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from the 7 days on right up to the minute developments as well this is the weekly international hello and welcome. russia is being kicked out of major international sporting events for the next 4 years punishment saves the world anti-doping agency . with a key database of test results from russian. this is about russia protect the rights of russia not see each. reentry for major events. to demonstrate that they are not. in any way he did not comply

what is important thing to these decisions. we are really sanctioning those who are responsible for this many pollutions and leave those open for those who had nothing to do with. in russia clean. innocent outlets and able to 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 want to be objective decision let's do it like this with saddam has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach or while the cleanup cleats will be able to compete on dry neutral flying but russian officials are not prohibited from attending major sporting events while the country won't be allowed to host any tournaments the list of events russia is now being excluded from is extensive let's go through them here

in our other news wall as you can see olympic parlin big games in tokyo that's next year football's fee for a cup in qatar 2 years after about well russia was the last host of the world cup its players will have to play as neutrals if they qualify at wada is insisting that the onus is on clean players to prove they are clean their sports correspondent alessio chef he breaks down the ruling for us. it is quite unclear how exactly stripping a nation of its flag in major sports competitions across the planet can actually solve the problem of fighting against doping you are not innocent proven guilty and i am in and you don't need to you can prove your innocence you complete reduce justice system on but it's always been that way you gotta think about what's on the world anti-doping agency has jurisdiction it doesn't at yours dictionary to the

russian authorities become sanction russian on its issues but all it can do essentially resell it and take actions relative to scoot so it's come up with this international standard to code compliance with signatories which is used to sanction russia this time around. on top of everything it seems that what his decision from monday was made in such a haste that they have no clue how to actually navigate in that decision the biggest example of that is probably the situation with 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 cast 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 later. might miss out on the 2024 big games in paris from whichever side you look at it decision by water looks like a vocal and very hot indictment all the 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 the law including the insured ones i'm not convinced the reason many more than just a few. garage incidents nothing to 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 relations board that i'm not entirely certain we have to accept but there is a political element involved. actually applying a very ambiguous more crusade here they once were in terms of. are they russian in russian expect with great anticipation to see what the i.o.c. . point in the lesson is doing it's like saying i'm going to come in to. you and i'll decide who comes and goes. but i did come as a shock for many of the big names in russian sport they have been sharing their reactions with us on the.

for a few years i expected something like this. it was expected it's. tough. 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 it. goes by the way. the last few years. of the fed someone just wanted to punish our country but this is without reason another country's 3 year old child. the. flak 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. own.

i have already hired a lawyer and even if they don't participate i'm already a grandmother sports maybe this is our fate. will somehow unite us and those below to participate and boost but it does. i'm sure more than 90 percent of it's own. but i guess but if you're in the. athletes we support you and i'm sure you have enough patience together we will do it. from sports and politics mixing to politics i'd write boris johnson's conservative party want to resign being majority after a strong showing in britain's historic general election on thursday as for the opposition labor lib dem party they're both seeking new leaders north of the border by the way it was at this ice of wind for the scottish national party which has reignited their calls for another independence referendum from the u.k.

here's how the party leaders reacted to a dramatic night in westminster as the result. proud to say that members of our new one nation government a people's government will sit tight 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 will not lead 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 monday says that it is for the scottish parliament

nort a westminster government to say whether and when this should be a new referendum on independence devilry march in the numbers detail there are 650 seats in the house of commons so a party needs 326 to hold a majority the conservatives well that went beyond the 365 seats they got hold of labor party $203.00 that's their lowest result since the 1930 or breaks it up and. thursday saw the 3rd general election in just 4 years so how did we end up on this roller coaster again wost wel my friends it's the usual suspect yeah you guessed it. it works it's too late 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 fat a couple of weeks later to resume a tick on the and then the ball roll 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 where 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 and peace 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 greatest city. your charge of the infighting your charge of the political games and the arcane procedural rounds but disappointment in the polls was really the least of may's prop. 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. 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 gaffe. just like his predecessor he was absolutely adamant that he 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 practice it yes and so you've done and. to his credit he's really gone for it he was sick of parliament blocking his ideas so dissolved. dissolved so then 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 essentially 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. are filing us that report from london where we saw an expert some politicians from across the u.k. for their views on the election results and possible consequence. 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 then turns into an election then they voted against an election as well as a small force i think is the sentiment of the people of scotland the biz not based on the views of any one politician this period to the sentiment of people 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 sea change in subcommittee status that is the better system will force the a movable object is bought us johnson though it may well be that. bought us jobs and can put these things out in that they can hold back the floods generally speaking that the politics gives out eventually and i would have my money's on the other system will force as opposed to the a movable object in terms of standing the test of time and of 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 mick and the context not only of the bracks issue but also with respect to the unfolding constitutional debate and ireland north and so yes. on the weekly afghanistan sees more violence as details emerge on the

scale of the u.s. led military. failure there we delved deeper into that. they put themselves on the line they did except the reject. so when you want to be president and you. have to be right to be close this is what the book for. people. interested in the water. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race. very dramatic. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. hello it can choose a suicide bomber detonated his. main military outpost in afghanistan the field they talk came not long after a surprise thanksgiving visit by president local media reported a powerful blast hitting

a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the bases main gate reportedly claimed at least one life with as many as 62 others injured initial reports suggest that the suicide bomber targeted a u.s. military convoy the water. intend to nice. during president comes to visit to the bagram base he struck a rather upbeat tone. with the help in the devotion everyone. has 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 well against. a revealing news articles appeared in the us which details years of deliberate dissent from ancient on the part of top american officials who it transpires have been putting on

a brave face despite knowing the unpalatable 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 them addresses 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 through building infrastructure in ways that have again instant 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 corruption that's putting it lightly what else that you expect the

guys on the ground they saw disaster they were reported back to washington washington with its countless the partment 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 i didn't have got a star not long ago and after seeing what i saw there i can tell you honestly i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck putting them to use. its time are currently in the months long a trade war between china and the us so what hopes of a prolonged truce in 2020 worlds apart delved deeper and that's next.

in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mob was striking to 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 in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the hague more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out

more i was surprised about the extent and of the currency which the collusion was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named into the enemy getting i think it went to the very very top i think it the phones for all the water where politicians you thought was going on and give the go ahead. the world is driven by shaped by our own personal there is. no dares thinks. we dare to ask.

tom. welcome to worlds apart after 17 months of acrimony the united states and china have decided against slapping each other with additional tariffs but with major differences in aims perceptions and values still remaining it looks like the relationship is set to be dysfunctional or at least troubled for years to calm

while one quarrel might have been defused by bigger more dangerous fights still on the cards well to discuss that i'm now joined by salon han denizen chair of international history and diplomacy at deflector school tufts university professor han it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for having me on it's a pleasure to be here now we are recording this program on the friday evening moscow time when the american and chinese media bazin with the news that the 2 countries have agreed against introducing additional tariffs potentially cutting the existing ones where do you place this quarrel and its timely resolution that within the grand scheme of things of the us china relationship. it's a great question to start with i think there are a few things to say 1st of all if the agreement holds that's a terrific thing and it can lead to building on the agreement to improve the

relationship in other areas which will get to. i think one of the things that's been interesting for people watching us trying our relations in the trump is that it deals tend to be. difficult to sustain if you look at the negotiations over trade with china if you look at u.s. negotiations with europe the deals seem. to be on and then they seem to be off i think the chinese have been more or less prepared for this given what's happening and if you looked at the diplomacy as particularly the trade diplomacy they were conducting during the trade negotiations with the united states there was a sense that the united states was not the only game in town the brics mattered african countries mattered courting japan mattered and china's sense of its foreign relations was that while achieving a deal with the u.s.

was important one would also have to prepare for a non deal or a deal that made life much more difficult and this is where the broader context of u.s. china relations comes and the 1st thing to remember is that the last few years have seen a deterioration of relationships not just on the trade front but if you think of the security front if you think of the changes in chinese society under xi jinping there are sources of tension that extend well beyond the trade deal whether they are technological whether they're political whether they have to do with systemic change the idea that china as a rising power in the u.s. is a status quo power that the 2 sides at least for now have decided to you ex change small deals and we're yet to know. who benefits from more because i mean some could argue that on the on the eve of the christmas sales and in the light of the overall .