if you are. if you are that. the global chemical weapons watchdog is accused of ignoring the exit but assessment of last year's chemical incident near damascus which contradicts the body's final conclusion. outcry from liberty groups french intelligence chiefs question 3 journalists over a league telling the use of french weapons in the conflict. and an austrian province introduces some rules of behavior for refugees supposedly to help them integrate with the issue of the debate. our society used to.

multiculturalism and the islamic community developing and tied yesterday we have an issue we tragically center began addressing the issue by trying to criminalize the entirety of the most infamous. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. document seems to now calls down to on the world chemical weapons watchdogs final report into a deadly incident in the syrian city of duma last year it contradicts the o.p.c. w.'s official conclusion that toxic cylinders were dropped from the air which western governments used as evidence to blame the syrian government for the attack is all senior correspondent. this leaked document portrays a very different version of events and make no mistake judging by how in depth and

detail that was the authors the experts scientists behind this they looked at everything even simulated the physical properties of the canisters themselves the concrete roofs the rebars the steel supports and they simulated under different conditions how the canisters could have penetrated the roofs and ended up where they allegedly did end up and they came up with a lot of questions a lot of questions an inconsistency for example in one location which they apparently visited they found that the impact crater in the canister simply don't match and they think they allege that the impact crater itself was caused that prior or later date by a high explosive shell it's consistent with an explosion canister didn't explode mechanics that just fell through they also remarked that the impact crater itself the steel rebar and the canister. there would have been marks left if this thing

had fallen for hundreds of meters and penetrated through its steel supports but they found no such markings on either the roof or the canister itself. a 2nd location they found that the canister simply couldn't feed through the impact crater with the nozzle still intact that it should have broken off and there's much more many more examples inconsistency that they found but the conclusion that they drew was that the canisters were likely placed there. observations of the scene of the 2 locations together with subsequent analysis suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders will money placed it there is $2.00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft now you think these findings are incredibly important day in the face of the. official report but so far there's been no comment from the u.p.c. w. regarding what was inside these documents what. these experts found

instead we have the official narrative which completely contradicts what was in these leaked documents and the narrative that was established hours after this incident took place the chemical incident in duma where asaad was blamed of ordering helicopters to drop canisters full of chemicals on dumont civilian areas and narrative that was then used to launch an armada of cruise missiles at syria.

now the c.w. has admitted the documents were leaked which perhaps. helps you know hints at their veracity the legitimate they're also investigating how this happened they've been very quiet otherwise the documents themselves what was in the mall they said is that they looked at all versions of events the different sub investigations by different teams and compiled a final report we asked for calm. and who sent the list of questions a week ago last friday asking you p.c. wu why did you admit this why did you go for one version of events and not the other why are you now being so quiet about it why is there no comment being made so far all we've gotten is silence unfortunately but you know with the story getting traction. sometime soon professor piers robinson has

a leading member of the british academic research papers area which obtained the report says the response to the link is significant. it's very important that you easy w. not deny eat that this engineer comes movingly o.p.c. w. not deny that what they're trying to do is to create all break going between this engineering report investigation and that and we made clear that there is no good reason to accept what no sound close but only the bottom line and this is the document has been passed to us we have confirmation from multiple sources which clearly shows that there has been an investigation carried out from within the o.p.c. w. an investigation which is not found its way all to muttley into the fire and do not report which came out about

a month ago really question our question now is is what has been going on within the o.p.c. w. over the course of the last 12 months why is that the case this document has not found its way into the final i.e. c w. a right scripts have sharply criticized what they're calling an unacceptable attack on press freedom in france there's a growing that 3 journalists who need to classified subaltern page dossier on the use of french happens all yemenis. civil war could be set to face prosecution and prison time with the latest is charlotte. the question that's being asked now is press freedom under attack fronts and that question is being posed not just by journalists but also by human rights activists who are hugely unhappy about this investigation that's going on now back in april we covered a story here an artsy which was that

a number of french outlets had revealed uncovered a secretive military dossier which was allegedly showing that french weapons sold to saudi arabia will you being used on the front line in yemen a french government has always denied it but this dossier has said that the french government was made aware of this fact now as a result of that an investigation was launched by the domestic intelligence services here in france and 3 journalists were hauled in as part of that investigation to be questioned about their sources and some say to be pressurised to reveal who their sources were which is course is something we as journalists considered to be absolutely sacred well our assistant channel r.t. france has actually been speaking to one of those journalists from disclose who is now under investigation of course for we were very surprised that we were summoned because it's unusual for journalists to be treated in this way we were summoned yesterday morning for disclosing national defense secrets we were told from the

beginning that we were not there is journalists and the case would be decoupled from our role as journalists i think the freedom of speech needs to be supported by as many people as possible this is not an isolated case there would be many documented instances of intimidation especially during rallies. so why was this revelation so controversial not just because the french government according to that dossier knew that these weapons were being used by saudi arabia on the frontline in yemen it also showed how they were being used and suggested that french ships were actually be. used to blockade yemeni ports which meant that much needed medication and humanitarian assistance in terms of food was not getting to the civilians who are being hit by this war and this was been going on since 2014 it's been described by the un as the worst manmade humanitarian disaster it's seen thousands of people killed and millions of people pushed towards the brink of starvation and human rights organizations have said that in june this should be

doing this kind of work this should be revealing things like this that are going on in government the undersigned n.g.o.s consider the information on veiled by disclose and its partners to be of essential public interest the threats of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an i'm acceptable threat to press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources the fresh government has repeatedly denied that its weapons that it sells to saudi arabia are being used on the frontline in that conflict and even last week we had where surance is from president not gone that he had spoken to the government in riyadh and they had once again confirmed that that was not the case but the reality is here on the ground many people aren't seem to be believing that in fact so much so that last week saudi cargo ship was due to pick up arms from the french port of laugh it had to leave because there were protests by people who just don't want any more french

weapons to be sold to saudi arabia possibly being used to implicate the country in war crimes. the un warned this week that yemen is sliding into oblivion and has almost reached the point of no return with one child dying on average every 10 minutes rights groups say that the saudi led coalition's intervention in the conflict there has been one of the principal drivers of the humanitarian crisis most recently on thursday a series of airstrikes by riyadh and its partners hit the yemeni capital killing 6 people and injuring over 50 others the attack struck the rebel military facilities and residential neighborhoods in santa obliterating a number of homes 4 children were reportedly among the fatalities the state media quoted the coalition as saying the bombings were in retaliation for intro raids by the hoodies on society or the infrastructure and only targeted sites controlled by the militant locals so disputed those claims. we were

voices in shouting the only thing now left of the building is a column everywhere there was destruction and burst and children were shouting our neighbors were running towards us there were more strikes and other buildings nearby that help arrived and we were taken to hospital to show him how about the holy month of ramadan didn't even stop them this just didn't bother them suddenly a bomb hit the house why why us we weren't hiding anything you know we are normal simple people just look at us god will punish them their own lucky they suffer the same fate. as. they are killing us saudi arabia's yearly rate in america chasing us ad of our homes what have the people there killing done. and north austrian state has launched a divisive initiative they hope will encourage asylum seekers to integrate their being issued with a so-called 10 commandments on living in austria the list includes demands to learn the german language here to laws and respect austrian values it was thought up by

the far right freedom party which is known for its hardline stance on immigration the local minister behind it claims that it's designed to. approve integration however while all new arrivals are told to sign it there will be no in force mental penalties for noncompliance is being branded a publicist to stunt by critics who say asylum seekers to australia already have to sign a declaration which covers integration language and austrian values at the height of the european refugee crisis and 2015 just one in $1000.00 people applied for asylum in austria that's about one percent of the country's population in 2018 the government announced it would withdraw from the un global migration pact an agreement between 193 countries to cooperate on and monitor international migration we went head to head aliyah with you repin jenna's lucrative a and catfish act them he is a senior analyst at the al by and center supplanting and studies. they tried to do like the americans do you know all migrants to america are welcome but they must

integrate they do so readily of course in most cases the love of the flag above the national anthem these ideas want to be developed by the austrians but also in many other countries in europe i think the issue here is that it's targeting specifically the muslim community and i think there is a great sense of stigmatisation incrimination of obviously all together in austria i can understand why it was true i would want to you know to to set up in a place certain laws to regulate immigration it's actually it's provocative i could understand as well that the recent issue with this on the credit card is a myth that issue needs to be addressed i'm not sure that those 10 commandments would actually address anything other than further alienating a community that is actually trying to you know to integrate the best they can it's not that creates problems because part of the islamic community or the muslim

community. the things the west is responsible for many things that it's the enemy these people come in yes it we have an issue with radical islam but again we now addressing the issue by trying to criminalize the entirety of the muslim community and i think that's the problem because we're talking religious freedoms and that's an issue that you know i think worries me greatly because by if we're doing in one community is right the overriding all of our rights and i think that we need to wake up to this reality that is also a problem basically with the status of women and i'm afraid that it is clearly so with islam that the status of the women who come. it's not what it should be in worse than societies they stay home they cannot go out they don't want the language in most cases we have seen that in most european countries for decades now the we mean don't learn anything because they can't even read or write they stay home and . has been wanted so there is a problem with polygamy all these issues are in transparency and these 10

commandments you know when they say the children must go to western school and learn western values our european values and not the values of the koran we don't one quarter on the school i mean we need to understand you know people have different traditions and religious belief and that we need to the committed them to a certain extent of course i'm not saying that everyone has to bend over backwards but that being said i don't think that setting a law that criminalizes people's differences is the way to go you don't want our societies to get in in the name of multiculturalism and islamic community developing and west and that is the problem and i know it would be worried that the slower that was 3 i just set in place we only lead to further radicalization and actually end power those people who do believe in racism who do want racism to be pushed forward into the agenda because it's something that suits them and that they want to see immigration being some kind of

a grand criminal act because again they would like their country to stay the same where we live in a very global society nothing ever stays the same they simply want the people to realise that they are welcome in a country that would put their social welfare to the disposal of these markets that will welcome them so they'd shoot show gratitude it should be ingrained in them i'm just going to ask whether we should feel grateful for having been forced to flee the country in the 1st place because we have to remember that it is because western power brought war to their trade their homeland that they had to secret as well so should they feel grateful for the. welcome back in a couple of minutes after this break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to yes the world

of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. those are very. well known case. in 69 in. a very important painting and somebody from the mafia just said a few years ago they had straw and stored it in the hall. and when they wanted to pick it up it was cold because tourists had eaten it. most people manage public pension funds don't know anything about them they're just clerks that they just signs in this job they give them a bunch of money and wall street guys come around and they take them out to lunch that thomas marty is in and they sell me a bag of worms some a lot of garbage most toxic risk on wall street is sold into these troubled pension funds where it goes to die that's why the returns are so.

welcome back in the program one of the front runners in the 2020 us presidential election will fully don't his campaign on saturday says joe biden threw his hat into the ring last month several polls have put him neck and neck with veteran senator bernie sanders for the democratic party nomination but there's skepticism after the poll says prove to be wide off the mall can 2016. more explain. there has been widespread criticism of how major new media networks in the united states are reporting on the polling surrounding the presidential primary for the democratic nomination now recently of a number of media networks have come forward with polls that they say conclusively show joe biden to be the front runner ahead of bernie sanders however of people are

starting to scrutinize some of these polls for example c.n.n. is citing a poll they conducted themselves showing that joe biden is the clear front runner in a far lead ahead of bernie sanders however those who examine this poll have looked into the fact that it seems to under represent the voters under the age of 50 the age group of 18 to 49 which is a rather key voting constituency especially for bernie sanders a number of his supporters are younger people while the age group of 50 and older which tends to not favor bernie sanders a strongly is overrepresented in the result now it's also important to look at a poll put forward by m s n b c saying similar things saying that joe biden was the clear front runner let's take a look at this poll they came forward with a new poll shows just 2 percent of non white voters support to judge that is far behind joe biden and 28 percent and bernie sanders the 27 percent now this is even more questionable because those who dug into this actual poll they cited have seen

that the results are completely opposite the actual results of the poll show sanders as the front runner yet m s n b c reported it showing that joe biden was the front runner now from there many sandor supporters have dug into the fact that m s n b c is a part of the media conglomerate known as comcast and comcast chief lobbyist is none other than david cohen and david cohen the chief lobbyist for comcast the media conglomerate that owns m s n b c actually hosted fundraisers for joe biden in his home joe biden's kick off campaign fundraiser within the home of david cohen the chief lobbyist for the media can go. that owns m s n b c so many sanders supporters and others are very critical of these polls that are being presented in mainstream media in the united states now it's important to note that in the lead up to the 2016 election almost every poll showed that hillary clinton would be the clear winner of the vote however the results came in and trump was victorious the

results were trump winning winning the election so many people are questioning and have been questioning how accurate these polls from mainstream american media really are and now as we face the lead up to the democratic primary in 2020 to determine who will be the nominee for the democratic party many people are scrutinizing those polls busy and looking in and seeing kind of a bias in the lead up to the vote. apparently is now much more difficult to tell fact from fiction in reporting in the u.s. according to a new study by the rand think tank. so we end up in a situation where not only are we not sure what's true and what's not but we're not even really sure where to go to find that factual information that's cognitive bias and the way we process information we like to be right we seek out things that prove that we're right we just regard things that say that we're wrong technology changes fast and institutions change slow so schools haven't caught up in terms of providing students with the skills they need to be able to navigate that space and

then finally polarization we've alluded to it here several times in the political species but it's also important to think about social economic and demographic polarization the news in a digital age reporting sermons the coverage of 15 media outlets thing could such perilous as the new york times and the washington post major t.v. networks like c.n.n. and b c and fox are under the microscope to along with digital platforms politico breitbart and buzz feed the report suggests that from 989 to 2017 u.s. media has taken a gradual and subtle shift towards subjectivity and away from facts and analysis it says online media in particular reflects personal frames and subjective references it also claims t.v. news reporting is being replaced with opinion based shows led by pundits prize winning journalist chris hedges says the findings are justified. well i think on the cable news channels whether it's m.s.m. b. c. or c.n.n.

or fox they were actually given up on journalism. and replaced it with. reality show. you know news programs newsprint at the same time has become so in the mic. and that is the real journalism in most major cities has withered away you take for instance philadelphia live an hour from philadelphia the philadelphia inquirer was once one of the great newspapers with its own foreign correspondents and it's all gone and the internet is a kind of free for all our people get a wise deal to whatever particular political belief system or you know conspiracy theory day happen to embrace to reinforce so if you look at them specially the electronic media fact is interchangeable with opinion people believe

whatever they want to believe. it's because taken out hundreds of pages and a counseling to an israeli organization suspected of attempting to disrupt elections across the world the social network combat home affairs the archimedes group spent more than a 3 quarters of a $1000000.00 on facebook and instagram platforms to quote disseminate their content and not increase engagement with our correspondent television there. but what we know is that this has been happening for years where you have fake accounts that i'm escalating are there as a locals or as a local news outlets and they are either providing blowing information off warming part of a smear campaign regarding candidates who are standing in local elections and part of the tactic they use is to quote so caught and identified forces and leaked information now what we're hearing from facebook. is that this has affected

countries such as the latin america and numerous countries across asia and africa where we centrally but try and swishes have changed the reality on the ground facebook saying that this is an extensive israeli run political influence campaign having said that facebook has not been that forthcoming and that is largely presumably because the relationship between facebook and israel is very close facebook in the past has taken down political advertisement that are considered in distasteful inconvenient by the israeli government the head of the facebook cyber security policy had their head had this to say today removed 265 facebook instagram accounts facebook pages groups in the vern's involved in coordinated behavior this experience originated in israel and focused on the gold and gold niger and tunisia along with some activity in late in america and some of these to asia now some of

the pages boasted as many as 2 point $8000000.00 followers there were also a series of events that were advertised online but it's not clear whether or not those events actually took place more than $800000.00 is estimated to have been spent over the past 7 years on these advertisements aimed at deception and a lot of that finds its source in an israeli corporation that's called the archimedes group now we have asked the group for comment but we're still waiting to receive a response from them at the same time a lot of the people all the organizations involved have concealed their own data identities now there was a similar case with another israeli organization whose motto was to shape reality not it was forced to close its doors after it was implicated in the whole new investigation and. criticised and came under fire for possible involvement in the

donald trump presidential election so we need to wait and see how the story itself develops. new things i'll be back around 30 minutes with the update so stay with us . is donald trump's national security advisor john bolton a clear and present danger to america and the world is saber rattling in the middle east particularly against iran should concern us all we are forced to ask a fundamental question is the primary architect of trumps. what is it going to coin is magic internet the new type of digital currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor bring

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this year announced her bid for the democratic nomination for the white house it was also announced recently that williamson has qualified for the debate stage where she will join a large number of other 2020 primary hopefuls she said that america is in need of a moral and spiritual awakening what does she mean by that and where does she stand on the political and cultural issues making today's headlines let's find out as marianne williamson joins me from columbia south carolina marianne thanks so much for being here thank you so much for having me so why are you running for president . i'm running for president because i believe that the united states has swerved into swerved in such fundamental ways away from the core values of our democracy and of our deep human principles and we need at this point a serious and fundamental pattern disruption of the political and economic step.