i'm going this year it's like. the scientific journal has withdrawn a study challenging the claim that the syrian government was to blame for an alleged chemical attack in $27.00 t.v. after the article attracted fears that anti assad criticism. people in the french city everyone are demanding the truth from the old clarities off to a massive fire at the local chemicals factory the officials insist it is safe to breed. and the race for the us presidency collides with the trump impeachment inquiry as a candidate for his job calls out to her opponents for capitalizing off the probe and both sides profit in the process.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r c international with mina caring. for a scientific journal that specializes in arms control has pulled a study challenging the claim that the syrian government was to blame for an alleged chemical attack in 2017 it pointed out inconsistent season the official version of events but was withdrawn when it came under intense criticism from our galaxy of explains. where the sun revolves around us or us around it where the earth is flat who is god is greater or more recently whether we should question why every chemical attack in syria would magically gets blamed on the government the syrian government committed chemical weapons acts against their own people it is highly likely that the regime was responsible for a star an attack on conscious assad rita rita the violations of the cease fire

and the violence through be to be perpetrated by heeds armed forces on civilians now usually science is the answer it is resolved some of our biggest arguments but this question seems to have a strumpet science and global security respected journal based out of princeton university decided not to publish a study that questioned the official version of events that assad's government was behind the harm she hoon attack in 2017 it all went something like this a former pentagon employee mit professor ted postol together with a respected scientists conducted a study belling cat noted anti asaad website blasts the study science a global says it will publish it anyway and will judge it on narrow it soon after the journal now says it's canceling the publication is why officially.

these questions included concerns about the technical merits of the analysis in this article as well as the value of publishing the article given the sensitive and contested issue of the use of chemical weapons in syria yet it is take these masses very seriously this review identified a number of issues with the peer review and revision process strange isn't it that no questions about the veracity of the study were asked when it was submitted or when it was given the green light for publishing concerns only appeared when belling cat and its followers attacked the study and the people behind it we've asked the journal for comment but no clear answer yet then again as statement may have said it all sensitive and contested issue that caused your mind back to 2017 within 2 days of the alleged chemical attack america declared it knew

everything there was to know on tuesday syrian dictator bashar. launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric. attack and so trump ordered a barrel of cruise missiles to be launched at syria now any doubt about as ads to mattick guilt would make the missile strike a war crime or an international war crime which could be why the scientists behind the study of facing such intense pressure abuse even and surprisingly were the loudest voices of condemnation is coming from elliot higgins founder of belling cat and opponent of everything as sad is website which he likes to call an

investigative outlet has received funding from u.s. government run operations mr higgins is a rabid supporter of the official pentagon line he is debating the issue with dr post or ryan saying matter so was it and miles when i made that your training and i recently in. a published reports that you now retract it was a scientific report the full debate is up on dr postals you tube channel but his study will be appearing on science and global security anytime soon seems twitted criticism has won the day to day where science is told to shut up because it's inconvenient it's former us secretary of defense famously explained there are some things you just don't know you don't know. there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations where there

are known knowns serious things we know we know and we also know there are unknown unknown that is to say we know there are some things we do not know but there are also unknown unknown the ones we don't know we don't know excuse me but is this in the no no. i'm not several on bones and i'm just what i'm noticing and i'm not going to say which is the search you know we might hear if you ever hear the irony is sometimes those unknown noons preferable it's better for america in this case for bending cats if no one knows what happened and they what investigative janet as rick stylings that the withdrawal of the altar call has nothing to do with science and everything to do with politics. the article was authored by 7 scientists who are experts in the field they ruled out the fact that. that it was definitely something that could only have been caused

by a bomb drop from the from the air it was respected to analyzing the hole in the ground and modeling whether it 122 millimeter. projectile missile could have caused that and they determined that it could have caused the criticisms mostly have come from non scientific people what is the journal that supposed to be dedicated to scientific inquiry and that is supposed to be dedicated to disarmament and arms control is apparently being bullied or allowing itself to be bullied into political censorship and bias. people in the french city of ruin are demanding the truth from your thorazine i fear there's been a cover up off to a major fire at

a nearby chemical factory with locals not believing officials who say the a safe to breathe so it depends can reports. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze afic plume of black smoke billowed into the sky it's fine to fight his battles almost 24 hours against the flames. since then there has been growing anger over what some say isn't lack of information over what was put into not fire and the impact that could have on people's health. you can talk to any. firemen but when you have any type of contact with the smoke it's dangerous it can be lethal because of the carbon monoxide and in this case when the smoke went into the sky we didn't know what was in it was we

don't know exactly what is in the year and we don't realize that in the future it might bring cancer or something else. i have 4 kids and they were impacted by the smell and migrates i thought about having a test done before was with absolutely no information about what we should be looking for so you said i could take blood samples but what are you going to tell them to look for i know they could be cancer problems but the problem is that we. miss nothing. i think there is a risk for our health and i can feel it because i have an interest throat and i'm continuously coughing we're worried about the how come our children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around some people who take that question some really cool samples experienced nor vomiting whilst others have complained that the tap water is black and then their ways the stench you can smell that the air is foul it's a bit like rotting eggs but with

a chemical tinge and despite the initial denials that there was no health risk the french health minister has admitted that it's completely polluted. it is a factory that produces hydrocarbons even if not in large volumes it is never good for the population to come across these kinds of products i cannot say that there is no danger the city is clearly polluted several schools were closed off to the fire and though some have attempted to reopen many teachers are refusing to return to work. colleagues from schools near lubrizol who have refused to work until they receive information about what was burnt and the risk because they are just a few 100 metres away from the site they did so to protect their health and that of the children who are under their responsibility and that's why there has been a demand that the original school 30 acknowledged their right not to have children attend school under this condition. while health concerns are immediate what's

perhaps most telling about the danger people here are facing is the fact that food sales from 100 districts around ruin have been banned any produce that may have been exposed to contamination has to be destroyed that even includes milk. hybrid carrots and work closely with milk producers dioxins are measured in memory grams and there are a problem for us because they become highly concentrated in milk and toxic so they render it unfit for consumption it is vital for us to know as soon especially whether there are any dioxins in those burning materials what's going on who tell us what to do with our produce so much from that fire has even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be even the way to reaching flags have also been raised for the health of the police and the firefighters who are on duty doing the fire protests like this have now formed to

pressure the authorities to outline any risks they make face they demanding answers but are afraid that even if they recede. even though the danger is as a result of that place may not have made for months or even years from now challenge even ski r.t. well. despite locals fears for their health officials are arguments to be at is safe to breathe in the city. i'm not saying that the smell isn't pleasant i'm just telling you what the results of the tests namely that the is not harmful. there is no evidence of any risk related to the smoking room and the air quality in ruin is normal so we have a normal situation here in the urban environment with one exception which is the site itself where there is the presence of been seen. i think the

government prioritizing the work of the plant rather than the safety of citizens an official earlier told is that there was nothing to worry about i mean everyone was not toxic and he continues to pacifiers that without giving any scientific data to back up his claims and then we hear the interior minister saying the same thing again without any confirmation the officials based their conclusions on the farther lubrizol plant which does not contain so many hostages chemicals the other part has far more dangerous substances which could have burnt but did not pass the only argument that the authorities used to reassure us but actually the damage part also included a whole range of harmful chemicals so it's possible that they were released into the air since the cloud is now above belgium the air there should be tested for certain substances which were found near the plants i think now we want is the most dangerous french city to be in but i hope we will be able to cope. with this prime minister boris johnson will submit his final brags that proposal to the e.u.

within the next few hours a day after his government was forced to deny claims it will push for hard border an island based on leaked reports in a document number 10 is claimed to have proposed a drink of customs posed so long both sides of the border as an alternative to an actual physical border and other measure would be the introduction of a simplified customs declaration process and it is that to remain adamant that northern ireland should not be part of the e.u. use customs union the alleged plan has drawn a rebuke from irish officials but boris johnson insists checks will have to be in place whatever the outcome of brics it. that's just the reality and i think that what we're coming up to now is as it were the critical moment to choice when i when the u.k. withdraws from the e.u. that must be the state of affairs that we have a little scared emeritus professor of international history at the london school of

economics believes johns that is being cryptic on purpose about his brags that plans. spinning his cards very close this mystery surrounding not only the proposals for a deal but also mr concerning what will happen if the isn't going to be a deal and i will get to not signing no not asking for an extension on the 1st of october if there isn't a deal he says he won't draw with then the did under no circumstances would he ask for an extension that apparently will break the surrender bill the bill would be illegal but you know rumor is go where on that so. even things last minute as far as communicating his intentions either to the british public or indeed to the you. when we want to break that party i mean pay has taken a leaf out of the book of the famous teen environmentalists gretta fun book by

evoking one of the more notable speeches to attack on tiebreaks that parliamentarians. this is the wrong i shouldn't be here i should be back at my smoke house on the other side of london. you have stolen my dreams my. my adult goods. with your empty words how dare you. this is all wrong. i shouldn't be up here. i should be back in school on the other side of the ocean but still in my dreams my child who does what you want and. what you can talk about is money game of this term economic

growth. how did you. overuse the sake of something seriously wrong when you have to attack a child in this way. when people on the right try to claim to have a sense of humor and can do comedy i'll bring this out as definite proof that they are wrong. because these what passes for brilliance in the brags of plants. grown men taking the sound of a teenager mocking what they fear she's really going under your skin isn't she coming up alberta university's vice president has resigned over a billboard with a message about climate change a story and more after this break. seems

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a canadian universities facing backlash over billboards seem to promote climate change as after research about crop farming was used out of context and now the person behind it has resigned. the research highlighted by the does not promote climate change as a benefit moore was demeaning intended by the ad however public response has made clear that the advertisements wording fails to communicate the meaning and complexity of the research allowing for easy misinterpretation the billboard was part of wider of a wider advertising campaign by the university called truth matters and which they

highlight research to quote tackle challenges and encourage discussion in this instance they used a study by the university showing certain climate conditions boosting barly growth and they're accused of presenting a leading statement out of context and bali is the 4th largest crop in canada it's resistant to water shortages and albertz are accounts for half of canada's production critics of the odds say it belittles the climate change issue. there you go now the question is has the damage been done how many burdens are going to use beefier barley as a justification for poor conservation practices university of alberta wants you to know that climate genocide will also have some bright spots by beefier bollywood's in alberta to feed cattle with thinking about what the communication superstars the came up with the illiterates of masterpiece beefier barley are doing today. clearly

there are certain industries and certain regions which do indeed stand. womankind most what is of course completely wrong is any idea of. global warming all. people increasingly call it confers benefits as a hope there are lots of. circulate you on social media which are trying to do precisely that to be useful. and that why so many. supposed. to be simply not accept any many people including global leaders who do believe crime certainly say that. completely except the science of crime. and yet they refuse to do much about it. as an impeachment inquiry into donald trump rumbles on

a contender for his job in the 2020 us presidential race has called out her opponents on some of their tactics. candidates for president who are fundraise nothing pietschmann and are undermining credibility of inquiring eyes of american people further dividing our already fractured country please stop we need responsible patriotic leaders who put the interests of our country before their own that i'm across reportedly received nearly $9000000.00 in donations in just 2 days last week which amounts to their biggest spike in fund raising efforts in recent months and despite their differences republicans and democrats seem to be profiting equally off the probe after the impeachment posts within just 2 days the republican national committee received $8500000.00 in donations that's the biggest hole yet since the campaign for launching in june the impeachment inquiry came last week amid claims trampoline down ukraine's president to investigate his 2020 rival joe biden all of exchange for u.s.

support for care we spoke with west benedicts the executive director of the libertarian national committee he told us nobody is interested in conducting a credible investigation. democrats have so now fundraising even almost trying to raise money off the impeachment. scandal and also of course republicans are doing it as well and i think it does undermine the investigation but to be honest i don't think anybody cares about doing a credible investigation during this impeachment process mostly republicans and democrats just want to score points against each other and try and raise money for their campaigns and try and get themselves elected i don't think democrats really care if the impeachment succeeds but then they have something they can talk about on their campaigns and say how bad trump is and say donate for us for president and donate for democrats for u.s. senate ultimately it's the politicians who benefit and it's the american people and

often the rest of the world who. is hurt by this impeachment effort. thank you teasing out international this morning we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines with you that. it would involve them for for the on the cover the out of the cold war you are the sort of one among one of them. a product and maybe way too high is not the high i might have the be one.

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