RT News - November 07, 2017 (17:00 MSK)

Breaking news here on RT. The International Olympic Committee calls reports in the New York Times that the Russian national anthem will be banned at the 2018 Winter Olympics - 'premature speculation'. Revelations about the offshore tax avoidance and money-making schemes of the super-rich become a goldmine for the media - with many publications rooting out, and focusing on, links to Russia. NATO is set to agree on increasing troop numbers for training missions in Afghanistan - the move would bring the total number of alliance service personnel to 16-thousand in the country.