but the world is kind of drifting apart in a lot of different lawyers we look into it because there's an economic force behind it is always. russian sports world is reeling off of the country was banned for 4 years from major international tournament stuck. in the dark with the sides still struggling how could this punish the whole country all the athletes no matter whether they dumped or not they should just punish those who were guilty. of 6 hours of talks in paris the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany agree to implement a full ceasefire in eastern ukraine by the end of the year. and the new firm in his version of the classic tale snow white is released with a twist in applause we debate the trend of updating classic characters to make them more diverse undine claims to. this is political correctness guy i

may add a little girls everywhere love prepared some of the young ladies from reality feel that we don't push them into a cold hard world where they have to fend for themselves and there is no one there to save them on a whiteboard. a very good morning to you it's 10 am here in moscow in the watching aussie international with me the key airing our top story it's a moment of anger and frustration for russian sports after the country's flag was banned for 4 years from all major world tournament if the decision was made by the world anti-doping agency or wada has expressed his support for russian a fleas. because a new mood policeman must not be collective affecting people who have nothing to do with certain violations. what is there is moscow is being punished for tampering with a database of drug test results clean up needs the will be able to compete under

a neutral flag but russian officials are now prohibited from attending major sporting events while the country won't be allowed to host any tournament now the list of events russians been banned from is extensive it includes the olympic and paralympic games in tokyo in 2020 and football's fifa world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was the last host of that event and its players will now have to go as neutrals if they qualify russians were. among those are still have to prove they're clean she failed a drug test in 2013 and was suspended for 16 months before the rio olympics she received another suspension. but took the matter to sports highest court and won she was reinstated and went on to win 2 silver medals here's what she thinks about the water decision. look i got that assad's struggle so how could they punish the whole country all athletes no matter whether

they deserve it or not they should just punish those who were guilty one of they often result are all athletes who were involved in something but punishing the whole country all our young athletes just because someone did something wrong athletes shouldn't be deprived of the opportunity to represent their own country i believe it shows that politics has come into sport because they do allow clean athletes to compete under the neutral flag but they don't want to see the russian flag there or anyone representing our country. to me now says it is evil in the book i have already hired a lawyer however funny that to my sound in ordinary life if you break a rule once it doesn't matter if it's a drive in the fans were fired you will not be punished twice for that i hope it will work now but i can't be sure about that but it could be worse than it was before rio i was reinstated for the olympics almost on the very day the games began and i was sick for half a year now i'm not reacting the same way even if i'm not allowed to compete i'm

almost a grandma for the world of sport then that's my fate and what can i do i just want to advise other athletes not to worry and to hire lawyers don't expect anyone to help you help yourself. orders given the russian anti-doping agency $21.00 days to decide if they want to pursue that course if it helps to do so the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. breaks down the water ruling for us. 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 by itself 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 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 know not. proven guilty and i'm in and you don't do to 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 reset 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 earth 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 and if you're not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas 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 bible club golf insists that all the

information for the reinstatement of that has been provided to the world anti-doping agency says being able to our 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 be objective decision let's do it like this was saddam has all the necessary opportunities he could have taken a different approach from whichever side you lie. 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 yeah this is a punitive action against the law including begin to shoot once. more in just

a few. garage if it's not it's particular with there's no evidence of this against them this may be raising a human rights issue whether. they're going to raise this before the court of protection order i'm not entirely certain we have to accept but there is a political level and the involved. thing they're actually applying a very ambiguous moral crusade. they once were in terms of collateral damage are they russian the initial russian operates expect with great anticipation to see what the i.o.c. is risk and point in that's what it's doing it's like saying i'm going to come into your state because somebody from you decide who comes and goes. he says it's for eastern ukraine are showing signs of progress with both moscow and kiev finding common ground on a number of issues the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany how 6 hours of

talks in paris and resulting the long running conflict president vladimir putin and his ukrainian counterpart randomizer linsky both describe the meeting as positive. yes the. is there a thaw in our relations i think yes of course we have discussed a broad range of issues and made progress on many of them all of that gives grounds to believe that the process is moving in the right direction. which shook us. said it with regards to our peace efforts we have met and i think it's a great step towards peace the meeting was long and difficult but the mood of the meeting was positive. and i written statement both leaders agreed to implement a complete ceasefire by the end of this year and a complete all for all prisoner swap as well they also committed to withdrawing troops from certain conflict zones before april next year and to ensuring that these are the mind. reports. 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 and the residence of french president emmanuel back crawdad with 2 of europe's key peace brokers the leader of france and the leader of germany and we do have to remember that this is something that hadn't happened for 3 years while 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 and east ukraine and also an overwhelming prisoner exchange between the 2 sides which is supposed to happen

before new year's eve during the press conference blatter mehr selenski was absolutely frank that he was delighted that this was made possible as not you know come to want to choose to be honest i don't know how to control the situation 20 times in nearly 6 years decided to try to reach a cease fire and 20 times to cease fire has been violated here in paris we have treated the issue very seriously now that it's being dealt with at a high level i think it's going to be sold by the end of the year. i can tell you that russia has so to say prioritize the following elements of the midst agreements that is the need for key have to grant special political status to the breakaway republics of low gods and donetsk and that has to be somehow reflected in the constitution and also the demand that needs to hold free and democratic elections

and this republic this is something that kiev it seems hasn't been keen to do at all however for of 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 that he had skipped a lot of our approaches and did remind everyone that when it comes to the minsk accord the control over the border does come after the political section by. the music's of launching read the minsk accords they say ukraine will begin to establish control over the russia don't bust border the day after elections are held in the region that is what the documents see why undermine the agreements and rewrite their contents if we alter one article then the others are likely to be altered as well and will ultimately lose everything. i do have to say that there

have been concerns that the government of the legs d won't be able to fulfill their part of the agreement to at all in the near future because of the pressure that's been mounting on him domestic only the anti russian pro-war lobby is still very strong and any baby steps that selenski could potentially make towards russia could lead to some serious political damage for him at a whole common conclusions being made by the normandy quartet that 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 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. and if you're looking for

more insight on the story you can head to our website r.t. dot com for the relevant analysis opinions and all the updates on the normandy 4 summit still to come russia's top diplomat just touched down in washington d.c. wait expected to hold talks with president trump after the break we'll look at what topics from likely to dominate that meeting today with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on us and spearing dramatic development is only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. this is dotty international welcome back now right here in germany has penned a feminist version of the classic tell snow white on the adaptation has

a surprise twist. through tales give you a chance to teach you to talk to. this city simply not to trust me not to such an important concepts or really want your children to grow value. it's not the 1st time a classic tells being given a modern make over and

a new version of aladdin released this year princess jasmine has high aspirations to become soaked and in the original she just wanted to find her soulmate. in a remake of the 989 classic little mermaid a black actress plays the lead role in that calls a backlash from criticized attempts to alter traditional characters but others were enthusiastic saying it was a win for diversity while we discussed the trend with karen turk a t.v. and radio host and reese everson women's rights advocate. this is political correctness god mad i i am sad for little girls everywhere that it's no longer ok to be a housewife and a princess you know on the one hand we want to tell little girls that you can be anything you want to be and less it means being in a traditional relationship maybe being a housewife wanting to be a princess that it's not ok you know i'm all for equal rights and i'm all for feminism but this is just wrong there's no reason that we should take away fantasy

and fairy tales and this story does just that this german father has rewrote this thing in a way where it just slaps reality in the face of children absolutely not i think we've done young ladies a disservice for many many years by promising them this fairy tale and pushing it into their head as little girls so that when they grow up they're expecting to meet this guy who's ready to take them on as their wife and marry them and pay the bills and and be the head of the household and for a lot of women those the statistics say that that's actually no longer reality the reality for so many women unfortunately is that we won't get to have that fanciful stay at home fairytale story it sounds good and many of us would love to have it but let's prepare some of these young ladies for reality so that we don't push them into a cold hard world where they have to fend for themselves and there is no one there to save them on a white horse i'm sure very soon

a great you know if you could find a guy on a white horse to just take you away and sweep you off your feet that would be a good fantasy doesn't mean it's going to happen but it's nice to read the story and why take that away from little girls rather than getting into this fanciful tale let's just as the elements that allow us to bring it to the future and allow our girls a chance to you know probably create a future for themselves that looks more like what they would like it to or what they're capable of having versus some. far off this new fairytale that may never happen you know just forcing down their throat that the only way that you can have validity is to have a career and being a housewife is no longer ok i don't know that that's necessarily the right thing here and it's found good to allow children to live in this fantasy world but we've got to give them some truth so that they can begin to grow into skill sets in people who can actually function in the real world taking the 7 dwarfs and making them women and then having snow white travel around the world you know with the

prince and they're not romantically involved i mean this is just changing the entire story i do believe we need to empower women but i don't think we need to emasculate men in the process and i think we should lock the door of speed worse than they should be males. russia's foreign minister has arrived in washington for a working visit so a lot of office expected to meet secretary of state mark pompei on president on the trial the mission hasn't been officially confirmed yet but it would come just a day after the u.s. justice department's watchdog ruled that the f.b.i. has russia probles justified lot of office visit also comes against the backdrop of the impeachment inquiry into triumph over what is being called the ukraine gate artie's markdowns you have looked at the backlog of pressing international issues that moscow and washington hope to make progress on. it's hard to imagine a worse time for russia and the u.s. to meet you wait

a few years the way things are good and oh it will be even worse pressing issues at stake things that could no longer be delayed things that affect you will see 50 my 60 the entire world. arms control most important for short range ballistic weapons ever since the u.s. and russia pulled out of the i.m.f. treaty locking horns over who had violated the terms things have been escalating understand. how awful these things are with your brand of the mill nuclear weapons both sides know where they are they can detect launches potentially intercept them with short range intermediate weapons there's no warning which makes both sides and europe protected by the i.m.f. panicky with these weapons it's better to press early rather than late i want we definitely don't want to see our continent 1000000000 back to being

a battlefield or a place where. other superpowers confront themselves belongs to a far away history. now another monumental agreement is in the law in the faso the speak the start treaty which limits how many strategic nuclear weapons a country can field and it's expiring in about a year which is why russia wants a new treaty in place but russia is ready to prolong the new start treaty as soon as possible before the end of the year without any preconditions so far no response from washington but rumor has it trump wants a deal that would bring in china to russia wants to make a deal very much on arms the. world so certainly really. you know. we may be related. now all talk for now this is what this meeting is

about talking enough to finally resolve this. control is just one part of the problem now is waging a p.r. war against russia spy scandals hacking accusations sanctions and threats of more rudy giuliani's communications with president trump could be monitored by the russians russia may have been listening and russians are working to so doubt russia's information warfare the. escalation would be sensible little reason and relations gone mad. this is arguably the field where america and russia can do the most really actually make the world just a little bit better cooperate and venezuela work together in libya north korea even sort out the mess that is u.s. policy on iran. iran is undergoing some very serious problems largely due

to u.s. sanctions the absolutely illegally the americans withdrew from iran you could see you will expect the sites to see that this was a short list of common issues from the very deadly to the highly inconvenient there are many more which is why even if the nothing this meeting is a good idea keeps the avenues of dialogue open because if they aren't and these problems with it keep mounting well there's only so much a camel's back can take. sometimes that justice fails people are convicted for crimes that they never committed in and our documentary talon has the story of an a man who spent 40 years behind bars despite being innocent you can see it in full throughout the day here on r.t. and online here's a preview for you. 9 lisa mitchell

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minutes with the latest headlines if you can join is that day that. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. 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 based 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 road we give them the sooner we are all. greetings and sally you tell you should. in what's being called this generation's pentagon papers the washington post released on monday the outlet is calling the afghanistan papers the secret history of the war in their article the post craig

whitlock writes that the trove of confidential government documents obtained by the newspaper through the freedom of information act after a 3 year long legal battle reveal that senior u.s. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in afghanistan throughout the 18 year campaign making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding a mistake of all evidence the war had become unwinnable. in other words exactly what many whistleblowers activists analysts and all of us independent journalists have been saying and writing about the war since the long of writing about the longest war in u.s. history since a little after it actually began back in 2001 but that doesn't mean that this latest release of documents by the post is important because it is incredibly damning to the credibility of the u.s. government and the pentagon the post reports that the documents were in fact generated as part of a federal project and.