i. mean. 4 years off the world stage the international anti-doping agency shuts the door on team russia over what it said was tampering with the kenyan doping database. price file saying it provided all the necessary answers in claims it's being ignored plan to take the decision to sports highest court in athletes claim the punishment is harsh and politicized. and in other news the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany have met in paris to agree on a peace road map for eastern ukraine president putin holds his 1st ever meeting with the leader of ukraine.

great to have you with us this is r.t. to now. being. in with a key database of test results from russian athletes correspondent david while this press conference in those up. what are officials announcing a unilateral decision over a 4 year ban on russia taking part in major sporting events during that period meaning that russian athletes won't be able to compete and the ban over russia nor will they be able to fly the russian flag at those major events those major events could include tokyo 2020 and also the world athletics championships is also suggestion that this could impact the football world cup in 2022 russia will be able to host nor be able to bid for any major sporting events during that 4 year period russian officials won't be able to go in an official capacity to those games

nor will officials in russia be able to sit on the boards of major sporting committees all boards during that time when they were questioned about what that would mean for russian athletes who didn't have any cloud of suspicion over them when it came to doping allegations they said that each russian athlete would have to prove their innocence this is a ban against russia the protection of the rights of russian each. entry for major is being. able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any we. are complying. today's decision. really sanctioning those responsible for this when you pollutions and leave those open for those who had nothing to do with. russia clean. plates well what a says its investigation was the sale date was forensic and that investigation

showed that the data entered received from a moscow lobbying question had it believed to be tampered with this was that data from a moscow lab relating to information from 2012 to 2015 while the said that that was dated didn't match the data it into. sieved from the whistleblower which started this big scandal but what i went further and said during that time in moscow in 2808 experts say that they had also seen that all the data had been tampered with and that's why they've taken this decision from the date it received 145 they were able to pinpoint that had had a question mark over them we're not sure if they were rushing a lot but it said only around a 3rd of those outfits were currently active now a russian officials have a very different story to this they say that the data that was handed over. hadn't

been tampered with that they had applied to all of the conditions and stipulations set out by wada and as a result of fans who saw that which is the russia being agency would be appealing this decision asked to present one response and that russia says it's rejected all of the allegations of data manipulation it says it's provided you evidence to counter to show that it didn't modify the data what do you have to say to that and was that taken account in your decision well i wasn't part of the c.r.c. discussion what i do know is that it was close cooperation between the. under russian i'm not sure what conversations they had with flood example of the russian olympic committee. but those people who are interested are entitle to under the standard to appeal and if they wish to appeal they have 21 days to accept this

secession or not and if they do not if they wish to appeal then we will be in cash i write z. . clearly. technical you need to be a full range. and we pass it on immediately sure say thank you very much it does not change the opinion that the well received. they will appeal that decision meaning that this is like you know to end up in the court of arbitration for that court to decide who is right and who is wrong on this particular topic for the meantime though one perhaps ray of light water officials did say today that they was a possibility over changing this decision and that possibility rested on the 4 attempted data being provided by law in moscow something that the russians say they have already done so. for all to see. here are various russian support for the russians have been quick to question decision.

those decisions a biased inexplicably there to politicize them prejudged that punishing russia is the state which was connected to this story without showing any credible evidence it is an absolutely normal transparent organization punishing the states and clean sportsmen and women why should that be considered for. sure it's wrong to punish and impose severe sanctions against those 100 percent everyone. committee requirement. what is this is in is unclear it's wrong to treat sports men and women on the basis of their nationality i believe all sports participants have the right to represent their country on the international arena. and there's been reaction from the sports world to the verdict u.k.'s anti doping agency has welcomed this decision saying it's the only possible outcome. but the head of the united states

anti-doping agency said the measures taken by water onto nuff branded russia's escape from a complete ban a quote a devastating blow to clean up the rule of law reaction was shared by wired as vice president. wanted that complete and that we had 2 choices and i supported and still no 3 kids today and i'm afraid that if we supported. or didn't support the c.r.c. that i you see would want to eat. and want to decision is left lots of unanswered questions is. explained. imagine a person that robs a bank steals let's say a $1000000.00 gets caught gets prison time gets out like a near your early for good behavior but then the police tells them you know we're not sure you actually stole 1000000 maybe your store more so we're going to push

imprison back again well that is basically the logic which the world anti-doping agency applied to the whole nation of russia in their decision on monday to ban the country from major sports competitions in the world saying that russian athletes can compete individually but they have to again prove that they have not used any kind of doping. of the you at the news me i'm in the position of the russian olympic committee stays the same the sanctions are inadequate not logical and too severe we would do our best for the russian olympic team to participate in the upcoming games in japan under the colors of the russian trick due to the terms of the olympic charter. well if someone committed a crime fair enough he or she should be punished for that but it is quite unclear how exactly stripping a nation of its flag in a major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve the problem of fighting against doping you're not innocent until proven guilty and i'm in and you

don't think it's cool you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent a complete reversal of the normal justice system but it's always been that way you've got to think about what's on the world anti-doping agency has jurisdiction but it doesn't at yours dictionary to the russian authorities become sanction russian politicians russian. you know the consequent politicians can it all it can do essentially resell it and take actions relative to schools so it's come up with this international standard to code compliance by signatories which is used to sanction russia this time around and it's come up with these sanctions as a way of putting pressure on the earth or it's used to come clean which they still haven't done. on top of everything it seems that what his decision from monday was made in such a haste that they have no clue how to actually navigate in that decision the biggest example of that is probably the situation with your way for anthy football

amends well where you are where you are quite expected that. these sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of of the upcoming euro. 1st of all it's a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented to. is again within the competence so you are for and if you represent you are from and it presents a continental part but should it make it to the 2022 world cup in qatar it may be stripped of its flag of its anthem and it may be participating as a neutral country all athletes around the world should feel very much concerned with what has happened because we're talking about collective punishment where don't involve the athletes who will be humiliated because of certain

discrepancies in the work of their. limping. association even the reason google we'll there are many ways to say to my dig decision which will being. a very determined man for the whole world vand the want will be damage these are the athletes athletes those athletes are absolute clean those circum barrett is among the best in the world and this what is in justin series about and if you're not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cast the court for arbitration of sports and this process takes longer than the official preparation for next summer's olympics russia will go to next summer's olympics in tokyo as a full fledged nation but then if the ban is implemented late it might miss out on

the 2024 summer olympic games in paris so this is all surrounded by a lot of confusion and at the same time russia says that it's not planning to give up the sports minister of the country by vocal of course insists the. all the information for the reinstatement has been provided to the world anti-doping agency says. our experts have provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't heard us resign or has time to appeal initially when we handed over the database we said let's investigate the database together so that we can make a full decision we wanted to have a kind of mechanism if we don't want to object of decision let's do it like this was saddam has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach. from whichever side you look at it monday's decision by water looks like a vocal and very harsh indictment of russian sports it might send shock waves and reverberations in the country sport for many years to come but it might actually be

the beginning of a new struggle of a new battle the legal one when russia takes its case to the court of arbitration for sports in laws and switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year. r.t. reporting from moscow and hoping litigation expert from sheffield hallam university dr gregory lee and others believe the war there is conducting a crusade against russian support. this is a punitive action against the law let's including the innocent ones i'm not convinced the reason may go more into stiff occasions when things arise if it's not in this particular with there's no evidence of malpractise against them this may be raising a human rights issue whether. they're going to graze this before the court of protection for sport i'm not entirely certain we have to accept that there is a political element involved and i think they're actually applying of a ambiguous more and the motive crusade here they once was in terms of collateral

damage that is there are they rushed in the english and russian offloads the person with a case with a blanket against all russia and not let's it's like saying but every single one of them has been seething and this is not right that it's truly shameful the creation of in your place and suavely ness and such as the forcing of them out there on behalf of the audio c.d.'s so i personally will be. extremely surprised or i would say i would expect with great anticipation to see what the i.o.c. to respond and point in that's what it's doing it's like saying i'm going to come into your house take the keys away from you and i'll decide who comes in and who goes out. and some sports personalities of express their fear is that anybody could be motivated generation to feature athletes. how can you. not only team that entire supports for a country for 4 years it's absolutely ridiculous it's an overkill this. should do

its job and deal with claims concerning individual athletes not with the country as a whole they have a dream like god the it so there was 18 years old to go to the little sort of world to. compete for their country for the love of the sport for the love of their country and try to be them one of the best don't want to deal. with. the sport is being dragged down by politics in a place where politics should be completely absent sport is becoming costly. 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 it will cause great shock. anyway i would say the decisions either politicize or just incorrect. what kind of message is out.

to our children and we always talk about. our mission because that is tomorrow well when you ban the whole culture from participating you kill all out of you. i think that 1st and foremost this will affect children and their interest in sports. 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 there's a make any sense at all. continues to plague the world of sports. some of the biggest cases of the. for years the national sports competitions have. been hijacked by the russians for decades it seems russian olympic athletes have been secretly doping to gain a competitive edge leverage 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 proms to avoid being caught. release any. indians. thought it was mostly level.

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. scheme 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 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 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 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 there i was then any athlete that does that should be subject to the rules no one is just using 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. and we will of course be continuing with our coverage of the story here on r.t. stay with us for. the 1st one on one talks between the russian president and the new ukrainian leaders lead in his alinsky have just concluded the talks happened on the sidelines of a meeting with their counterparts from france and germany of the so-called normandy 4 summit which was convened to discuss the conflict in eastern ukraine not easily

be trying to reports from paris. this monday is a very big day here at the palace in paris it's a very big day for europe a very big day for ukraine just a short while ago we saw the french president and manual macron welcoming his guests from ukraine russia and germany the 1st one to arrive was angle of merkel then it was full dimmers and then the ukrainian president and i'll tell you what we couldn't even understand if it was him for a moment because he came in on a plane run no minivan and the last of the 4 leaders to arrive was vladimir putin just an hour before that though a group of topless femen activists thought that they could try and spoil the day. let me just break down why the number one politicians from 4 countries are holding

talks in that building i'll tell you what technically the bloody conflict between the breakaway republics of donetsk and lugansk and kiev has been solved but there's one important remark it's been solved on paper now this step by step plan that several years ago was hammered out by the leaders of ukraine russia france and germany it's called the minsk agreements and i can tell you that for all these years from east to west from all kinds of politicians we've been hearing that this plan is the only way to go to 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 status of their own bias. i agree with the chancellor i've also said

there is no other alternative to the implementation of all minsk agreements with help of the c.u.z. . however if we look at what's really been happening on the ground in reality pretty much none of the steps were actually taken and now there is a new chance there's a new government in kiev and that's why the quartet is getting together for the 1st time since 2016 but more importantly we are expecting the 1st ever meeting between the president of russia and the president of ukraine since the civil war in that country broke out in 2014. and just after the leaders took their places at the table the ukrainian president forgot to turn for a joint photo but his french and russian counterparts reminded him of the protocol don't forget this is the lances 1st such meeting in normandy for summit leaders will hold a press conference following talks we will cross live to that as soon as it begins

. the leaders of the meeting at least a palace activists were outside the building handing out these leaflets the public claiming that russia is at war we've europe not ukraine. on sunday thousands of people took to the streets of ukraine's capital against the upcoming meeting demonstrators brought turns and food to the president's office in a bid to spend the night that the country's opposition led by former president poroshenko called on people to take nationwide action against the government. in the meantime austria's former foreign minister told us that the summit is an important move in the right direction. any decision that you take on the level of foreign policy in particular when it's such a delicate issue it always has. the mastic implication that it's very particular in that. i do wish. all the very

best to be able to start something and to wait for that then i'll make that it can evolve but from what we have been seeing over the last few months we already can detect some sort of dynamic that's not that's not anymore the complete may have been moved on the military level exchange of. people who were detained something is going on what i have always said what is very important in diplomacy is that things happen. indescretion they don't have to be discussed on a daily level in public it's important that certain things can happen sometimes behind closed doors but that's where they can happen best. thing with the international the seeming join me for a place in hell for them. to

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