie reporting live from london thank you the west was 1st to accuse iran of meeting extra troops to the region in response. looks at how the standoff could play out. iran and the united states go way back a relationship at sea a coup terrorism sanctions even direct confrontation for over half a century it's hard to find enemies more bitter could we see all out war the question today on the minds of many listening to recent rhetoric you'd certainly think that possibility is growing that if any country wants to attack iran it will seize territory turn into the conflicts main battlefields will never let any war be dragged into iran we will continue until the end we will continue until the full destruction of any aggressor and we will leave no safe place for enemies and that

was a very large attack. and it could be met with an attack many many times larger very easily by our country the saudis have called for u.s. help after those attacks on it's all refineries it seems all those billions spent on u.s. military gadgets weren't enough to keep them safe back in may the u.s. sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the gulf to this latest incident the u.s. was quick to announce another military deployment the president has approved the deployment of u.s. forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense we will also work to accelerate the delivery of military equipment to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to enhance their ability to defend themselves many see some historical deja vu in this latest move dating back 3 decades at my direction elements of the 82nd airborne division as well as key units of the united states air force are arriving

today to take up defensive positions in saudi arabia i took this action to assist the saudi arabian government in the defense of its homeland operation desert shield back then protecting these 3 brilliancy of the region and the world's oil markets and supply lines was one key factor behalf. time intervention but much has changed in 3 decades the us is now the world's biggest oil producer protecting gulf oil exports just isn't a priority anymore neither is being in the middle of a war between riyadh and tehran the united states is pursuing its own interests and that is to control the floyds flow of oil to the world and that means providing oil to its friends and denying oil to its enemies we've seen the united states embargo oil to play countries like syria the sale of oil from iran sudan libya many other places this is about the united states control over the most important commodity in

the world that keeps industry going keeps country standing on their feet and domestic appetite for sending the boys to a place of sand and death is weak according to a recent poll just 13 percent would support a military intervention to protect the saudis adding a 2nd or 3rd party into that kind of tense scenario doesn't necessarily deescalate things if anything it escalates things even further just so we get into another war like afghanistan or iraq and get stuck over there for another 1015 years we think iraq was bad iran to be 100000 times worse and we would absolutely destroy there i just think we should be less involved in other world affairs no desire for conflict with iran this seems to be a war that neither side wants or at least says they want yet still seem to be on a collision course we have made it very clear that we don't want war we have made it very clear that we don't want escalation i'm making

a statement that we don't want war we don't want to engage in a military confrontation america 1st has been trumps mantra since before his election campaign ending costly conflicts no more world policeman with analysts warning of the devastating costs of a war with iran the u.s. stands at a crossroads just how high a price are they willing to. paid to meet their objectives the u.s. as we know is now the world's number one oil producer fracking has changed the nature of oil production to in the u.s. and there is an overhang in the oil market so many americans are saying why are we interested in the gulf we don't need saudi oil but you know if the less said the fact of the matter is that oil is not just a product it is leverage over the international community it's geostrategic lee important ever since world war 2 the united states has wanted to control energy in the world so united states is very loath to leave the gulf even though

it doesn't actually need the oil itself. later in the bulletin we visit an afghan refugee camp where people are desperate to return home as u.s. peace talks of the taliban again collapse them in hopes of ending nearly 2 decades of war. a number of u.s. democrats say they may start impeachment proceedings against president donald trump that's on the back of reports he pressured his ukrainian counterpart to investigate possible corruption involving 2020 hopeful joe biden. been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but if the president is essentially trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit then that may be the only remedy by failing to act congress is complicit in trump's latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in the us elections do your constitutional duty and impeach

the president at this point the bigger national scandal isn't the president's low breaking behavior it is the democratic party to impeach him for it. on sunday trump denied any misconduct while discussing his potential rival during a phone call with president vladimir it's a linsky back in june he also accused the former vice president of corruption tied to his son's business activities in ukraine the phone conversation has come to light after a whistleblower claim that trump solicited help from a foreign leader taylor has more you've got to give it to the democrats they're hard working bunt especially when something's related to the biggest pet peeve canoe said but we want to temps over the past 3 years to push trump out of the white house have a bit flat new rumors have put the fire back in their bellies complain about president trump it involves ukraine troubling promise president may have made to a foreign leader years ago 1st got in office were also nervous the donald trump was

some sort of sleeper agent who was going to sell america out to a foreign power behind our backs. well throwback thursday no balled into multiple reports of potentially illegal activity new allegations of attempted foreign collusion the washington post reported that back in july trump and the newly elected wanted to ms and how did a little chat in which trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate former vice president joe biden and apparently top level whistleblower leaks that trump unethically said he'd be generous with billions of american military and intelligence 8 if selenski was cooperative whistleblower is under what i can only imagine must be the most. intense pressure sharing anything that is truly sensitive and endangers our national security world or trouble sounds to see but then things took a slightly disappointing turn the washington post sort of backtracked and admitted that well actually they might have jumped the gun just to listen. one source

familiar with the contents of the phone call so the trim did not raise the issue of american military and intelligence aid that the administration was at the time withholding from ukraine indicating that there may not been an explicit quid pro quo expressed in the conversation but for the desperate damns even the with of the scandal was enough reports of a reliable whistleblower complaint regarding the president's communications with a foreign leader brings grief urgent concerns of our national security when you have the president call him in from other countries and whistleblowers are talking about compromising who he has deemed a political enemy this is serious this is very very serious and we have to investigate it this is all in the spirit of pursuing justice and protecting the american people from shady political dealings so probably a bit awkward that trump was gunning for an investigation into how a bomb as a right hand man biden had pushed for a top ukrainian prosecutor to be fired but hey it's probably just a coincidence that the prosecutor was leading a corruption investigation into

a natural gas company that biden's son was linked to biden bragging that he basically blackmailed x. president petro poroshenko into firing the guy isn't that convincing is it i said you not get the 1000000000 i'm going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours i looked as i'm leaving in 6 hours and the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money or son of a. fighter no not biden surely not he looks so good in those shorts back in the sixty's he had such a lovable bromance with obama he can't be shady i love joe biden but there is still so much good in this country and joe biden i think represents that the democrats will see him as the best choice voters in the battleground state of wisconsin say they favor by never president trump everyone loves your by if you'll trump because an elusive phone call from a secret source reported in a classified document leaked in an article but that corrected itself would be

declared hard evidence and bring the year. reus democrats knocking at your door but if you are the only candidate your party has mustered up that even stands a chance of getting the vote of the american people in 2020 so you get something that's up for interpretation and turning a blind eye. no harm no foul this is a bomb that basically joe biden has set off himself that's going to i think in the end push him perhaps out of contention it seems very much that the democrats like to shift public opinion away from their misconduct by alleging misconduct of trump and it fools. a large number of people who are not deep divers into details but it's certainly not fooling me and it's not full and i think many other pundits around the world who look at this and say the democrats are just deceiving themselves at this point they opened this can of worms trump didn't bring it up at 1st they brought it up now that people have brought it back up there are serious

questions about what was going on in ukraine i would argue from 2004 forward. involving corrupt elements of both political parties inside our country and now that the democrats approach this up again i believe trump has a megaphone with his twitter account and we're going to get to the bottom of what was really going on in the changing nature of u.s. ukraine and russian relations going to 2004 forward or maybe even further back than that. the filmmaker is being sued over his documentary on the wartime inflate myth of women details after the break.

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welcome back a filmmaker is being sued for his documentary on the sexual incitement of women by japanese troops before and during world war 2. they were not sex slaves they were prostitutes. although i don't want i want to know how many think it is someone young. oborne i don't i suppose they're. going to favor or want to talk about home for maybe. 2 more hours to. come for a minute shoot has always been a very contentious issue between korea and japan and some people actually think it's the the most contentious issue between the 2 countries and through my own research i realize that you know my korean friends and japanese friends didn't know certain information i thought if i made a film i could possibly fill in this gap in information and bring more context in

hopefully both sides would you know be able to talk about this more productively after the film the comfort women issue is very taboo in japan and surprisingly a lot of people like the film i notice a lot of people who don't like the film are people who haven't seen the film. the plaintiffs participated and represented the view that there is no proof that women were forced into slavery however they claim their views were distorted and the filmmaker deceived them into thinking it was for his academic research they did not think it would result in a phil the phrase comfort women is a euphemism for girls who were forced into sex by slavery by japanese soldiers in occupied territories at least 200000 young women were made to work in military brothels these women were from across southeast asia but the majority were from korea the japanese government issued a statement about it in 1903 tokyo admitted responsibility for the sexual coercion

of women and apologize the filmmaker thinks that if his film is censored it will violate his right to free speech. well i think it's definitely a case of freedom of expression and i think my film if it gets silenced or taken down or you know prevent bigger distribution then this is another you know. expression in japan in its in its these little tiny digs at freedom of expression that make it really hard for the media and people in general to talk about these issues and so it just becomes one of these things where the powerful people get to say what they want to say about the issue and then the people who have an opposing opinion can't say anything . representatives of the terror group the taliban have met china's envoy to

afghanistan meeting in beijing was aimed at reviving failed peace talks with the u.s. abruptly ended those talks earlier this month after a u.s. soldier was killed in a taliban attack with hopes for peace fading again r.t.s. paula flair visited an afghan refugee camp in pakistan where people are desperate to return home. i'm here in an afghan refugee camp in the pakistani capital islamabad more than a 1000 families called us home and there was a small percentage of the more than 1000000 afghan refugees who have moved to pakistan in the past 4 decades now they keenly watching developments across the border with the american president donald trump recently announcing that he is withdrawing from secret talks with the taliban and russia stepping up to the mark for people living here what happens in those talks has a direct impact on their lives i'm going to meet them on khan family to see how they feel about things go and we came here from afghanistan and we don't have

a stable income sometimes and sometimes we don't only our is keeping us alive with them nice that we're happy here in afghanistan we had the land and the house we didn't see bread and butter for years. we came here to work because the situation in afghanistan is too bad and it's too difficult to live there we are poor people and we have no limbs and have only god well you know of course we want our children to be well educated and to attend good schools our family runs a store the market would earn hardly anything i'm suffering from here the titles but i don't have enough money to buy medicine as you can see they don't have very much it's 10 people who live here in 3 mad rooms and they survive by selling fruits and vegetables on the sides of the road shaheen is one of the community leaders so he how would you say the pakistani government treats afghan refugees afghan refugees live slightly better here than it's hard but we don't have full rights we

want to have the same rights as pakistanis no afghan can get a driving license or a car we want peace in afghanistan and we will be very happy to be able to return to our country the pakistani prime minister in one can in an interview i did with him said that pakistan is willing to do whatever it needs to do to make sure that the talks in afghanistan work america however needs to send its soldiers. but the americans. would have to of course leave understanding and i think president trump wants the u.s. soldiers to leave and want to stop this is not a lot more than pakistan can do than what it is already doing which is urging the. only who would it has influence to sit down and talk to the americans which was to have done and also talk to the yvonne government which they haven't done as yet for the more than 1000000 afghan refugees in pakistan they don't have much but the belief that one day they will return home is something making to. r t islamabad afghan journalist have had to dig says peace talks must resume.

there's been a whole stew these of wonder for jews for the last 4 decades almost. these of wonder if you'd used living. in camps they have no become a part of pakistani society they have do or be here on economic interest or financial interests in this country and did or did want to go back unless the situation in the oneness is peaceful and stable. people for it to get a lot to reach a negotiated settlement of the crisis storm is behind the scene in communication with the us and also reveal. that the must be more of these these talks are desperately all in crisis are political crisis the solution is no solution that's

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