and the athletes drink and the athlete is not aware that he's being dope and things like that but there are athletes who have never failed a doping test in their careers who have won stuff who willing to compete able to compete one of them is that extended if you go if you the skeleton athlete we had a conversation with and let's listen to his story. we know that it's subject to the c.p.s. good at the moment you just get your shit on. the other. most of the e-mails over this commuter. the both of you this is. the 3rd so that i need you to sleep in and get mine you know. for this began. yeah the note also dealt with that we also. just but other. success of the private law. there are still a number of them if that's the database can be on them. still of the bunch of. the connection they made a good. idea discipline that i could be somewhat but i do look at the package almost support us they will ship the truth. and it's time you put away digital snowing s.m.s. would you please i mean let's see i'm a cousin yeah. i could keep a log of the. go it really was shit ability to just. come from b

of the year phenomenal athlete who has won 3 gold medals at the world cup just recently never tested by. in her career she's already been denied access to next year's athletics championship in glasgow for a decision by the british athletics association and you know this is just the 1st shock waves of what we're about to experience once the decision becomes official exactly i'm not looking at the individual athletes but if we take a little bit wider perspective the other thing at stake here is whether or not country can host any major tournaments how do you think that's going to impact the world of sport in general you know this is the most tricky part i should say because not all sports organizations and associations in the world are actually at hearing 2 of the water code one of those organizations is. you know the main body of football in europe which is obviously due to host the euro 2020 championship all across the continent including st petersburg russia for games to be played there including the champions league final in 2021 we've already heard very very vocal indications from

athlete and here's what he had to say. you know a little bit it's subject to the deceit the ski diploma you just get you should get on a bicycle and the other people will. not only remember. the commuter. the both of you this is. the 3rd so that i knew you should sleep in and get mine you know. the thought of the thought. process began. yeah. you know what that would also. just but other. success of the trial of. the us to look. at the mitch that's the. still of. the production they made a good. idea discipline that might be somewhat but i do look at the podium of support out there still should be true. and your time you put away the going yes i miss would you please i mean when i see images then yeah. the good people of the. ship ability to do something.

over even clean athletes most of the states and russia. that you know you belong to the nation which had this and that this is just this is just preposterous in my mind exactly at this point you hear doping and you start thinking russia there's no choice it's just already ingrained in everybody's mind and we're talking about how the ramifications of this decision they're saying that this is a 4 year ban we've been talking about this since how how many years already but again the 4 years after the 4 years it's not going to stop because you can russia also can't make any bid for hosting further international sports going forward and it's unclear exactly which international sports are going to fall under this ban like you said we're waiting for that press conference in about 30 minutes where hopefully we'll have a few more details and we'll have more response from organisations like feet and whatnot to see exactly what the details are going to come down at but at this point we have likely we're going to have athletes that are going to need to

letting individual athletes participate in competitions without their flag.

in the database in the old database are still active athletes banned them all why would you ban. nation a flag not even a nation a flag because the promise of. letting individual athletes participate in competitions without their flag they can't even make up their minds about the anthem what happens to a russian fan who goes to let's say talk to support a team under a white flag or whatever whatever that flag is i don't know and the fan sings an anthem in the street where he's going to be taken to into custody by by the local police i mean how does this work is completed. i mean you got one point when john taylor brought his package and he said so what would happen if for example. if we go to cuss and he go no they won't win so this decision will not be changing cars how can you do that that sounds like an absolute dictatorship but if you go to court of law the highest court in sport the court of arbitration of sport you've had a case and say look these are all the points which we mentioned $26.00 russian athletes had their cases overturned much to the disdain of lot of love the

it's been ignored while the authorities plan to take the decision to sport's highest court russian athletes claim the punishment is harsh and politicised. and in other news paris hosts the leaders of russia ukraine and germany with the normandy or summit in full swing the group hopes to agree to a road map to peace in eastern ukraine. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. russia is being kicked out of all international sporting events for the next 4 years punishment so says the world anti-doping agency for moscow tempering with a key database of test results from russian athletes while in the last hour the russian sports minister of public gave his reaction claiming russia's arguments have simply gone and heard it was renewed and able to sleep experts who provided convincing on says unfortunately they haven't hunted us or some other has time to appeal but it was initially when we handed over the database we said let's investigate the database together so that we can make a full decision so we wanted to have a

prominent athletes and members of of u.s. and canadian and u.k. . sporting federations who are who are really vehement and i think there's a there's a concern that the commercialization of sport may be a factor here in that you know in the beginning it was it was not like this but increasingly being a gold man or a gold medal winner at the olympics makes makes what you can make one a lot of money and and so there's a there's a question of whether that this is influencing some some athletes i mean if if they take a gold medal if they have a competitor a strong competitor in russia if they eliminated before the contest to be even begins they don't have to they don't have to do. it to prevail in the in the in the competition so. hopefully that would not be the case but i think i think realistically one has to look at that as a possible factor with the very outspoken and almost hyperbolic state months from coming. especially canadian and u.s. athletes we've been handed over extending investigative journalist thanks for your time ric. and then tom some s

the skeleton athlete we spoke to and here is the story let's listen to that. you know a little bit of subject to the deceit the skit it's almost like you just get your goal should be a little better than the other. most of the male over this commuter. the book in this is. the 3rd so that i knew because we didn't get mine you know. the thought of the thought. process began. yeah the you know i also know what it would also. just but others in chile echo 6 dozen of the rival up. there are still you know well at the mission that's the. still of the bunch. of that actually and they had a good. idea discipline that might be somewhat but i do look at the pendulum of support us they will shape the truth into just not a new family but a way to get us knowing us i'm asleep i mean when i see images then yeah. i could keep a lot of the. go really washable into yes no. one can do all of that for more call in the office and yeah people still spinning my i was at the cook if you will just. put facebook tell me on the porch next. still sitting near. manuf and i eat. so this i

for all athletes, it is fantastic.have to look out for their results and competition, but at the same time if i were sitting in their shoes, i would be... it would be difficult, because i am glad there is a blanket ban, buti because i am glad there is a blanket ban, but i am glad there is also a way that some of the athletes can still compete. what is the significance of this being widened out to other sports including football? does it make it more mainstream for people to understand that it mainstream for people to understand thatitis mainstream for people to understand that it is notjust athletics and olympics? yes, absolutely, it would be naive to think it was just one sport. this is a huge problem, because sport has lost its way, it hasn't looked out for athletes for a long time, and there is clearly a lot of corruption within sport. i think that is why russia believe they could get away with it. long, because they didn't deliver or their expectations, their dates or information that was required of them, as they

innocent athletes. and as i want to remind you one of the most important objectives of water is to protect. clean athletes but the walk is not done it's not done yet of course. we need to focus on the implementation of c o c recommendations absolutely crucial for us think you can take on the next steps so thank you very much. ok thank you very much mr berger like to open it up to questions as i said in my briefing a little while ago please raise your hand wait for a microphone to come to you let us know who you are and where you're from ask a question 1st question from david. thank you james and david owen from inside the games. it's a question for jonathan and possibly going to. if i can read it you said in the water press release jonathan that water now has the names of all suspicious athletes in the limbs database things the painstakingly forensic nature of the investigation that includes that includes the athletes whose data was manipulated or even deleted including the one for 5 athletes within wha

who we heard today for water that those athletes will have to prove their innocence. this is a ban against russia the protection of the rights of russian us each. entry for major events. able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any we. are complying and what is important thing to these decisions. are really sanctioning those who are responsible for this many pollutions and leave those open for those who had nothing to do with. in russia clean. slate. well that decision by water was a unanimous decision we also know the result which is the russia anti doping agency said it will appeal that decision we've also heard from russia that it says it is done everything to abide by the requests from water and says that they've put all that evidence to the president in fact i asked the president that question about the evidence that russia has given to show that it doesn't believe that it had anything to do with any evidence being tampered with. so to says it's going to appeal this decision russia says it's rejected all of the allegations of data manipulation it says

now are to go under standing yes i mean look they used athletes who are going to go to the u.s. olympic games in the side next month from russia are now banned in mustique improve their need and we're talking to some of these kids are 151617 years old so this is a far reaching decision just you know far beyond the headlines of what we're seeing about 20202022 olympics and world cup it affects the youth olympic games as well this begs the question in the exuberance the catch drug chait's of wada been allowed a bit too much leeway had too much power well i mean this is a tough question to answer because i'm on the other side representing athletes and i try not to get political i mean i try to focus on legal and what and the what is i mean it's a great policy question i guess somebody has to start at some point and what is the ones who are in charge i mean there is a mechanism for russia to now challenge the determination that was issued today they can go to the court of arbitration for sport and what it is answerable to them there's a 3 member panel that will or will oversee the c

a very determined man for the whole world vand the want will be damage these are the athletes athletes those athletes are absolute clean those circum barrett is among the best in the world and this what is in justin series about and if you're not yet confused enough they already said directly that should russia appeal to cast 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 2024 summer olympic games in paris so this is all surrounded by a lot of confusion and at the same time russia says that it's not planning to give up the sports minister of the country by vocal of course insists the. all the information for the reinstatement has been provided to the world anti-doping agency says. 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 toge

says the world anti-doping agency for tampering with a key database of test results from russian athletes. press conference in lhasa. what are officials announcing a unilateral decision over a 4 year ban on russia taking part in major sporting events during that period meaning that russian athletes won't be able to compete and the ban over russia nor will they be able to fly the russian flag at those major events those major events could include tokyo 2020 and also the world athletics championships is also suggestion that this could impact the football world cup in 2022 russia won't be able to host nor be able to bid for any major sporting events during that 4 year period russian officials won't be able to go in an official capacity to those games nor will officials in russia be able to sit on the boards of major sporting committees all boards during that time when they were questioned about what that would mean for russian athletes who didn't have any cloud of suspicion over them when it came to doping allegations they said that each russian athlete would have to prove their innocence th

alexander just like any other high level athlete is very dedicated and focused on his discipline and while he's concentrated on training for the skeleton race he probably doesn't have much time to ponder what crisis might come next just as russia seemed to come out of the 2015 accusations the western media is starting to report that the new scandal is afoot. in the doping scandal and want to investigate whether russia tampered with data. from the moscow laboratory that was at the center of the 2015 doping scandal had been a key requirement. gives russia 3 weeks to explain alleged irregularities. russia is once again in danger of being banned from next year's olympics. tells russia they have to pull a rabbit out of the house if they are to avoid possible burns from the 2020 a limp exam to 2022 world cup. but seemingly none of these headlines pretty used in fact thunderous as the statement made by one person who works in this building in the very heart of the russian capital you we got us we had a freshness anti-doping agency who we going to talk to right now has been quite outspoken i

on all russian athletes the u.k. agency though has its own controversies that cleared heavyweight boxer dillion white despite the presence of steroids in his sample and justification is a bit levels were not were very low and not caused by any faults on whites part well arty's it goes down of looks at how double standards appear to reign in the sphere of anti doping. for years you national sports competitions have. been hijacked by the russians for decades it seems that russian olympic athletes have been secretly doping to gain a competitive advantage labrat doping system secret labs double agents helping russian athletes cheat their way to the medal stand at the olympics this is now pointing the finger at a whole range of sports in a former what a staffer told us today you know this isn't a bombshell this is a nuclear warhead the russia doping investigation has become the leviathan of sports scandals it's towering so high above everything else in fact it's hard to notice other violations in its shadow bribery a secr

and the other 26 russian athletes on these so-called. were acquitted by the court of arbitration for sport. you see simply to work toward where a professional judge didn't. get us. to push. the other. one won't. go it's. not. it was none other than. what's called the limbs or laboratory information management system software that processed and stored old desk result data sent to the most school lab that was run by. the. us to push on the. spot. this is a copy of the case file proceedings were instigated against russia back in 2011 long before russia was accused of a state run doping program even then being investigated over illicit trafficking of various substances prosecutors believed he was planning to sell them to athletes and. then back to the looms database as we know from the oscar winning documentary in 2015 rushing to the united states taking a copy of the database with it to use it as proof of tampering with doping test results. one has had a copy of. in its possession the whistleblowers database as they call it that was the cop

in 2019 the world athletics and world pa ra— athletics in 2019 the world athletics and world para— athletics went to gough. in doha and in dubai there would be challenges in the heat. just after midnight, what a time to start a marathon, not a place to be running a marathon. there is no one in the stands, it is empty and they are cleaning up the stadium. great britain won 13 gold medals at the world para— athletics championships. hannah cockroft and holly arnold were dominant again. sophie han broke two world records. and it was a year to remember for aled davies. it is not about me any more, this little one. late september british athletes went to qatar for the athletics world shopping tips. two gold medals came back on. katrina johnson thompson, the best tip tap one of her life. dina has done it. she did it again here. i am denise lewis, former 0lympic heptathlon champion. so much anticipation for dina asher—smith's performances this year, because having had such a fantastic 2018 was just something in the air, the way she stepped on the track, we should expected fireworks. dina asher-smith

russian athletes brace themselves with the world and he do it being agency to decide on whether to fly on the dorset international sports on them for the next 4 years is. that what we also. just that but others truly have come. to the right a lot. more still you know whether that's the to be discouraged on the russian brands the proposed doping sanctions in logical and inappropriate fleet say they are politicizing. ukraine peace talks resume for the 1st time in 3 years and they'll be the 1st for the country's new leader who was elected on a promise to end the conflict. and the f.b.i. is working on the assumption that friday's deadly naval base shooting in florida was an act of terrorism. oh very well we'll continue this monday morning you're watching altie international with me mickey erin and our top story russian athletes are holding their breath with the world anti-doping agency awada deciding on monday what that their national team will be disqualified from international sports for the next 4 years russia was accused of town pouring with a doping test database they handed over to t

late september british athletes went to qatar for the athletics world championships.e back on. katarina johnson—thompson, the best heptathlon of her life. dina has done it. she did it again here. i am denise lewis, former 0lympic heptathlon champion. so much anticipation for dina asher—smith's performances this year, because having had such a fantastic 2018 there was just something in the air, the way she stepped on the track, we expected fireworks. dina asher—smith blasts out of the block. just the way she commanded that race from gun to type. strong, the way she came off the curve, the race was hers. she was about to elevate herself into a new stratosphere in terms of women's sprinting. it's dina asher—smith, world champion! it was sublime. i wasjust really focused on putting together a good race and i dreamt of this, but now it's real. what makes dina so special is just mental toughness. there is not really that much to do between now and next year. it is about staying healthy and being ready. katarina johnson—thompson is coming through nicely. that's an excellent

athletes who samples raised suspicion it sounds ominous but what exactly does it mean. database the digit one next to the names of 298. but against only 29. independent forensic examinations suggests that. remotely logged into limbs in moscow on numerous occasions after they had defected abroad so they could have changed the zeros to ones in their database copy. in russia. but it. surely couldn't have just blindly accepted word they couldn't think that the database he used is the only authentic one. trustworthy. well. in certain respects why do we believe. there's really 2 fundamental reasons 1st. she was at risk if she didn't tell the truth to my myself and members of my team loses visa and you'd be deported. but if you live. in. yuri got us on the other hand has his own opinion. and you see it showed up norm. and i would have been fine well enough that i got to. do what the watch and they. give you enough of a global. media she. was. indeed one representative to point out that the most school labs database was altered before it was handed over and if that's the case h

alexandra just like any other high level athlete is very dedicated and focused on his discipline and while he's concentrated on training for the skeleton race he probably doesn't have much time to ponder what crisis might come next just as washer seemed to come out of the 2015 accusations the western media. it was at the center of the 2015. in the. 3 weeks to explain. again in danger of being burned. to avoid possible burns from the 20202022 world cup. but seemingly none of these headlines and the fact. as the statement made by one person who works in this building in the very heart of the russian capital. we had a freshness anti-doping agency who we go into right now has been quite outspoken in the media in the last few weeks he admitted that. doping test results have been tempered before being sent to wada although stopping short of naming the culprit. it was someone. of course these allegations raise several eyebrows in russia community if you make such strong accusations then you probably have something to back them up right. the russian and. 2017. and to act as a crisis manager.

that will decide it's still a struggle how could they punish the whole country all the athletes no matter when they dumped or not they should just punish those who were guilty. refusing to back down protesters in france continue to make a stand against the government's plans to overhaul the pension system head of a key speech by the prime minister on the issue. and tightening the noose on donald trump the house rolls out 2 articles of impeachment against the president accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russian athletes have expressed both anger and frustration after the continuing fallout from the doping scandal so the country banned from all major world tournaments for the next 4 years the decision was made by the world anti-doping agency water bottom or putin has given his backing to russia's athletes. because the. punishment must not be collective the 13 people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are new complaints against the russia

innocent athletes russian so my you hear your theme of is among those athletes who have to prove they're clean she was barred from the rio olympics after failing a drug test in 2013 i think of her took the matter to sports highest court and won series win stated and went on to win 2 silver medals here's what she thinks about the what is in. yeah. i was expecting something like this to happen especially after the rio olympics right after i swam i said it was just the beginning we would have these problems i had and it's getting worse with each year we weren't allowed to computers team russia for the winter olympics 2 years ago and i was getting worse now for 4 years we have banned from the international tournament the question is what to do next and how to qualify for competitions so the news didn't come as much of a surprise but i didn't expect the decision to be that off. look i've got to decide still struggle so how could they punish the whole country all athletes no matter whether they dumped or not they should just punish those who were guilty one of them from her solder all athletes

group of trichy cough and another $26.00 russian athletes on these so-called. were acquitted by the court of arbitration for sport a new design. you see simply to work toward where a professional judge didn't. get us going to go to. efficiently got them got to go out of. sympathy my looking. at us from skill no one can move 6. but i would not. it was none other than to supervise creation of what's called the limbs or laboratory information management system software that processed and stored old desk. result data sent to the most school that was run by. the. u.s. to push. by text but. this is a copy of the case file proceedings were instigated against russia back in 2011 long before russia was accused of a state run doping program even then was being investigated over illicit trafficking of various substances prosecutors believed he was planning to sell them to athletes. but back to the lives database as we know from the oscar winning documentary in 2015 fled to the united states taken a copy of the database with it to use it as proof of tampering with doping t

seldom to athletes. but back to the limbs database as we know from the oscar winning documentary in 2015 fled to the united states taken a copy of the database with a d. use it as proof of tampering with doping test results since stand one it has had a. database in its possession the whistleblowers database as they call it that was the copy what i wanted to compare with the database kept in moscow. when looking at the 2 versions want to experts raise the alarm and once again brush face the threat of total isolation. so just to recap why they strain to say listen something doesn't add up there are inconsistences but when the data passed to us by a whistleblower it ended out of taken from the moscow laboratory in january of 2019 but guess what russian experts have known since day one that the 2 databases wouldn't match but according to them this doesn't mean that there is been any wrongdoing and now they're going to tell us why. yeah. i knew. i didn't. but it was on the. u.s. . there's a push and then the

neutral athletes only, no russian flag.cant sign and message that says you, by your conduct, have forfeited your place at the top of world sport. if that's not enough we may have to go next time. but yes, we want to try and get a message across without punishing innocent athletes. arsenal have their first win under freddie ljungberg since he took interim charge, as they came from behind to beat west ham at the london stadium. it's their first win in ten matches in all competitions and moves them to ninth in the premier league, within two points of manchester united in fifth. patrick geary reports. bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. these were worrying times for arsenal, but they arrived at west ham without a win in nine, disorientated and about to be made still dizzy. angelo 0gbonna west ham's sora, ainsley maitland—niles u nfortu nate ham's sora, ainsley maitland—niles unfortunate touch. nothing was going the way arsenal intended. for an hour they stumbled relying on west ham's mercy. the next goal seemed a matter of time

it's impossible to discard athletes who have nothing to do with any of this. i don't know what we can do while we youngsters to make sure they don't end up with our sport and who's out high achievement. these burn could break our sports. those decisions are biased and inexplicably there are too politicized and prejudiced they're punishing the country and clean athletes how can that be considered fair. i am devastated by the unsporting decisions being made by international organizations this was an unfounded and mean spirited decision. what to say is moscow is being punished for tampering with a database of drug test results clean athletes will be able to compete on a neutral flag but russian officials and are prohibited from attending major sporting events while the country won't be allowed to host any tournament now the list of events russia has been excluded from is extensive a big clue to the olympic and paralympic olympic games in tokyo in 2020 football's pfieffer world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was the last host of that event and its players

so that russian athletes could return to the you know. sports family and compete under their own flag instead of a neutral one russia had to meet several requirements set out in waters so-called road map one of the last items on that list required handing over the database of best results from the most school anti-doping class. if the database had been deemed in order. to russian anti-doping agency run by you regardless would finally have been reinstated and russian would have shared their status as constance suspects. it looked as though they were about to close the chapter on these doping story now they seem to have started a whole new one instead. of course they. want to experts found some inconsistences in the database but they claimed it contained traces of deleted files russia wasn't a formally accused but asked to explain those apparent inconsistency just as. there would teen analysis. suddenly burst into the spotlight. chief says thousands of drug tests were manipulated. russian official says country old job cells of drug test res

russian athletes wouldn't be allowed to compete even under. a neutral flag not at the olympics nor the fee for world cup nor any other international tournament under water aegis. total sports isolation. and how do you explain that to russian athletes like alexander trente cough who'd already missed the olympics in 2018 because it just seemed to water that he used a banned substance. the will of the form or call it a whopping. yeah plus the spin of my worship if you were just there to push things put me on the porch must. still said near. when you talk to the place when you spend some time with them you will get a new perspective to their dedication and hard work will just imagine what they might feel about these never ending being allegations you didn't do anything all your claim you've been working your entire life to get yourself to the elite level and yet they can come after you they can try to take away your medal they can try to take away your effort to need to be done they can try to take away your flag and there was nothing much you can

and well russian athletes be accepted as 0lympic athletes be accepted as 0lympic athletes from russiaof questions regarding a four—year ban for russia. they say it will mean a longer ban because they will not be allowed to bid for any sport for four years. lots more analysis throughout the day on that. back to politics, with just three days until polling day, what could the parties do to convince undecided voters? joanna gosling is in crewe with more. thanks, carrie. yes, throughout the campaign, bbc news has been looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we've been to ten parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today we're in our last town, crewe, in the north west of england. the railway is a very important part of crewe's history. the real be station opened in 1837. the gateway to the north—west. even if you haven't been to crewe, you may well haven't been to crewe, you may well have passed through it. key politicians have been coming here to try to win votes. jeremy corbyn kicked off the road trip for labour at your end crewe. saying th

and body image, an elite gymnast speaks out about the pressures young athletes face.>s atisk. that's the number of children ie mental, io and tonight, the stark look young female athletes face when it comes to weight and body image. katelyn ohashi, famous for her popular floor routines, now she's speaking out about what needs to change to help the next generation of elite athletes the video has been viewed millions of times. katelyn beaming with a perfect ten floor routine rounding out her career in january on ucla's team but the story behind that infectious smile is more complicated. >> i was body shamed by the time i was 14. >> what do you mean like that? >> i was told i look like i swallowed a pig, or i looked like an elephant >> who says those things >> you hear it from everyone around you and you get online and you hear it from them. >> when katelyn was 9 her family relocated to train at an elite center is it parents, coaches, the system, what creates that pressure >> i think it's a little bit of gymnastics, she says lighter is better. >> we tried to eat under 50

has given his backing to russia's athletes. because then you move the punishment must not be collective affecting people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are new complaints against the russian olympic committee if there are no complaints the country should compete and do its national flag as stated in the olympic charter it means that why this decision contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal to cas what took the action after it ruled moscow had tampered with a key drug test database but while clean athletes will still be able to compete they'll be forced to do so under a neutral flag russian officials however are prohibited from attending major events and the country won't be allowed to host any tournaments that the list of door slammed in russia's face now is quite extensive and includes the olympic and paralympic games in tokyo in 2020 and football's world cup in qatar 2 years after that russia was the last host of that event and its players will now have to go as neutrals if they qua