The official title of the 169 athletes who have arrived to compete in this months Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in south korea as so called neutral athletes. It is a result of last yea rs neutral athletes. It is a result of last Years International Olympic Committee ban on russia that followed a long investigation into what they concluded was an unprecedented systematic manipulation of the anti doping system at the 2014 sochi Winter Olympics. A whistleblower from the head of the anti doping laboratory in russia revealed how dirty samples had been swapped for clean ones. But today the court of arbitration for sport has reopened the issue, upholding 28 appeals and partially upholding 28 appeals and partially upholding the remaining 11. The arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence moved forward by the ioc in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case. This does not mean that these 28 athletes are declared innocent, but in that case due to insufficien
Of her visit to china, and her officials are trumpeting the nearly 13 million worth of deals they expect to be signed during the trip. Theresa may has agreed a joint trade and investment review with china. Its the first step to what she says will be an ambitious trade deal post brexit although the recently lea ked Civil Service forecasts on brexit suggest a china trade deal would be of only limited benefit to the uks gdp. President xi jinping has said chinas markets will be opened further to the uk. And the two leaders also discussed north korea, protecting the environment, and, more controversially, human rights and democracy. Live, now, to shanghai, and our correspondent robin brant. This report from laura kuenssberg. Watch what i do, not what others say. Theresa may wants you to judge her actions, not her critics words. Taking tea with her husband and one of the most powerful men in the world. Lapsang souchong, no less. Maybe thats what they drink in numberten. Herjourney of thousan
And london, this is bbc world news live. It was back newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 8 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 00 in the evening in washington, where the seat of the Us Government is buzzing with anticipation about the controversial memo about the fbi. Its understood the report, which is thought to claim the agency effectively spied on one of Donald Trumps staff during the president ial campaign, will be made public on friday. The fbi is understood to preparing an extremely rare public rebuttal. The final say on publication remains with mr trump. He has remained tight lipped, even when reporters were shouting questions at him as he left the white house. At the heart of the memo is understood to be the claim that the fbi was working in a way which favoured the democrats. Senior democrat adam schiff says hes worried the republicans are trying to engineer a way of weakening the Robert Mueller investigation into alleged russian interference in the president ial el
A home made wooden sled. Cool running the exploits of the jamaican mens team at the calgary olympics in 1988 inspired a hollywood movie. Comparisons are inevitable. Its really honourable, to say the least, that 30 years later people are still singing their praises, and to say that we are along that same path of what people consider to be legendary is really humbling and its an honour to receive. Just over a year ago, seun recruited two team mates who take it in turns to sit behind the driver. They knew nothing about the sport and its risks. After going to whistler, thats the fastest track in the world, it was like, ok, this sport is actually pretty dangerous. You know, like people can get seriously hurt. Behind all the excitement, the fun, the global exposure, is a group of women who have no desire to be considered a novelty act. Rank outsiders, yes, but they also want to be taken seriously in their bid to set a new benchmark for africa at the Winter Olympics. People didnt think we had
The president was pretty tight lipped when pressed about the document by reporters today. The fbi pleaded with the white house not to release the memo. In a rare move, the agency went public on wednesday, saying it has grave concerns about the documents accuracy. The memo was commissioned by this man, devin nunes, the chair of the house intelligence committee. Today, the minority leader in the house, the democrat nancy pelosi, called on mr nunes to resign. The democrats fear it will be used to smear swipe robert mueller, the man running the inquiry into alleged russian collusion with trumps election campaign. Heres democrat adam schiff. This is not about the facts, this is about a narrative that the chairman wants to put out, a misleading narrative, to undermine the fbi, undermine the department and ultimately undermine bob mueller. Of course, the danger in all this, besides the obvious one of politicising the intelligence process, is that it sends a message to the white house that he