russia's hunger for participating in or hosting sports events following a scandal involving the alleged. medical data. on how could be punished the whole country all athletes no matter whether they jumped or not they should just punish those who are guilty. for his conservative party swept to its biggest election victory of more than 30 years with the scottish national party also when he big north of the border giving renewed impetus to independent schools. the suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside america's base in afghanistan on tuesday the very same place donald trump paid

a recent surprise thanksgiving visit. every 7 days we recap big new stories the week we brought you live from an hour to international civil do it again though welcome to the weekly with me kevin no in the biggest headline adidas just heard it was this one russia being kicked out of major 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 russia that protects the rights of russian seach. reentry for me. not. me we are not complying what is important thing to these decisions. we are really sanctioning those for responsible

for this many politicians and leave doors open for those who had nothing to do is with upping scandal in russia clean. being able to our experts have 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 an objective decision let's do it like this was saddam has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach so what to say is clean athletes will be able to compete under a neutral flag but russian officials and oprah hippity from attending major sporting events where the country also won't be able to host any tournament see their list of russia's. events go to his extensive 1st go through them briefly and see the list coming up here including the olympic and paralympic games in tokyo in 2020 or so football's pfieffer world cup in qatar 2 years after that because

russia was the host of that event so recently and its players will now have to play as neutral if they want to qualify wider as insisting further that the onus is on clean players to prove that they haven't doped our sports correspondent. breaks down the ruling a bit more detail for us. 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 on innocent until proven guilty and i'm in and you don't do to you're guilty and he can prove you're innocent a complete reversal of 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 round. 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 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 so you have a should it make it to the 2022 world cup in qatar it may be stripped of its flag of its anthem and it may be participating as a neutral country. and if you're not yet confused enough

they already said directly that should russia appeal to cas the court for arbitration of sports and this process takes longer than the official preparation for next summer's olympics russia will go to next summer's olympics in tokyo as a full fledged nation but then if the ban is implemented late it might miss out on the 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 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 this is a punitive action against the law including begin to shoot once i'm not convinced

more than just a few. garage incidents it's not it's particularly with there's no evidence of this against them this may be raising a human rights issue whether. they're going to raise this before the court of protection or i'm not entirely certain we have to accept that there is a when we become a member involved. in their action applying a very big news for more and motive here they once were in terms of collateral damage to the russian the english and russian roots of expect with great anticipation to see what. point in the lesson it's doing it's like saying i'm going to come into play for you and i'll decide who comes and goes. some of the big names in russian sport have been sharing their reactions with this and over the. but the doping 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 'd that's what i 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 a country is not a 3 year old child. allow us to compete under the neutral flag somehow they don't want to see the russian colors. maybe our flag is something irritating and 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 of sports maybe this is our fate was more than i think i begin you

probably will somehow unite us and if those below to participate and additional boost but it does the doping issue i'm sure more than 90 percent of athletes are clean that i guess but if we are in the. fleet we support you and i'm sure you have enough patience together we will do it. for a show says conservative party want to resoundingly giora here for a dominating performance in britain to store a general election on tuesday when the big story of the week as for the opposition labor liberal democrat parties they're both know seeking new leaders 2 while north of the border the different story the scottish national party almost swept the board in terms of seats which is reignited their calls for another independence referendum from the u.k. is how the respective party leaders reacted to a dramatic night as the result. i'm 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 a well we 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 mandate says that it is for the scottish parliament nort a westminster government to decide whether and when the should be a new referendum on independence critical numbers there are 650 seats in the house

of commons so a party needs 326 to hold a majority the conservatives took hold of 365 seats while labor got 2 $103.00 their lowest result since the 1930 s. so it's good taylor breaks down but more of what happened. thursday saw the general election in just 4 years so how did we end up on this rollercoaster 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 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 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 took on the and then people roll of finding a way through the practice 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 it the original breaks it deadline was set for march 29th teen oh those early days. 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 counting on tide already $2.00 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 that 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 practice it yet and so you've done and revealing. to his credit he's really gone for it he was sick of parliament blocking his ideas so dissolved that topple to dissolve it so that he went to the e.u. and. new deal which part of defeated and then they forced to trick question and not that extension which he really really really didn't want to do but to do anyway and then he just decided enough is enough so wasn't she talked to 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. we sounded out some experts and politicians from around the u.k. for their views on the election results and possible consequences next. 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 in the 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 there was 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 the chain suck and status that is the ever system will force the a movable object is brought us johnson though it may well be that. brought us johnson can put his thinking that in that they 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 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 in ireland north and so. we place a proposed mosque a time fans watching coming up in more the big stories the week of gamma stands of more violence those details emerged about the scale of the u.s. led military campaigns failure there one of the stories ahead.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

this must protests continue to grow india over a new citizenship law for a 5th day shops have allegedly been fired at a university campus in new delhi police have believed have stolen the campus with tear gas following violent scenes over the last 24 hours which saw a number of fatalities. this is video of the scene posted online in the classrooms at the mill university shots could be heard it's unclear who's firing them or the nature of the instead in the details as mentioned though it comes as protests have intensified in the indian capital over a new law which could grant millions of migrants in india citizenship status but

excludes muslims. where on choose day a suicide bomber detonated his car outside one of america's main military outposts in afghanistan the bag airfield the attack came not long after a surprise thanksgiving visit by president trump the same place local media reported a powerful blast hitting a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the bases main gate the attack reportedly claimed at least one life with as many as 62 well others injured initial reports suggested the suicide bomber had targeted the u.s. military convoy the washington denies that. as mentioned during president trump's visit to the program basically he struck a rather upbeat tone despite afghanistan continually being close to war topping the world's most dangerous countries list. with the help in the diversion 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 against that backdrop then revealing news articles appeared in the us which details years of deliberate misinformation apparently on 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 and 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 in 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 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 their role 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 in society and not have if you corruption you just can't a legacy of mass corruption that's putting it lightly what else did you expect the guys on the ground they saw disaster they were ported it back to washington washington with its countless departments didn't 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 putting them to use. more a cast of reporting than the story some of the big news stories of the week reported to you by us our to international in russia for me kevin owen thanks for watching this weekend stay with us if you can for next programs in your part of the world after this break. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only population in belfast tens of thousands were

forced to flee their homes i'm up with straight into it 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 whole streets in belfast at the take 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 currents which the pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named the then a gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is the focus for all the water where all the test since 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. and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news charioteers at facebook a bunch of us used to sit around every day. and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we thought was really cool. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's

committed to giving everyone a voice news from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative out of its trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its 1000000000 users if the story originated from a conservative news source or if it's a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook costly manipulates or users they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on the users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people

would react to a. health watch why your facebook friends post can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they wanted to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where you're going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way. users could see different things that may affect their mood and may affect how they interact with others and that's something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that

they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments and the things that we have no standing with facebook we're not citizens of facebook we have no blood on facebook it's not a democracy and this this process is not a way we can design the future we can't rely on this single company to invent our digital future. there's there's what i call the creepy line and the google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross at google crosses the creepy line every day not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's a it's a word that connotes horror he didn't say dangerous he didn't say an ethical there's all sorts of words that.