i. believe is a russia ukraine france and germany agree to implement a full ceasefire for eastern ukraine by the end of the year and that's off the 6 hours of negotiations in paris. 4 years on the world stage the international anti doping agency shuts the door on team russia over what it said was moscow's tampering with a key doping database. and russia cries foul saying it provided all the answers necessary and claims it's been ignored while the authorities plan to take the decision to the sport's highest court in russian actually it's claimed the punishment is harsh and politicised.

you're watching r t international i'm rosana local thank you for joining us. restart this peace efforts for eastern ukraine a showing signs of progress with a cease fire and prisoner swap due to take place by the end of this year the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany held 6 hours of talks in paris and to resolving the long running conflict if the trunk has got the details. so has there been a breakthrough in paris or not well the new president of ukraine and president vladimir putin of russia shook hands for the 1st time they spoke one on one to each other for the 1st time and spent an entire day had run for president emanuel macron with the. peace broker we are friends at the leader of

germany and that we do have to remember that this is something that had happened for 3 years and also we do have to remember that it's thanks to paris and berlin that the road map for peace and east ukraine called the series of minsk agreement was once hammered out so in that sense the word breakthrough is clearly appropriate we do have to remember the main stumbling blocks of the bids peace process for example i can tell you that russia has so to say prioritize the following elements of the midst of grievance that is the need for if you have to grant special political status. of lugano and that instead that has to be somehow reflected in the constitution and also at the demand that the. free and democratic elections in this republic this is something that we haven't seen as

a feat to do at all however for the government in kiev the element that is absolutely essential is the one that is supposed to lead to the full handover of the control of the border between russia and the breakaway republics of lugansk and then he adds that i mention when it comes to all these aspects it seems that for me there moscow going to be a bar ready for any compromise but during the press conference latimer. did remind everyone that when it comes to the order of the elements of the beds. when it comes to the order of the elements of the midst ford says the aspect that has to do with the control over the border does after the political section by kiev. now according to the arrangements that ukraine will begin with some of that come

through of my it establishing control of the cherry tree if you go and part of the board on the next day following the election that might be why do we need to. use it and then question the rewrites of the men's cool it's a very good translation follows the other if we change one provision. they know lou disrupts the situation disrupt the process i do have to say that there have been concerns that the government of president steve will be fulfill their part of the agreement to add all of the near future because of the pressure that's been mounting on him domestic coley the anti russian pro-war lobby is still very strong and any baby steps that the zelinsky could potentially make towards russia could lead to some serious political damage for him at home. well in some cases after such tough difficult talks the sides can't even

agree on a joint statement after a day of negotiations well this time they did provide a list of common conclusions and one section from that document is very important because it paves the way for potentially a complete cease fire along the front line in ukraine and also an overwhelming prisoner exchange between the 2 sides which is supposed to happen before new year's eve before the end of 20. one take which is very soon and during the press conference blatter mehr selenski was absolutely right that he was delighted that this was made possible. because we've always been talking about it in minsk. as a part of 3 thought a discussion group and everything was followed but now this matter is on the high level. i think that. is going to be known as soul from

both parties before the end of the year or. disengagement efforts along the front line are supposed to continue demining efforts as well and also the citizens of ukraine will get a chance to cross the front line at many more crossing points then they can use at this point paragraph 2 does say that the russian and ukrainian sides will remain interested in trying to find ways to somehow reach a compromise when it comes to these most difficult elements of the minsk agreement that i mentioned and also most importantly paragraph 3 says that there will be another summit of the normandy quartet in 4 months so the contacts on the most high profile level between berlin paris kiev and moscow will continue. along this we spoke to george somewhat of his senior research fellow at the global

policy institute and he says there is still a severe lack of trust between the opposing forces in east ukraine. it is a good steps the ceasefire the creation of these 3 disengagement areas the increase in the humanitarian crossing points certainly brings us closer but it doesn't leave the resolution is anywhere near and so there's very little trust between the 2 sides because there's a fear that once. ukraine. return of the control of the borders returns luke year they are going to relaunch their offensive against the people of dallas no longer number of times the length he was referring to the dollar occupied areas and i don't think putin would much appreciate that the reference occupied areas because they're not occupied areas. once you're in these talks in paris

vladimir putin also commented on the world anti-doping agency's decision to ban russia from international sporting events for the next 4 years because a new move would punishment must not be collective affecting people who have nothing to do with certain violations russia has been banned from all major sporting events for 4 years by the world anti-doping agency and according to wada moscow is being punished for tampering with a database of test results from athletes r.t. shallot events he was at the water press conference in las. why the 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 banned 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 that protect the rights of russian each. entry for major is. able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any we. are complying and what is important to this decision. are really sanctioning those who are responsible for this menu pollutions and leave those open

for those who had nothing to do with. in russia clean. plates well what it says in its investigation was the sale date was forensic and that investigation showed that the data it'd 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 that 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 in russia

a lot but it said the only around a 3rd of those athletes 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 i asked to present what a poor response on 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 but i do know is that it was close cooperation between the. under russian i'm not sure what conversations they had with for example the russian

olympic committee or rosado 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 does the 17 page resume 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 fall tempered data being provided by that law in moscow something that the russians say

they have already done. faulty in the souls and meanwhile the russian sports federations have been quick to question while this decision. there is decisions a biased inexplicably there to politicize them prejudged the punishing russia is a state which was connected to this story without showing any credible evidence is an absolutely normal transparent organization punishing the states and clean sportsmen and women why should that be considered fair. but i'm absolutely sure it's wrong to punish and impose severe sanctions against those 100 percent meeting everyone and the committee requirement. what is this is and is unfair 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 has also been reaction from the sports world to the verdict of the u.k.'s anti-doping agency has welcomed us decision saying it's the only possible outcome but the head of the united states anti-doping agency has said the measures taken by wada aunt enough he branded russia's escape from a complete ban a devastating blow to clean athletes and the rule of law the same reaction was shared by waters vice president. wanted that complete ban but we had 2 choices and i supported as long as we could get today i'm afraid that if we supported. or didn't support the c.r.c. that the i.o.c. would water it. and while this decision have left a lot of unanswered questions as alex year shifts explains. 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 stole more so we're going to push imprison back again or 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 of 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 with under the colors of the russian trickle or due to the terms of the olympic charter. whether 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 proven guilty in school you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent a complete reversal of 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 consequences shoes 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 or 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 north or it's used to come clean which they still haven't done. on top of everything it seems that waters 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 you wait for and feel for tournament's where were you where you quite expect to. be sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming your. first of all it's a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented to. is again within the competence of us and if you represent us 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 after that surround 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 decide to my dick decision which will be a. very determined man till the whole world vand the want to will be damage these are the athletes athletes those athletes are absolutely clean those sir competitive among the best in the world and this what is just a series about and if you're not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas the court for arbitration of sport. it's 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 elim big 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 that all the information for their reinstatement has been provided to the world anti-doping agency. experts who 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 switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year. r.t. reporting from moscow and he duping litigation expert from sheffield hallam university dr gregory year in addis believes while there is conducting a crusade against russian support. this is a punitive action against the law including the insured ones i'm not convinced that many more i'm just. not into particular with there's no evidence of this against them this may be raising a human rights issue where. they're going to raise this before the court and. i'm not entirely certain. we have to accept that there is

a political element involved. actually applying a very ambiguous moral and a motive crusade here there once was in terms of collateral damage that are there are. lots of personal take with a blanket. or not let's it's like saying 3 single one of them has been sitting and this is not right it's true it's shameful the creation of in your sins was ness and such of 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. is respond. point in that's why it's doing it's like saying i'm going to come into your house take the case away from you and i'll decide who comes in and who goes out. and some sports personalities have expressed fears that any band could actually demotivate a generation of future athletes. how

can you. not only team that entire support from a country for 4 years it's absolutely ridiculous it's an overkill on the. water should do its job and deal with claims concerning individual athletes not with the country as a whole to have dreams. so there was 18 years old to go to. compete for the love of the sport for the love of their country and try to be number one of . the sport is being dragged down by politics in a place where politics should be completely absent sport is becoming costly. influence of politics intensely in this desire to disqualify the whole national team why does this. then russia will affect everybody and it will cause

a great shock. i would say to the decisions either politicized or just incorrect. what kind of message is that son to our children and we always talk about. our mission because that is tomorrow when you ban the whole culture from participating to kill all out of you. i think the 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. scandals do continue to plague the world of sports donald looks at some of the biggest cases of the. 3 years in a 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 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 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 the case or how wide a call did not institutionalised drug taking another scandal that snowballed olympics. team 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 band nike and it's 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 did 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 delegate 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 rivals then any athlete that does that should be subject to the rules no one is just using that but where this does way beyond that is this call for a blanket ban and which is unfair because it punishes the innocent as well as the the guilty. and that is your news update and now we'll be back here in around 30 minutes time with a roundup of the headlines of the of them. to

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