Theres no those are thats an investigation of course its ongoing it hasnt reached conclusions were all still waiting to find out the end of it but you know theres someone that saw you think that things have already not so good but then doing this list seems to have very little purpose other than just fulfilling a legal minimum with no real consequence and looks very amateur it seems you know i dont know if it will really damage any u. S. Russian ties it seems that trump is not certainly trying to make it any worse than situation already is and by doing this this just before midnight and giving it no teeth at all it seems like hes really just trying to hope a lot of this goes away and bring it all to a speedy end and sell side russian markets have said little reaction to the list too do you think a whale can do any harm to the countrys businesses. I think at the moment no i mean theres been some suggestion that maybe this was some type of attempt to meddle in russian elections that are about to happen and so on i dont think it will have any effect like that and i dont think it will have much of an effect at all if anything i think its the white house telling congress they passed this law to try to keep the pressure up on russia this concern about the last election and trump is just you know basically you know showing well you know you thought you got me in a bind you thought you were going to push something in and you really have and hes trying to kind of undermine an effort remember you know trump is somebody did not favor the bill the thought it was a bad thing when he was more or less put a difficult position in having to sign it given the situation he was in and hes also not been in favor of the sanctions that in place so theres not a president the spiritual to any of this stuff anyway he had to do this thing and hes done as little as he has to do and i think he will have absolutely no real consequence i do think the other side of it is that it has us all talking again at least the United States and elsewhere about russia the United States and the election that so trump get to the white house i think thats something that trump really does not want us talking about. And this issue continues to remain alive not least with millers investigation ongoing and i suspect it will continue until we start seeing more prosecutions from mueller tom broke thing up there on law school thank you for your time. U. S. Officials had to flee an event in the west bank city of bethlehem after an angry protesters stormed the building by when. The the. The name. Of the. Lets not get more details on the story from paulus point out what exactly happened because the folks. Oh as you saw there a group of angry Palestinian Protesters stormed a business meeting that was happening in the palestinian city of bethlehem meeting with representatives of the. Chamber of commerce and industry and a group of americans now the protesters hold up a banner condemning the recent announcement by the american President Donald Trump to recognize jerusalem as israels capital they shall to americans out and they threw tomatoes at the american delegation now the delegation itself managed to escape in vehicles that had diplomatic license plates but its still not immediately clear who they are or who they were but there are no reports of injuries now the u. S. State department has issued a statement in which it has condemned the violence it talks about intimidation and protest is and says that this meeting was part of the long term u. S. Engagement in trying to create Economic Opportunities for palestinians not the same time also on tuesday afternoon in another palestinian city of ramallah a protest took place in front of the Prime Ministers Office by a group of Palestinian Refugees who were complaining against the recent reduction of services being provided by the United Nations relief and works agency for Palestinian Refugees and all this reduction follows the announcement by the americans that they are cutting millions of dollars of funding to the organization and they are demanding that the fund the organization. And there goes a fundamental examination now again that decision came in light of the american president announcing his recognition of to receive them as israels capital he did that in the same bill last year and since then hes also said that he will move the American Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem by the end often makes to all of this has left a lasting impression here on the ground wait tensions continue to climb i see that authorities pull us lee i thank you for those details paula but well get back to off to this short break with more stories that do stay with us. Politicians do you sometimes need to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Or somehow want to be. What youd like to be press was what before three of them or ten people. Interested always in the water. There should. Weve seen that market failure many times we saw. In one thousand nine hundred ninety seven we saw it in one nine hundred eighty seven and were going to see it again probably in the very near future because the underlying design of this capital has not been modified to account for changes in technology over the past fifty sixty seventy years and we keep having these catastrophic failures. Welcome back were taking you back to our top story now the pentagon has apparently instructed the Inspector General for afghanistan a watchdog overseeing the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is in the hands of the taliban as amid a string of violence that has shaken the country recently or to discuss this further im now joined live by dr dean a rescue lecturer in middle eastern history at Redding University a doctor rescue you for joining us on the program what do you think the pentagons motive here is is it trying to cover up the fact things are going the way it wants. Well i dont think this is purely a pending means i think we have to contract denies this within nato us presence in afghanistan as well as of course the Afghan Government themselves and none of these groups are going to want to advertise the fact that. The taliban has made considerable strides in regaining territory but he gave the last year and buries evidence that this is an important element of the psychological warfare that comes with counterinsurgency campaigns like this. Our resident troubles his new strategy for afghanistan back last summer and all good stuff do you think is working any better than was gone before. Well i think certainly the taliban has responded to the announcement of more troops negatively theyve kind of made clear that theyre not going to take this incursion into afghan sovereignty line down but in general the trump sort of approach of we are going to kill terrorists rather than fight a long. Counterinsurgency campaign is historically not proven to be a very effective way of dealing with insurgency groups like the taliban i mean this is a group that now occupies or at least is contesting almost fifty percent of afghanistan so they have a considerable presence they have considerable reach within society and a brute force alone at a huge hes probably not going to cut it. Transferred but they wont talk with the taliban now has washington ever really been prepared to come to the negotiating table with the taliban. I think there have been moves towards negotiating with the taliban i think to some extent its unavoidable purely because of how significant they are as a governing force within the country certainly at the local level so. Whether or not that is publicly at meteoric knowledge or again advertised as the reality is that negotiations with the taliban are almost certainly occurring and. That is i think likely to continue. Because they dont rescue lecturer in middle eastern history Reading University thank you for your time. Well theyll be no russian flag flying either victoria thousand and eighteen Winter Olympics or paralympics in south korea thats after the International Paralympic committee upheld its a ban on to russia though it is allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months ago a similar decision was taken by the International Olympic committee despite all eyes on russia when it comes to doping allegations also something elsewhere in the world. The run up the next months winter games the issue of doping has taken the main stage once again seeing the majority of russian athletes banned and those eligible to participate forced to compete under a neutral flag and frankly at this point when you hear doping you think russia but is the problem really reserves just the one country im afraid the answer is a resigning no an investigation conducted by a group of International Researchers at two separate sporting events back in two thousand and eleven produced a rather shocking conclusion where more than two thousand and the athletes were surveyed anonymously to encourage honest answers doping abusers remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remains largely unchecked despite convent logical testing that report revealed that at the thirteenth athletics World Championships in south korea over forty percent of those competing and made it to doping in the past year and almost sixty percent at the pan arab games in doha whereas was only came back with point five percent of test as positive in south korea and three point six percent at the pan arab games needless to say that is a massive discrepancy and the other surprising thing is that the research was actually funded by wada and yet no one heard a peep out of them about the results which theyve known about for years we would note that there was a delay of nearly six years between the completion of the Data Collection and the publication of this paper due to negotiations between wada and i double a f. And subsequently between i w f and the authors regarding the authority to publish the results now it goes on to say that neither of the organizations impose restrictions on the writing of the report although im not sure how a six year delay isnt considered a restriction the president of germanys Athletics Federation for one was infuriated by the hold up banning that publication has impaired the possibility of taking important measures in the antidoping complain much of this is more than annoying you could also call it discussing the and guess what the report was actually released months ago but id bet good money that you havent heard a thing about it because for some reason it wasnt made into nonstop breaking news no probes were conducted and no bands were seen. We managed to speak to the office off that report they told us there were such indicates a doping epidemic. To International Track in the us we still made forty six per se and can be seven per cent of the athletes at these International Track meets were doping much harder than we expected our Quarterly Results is newspaper i would call it after their match i mean when youre when you were talking there how some athletes set an International Track meet are asked to remain to be doing some kind of. I think thats just years problem for athletics will be very very important to understand why do we have the difference they close over that. Is we dont know much about the athletes compliance and by compliance i mean whether or not they follow the instructions and they answer the question as to be instructed because its not what could be in play its what we have to do in the future is understanding. These three s. When they actually see that question because its a quite serious question is prohibited method you know plus the money and possibility they. Still and honestly even if they are actually dopers. Investigative journalist rick stedding believes want to avoid uncomfortable issues this was a study which of course would raise alarms with the World Antidoping Agency instead of pursuing it and doing further tests to determine the accuracy to try to verify or disprove the results of that study they simply blocked the publication so in my mind its an example of the lack of transparency and the bias and the efforts to censor. Studies and news that is problematic from their standpoint. Well be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines all three of them. Run out of the uk uploading the best out of georgia. To the concerts is preparing to perform i had to actually prepare myself to die. No sir he did what im sorry to say cursed when i asked him. As nasir. Abas you know homo boy stuff i am a clown. This country was. Really good civilization. So well see of getting. 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Readings and salutation so far and wide and across the land theres no greater waster of money than an unaccountable government saying that money isnt wasted an abuse in the private sector of course it is its just the government waste and it just it just hurts a little bit more you know that knife cuts just a little bit deeper when youre dealing with government waste because when a private Company Weighs money its generally their own that theyre wasting but want to government waste money well thats yours and mine and all of ours essentially being thrown down the proverbial six hundred dollar toilet or the twenty four Million Dollar refrigerator yes yes they really are paying twenty four million for a new big league refrigerator on air force one. From city hall to capitol hill here in the United States of america our leaders love to waste our tax dollars especially when it comes the lawsuits cover ups and settlements as the citizens of the great state of new jersey have discovered after their investigative journalist over at the Asbury Park Press revealed that quote governments across the state from the smallest towns to some of the largest cities have spent more than forty two million this decade to cover up deaths visit kill abuses and Sexual Misconduct at the hands of bad cops forty two million and thats just across the state of new jersey imagine what its like in all the other states reporters also found that more than sixty eight new Jersey Police officers are facing facing discipline more instead paid about seven hundred thousand and tax dollars to quietly ride off into the sunset. And yet. They still ask and wonder why we are and always will be watching the hawks. But you get the. Real thing its like. The bottom. Like you that i got. To. Leave the. World over the watching the harks like a robot for up and down tap and. Thats a lot of million thats a lot of millions a lot of weight and i were an incredible amount of ways i call it waste because my mind if youre paying out settlement then youre hiring bad officers just right especially valid large number i get there started i cant predict every now and again but when im forty two million thats a lot of waste and zero six zero dollars for a toilet twenty four million for a refrigerator does theres a lot theres a lot of waste. In mumbai and i think we have so much ways that the government really because i dont think so a lot of the people there really feel like they are but they didnt earn the money all they did was that one of the lection taxpayers just keep pouring a band thats kind of like what it has to say this is the thing is it seems like theres a certain sense of entitlement that happens when a lot of politicians i think you can always spot the politicians who arent in it for the right reasons theyre really Public Servants theyre serving themselves and maybe a small group of people just their constituency and really just the one percent of their constituency is that you can see it because the people who back up this kind of wasteful spending who come to that thing of saying well they feel entitled they feel entitled to fancy new curtains and their office and all that and theres a certain amount of. Theres an ethical bone in your body. I cant imagine going in as a Public Servant and being like i want to fight for a Million Dollar for a director i want this or signing off on it not quite and not questioning like i will be paying for this remember oh yeah those people that put got me elected or in this case for new jersey like whos paying for forty two million in settlement allegations of the people of new jersey of new jersey you know and thats i mean look these are allegations involving nineteen deaths one hundred thirty one injuries another misuse of power by the police so im not saying that settling with the victims of this is bad no give them the money they deserve that they brought a legit complaint but it has to eventually fall back and got to say like ok maybe were not hiring the right polies not retiring many people maybe if we look back at. The gauge it was massive it was a two year investigation they were thirty thousand pages of documents Court Filings lawsuits all of it and they and i was covering five hundred sixty five different municipalities in new jersey all intensive makes me wonder what other states have very well but wow this is a lot this is just forty two million and th