a very warm welcome i'm neki aaron and this is r.t. international good to have you with us this i would start with breaking news on into r.t. international the international paralympic committee has upheld its ban on team russia for the upcoming twenty eight hundred twenty games how. i have a clean russian athletes that will be allowed to compete in south korea in march and neutral flag peter all of it joins me now live with more on the decision and peter what does the ruling mean. for what this means is the ban that was in place for the rio summer games back in twenty sixteen has been held for the upcoming. winter olympics winter power olympics it does mean though the russian athletes will be able to compete neutral so that means no mentioning of russia on their team uniforms no flag no national anthem what we did hear from the president of the international olympic committee while he was appalled ing. was that there has been great strides made against doping in russia he said that there was no confidence in the anti doping system in

international thought casting to you live from the russian capital i'm neki aaron good to have you with us. the international paralympic committee has upheld its ban on tame russia for the upcoming twenty eighteen winter games however clean russian athletes will be allowed to compete and south korea in march under a neutral flag artie's peta oliver has more from germany but what this means is the bomb that was in place for the rio summer games back in twenty sixteen has been held for the upcoming. winter power olympics unlike the able bodied athletes in which those taking part in the games will be referred to us and a limping athlete from russia in the case of power elites they will be referred to only as neutral athletes or athletes from a neutral country that means russia completely stripped from uniforms they'll be no russian flags and no russian national anthem those games now in hunting down the extension of this ban the president of the international paralympic committee said there had been group steps made by russia when it came to cleaning up vamping doping testing the system he