speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see you then. you can smell the air it's probably it's a bit like rotting eggs but with chemical tinge people in the french 30 of rwanda are demanding the truth from the or thora tees off that massive fire at a local chemical factory there were officially since it is safe to breathe. you can talk to any form but when you have any type of contact with the smoke it's dangerous i have 2 kids and they were impacted by the smell and my grades i think there is a risk for college and i can feel it after making headlines across the us a schoolgirl apologizes for fabricating a story this year with attacks by white classmates we look at a pattern of hoax report. and a scientific journal has withdrawn

a study challenging the claim that the syrian government was to blame for an alleged chemical attack in 2017 i thought the article attracted fierce anti i thought criticism. very well welcome you're watching r t international with mina karan the top story this hour paper in the french this year ruan are demanding the truth from the off already they fear there's been a cover up after a major fire at a nearby chemicals found tree with the locals not believing officials who say the air is safe to breathe artie's solid dubinsky reports. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze a sick plume of black smoke billowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames.

in the dark goodies with i'm not saying that the smell isn't pleasant i'm just telling you what the results of the tests are namely that the air is not harmful since then there has been growing anger over what some say is a 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 camera mounted sight and in this case when the smoke went into the sky we didn't know what was in it we don't know exactly what is in the year and we worry a lot that in the future it might bring cancer or something else. i have 4 kids and

they were impacted by the smell and my grades i thought about having tests done before was with absolutely no information about what we should be looking for i could take blood samples but what are you going to tell them to look for i know they could be cancer thyroid problems but the problem is that we hear lots of rumors nothing concrete. i think there is a risk for health and i can feel it because i have a need to throw it and i'm continuously coffee we worried about the how to march children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around the rule some people are also taking that a proportion some locals have also experienced nor. vomiting whilst others have complained that the tap water is black and then there is 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 clearly 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 produces dioxins are measured in memory grams and there are a problem for us because they become highly concentrated in milk and the toxic so they render it unfit for consumption it is vital for us to know as soon as possible whether there are any dioxins in those burning materials what's going on he would tell us what to do with our produce so that you don't let my advise even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns. the impact could be even the line reaching frags to vosa being released for the health of the police and the firefighters who were on duty during the fire protests like this have now formed to pressure the authorities to outline any risks they make space they demanding

answers but are afraid that even if they receive and that the danger is as a result of that place may not have made for months or even years from now challenge even ski altie who will environmental activists trying phase we're on is now the most dangerous city to begin in front. i think the government prioritizing the work of the plant rather than the safety of citizens and official earlier told us that there was nothing to worry about and the everyone was not toxic and he continues to pacifiers 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 hazardous chemicals the other part has far more dangerous substances which could have burned it did not pass the only argument that the earth or receipts used to reassure us but actually the damaged

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 plant i think now we want is the most dangerous french to be in but i hope we will be able to cope. the dutch government says it won't be complying with the new e.u. rules after farm offended on the hay contract of brussels wants to see restrictions on livestock farming to protect the environment and the 2000 farmers took part in the motorized stunt police say they made 3 arrests and tried to parade cause tailbacks stretching over a 1000 kilometers despite the government caving into their demands the farmers still aren't happy. so i ask for more appreciation from civilians and from politicians because in ireland it's like everything that goes. on farmers there are 2000 over 2000 here in the

neighborhood only the mayor of the hague wouldn't let them in the mayor. would only let 75 directors in but farmers are clever so took other ways. the mayor didn't think of. trying to protest is on going to hate matt paulina cricket has expressed concern that there may be thankfully issues she's convened a meeting to see if any action needs to be taken. now young african-american girl who claimed she was attacked by white schoolmates has issued an apology and i thought the story made national headlines across the u.s. and over tractions raise questions about the trend in hoax reports of these house was a crime so verandas that everyone was talking about it a young african-american woman held down as 3 white guys cut her dreadlocks and

insulted her where were ministry where were any body to protect her from this heinous crime the tears in the eyes of the grandparents came from the righteous outrage now questioning the claims of a crying girl is not a good look for anyone especially the media which most americans already hold disdain for but maybe they should have well it turns out the incident never happened her grandparents have written an apology to those young boys and their parents we sincerely apologize for the pain and exhausted see these allegations of cools down to the administrators and families of manual christian school we have sorry for the damage this incident has done to trust within the school family and the undue scorn it has brought to the school to the broader community who rallied in such passionate support for adults and we apologize for betraying your trust now of course actual hate crimes do happen we can recall how recently there was a high school wrestling referee in new jersey who forced

a black athlete to cut his dreadlocks he was shamed in front of the audience outrage was everywhere but we see another disturbing trend in us society that's people faking hate crimes against themselves in order to get media attention and sympathy who can forget just a small let could only go off with their words. i mean. so is. this maggot country. all those celebrities who rallied around just this once case and filled the airwaves with their outrage and indignation well they look pretty bad now remember that crowd of high school boys from kentucky were shown in a video wearing trump pats and confronting an elderly native american veteran remember how it turned out that he had actually walked up to them and that the boys had already been met with a tirade of anti white slurs from the nearby black hebrew israelites named the skates i want names shame them if you think this wouldn't docs you know hard be

think again or his question how do you have a scene and will push will face in this kids with the overall crime rate in the united states on the decline actual hate crimes are increasing and that's what makes these hoaxes so vile it feeds into the idea that actual victims of actual racist atrocities shouldn't be taken seriously if you fortunate thing is you go do sometimes he performs do it for and when they do occur i think did this kind of a hoax does a disservice to the victims of legitimate hate crimes when something like this happens you know it's going to make it harder let's say for the next victim to be believed you know because there's so many instances of these types of hoaxes popping up i think that a lot of you know editors quite frankly have lost their soul you know especially now in america strong they're always just looking for the most sensational story the story the piece that will see this dark is and you know most negative picture

of america unfortunately it seems like we have a lot of self hatred in the american mainstream media nowadays. british prime minister boris johnson will unveil his final brag sit proposal within the next few hours while giving a speech of the conservative party's daniel conference in manchester this comes a day off but he dismissed leaked claims that there will be. the so-called hard border in ireland he described the details that appeared in irish media as quote not quite right there ledge there would be a string of customs posts along the border and the introduction of a simplified stickler ration process raising concerns among irish officials island's relationship with the e.u. customs union has been a subject of intense debate throughout regular negotiations and doris johnson in 50 checks will have to be in place whatever the outcome 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 been scared of for my history professor at the london school of economics told us johnson has his poker face on. playing his cards very close says chess this mystery surrounding not only the proposals for a deal but also mr concerning what will happen of the isn't going to be a deal and who will get out and not signing not not asking for an extension on the surface a victory over there isn't a deal he says he won't he druther with then the ditch and 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 i'm afraid boris's leaving things to the last minute as far as communicating his intentions either to the british public or indeed to the e.u.

. meanwhile the brags that party politicians evoked famous state environmental environmentalists gretta fung by a power during his speech at the un climate action summits to attack on tiebreaks that parliamentarians. this is the wrong i should be built i should be back at my smoke house on the other side of london. you have stolen my dreams. my household goods. with your empty words how dare you. it's all wrong. i shouldn't be apia. i should be back in school on the other side of the ocean you've still got my dreams my childhood just what you want and

you birds can talk about money you can just turn economic growth how did you. oh for goodness sake 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 it i'll bring this out as definite proof that they are wrong. these these what passes for brilliance in the regs it's. taking the out of a teenager mocking what they fear she's really got under your skin isn't she a canadian universities come under fire for an advertising campaign appearing to endorse climate change will be back with the details of that sound out of stories

off to the short break. 70 years ago this week china started down the path of communist rule over the past 2 decades china has emerged or rather really emerged as a leading world power rivaling the us the communist party can write police claim a string of stunning successes but challenges remain what's next for china's extraordinary revolution. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back a scientific journal that specializes in arms control has withdrawn a study costing doubt on the claim that the syrian government was to blame for the alleged chemical attack in 2017 they also pointed out inconsistency is in the official version of events and came under intense criticism 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 siren attack on concha khun 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 hunch a hoon attack in 2017 it all went something like this

a former pentagon employee mit professor ted postol together with respected scientists conducted a study u.s. presidential candidate gathered mentions it on her campaign web site 13th september belling cat noted anti asaad web site blasts the study science and global says it will publish it anyway and will judge it on narrative 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 in 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 recruiter 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 are the loudest voices of condemnation is coming from elliot higgins founder of belling cat and opponent of everything a 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 well the opi slow your dogs he doesn't agree with you well that are they lying might be foolish i think there is aid to address the technical point in my instead of citing nonsense because i showed that none of the forensic evidence fit

the findings you need to show that what i'm saying is technically inaccurate i took your research in hex i mean i gave it was someone he said 40 years of experience as a chemistry expert i'm not interested in other people you claim are experts i want to know why that is not it's not in place the full debate is up on dr postals you tube channel but his study will be appearing on science and global security anytime soon it seems twisted criticism has won the day to day where science is told to shut up because it's inconvenient its 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 but 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 unknowns the ones we don't know we don't know excuse me but is this an unknown unknown. i'm not several unknown's that i'm just what i'm noticing and i'm not going to say which it is the search you know we might hear you going to 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 journalist rick sterling says that the withdrawal of the article 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 nonscientific people what's sad is that a 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. canadian universities facing backlash over not that they created it appears to endorse climate change the message on the billboard in west edmonton states that changing conditions could ultimately benefit the growth of bali crop resulting in

better conditions for livestock farming but it's all part of a wider ad campaign by the university of alberta called truth matters in which they highlight research to quote encourage discussion in this instance they've drawn from a paper by one of their professes looking at the impacts of climate change and i'll bet it is barley production but the person behind the billboards resigned after admitting she took the finding out of context. the research highlighted by the ad does not promote climate change as a benefit nor 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 bali is the 4th largest crop in canada and is able to withstand droughts with alberta accounting for half of the country's production critics of the university's billboard campaign say it oversimplifies and misrepresents scientific research and then that looking

like a promotion of global warming there you go now the question is has the damage been done how many burtons 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 i 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 and clearly there are certain industries and certain regions which do indeed stand have been. womankind most what is of course completely wrong is any i do. global warming all global heating people increase in corn it confers benefits as a hope there are lots of new circulating on solutions media which are trying to do

precisely that to build useful. global warming. and that's why so many people who are supposed. to be simply not accept any many people including global leaders who do believe time you certainly say they. completely accept the science of climate change and yet they refuse to do anything much about it joining us there on r.t. international we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines with events. i'm gonna be in by north and so many people because

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a round the experimentation field for agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.