members now we see that according to one of the leaked emails i.o.c. officials even accused mcclaren of lying about the level of communication between the two organizations as well is that correct yes there's another email from the i.o.c. is director general to richard mclaren reportedly showing that the i.o.c. has been baffled by statements that mclaren was making to the press saying that the i.o.c. leadership had never gotten in touch with him and according to the i.o.c. that's one hundred percent false they claim to have reached out to a number of times offering assistance and further cooperation with him and if that is true that those statements to the press were completely false the question becomes why would mclaren be making statements such as that if they're not true what was the motivation behind such a lie and we talked about the i.o.c. was talking about what they were talking about mclaren i'm going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes that's one of the really interesting bits according to an e-mail allegedly written by i.o.c. offi

so there we have the i.o.c. concluding that the mclaren report's goal was to achieve a blanket ban against the russian team and the email goes on to say that that was something specifically that the i.o.c. was against that they wanted to be able to go after individual athletes found to have been using doping but want to force them into a corner and put them on the path of getting the blanket bans and then also further lamented the lack of cooperation between the two are going to say sions and it really shows a pair of potentially disturbing divide between those two huge anti-doping organizations such a complicated story isn't it but luckily we have an expert in the studio with us as alan moore sports radio host at moscow's capital f.m. thanks for coming in shed some more light on this convoluted story does this suggest that there's something of a rift between laws and the i.o.c. to be appointed to do it is kind of like a devoid in the doping world you call the anti doping business because it is big business are

because the i.o.c. wanted to go down the path of sanctioning the individual athletes because that is its jurisdiction whereas the where the u.s. courts and the u.s. olympic committee actually commissioned a law firm to investigate the possibility of appealing against cod sea decision not to ban russia so it's clear u.s. courts once it's actually banned russia and the fancy bears hack. alleges basically that water wanted to go down the pass all of banning russia in fact it was a suggestion made in an e-mail by the u.s. olympic committee. so it wasn't actually what a suggestion until in fact that suggestion wasn't docked it has been put forward by fancy bears and picked up by the media as being that i don't think is actually correct i don't think that water we're pushing entirely for a ban i think was pressure on water to the to push for a ban of russia but i don't think that pressure was coming in certainly from water as france you does suggest so if you think u.s. sports officials actually played a sign

members now we see that according to one of the leaked emails i.o.c. officials even accused mcclaren of lying about the level of communication between the two organizations as well is that correct yes there's another email from the i.o.c. is director general to richard mclaren reportedly showing that the i.o.c. has been baffled by statements that mclaren was making to the press saying that the i.o.c. leadership had never gotten in touch with him and according to the i.o.c. that's one hundred percent false they claim to have reached out to a number of times offering assistance and further cooperation with him and if that is true that those statements to the press were completely false the question becomes why would mclaren be making statements such as that if they're not true what was the motivation behind such a lie and we talked about the i.o.c. was talking about what they were talking about mclaren i'm going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes that's one of the really interesting bits according to an e-mail allegedly written by i.o.c. offi

members now we see that according to one of the leaked emails i.o.c. officials even accused mcclaren of flat out lying about their level of communication but. in the two organizations as well is that correct yes there's another email from the i.o.c. is director general to richard mclaren reportedly showing that the i.o.c. has been baffled by statements that mclaren was making to the press saying that the i.o.c. leadership had never gotten in touch with him and according to the i.o.c. that's one hundred percent false they claim to have reached out to a number of times offering assistance and further cooperation with him and if that is true that those statements to the press were completely false the question becomes why would mclaren be making statements such as that if they're not true what was the motivation behind such a lie and we talked about the i.o.c. it was talk about what they were talking about mclaren i'm going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes that's one of the really interesting bits according to an e-mail allegedly written by

themselves didn't want and of course the i.o.c. we know they put it off to the international federations to take care of who would be the north because if someone's cheating doesn't matter what passport they carry whoever housen cheat on them as well but blanket ban your country your first time in history that they don't doesn't work and it just you know it basically as i said many times here before it's sent back to fight against doping by five ten years because now everyone can get away with it and you say oh well the russians are worse yet the spotlight is completely shifted hasn't exactly exactly i mean and it's getting worse because i mean every time something happens say for example british like and chris froome they're caught doing something dirty immediately if something happens in russia which we already knew was happening would suddenly rolls over in the media around the world so it kind of it's the spotlight of russia all these other cockroaches are involved in the open as well just scuttle way. on and more sports right.

members now we see that according to one of the leaked emails i.o.c. officials even accused mcclaren of lying about the level of communication between the two organizations as well is that correct yes there's another e-mail from the i.o.c. as director general to richard mclaren reportedly showing that the i.o.c. has been baffled by statements that mclaren was making to the press saying that the i.o.c. leadership had never gotten in touch with him and according to the i.o.c. that's one hundred percent false they claim to have reached out to him a number of times offering assistance and further cooperation with him and if that is true that those statements to the press were completely false the question becomes why would mclaren be making statements such as that if they're not true what was the motivation behind such a lie and we talked about the i.o.c. was talking about what they were talking about mclaren i'm going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes that's one of the really interesting bits according to an e-mail allegedly written by i.o.c.

and we talked about the i.o.c. was talking about what they were talking about mclaren i'm going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes that's one of the really interesting bits according to an e-mail allegedly written by i.o.c. officials in response to mclaren's reports they believe that those reports had a very very specific aim let's take a listen to an x. or. a further problem was created by your report seemingly being used to try and justify total burn of the complete russian olympic team from the rio games in the pyongyang chuang games when in fact the international olympic committee and the international sports federations were simply not of the view that a collective punishment should be or should have been imposed upon all russian athletes so there we have the i.o.c. concluding that the mclaren report's goal was to achieve a blanket ban against the russian team and that the email goes on to say that that was something specifically that the i.o.c. was against that they wanted to be able to go after i

correspondent in ever trying to look at the criteria the i.o.c. was using when screening athletes weeks after russia had come to terms with no team russia in korea anyone with even the slightest interest in sport and this country was baffled dozens of clean washed and star athletes never got the. olympic invitations those who'd never been under any suspicion by the sporting federations or even the i.o.c. when they had everyone with a russian passport under the microscope forget about your dream and story no explanation that could have been the case but the international olympic committee then let us know the seventeen criteria they used if you don't match at least one or rather if there's even doubt about at least one of them you're out that could be suspicion that could even be an ongoing procedure that could be many factors which did not lead to the satisfaction of the panel the purpose is to invite clean russian athletes for which this panel has been and has not the slightest doubt or suspicion again seventeen boxes to be taked to get the all c

has expressed her frustration over the i.o.c. as decision usually. present but before i was encouraging everyone to go to the games and stand your ground now i can see the same because i have major concerns over how cynical of the russian athletics have been treated some panel decides who will be invited and who will be not even if that person did not take part in the saatchi games and was not mentioned in any reports and this is not just our team i'm talking about maybe now is the time for you to perform stronger than ever before hold her as high and prove that the where we have been punished is unfair and cynical and against the spirit of sport. the u.k. has announced donald trump will visit britain in the second half of this year i'm to this are vying to stage a wide scale protests when he arrives but the president seems unfazed i think a lot of the people in your country like what i stand for they respect what i say and those who voted for tough border are going to come to a number of those who don't what do you say to them i don't care i don't c

looks at the criteria at the i.o.c. used when screening athletes weeks after russia had come to terms with no team russia in korea anyone with even the slightest interest in sport in this country was baffled dozens of clean washing star athletes never got their olympic invitations those who'd never been under any suspicion by the sporting federations or even the i.o.c. when they had everyone with a russian passport under the microscope forget about your dream story no explanation that could have been the case but the international olympic committee then let us know the seventeen criteria they used if you don't match at least one or rather if there's even doubt about at least one of them you're out. that could be suspicion that could even be an ongoing procedure that could be many factors which did not lead to the satisfaction of the panel the purpose is to invite clean russian athletes for which this panel was and has not the slightest doubt or suspicion again seventeen boxes to be taked to get the all clear there's all

a personal invitation to take part it's some five hundred russian athletes applied to compete the i.o.c. gave provisional approval to almost eighty percent of them most of these didn't compete at the sochi games and twenty fourteen where most of the doping allegations stem from russian olympic officials have already released a list of one hundred sixty nine athletes it says have been cleared to participate it has been looking at the criteria the i.o.c. is using when screening athletes weeks after russia had come to terms with no team russia in korea anyone with even the slightest interest in sport in this country was baffled dozens of clean washing star athletes never got their olympic invitations those who'd never been under any suspicion by the sporting federations or even the i.o.c. when they had everyone with a russian passport under the microscope forget about your dream story no explanation that could have been the case but the international olympic committee then let us know the seventeen criteria they used if you don't match at least one or rather if there's even doubt about at

russia take the first two which essentially unite all the rest by the way being sanctioned by the i.o.c. investigators or any anti-doping rule violation in the past the latest group of russian athletes who found out they're not go and were never involved in any of that another box to take issues revealed by the moscow anti-doping lab database well it's the whistleblower and his team who used to be in charge of it. it was created by the deputy of grigori which includes and had several levels of access until the summer of twenty sixteen it was possible to change any of the data that the world anti-doping agency coincide with this back in twenty thirteen it cannot serve as evidence i've mentioned scratches and marks on sample bottles arguably the most solid proof that however was never shown to the public just like the visual results of the bottle flaw experiments back to the water's mysterious additional data that amounts to intelligence extracted from its whistleblower program and other sources many people in russia would like to know who these sources are and why they should be trusted

has expressed her frustration over the i.o.c. as decision is. present but before i was encouraging everyone to go to the games and stand your ground now i can see the same because i have major concerns over how cynical are the russian affleck's have been treated some panel decides who will be invited and who will be not even if that person did not take part in the such a games and was not mentioned in any reports and this is not just our team i'm talking about maybe now is the time for you to perform stronger than ever before hold her as high and prove that the where we have been punished is unfair and cynical and against the spirit of sport. now the u.k. has announced donald trump will visit britain in the second half of this year activists are vowing to stage a wide scale protests when he arrives but the president seems unfazed i think a lot of the people in your country like what i stand for they respect what i say and those who voted for tough border are gonna come to that now but to those who don't what do you say to them i don't care i don

our sports correspondents a lima hotel killing my thanks for coming in at such short notice will the i.o.c. will the international olympic committee approve this idea of a joint north korean south korean women's ice hockey team i can't really give you one reason as to why they shouldn't because the i.o.c. they all about the olympic spirit they all about they have all these values and ideas like peace bringing people together understanding building bridges so you know regardless of background so i am certain that the i.o.c. you will give this the women's ice hockey team the green light ok so we've got the green light from lima tech you know we have plenty more to talk about but just bear with me for a second because first we're going to get more detail on the day's events including what wonder exactly one reactions in south korea. delegations from north and south korea met for the third time in ten days a sign of progress but on tuesday their plans for a joint women's ice hockey team got a somewhat frosty reception from south korea's coach sara murray adding somebody in north korean or sout

russia take the first two which essentially unite all the rest by the way being sanctioned by the i.o.c. investigators or any anti-doping rule violation in the past the latest group of russian athletes who found out they're not go and were never involved in any of that another box to take issues revealed by the moscow anti-doping lab database well it's the whistleblower and his team who used to be in charge of it. it was created by the deputy of grigori which includes and had several levels of access until the summer of twenty sixteen it was possible to change any of the data that the world anti-doping agency coincide with this back and twenty third see it cannot serve as evidence i've mentioned scratches and marks on sample bottles arguably the most solid proof that however was never shown to the public just like the visual results of the bottle flaw experiments back to the water's mysterious additional data that amounts to intelligence extracted from its whistleblower program and other sources many people in russia would like to know who these sources are and why they should be truste

the i.o.c. wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. or we asked former sweden ice hockey.

and it looks as though another deal could be on the cards according to the country's i.o.c. delegate speaking at beijing airport said that north korean participation will probably happen there's even a possibility of the two countries marching under the same flag as they did at the two thousand and three university summer games in south korea while some experts and officials have gone as far as to suggest that they could even compete as a single nation. on thursday the presidents of south korea and the united states agreed to postpone their joint military exercises during the olympics paving the way for north korean put the atmosphere of the games from one of mutual suspicion two to one of togetherness and that's certainly what the i.o.c. will be hoping for and in terms of togetherness what does this say about how sport can bring people together it's a nice line it's one that certainly the marketing guys that the i.o.c. will really really enjoy they've been struggling to sell tickets for the games especially within south korea and one of the reasons for that is this the conc

the i.o.c. wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport we ask former sweden hockey center anders karlsson and canadian hockey coach scott macpherson for their views on the exclusion of russian athletes i think it's awful i think russia should go with the best team because they have the best hockey players out side the show and it's going to be sad for the tournament but the best russian it's not to think that they have to be able to do it a little older so they don't affect just like three four weeks before the olympics so it's that's a big. might think it's somewhat misguided in that i think most of the players on the russian olympic team or the athletes from russia team that are going to be in korea they were.

and the i.o.c. had the right to appeal the decision of the time and none of them did well this is the point where i once again want to mention all the russian olympic bans well everyone has their own understanding of the words double standards blatant double standards in my opinion thanks for coming in with those details. with a lympics looming only one hundred sixty nine russian athletes will be invited to the games out of almost five hundred initially put on the list russian president vladimir putin has apologized to the sports people saying the country failed to protect them. you know better than anyone else you know how hard it is to clean victories and how much effort you million and it's two times harder when a sport is mixed with events unfamiliar to sport politics we apologize for not managing to protect you from that r.t. talks exclusively to a number of russian athletes who were spoken to by the president. so you're going to lose there is a certain amount of pressure on all of us of course

for their testimonies for instance miss mrs dupont sorry was actually granted scholarship from the i.o.c. and this is something that no one gets once they were caught in dubbing and obviously she was in that case plus there was payment for accommodation and tickets while she was heading to was on through geneva lobbies the because there's no airport and moves on to give these testimonies but again we're going to be looking into these e-mails and trying to get in touch with this people to verify if they're real or not but this indeed raises a lot of questions if they are to be believed a lot of questions on many levels just how far down does the rabbit hole go to use their leverage and thank you. green campaigners are claiming victory after the french government finally abandoned a decades old plan to build a new airport in the city of najaf opponents claim it would have harmed key environmental areas a protest group called zone to defend was first formed forty five years ago to fight these plans they stepped up their efforts in two thousand and eight setting off what would become europe'

news and also the entire russian track and field team had to stay home because it was banned well one i.o.c. e-mail exchange that we however cannot confirm that if it's real or not is about there are putin use exemptions or t. and that is something when an athlete is sick and that gives him or her permission to use medicine from the list of prohibited substances that in turn requires a certificate well judging by the e-mails as many as forty four certificates were actually given out right at the time of the olympics and most of them just days before the olympics were over that was of course very close to the finals when the medals were actually given out plus if we are to believe the emails for tea certificates that were used in rio were never entered into the universal anti-doping database and this could prove to be a real mess if we really find out that this is correct this is what we're trying to do right now and at an event which is as serious as the summer olympics that can prove to be a real scandal then there was also another email again we cannot verify the authenticity of the messa

the russian olympic committee slams the i.o.c. for excluding. the country. from the. inside of. my broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team trash glad to have you with us now turkey's foreign minister has hit out at the u.s. saying that he does not believe washington is a trustworthy partner tensions are escalating between the two nato allies over turkey's offensive against american backed kurdish militias in northern syria which described as terrorists the. moment that the us hasn't kept any promises mr trump told president on the phone that no more weapons will be given to the why should we want to see guns put into action well tensions between the u.s. and turkey have been escalating ever since the u.s. announced its collaboration with kurdish forces in northern syria trump an arrow and have attempted to ease tensions but somehow that seems to have gone wrong as well the turkish foreign minister had a few things to say about all of this he first commented on the general state of affairs a between the u.s. and turkey saying that the u.s. did not keep a

the russian olympic committee slams the i.o.c. for excluding some of the country's top medal hopes from the upcoming winter games inside. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow friday january twenty sixth my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story turkey's foreign minister has hit the u.s. saying he does not believe washington is a trustworthy partner tensions are escalating between the two nato allies or turkey's offensive against american backed kurdish militias in northern syria which on korea the scribe's terrorists. at the moment said the u.s. hasn't kept any promises and mr trump told president everyone on the phone that no more weapons will be given to the why should we want to see guns put into action well tensions between the u.s. and turkey have been escalating ever since the u.s. announced its collaboration with kurdish forces in northern syria but trump an air on have attempted to ease tensions but somehow that seems to have gone wrong as well the turkish foreign minister had a few thin

it's one that certainly the marketing guys that the i.o.c. will really really enjoy they've been struggling to sell tickets for the games especially within south korea and one of the reasons for that is this this concern about security and they can a point to this and say ok look instead of this obvious fear of mutual suspicion we've got this one of togetherness we can all celebrate together at least for now. one person who certainly was delighted by the news was us president donald trump so we had heard a little bit from him earlier i hope it works out i very much want to see it work out between the two countries i'd like to see them getting involved in the olympics and maybe things go from there so i'm behind that one hundred percent mark how important would it be for the olympic movement or for north korea to take part i think hugely important i think it's a shot in the arm for them if we customize bites or twenty fourteen the sochi winter olympics i was really a day buckle and terrible terrible for the olympic brand because of the open sc

looks at the criteria the i.o.c. used when screening athletes weeks after russia had come to terms with no team russian career anyone with even the slightest interest in.

the i.o.c. recently released information on why some russian athletes have been excluded from the upcoming winter games because or seventeen points focusing on alleged violations the panel says it reviewed information based on a moscow laboratory database and allegations presented in the mclaren report on alleged tampering with samples sports lawyer vallone says the i.o.c. is not following basic legal principles make law report was was based in the beginning especially on anonymous sources no documents not provide that icing the zs not fair now they are trying to back it up with intelligence you see it already did prove that the report as it was used to discredit all athletes was not a proper report in the beginning timing is a little bit problematic because as you know the at leats will have a very short period of time of trying to appeal or correct these decisions which are taken. view to exclude everybody who has the slightest doubt on his record and that is not acceptable twitter says it has

clarify its decision the i.o.c. head has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean generation the c wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. well we spoke to ellis cashmore a sociology professor at aston university in the u.k. who say anti russian hysteria is ongoing and timezone night for the op needs to appeal the olympic tournament itself is an invitation only event and that means that the organizers have the power to exclude nations or individuals willy nilly they can do it as they please there is some kind of attempt to ostracize russia russia is the bad guy of sport at the moment has been for the past twelve eighteen months we know that it isn't getting a fair shake and we haven't seen evidence to support these allegations that there is state sponsored doping but the world or most of the world at least seems to have accept

and the i.o.c. had the right to appeal the decision of the time and none of them did well this is a point where i once again want. mention of the russian olympic bans well everyone has their own understanding of the words double standards. and let's bring in a guest now allison cashmore is the visiting professor of sociology at aston university given t. ellis what's your reaction first of all to the revelations then of the canadian olympic committee covering up a positive doping test. this is not a new case neal i mean the barber case has been known for some years actually and you know in a way it's i'm stifling a grin here because it is quite amusing and there's another case going on a very similar case of the moment with a guy named gil roberts is an american sprinter and he reckons that he ingested a banned substance through kissing and i suppose the most famous case of this kind concerns the tennis player the french tennis player. who i think would been about ten years ago now. in his defense af

of its athletes allowed to compete in the winter olympics it's published the list online before the i.o.c. is official release on sunday it sees russia's most prominent sportsmen and women have been excluded the total number of those to go next month to south korea has been reduced from initial five hundred person squad to one hundred and sixty nine after its russia sports minister is demanding justice for the competitors. we will stand for the interests of all our athletes reassure their clue we haven't had any claims in terms of. the list doesn't include russia's most prominent athletes it's actually could be disappointing move but actually there is no surprise we heard about russia's leading athletes not invited to the games in pyongyang this february several days ago and now the country's olympic committee just confirmed it among those who did not receive the official invitation there were expecting that our top ranking athletes the country's major hopeful such as six time olympic champion a short trip skating victor on a cross-country skier city to go for two thousand and fourteen ol

does this suggest that there's something of a rift between the i.o.c. to be appointed to do it is kind of like a devoid in the doping world you call the anti doping business because it is big business are huge money you know you have water which overseas are supposed to oversees all anti doping efforts in sports in the world and on the other side then you've got this new kind of breakaway group call i nardo. who which is led by the nose by usada which do you assign to doping water will be out to take over i.o.c. but actors within i know and the u.s. olympic committee they would like to take over water through the back door take over in one of the e-mails that i was discussing earlier the i.o.c. official allegedly casts doubt on mclaren's intentions saying his reports were meant to achieve a total blanket ban on russia why would he be interested in something like that do you think i don't think he had any modeless or a bad intention of trying to take over like you know to rubbish russia but a lot of what he said including saying that there was a state sp

clarify its decision the i.o.c. head was has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean generation. to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. are we asked a former sweden hockey center anders carlson and the canadian hockey coach scott macpherson for their views on the exclusion of clean russian athletes i think it's all full i think russia should go forward press t.v. goes to the.

clarify its decision the i.o.c. has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean generation. the wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. well us cashmore a sociology professor at aston university in the u.k. says until the russian hysteria is ongoing and time has run out for the athletes to appear be a limb picked tournament itself is an invitation only event and that means that the organizers have the power to exclude nations or individuals willy nilly they can do it as they please there is some kind of attempt to ostracize russia russia is the bad guy of sport at the moment has been for the past twelve eighteen months we know that it isn't getting a fair shake and we haven't seen evidence to support these allegations that there is state sponsored doping but the world or most of the world at least seems to have accepted that there is some kind of systematic doping going on in russia because of

the i.o.c. wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport the president of the french federation of ice sports gave us his view on that the exclusion of queen russia athletes because. sport should not be used as a tool for politicians games should be a celebration for the sporting world and for the athletes who've worked so hard for this event and done nothing wrong sport should unite people should be sanctioned if the allegations are proven as anyone should but there is no country that has never been guilty of doping the north americans in lecturing the rest of the world but we haven't forgotten where lance armstrong came from open johnson. ellis cashmore as sociology professor asked him at university in the u.k. says ban the athletes have not been given enough time to appeal. b. a limb pick tournament itself is an invita