and chang cass rejects the appeals so i thought that the sanctions were about competing in the first place how is that possible maybe to summarize this without being too legalistic we called the first case the sochi case and the second is the case such a case was a disciplinary case initiated by the international olympic committee versus many athletes many russian athletes and we had that case that we heard in geneva two weeks before the start of the games involving thirty nine russian athletes. this was a totally unusual case i think in the history of class because it was not a classic doping case where you have a positive test by an athlete in the athlete has to establish his innocence here it was the national olympic committee which had to prove to establish the guilt of these athletes so it had to show evidence and we decided i mean the cast determined that on eleven cases there was sufficient evidence to confirm that there was an anti-doping rule but for twenty eight cases there was not enough evidence therefore these twenty eight athletes were no longer sanctioned so the were n

and chang cass rejects the appeals so i thought that the sanctions were about competing in the first place how is that possible maybe to summarize this without being too legalistic we call the first case the sochi case and the second is the case such a case was a disciplinary case initiated by the international olympic committee versus many athletes many russian athletes and we had that case that we heard in geneva two weeks before the start of the games involving thirty nine russian athletes. this was a totally unusual case i think in the history of cast because it was not a classic doping case where you have a positive test by an athlete in the athlete has to establish his innocence here it was the national olympic committee which had to prove to establish the guilt of these athletes so it had to show evidence and we decided i mean the cast determined that on eleven cases there was sufficient evidence to confirm that there was an anti-doping rule violation but for twenty eight cases.

cass and the i.o.c. here's why thirteen of the winter athletes who are right to compete and chang is being defended were initially banned for life by the international committee their medals were taken away all of this was overturned by cas later but we're guard most of that the olympic officials flashed the red card for the russians nineteen more russian athletes didn't get lifetime bans but despite never being caught for teaching they were never told that they can come here to compete in. a swiss law firm that is helping the russians says that the grounds for the lawsuit are a nontransparent nature of the criteria that was applied to the russian athletes also the unlawful nature of the decision and most importantly the. discrimination on the basis of citizenship i can tell you that among the athletes whose cases are being heard wore the staci gold medalists that were then acquitted by cas after their medals were taken away by the international committee and also world champions and here's what they have told us ahead of the hearing. the limping movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to

studying this like james cass and wanted to do at the university what they would find is there's a vast number of people who are deep trance machining because they regret having changed their gender so i think they're fearful of the truth coming out and this is their way of preventing research from being done. there's a story straight out of the sewers rats are said to far outnumber parisian zz in the french capital over the years authorities have tested a variety of methods to try and improve the problem but now the city's resorting to quite literally revolutionary tactics. q. but as for me i'll be back in about thirty six minutes with a full look at your news watch martha international. that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . and will make us manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round certainly the one. we can