the russian sports world is reeling after the country was banned for 4 years from the major international tournaments. with their sides still thrown how could they punish the whole country all the athletes no matter whether they dumped or not they should just punish those who were guilty. also this hour after 6 hours of talks in paris the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany agreed to implement a full cease fire in eastern ukraine by the end of the year. and a new film this version of the classic tale snow white is released with a twist in the plot we debate the trend of updating classic characters to make them more diverse and it's an inclusive. this is political correctness god i say out for little girls everywhere love prepare some of these young ladies for

a 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 white horse. you're watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. it's a moment of anger and frustration for russian sport after the country's flag was banned for 4 years from all major world tournaments the decision was made by the world anti-doping agency but our putin has expressed his support for russian athletes. because. the punishment must not be collective the 13 people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are new complaints against the russian olympic committee if there are no complaints the country should compete under its national flag as stated in the olympic charter it means that why this decision

contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal to cas water says moscow is being punished for tampering with a database of drug test results clean athletes will be able to compete under a neutral flag but russian officials are now prohibited from attending major sporting events and the country won't be allowed to host any tournaments now the list of a bounce russia has been excluded from is extensive it includes the olympic and paralympic games in tokyo in 20 twentieth's and football's world cup in qatar 2 years later russia was the last host about a band and its players will now have to go as neutrals if they qualify russians who are. is among those athletes who have to prove their queen she failed a drug test in 2013 and was suspended for 16 months before the rio olympics she received another suspension for melburnian use 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 what this decision. look like with

a decides to know how could they punish the whole country all the athletes no matter whether they deserved or not they should just punish those who were guilty one of the often risotto 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 on the neutral lead but they don't want to see the russian flag there or anyone representing our country. to me now. i have already hired a lawyer however funny that's 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 not to be punished twice for that i hope which we weren't now but i can't be sure about that but it could be worse than it was before rio i was reinstated fully and into exile most on the very day the games began and

i was sick for half a year now and not reacted 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. what i have given the russian anti-doping agency $21.00 days to decide if they want to pursue an appeal if it up to do so 2 the case will be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. breaks on 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 millions maybe your store 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. 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. 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 'd the problem of fighting against doping you're not on. duty and i'm in and you don't need to you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent you complete reduce justice system on

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 russians who are to become sanction russian politicians can do essentially resettling and take actions relative to school so it's come up with this international standard to code compliance signatories which is used to sanction russia this time around. on top of everything it seems that what is 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 well where you are where you quite expect to. these sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming euro are 1st of all it's a continental tournament not of world qualification for or for compartmented 2.

is again within the competence so you have for sure that 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 of 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 and talk you as a full fledged nation but then if the ban is. implemented late it might miss out on the 2024 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 bible club call insists that all the information for the reinstatement has been provided to the world anti-doping agency says experts have provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't responded

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 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 yet this is a punitive action against including begin to shift one's. moral justification. particularly with this new evidence of. this maybe raising

a human rights issue whether. they're going to raise this before the court or i'm not entirely certain we have to accept but there is a when we think of the involved. thing they're actually applying a very ambiguous moral crusade. they once were in terms of. the russian and the international russian expect with great anticipation to see what the. point in the west is doing it's like saying i'm going to come into play if you decide to come. so the global. peace efforts were in eastern ukraine are showing signs of progress with moscow and kiev finding common ground on a number of issues the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany held 6 hours of talks in paris on monday aimed at resolving the conflict broke out back in 2014 with eastern region seeking independence from key of president vladimir putin and

his ukrainian counterpart vladimir both describe the meeting as positive. just to put to good use there are throwing 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 to. shock us it's a subject 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 a 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 of next year and to ensuring that these are do you mind they're trying to report. so has there been a breakthrough in paris or not well the new president of ukraine and president

vladimir putin of russia should cans for the 1st time they spoke one on one to each other for the 1st time and spend an entire day and the residence of french president emanuel 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 mare selenski was out. so the frank that he was delighted that this was made possible is now you have come to want to just to be honest i don't know how to control the situation but 20 times in nearly 6 years decides to try to reach a cease fire and 20 times to cease fire has been violent as you've said here in paris we have treated the issues 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 you can tell you that russia has so to say prioritized the following elements of the midst agreements that is the need for key of 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 you know 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 that he had skipped a lot of our approaches and did remind everyone that when it comes to the minsk accord to control over the border does after the political section by. the music use of launching read the minsk accords they say ukraine will begin to establish control over the russia don't bust mordor the day after elections are held in the region that is what the documents say why undermine the agreements and rewrite their content see 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 t. 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 lot b. 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 saw aides 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 you move in 4 months so the contacts on the most high profile level between berlin paris kiev and moscow will continue.

for reaction and find an update on this story head to our website our time dot com you can find there some in-depth analysis from former australian foreign minister karen thank. you also to come on the program up russia's top diplomat has touched down and washington d.c. where he's expected to focus on the present from details on that story and more after the break. to globalization be dollars a show you know that's happening as the world is kind of drifting apart in a lot of different ways we look into it because there's an economic force behind it as always. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be crushed that's what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the white house. for sidney. welcome back a writer in germany has penned a feminist version of the classic tale snow white and the adaptation has a surprise twist.

through tales give you the chance to teach kids about sequels and values and i think diversity is simply not addressed nearly enough this is such an important concept and i really want my children to grow value. so it's not the 1st time a classic tales been given a modern make up works and a new version of

a lot more recently released princess jasmine has high aspirations to become sultan and they were tional she just wanted to find her soulmate. and then a remake of the 1989 classic little mermaid a black actress plays the lead role that caused a backlash some criticized attempts to alter traditional characters but others were enthusiastic saying it was a win for diversity we discussed the trying with current turkey t.v. and radio host everson women's rights advocate. this is political correctness gone mad 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 the 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 fairy tale 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 karen it sounds 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 are 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 d.c. for a working visit sergey lavrov is expected to meet secretary of state mike pump and president donald trump that meeting hasn't been officially confirmed yet but it would come just a day after the u.s. justice department's won't stop all that the f.b.i. has russia probe was justified overall this visit also comes against the backdrop of the impeachment inquiry into trump for what's being called ukraine gate. looks 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 effect you will see 50 my 60 the entire world. control most important for sure range ballistic weapons ever since the u.s. and russia pulled out of the i.m.f. treaties locking horns over who had violated the terms things have been escalating . stand how awful these things are with your brother 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 boots 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 that this 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. were lost so certainly really. you know. we may be related to the 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 we're. there 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 call brayton venezuela worked together in libya north korea babsy even sort out the mess that these u.s. policy on iran. iran is undergoing some very serious problems largely gz

us sanctions the reposed absolutely illegally the americans withdrew from iran you could say you will expect the sites to implement it 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 they achieve nothing this meeting is a good idea it keeps the avenues of dialogue open because if they aren't and these problems that they keep mounting well there's only so much a camel's back can take that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always have to our website r.t. dot com the details on all the stories and many more. and

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it's a season of make believe that some fat guy is going to fly around the world on a with a reindeer is them put some presents down our chimneys and make believe is becoming very real i notice around the world. we have now in the past week or 2 you know down from past said that argentina and brazil where we're going next week that they have their currency manipulator and so he slapped some tariffs on their steel and aluminum or as the brits like to pretend it's pronounced alan many m they've thought some tariffs on that at a minimum that not english they can't talk good right so this tit for tat tariffs and it claims that there's a currency problem you know that the currency that they're driving their currency lower there is a dig dollars ation going on there's a currency crisis happening all over the world currencies are in massive flux massive volatility argentina and other countries are trying to grapple with the

fact that the world is moving away from us dollar reserve reserve currency and the idea that the u.s. is going to tear of sond only encourages more to it for tat trump also said he's looking for the federal reserve to take interest rates negative which is while confiscation by any other means member back in the thirty's the u.s. confiscated gold trump is into confiscating people savings right out of their account just taking it from their accounts using. negative rates well the notion that argentina one of the currency to collapse by over 50 percent when they just took out a $5060000000000.00 loan from the i m f in u.s. dollars not in their peso is absurd because that doubles the size of it in real terms for them and terms of how much they now have to pay back so he's just basically punishing somebody who's already in a precarious situation speaking

a precarious situations a negative rates here is the headline where the real you know we've had make believe for so long and that it's becoming more and more real that we're all just going to get lumps of coal the dallas fed president believes ballooning debt could suddenly become a big issue for economy well that's true as anyone we've been saying now for years that you can't cure debt with more debt they have some mainstream economists like paul krugman that says that that is completely meaningless but even the interest on this meaningless that is now bigger than the you know or is comparable to what money spent on defense so it's become a problem and a lot of the debt by the way in the united states right now is corporate debt they've incurred $3.00 trillion dollars in debt to buy back $3.00 trillion dollars with the shares so you're swapping the real assets of the company for the make believe which is debt reduced our.