now the new one i mean with your house on them crossing. the top stories of the week on our to international russia's top athletes a vent their frustration after the world anti-doping agency bans the country from major tournaments before you. look back what they decided to silverstone or how could be bad news the whole country all the athletes no matter whether they don't or not these are just bodies don't spray guilt. britain's conservative party sweeps to its biggest election victory in more than 30 years but the scottish national party makes an almost clean sweep north of the border raising the prospect of independence from the u.k. . and talks between us and the taliban are put on hold after a suicide bombing outside an american air base in afghanistan the donald trump visited 2 just 2 weeks earlier.

and broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm john thomas and certainly glad to have you with us. this week to russia was barred from all major sporting events for the next 4 years the world anti-doping agency says the country is being punished for tampering with a key database of athletes test results. this is a fine against russia that protects the rights of russian seats but the reentry for make sure isn't. able to demonstrate that they are not in. any we. complied what is important thing today's decision is that we are really sanctioning those for responsible for this menu pollution. and leave

those open for those who had nothing to do with with the pings coming in russia clean. innocent outlets it's being able to our experts have provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't heard us responded to 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 with saddam has all the necessary opportunities they could have taken a different approach despite the ban clean athletes will be able to compete but only under a neutral flag but russian officials are prohibited from attending major sporting events and the country cannot host any tournaments the ban includes the 2020 olympics and paralympics in tokyo and the football world cup in qatar in 2022 also covers the world hockey and football championships artie's. breaks down the line for us. it is quite unclear how exactly

stripping a nation off 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 in anti doping it's who you're guilty and he can prove you're innocent a complete reversal of the normal 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 act yours dictionary to the russian authorities become sanction russian politicians and all it can do is censure resign and take actions relative to sports 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 your wife and fifa

tournament where we you know 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 not of world qualification or for qatar 22. is again within the competence of us 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 forbids racial 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 or i'm not entirely certain we have to accept that there is a political element involved. i think they're actually applying it more.

here there once was in terms of. the russian the initial russian expect with great anticipation to see what the. point in the western world is doing it's like saying i'm going to come into the state because somebody from you know decide who comes and. some of the big names in russian sports have been showing very actions with us on the ban. lasted for a few years i expected something like this after. to be. 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 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 child. under the neutral flag somehow they don't want to see the russian colors. flag as something irritates and someone doesn't want to see us compete in our own flag in our own anthem. as if 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 follow to participate and additional boost but it does still the doping issue i'm sure more than 90 percent of all athletes on the team. but i guess. athletes we support and i'm sure you have enough patience together we do it.

boris johnson's conservative party won a resoundingly jordi in the u.k. general election on thursday and it was the worst result for the labor party in more than 80 years meanwhile north of the border the scottish national party won by a landslide reigniting calls for independence from the u.k. here's how the party leaders reacted to a dramatic night. 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 january 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 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 their mandate says that it is for the scottish parliament nort a westminster government to decide whether and when this should be a new referendum on independence or a quick work of the numbers for you there are 650 seats in the house of commons so a party needs 326 to hold a majority of conservatives who took 365 seats while the labor party got 203 saskia taylor breaks down how it all happened for us 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 a couple of weeks later to resume a took on the and then the ball roll of finding a way through the press 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 bricks deadline was set for march 29th teen oh those early days so far up. 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. 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 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 would 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 got in trouble for dissolving it so then he went to the e.u. and negotiated. new deal which parliament defeated and then they forced to trick question and not the extension which really really really didn't want to do but to

do anyway and then he just decided enough is enough so essential tool to the opposition party have to facing off at a general election in order to quote get. which my friends i think brings you up to date. we asked our analysts and politicians from around the u.k. for their views on the election results and of the possible repercussions. 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 that's the 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 but it's not

based on the views of any one politician it's 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 styles that is the better system will force the a movable object is brought us johnson though it may well be that. bought us jobs and put these things out in that they can hold back the floods generally speaking that sort of politics gives out eventually and i would have my money's on the other system will force as opposed to the a movable object and to understanding the test of time and of course at 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 so yes. mass on rest is gripping india over a new citizenship law which critics say discriminates against muslims on sunday shots were reportedly fired at a university campus in new delhi earlier police stormed the campus with tear gas following the violent scenes this is a video of the reported shooting scene that was posted online in one of the classrooms. i. thought. as mention it comes as protests have intensified nationwide or over a new all law which could grant millions of migrants in india citizenship status but excludes muslims in one demonstration in the north east close to neighboring nepal people were seen burning in effigy of the country's home minister the

protesters claim the law is not only discriminatory but also unconstitutional and the country's opposition has threatened to take the case to the supreme court hundreds have joined a hunger strike in india's northeast where troops have been deployed and the internet shut down earlier we heard from a new delhi journalist who told us fear and confusion is gripping the country. only if we have not always the police into the university something we didn't see being which in itself is a huge violation you do the police do and the university grounds you might have all the probation and the police used an outrageous amount of force the police claim that this was in response to violence that the testers are done earlier but you know there's really no one for me to know who did that violet because this is a fundamental change 7 to how india is as a country it's a constitutional change this act makes it a point to single out movement it's

a very concerted attempt to leave islam out all that meet. their official reason given for this act is is to give shelter to religious minorities so you know this bill is really playing to the ruling party so we don't know right now you know it's all up in v.a. that's that's a big box you know the story right now that is there is confusion within the government that is no clear message on what the aims of this bill are built into. lebanon is in the grips of its worst violence in 2 months of demonstrations protesters in beirut were out in force on sunday with tear gas deployed by police and rubber bullets fired intense clashes between demonstrators and the authorities were triggered by opposing groups of protesters confronting each other and dozens of people were reportedly injured the nationwide movement against alleged

a high level crossing started back in october with anger also being vented against public services and the economy. the united states this week announced a pause in peace talks with the taliban after a suicide bomber kills 2 civilians outside of the bob graham air base and the attack came just 2 weeks after a surprise thanksgiving visit to that same. president a powerful blast hit a medical facility near the main gate more than 60 people were injured in the explosion initial reports suggested the suicide bomber had targeted a u.s. military convoy though washington denies that and during president trump's visit to the base struck a rather upbeat tone despite afghanistan continually being close to or topping the world's most dangerous countries list. 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 against that backdrop and then a revealing news article has appeared in the us which details years of deliberate misinformation on the part of top american officials who it turns buyers 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 that job is isis certainly the biggest and al qaeda and we. will get 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 that your 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 that focused notion of what we were undertaking there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front and over stated objectives an overreliance 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 u.n. 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 deficiency 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 done 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 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 and society and not have if you corruption you just can't be a legacy of mass corrupt trip 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 as it has

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. more of the week we have top out of this is art international . the world is driven by a dream shaped by the 3rd person or those with. the dares thinks. we dare to ask.

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