jerry thinks. we dare to ask. russian athletes brace themselves what the wall done to doping agency to decide whether to slam the door to international sports on them for the next 4 years. with the offer of his new person just the butt of the truly appeal. to go pro. or still you know whether he started to be on the russian or bronze the proposed doping function of a logical and inappropriate while some athletes say they are politicized. ukraine peace talks resume for the 1st time in 3 years and they'll be the 1st for the country's new leader he was elected on a promise to end the conflict. very

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

a lot equal and inadequate the scandal broke when wanda analysts found irregularities in the doping test database from the most elaborate tree there were discrepancies with data that obtained from the whistleblower relating to the time period between 20122015 donna 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 being scanned 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 $33.00 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 me no flag no. 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 resolder was given the green light subject to strict conditions. we actively cooperate with the requirements that they say 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. altered 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 watching 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 icy 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 rod chung cough 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 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 the zeros to ones both in their database copy and the one that remained in russia and the monies may need. but russia cut off access to its database 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 2090. in 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 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. well meanwhile some voices in wind are calling for even tougher sanctions a blanket ban on all russian olympic athletes but even in that eventuality there are grounds for hope on an individual basis if alexander tried to call there is just one prongs of the skeleton wildcat managed to get his lifetime

a limp expound overturned by sports highest court. you know a little bit of subject to go with the 60 diploma you just get your goal should be a little better than the other local. level of e-mail over this commuter. the both of you this is. the 3rd so that i knew you to sleep in and get mine you know. because the guy said no you just want to. yeah. you know i also know but it also is a person just now but others from chile have gone sick just for the trial of. the us to be a you know blemish that's the database can should be on the. still of the bunch of . the dutch and they may begin.

to subside their discipline that might be somewhat but i do look at the producer who support us they will ship the treaty to just not understanding what we did get us knowing us on this would you please i mean let's see the cars when you push them a sharp look at the good people of the. go really worship ability to just. one can bloom all of the film is called in the optical yeah people still spinning my was a few of. the states put on them approaches. still see. how . many estimates. but those wanting to come down hardest on russia are the u.k. and the u.s.

they're on to have been agencies want to complete a limping. on all russian athletes the u.k. agency though has its own controversies that cleared heavyweight boxer dillion white despite the presence of steroids in his sample and justification is a bit levels were not were very low and not caused by any faults on whites part well arty's it goes down of looks at how double standards appear to reign in the sphere of anti doping. for years you 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 there 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 all 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 network check what about implicating one 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 we're here because otherwise who is going to tailor team u.s.a.'s olympic outfit. i think we have to look at the why that 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 diligent to my eyes to 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. well the alleged politicize ation of the matter is not the only criticism coming ahead of the possible ban but some sports personalities believe that if implemented it will be motivate a generation of future athletes. how can you. not only. that entire sports for my country for 4 years it's absolutely ridiculous it's an overkill this. should do its job and do with claims concerning individual athletes not with the country as a whole to have dreams like the so there was 18 years old to go to. compete for their country for the love of the sport for the love of their country and try to be one of the best don't want to do. what. the school is being dragged down by politics in

a place where politics should be completely absent sports is becoming costly. the. influence of politics is intensely felt 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 decision either politicized just incorrect. what kind of message is out. to our children and you know we talk about. our mission because that is tomorrow when you ban the whole culture from participating to kill all out of you. i think that 1st and foremost this will affect children and their interest in sport. our children have taken their future away with they want to do what they love away because of what a couple individuals did in the past it's just i mean it's ludicrous that it

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. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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breakaway republics of donetsk and lugansk and kiev has been sorted for years now there's only one crucial remark it's been sorted on paper the step by step peace plan is called the mids be green means and this came into being thanks to the efforts by the leaders of germany france ukraine and russia this quartet became known as the normandy for well during the 5 years of the existence of the peace plan and we've kept hearing from all kinds of politicians from east to west that the minsk agreements are the only way to go to support the implementation of the minsk agreement because the reason no alternative no plan b. exists but 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 states of us. i agree with the chancellor there is no other

alternative to the implementation of all minsk agreements with help of the l.s.e. you. however in fact in reality none of these steps were pretty much taken so no wonder the normandy 4 stopped getting together this is why december the 9th is so important the quartet is convening after a very long pause and the presidents of russia and ukraine are said to hold direct talks face to face for the 1st time since the civil war in ukraine broke out in 2014 but i do have to point out that there was a lunch he could find himself trapped in fact some are saying that he's already in a trap because any baby step that he could make towards russia any little compromise could cost him real political damage that hold the success of his party because the anti russian pro-war lobby in ukraine is still very strong and we know

that the political public mood in ukraine kid swing or just take you turns within a matter of but instead now you may wonder what's in it for france and germany this time the french president emmanuel macron wants to cement his role as a senior peace broker in europe was decent ties to russia when it comes to angela merkel of course you may say that right now she's more busy with domestic issues and soon she will be on her way out of big politics although like i said the minsk agreements are partially her brainchild so for her it's a matter of pristine to revive them if we take last go for the russians it's very important to show commitment to the minsk agreements to restore trust with the western countries but anyway it seems for the russian side status quo is more preferable over any kind of steps that are carefully thought through so should we expect any surprises breakthroughs on monday most experts are saying that we

shouldn't but we do have to remember that under president bush demurred. selenski there has already been a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine and also along parts of the front line in east ukraine on both sides heavy weaponry has been removed so this does bring the whole. degree of optimism. the f.b.i. is working on the assumption that the pensacola naval base shooting was an act of terrorism the attack which took place on friday it left 3 people dead and 8 injured investigators are looking at whether the saudi gunman who was a trainee at the base acted alone or as part of a group we are as we do most active shooter investigations work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism the so lousy just 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 been revealed that he bought his weapon legally in the us some reports suggest that he played mass shooting videos to other students at a dinner just days before the attack prior to the deadly shooting a twitter account which led to allegedly belongs to the saudi air force officer posted down to u.s. messages condemning washington's policies in the middle east strategic gregory copley says 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 at an age where we see people radicalized online to a large extent so that they can turn it any moment clearly this young officer was

personally motivated to undertake this anti american act and very hard to stop people from that kind of allegiance we've even seen it as you know in the past some u.s. officers undertake acts of terrorism of the american acts of terrorism within their own military unit so this is not surprising it does however actually cause a problem for the saudi government and the u.s. government because saudi arabia and the united states were busily trying to repair the fences between them because there's been a breakdown in their strategic relationship over the past few months the pentagon's chief has announced america's new military focus but if in the wake of the pensacola attack he thought he might be encountering terrorism you'd be wrong his mind. the best explanation i've come up with crude as it is is that pentagon chiefs have sinked this cycles honestly it defies reasonable

explanation the next most plausible explanation is that there is some sort of a cult initiation ceremony every year or so they come out each successive defense secretary and say exactly the same thing like they're the 1st ever to say it we're working to reallocate our forces 'd and equipment the priority theatres that enable us to better compete with china and russia there seems to be an event a regular event at the pentagon that affects their whole modes their brain activity and makes them act bizarrely the strangeness manifest itself in them shifting their attention to russia and china year after year after year as if they had their attention and something outs we face growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and russia or from each other the 1st to describe how we're approaching 5 strategic challenges russia. china.

north korea. iran and terrorism over the long term we should expect russia to test our alliances purpose stamina and commitment the irony in all of this is that a recent poll found that half of american military families see russia as an ally television back and the us bases that they somehow missed the years long tidal wave of and see russian propaganda almost every major us network russia definitely had involvement in the american election russia was meddling in our election russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics how the russians. or trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement what the hell's the point of the target audience the troops that are supposed to protect america from that imminent

russian invasion n.b.c. promises coming any hour now if they american troops don't buy it but of course the brass has an excuse merican troops refusing propaganda shoveled down their throats for years and actually get this the victims of russian machinations aha there is an effort on the part of russia to flood the media with disinformation to sow doubt and confusion this is not only through discordant and implement a very dialogue but through false narrative designed to elicit sympathetic views and here i thought it larry clinton calling half a countryman deplorable those was discordant or democrats calling republicans traitors was inflammatory i said this before and i'll say it again russia even if it wanted to could never have done a 100th of the damage and division done to america by its own media and politicians

were refused to compromise refused to accept their own countryman's opinions and views but no matter what you say to these people they will squirm they will twist they will speak and always always turn it into someone else's fault just not there . more and more republicans have changed their views on russia because of president trump's positive statements about russia and russian president vladimir putin and again asking the atlantic council what it thinks of russia is like asking the flu virus what it thinks about vaccines i mean they're literally paid to say this by arms companies whose sales depend on everyone being afraid of russia it's a tough spot what is a defense secretary to do his rhetorical what they're going to do is shift their attention to russia perhaps this style it will turn out different when taken in

touch and sail than all of our stories we love to hear from here well in fact at the top of the hour either. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises a possible to the people and promise to be you know we've all butts be. pretty. pretty good. now you want to 1st correct that. no.

cut cut cut. cut cut. you know world of big partisan mob and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. to globalization the dollars a share you know that's happening in the world this time.