russia's envoy to the un that uses the global chemical weapons watchdog are becoming highly politicized after a leaked document appears to contradict the o.p.c. probe into a chemical attack in syria. french intelligence chiefs a question of 3 journalists over a leaked a dossier detailing the use of french weapons in the saudi bombing of the young. and an austrian province introduces some rules of conduct for refugees supposedly to help them integrate we put the issue up for debate. the slow about 3 i just said someplace that we want to leave lead to further. those people. it's not. because part of the muslim community thinks that the west is of

responsible for many things and we. are broadcasting live from our studios moscow this is our g international. with. a leaked document has cast a doubt on the global chemical weapons watchdogs report on a deadly incident in syria last year it contradicts the o.p.c. w.'s official conclusion that toxic cylinders were dropped from the air on the city of duma western governments use those findings to blame the syrian government russia's ambassador to the united nations responded to the new leak saying it raises questions about the work of the o.p.c. . we are trying to get the o.p.c. to be back on track because it has diverged from its path and used to be a technical body where consensus prevailed but it has become highly politicized we want it to return to the way it was originally artie's and what i got to have has

more on the latest revelations and how they change the picture of what happened in duma last year. this alleged leaked documents came from the u.b.c. w. it was it was one of the documents of fact finding little investigations that was entirely emitted from the report and this 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 fit through the impact crater with the nozzle still intact that it should have broken off and there's much more many more examples in consistency that they found but the conclusion that they drew was that the canisters were likely placed their observations of the scene of the 2

locations together with subsequent analyses suggest that there is a higher. probability that both cylinders were money placed if there is 2 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft you'd think these findings are incredibly important day in the face of the u.p.c. w.'s 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 comment we sent

a list of questions a week ago last friday asking the p.c. w. you know why did you. please why did you go for one version of events and not the other why are you now being so quiet about that why is there no comment being made so far all we've gotten is silence unfortunately but you know with the story getting traction and so for some time soon. professor pierce robinson who is a leading member of a british academic research group on syria which obtained of the reports of the o.p.c. w.'s response to the leak is significant it's very important that you easy w. not deny eat that this engineer report comes move in the o.p.c. don't leave and are denied that what they're trying to do is to create all break don't link between this engineering report and investigation and that we make clear

untruth now that there is no good reason to accept what the sound face value 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 might leak 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 and why is the case this document has not found its way into the final e.c. w. 3 reporters in france are facing possible jail time for leaking a dossier on the use of french weapons in the saudi bombing of yemen the case has raised deep concerns over press freedom as artist port. the question that's being

asked now is press freedom under attack 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 r.t. which was that a number of french outlets had revealed and 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 of 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 cordless 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 have been 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 being used to blockade yemeni ports which meant that much needed medication and to monetary assistance into. the food was not

getting to the civilians who are being hit by this war and this one has 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 and governments the undersigned n.g.o.s consider the information unveiled by disclose and its partners to be of essential public interest the threats of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an unacceptable 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 michel 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 ont seem to be believing that in fact so much so that last week saudi called the ship was due to pick up from the french quarter 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 u.n. warned of 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 the saudi bombing campaign has been ongoing for 4 years and the latest airstrikes killed 6 people including 4 children and injured more than 60 in this according to local media the raids struck rebel military facilities and residential neighborhoods in the capital sanaa obliterating a number of homes saudi state media said the bombings were in retaliation for drone

raids by the hutus on saudi oil in for. structure and only targeted sites controlled by militants locals though have disputed those claims. we would to voices and shouting the only thing the left of the building is a call in every way there was destruction and i dos 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. the holy month of ramadan didn't even stop them this just didn't both of them suddenly a bomb hit the house why why us we weren't hiding anything in our home we were normal simple people just look at us god will punish them i hope their own lucky they suffer the same fate. saying they are killing us saudi arabia the emulates in america chasing us ad of our homes what have the people there killing done. in north austrian province has issued some rules of conduct for refugees with the title 10 commandments on living in austria requires migrants to learn the german

language and respect austrian values among other things it was drawn up by the right wing freedom party supposedly with the aim of helping people to integrate but it does not include penalties for noncompliance the move has been branded a publicity stunt by critics who say asylum seekers in austria already have to sign a declaration which covers integration language and austrian values. at the height of the european refugee crisis in 2015 almost 90000 people applied for asylum in australia this is equivalent to one percent of the country's population the influx sparked widespread public opposition and in 2018 the government pulled out of the un global migration pact we heard some opposing views on the way australia is dealing with refugees from media commentator lucrative a and political analyst catherine shutdown. they tried to do like the americans do you know microphones to america are welcome but they must integrate they do so readily you 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 or 2 laws to regulate immigration it's actually it's prohibitive 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 alienate ng community that is actually trying to you know to integrate the best they can it's islam that creates problems because part of the islamic community or the muslim community. the things that 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 generically 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 rightly 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 saw with islam that the status of the women who come. it's not what it should be in western 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 they're. 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 learn

that western values are european values and not the values of the koran we don't one quarter and exclusively we need to understand you know people have different traditions in 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 the islamic community developing and west inductors 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 they want to see immigration being some kind of a grand criminal act because again they would like their country to stay the same

but 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 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 the western powers want to their own tree their homeland that they had to secret as well so should they feel grateful for the. former us vice president joe biden will officially launches a campaign for the 2020 election on saturday and several polls put him neck and neck with senator bernie sanders for the democratic party nomination but those polls have been widely questioned as artie's killer martin explains. there has been wide. spread 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 new poll shows just 2 percent of nonwhite 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 sanders 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 cullen the chief lobbyist for the media conglomerate 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 elections 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. if you study has pointed to some alarming trends in the us media landscape a researcher from the rand think tank summed up the findings. 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 out 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 disregard 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 and we've alluded to it here several times in the political space but it's also important to think about social economic endeavor graphic polarization the news in a digital age report examines the coverage of 15 media outlets including the new york times and the washington post t.v. networks c.n.n. n.b.c. and fox are also under the spotlight along with the digital platforms politico right board and buzz feed and the report suggests that since 1989 the us media has taken a gradual and subtle shift toward subjectivity and away from facts and analysis it says online media reflects a personal frames and subjective references that also claims t.v. news reporting is being replaced with opinion based shows led by pundit journalist chris hedges says the findings are accurate. i think on the cable news channels

whether it's imus n.b.c. or c.n.n. or fox they've actually given up on journalism. and replaced it with. reality show. you know news programs newsprint at the same time has become so anemic. that 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 now and the internet is a kind of free for all. or people get a wise deal to whatever particular political belief system or you know conspiracy theory did they happen to embrace their reinforce so if you look at the

especially the electronic media fact is interchangeable with opinion people believe whatever they want to believe. facebook has taken down hundreds of pages in a counseling to to an israeli organization suspected of attempting to disrupt elections across the world or he's possibly reports now from tel aviv. well what we know is that this has been happening for years where you have fake accounts that are messed grading are there as the locals or as local news outlets and they are either providing blowing information off forming part of a smear campaign regarding candidates who are standing in local elections and part of the tactic they use is to quote so-called and identified sources 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 and events 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. now some of the pages boasted as many as $2800000.00 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 8 $100000.00 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 or the organizations involved have concealed their own 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 investigation and it was criticized 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. the french president will meet the libyan rebel commander calling

for half time next week as part of efforts to renew peace talks in the war torn country you know it's been came after the general met the italian prime minister for crisis talks in rome on thursday after those forces control large parts of libya and since early april they have been waging an offensive against the u.s. backed government in tripoli fighting is continuing around the libyan capital so far it has killed more than 430 people libya has been split between warring factions since the toppling of moammar gadhafi 8 years ago in the middle east specialist told us calling for after wants to reunite the country but is unlikely to succeed his son to be very very hard. to get in libya because libya is a country with a lot of tribes their real power in libya has been held by these different tribes and it was the one who could control this tribes and you have a lot of militias general half their feelings he can get in one piece he's going to

be like the 2.0 and he can get back to libya in one piece but a piece is not going to happen because you have all the people from syria all the terrorists from this kid who has fled from syria and iraq and afghanistan that are fighting in libya so pete. it is going to be very very hard to get for for either of the party either prime minister if their eyes you are backed by the u.n. are a half hour who is backed by western countries and the united states. a new natural gas pipeline being built from russia to germany has passed a key milestone 50 percent of nord stream 2 has now been completed we gained exclusive access to one of the vessels laying the pipeline along the baltic sea but take a look. but the seas somewhere in between in helsinki and say petersburg and i have a valve to show you something that could cause a real scuffle between germany and its european coach and the us it is

a real gas pipes to get to the ship. this is where the real estate the project is born right here. the heartbeat of the ship it's like she was just this gentleman controls the pieces the folds the kings the roof. what made the solitaire 5 point facile real technological marvel and the fact that you are here right all morning. to find thanks to how to

be protected well and have. just imagine you are a real shopaholic you love going to all kinds of the stores but they're not handing out comes out what you do is you swipe look for the best things push the button and your ship then is ready so probably you're going to change your shopping habits a little bit but what if someone forces you not to do it this is probably not a perfect analogy but it does explain what's happening with the north's $32.00 projects if you will not supplying someone else will but in the end you have to still would only get. just because we decided to have a guess where this project is really low in washington they want american companies to sell liquefied natural gas to europe and send it there on ships and america has

literally been bowling europe with all kinds of rights the american ambassador in germany put on president pressure on local companies sending out letters to them and just recently at raf bill has been opposed to the u.s. senate suggesting that companies and individuals working on the one strain could have their absence frozen and they could be receiving travel bans to the us can i do by the computer to do a job and if so why do we all need guns. it has to come from somewhere when you hear these kind of things are you ever worried or do you ever think about it. to be honest the throwing of the finger both busy of the way to fight all of the world. political deal shouldn't really come in at the end of the day we've all got a job to go but no matter what there you have it what's probably going to be long to get the strengths.