national anthem games now in hunting down the extension of this the president of the international power olympic committee said there had been steps made by russia when it came to cleaning up. testing the system he said he had confidence in drug testing in sport in russia right now where was previously referred to it as being corrupt and compromised however the president of the international power olympic committee also said that under this new system it was inevitable that clean athletes would be banned from taking part in the games in korea the athletes were implicated in so only the that we can prove that for they meet. strictly the criteria that was set up are the ones that we were allowed to compete so it's not a matter of if i think it's fair or not it's a matter of criteria to. put that into some figures if we look sixty seven russian athletes who tested ahead of the games all of those sixty seven well they were cleared of having done anything wrong haven't taken any banned substances however as i said only thirty to thirty five will likely get the option to compete neutral athletes all this comes

russian flag flying at either the twenty eighteen winter olympics or paralympics in south korea that's after the international power limpid committee upheld its ban on team russia though it is allowing clean up plates to compete as neutrals two months ago a similar decision was taken by the international olympic committee despite all eyes on russia when it comes to doping allegations also surfacing elsewhere in the world. in the run up to next month's winter games the issue of doping has taken the main stage once again seeing the majority of russian athletes banned and those eligible to participate forced to compete under a neutral flag and frankly at this point when you hear doping you think russia but is the problem really reserves or just the one country i'm afraid the answer is a resoundingly no an investigation conducted by a group of international researchers at two separate sporting events back in two thousand and eleven produced a rather shocking conclusion where more than two thousand and eight athletes were surveyed anonymously to encourage honest answers doping abusers remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remai

of action and what it does is it brings them in line with the international olympic committee and have been neutral updates remember the power to pick bosses took a much tougher stance over ray are they said there will not be any russian competitors there and they haven't just done this to fall back in line with the i.o.c. they're very much made it clear it's their own decision that they are really optimistic actually about how things are now going with the russians some of the language is no longer of the russians corrupted and compromised they've got greater confidence things are much better but what happened is that the russians have an idea not progress in time to have their entire team there and it does actually feel a bit better all round to have the olympic bosses in the power and pick bosses in line together and being as fair as possible as they can be with rushing off the eight who they perceive to be clean. former world number one golfer jason day is targeting a return to the top of the rankings after winning his first tournament in a watch two years at story pines earlier he beat alex norman in a playoff but it st

by the international olympic committee have ever shown us the visual results of their experiments and we were constantly told that the bottle technology is flawless but what if it isn't. powerful winds have been battering the netherlands at least three people have been killed with several others injured this video if you sort of just an idea of how strong these winds are that i'm talking about people not some of them with bikes even freight containers have been seen blown away whether alert was issued or the center of the country that's where wind speeds reached up to one hundred forty kilometers an hour hundreds of flights and train journeys have been cancelled. social media giants twitter facebook and you tube of a game being grilled over alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election i'm assuming that none of you have any doubt that the russians meddled in our two thousand sixteen election and attacked our democracy any question. and it's only the latest u.s. senate hearing the three social media giants have taken part in this time around twitter also announced it was preparing a tool to warn users about russian trolls the idea has though already sparked con

power sharing with unionists at stormont. but in the coming years, she'll be talking a lot about brexit, which republicans believe has changed the picture and renewed the debate about irish unity. the international olympic committeeto participate at next month's winter olympics, and agreed teams from north and south can march under the same flag at the opening ceremony. the agreement comes after months of heightened tension on the korean peninsula over the testing of nuclear weapons by the north. imogen foulkes reports from ioc headquarters in the swiss city of lausanne. two koreas face—to—face. such is the tension on the korean peninsula that this meeting, ostensibly about the olympics, became something much more. here in lausanne, the two sides spoke together for hours. they emerged with an agreement and the blessing of the international olympic committee. the ioc has approved their request to have their delegations marching together as one under the name korea. for the first time, the two koreas, divided since the 1950s, will field a unified team — women's ice hockey — and the olympic committee has relaxed its strict qualification deadlines to allow 22 north korean athletes to compete. handshakes, smiles and p

power outage some areas are without light for more than an hour forcing people to use their mobile phones to find their way. so i had. a former football manager. thanks very much the international olympic committee has set a date of january twentieth for a meeting between north and south korean officials at their headquarters in los suns president will chair the gathering to discuss the participation of north korean athletes at next month's winter olympics and kyung chang the north's i.o.c. representative chang was in lowes and on wednesday twenty four hours earlier government officials announced they would send athletes fans and journalists to the games in neighboring south korea followed a high level talks between the two countries. at this meeting they'll discuss how many north korean athletes will attend only to figure skating pair have qualified but the i.o.c. will likely bend the rules as a goodwill gesture it's possible the two nations will march together during the opening ceremony this last happened at the two thousand and six winter olympics in turin issues relating to the flag national anthem and team uniforms will also be discussed all north korea have tried to remain part of the spo