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stories from the past 7 days on right up to the minute developments this is the weekly international hello and welcome. russia is being kicked out of major international sporting events for the next 4 years punishment the world anti-doping agency for tempering with a key database of test results from russian up please. this is a russia protect the rights of russia not see each. reentry for major event. not. me we. comply what is important thing to this decision. that we are really

sanctioning those who are responsible for this many pollutions and leave those open for those who had nothing to do is with the big scandal in russia clean. 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 some objective decision let's do it like this which was saddam has all the necessary opportunity they could have taken a different approach ok the key details while the cleanup cleats will be able to compete on dry neutral flag but russian officials are prohibited from attending major sporting events while the country will be allowed to host any tournaments.

well the list of events russia is know being excluded from pretty extensive let's take a look at our news wall here the olympic parlin big games in tokyo next year at the fee for world cup and guitar 2 years after that russia of course was the last host of that event and its players will now have to play as neutral to if they qualify all other events here as well while there is insisting that the onus is on clean players to prove that they haven't doped or sports correspondent alexy other chefs he breaks down the ruling course. 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 fun . weighting against doping you're not on innocent until proven guilty and i'm in school you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent sickly redress 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

russian authorities become sanction russian politicians and all it can do is sanction resettling and take actions relative to schools so it's come up with this international standard to code compliance by 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 your way for anthy for tournament's well where you are where you quite expected that. 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 compartment it. is again within the competence of us 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 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 2020 for some 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 the court of arbitration for sports in switzerland and we are expecting this to be made quite quickly before

the end of this year this is a punitive action against the law including begin to shoot once. more in 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 i'm not entirely certain we have to accept but there is a when we think of them and the involved. thing they're actually applying a very big news for more. here they once were in terms of. the russian the initial russian expect with great anticipation to see what the. point in the essence is doing it's like saying i'm going to come in to. you and i'll decide who comes and goes. well speaking of athletes some of the biggest names in russian sport up ensuring their reactions with us on the.

doping scandal lasted for a few years i expected something like this after. 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. it's just 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. someone just wanted to punish our country but this is without reason countries to 3 year old. flak don't want to see the russian college. flag as something irritates someone doesn't want to see us compete in our own 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 if those below to participate and additional boost but it does. i'm sure more than 90 percent of the time. but if. we support you and i'm sure you have enough patience together we will do it. politics mixing to politics standing alone here boris johnson's conservative party a result ending majority after and dominating performance in britain's historic general election on thursday for the opposition labor and liberal democrat parties there now both seeking new leaders while north of the border the scottish national party almost swept the board in terms of seats which is reignited there are calls

for another independence referendum from the u.k. here's how the respective party leaders reacted to a dramatic night in westminster and all across the u.k. indeed as a 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 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 the stunning election win last night for the s.n.p. renew 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 nor a westminster government to decide whether and when the should be a new referendum on independence a quick look at the numbers there are 650 seats in the house of commons meaning a party needs 326 to hold a majority the conservatives took hold of 365 seats while the labor party got 203 their lowest result since the 1930 s. so asking taylor breakstone. thursday saw the general election in just 4 years so how did we end up on this rollercoaster again it was well my friends it's the usual suspect yeah you guessed it. it works it's to play it turns out that decision taken by those 17400000 people in june 26th into 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. 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 double 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 where it going to make a success of the original bricks it 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 2 also taught at this point every single. 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 problems 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 for may 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 who's 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 yes and so young and. to his credit he's really gone fred he was sick of parliament blocking his ideas so dissolved that. 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 that extension which is really where he really didn't want to do but to do anyway and

then he just decided enough is enough so essentially taunted the opposition party after facing off of a general election in order to quote get it done which my friends i think brings you up today. some experts and politicians from across the u.k. for their refuse on the election results 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 to this interim election then they voted against an election as well as a small force i think is the sentiment of the people of scotland but it's not based on the views of any one politician this period to the sentiment of people scotland

has been moving gradually rapidly towards independence but at least an overwhelming view that scotland should have the right to determine its own future that they see a change in subcommittee. that is the other system will force the a movable object it's bought us johnson though it may well be that. bought us johnson couldn't put these things out in the day can hold but the floods generally speaking that so the politics gives out eventually and i would defer my money is 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 to make and the context not only of the bracks issue but also with respect to the unfolding constitutional debate and ireland north and

south east. still to come although weakly afghanistan sees more violence those details emerge on the scale of the u.s. led military campaigns failure there we delve further into the involvements. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shooting let it be an arms race on all sides be very dramatic to follow through the only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president if you. want to. it's going to be close that's what the 3 of them will be. interested in the war. let's start with the by going back to choose the about was when a suicide bomber detonated his car outside one of america's main military outposts in afghanistan the field came not long after a surprise thanksgiving visit by president told local media reported

a powerful blast hitting a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the bases main gates the attack reported think claimed at least the life with as many as 62 all those injured initial reports suggest that the suicide bomber targeted a u.s. military convoy that's something that washington. jury president trumps a visit to the back room base he struck a rather told the spite of continually being close to war topping indeed the world's most dangerous countries this. with the help of the devotion everyone. has given here tonight america winning again we are winning like we have not wanted 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. bearing those words in mind or revealing news articles

appeared in the us which details years of deliberate decision from nation on the part of top american officials who it transpires have been putting on a brave face the spied knowing the palettes about truth about the off gallon 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 and i had 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're 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 and 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 corrupt trip that's putting it lightly what else did you expect the guys on the ground they sought disaster they reported it back to washington washington with its countless partment but now 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 all asleep i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are putting them to use. ok just before we go this hour i want to bring you this

story must protests continue to grip india over a new citizenship law this is the reported scene coming up at a university campus in new delhi where shots have allegedly been fired earlier police are believed to have stormed the campus with tear gas following violent scenes over the past 24 hours. yet video of the scene posted online 'd there one of the classrooms a germy a 1000000 university shots be heard it is unclear though who is firing them police or protesters or indeed the nature of the incident was mentioned it comes as protests intensify in the indian capital over a new law which could run to millions of immigrants in india citizenship stuff for the most. right it is time currently and the months long trade war between china and the u.s. so what hopes of

a prolonged truce and 2020 worlds apart that's next. during the great depression which old mr remember there was most of my family were poor working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy

attack solo duo engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow sector of will switch is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

comes world the party of just 17 months of acrimony the united states and china have decided against slapping each other with additional tariffs but that's major differences in aims perceptions and values still remaining it's. looks like the relationship is set to be dysfunctional or at least troubled for years to come 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 at salon hahn denizen chair of international history and diplomacy at deflect your 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 it's on it's

a pleasure to be here now we are recording this program on friday evening moscow time when the american and chinese media bazin with the news that the 2 countries have agreed against introducing edition will tariffs and potentially cutting the existing ones where do you place this quarrel and it's timely resolution that within the grand scheme of things of the u.s. china relationship. that'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 age of 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 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.