election that's. the more growth we give them the sooner you're all. question out please brace themselves with the world anti-doping agency to decide on whether to slam the door to international sports all of them for the next 4 years. with. just that but other central your goal. is to look. that's the biscuit should be on the national bronze the proposed doping sanctions in logical and in appropriate while some monthly's say they are politicised. ukraine peace talks resume for the 1st time in 3 years and now with a 1st for the country's new leader he was elected on a promise to end the conflict. that

very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with minichiello. now russian athletes are holding their breath with the world anti-doping agency or why they're deciding on monday whether their national team will be disqualified from international sports for the next 4 years russia was accused of tampering with a doping test database they handed over to the body earlier this year russian sport is facing a number of possible sanctions including a ban on participation in international tournament among those in next year's tokyo summer games on the beijing winter olympics in 2022 is officials could also be barred from sporting executive bodies additionally the country could be banned from hosting or attempting to host any major sporting event and on top of all that the russian flag of mine not be seen at any competitions at a time soon. the russian olympic committee's days one his recommendations are

a lot to call and it adequate the scandal broke when want to analysts found irregularities in the doping test database from the most elaborate tree there are discrepancies with data that obtained earlier from a whistleblower related to the time period between 20122015 daniel hawkins picks up the story. russian fleet saw in limbo once again many of them and just taken the 1st steps of their sporting careers when this whole doping saga began 5 years ago and back then the world anti-doping agency accused the rush of a huge cover up they slammed risotto the russian anti doping body as being unfit for purpose and things escalated quickly as a good job in scandal after a ban on its paralympic athletes was upheld blocking the entire team from taking part in the upcoming rio paralympic games 15 of the 33 russian medal winners were part of a state when doping program the banned the harshest in olympic history hits officials

hardest the russian olympic committee is suspended the no fly. zone. but things seem to blow over moscow denied they had a state run doping program but admitted they had a problem the russian olympic committee was reinstated and even are now reformed or of solder was given the green light subject to strict conditions. that we actually cooperate with the requirements that they should to russia are fully implemented but there was no happy ending water required full access the russian of 3 data related to the field of doping testing after a brief deadline delay this was provided in generate 2019 fast forward to all time and things have gone wrong again this time water accused russia of tampering with the data while the 29 team copy of the laboratory information management system elias database matches in many respects the 2015 copy of provided to wander by

a whistle blower in 2017 hundreds of presumptive adverse analytical findings that appear in the 2015 copies have been removed from the 2019 copy and the related underlying real data and p.d.f. files have been deleted all to. or water haven't named the mysterious whistleblower but one key witness at the very center of this doping scandal is going to go to rot in coffee before fleeing to the united states where he's now in a witness protection program he was head of the moscow to borrow a tree for 10 years and it turns out his reputation is far from spotless the i.c. further find that at the heart of the positive drug tests cover up is director rod chin cough he not only accepted brutha requested money in order to execute the concealment of positive test results which makes him equally responsible for incidents where coaches or officials extorted athletes even if he was not personally made aware of the extortion no wonder independent russian experts have

doubts about the consistency and reliability of the data. since november 28th 15 when the informant left our country till 2017 when the informant's data set was handed over to the water intelligence and investigations department 6 data bank was at the informant's disposal you can do anything to it but they allege the system was accessed hundreds of times from abroad and that road chunk off who is wanted in russia for abuse of office and drug charges may have been complicit in tampering with the messages in the system independent forensic examination suggests that rushing of support staff members to my fisa bill if ski and. remotely logged into the limbs in moscow on numerous occasions after they had detected abroad so they could have changed zeroes to ones both in their database copy and the one that remained in russia and the monies may need to know what is up but russia cut off

access to its data base in 2016 while wada claims the data was being tampered with as late as january 29th team blaming russia further significant deletions and alterations were made in december 28th seen and generally 2019. i.e. after the war the exco imposed a day to requirement these activities were concealed by backdating of computer systems and data files in an attempt to make it appear that the morse code data had been in their current state since 2015 furthermore the commands issued to execute the manipulations deletions and backdating what also deleted in the attempt to avoid detection of what had been done russian experts challenge the pause ability of the investigations findings claiming that such large scale tampering is simply impossible it was like and we can't do it we cannot deny that there were occurrences of copies of files being destroyed and other fast created but there were no deliberate manipulations this is the working condition of the database when

every year the operator begins to work with this database to change delete and free memory there was a complaint to us the desert disk was reset but the entry was exactly 17 seconds it was impossible to completely delete information on the disk during this time so how do things stand now fortunately very much where they left off accusations of lies and yet another coverup by water counter allegations by russian officials questioning the credibility of findings based on the testimony of a controversial informant while the fate of hundreds of athletes supposed to be innocent until proven guilty hangs in the balance. a while some voices in wind are calling for even tougher sanctions a blanket ban on all russian olympic athlete but even in that eventuality there are grounds for hope on an individual basis and xander tragic health is just one prongs of the skeleton world cup managed to get his lifetime

a lamp expand overturned by sports highest court. you know that it's subject to the deceit that's good at the moment you just get your shit on a bicycle and the other people. most of the email go over to the commuter. the both of you this is. the 3rd so that i knew we couldn't get mine you know. the thought of. this began. yeah. you know what that we also. just that but others from chile. suggested the rival of. the us to look. at them if that's the database can be on them. still on a bunch. of that actually and they had a good. idea

discipline that might be somewhat but i do look at the podium of support out there still should be truly introduced and it's time you put a way to get us knowing s.m.s. would you please i mean when i see images then yeah. people. go to the body into yes no. one can do more work for more it's called a whopper. yeah people still spin my wish at the cook if you will just put me on the porch must. still see near. many of. those wanting to come down hardest on russia the u.k. and the u.s.

bound to doping agencies want a complete. a limping ban on all russian athletes the u.k. agency though has its own controversies it cleared heavyweight boxer dillion white despite the presence of steroids in his sample and justification is that the levels were very low and not caused by any fault on white's parts artie's that looks at how double standards appears to reign in the sphere of anti doping. for years you know national sports competitions have. been hijacked by the russians for decades it seems that russian olympic athletes have been secretly doping to gain a competitive advantage labrat doping system secret labs double agents helping russian athletes cheat their way to the medal stand at the olympics this is now pointing the finger at a whole range of sports in a former what a staffer told us today you know this isn't a bombshell this is a nuclear warhead the russia doping investigation has become the leviathan of

sports scandals it's towering so high above everything else in fact it's hard to notice other violations in its shadow bribery a secret doping society medics and coaches going rogue this year alone has seen plenty staggering revelations none of which could compete with russia the when it comes to the fallout and case one a kenyan olympic champion was caught at greasing anti doping offices palms to avoid being caught. one person's case unraveled years of large scale cheating a trove of documents suggesting kenya's national anti doping agency was helping the country's team get away with it more than

a 100 athletes caught red handed no not russia kenya but the punishment wasn't sweeping it was specific individual to each test and case or how wide a call did not institutionalised drug taking another scandal that snowballed olympic skiing it looked like parts pulled from the american horror story script. so a doping cartel with the now infamous german magic has their ringleader a whole network concocting mechanisms to fool the agency keeping sport clean you'd be shocked to know the sport you play or watch is swarming with drug cheats but the

focus remains tight on russia those other scandals cost into the media archive and forgotten so reports of institutional conspiracy check and undercover doping that were check what about implicating $1.00 of the giants of sport coat with its name in lights for promoting a group spearheading american long distance running with performance enhancing drugs. with the c.e.o. apparently on top of the medical experiments within the company's brainchild it's as close to institutionalize drug taking as it gets in the realms of business but you wouldn't expect anyone to banned nike and its billions of dollars from sports

now would you because otherwise who is going to tailor team u.s.a.'s olympic outfit . i think we have to look at the wide it your political context anybody who has studied this in depth this whole. story i'm afraid would come to the objective conclusion that double standards are being applied here we are seeing a campaign to deal just to my russia on a number of fronts what people are saying quite rightly in russia and elsewhere is the standards must be applied equally that's what this is about it's about standards being applied equally yes when there is evidence of individual athletes who may have consciously taken drugs in an attempt to get advantages over their rival spend any athlete that does that should be subject to the rules no one is disputing that but where this goes way beyond that is this call for a blanket ban and which is unfair because it punishes the innocent as well as the

guilty. illegible as lies to politicize ation of the matter is not the only criticism of coming ahead of the possible ban and some sports personalities believe that if implemented it will demotivate a generation of future athletes. how can you. not only team that entire sports on a country for 4 years it's absolutely ridiculous it's an overkill. little water should do its job and do with claims concerning individual athletes not with the country as a whole they have a dream. so there was 18 years old to go to the. board and pay for their food for the love of this for. the one the poor. don't want to do. the

school is being dragged down by politics in a place where politics should be completely absent school is becoming cost. of politics intensely in this desire to disqualify the whole national team why does decision to ban russia will affect everybody and will cause a great shock. i would say the decisions either politicized correct. what kind of message is out. to our children and you always talk about. our mission because that is tomorrow when you ban the whole culture from 4 to supply and you kill all out of you wish that the 1st and foremost this will affect children and their interest in sport. by our children to take in their future away with they want to do what they love away

because of what a couple individuals did in the past or just i mean it's lucrative or doesn't make any sense at all and of course we'll bring you that critical water ruling as and when it happens stay with us for that. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. thinks. we dare to ask.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development the only really engaging i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back now on monday the leaders of france germany russia and ukraine are meeting in paris to flush out a roadmap to peace in eastern ukraine president vladimir putin will be arriving in the french compas all in just a few hours joining us now live from paris on sees me for trying to any i get to

see you so what all of the expectations i had of today's me say. hello again to. well i'll tell you what's the bloody conflict in east ukraine between the pro russian breakaway republics of donetsk and lugansk and kiev that's already taken more than 10000 lives has been sorted for a while now but there is one crucial remark it's been sorted on paper the step by step peace plan is called the minsk agreements and it came into being thanks to the leaders of germany france russia and ukraine that became known as the normandy 4 but during almost 5 years of its existence we've been hearing from all kinds of politicians from east to west that the minsk agreements are the only way to go when it comes to the peace process. who support the implementation of the

minsk agreement because the reasonable alternative no plan b. exists in my opinion this is the only way they can create a climate in ukrainian society where they were able to make painful compromises regarding the state some so must. i agree with the chancellor there is no other alternative to the implementation of the 6 agreements with help of the embassy you . however in reality none of these steps have been taken pretty much and no wonder the normandie for stopped getting together this is why december the 9th is such an important day the ukrainian government has just stepped in a few months ago and the quartet is convening once again after a long while and the presidents of russia and ukraine well hold direct talks face

to face for the 1st time since the civil war in that country broke out in 2014 but for ukraine's. dimmers the lens this is something this is a situation where he could find himself in a trap in fact some are saying that he's already been trapped because he came to power as a result of the election when many people voted for him an overwhelming majority of ukrainians on promises to bring peace to his country but at the same time on the other hand maybe baby steps that he could take towards russia any compromise could cause him serious political damage back home with ruined the success of his party because the anti russian flow war law and ukraine is still very strong and the political mood takes you turns or swings in ukraine that can happen in

a matter of instance now you may wonder what's in it for france and germany this time while emmanuel macron wants to cement his role as a senior peace broker in the euro was decent toys to moscow when it comes to angola mark colvin poor sees seems to be more busy with domestic issues and soon she will be out of big politics but like i said the minsk agreements are her brainchild and for her it's a matter of to revive the peace process when it comes to the russian side they really want to show commitment to the peace process to remain trusted by the west but i do have to say that it seems that for the russian side a status quo is more profitable as opposed to some kind of decision that is not carefully thought through so should we expect any breakthroughs on monday most

experts are saying that we shouldn't but we do have to remember that under mr zelinsky there's already been a prisoner swap between were. ukraine and also along parts of the front line east ukraine from both sides every rivalry was removed so this does give some hope and a certain degree of optimism ahead of that. indeed in paris for what could be crucial talks are trying to thank you for now we'll speak to you later. if the eye is working on the assumption that the pensacola naval base shooting was an act of terrorism the attack which took place on friday left 3 people dead and 8 injured investigators are looking at whether the saudi gunman who was a trade he at the base is alone or is part of a group. we are as we do in most active shooter investigations

work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism this allows us to take advantage of investigative techniques that can help us more quickly identify and then eliminate any additional potential threats to the rest of our community the gunman was shot dead at the scene by a sheriff's deputy 21 year old mohammed rani was at the base to study aviation it's now being revealed that he bought the his weapon legally in the u.s. some reports suggest that he played master shooting videos to other students at a dinner just days before the attack. prior to the deadly shooting a twitter account which allegedly belonged to the saudi air force officer posted anti u.s. messages condemning washington's policies in the middle east strategic analyst gregory copley say's the shooting throws a wrench into efforts to boost the u.s. saudi alliance. it's very hard to get into the minds of individuals and i think we're at an age where we see people ready to live just online to

a large extent so that they can chat at any moment clearly this young officer was personally motivated to undertake this and the american to act and it's very hard to stop people from that kind of allegiance we've even seen as you know in the past some u.s. officers undertake acts of terrorism of the american acts of terrorism within their own military units so this is not surprising it does however actually cause a problem for the saudi government and the us government because jodi review and united states were busily trying to rip here the tensions between them because it be the breakdown in their strategic relationship over the past few months. and from other stories making headlines globally in brief now in new zealand the powerful a powerful volcanic eruption of white holland has left at least 5 people dead level 20 injured or already 3 of the number of fatalities could be higher as dozens of

people are still unaccounted for including the passengers of a cruise ship that was on a tour of the islands. and other needs thousands of people in the most seas capsule are demanding justice for an investigative journalist killed by a car bomb in 2017 they can use the government of being implicated in the assassination as down we are long ago and we see here the country's prime minister has promised to step down in january over the scandal but want to go now. and environmental activists from the extinction the belly and group stage then lie in in the middle of a row downslide london's heathrow airport they were protesting against the plans construction of a 3rd runway police were present at the stunt but did not intervene. when he does he loves hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and even your comments there. back again at the top of the hour see them.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this i'm show business i'll see you then. to globalization day dollars a share you know that's happening in the world us kind of drifting apart a lot of different choices we look into it because there's an economic force behind it as always. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character

that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results priced on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more we give them the sooner we are all. alone. to welcome to cross talk we're all things to consider and peter lavelle 1st ukraine leaders from russia ukraine germany and france meet in paris to tackle

ukraine's internal divisions are there reasons for optimism and impeachment are the democrats secretly scheming to have actually reelected. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor at innocent me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's go to london 1st alex we have. normandy format as they're calling it of course this is about the internal divisions and problems of ukraine the media falsely characterize as it russia against the ukraine that's not it at all as a mystification from the media this is an internal ukrainian problem and outside

powers are trying to help mediate it what is the normandy format it's called normandy for and where does it come from and what is it trying to achieve go ahead alex yes it's called normandy full because he's originates in a meeting that took place in the during the normandy d.-day celebrations in 2014 when. the president of russia had a brief meeting with petro poroshenko who was the new president of ukraine and they were supposed to agree to together to sort out this format which would be ukraine. russia germany and france with a view to finding some hall way towards peace in ukraine and stress again in ukraine the conflict inside ukraine not the conflict between ukraine and russia issues like for example crimea are completely over.