it was in the fix. the u.k. anti doping agency refuses to hand over to the global drugs watchdog samples from track superstar mo far as part of the ongoing investigation into the disgraced nike oregon projects. are strong so looks to oppose gregg's in britain as he hosts the 1st ever u.k. africa investment summit of the 500 comments about the continent that were far from the globe a. free belgian doctors face criminal charges for approving the euthanasia of a woman with a likely outward disorder is the 1st such trials as the procedure was legalized almost 2 decades ago. to a very warm welcome to you you're watching r

t international with me and. now the u.k. anti-doping agency has that it's refusing to provide the global doping watchdog wylder with key samples from british runners a request for the materials came most part of an ongoing drugs investigation into the nike oregon project earlier neil harvey discussed the issue with artie's alexy our ships. talking about a 4 time olympic gold champion a 6 time world champion in athletics a runner from great britain and he's one of the biggest athletes of the modern generation now there has been speculation for quite some time that such a success story may have been somehow tainted by the use of performance in hands and hands and drugs of b.d.s. as we know them but obviously that was speculation until last year the former coach of more alberto salazar of the oregon project was slapped with a 4 year ban by the u.s. anti-doping agency for allegedly doping his athletes and we're talking about al carnitine. drug which is not really outlawed by water but in the doses that salazar

allegedly used with his athletes that is against the waters code so he was. creating a whole lot of controversy regarding more fire and maybe that salazar used the same techniques on the british athlete but now the world anti-doping agency asked again the u.k. anti-doping agency to hand over more existing doping samples for additional testing which is obviously in the authority of water which is it does you know in many countries across the world but here is what the u.k. anti-doping agency had to say to that there has never been any ill feeling lack of willingness or assistance in part but when you open the sample up every time you freeze it and thaw it and freeze it again you had agreed in the sample you need to be able to give me credible evidence about what it is you want to look for rather than this just being truly an expedition and on top of that responding to a question from the journalist head of you cad said you know whether these the

whether water has the authority to pick up those samples and walk into the lab and just grab them upon request she said no it will stay with you cady and it has the authority over keeping those samples so this scandal with. something's been dragging on for several years in this is nothing new while of a sudden want to get their hands on these samples. on the side of what it may be you know the willingness to assert their power especially in the wake of what they did to russia just fortnight ago on the side of we could speculate a lot but you know the fact that more far is going to the olympics in tokyo this summer you know that could be also the timing because you being so protective with their star athlete but fair play to more foreign himself he always denied all the accusations of using b.d.s. he's always said you know come get me and if you want to test me again that's what he said again let's listen i'm happy to be tested anytime and anywhere and for my samples to be used for whatever they need to do keep it and freeze it there is not

much more i can do from a fascinating. free samples to be tested but. russia knows all about the power of water reacted to this story surely i assume that the heads of the russian anti-doping agency are scratching their heads right now having read the news that you know we could have done the same we could have just kept the samples to ourselves because as we know russia provided all the samples due to water and after that water decided that russia should be banned from major competitions for 4 years and that is something which is now being contested in the court of arbitration for sport as we speak a very sort of long going battle we are expecting to seal russia sporting fate but nonetheless we have a reaction from one side and i believe we can listen to that now i believe that you can it should not obstruct any transfer of samples any of passage on either side and this is not just about you can't create the role of mistrust in the country's anti-doping system and accordingly its athletes as part of the system you know the

most ironic angle to this whole story is the fact that it was the u.k. anti-doping agency and the u.s. anti-doping agency which were the vocal the most vocal critics of russia and back in the day they were calling for transparency they were calling for the world anti-doping fight being equal for everyone and this is exactly what you get have to say we don't have a genuine interest in ensuring. absolute wealth and fair play stay at the heart of the sports movement regardless of nationality so as we can see this is the case of potentially double standards when you know some rules applied to one's and does not apply to the others in the case of saying no to providing the samples it looks a little bizarre we discussed the issue with sports journalist alan moore on sports and media lecturer ellis cashmore. i think clean sport and fair sports is not i'd play here from you card. they were one of the ones who wanted to have some russian athletes at the olympics and usada dog didn't want anybody at all and you cards

they're fearful for their own athletes because remember disses does is not about sport this is not a fair play to simply vote money and power and so long as you can don't have to turn over samples to your solder then they have error and they keep keep making money and this is all it's down to because it's you know it was never about fairness they don't care about you pay off these you don't care about russian athletes or are used to athletes all they care about is money and power it is double standard there's no question about that in my mind and i think the rest of the world will stand as the jury on this and say hang on a 2nd a few years ago britain was screaming for for punishment to be doled out to russia because they refused to cooperate now they're doing exactly the same thing themselves so all the guys in punishment. probably are you know because if they refuse and they can they reckon refuse to hand over the

stop was to water then they are risking the punishment full british athletes we presume if water is going to be consistent goal to get these punishments don't forget the punishment against russia was to ban russia as a nation so that meant that every single athlete to russia was punished. with greg that's now a certainty british prime minister barak's johnson is looking to find the country new friends and i seem to focus is turning to africa the 1st ever u.k. africa investment summit was held in london on monday so he added thursday reports . boris johnson the prime minister's on his latest charm offensive in an attempt to restore bush and boost post bricks at business relations in his attempt to were his host in the u.k. african summit right here in london addressing several african nations but interestingly it was on a much smaller scale than that of his counterparts like that of russia and china this time around for boris johnson it's

a much more intimate affair hosting just $21.00 african countries though in his pitch the prime minister did acknowledge the competition coming from various other nations when it comes to investing in africa's economy but insisted that no one can match britain's quote breath and depth of expertise and while presenting the u.k. as the best partner for africa he also mentioned the change to the immigration system which he hopes will attract africa's best talent we in the u.k. have a very 2 job in continuing to convince people across the continent that we're not just a great friend and ally a reliable ally but also the people you should be doing business with you'll be pleased to hear my friends the one thing is changing. our immigration system by putting people before passports we will be able to attract the best talent from around the world wherever they may be. so boris johnson said that he won't put

people before passports but these words from the prime minister of very different in fact miles apart from his previous comments way back in 2002 where he said quote africa is a blocked i refused even to acknowledge the role of britain's colonial past when it comes to africa's economy the continent may be a blot but it is not a broad support our conscience the problem is not that we will be once in charge but that we are not in charge anymore now at the summit boris johnson also made another beneficial pledge to the african leaders and he was calling for an immediate and to the u.k.'s taxpayers' money 1 to support anything to do with the coal mining industry in the region and it's all to do with the drive to tackle climate change so from today the british government will no longer provide any new direct official development assistance investment it's been critical to promotion. for thermal coal mining coal power plants overseas to put it simply not another

penny of u.k. taxpayers' money would be directly invested in the young coal burning it for electricity sounds attractive but despite britain calling for an end to any investment in coal mining one of the biggest companies invested in the region is anglo american and it's based right here in london so when it comes to trying to curb these coal emissions overseas it seems like many of those involved seem to be a lot closer to home leaving me to the final question than has boris johnson done enough in his pitch today to try and convince african leaders to go ahead with the u.k. not to mention of course the other global powers as competition. let's get some insight now from gerald hole and professor of african-american studies at the university of houston welcome to the program so could you tell us why has the british prime minister turn his attention to africa. sturgis attention to africa

because the champney in ill considered wrecks a referendum that has disrupted a training relationship with his neighbors in the european union and now he showed up with a vegan bowl in london. to heighten the co-work african nation to help save him from his own nuber instead it would have been highly appropriate if african leader asked him to apologize for deck need to not read the british colonialism very much you're speaking to a man might know he was director. of the criminal african lady for 8 that's written pioneer project need this not read i'm surprised that the leader of him did not know that mr duncan who apologized on behalf of great britain for the iraq and torture inflicted a point in your national in the ninety's to see the one thing thanks to you during

the uprising against british stuff look woman we all know that's going to stack your years in the seventy's and eighty's britain was a major supporter of the park they saw that and now he has the gall and some merit to invite african leaders to london to help kill fool london took nothing out of the fire i don't think it will work so how significant of an impact will the britain's colonial past have on current cause. is not only britain's colonial past as your setup piece suggested mr johnson has made some rather racist comments about black people not least black people in the city used to lead the king of london and then of course he made a rather ill considered comment about kenya when mr barak obama was president of the united states who happens to be of indian origin and was grandfathered likely would force your brother the british authorities who are. after mrs maldon our

voters and yours and my 2 sisters and i think mr johnson has a lot to apologize for in fact i'm not surprised that. not many of mr johnson in the old. and in the he should have been dragged to the heat to stand trial for this and as. i do you think the african representatives will forgive pains for his past comments for example in the policy called the continent a mess and what the other outcome so if any do you expect to come out of this summit will. be some of the rust filled in sochi or the numerous summits that china has filled with african leaders. come up now. for what we all know trying to find little 3 averages about 5 fun. of 3 britons trying to take advantage of the fact that it might be proclaimed the

african continent will free trade area. was a common market the african continent from cairo to the but all. this. readership will allow it to gain any kind of structure in terms of challenging russia and china in. cheryl cohen professor of african-american studies at the university of houston thank you feel time. the u.n. security council is under way off of russia's request to discuss the international chemical weapons while still reports on the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma the what i call the i.p.c. w. fact finding mission into the april 28th in an incident has been called into question the series of exposé published by 8 wiki leaks one of the most damning and recent photos of documents was made public in late december as he closed on a report. the o.p.c. w. is in crisis the body's image once pristine is now being crippled blow by blow

or rather one leak after another and it's this video that could bring the eventual reputational disintegration of the watchdog. was. the o.p.c. w. had been clear that it investigated the 20 team doomer attack analyzed this video 2 and the conclusion was unequivocal the syrian city was the site of a chemical attack but apparently not according to the expertise of a toxicologist a pharmacologist and they by analytical chemist it was agreed among all present that the key takeaway message from the meeting was that the symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate chemical causing the symptoms could be identified and there's another technical document

that puts into jeopardy the official conclusion that the gas canister was dropped from above something the u.s. and its allies postulated before any investigation even took place and analysis suggested that it didn't which could mean only one thing someone deliberately placed this canister onto this bed someone who had unhindered access to the site in a fully rebel controlled area the o.p.c. w. tried to cover up to expire into this expertise from existence not a wise move in the day and age when everything from nudes to president's conversations leaked online please get this document out of documents registry archives and please remove all traces of the deliberate storage would have been documents registry archives league documents. also mentioned dozens of o.p.c. w.

employees questioning the professionalism of the investigation in which chemists apparently had less authority than american intelligence agents so much so that even a former director general of the o.p.c. w. felt like writing a letter to the body he used to steer. all of this barely scrapes the surface of just one leak one trove of documents casting doubt upon the investigation one out of many to hit the o.p.c. w. over the duma verdict. consensus really ever francine was that there were indications of serious inconsistency in the findings the conclusion appears to turn completely in the

opposite direction in the report. that the report does not reflect the views of the team members but deployed to do only one f.m. team member a paramedic of the so-called core team within 2 months the official report was employed this core team. is only evidence of one among chemicals that contain the reactive chlorine such chemicals could include measuring the radius of household floor and placed bleach purposely singling out chlorine gas is one of the possibilities is disingenuous. so for sure the watchdogs bosses have plenty to talk about though some might suspect it's not professionalism but rather honing of coverup skills that will top the agenda of this o.p.c. trouble you meeting. let's pause live to tarika down to writer and freelance

journalist eric welcome to the program now you've been investigating this story from the very start do you think it was right to call this u.n. meeting on one of the biggest question marks hanging over the report. so i missed the 2nd part of the your question but. i think rusher is in its rights to call this meeting this type of form of meeting is kind of held for special cases where there are urgent matters that need to be dealt with and. i don't see any problem with russia deciding to discuss this it's a very serious matter one of the biggest questions people have about the o.p.c. w.'s report. well i think it's not just the questions but i think it's the consequences of war what it means i think that's what this meeting is about if we have. intelligence officials from the united states that can influence the reports of this body it opens the doors to many more situations where you know genuine

chemical weapons attacks might not be treated in the same way because the reputation of the body is not taken as seriously so and i think from a united nations point of view or you know many countries around the world will be very concerned that. you know this type of thing can happen again in the future i don't think we've had anything to this level of extent before and what outcomes if any do you expect to come out of this session. i think china will will unite with russia in you know calling for this to be investigated properly i think we've already started to see the kind of counter propaganda from the united states we've seen i've seen a statement from the united states representative to the envoy i believe to the united nations so already kind of trying to change the narrative of the w. must keep bashar assad in check and holder's government to account for chemical

weapons attacks but it's not it's completely counter what what the information is that we have at present. whether it will devolve into anything further i'm not i'm not particular certain at this point but. like i said from the very beginning when i started to write about this story this is not something that is going to go away it's very serious so. you know we've seen absolutely no reporting about this in the western media about just the presence of this meeting which no one again do not it's taking place right now i believe we've not seen a single report in any of the western mainstream media about it if you even search in google for a results you won't find anything all the all the results of been sort of hit in a way so. it's becoming increasingly. fraught situation where the u.s. is going to end up looking more and more silly until address is this the documents

that were published by wiki leaks to what extent they undermined the final report which is there. over 100 percent of those. you know in henderson as was the person that led the initial visit to the duma chemical weapons. they found you know it's a little bit more complicated but they found traces of an elements of chlorine in other words you know no higher amount than what would be found in normal environment in normal circumstances they raise concerns that the canisters were placed rather than dropped from an aircraft. i've seen i have to verify this but i've heard others say that the holes in the roof were actually too small for the kind of system even fit through. and you know there is this is just one of many instances like this i believe that the there is big questions about the contrary whom chemical attack. where sarin was allegedly used i think there is lots of

evidence of. deception going on there and same with eastern beauty and it's unfortunately it's just one of the long list of lies concerning the syria conflict it's not just the chemical weapons attacks it's it's the funding of the militias it's the you know there's dozens of things that took place to enable u.s. military interests to try and carry out what they wanted to carry out in syria so what does this spell for be integrity of the a.p.c. w itself do you think it will come out unscathed. no i think it's in a very difficult position at the moment but hopefully you know the best case scenario is that you know people of the united nations take this seriously and it's fully investigated in reports published names or disclosed i think the public should know who the names of the 3 american officials that pressured the opes you to change their findings. who is the he was the head of the.

w at the time should be held to account for the actions that he's he's taken. you know i believe you know you mentioned the his e-mail where he ordered the removal of documents from the national documents archive. i believe this is in contradiction of the principles and it's bylaws and it's the procedures that it has been placed so you know there is this is part possibly a point that can be investigated further. yeah i think the best case scenarios for the to be properly investigated only then can the reputation be restored tarka down thank you for your time thank you. now a landmark test case for euthanasia rules of unfolding in belgium where for the 1st time since the practice was legalized 3 doctors face criminal charges prosecutors allege they illegally ended the life of

a 38 year old woman that woman's family says they've been broken by her death. looked into the issue. on christmas eve in 2937 year old teenage told her family she wanted to be euthanized but while teen suffering might have ended several months later of in a clinic in the flemish city of get and that of her family is still ongoing because the 3 doctors who were involved are now on trial for her murder this will be belgium's fust criminal case concerning euthanasia since the practice was legalized back in 2002 which accounts for an average of 6 deaths of 3 day the doctors insist they acted in good faith and are unfairly being painted as murderous but the hiring account teen says does give of that fateful day raises questions over the competence and motives of the medical professionals.

who likened her death to that of a pattern that is in pain and is having a shot. when she died he asked all parents if they wanted to listen through the scope to check her heart had actually stopped beating. belgium is only one of 2 countries which allows for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds and sees people suffering from depression gender identity issues and an erect resort to this so-called must see killing 2 months before her death as is required by law teen went to the psychiatry list doctor point who diagnosed her with a mild form of autism teen's family protests this diagnosis adamant she was simply

suffering heartbreak and distress after a failed relationship. she knew that if she wasn't diagnosed with autism or asperger's she would have no chance of being euthanized as such they say the key legal requirement that a patient be incurably ill was not met and so by injecting her with that lethal dose she was poisoned really confused by the diagnosis and in this particular psychiatrists solution of suicide it just doesn't it doesn't fit together for me i think that there is a danger especially from a mental health perspective when people play god is so to speak when we're making decisions now about life and death or when other people are making decisions about when to in their life based on things that can be fixed pretty easily in some cases mental illnesses autism is certainly very treatable one of my child has some mild autistic manifestations and we get through those you know it's certainly not

a reason to kill someone or to commit suicide but this was far from the only irregularity they noted and when they launched a complaint the doctors allegedly tried to block the investigation with the psychiatry even hitting back at the grieving family we must try to stop these people. it is a seriously dysfunctional one dead traumatized family with very little empathy and respect for others this is not the fast time psychiatry to diagnose teen has come under scrutiny but in 27000 documents revealed the head of belgium's euthanasia review commission was concerned dr 10 point wasn't fulfilling all necessary legal conditions relations soured so much that he refused to accept and he thought the patients referred by doc to temp aren't her colleagues are also worried that she's allegedly approved around a 3rd of all euthanasia cases for psychiatric reasons in the whole country she is

not really a great person to go to in terms of her judgment for this kind of medical procedure she has a personal and are for looking at euthanasia as a as a solution for these patients so perhaps patients seek her out when for the like this happens it just happens to be too much of this about one particular physician and that's why she's been called into question by 9 other psychiatrist in her own field in belgium but she's doing something wrong so clearly there's some more investigation we need to learn more about this particular psychiatrist and this particular event others have said dr 10 point doesn't expect treatment options available before granting euthanasia an allegation backed by teen sistas. instead of trying to guide team to a better life team was deliberately led to death and pushed without the reasonable treatment options being exhausted and consequently without suffering being relieved

the question is whose interest was paramount in this process the interest of team or the interest of others euthanasia is legal in just 5 countries and is one of the most controversial practices globally stories like the teams reveal just how difficult it is to ensure that people's desire for personal freedom isn't tragically misinterpreted and abused well slave tampons the youth archives are standing trial in the euthanasia case for a response she told is that she cannot comment at this time all 3 doctors deny the charges but if you have something you'd like to say about this story or anything else than do get in touch by following us on social media and join as again at the top of the hour for the latest headlines.