oh i believe. the stories that shaped the week on our tape russia's had to forgive ban on participating or hosting major sports events following the scandal of tampering with athletes medical data. pretty conservative party swept with the biggest election victory in more than 3 decades with the scottish national party also winning big north of the border giving renewed impetus to independence goals. and after 6 hours of talks in paris the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany agreed to implement all cease fire in east rain by the end of the here. and that sunday welcome to the weekly and i look at the biggest stories covered

here over the past 7 days 1st the fortunes of russia's athletes after the country was kicked out of all international sporting events for the next 4 years punishment says the world anti-doping agency from moscow tampering with a key database of test results from russian athletes. this is a bond against russia that protects the rights of russian seach. the reentry for major events such are able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any way he doesn't know in compliance what is important thing to these decisions. that are really sanctioning those for responsible for this many pollutions and leave those open for those who had nothing to do is with the big scandal in russia clean . in the south. being able to experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't heard us. reseller 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 an objective decision let's do it like this where saddam has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach so a blow for sure but it was a says clean athletes will be able to compete but under a neutral flag russian officials though are now prohibited from attending major sporting events or the country also won't be allowed to host any tournament and that list of events that russia is now excluded from is extensive and includes the olympic and paralympic games coming up next summer in tokyo and also football fifa world cup in cattle 2 years after that russia of course of the last to host that event and its players they will now have to go as neutrals if they qualify was insisting the onus is on the clean players to prove that they are playing next our sports correspondent alexy irish f.c. breaks down the water rule and for it. 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 school you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent a complete reversal justice system but it's always been that way you gotta think about what's on the world anti-doping agency has jurisdiction it doesn't act years dictionary to the russian authorities because sanction russian politicians can do essentially resign and take actions relative to sports so it's come up with this international standard code compliance where signatories which is used to sanction russia this time round. 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 way for and fee for tournament where were you where you quite expect to. these sanctions will not affect in any way russian part of the upcoming your. first of all it's a continental tournament of world qualification for or for could part when you 2. is again within the competence of us but should it make it to the 2022 world cup in 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 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 elim big games in paris 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 cast the court of arbitration for sports in switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before the end of this year as this is a punitive action against the law including begin to shoot once i'm not convinced that many more i'm just. not going to particularly with this new evidence of this against them this may be raising a human rights issue with. go. to graze this before the cord relations board i'm not entirely certain we have to accept that there is a political element involved and i think they're actually applying of am big news

for more and multi of crusade here they once were softer in terms of fallout for months that is there are they rushed into the election russian rockets of the expect with great anticipation to see what the i.o.c. to restore. point in essence is 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 and goes on. some of the big names in russian sports and been sharing their reactions with us on the bat . scandal lasted for a few years i expected something like this after rio. to be honest it was expected it's a pity the athletes have to suffer it's terrible it's terrible for all russian sports that's what i can feel about it. i don't want to make a link between sports and politics but it looks like good for those sanctions

imposed by the west for the last few years. of the someone just wanted to punish our country but this is without reason our country is not a 3 year old child and. they allow us to compete under the neutral flag somehow they don't want to see the russian colors. or maybe our flag is something irritating and someone doesn't want to see us compete in our all flag in our own anthem. i have already hired a lawyer and even if they don't allow me to participate while i'm already a grandmother sports maybe this is our fate. will somehow unite us and give those below to participate and additional boost but it does all the doping issue i'm sure more than 90 percent of our athletes are clean but i guess. we support you and i'm sure you have enough patience together we will do it. while

the headline news boris johnson's conservative party want to resoundingly after a strong showing in britain's historic general election on thursday as for the opposition labor and liberal democrat parties and they are now both on the hunt for new leaders north of the border it was indecisive when for the scottish national party which is reignited their calls for another independence referendum from the u.k. here's how the party leaders reacted to a dramatic night him westminster as the result sank in. i'm proud to say that members of our new one nation government a people's government will sit out from constituencies that have never returned a conservative m.p. for 100 years and yes they will have an overwhelming mandate from this election to get it done and we will honor that mandate by general the 31st of all not only the party in any future general election campaign i will discuss with our party to

ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward stunning election win last night for the s.n.p. is reinforces and strengthens the mandate we have from previous elections to offer the people of scotland a choice over their future that mandate says that it is for the scottish parliament nort a westminster government to the saide whether and when this should be a new referendum on independence a quick look at the numbers the recovery 650 seats in the house of commons that means our party needs to have 326 to command a majority the conservatives swept past that to get 365 seats while the labor party got $203.00 that's the lowest result since the 19th thirties saskia taylor takes a look at how the u.k. got to this point. thursday saw the 3rd general election in just 4 years so how did

we end up on this roller coaster again it was well my friends it's the usual suspect yeah you guessed it. sits to play it turns out that decision taken by those 17400000 people in june 26th exit the e.u. set off a chain reaction that's led to this moment but i'm guessing ahead of myself let's start from the beginning the british people have made a very clear decision to take a different part of my view we should aim to have a new prime minister in place ok so now we're down one prime minister let's see how the next one a couple of weeks later to resume a took on the and then doable role of finding a way through the process that wilderness and she was very clear about her goal bricks it means bricks it rex it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of the original deadline was set for march 29th teen oh those early days

of optimism but this is possibly the most divisive political issue the u.k. has faced in recent memory m.p.'s have never felt so important all powerful so it's unsurprising that may was thwarted at every turn by those less willing to cut ties with our european friends fed up she decided to go in and call a snap election in june 2017 we need a general election and we need one now but it was a gamble that just didn't pay off the conservatives lost the majority they'd been counting on tide already me to also taught at this point every single british citizen you are tired of the infighting your charge of the political games and the arcane procedural rounds but disappointment in the polls was really the least of maize proper. the opposition tried to get rid of her own m.p.'s tried

to get rid of her and then she said she'd get rid of herself if only they'd back deal which they didn't and it just ended up being too much from a who decided to finally hang up put heels i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love ok so now we're down to prime ministers whose our lucky introducing boris johnson former mayor of london a bit of a daft man just like his predecessor he was absolutely adamant that he'd be the one to get it done can you make a promise today to the british public that you will not go back to brussels and ask for another delay to bracks it years and so you can and. to his credit he's really gone for it he was sick of parliament blocking his ideas so

dissolved that for to solving it so that he went to the e.u. and negotiated a new deal which parliament defeated and then they forced to quest and not the extension which really where he really didn't want to do but to do anyway and then he just decided enough so not so wasn't she taunted the opposition party after facing off at a general election in order to quote get it done which my friends i think brings you up today. for what next then we found out a few experts from politicians from around the u.k. for their views on the election results and possible consequences. now boris can go into a meeting to negotiate and the you can be certain that what's agreed in that meeting will actually get through parliament the big problem that we've had so far is really any suggestion that was made seem to run into this blocking wall in parliament who were determined to vote against just about everything the labor party used to say they were voting against against different solutions and in terms

of general election then they voted against an election as well as a small force i think is the sentiment of the people of scotland libbers not based on the views of any one politician this period to the center but the people of scotland has been moving gradually and no rapidly towards independence but at least an overwhelming view that scotland should have the right to determine its own future that is the chain sub that is the better system will force the a movable object is bought as johnson though it may well be that. bought us jobs and put these things out on the date can hold back the floods generally speaking that sort of politics gives out eventually and i would refer my money is on the other system will force as opposed to the a movable object in terms of standing the test of time in the course of the last 2 years the unionist political electoral majority was ended as

a result of this election unionist political representation in the north has been reduced to a minority and not quite safe to make and the context not only of the bracks issue but also with respect to the unfolding constitutional debate in ireland north and so you. know with r.t. from moscow still to come on the weekly afghanistan sees more violence as details of verge on the scale of the u.s. led military campaign. will delve into that and more in 90 seconds. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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a suicide bomber detonated his car outside one of america's main military outposts in afghanistan the field the attack came not long after a surprise thanksgiving visit by president trump local media reported a powerful blast hitting a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the base its main gate the attack reportedly claimed at least one life and as many as 62 others injured initial reports suggested the suicide bomber targeted a u.s. military convoy the american officials deny that during president visits to the back room base he struck a rather upbeat tone. with the help in the devotion everyone. is given here tonight america is winning again we are winning like we have not won in a long time. and you know what we're respected like we haven't been respected in a long time america is winning again and america is respected again and respected at the highest level it is another big lie of wrong politician war monger

stuff and in fact just so little get off the so-called war on terror oh itself have been proved that it is the biggest lie of the century it was predicted change just so we're going off to war on innocent afghan people in the past 18 yes they changed my tent tree. the situation like hell for our people especially for men and a suicide attack. talks their life off handed off in a sense of value and daily basis and different cities off afghanistan not only a couple of and now there is a heart breaking reports in afghanistan that the only person in afghanistan who is satisfied of the job is that coffin seller and also about the almost all of graveyard in a couple of salt are against this backdrop and revealing news articles appeared in the united states which details years of deliberate misinformation on the part of top american officials it transpires have been putting on

a brave face despite knowing the palatable truth about the afghan war. hundreds of thousands dead trillions of dollars lost generations traumatized but you know what nothing good comes easy nothing in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. all that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and we're doing a tremendous job. and as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest and al qaeda and we. we've got them down very low numbers you didn't need to be nostradamus or clairvoyant to know that someone was telling bull it's just logical fallacy you can't keep fighting the same guys for 20 years and claim the joule winning but then appearances must

be kept up it's important that everyone thinks you're winning right up to the moment you admit you lost why well it's obvious no one has the remotest clue we were trying to do here we didn't have the focus notion of what we were undertaking there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front end of the stated objectives grew lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and we'd never have known if it hadn't been thousands of secret and classified documents on afghanistan stuff from the white house from the pentagon the un and the various n.g.o.s well we would have known it's pretty damn obvious that the war is going terribly but who says mouth and all that it is worth considering what the president the deficient said and what they actually believed when i called our

troops in action i did so with complete confidence. their courage and skill and tonight. thanks to them. we are winning the war on terror. and. today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror are we capturing killing or deterring a dissuading more terrorists every day than the mid russ's on the radical clerics are recruiting training and deploying against us does the us need to fashion a broad integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists the us is putting relatively little effort into a long range plan but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists the cost benefit ratio is against us see when you're in your 2nd term and you started a really messy war that you just realized you can't hope to win there only so many ways to save your own but here's a list of words you should use courage democracy kids schools and hospitals

and for the people that don't buy your baloney get a hope in there as well thanks to the courage of these military and civilian personnel a nation that was once a safe haven for al qaeda is now a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school new roads and hospitals are being built and people are looking to the future with new hope also poor in money into huge infrastructure projects to obligate money that was appropriated to so we could spend it we would building infrastructure in ways that have against and could never sustain or even the use in some cases if you're a nato country taxpayer i honestly don't believe you can comprehend how much of your money was poured into this adventure you 1st need to understand the sheer degree of incompetence that these leaked documents show imagine for example someone's putting together a crew for a bank heist they invite

a bunch of people give them a time and place and tell no. one what the rule is no plan so everyone shows up thinking that everyone outs knows what to do and things go as you would expect now is the time to save your own heidi let's add a few more words difficult days human rights confidence success we will reward good governance work to reduce corruption and support the rights of all afghans men and women alike. there will be difficult days ahead but i am absolutely confident we will succeed. you just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state and society and not have if you corruption you just can't a legacy of mass corrupt trip that's putting it lightly what else did you expect the guys on the ground they saw disaster they were reported back to washington

washington with its countless departments that now have the courage to stand up and say they screwed up so they put up appearances everyone was doing what made them look best rather than what worked best interesting enough many of the documents were published with the name lessons learned perhaps an effort to extract something anything of value from this unmitigated disaster but you know as it have got a star not long ago and after seeing what i saw there i can tell you all asleep i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are putting them to use. running off some positivity then the peace efforts for eastern ukraine showed signs of progress this week the leaders of russia ukraine france and germany held 6 hours of talks in paris aimed at resolving the violence the conflict broke out there in 2014 with eastern regions seeking independence from

kiev the nominee for format of talks has been hiatus for more than 3 years but president putin and ukraine's leader vladimir selenski both describe the new talks as positive. 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. 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. in a written statement all parties committed to a. comprehensive cease fire by the end of this year and the complete all for all prisoner swap as well they also pledged to withdraw troops from certain conflict zones before next april and to ensure that areas would be mined. that's the way for this out and up next imprisoned as the story of

a man who spent decades on death row including seeing through 13 execution date sony to eventually be freed of the evidence against him was proved to be false it is next on r.t. international. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only population of tens of thousands are forced to flee their homes a mobile strike can put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it

they were active participants and the burning of full streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were. as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the collusion was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into the now and we're getting i think it went to the very very top i think it the cross the water where all the taste you thought was going on and give the go ahead. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy 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 on the back and shouting past each other that it's time for

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