than on trail improvements in mclaren park.e recreation survey shows san franciscoens view walking and biking as the most important feature of parks. i'm happy there is a rerouting and closure of redundant trails that scar the park. the building of trail will come with destruction of the dwindling natural resources. people in crowded urban spaces need them to provide them with an escape. equally important is that the natural resources are a haven before biodiversity, birds, bees, bugs, salamanders and other critters that live among us. it's critical that any destruction caused by the wonderful trails be mitigated by careful restoration of native plants, grass and natural areas. we cannot give invasive weeds a foothold. why? they have not adapted to them. a study shows that over 90% of insect species with plant species and group of related plant species, these insects have not had a chance to develop a tolerance for the chemical defenses in plants, like mustard and radish that thrive in the disturbed soils. i urge you to plant c

macaulay and mclaren. they were being developed, they did not consider sand for new playgrounds. connie chan said they will be phasing out sand. on july 25th, they said they discourage the use of sand when renovating playgrounds. but the tone has shifted, on september 5th, she said sand is discussed, but it seems as if the statement was saying that the communities had to raise sand for it to be considered. and that now since september 29, they have begun developing guidelines for including sand in the playgrounds. and the playgrounds already in development, they're already pushing the plans through before guidelines have been developed and we're asking they slow down the planning phase in order to listen to the community and be able to get feedback on whether or not they want the sand for the children. >> president buell: thank you. >> secretary: anyone else who wants to make general public comment? being none, this item is closed. we are now on the consent calendarnd i do have a few cards. i have albert,

russian schools officials deny the allegations but did richard mclaren consider to get their side of the story i'd made a decision that with fifty seven days to do my work i didn't have the time and they didn't seem to have the interest so i didn't do that that came after the first part of the reports issued in july twenty sixth. the second came six months later so the investigative team did eventually meet with some russian officials but not batali the sports minister at the time of the alleged undercover doping scheme. but. the central allegation of mclaren to court is that positive year in samples was systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how so. cafe granules added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick the testers . that information came courtesy of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security parcel which is swiss manufacturing guarantees can be tampered with . richard mclaren doesn't have an answer on how the russians did it he just says it can be done and that's enough i've seen it i've seen it done

have now definitively backed up mclaren supporting the claims of formal lab boss cricketing don't think of who is under criminal investigation in russia and saying that infamous sample swapping system has finally been replicated but questions remain the i.o.c. standard of proof is not beyond any reasonable doubt but rather the balance of probability the presumption of guilt is enough it was logic of who was the original and only source of so-called proof against russian fleets this evidence has been grossly overvalued we can see we are seeing the results of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe broaching course or not it looks more like a religious inquisition. questionable bottles have no visible scratches they were presumed tampered with as the russians must have perfected their technique and left no marks and no argument basis for an on mass ban to clean condemned without any guilt no presumption of innocence for team russia what we see here is actually a violation of the olympic charter which is. which stands against political national racial discrimination so i

the doping scandal was triggered back in twenty fifteen by the mclaren report published by a canadian lawyer however the document meant to prove widespread and state backed open violations and still being questioned over its supporting evidence. the damning mclaren reports on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their meadows and others prevented from taking part in major events including the olympics however a few things in the report just don't add up before we break them down it's worth noting that the international olympic committee itself was not satisfied with the evidence in a letter to richard mclaren the i.o.c. ostrom more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate almost every athlete's name moreover it was admitted by wada but in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases dr richard mclaren's findings were issued in two parts they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let's meet the report's star witne

have now definitively backed up mclaren supporting the claims of former lab boss cricketing don't think of who's under criminal investigation in russia and saying that infamous sample swapping system has finally been replicated but questions remain the i.o.c. standard of proof is not beyond any reasonable doubt but rather the balance of probability the presumption of guilt is enough it was lodging called who was the original and only source of so-called proof against russian fleets this evidence has been grossly overvalued we can see we are seeing the result of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe broaching course or not it looks more like a religious inquisition was less than full bottles had no visible scratches they were presumed tampered with as the russians must have perfected their technique and left no marks and no argument basis for an on mass ban to clean condemned without any guilt no presumption of innocence for team russia what we see here is actually a violation of the olympic charter which is. which stands against political national racial discriminat

now, the mclaren funding, the ordinance also says $10 million for mclaren park including all the kinds of normal improvements you might want to see at a park. but we do have a bond report that came to the commission as well as the board of supervisors, was approved by all bodies and we used the bond support how to implement the ordinance. so nothing in the bond report is in conflict with the ordinance, but it provides more detail, including things likes allocating $1.5 million of the $10 million in mclaren for natural features. and that's really important. it's not natural areas. it's for natural features and habitat restoration. whether it's in the natural area program or not. the four priority areas we've identified today, kind of zig and zag through the area. there are some areas in the program, some outside of it. the focus is on increasing access to nature, not limiting the expenditure of funds to only improving the natural areas program. that bond report also specifies this process happened. it outlines the entire process for the community opportunity fund. it set up the let'spla

the central allegation of mclaren to court is that positive urine samples were systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how so. unless cafe granya was added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick the testers. that information came courtesy of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security possible which is swiss manufacturer guarantees can't be tampered with richard mclaren doesn't have an answer on how the russians did it he just says it can be done and that's enough have seen it i've seen it done in i've inspected and it can be done in can be reinserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know that they can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an unprecedented scale i have that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and it is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples. investigative journalist a record sterling explained why he believes the

the mclaren report has been unduly given a lot of credence in my opinion it's almost laughable how the how the assertions in that report are considered to be very profound and very well justified when if you actually look at the if you read the report and look at his evidence there's very little there apart from the testimony of the chief culprit gregory rajan come before the first mclaren report mclaren actually refused to consider a written argument from the russian side he never went to russia and never talked with russian authorities even though he was accusing them of. state sponsored doping and then in the second report he never made time again to talk with russian authorities the way he explained it is that he couldn't find a time that was convenient for him and for the appropriate russian authorities from the sports ministry so that's pretty up poor i mean it's a. fundamental principle of due process to listen to both sides of the story one could speculate that this is part of that there's a strong political bias at play here it's it's evident that in western media there's much

professor mclaren presented those facts and we were merely commenting on the facts that professor mclaren reported in particular instance that has been upheld by the i.o.c. schmid commission it's been up held through other processes within the sports system so that's why we chose to use that term i'm not quite sure that it was fully powered by the smith commission because the i.o.c. report clearly states that the commission had not found any documented independent and impartial evidence confirming the support of the knowledge of this system by the high state authority so that is actually a contradiction in. and attribute to the mclaren report that because the report specifically states that this program was authorized by the highest and the highest level of a state the i.c. didn't go that far so we have these two reports you find more credible. well again i think i think mclaren's reports suggest institutionalized doping and a systematic approach to do that. schmidt report was released earlier this week and as i understand it to suggest that there were officials involved in a variety of o

while we got reaction from some awfully to receive based on the mclaren report. but with up until now nothing was going on it isn't all athletes who are in good physical condition and that is why they showed great results and this whole thing is just made up by a single person. who are disappointed by this news was still training i hope to go to the lympics then explain to us why they banned us for life from the games this is just slander and evidence for it our sport is all about skill and techniques and not taken some cocktails rochon cough claims this is the first we've heard of any of this but nothing will explain they just said there was crashes and selling in the samples i believe this move is politically motivated and is being done through this all before the whole russian team from the olympic games. well just twenty four hours before the pivotal i.o.c. meeting in switzerland an interview with a key figure in the doping scandal was released earlier trinkle has been looking at that for us. as the investigation continues the man who was behind all the end t

is politically motivated the doping scandal is triggered back in twenty fifteen by the mclaren report published by a canadian lawyer however that argument meant to prove widespread and state backed doping violations are still being questioned over it supporting evidence. the damning mclaren reports on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their meadows and others prevented from taking part in major events including the olympics however a few things in the report just don't add up before we break them down it's worth noting that the international olympic committee itself was not satisfied with the evidence in a letter to richard mclaren the i.o.c. ostrom more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate that almost every athlete's name moreover it was admitted by wada but in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases dr richard mclaren's findings were issued in two pods they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let'

the central allegation of mclaren's report is that positive urine samples were systematically swapped for clean ones on top of that it describes how salts and nest cafe granules were added to clean samples to make the match dirty ones and trick that. that information came courtesy of or a chunk of. another question this raises how do you swap the samples of a high security part to which is swiss manufacture it guarantees can't be tampered with richard mclaren doesn't have an answer on how the russians did it he just says it can be done and that's enough have seen it i've seen it done and i'll be inspected if it can be done it can be reinserted we don't know how the russians did it but we know they can be done but despite all the questions and doubts over mclaren's evidence russian athletes are being punished on an unprecedented scale i hope that we will be able to see some evidence for what they are being punished and it is not that there are some marks on the bottles because then i would be terribly afraid of giving samples. of russia acted swiftly with a number of strong measures af

in a letter to richard mclaren the i.o.c. ostrom more conclusive proof the document was covered with the phrase how to demonstrate that almost every athlete's name moreover it was admitted by wada but in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases of dr richard mclaren's findings were issued into pogs they claim that over a thousand russian athletes were involved in a state sponsored doping program let's meet the riposte star witness. the former head of a moscow anti doping lab he's facing charges over destroying test samples. and the e-mails presented as proof of state involvement come from his own computer. russian schools officials deny the allegations but did richard mclaren consider to get their side of the story i'd made a decision that with fifty seven days to do my work i didn't have the time and they didn't seem to have the interest so i didn't do that that came after the first part of the reports issued in july twenty sixth. the second came six months later so the investigative t

russian officials denied any claims of state sponsored doping in july last year was published the mclaren report which gave a more detailed view of the alleged scheme but seeking a more independent view the international olympic committee also launched two more investigative commissions the same month russia saw a blanket ban on all paralympians and the limpid track and field athletes competing in the rio olympics for alleged doping but i wasn't there and for the same russia because after the rio olympics the situation escalated last december the second part of the mclaren report came out which apparently had more evidence that resulted in the decision to recheck all the samples taken from russian athletes at sochi twenty fourteen throughout this year the russian doping scandals further intensified twenty two athletes who subsequently disqualified and stripped of their medals a partridge and you know neal discussed that earlier. twenty five were banned in the buildup to this decision twenty two an hour and as i say not a great deal of time either to appeal all or to prove whether or not y

many events as well that's one of the biggest issues the fallout from this well it is an issue in mclaren he was saying that this implicates a thousand athletes across thirty different sports but then you're looking through going through this whole process even when you go through the i.o.c. analyses themselves some of these athletes they haven't they haven't actually tested positive this is a case of going on balance of probability of looking through all these different all the different analysis all the different samples if you boil it down there are probably even a few that they can definitively think that even then they saying this looks more likely and this is obviously this look this is to two issues one is their own limited time as to how they can prove their innocence they can appeal against it or they can actually prove they're clean athletes the games get underway on the ninth of february but also because of the nature of the of the allegations saying that the scratches on bottles you have athletes they will what about the transparency how do they prove that the i.o.c. say they

the mclaren report came out which everybody has heard about now for so many years effectively said yes the state sponsored doping this is how they did it and explained the elaborate system of how the russians had allegedly managed to get into these tamper proof bottles and on the back of that the i.o.c. is saying well ok you're making these claims and what we now want to do is we want to go in and have our own investigation so we have the schmidt report comes through which was then if it to be trying to find a way to replicate what they claimed was the means of getting into those bottles and also changing the system and what they saw were by scratches on bottles if it to be proving what they thought was how you could get into the samples also they said they were elevated salt levels that meant that these samples weren't true flexions and basically all of this evidence that they put forward backing up rajan cough and mclaren is on the basis for now these decisions and this is cause a bit of consternation amongst the athletes themselves and one by our theatre said well if you're going to

have now definitively backed up mclaren supporting the claims of former lab boss cricketing roche in cough who is under criminal investigation in russia and saying that infamous sample swapping system has finally been replicated but questions remain the i.o.c. standard of proof is not beyond any reasonable doubt but rather the balance of probability the presumption of guilt is enough it was logic of who was the original and only source of so-called proof against russian fleets this evidence has been grossly overvalued we can see we are seeing the results of a proper legal process it's a question of faith to believe broaching course or not is looks more like a religious inquisition. questionable bottles have no visible scratches they were presumed tampered with as the russians must have perfected their technique and left no marks and no argument basis for an on mass ban the cane condemned without any guilt no presumption of innocence for team russia what we see here is actually a violation of the olympic charter which is. which stands against political national racial discrimination s

it's all of the running controversy was somewhat more defined charge also i think you refer to the mclaren reported ology and effort to subvert the those facts and we are mere mid commission it's been up held that's why we chose to use that term i'm not quite sure that it was fully app to see report clearly states authority so that is actually a country each of these two reports you find more credible. institutionalized doping and here this week and as i unbolted in a variety of organizations including. including the ministry of sporting klute and including the the. russian anti doping lab that participated in this process so they too have recognized that there were multiple players involved in this effort to subvert the doping system no i don't dispute that that particular conclusion there was indeed a recognition that officials had been involved but the i think where the contradiction lies is what was the highest level for authorisation of doc kind of program and i think the i.c. didn't point specifically to the kremlin as a thing as many wada officials have done in the years well my rea

do not say that the mclaren report that you are one hundred percent correct because we have some certain information which contradicts. it does not say that it is this data which. acting upon the instruction of the leadership. of the country. initiated the whole process it also says that the olympic committee has nothing to do with all the problems but as the early m.p. committee was signing the crean on giving the rights to all the olympic games so it is to be held responsible for all the violations for everything which happens within the framework of the competition so it also says. that the sanctions. as. suggested by the schmitz commission is that the flag the anthem should not be used and any other symbols of russia should not be used throughout the competitions and the first point is that all that work in terms of additional testing investigations forensic analysis work. all that. the to the following can they spend if you should mount of money on all of these matters and it's a full stop by the way and on that condition the i.o.c. decided that we should. bear those penalties in th

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 when and demanded they be sanctioned the prove 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 out of switzerland has banned twenty five russian athletes over the last few weeks including a limb pick gold winning cross-country skier alexander leg. 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 mph on some of suggested the russia can compete without their national anthem and flak how would the russians react to that plenty of questions for the i.o.c. to answer as soon as possible. to cricket now and severe pollution in india's mega city delhi has caused a sri lankan player to vomit during a test ma

officials denied any claims of state sponsored don't bring in july last year water published the mclaren report which gave a more detailed view of the alleged scheme but seeking a more independent view the international olympic committee also launched two more investigative commissions the same month russia saw a blanket ban on all paralympians and the limpid track and field athletes competing in the rio olympics for alleged doping but that wasn't the end for team russia because after the rio olympics the situation escalated last december the second part of the mclaren report came out with apparently more evidence that resulted in the decision to recheck all the samples taken from russian athletes at such a twenty fourteen this year the russian doping scandal intensified further twenty two outfits were subsequently disqualified and stripped of their medals artie's k. partridge and you know neil discussed that earlier. twenty five were banned in the buildup to this decision twenty two an hour and as i say not a great deal of time either to appeal all or to prove whether or not you were in

the proof mclaren presented in his report was not enough above 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 out of switzerland has banned twenty five russian athletes over the last few weeks including a limb pick gold winning cross country skier alexander leg. 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 compete without their national anthem in flack how with the russians react to that plenty of questions for the i.o.c. to answer as soon as possible. we will carry that announcement live just as soon as it happens matt herman for sports will be here how you feel and i'm feeling quite excited to find out what's going to happen here i think it's going to be some kind of a compromise much like last time maybe a little tougher on russia as you can bet the russian athletes are on the edge of their states

then last year this man richard mclaren led an independent report and found that more than 1,000 competitorsved in a conspiracy to conceal positive drug tests — over a five—year period. there have already been consequences. the russian cross—country skier alexander legkov was one of the first to be stripped of his sochi medals. he's one of 25 russians who have been banned for life. let's talk to our correspondent from bbc russia. russia say they did not do this but there is a lot of evidence. you may laugh but russians keep saying there is no evidence, that's what they claim. they say all this is based on words ofjust one man, who is cold a national traitor now in russia and is under investigation at the moment. he underlined that there is no document saying let's start the doping programme or whatever, so it's saying let's start the doping programme or whatever, so its pure politics, it's just another version of western sanctions, that's the narrative. this idea of russians competing under a neutral flag, narrative. this idea of russians competing under a neutralflag, will gladly repeat in

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 compete without their national anthem in flak how would the russians react to that plenty of questions for the seats once or as soon as possible well let's go back now to our yemen and our story on former president's death we can talk to journalist nasser rb who is in sanaa and joins us on the line hi nasr could this the killing be a turning point for yeah man. yes the death of solace. would be. born in. this conflict in this war thirty. three years ago. and. this means that we. could be better f