based in montreal canada is the world anti doping agency the body which decides what substances are banned in sporting competitions. why does science director believes pain killers do not belong on that list and there is a general opinion that pain killers are not performance enhancing they can restore performance but are not necessarily performance enhancing if you look at the risk for health i mean those substances are being widely used in all societies and if they are used according to the manufacturer's recommendations for the doe's and the frequency they are not considered to be risky substances. in its anti doping code water lists 3 criteria to determine whether a substance. should be prohibited. firstly if it enhances performance. secondly if it presents a health risk to the athlete. and thirdly if it violates the spirit of the sport. if a substance fulfills 2 of those criteria it is banned. scientists at the renowned doping control of barratry in cologne interpret the anti doping code differently to wada. the misuse of painkillers equates to doping says biochemist skier. by bidding

why this is such an important decision for so much business actually a link between the world anti-doping agency or wired and russia so it's crucial to communication twin shortened dialogue between home and abroad and to ensuring that russian support is represented on the international stage now i want to say in a statement recognize an accepted the decision to dismiss goddess and also at the same time reiterated the need for assad to remain an independent body and also added that the 2 agencies are in constant communication and contact about any ballot meant what have to wait and see who comes to fill ghana says shoes that's a decision that will likely be made within the next 6 months or so either way they think we can all agree that no one what envy him for that position because clearly a difficult time for russian support. back stateside that the donald trump has officially accepted the republican party's nomination to run for a 2nd term he pledged to make america safer and stronger during a speech that wound up the party's convention but opponents say the event ignore the present reality on

why this is such an important decision for so much business actually a link between the world anti-doping agency or wada and russia so it's crucial to communication twin short dialogue between home and abroad and to ensuring that russian support is represented on the international stage now i want to say in a statement recognizing excepted the decision to dismiss goddess and also at the same time reiterated the need for assad to remain an independent body and also added that the 2 agencies are in constant communication of contact about any to belet ments will have to wait and see who comes to fill goddesses shoes that's a decision that will likely be made within the next 6 months or so either way i think we can all agree that no one what envy him at that position because clearly a difficult time for russian sport so it's good tale of what we've got some different claims of nefarious performance enhancement a little bit later on this time though by donald trump and his election rival joe biden will put it to the test after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be spe

why this is such an important decision for so much of it is essentially a link between the world anti-doping agency or wada and russia so it's crucial to communication twin shortened dialogue between home and abroad and to ensuring that russian sport is represented on the international stage now i want to say in a statement recognize an accepted the decision to dismiss goddess and also at the same times reiterated the need for assad to remain an independent body it also added that the 2 agencies are in constant communication and contact about any to belet ments will have to wait and see who comes to fill goddess's shoes that's a decision that will likely be made within the next 6 months or so either way they think we can all agree that no one what envy him but that position because clearly a difficult time for russian support. for taylor reporting now let's return to the u.s. because recently the president there paid a rare compliment to election rival joe biden saying that he did a k. and his debate back in the spring with democratic rival bernie sanders being trampy couldn't resist a little dig a

assad and why this is such an important decision for so much of a century a link between the world anti-doping agency or want to russia so it's crucial to communication twin short dialogue between home and abroad and to ensuring that russian support is represented on the international stage what i have to wait and see who comes to fill ghana says shoes that's a decision that will likely be made within the next 6 months or so either way it we can all agree that no one would envy him but that position because clearly a difficult time for russian sport. yes beautiful a there isn't a stir across all the news we're talking about this weekend on our social media and r.t. dot com so much on there we have no time for here but also goodbye for now reporting from moscow i'm kevin o. and thanks for watching and i've observed what we can. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offense theory dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and ta

result and why this is such an important decision for so much of a century a link between the world anti-doping agency or wada and russia so it's crucial to communication twin short dialogue between home and abroad and to ensuring that russian support is represented on the international stage now i want to say in a statement recognizing excepted the decision to dismiss guard us and also at the same times reiterated the need for assad to remain an independent body it also adds that the 2 agencies are in constant communication and contact about any to ballot ments will have to wait and see who comes to fill ghana says shoes that's a decision that will likely be made within the next 6 months or so either way i think we can all agree that no one will envy him at that position because clearly a difficult time for russian sports. thanks ted technological leaps of always change the face of warfare from machine guns for demand flight for computer guided missiles buck could developments in ai see humans removed from the pivotal processes of battle altogether the pentagon is working on a project which could not

water the world anti-doping agency is also way that into the scandal they've questioned the validity of the legal process against you do they. stressed the importance. of pendants from outside pressure such as the russian olympic and paralympic committee and they said they'll be writing to russian authorities for further clarification but of course this scandal goes just beyond. much wider implications. became head of risotto back in 2017. to the complex situation in light of the russian doping scandal at one point he managed to get risotto reinstated by international sporting bodies that position was later overturned with water snakes. biting them once again as well as. he is now appealing that of course. the decision is on still pending many of them. this of course this decision should be dismissed by the russian olympic committees this will heighten the tension that is a really there between russian. sporting committees and international sporting bodies meaning it could be more difficult for russia to. cooperate with authorities and ensure that russia does get a fair chance to com

world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. come back russia's olympic committee has sacked the head of the country's anti-doping agencythe committee's decision comes after an investigation exposed alleged financial violations committed by your gonna split she dies saskia taylor reports. well you will note that russian sport has. a bumpy couple of years and now another big development in the country sports world on friday it was announced that she felt the russian ante to agency over saddam as it's known has been dismissed now 56 year old europe ganis was appointed director general of that body back in august 27000 so he really hasn't been that long in the post but that said the decision didn't entirely come out of the blue given that earlier this month a recommendation for his dismissal was put forward by was solid to support today we once again look to the arguments made by the supervisory board hoods the report of the order and the general director yuri ganis have to carefully considering the arguments we decided to accept the recommendation to remove mr ganis the decision was taken unanimously so what's a lead to t