the international olympic committee is launching an appeal at a tribunals in switzerland to maintain doping bans on dozens of russian athletes and the i.o.c. is challenging a february ruling from the court of arbitration for sport back then c.a.'s overturned a decision to ban twenty eight russian athletes for life for alleged doping violations during the winter olympic games in sochi now the court deemed the evidence against them insufficient and reinstated the athletes medals law professor that's you a son of a believes in the i c o o's challenge is purely symbolic logic do you do you see you the goal of the international olympic committee is more political and legal in nature it wants to send a message and make it clear that it stands against these cas rulings which reduced sanctions against russia on fleets and i wanted to fight to the end to see these rulings in a lot of committee knows perfectly well that it has very little chance of success for the cast verdicts which is now being disputed will more or less favorable to thirty nine russian athletes they're extremely detailed up

the international olympic committee is launching an appeal at a tribunal in switzerland to maintain doping bans on dozens of russian athlete the i.o.c. is challenging a february ruling from the court of arbitration for sport back then c.a.'s overturned a decision to ban twenty eight russian athletes for life for alleged. doping violations during winter olympic games in sochi the court deemed the evidence against them insufficient and reinstated the athletes medals law professor matt teo massy on of the move believes the i c o o's challenge is purely symbolic. do you say you know the goal of the international olympic committee is more political than legal in nature it wants to send a message make it clear that it stands against these cas rulings which reduced sanctions against russia now fleet's now wants to fight till the end to see these rulings in a lot. committee knows perfectly well that it has very little chance of success for the cast verdicts which are now being disputed will more or less favorable to thirty nine russian athletes they're extremely detailed up to one hundred sixty pa

do you see you the goal of the international olympic committee is more political than legal in nature it wants to send a message make it clear that it stands against these classrooms we should use sanctions against russia now fleet's now wants to fight to the end to see these rulings in a lot of committee knows perfectly well that it has very little chance of success for the cast verdicts which is now being disputed it will more or less favorable to thirty nine russian athletes they're extremely detailed up to one hundred sixty pages long and when you read them you can see that they're puffy reasoned and thirty documented it would be very difficult to find any legal arguments against them so i think that the i.o.c. is actions the most in bulletin legal proof. the u.s. is considering whether to halt funding for a controversial syrian rescue group called the white helmets the organization's leader leaders claimed that the move would impact their ability to save lives and the u.s. state department told r.t. that is actively reviewing assistance programs its spokes person added that washi

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olympic committee and the areonal governing body engaging in their own internal investigat >> i understand we are moving forward and learning from past failures so they can build a system that works. i hope the center for safe sports located in the heart of my congressional district can go forward. it also has the extraordinarily important task of developing anti- abuse policies and developing outreach. i hope the center will be able to make real and verifiable progress in created a national culture and safety. i have concerns whether this has sufficient resources and if it has the independence it needs. i spoke yesterday with safe sport. i want to make sure we have formal on-site assessments. i want to make sure the olympic community and sporting community is committed to giving them what they need. the olympic committee is not operating on a shoestring. it's annual revenue is hundreds of millions of dollars. i hope we won here that safe sport needs more money. we are prepared to increase substantially the support to this much-needed watchdog. i want to know how the center for safe sport

i understand that use olympic committee and the national governing bodies are engaging in the own internal investigations into what went wrong. i hope everyone today is prepared to explain exactly what they're doing to investigate and learn from past failures so that they can build a system that works. i also hope the center for safesport, which is located right in the heart of my congressional district, can help us explain how the past failures inform its work. because the sender doesn't just investigate misconduct allegations, although that is an important part of the job. it also has the extraordinarily important task of developing anti-abuse policies and providing education and outreach to promote safe environment for athletes. i hope the center will be able to make real or viable progress in creating a national culture of safety and sport. but i've got to say that i have concerns about whether safesport has sufficient resources, and whether it truly has the independence it needs from organizations it overseas. i spoke yesterday with safesport, and i want to make sure that we have form

olympic athletes. the discussions about the politics of venezuela of the center for strategic and international studies. >> next, sexual abuse of olympic athletes. the acting ceo of the u.s. olympic committee apologized to athletes who are sexually abused by their coaches and doctors. she discussed reforms put in place and how it investigates sexual abuse allegations. the heads of usa gymnast

international outreach to china, south korea for the olympics into the united states. he has already met with secretary pompeo, cia director and secretary of state, already traveled to their twice as a senior military official, he is also under u.s. sanctions for his suspected involvement in north korea's nuclear program, the deadly attack on south korean shipment in 2012 and several other complications. the u.s. negotiating team is still in a militarized zone between north and south korea. they are continuing preparations for the summit between president trump and kim jong un. the white house and says other administration officials are in singapore and communicating the logistics of this expected summit. experts say they are still on target for june 12 and trying to target june 12 even after the president threatens last week to scrap this. the u.s. and north korea are working on logistics like were specifically to have this, travel arrangements, but then there's also the substance of negotiating with discussions about how north korea is going to surrender its nuclear

olympic committee and the areonal governing body engaging in their own internal investigations into what went wrong. hope everyone today is prepared to explain exactly what they're doing to investigate and from past failures so they can build a system that works. the center for safesport, which is located right in the heart of my congressional district, can help us explain how past failures inform its work because the center doesn't just investigate allegations, although that's an important part of their job. the extraordinarily important task of developing and-abuse policies providing education and outreach to promote safe environments for athletes. the center will be able verifiablel, progress in creating a national culture of safety in sport but to say that i have concerns about whether safesport sufficient resources and whether it truly has the needs from the organizations it oversees. yesterday with safesport and i want to make sure that we assessmentsoutside of safesport's needs and operations and i want to make olympic community and the sporting community also them theted to fifth

olympic committee and the national governing body are engaging in their own internal investigations into what went wrong. i hope everyone today is prepared to explain exactly what they're doing to investigate and learn from past failures so they can build a system that works. i also hope the center for safesport, which is located right in the heart of my congressional district, can help us explain how past failures inform its work because the center doesn't just investigate misconduct allegations, although that's an important part of their job. it also has the extraordinarily important task of developing anti-abuse policies and providing education and outreach to promote safe environments for athletes. i hope the center will be able to make real, verifiable progress in creating a national culture of safety in sport but i've got to say that i have concerns about whether safesport has sufficient resources and whether it truly has the independence it needs from the organizations it oversees. i spoke yesterday with safesport and i want to make sure that we have formal outside assessments of

olympic committee and the national governing bodies are engaging in their own internal investigations into what went wrong. i hope everyone today is prepared to explain exactly what they are doing to investigate and learn from past failures so that they can build a system that works. i also hope the center for safe sport, which is located right in the heart of my congressional district, can help us explain how the past failures inform its work because the center doesn't just investigate misconduct allegations, although that's an important part of their job. it also has the extraordinarily important task of developing anti-abuse policies and providing education and outreach to promote safe environments for athletes. i hope that the center will be able to make real verifiable progress in creating a national culture of safety in sport. but i've got to say that i have concerns about whether safe sport has sufficient resources and whether it truly has the independence it needs from the organizations it oversees. i spoke yesterday with safe sport, and i want to make sure that we we have for