. >> plus a high profile meeting for the president of the international olympic committee. details on his visit with north korea later, kim jong un. >> a major honor for a member of the warriors. about to enter the hall of fame. - laid to rest. a private funeral service held today for "stephen hawking." some 500 guests gathered in a church just down the road from the university of cambridge -- where hawking served for years as the >>> 500 guests gathered in a church down the road from the university of cambridge where he served for years as the director of research. at the age of 76. he stunned doctors for living more than 50 years after he was diagnosed at the age of 21. the average life expectancy is 2 to 5 years. the international olympic committee is pledging to help north korean leader kim jong un as they have their eyes set on the 2020 olympic games. he had a 30 minute meeting with kim jong un. they talked about how to prepare athletes and toured a training facility. he says the committee is committed to building bridges. >> we will help them to participate in interna

year twenty eight russian athletes who were previously banned for their lifetimes by the international olympic committee from ever participating in the olympic games they were cleared by the court of arbitration for sport which is basically the highest. judicial body in sports so this is what happened it made big news and now what happened now is the c.s. . laid out some details as to why they decided why the judges decided to clear those athletes and the thing is. of who was the key witness in the case built against russian athletes for the first time was cross-examined in the court by by the defense and by the prosecution and in the process of that cross-examination what happened his testimony showcase that his allegations that the allegations that he had previously made against russian athletes well that they are not speculative there was circumstantial best for example what he said that he never saw this steroids cocktail this so-called steroids steroids cocktail administered to russian athletes that he only saw lists of those athletes some lists who were prescribed with the drug with the illegal dr

those are the leaders whose brands will fully overruled none of them were invited by the international olympic committee to participate in the games although many of them were still acting they still had their careers on going and these still were they would have loved to participate in the games they would have loved to take part but none of that happened so clearly a lot of careers stained minds and even ruined by that report and still yet to be seen as to where this whole thing for sure ok thank you there was a yugo he's done off there. but we can get more reaction too familiar cashmore he's professor of sociology at aston university this avidly follow these days being stories to good afternoon chief ellis things thanks for coming on coming back on where does this leave testimony and his credibility do you think. i know thought his credibility was very strong in the first place and the viewers of our two will soon be over the last couple of years questioning his testimony all along as you've just explained the whole nucleus of the mclaren investigation and the ultimate report on the so-called state s

those twenty eight outfits were invited zero none nada not any of them basically the international olympic committee refused to invite any of them so there you have a if you say mud stinks world indeed and sticks to thank you there was a you get it out of there with the sociology professor at aston university ellis cashmore says that chunk of testimony cast further doubt on his credibility. the whole nucleus of the mclaren investigation and the ultimate report on the so-called state sponsored doping rested on his testimony and i question from the outset how objective or neutral or fair his testimony could have but he's a fugitive the guy has fled from russia he does have an axe to grind the systematic operation that mclaren refers to we don't know about that what we do know is that russia has denied any knowledge of this this is led to a kind of a standoff between russia and the athletics governing organization that is the idea blair who is still say russia cannot compete on the world stage in athletics until it in bits that there has been state sponsored doping and i think that the court of arbitra

course north korea sent athletes to those olympics and as it happens the head of the international olympic committee is actually in north korea for meetings including with the leader himself kim jong un saying that north korea is planning to participate in the next two a lympics in japan and china so a very different atmosphere to when these drills usually kick off here on the korean peninsula as we saw him john than a meeting with the chinese leader xi jinping plans for a summit meeting between the leaders of the two koreas later this month and plans for a meeting between kim jong un and donald trump and that sort of the peaceful context under which these are taking place so i think there's a sense that the united states and south korea feel that they can't be seen to be backing off from any of their pressure campaign but that the drills shouldn't be scaled down so in terms of scale they're about the same size as usual but instead of the two month duration they've been shortened to about a month and we're not expecting to see some of what's known as strategic assets including nuclear powered aircra

track and field committee, which followed what the u.s.mm international -- i'm sorry, the international olympic to what to do with transgendered athletes. so they have -- if you identify -- let's say you are born a man but identify as a woman and you qualifye as a woman and you are able to compete as a woman on the day of the race, but you have to qualify and compete in the gender in which you qualified for, if that makes sense. >> tucker: it doesn't make sense, because it doesn't answer the basic question which is, what are the criteria for qualifying as a woman? men have physical advantages that are inborn, biological. it puts them at sort of a great advantage over the women against whom they are competing. how do i qualify as transgender female athlete? why couldn't any man say i identify as a woman now and beat a lot of women unfairly?id >> theoretically they could. it's not as if these athletic committees are asking for a full history of these athletes. if a man decided to compete as a woman and ran all those qualifying races as a woman, then on game day, they are allowed to compete as a w

he watched the kpop concert, met with the president of the international olympic committee and met withhe meeting described by sources familiar with the discussion who i spoke with as cordial. kim jong-un well prepared, personable. also he was ready and knew the subject material. and mike pompeo taking the information back to president trump who will need every piece of intel he can get. what we know about the north koreans is they are seclude negotiators. -- shrew negotiators, they are tough. they'll be asking for more than they asked for in 1994 when the talks led to the nuclear framework that fell apart. in the past north korea has wanted things like american troops completely off the korean peninsula. the end of the u.s. nuclear umbrella that protects south korea and japan. those have been non-starters for the u.s. could they work out a deal? not going to be easy. >> will ripley in hong kong. thank you very much. >>> the female passenger who died on the dallas-bound southwest airlines flight is identified as jennifer riordan, a 38-year-old wells fargo employee and married mother of

their fists in support of several rights during the two hundred meter medal ceremony the international olympic committee force their expulsion from the u.s. team and banned them from future competition. in the face of adversity the struggle continues. now there's many of us look for comfort in none of. it see you can run but you cannot. and that's all your support for now more later some is it and is going to be here with more on all these stories including the latest details on that planned meeting between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un. but for now. from planting forests with drones to surviving drought small fund. award winning environmental solutions program with tons of a level playing and the a real job but. making the people communities and organizations addressing some of the greatest manmade environmental problems threatening our planet. a new season of earth rise coming soon on al-jazeera. cubbage the same. feeling is watching us from the reports see africa as it is. a good way if we take our time getting to know the people we meet the folgers are in order to envoy t

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their fists in support of several rights during the two hundred meter medal ceremony the international olympic committee forced their expulsion from the u.s. team and banned them from future competitions in the face of adversity the struggle continues you know there's many of us. who are in. not involved. with see you groom but you cannot hide. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to warren in london for think your mission to catch up any time with all the stories reporting on our web site al-jazeera dot com. a super meter and tired of this news up there will be here to minute with another full run of the day's news by from the. michael. sam's an archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several berlin museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture

challenge her right to take part but hubbard was cleared to compete as a woman by the international olympic committee last year. off occasion criteria versus eligibility criteria are essentially two different things and. laurels she's she's met the qualification criteria she was ranked and was selected based on her ranking. in order to get on that she had to be able to pull and so she's competed and other international weightlifting federation advents to be able to eligible to compete and that's the selection standards for for the games well let's see what's emerging through the reasoned prism of social media for the world's strongest man finalist warren brown saying this is a man a cheat and a disc rice but many are applauding hubbert's example this from a kirsty miller in australia laurel you made me cry you may not have won gold but you won the hearts of so many your bravery has humanized the hate against transitioning and transitioned athletes almost sports with far at eighteen hundred g.m.t. but for now i will hand you back to come on thank you any other big story new zealand a lot of people rea

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