. >> it began with a 2014 winter paralympics in sochi.rior to the opening of the paralympics, the russian government announced it would make public facilities throughout the country barrier-free by 2020. especially in sochi city, side walks fitted with curb ramps and electric electric administrat electric stairway lifts to make it accessible to the physically disabled. she has noticed the recent change. >> translator: things have changed from before. i see more people with physical disabilities out on the treastr and television does stiers abeet us now. but for people like me, getting arou around vladivostok is still quite difficult. the terrain makes it impossible to get around the it cicity by myself. >> this pedestrian bridge crosses a may yojor highway. there is a curb ramp for wha wheelchairs but only rails on the stairway. barrier-free accessibility has not progressed in as a city council member, achem conducts inspections in the city. he is accompanied by his parfat, a retiry living on a pension. on this day they visit a section of

over the ridge a crisis with the military still calling the shots in myanmar does this whole song sochi really have any other choice but to mute her criticism of the military at this point and do what she at least in public can do what she can behind the scenes to help the ranger. no absolutely you're talking about essentially two governments of the heart but a military controls not just security forces but also many other key elements of the state there's no question the military is controlling what's going on there are soldiers and police officers who are responsible for violations the kill lukes the burning spouses it's not a sunni government but having said mother of two she. could and should be doing much much more which is do not think there are signs that it's only if you're looking at something impunity she has considerable of moral and political clout we should be able to really speak out and condemn what's going on and she does also our political power to really talking courses that this commission has been going on for decades and we can stay against going into so for a very

hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us myanmar's defacto leader also in sochi has broken her silence on the revenge a refugee crisis an army led crackdown has driven more than four hundred thousand minority muslims into bangladesh triggering a major humanitarian emergency suchi as national address was highly anticipated she's been facing intense criticism for remaining silent on what the u.n. is now describing as ethnic cleansing let's listen to some of her speech there has been much concern around the budget. to the situation in a kind it is not the intention of the government to apportion blame or to epona gauge responsibility we condemn all human rights violations and unlawful violence we are committed to the restoration of peace stability and rule of law throughout the states since the fifth of september there have been no armed clashes and that afternoon clearance operation nevertheless we are concerned to hear that numbers of muslims are fleeing across the border two hundred days. we want to find out why this exodus is happening we. of course i was beyond our civilian leader on

agency as we've long known in russia ever since some of the big sporting events particularly from sochi twenty forty the effectively there have been anti doping allegations against russian athletes and so many of them were suspended for the olympics going forward as well in rio and all this was based upon several reports have come through but the main one was the mccarron report which implicated that there was state sponsored doping throughout russia and of course that what's what led to the suspensions but now the world anti-doping agency according to this internal note is effectively saying this insufficient evidence against ninety five of the ninety six implicated athletes across nine different sports so now comes the the new process of saying rights they've been cleared effectively in a kind of theoretical way now they have the cases going through that would then allow them to compete so now we've got a situation where ninety five out of ninety six of effectively being cleared now they're saying let's go back and retest some of the sample some sort they take priority because they're

former director of moscow's antidoping club at the oversaw drug testing of the twenty four thousand sochi olympics and world anti doping agency independent commission published a report in the van but twenty sixteen citing or tinker has admitted to intentionally destroying one thousand four hundred seventeen test samples belonging to russian actually think looting the ones that have won gold at the sochi games as a result russian track and field athletes who are banned from the rio twenty sixteen games and i thought lennox world championships in london. well for more on that i'm joined by a pole not to who is a former diplomat at the british embassy in moscow and also writer of the accidental diplomat who joins us from zurich via skype first of all paul can you give us a bit of a background to the story in who's craig. and what is he accused of yes said mr cheney was the former head of the russian doping agency. ten whistleblower fled to the u.s. alleging a state sponsored doping program which particularly sensitive around the winter olympics which took place him in sochi in russia. so pa

the 19th world yuthd and students festival which our country is going to host a month from now in sochi. at the same time we in russia will host another important meeting, the assembly in st. petersburg. the main topic will be strength, peace and security through dialog dialogue. let's foster this dialogue. let's stop using historic events in order to stoke hatred and phobias. the philosophy of coexistence of harmonizing the entrance of various countries is at the basis of the concept put forward by president putin. open to all states of asia and europe and aimed at creating a joint, economic and humanitarian space based on the principal of indevisible security. i don't need to say that insuring equal rights for everyone for states and citizens is something that is needed on a universal scale and required by the charter. this is a foundation for the activity of men of many entities that we are part in. cis, csto, euro-asia economic community, briks, this is also how we build our relationship with the african union and other associations bringing together countries of asia, africa, latin

to new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the russian hacking menace so next year what a great idea bigg boss is go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now joining us here on ash and we're back in about half an hour with your wednesday. candidate donald trump ran on a campaign that not only question many foreign policy orthodoxies but also lashed out against new conservative views the world today the president is surrounded by men in uniform so this. that's praise for a single purpose. of a super moon. training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and very safe lives. time simone del rosario filling in for lindsey france you're launching boom are broadcasting to you over around the world from here in washington d.c. coming up on the show tax credit reporting company equifax facing lawsuits over its failure to protect customer information and if a company like equifax ca

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and his job at sochi is he's running the lab.fsb, the kgb, are collection bottles and dumping out the dirty steroid urine of all the russian athletes and swapping in clean urine. so this is what he's doing essentially while i'm corresponding with him. and so the fact that he had time to come to los angeles and smuggle my urine back to russia to be tested, i mean, it is mind boggling. >> seth: now, during this, he basically has to flee russia because a report comes out -- tell us real quick about that. >> so we had been working together at this point for almost two years. and the second year that we're working together, there is an investigation that's been launched by the wada, the world anti-doping agency. and this investigation was launched because of this german television documentary. and it's alleging that there is a state-sponsored system in russia to dope the athletes and grigory is under investigation. november 2015, they release the findings of these reports. but it's only track and field at the time. but it's alleging t

american figure skater ashley wagner, who won bronze in sochi, is optimistic. >> i would never do anything that i felt would threaten my life, but this is the olympics. this is where the world comes together to celebrate sport and hard work and people's dreams being accomplished. >> reporter: during the rio olympics, this photo of north and south korean gymnasts went viral. north korea has until october 30th to decide whether to use the spot. today ryum saying, we want to become world champions. it's a common dream that connects athletes across countries in a world where so much else divides. jo ling kent, nbc news, los angeles. >>> how would you like to get anywhere on earth in under an hour? spacex ceo elon musk has a plan to do it unveiling video that features a rocket taking people from new york to shanghai in 30 minutes. musk claims that eventually a seat would cost about the same as an economy plane ticket, but the rocket, which is also intended for missions to mars, is still in the design phase. >>> when we come back we'll meet an extraordinary athlete. a veteran who has overcome th

expect to be hacked welcome to moscow to be used a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the russian hacking menace so next year what a great idea big hacker bosses go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now don't forget to check us out on social media facebook twitter on our website i'll be back at the top of the hour so stay with. candidate donald trump ran on a campaign that not only question many foreign policy orthodoxies but also lashed out against new conservative views the world today the president is surrounded by men in uniform some call this a soft coup. welcome to max kaiser that is. looking forward to. this is what happens to pensions in britain don't let this you watch kaiser report. filling in for lindsay you're wanting boom for broadcasting to you over around the world from here in washington d.c. coming up on the show packet tax credit reporting company equifax facing lawsui

condemning a bill is she providing cover for the military it seems like that what we believe on so sochi have a some limited power because of the constitution and miller create twenty five percent of military and all the pali mess so if she has a lost control and the three key ministry also and the hand of the military as well but the fact is on so sooty is a difficult of that this country so she is the most responsible she have to be speak out loudly what about against the human beings this is not important she come with a justice because she come with the right word to use this she need to use grass prob whatever we have on is not according to international law is a violation of international law so she has to realize that and money i'm just one of the many i know that all the blame falls on and sunset cheap but shouldn't druther be the commander in chief. who still spoke about a little bit earlier on who controls the army. europe and the other parts of the of the world lay out the red carpet for him shouldn't he be the one here is focused on the sanctions points of view that he should

they used a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the washington hacking menace so next year what a great idea big bosses go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now. round for the new. social media facebook twitter and of course our web site but i'll be back at the top of the alice so don't go away. but you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go on to be the first this is what before three of the people that i'm interested in the water. level was dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do so for the tell you that every gossip and public. off of advertising tell you on the pool and buy their products. that we all. want. syria paradoxical the. compact is in was a situation like israel in palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people without hope though ev

seat over and last but not least he received the chancellor angela merkel at the hague somehow us in sochi so fundamentally what russians want is dialogue to be heard to be recognized as an equal equal partner and yes russians are ultimately interested in a strong germany because of the very strong german russian economic and trade relations they might be now satisfied that if america has to change their policies but if they do recognize who arguably is the most influential politician in europe ok that miracle isn't likely to drop or support for sanctions against russia after the election how do you think the kremlin will react. well if the un soviet space in contrast to other western european countries russians understand germany is a german mentality is close to the russian of on a lot of ways and sometimes russians joke joke that if they start a new life or give up of the bad habits of their rational thinking and become just a little more hard to be working they would certainly become almost like a german but for some reason started this new life doesn't quite work in general germany is

to be hacked welcome to moscow to be used to a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the washington hacking menace so next year what a great idea big bosses go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now. the news this hour don't forget to check us out on social media on facebook twitter and of course i website that salty dot com i'll be back at the top of the so stay with us. desperate for a single. day of a super. star training very young. eight months of intensive school. reps. and they saved lives. syria. is and was a situation like israel and palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people were told though everybody agrees. is a very serious situation and people have been much more affected than in any other conflicts to day. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered time peter lobo canada donald trump ran on a campaign that not only question many foreign p

expect to be hacked welcome to moscow to be used a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the russian hacking menace so next year what a great idea big hacker bosses go and our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now. here's the news is just coming in we're getting reports of a school shooting in the u.s. state of washington it's believed that several people have been injured and medical helicopters were called to freeman high school the south of spokane valley the suspect is in custody according to local media reports we'll bring you more details as they come in. stay with us here in our international i'll be back at the top of the hour c.n.n. . candidate donald trump ran a campaign that not only question many foreign policy orthodoxies but also lashed out against neo conservative views the world today the president is surrounded by men in uniform some of this soft. what politicians do. they put th

sochi's in the history curriculum. >> 90% under water? it was crucial for the progress is in mississippi so in essence it was an impediment to progress. all students in the ninth grade not just black students but have a clearer picture and to include conflict so the title conveys that this was gradual the improvement but there was conflict in mississippi and covered up and headed by earlier textbooks. end in that way perhaps to engage in more conflict and also whites with that prevailing orthodoxy in the states. >> perhaps they did not change that directly for that larger context. >> so how did hazel go from as an ally for social justice? take is through the journey. did she sees something? what happened?. >> she was radicalized by what happened july 1954 the sheriff of holmes county was attacking him for over one ear because she said the editorial you are incompetent that your job or you have bootleggers so also he appears african american will put him in jail. day shot a young man in the back of the late summer 1954 and to her that was

london he joins us on our program thank you david now amnesty has put out a statement saying that sochi and her government have their heads in the sand on the crisis what do you mean by that. well let's get a little bit of a sense of proportion about what's happening in record instead. we're seeing ethnic cleansing happening on a horrific scale. almost half of the population has been driven out of rakhine state we've identified eighty plus sites which have been razed to the ground we have plenty of evidence from eyewitnesses backed up by satellite and fire detection data telling us about the kinds of abuses that are happening security forces surrounding villages firing at people as they flee in panic and then setting their homes on fire this is a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing and saying and since she's words were frankly a bit of a whitewash but david what do you expect from her she's in a difficult position isn't she the military leaders are watching her every word and can she really speak out against what is happening. she is in a difficult position and the military authoritie

the state he says the military is only targeting armed groups in action by me in mars later on in sochi has been criticized around the world she was supposed to be addressing the u.n. general assembly on tuesday instead she'll be giving a televised speech and her own country the bangladeshi prime minister shake a scene is in her turn chile taking the opportunity at the u.n. to demand more help to deal with the crisis hundreds of thousands of her henschel muslims have fled to her country to escape but the u.n. says is ethnic cleansing hunger chaudhry reports. between bangladesh border you can see the myanmar border right behind me on sunday the top me on my military man posted on facebook comments. population and media to unite what he calls on their own issue he also blamed this current crisis on what he termed as extremist groups actually what he's referring to is insurgents group they also say this. extremist group is trying to put a hole in the rock and state. this comes across when thousands of refugees are crossing into bangladesh the condition in the refugee. infectious diseases a

and i'm joined of in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera and sun sochi has condemned human rights violations and it is refusing to blame soldiers many accuse of rape murder and burning their villages later gave a first.

and we're hearing a lot about nobel prize winner on sand sochi and what she can do in this situation and obviously she does not control the military but having said that could she be should she be more of a voice and what do you make of some of the things she said that there is actually just misinformation about this situation. well i think her that has been a very disappointing result for months and suki good as the defector leader of the civilian government we would expect and it is her responsibility to deescalate this problem this is not a new problem this this has been something that has been brewing for some time now and we have heard we have not heard any sort of strong statements from san suu kyi to recognize the real injured people we have not heard anything to deescalate this it is in a very big rhetoric that is really see the pitch inside me on my right now and we have heard no condemnation of the security forces and that is certainly their responsibility as is her responsibility to be able to address the root causes which are driving this which is essentially you know thi

director of loft both at the doping lab that oversaw drug testing at the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics world anti-doping agency independent commission published a report in two thousand and sixteen thing right admitted to intentionally destroying one thousand four hundred seventeen test samples along to russian athletes as a result russian track and field athletes were banned from the rio two thousand and sixteen games and the athletics world championships in london well earlier we spoke to paul naughty a former diplomat at the british embassy and moscow he says revelations were a huge embarrassment for the russian government i think this is doing it because that whole episode is being hugely embarrassing to misdirect chain got made very clear that it was his actions where were ordered by it by that the political leadership in russia he says immediate boss at the time was sports minister that it's a really moot goes now at deputy prime minister and at a very. close member of president putin is it is said quote. winter olympics you know she was was it a huge test no prestige pr

our thoughtstime, continue in sochi. we will have our talks there., we will come together with mr. putin. call,l have a telephone but on thursday we will have dinner together. we will talk about these developments, but what's happening in syria. -- about what is happening in syria. look, right now, there are some problems. we will talk about that. despite all of these events, bond it lived is being that despite all of this, children are going to school. it has been resolved as a non-conflict area and outside of its borders, there are powers of the russian federation, protective towers, police stations. inside, in turkey's defensive position, stations. all of this our soldiers are doing with free syrian army. this will continue until piece is established. after that, just as hundreds of thousands of syrians have returned, our other syrian friends who are staying with us will also return to their land. i will ask the question again about troops in syria. do you think you will keep the number of troops or will you increase them, the turkish troops in sy

sochi after went to chernobyl.ou set up that had not happened, your life would have been different. how would it have been? >> i think my parents would have continued living in belarus, a very poor country. i certainly would not be playing tennis. and i would not be living in the united states. i would say very different. charlie: part of this book is serena, who just had a baby. >> yes. charlie: characterize the competition. i am not sure what the latest is, but one point it was 19-2 in favor of serena. does she have your game better than anybody, does she have your number better than anybody? or is she simply that good? >> definitely. charlie: she has your game in part. by that, i mean she knows how to win against you. >> yes. and there are many things that she does better than i did. charlie: what do you do better than she? >> what do i do better? i think a lot of that is intangibles. i think she hits harder than i do. she serves better than i do. there are a lot of things, you. charlie: how much of the game for

it is a very light statement by on some sochi i wish she had made the statement earlier she's not made a very convincing explanation hundreds of thousands of people have fled me and of course the people will syphon her statement did not reassure this we took the initiative and held a meeting on the range of here at the united nations and we should a statement declaration at the end of the meeting and with the declaration we have discussed what kind of steps will need to be taken i want to thank bangladesh in particular they've decided to reserve an island for the rakhine muslims. and turkey will provide all necessary help along with other countries for those people who be arriving on the island django malik is the c.e.o. of the u.k. based organization muslim aid he's just visited rakhine state and says the situation is catastrophic. at this moment in time you know living on whatever little bit of russians that we were able to provide previously distributions that was over and over and so forth so whatever that was provided over the last two or three months is really having to make peop

pregnant and i was born in russia, i was born in the north in siberia, and when i was 2 we moved to sochi a much warmer place. >> rose: so you started playing early. >> i played when i was four. my dad played recreationally, and someone said i had talent. i'm not sure anyone could say that of a 6-year-old girl but they said there is an exhibition martina and i was hosting in moscow with another 200 kids and said why don't you be part of it? my father and i went. i was on the court with hundreds of kids. it was chaos. she was feed ago few balls to the kids, having a little chat. i'm not exactly sure what happened but the next thing you know i saw her coming up to my dad and having a conversation, and i think what she said is she thought i had talent and we should do something about it. a year and a half later we were on our flight to miami. >> rose: on your way to see nick balatari. >> yes. >> rose: and he didn't take you at first glance. it took you two years. >> yes. ocked on everyone's doorof unexpectedly, here's a 7-year-old girl, she wants to play tennis and she has this dream, and ev

the 28—year—old won gold at sochi three years ago, and she's preparing for next year's winter olympics and my team knows what's going on and to know how to recover and compete still. i absolutely have the will to compete in every race regardless of those issues. it was an iconic sporting moment, when britain'sjohnny brownlea, was helped over the line by brother alistair, at the end of the mexican triathlon. that was a year ago, and this year's world series, comes to an end today, in rotterdam, with britain'sjonny hoping for a victory, without the need for any help. i think the rest of my career, always could have in my mind, i don't know if special was the right word — it was unusual. but the need to win here would be very, very special. i've never won a grand final before. i've come second a few times and if i could win that, it would go a long way to getting over last year. thousands of boxing fans are in las vegas this weekend, for the middleweight title clash, between two, of the best fighters on the planet, gennady golovkin and canelo alvarez, 0n the undercard is british two—time

. >> rose: you went to so muchy after cher -- to sochi after chernobyl. you said if that hadn't happened your life would be different. >> yes. >> rose: how would that have been? >> i think my parents would continue still living in belarus which is a very poor country, and i certainly wouldn't be playing tennis or living in the united states. so i would say very different. >> rose: part of this book is serena who just had a baby. >> yes. >> rose: characterize the competition because i'm not sure what the latest is but at one point it was 19-2 in favor of serena. >> yeah. >> rose: did she have your game, your number better than anybody or is she simply that good? >> i think it's both of those things, definitely. >> rose: she has your game, in part. >> yeah. >> rose: she knows how to win against you? >> yes. yes. and there are many things she does better than i do, yeah. >> rose: well, tick them off. tick them off. ( laughter ) >> rose: what do you do better than she? >> what do i do better than she? >> rose: yeah. i think a lot of that is intangibles. >> ro

hundred seventeen test samples belonging to russian athletes including the ones who have won gold at the sochi games as a result russian track and field athletes were banned from the real twenty sixteen games and the athletics world championships in london. for now. has come out the winners and a champions league showdown against by munich got off to a dream start as their other brazilian summer signing alpha's gave them the lead just ninety seconds into the game as a part of the cause and they never looked back at the sink avani and both got on the scoresheet for p.s.g. is convincing three nil when the result leaves the french club top of groupie. fans was caught then we are used to and they have possession of the balls tonight readopted well in the game controlled the game without the ball and also thanks to our defense which was stronger defenders and the goalkeeper did a great job. and a huge result for manchester united they beat c.s.k. moscow for one away. lead for united that with two goals thing this premier league side maintain the one hundred percent record to stay top of group they.

influence me and my out to stop this crackdown however she stopped short of directly criticizing unsigned sochi saying that she is highly influenced by the military government she probably doesn't have much to do with the she also handed out a lot of gives and relief to some of the newly arrived rowing who are in the stage to take those gifts and all will have to see what comes down the road that the situation in the ground is very fluid and dynamic a lot of refugees are still coming in the need aid and aid and emergency medicine otherwise the situation is going to get critical down the road again president robert mugabe has been addressing the parliament in harare that the official opening of the fifth session of the eighth parliament of zimbabwe among several proposals a cyber crime bill is expected to be discussed it criminalizes anyone posting false information on the internet human rights activists worry it'll be used to clamp down on dissent before the twenty eighteen elections. well the trial of a leading zimbabwean political activist who is on trial for inciting violence during a studen

president obama, he named you as one of the two openly gay delegates to go to the sochi olympics, andst time a president's ever mentioned the lgbtq community and sexual preference, and i really had an honor to receive the presidential medal of freedom with also harvey milk posthumously. his nephew received it. he was there. so that was a first ever. also i was the first woman athlete to ever -- to receive it, which was good news-bad news, because there's so many women that came before me that deserve it like althea gibson, babe dedrickson. there's so many that deserve it. so many male athletes have been honored. so i really hope that shifts, but to be -- i love -- he understands me. and he saw the match the "battle of the sexes" when he was 12 and when i first met him when we went into the oval office, i'm like -- like it's him. [ laughter ] you know how they have the two chairs everybody sits in so they can get all the photos? >> seth: yeah. >> oh, no. i went over and i sat like this on the sofa. and he's looking at me like, "what are you over there for?" and i'm like, "eee." [ laugh