one of them able to coalition wants to impose conditions not only on astley's but also on the i.o.c. which actually created the agency that said water has lost the war against doping more than once but it did myths that reluctantly and with reservations. against doping is unwinnable i am optimistic for two reasons basically the first one is that if you look at it carefully we can find some satisfactions we can find some victories in the fight against doping so yes they are the second point is it kind of get worst. the agency always needs to prove it's capable of beating the monster the question is who will beat them on stuff the decision is always made behind the scenes. that's just. your. turn you. know i think if. we're. not. going to be a bit different a little bit down. year after year the winners podiums in major competitions are graced by norwegian representatives as the publication discovered seventy percent of norwegian olympic medals since one thousand nine hundred ninety two have been won by us magics. to get upset about this not old enough to get our. supper was simply. reduced

participate in the olympic games despite extremely difficult conditions and the decision by the i.o.c. which is undoubtedly unfair in many ways. on the same day in south korea a number of security drills were held in front of the main stadium for the pyong chang games just eighty kilometers away from the north korean border this is in a limited built up by north mains troublefree so we now. the russian athletes will be a month oh is that it forces will be protecting his home and now just around. south american football champions gremio of brazil of the first team free to the fun of the face for club world cup in the united arab emirates they beat mexican side but you call one nil off the edge of time after what ninety minutes the winning goal is scored by striker over to suarez five minutes into the first period but your hopes of becoming the first half side so you might the final suffered a further blow when victor goes mom was sent off in the final minute gremio will play the winners of the second seven final that's where the majority of zero in saturday's from. the earlier match a powerfu

which was not ever a liberal to the i.o.c. prior to the olympic games a real two thousand and sixty. s. and house lead myself. i'm feeling very sorry for all the clean athletes from all in o.c. who are suffering from this money palatial. we have agreed with the i.o.c. else leads a commission. for the rear location of medals we will do our best to organize ceremonies for athletes during the olympic winter games two thousand and eighteen two were dry to dry to make up for the moments they have missed on the finish line or on the podium. the i.o.c. has proposed and has undertaken measures for a more robust anti-doping care system under the leadership of a wider so that something like this can hopefully not happen again. you have already received the decision of the i.o.c. executive board and you have received a full report of the commission presided by mr schmidt and this is exactly the report which the i.o.c. executive bought. these afternoon when taking decisions. so please allow me to summarize these decisions. the russian oly

i.o.c. executive board and you have received a full report of the commission presided by mr schmidt and this is exactly the report which the i.o.c. executive board. had this afternoon when taking decisions. so please allow me to summarize these decisions. the russian olympic committee is suspended with immediate effect. individual clean russian else leads will be able to participate under strict conditions at the olympic winter games here in china two thousand and eighteen. these invited astley will participate beating individual or team competitions under the name olympic elf lead from russia with the acronym they are. they will compete with the uniform bearing this name and under the olympic flag. the olympic anthem will be played in any ceremony. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be a great it is for the olympic winter games young china two thousand and eighteen. the then minister of sport mr b. tiley would go and then deputy minister yuri nightgown it will be excluded from any parties or from any participation in all future olympic games dimitri journey schenkel former c.e.o. of the organizing commi

i.o.c. given any reason for these specific lifespans while the russians are being disqualified because of these scratches on the doping test bottles and also the excessive amounts of salt in the clean doping test samples which according to the i.o.c. a human body simply cannot produce these are the two key elements of the evidence but are they enough to blame the individuals for cheating while they may have been unaware of this kind of tampering is this enough to impose lifetime bans and strip the clean wash and olympians of their right to carry russian flags during the winter olympics the ads for most people here in this country in russia would be no on like the reaction from some of the european alone pick officials. i'm pleased that the i.o.c. has taken this decision it is an important step in protects and then sport and gives comfort though i slits they're competing on a level playing field. it's a good day for international sport a good day for german sport all right so have we been shown any visual proof of the i.o.c. conclusions about the scratches and a ways to open sample bottles that is the question and also one washington journalists asked to see executive board press conference and the answer fr

i.o.c. given any reason for these specific lifespans while the russians are being disqualified because of these scratches on the doping test bottles and also the excessive amounts of salt in the clean doping test samples which according to the i.o.c. a human body simply cannot produce these are the two key elements of the evidence but are they enough to blame the individuals for cheating while they may have been unaware of this kind of tampering is this enough to impose lifetime bans and strip the clean wash and olympians of their right to carry russian flags during the winter olympics the ads from most people here in this country in russia would be no on like the reaction from some of the european alone pick officials. i'm pleased that the i.o.c. has taken this decision it is an important step in protection then tegra joe sport and gives comfort ice lifts they're competing on a level playing field. it's a good day for international sport a good day for german sport all right so have we been shown any visual proof of the i.o.c. conclusions about scratches and a ways to open sample bottles that is the question and also one washington journalist asked to see executive board press conference and the answer fro

don't i don't think we can we can separate that from from this sort of death penalty approach which the i.o.c. is now now handing out and in terms of future drug scandal to take he think other countries will. suffer the same sort of scrutiny as i suffer but as you mentioned you touched upon the pain a lot of dieting scandals around the world but certainly as a sports fan i'm grateful that they take the time to work out exactly what's going on but i look around and i say what i care what about other countries that have to make what is conditions and be non-compliant. i think that's where the distinction comes in is it was not just a question of applying standards and having very effective and active testing it's a question of trying to jump to a conclusion to say russia is a country is guilty whereas if french athletes are chinese athletes or german athletes or american athletes are found to be violating the rules well that's not a reflection of those countries i think unfortunately this is the kind of mentality we've seen across the board in many areas and this is simply another application w

i.o.c. given any reason for these specific lifespans while the russians are being disqualified because of these scratches on the doping test bottles and also the excessive amounts of salt in the clean doping test samples which according to the i.o.c. a human body simply cannot produce these are the two key elements of the evidence but are they enough to blame the individuals for cheating while they may have been unaware of this kind of tampering is this enough to impose lifetime bans and strip the clean washing olympians of their right to carry russian flags during the winter olympics the answer from most people here in this country in russia would be no on like the reaction from some of the european alone pick officials and. he has taken this decision it is an important step in projects and then sports and gives calm for it isolates and that competes in on a level playing field. it's a good day for international sport a good day for german sport all right so have we been shown any visual proof of the i.o.c. conclusions about the scratches and a ways to open sample bottles that is the question and also one russian journalist asked if he executive board press conference and the answer from mr smith was you w

putin and russia and then there is the possibility of a boycott which is when the last things the i.o.c. want to happen there could be some drama ahead with this one do they just go for a complete ban well the precedent that they've set is that they don't tend to want to do these things but it's there as an option will they be brave enough there are sympathizers on the i.o.c. board as well it's going to be a nightmare for them tonight. the second ashes test in adelaide is turning into something of a thriller in that will chase an unlikely victory when play resumes on wednesday after it looked like they was no coming back from a poor start earlier england's bowlers skittled australia for just one hundred thirty eight in a second innings james anderson finally found his rhythm taking five wickets for just forty three runs it left australia holding a three hundred fifty three run lead but england chipped away at that caps and joe root is unbeaten after a half century england needed another one hundred seventy eight runs with six wickets in hand to win on the final day. thank you very much

i.o.c. executive board and you have received a report of the commission presided by mr schmidt and this is exactly the report which the i.o.c. executive board. this afternoon when taking decisions. so please allow me to summarize these decisions. the russian olympic committee is suspended with immediate effect. individual clean russian else leads will be able to participate under strict conditions at the olympic winter games here in china two thousand and eighteen. these in righted astley will participate between individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia with the acronym. they will compete with the uniform bearing this name and under the olympic flag. the olympic anthem will be played in any ceremony. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be accredited for the olympic winter games in trying two thousand and eighteen. the then minister of sport mr vitali would go and then deputy minister yuri and i go nick will be excluded from any parties or from any participation in all future olympic games. dimitri journey schenkel the former c.e.o. of the organizing committee sochi

i.o.c. to make the take this decision again was basically found in urine samples indeed the urine samples which russian athletes who had been doping they were switched with urine samples from the same same athletes that they had given up several weeks before when they were so to speak clean and this was not only a sort of one time thing at the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen but apparently this was part of a highly orchestrated state sponsored doping program involve not only the russian olympic committee but the russian sports ministry the russian you know special police so this was something that was being directed from very high levels and the evidence for this really came out last year after the mclaren report and that happened basically too soon before the summer olympics for the i.o.c. to be comfortable to put sort of blanket ban in place so they decided to really look at the same evidence and lo and behold mr schmidt which was the that the head of the new commission which gave his report today said yet the evidence checks out we need to ban russia and what happens now to the c

team russia from the twenty eighteen winter games after the doping scandal which are up to two years ago that is despite the i.o.c. saying there's no concrete evidence supporting claims of a state sponsored drug program. also in the program today vladimir putin announcing he will run for reelection in the twenty eighteen presidential race.

i.o.c. meeting over the last few hours which decided that in relation to accusations of widespread doping among russian athletes that russian athletes can compete upcoming winter games but they can only compete under a neutral flag and also that the russian national anthem won't be played responding to this the chief of the russian olympic committee alexander as you cover said there are upsides and downsides and he also said that at the end this was interesting at the closing ceremony he believed that russia would be able to then walk with the russian national flag and that would draw a line under the issue although he went on to say that the next meeting of the russian olympic committee will be about the participation of russian athletes they know be said directly there that russia would be attending these olympics the assumption is that they could be perhaps if they were talking about the closing ceremony but that decision is still yet to be mad. most of the russian athletes who were handed life bans to speak the evidence that was presented against them they do insist they are in this and the

i.o.c. effectively banned russia for the winter olympics which start on the night of february and that doesn't give them a great deal of time in the athletes then to appeal against those decisions they've been twenty two athletes have already appealed twenty five were banned in the build up to this decision twenty two are now appealing and as i say not a great deal of time either to appeal all or to prove whether or not you were innocent to be able to say what the i.o.c. kate saw was the great compromise was athletes being able to compete on during neutral fly but there's a number of issues around there isn't there time constraints that you just said and also the the prestige of of actual competing for your country that will be taken away from them absolutely as i said is now in no way our own chief here to take part your and your an olympic now from russia as we have now anthems no flags and also as you said that sense of prestige that sense of patriotism the whole point of what the lim. it's about these are all claims effectively came its claim and counterclaim because you have to lodge and

i.o.c. president thomas bach and the executive board found the evidence of systematic doping presented to them today which possibly we will see was enough to stop athletes from competing under the russian flag at the games. now this is the second time in a row that russian athletes will miss out on an olympics because of doping after also missing out on the two thousand and sixteen summer games in rio the i.o.c. president held a press conference in luzon a little while ago explaining that it must kind of go through what we said to do that i'm joined here in the studio now by matt herman from our sports desk a lot going on today matt so talk me through this for people just joining us right now. what's the evidence that was so compelling that the i.o.c. said russia is out well basically their former anti doping head agree watching golf gave some pretty comprehensive evidence to the mclaren report which came up before the summer olympics saying that there was a system in place through which russian anti-doping officials were able to ensure that russian urine samples would always show up as negative even when

has banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics after the doping scandal which erupted two years ago that's despite the i.o.c. saying there's no concrete evidence to support claims of a state sponsor of drugs program. and letting matthews in and says he will run for reelection in the twenty eighteen presidential race. this is the weekly at r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. well our top story from lebanon these out this hour these are the live pictures from outside the u.s. embassy in beirut where protesters have attempted to storm the building the rally in the lebanese capital is the latest in a string of protests decrying president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. i was. in response to trump's move palestinians declared three days of rage which ended with several people killed in clashes with israeli police. this started at eight o'clock this morning was supposed to start eleven one hundred or so palestinians arrived at the embassy stormed a few managed to get into the inner perimeter of the embassy and that's when real

which is dealing with doping. i mean. all those three options that were available even though they've taken the route proposed by the i.o.c. for the south korea games in march twenty eighth which is if an athlete can prove that they are clean if they pass those reinforced measures which have been taken against the russian athletes the extent of the deeper testing they can attend under a neutral flag how does that deal with the problem of doping that's the fundamental question i don't understand if an authentic can prove that they're clean if they're really soon for a second you know perhaps there was some sort of mass doping program let's assume just one second that there was if an athlete can prove that they had nothing to do with it if they work which many many athletes will be able to do a majority of athletes perhaps will be able to do why take away their flag why take away their ability to represent their country that's i think that's what some people jump in and say look this is clearly being politicized the comment from the official you mentioned a few moments ago the official saying that the russian athletes must

i.o.c. is report also mentions it was unable to find evidence to suggest the russian government was responsible side of the sports ministry which has seen its officials bombed from the limb pick events to nevertheless the independent and impartial evidence do not allow the i.o.c. d.c. to establish with certitude either who initiated or who headed this scheme on many occasions a reference was made on the involvement at the minister of sports level but no indication independent or impartial evidence appeared to cooperate any involvement or knowledge at a higher level of the state. earlier we spoke to alan moore host of moscow's capital f.m. sports he believes the i.o.c. have found a profitable strategy in demonizing russia scored on a simple simply is there is no fair play in sport i mean at this level the simple truth is that in order to compete at the highest level you have to do something to stay there and when you have a very well paying job at the level of mr packer and mr reedy and travel and so on they need to do to kind of to stay on top of just living and you know she is very useful to keep this it's very very unfair in

i.o.c. executive board has been taken by consensus these these decisions by. which we can better go on toward. regarding responsibility one has to point out that. responsibility is in gauged in several areas and there are also contract will responsibilities that are engaged there is the host city contract which is sign of it. and this contract indicates very clearly the responsibilities that are shared this is something we have examined in all cases and we found that. one cannot simply. deny things or say we didn't know anything were responsibilities that had been undertaken by name an issue and had been undertaken with regard to the staging of the games. and every failure had consequences. and in the is is these incidents have been examine and have been included in the report so every single case or incident was examined we. call dude in all slung. at the sports culture involved in trying in a decree where the various responsibilities and lines of responsibility are also provided for a while so. however becker is from the new york times why don't i has said that ru

banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics after the draping scandal which erupted two years ago that's despite the i.o.c. saying there's no concrete evidence to support claims of a state sponsor of drugs program. and brought him a person and says he will run for reelection in the twenty.

every individual and every organisation is entitled to and which was not available to the i.o.c. prior to the olympic games a real two thousand and sixty. s. and has laid myself. i am a feeling very sorry for all the clean athletes from all in overseas who are suffering from this money polish. we have agreed with the i.o.c. years leitz commission that for the re a location of medals we will do our best to organize ceremonies for athletes during the olympic winter games two thousand and eighteen to try to dry to make up for the moments they have missed on the finish line or on the podium. so how did we get to this point well after russia only won three gold medals at the twenty ten winter olympics in vancouver it was decided they could not suffer similar embarrassment on home to cheat and first a state sponsored doping program came into being russia won a record thirty three medals in searching twenty fourteen but the country's anti doping laboratory director at the time grigori rod chain cough has been the chief whistleblower he alleges the country ran a systematic program of do

i.o.c. ruling it's been said that the russians are being disqualified because of the scratches on the doping test bottles and also the excessive amounts of salt and the clean doping test samples which according to the you see couldn't have been produced by a human body though have we been shown any visual proof of the i.o.c. conclusions about scratches and ways to open sample bottles shawn that is the question and also one russian journalist asked. executive board press conference and the answer from mr schmidt was you will be able to read about it in the forensic reports. the figures fluctuate because the analysis examinations and investigations are still ongoing. as far as the details and the forensic reports and examinations i certainly do not wish to go into details here and now i do not wish to divulge too many of these details however the fact remains that we can is certain that there has been there were many people asians in tempering while this brings us to the concerns here in russia over the transparency and also allowing the russian side access to some of these experiments because we understand that the officials the athletes and the fans who are sympathetic we understan

i.o.c. to make the take this decision again was basically found in urine samples indeed the urine samples which russian athletes who had been doping they were switched with urine samples from the same same athletes that they had given up several weeks before when they were so to speak clean and this was not only a sort of one time thing at the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen but apparently this was part of a highly orchestrated state sponsored doping program that volved not only the russian olympic committee but the russian sports ministry the russian you know special police so this was something that was being directed from very high levels and the evidence for this really came out last year after the mclaren report and that happened basically too soon before the summer olympics for the i.o.c. to be comfortable to sort of blanket ban in place so they just really look at the same evidence and lo and behold mr schmidt which was the that the head of the new commission which gave his report today said yet the evidence checks out we need to ban russia and what happens now to the clean a

i.o.c. said that russia is banned from the winter olympics which starts on the ninth of february so not too long to ghana but there is the option there is the opposite for clean that leads to prove that they are clean and to be able to take part that doesn't give them a great deal of time to actually prove their innocence or for the other athletes to appeal against those decisions it's the seventh of february isn't it all kicks off inside korea but this goes back what seventeen eighteen months in the making and even further by happens in italy yes i mean you're right and in terms of that timing for the investigation but it goes back beyond that so you created a change of who was the head of the moscow lab here who if it really was that whistleblower to say that there was a state sponsored typing system and then he effectively sparked a whole set a whole series of not only can traverse the investigation but also there was this to. the report that went into his claims by saying that there was this whole system that had actually been set up whereby athletes could effectively dope then that mea

i.o.c. will not lift their bed unless russia complies which they failed to do so currently the russian athletes have to compete under a neutral flag if they manage to prove to the i.o.c. didn't comply to the conditions the flag might be available during the medal ceremonies but as of right now they're only words from putin putin fueling this and the i.o.c. made their decision based on the testimony from raw change of so it looks like it's a dark tunnel ahead of russia in russian athletics as a whole chris huntington from us process thank you very much. turning now to soccer and linda siegel he does mine munich were licking their lips at the prospect of windows cologne coming to town last night but the basemen side put up more of a fight than even their own fans might have thought possible after school this opening half cologne started on the offensive off the break and could have taken the lead had. not lost his cool however bines a robot eleven doffs he kept his cool one live the fun school in munich and still no win for cologne sixteen matches into the season. you're watching the news coming

mean they've received bans as well and subsequently been able to compete which i thought was actually contrary to what the i.o.c. had always believed in the fact that effectively we were always told as we were growing up is a case of if you have those bans it goes against the law just americans came back and won a silver medal at the twenty sixth in rio games lately yes that was that was something where it was. a kind of different standard that was applied there so this is right a lot of thanks very much keep part of it the comprehensive updates. while some western uk leads have heartfelt messages for their russian counterparts who we've been speaking about are no set to miss out on the games that was in contrast to some of the gloating headlines i suppose it's safe to say in parts of the media's news all of the broke well those number of international police expressed sympathy on twitter with some pointing out that the scandal has become a political symbol and that the move likely ignores punishment for those who have actually dropped the doping scandal was triggered in twenty fifteen by the mcclaren report as

with the help of the russian secret service because of his admissions which uncovered losses post and fled to the united states. the i.o.c. reacted thus far only. the i.o.c. will react with ciro tolerance in order to protect the cleanup fleet whoever is involved in this within the reach of the i.o.c. will be sanctioned the world anti-doping agency has been tougher wada commissioner richard mclaren to investigate the claims in his report the canadian lawyer accused the russians of widespread state sponsored doping won and demanded they be sanctioned. the proof mclaren presented in his report was not enough for buck and the i.o.c. they set up two commissions of their own to re-examine the allegations the i.o.c. panel led by dennis also the switzerland has banned twenty five russian athletes over the last few weeks including a limb pick gold winning cross-country skier alexander let go of. he and others plan to appeal the decision at the international court of arbitration for sport. what will tuesday's meeting bring more individual bans that would allow russia to take part as a team and. some of suggested the russia can com

i.o.c. needs russia more than russia in this moment if they need russia which is going to jump in there. and you know if they need russia there why strip them of their identity theft. they have to be seen to acknowledge and that's to biggest problem because i said two years ago when i was sitting here and i said that last summer that's. an order to be seen to do something they need to be born in. the fact that they are now making this big big show means that not only has the fight against doping for fairness in sport has been set back even ford bridges had for years now is tenuous at least because you know all the folks from of russia are nothing of the clean up so they need russia to be in this role to be the kind of the penitent and to me and say look we're sorry we're sorry and let's get on with it so the you know it's useful for them they're useful it's useful to be able to beat russia with this stick yeah and let's be fair i mean they haven't let rush off the hook here he came out and said this is none precedented attack on the integrity of the limpid games i mean no mincing the wor

i.o.c. has been sticking to an individual approach in all cases are being looked at separately which does give hope to the russian athletes however as the investigation continues the man who was behind all the anti work in accusations in the first place the former head of moscow's anti-doping laborde three grigori watching call of keeps coming up with more things to blame the russians for just to remind you mr raja in call of is wanted over criminal charges in russia after he fled the country and disgrace he is called a whistleblower by the western media and the i.o.c. calls him a credible witness well ahead of the international olympic committee's verdict a video interview with mr watching called surface and the russian media where one of the things that he's talking about is apparently his motivation if you. even believe. it's going to. is that a seeing this. is this is. what mr rotten cover is referring to the documentary film he's talking about the curse film which brought up the russian doping scandal and he was one of the main contributors to it but it looks like from what he said that t

which is very. well our correspondent and situ sorry was in the year in the city of less than in switzerland at the i.o.c. headquarters when the decision was made today brief is now on exactly what was said . it's been a very difficult day here obviously with so many eyes from around russia watching the announcement that would come from this room here in la sound where the international olympic committee executive board made a final decision on the future of russia when it comes to these next winter olympic games coming up in just two months from now now obviously it was a huge disappointment for all of those sports fans and athletes who have been preparing for so long to be able to compete in these olympics under their own flag and their anthem when they when certainly these are very important things for any athlete of course not just russian and of course it's been a huge blow to those who have been looking forward to that taking place now as you've said obviously the latest is that russia has been we will not be seeing team russia perform at these olympics and this is actually the first time one using

potentially anger putin and russia and then there is the possibility of a boycott which is when the last things the i.o.c. want to happen there could be some drama ahead with this one do they just go for a complete ban well the precedent that they've set is that they don't tend to want to do these things but it's there as an option will there be brave enough there are sympathizers on the i.o.c. board as well it's going to be a nightmare for them to the i would certainly send that quite clear message when it to anyone who wants russia's position been in all of this. well remember we had some very strong words from the vice president for the world cup draw. last week the world cup football of course takes place next year in the country and he used that stage in that spotlight to launch an attack on all of russia's detractors many of them in the media and you could see that he had one eye because of course there are allegations of doping russian football but he had to have one eye on what was going to be happening with the i.o.c. his decision to kind of almost make it look like russia in some ways being vic