of arbitration for sport this week. in a landmark case, the south african track and field athlete caster semenya is fighting a ruling by the international association of athletics federationst would oblige her to take medication to lower her testosterone levels. reporter: caster semenya's name and athletic skill have polarized the world of sports in the last decade. she is hyper androgenic. that means her body naturally produces high levels of testosterone. but the iaaf wants athletes like her to take drugs to lower their testosterone levels in order to compete in middle distance track events. testosterone, they argue, gives semenya an unfair advantage. >> the core value for ththiaaf is t the empowmement of girlrlsd women through athletics. the regulations s that we are intrtroducing, they are to prott the sanctity of fair and open competition, and that is really what we're here to defend. reporter: semenya first gained global prominence in 2009 at the world championships in berlin. she won gold in the 800 meters. semenya's legal team says the signs the iaaf have put forward to support its rule changes are flawed and discriminatory, that higher testosterone levels do not n

south african runner her name is caster semenya and she's fighting against the international association of athletics federations to counsel the limits of just tossed around and blood that they introduced last year so it is clearly a very touchy a very controversial and emotional subject but looking at the reaction from both camps it's not going to subside anytime soon and i. don't comb. the sly.

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comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the. last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle. which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. the british prime minister's office sais the european nationals who joined eisel should be tried in the region where they committed their crimes it's in response to donald trump calling on the european countries to repatch rates over eight hundred islamists the us president warns that if european countries fail to do so the extremists will be released from detention in syria as washing put washington pulls its troops out of syria artie's it goes down of reports for a while it seemed the british had the whole leave or remain clash monopolised in the news which didn't last long though the americans are now somewhat piggybacking on this leave remain room in their own way however over troops in syria it is time to give our bra

comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. and you report from the u.k.'s house of lords suggests the country is responsible for a significant number of civilian deaths in yemen as a result of its own self to saudi arabia documents says that britain should be prepared to suspend some of its weapons exports as they may be violating international humanitarian law the government to search that in its licensing of arms sales to saudi arabia it is narrowly on the right side of international humanitarian law we assess that it is narrowly on the wrong side. it's almost four years since war erupted in yemen and saudi arabia launched its devastating air campaign against the impoverished countries whose the rebels since then the u.k. has sold four point seven billion dollars w

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comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the i.a.e.a. after last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. to police officers have been killed while trying to arrest a terrorist in cairo this according to egyptian police and the suspect reportedly set off a bomb when he was approached by officers outside a mosque the attacker died in the explosion and three other officers were injured and several civilians according to the egyptian interior ministry the terrorist was the target of a manhunt over the bombing of a police patrol unit last friday. those are from a more news in let's say thirty two and a half minutes watching international. the country has gone into a nihilistic theme. to thank. the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius this is the quinte

comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the i last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. and if you have something you'd like to say we would love to hear it so you do get in touch by following us on social media and if you call your comments that will back at the top of the hour with the latest see that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to set off on fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing and that's all. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can see it go.