thomas back i think the head of the i.o.c. has said previously you know we don't believe in collective punishment of course lucky he'll go like you know. it's wrong he understands that in terms of human rights it's a wrong thing to an entire country because he knows himself and the insiders know that there's a very small group in every country who were able to facilitate this were doctors were coaches so in a year to ban people already as we know russia have tens of thousands of leads by around from competing from track and field especially so he knows and yossi movement knows well the early group knows all of a blanket ban is just completely wrong you know because the olympics brought people compete and you better get that set out they do need to take action i don't know because there are two inquiries going on at the moment at the i.o.c. one's looking at individual cases of doping the other one's looking at the bigger picture of perhaps a conspiracy state run conspiracy of organizing doping practices within the country i mean wh

doping and they still will not allow access to urine samples gathered from suspected cheats the i.o.c. has the final say in december earlier i spoke to a higher sample he's the investigative journalist who first broke the russian doping scandal i asked him whether waters decision would affect russia's hopes of competing in the winter games. well as a pressure gets higher for the international olympic committee because if you. don't big engines it's not cold cold compliant that means that. and then doping work in russia doesn't work and good way let's also. spend it in moscow so there are many reasons to believe that it's a constant of us russia and russian sports doesn't allow them to compete at the olympics but to must pass a dramatic is he president has a different take on that he is against a collective punishment so i believe there is still a chance that russia will be testy that the olympics intention two thousand eight hundred. several to get your minder now the top stories we're following for you zimbabwe remains under military control a day after the army seized key institutions pr

the latest bans bring the total number of russian athletes handed lifetime bans to nineteen the i.o.c. has said it will decide next week on the participation of russian competitors at the upcoming young chang winter olympics. to run a marathon is not the most demanding achievements in sport but for the fanatics the streets are not enough anymore real marathon addicts are no longer aiming for a simple city marathons like those in berlin boston or tokyo for them a new challenge is always a good thing such as a gruelling run in the antarctic. no these guys did not forget their skis these are the competitors in this year's antarctic ice marathon the world's southernmost long distance run i'm really looking for the challenge today the snow here on the right conditions very cold so let's start with . the participants battle through snow ice strong winds and average wind chill temperatures at minus twenty degrees celsius but the race is not just a challenge for thermal underwear the event also takes place as an altitude of seven hundred meters so the air is thin with little oxygen. it took the wi

that's also look at the wording here is not sufficient to bring successful cases is something the i.o.c. has set themselves well again this is all about questioning of the evidence and who do you believe but in the meantime this then of course affects the athletes the i.o.c. is decision is on the fifth of december on whether or not it will allow russia to compete in the winter olympics and of course that doesn't really give them long if you look at the dates when the olympics are knights the twenty fifth of february to prepare and also it's a basically a sword of damocles hanging over them meanwhile russia will find out next week with the i.o.c. is banning the entire team from the winter games but the international ice hockey federation has expressed its support for all clean athletes to take part in the games in south korea emphasising the unfairness of a potential blanket ban followed a letter from the canadian swedish finnish czech and swiss hockey federations all backing russia's participation in the hockey tournament is what the swedish federation had to say. this really sharky associat

federation has now also handed out temporary bans for all competitions not just the olympics the i.o.c. has already imposed lifetime bans on the four libyans after it said they were part of an alleged state sponsoring doping scheme in russia two of them were also stripped of the medals their one of the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics one of the disqualified athletes told us she feels her ban is politically motivated because the new news is just another day i got a call from an unknown number caused me to comment on the i.o.c. decision i told him that i knew nothing about this no one told me i was completely shocked by this news it's very painful i just wanted to shout it's trying to prove that i'm not guilty i still can't believe it this is very sad and you just imagine a lifetime ban. so you have those who don't intentionally get pork and found guilty and disqualified come back later to the sport and i'm disqualified from life and for nothing i don't understand this decision at all if there is no evidence i don't know how they are going to prove it and why their decision is based on

the latest bands bring the total number of russian athletes handed lifetime bans to nineteen the i.o.c. has sent it will decide next week on the participation of russian competitors at the upcoming young chong winter olympics. now here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you on the new pope francis has held talks with the leader of myanmar on song suchi he was under pressure to release the van and persecution of man mas muslim minority but she had come under fire for not stopping it. and president hu kenyatta off kenya has been sworn in for a second term in office of a ceremony in the capital nairobi earlier police used tear gas to separate supporters of kenyatta and those of the losing candidate or dinka. don't forget you know or has good news on the go or just download the app from google play or from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use a deed of the app to send us photos and videos. i have more news for you in half an hour see you then. they strength in

either wish to have more evidence or do their own investigations a certain that the i.o.c. has been doing. but i don't think that's necessary the evidence is there to support a decision now suppression or a decision do you want to make them not going to be banned or you want to lock them in and do something else. and we know russia says that it has fulfilled all of its obligations to get the ban lifted so why is it so important for wanted to get access to the moscow laboratory suspected to be you know the hub of the operation. whether true or to. fail to meet one was that they are willing to concede it was reported winey an investigation. has validity and it's accurate that's one problem the other is with access to the samples there how all of them. and i know it's more like trying to then further verification either what i did encourage or i refuted what i did i would be available i assume that that information does not refute what i did. so i think they're deliberately withholding it i missed with them before we run out some want to just ask you what about the role of geopoli

the latest bans bring the total number of russian athletes handed life bans to nineteen the i.o.c. has said it will decide next week on the participation of russian competitors at the upcoming young chinese winter olympics. in soccer news one antonio pizzey has been an appointed coach of saudi arabian national team the argentinian previously a previous post was with chile which he steers to this year's confederation cup final ultimately losing to germany sees a third coach for saudi arabia in just three months he replaces for mobile industry coach beth phantom out of dick who was on the hot seat for just five matches saudi arabia will be competing in next year's world cup. don't forget you can always get a deed of news on the gorgeous download a after movie face off from the athlete still doesn't give you access to all of the latest news from around the wild as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the deed to have a after send his photos and videos. he was in need of a news coming to you live from london i have no coming up for you shortly to stay with us i

i.o.c. president has a different take on that he is against a collective punishment so i believe there is still a chance that russia will be tested and the olympics and french on two thousand and eighteen. are now the top stories we're following four years of bob away remains under military control a day after the army seized key institutions. is under house arrest as official seek a peaceful solution to the army's intervention. i'm brian thomas from in the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. into this is this what i think it's really important to give a bit of time and love back to the families who make so much effort. was. it's nine hundred five on the morning of november the tenth every ensign's nine hundred thirty eight has commemorated the death of the man who founded the country as a secular republic. the retreat of the ottoman empire from europe lasted more than a century but its final disintegration took just four years a consequence of the first world war. its last territories in a rabia mesopotamia syria and palestine became the modern day middle east borders and states

international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russian scholars and athletes two of the outer limits have also been stripped of their swords winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it has disqualified the athletes for violating anti doping rules at the twenty fourteen games. antic purchased in a moscow market gave one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when she got hosed camera home that she made an interesting discovery. sixteen beautiful pictures black and white pictures which were all about a boy. which apparently an important moment of his life so i've got found it find him to to give is photos back to him. i was at the airport when my friend sent me a photo of a little boy who looked very it's going to be turned into a documentary of our our literary camera which is a key object in order story and use it as a character and belief in those of us of the camera and go back to the places where the picture was taken. i'm not looking for fame i just want to share this amazing story with other people so that others might realize that our life is not just about politics and death but includes room for small everyday pleasures. for to levy st

the international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russian skeleton plates so if the athletes have also been stripped. winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it has disqualified the athletes who are violating anti doping rules at the twenty fourteen games or to discuss this let's cross live it to cashmore professor of sociology at aston university good to have you with us mr cashmore now is less than three months and so we see the winter games in south korea and some on the russian side complained that it's unnecessarily cruel to drag this process out for so long so it's not just sour grapes or could the i.o.c. have made this ruling earlier. well it's. really we have two months ago in the lead up to the rio olympics the summer olympic games that is . and there were kind of a push to ing and fro ing and the pressure was put on the i.o.c. that's the acronym for the olympic organisation. the pressure was to ban russia completely as a nation just to disqualify the whole country from the summer olympics and it provides for a while and eventually came to a decision that please no one it said well we'll let the individual sporting federatio

international olympic committee has handed a lifetime bans to four russian skeleton athletes two of the athletes have also been stripped of their swords winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it has disqualified the athletes for violating anti doping rules at the two thousand and fourteen games last week water refused to reinstate russia's anti-doping agency for noncompliance with waters code but twenty eighteen winter olympics will be held in south korea in just eleven weeks. moving on the lebanese prime minister has announced he's putting his surprise resignation on hold after the country's president asked him to reconsider. sitara look. i just just today my resignation with the president of the republic must be too great a source of list to get to put you on hold for you and to allow for me comes to take into the reasons behind why i can't leave it was a surprise but a relief this time prime minister hariri has been speaking from beirut for the first time on the lebanese soil in the last twenty days that has been a very turbulent time for lebanon more than two weeks ago mr hariri left the country and he announced his resignation in his televised speech while speak

questions have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen well earlier i spoke with the sports columnist who believes that russia has been caught up in a crossfire between the i.o.c. and water. they are caught up in this war with the international national doping organizations grouping of the outliers like you know the us. you cut and so on that are trying to take over the world the water association our own deal you see during the v.o.c. they've been going kind of around the laws like outsider basically around the laws and using a lot of kind of nasty p.r. as well and of course they have some very strong backing but ultimately it's basically a corporate takeover so they're trying to take over water and then take over the oh you'll see so you did like russia has been hit because it's a nice kind of whipping boy for them to to make some political ground. no excuse is an embarrassment to appear to be the ord

questions have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen. excuses and embarrassment to appear to be the order of the day for some of the world's wealthiest people and companies come in the wake of the leaking of a massive trove of financial files the so-called paradise papers have exposed where the richest are hiding their money and how they dodge paying taxes. well let's have a closer look then at that list and as you can see there's a whole host of famous companies and faces in the paradise papers the u.k.'s queen elizabeth here is there she's got millions of pounds from her private estate invested in the fund in the cayman islands another familiar face next to her the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he is named as a director of an offshore firm used in oil and gas deals and then next to him we have the billionaire george soros also you say the murder be muted based law firm to help manage offshor

i.o.c. is fast approaching much sooner than that russia has a little time to prove to the sports authorities that its athletes are clean what can the country actually do in the time frame. well it's a little bit difficult because all the time they try to to back the meckler and report the problem is the backlit and report as i stated already different times has not enough proofs in itself and ease basing on confidential information which are not transparent to be taken seriously and now they are desperately trying to back this mclaren report with other approved to try to say that they have found new proves so i think there is a problem that is mclaren pretty poor lacks a real beat real proofs and that's also the reason why a lot of athletes has been cleaned and. i think it's an attempt to to force see to to decide which blind eyes which is not correct and you're almost like a case of politics taking over from from sport attorney dr lucy in vallone thank you for sharing your thoughts on the program this hour. living on a spanish parliamentary session has once again brought the divide in the c

questions have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen. now excuses and embarrassment do appear to be the order of the day for some of the world's wealthiest people and companies comes in the wake of the leaking of a massive probe of financial files the so-called paradise papers have exposed where the richest are hiding their money and how they dodge paying taxes. trillion dollars is held offshore and this means that hundreds of billions of dollars worth of taxes go uncollected anyway end up with what i would call apartheid but others and meanwhile the poverty levels are continuing to rise because people are being gouged they're being ripped off and into the mix comes the social uprising more violence because naturally if you have everything stolen from you you have nothing to lose so you become violent so as you can see then there is a whole host of famous faith faces in the papers not least queen eliz

questions have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen we spoke to radio host alan moore from capital f.m. moscow he believes the i.o.c. president knows that a blanket ban is not the right move. it's wrong he understands that in terms of human rights it's a wrong thing to buy an entire country because he knows himself and the insiders know that there's a very small group in every country who are able to facilitate this with doctors who are their coaches so in a year to ban people already as we know russia have tens of thousands of athletes by and from competing from track and field especially so he knows and yossi movement knows well what the early group knows all of a blanket ban is just completely wrong. excuses and embarrassment appeared to be the order of the day for some of the world's wealthiest people and companies and comes in the wake of the leaking of the massive trove of financial files the s

in question have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen we've spoken to sports radio host alan moore from capital f.m. moscow he believes that the i.o.c. president knows that a blanket ban is the wrong move. it's wrong he understands that in terms of human rights it's a wrong. tree because he knows himself and the insiders no doubt there's a very small group in every country who are able to facilitate this what are doctors who are their coaches so. people already as we know russia have tens of thousands of athletes competing from track and field especially so he knows the movement know was well do you know the group knows what a blanket ban is just completely wrong. international law mornings after a short break they would. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch or the final school it's about the passion from the families it

i.o.c. decision not water decision but what water has recommended or decided will filter into that so we could be in a position next year when russian athletes are not competing justin rose has made a big move in the race to finish as the season's top player on the european tour he's just one shot off the lead at the final event of the year in dubai second in the european rankings needs a top five finish to have a chance of overhauling fellow englishman tommy fleetwood he's on six hundred par with reid leading the way on seven under liquid needs to equal better at rose's finishing position to ensure he remains as europe's leading man not enough of this from him he's struggling on one over par. conscious to have wonder make bag on the weekends the last two times but that's not really a recipe that you want to continue to follow because it's very hard to come back and win from those sorts of margins back so i was very cognizant today of going after a strong start if i finish level power in the park it fell yet decent day really after a really bad start got it back in and you can still move forwa

i.o.c. decision not water decision but what water has recommended or decided will filter into that so we could be in a position next year when russian athletes are not competing. so how damaging will it be for russia if they do miss the winter olympics next year. well i mean you know clearly the life will go on the sky will not collapse but this is a serious matter not just for the country's many elite athletes who are perhaps facing a possibility of not being able to compete but it's also a serious matter for the country and the governments which considers sports and big sporting events like the olympics like the world cup as an integral part of russia's prestige on the global stage and so if they're not allowed to compete in that then the country does suffer ok worry chalons reporting live from moscow thank you. well gary's grigor dimitrov has booked his place into the last four of the season ending a.t.p. finals in london dimitrov on class belgians damage golf and in straight sets six love six to the world number six was in great form as he made it two wins from two matches on his tournamen

i.o.c. decision not water decision but what water has recommended or decided will filter into that so we could be in a position next year when russian athletes are not competing roger federer will face off against in the final for the a.t.p. finals in london that match kicking off in just a few minutes time meanwhile bulgaria's here gore dimitrov back to his place in the semifinals on wednesday he was outclassed by belgium david then and straight back six one six two have now faced the winner of the match between alexander's of rab and jack saw which takes place later on thursday three u.s. college basketball players who were detained in china took a hit from the u.s. president and thank donald trump for helping them get released u.c.l.a. players lee angelo ball cody riley and julian hale admitted to shoplifting from high end stores in hand you know china before their season opening game in shanghai while on a visit intervened on their behalf and on wednesday trump tweeted do you think the players will say thank you they were headed for ten years in jail while guess what all three of them did

international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russians skeleton athletes to the athletes have also been stripped of their winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it disqualified the athletes for violating antidoping rules at the twenty fourteen games and this castle professor of sociology at aston university says there's an atmosphere of fear among russian athletes still hoping to compete i mean it must be dreadful i can't even get myself into the mind of an athlete to imagine that if if i'd prepared for four years maybe longer and was still waiting for the outcome of the deliberations to know whether i'd be allowed to compete for what is after all lifetimes go i mean it's unimaginably difficult for them you know in a properly run world probably so this should not happen let's think of an analogy it's as if moscow city center for the past several saturday nights that been a high number of driving under the influence of alcohol or arrests you would expect that the offenders would be tried individually their cases evaluated and they would be. accordingly we wouldn't expect everyone who holds a driving license in moscow to be banned but tha

last couple of months some negative press has reared its ugly head once again suggesting that russian athletes should take no part in the winter games but the i.o.c. and water say the decision on restart it will happen no impact on whether russia's athletes will compete or not the final decision will be made by the i.o.c. the international olympic committee on the fifth of december but for now russian officials are angry having performed and the a miracle to meet nearly all of the roadmap criteria in a short space of time to them this latest decision would likely come as a bit of a slap in the face. r.t. . your mention team russia being dealt a number of blows this november six russians. yours have been banned for life for doping violations while the former head of the moscow anti doping law who was the first to allege a state sponsored doping program has put forward new information on the claims i'm nuts led to some officials calling for russia to be completely bombed from the twenty eighteen winter olympics the experts we spoke to though stressed the need for a case by case approach. i think the most important thing is a case by case decision a

last couple of months some negative press has reared its ugly head once again suggesting that russian athletes should take no part in the winter games but the i.o.c. and water say the decision on restart it will have no impact on whether russia's athletes will compete or not the final decision will be made by the i.o.c. the international olympic committee on the fifth of december but for now russian officials are angry having performed and the a miracle to meet nearly all of the road map criteria in a short space of time to them this latest decision would likely come as a bit of a slap in the face. r.t. . just a lot do you know the story we've been following for the past number of days the former lebanese prime minister has accepted an invitation from the french president to come to porous so it has caused a political crisis in lebanon after flying to saudi arabia. resigning from his post lebanese officials say they believe he's being held against his will by riyadh now the lebanese president's official twitter account post about the government's next steps will be decided upon after aris return from paris emmanuel mccall has made clear that fran

i.o.c. is enormous pressure and will tell the russians ok you can compete but only with their sleeves will prove to be clean it has been subject of a record of doping control system but you cannot have your own flag hero national anthem if that would happen then and it has been said already by the russian government that the russians will not go to the olympics it will be a boycott that would be really a dramatic development. that was higher speaking was the earlier your minder now of our top story at this hour as i'm bob way remains under military control a day after the army seized key institutions president mugabe's honor house arrest as officials seek a peaceful solution to the military intervention. i'm dr thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. entered the conflict zone fronting the powerful so far the political fallout from catalonia is independent shows no sign of being contained my guess this week here in brussels is fraying his foreign minister alfonso das face how has his government failed to prevent the country's worst was arguably its most predictable political crisis in deca

i.o.c. says more decisions will be made in the following days. although ever plane has touched down in south korea with organizers hoping its arrival will spark increase interest in next year's winter games for yuri's abandon kyung chang is being overshadowed by security fears caused by the north korean crisis tony berkeley reports. thirty years after the seoul summer games the olympic flame returned to south korea on wednesday ready for the winter and paralympics in february came by plane direct from athens and was carried by kim yawner the korean figure skater who won a gold medal at the vancouver games. the slogan for the torch relay is let everyone shine it means that the inextinguishable olympic flame will shed light on the hope passion and future of everyone the games being held in going one province eighty five kilometers from the north korean border and after more than a decade of work to fail bids and chapters of controversy over the new locations construction delays and costs the organizing committee says that nearly everything has now been completed with the