and a very warm welcome to you you're watching us. but in a putin says of russia will interfere in the 2020 us presidential election but don't hold your breath it's only a joke basically it could be secretly yes we will indeed do that so we can chew you will please don't tell anybody ok. tell us the truth that's the police from locals in the french city or rwanda after a massive fire at a chemical factory amid fears of a cover up over the threat to their health. and a scientific journal withdraws a study challenging the claim the syrian government was to blame for a chemical attack in 2017 this is after the article attractive. criticism of these

rapidly video wait see spoke to the author of the research. i was accused of being . biased toward the assad regime from not biased toward your side which you might just think we ought to understand what. other thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. russia fully intends to meddle in next year's u.s. presidential election that was the tongue in cheek responsibility of putin and answer to a question about moscow's plans for the coming race for the white house is russia. alleged attempting to influence the 2020 lections united states psychiatrist. secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you up tripoli's you don't

tell anybody ok well that's quite a statement coming from the russian president but you have to take it with a pinch of salt because he was obviously joking but on a more serious note he was addressing probably what might be come out in russia as did his career we have volumes to see now after all the numerous investigations that we've seen into russia's alleged meddling in the us presidential elections back in 2016 all the media hype that we've seen in the past 2 years pretty much every single quarter someone screamed that it was russia that meddled in the us presidential elections russian meddling in the u.s. election in russia did it matter in the 2016 election the united states to still vulnerable to russian and political interference russia's blatant interference in the united states 2016 presidential elections this is actually the croton central. if you think about it do you have any don't rush in the future. is driven by.

no doubt about. the same sort of. an almost 4 years since donald trump has been elected there was a number of different investigations conducted by the american intelligence agencies the moola reported that maybe had planes and many other articles that were written to prove the existence of the hounds of the kremlin behind the american elections but moscow has always said that it never meddled in putting all joking aside lattimer put in has once again stressed that. you know somebody's going to want to you know we have plenty of problems we could all reference into resolving them to do. above everything else didn't prove that we colluded with president trump in $26.00 themes but expressed fears that it more is happening in the future this is ridiculous or rather it would be if it wasn't so sad because all that we

see in the us internal politics is about destroying toys between our countries and i'm certain that holmes the us itself has. people in the french city of ruin all demanding the truth after a major fire as a nearby chemical factory they fear a cover up and dispute claims by the authorities the air was safe to breathe dubin ski has more. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze afic plume of black smoke bellowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames.

in the dark good into the 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. 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. here you can talk to any foreign land but when you have any type of contact with the smoke it's dangerous it can be lethal because of the camera man excited 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 but for once with absolutely no information about what we should be looking for so that i could take blood samples but what are you going to tell them to look for i know they could be can find problems but the problem is that we hear lots of rumors

nothing concrete. i think there is a risk for our health and i can feel it because i have a need to throw it out and i'm continuously coffee we're worried about the how come our children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around rule some people are taking that proportions suddenly you cool simple so experienced. vomiting whilst others have complained that the tap water is black and then their ways the stench you can smell 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 modern 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 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 worked 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 as possible whether there are any dioxins in those burning materials what's going on he would term us what to do with our produce so much on the fly advice even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be even the lying to reaching the flags have also been raised for the health of the police and the firefighters who are on duty during 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 image for months or even years from now charlotte even. while. french police have gathered on the streets of paris

as part of a strike known as the national march of anger it's the 1st police strike since 2000 the one the offices are demanding the authorities improve working and paying conditions but he faced increasing accusations of brutality but that's why they've been coming under attack themselves to the yellow vest protests the police complain of chronic overwork outdated equipment as well as prison reforms of the special police pension system there's also been a sharp rise in offices suicides with around 50 taking their lives this year against 35 last year we have demonstrators about their demands. of the 3 today the police have no money yet salaries keep calling our status and our pension are being attacked officers are tired with the yellow vest movement there is a lot of work sacrificing their family life and we are expressing a deep depression in our profession or the home here to defend our working

conditions the threat to our special status the lack of resources across the board . we are the police officers from all fronts not just riot police but also misses all the unions we've all gathered to express our discontent with the administration the silence about the wave of police suicides this year we are short of stop short of money we cannot do our job and here to tell the administration that. a scientific journal that specializes in arms control has withdrawn a study that casts doubt on claims the syrian government was behind a chemical attack in 2017 in the town of consequence the author of the report a retired mit professor told r.t. to put the video agency claims of an accuracies in the study were groundless. this article that my colleagues and i are publishing has come under attack and the very interesting thing about this attack is that nobody who has any technical expertise

has provided any criticisms at all the criticisms are all from people who have no technical expertise and the criticisms have to do with strange arguments for example i was accused of being. biased toward the assad regime well i'm not biased toward the assad regime i just think that we ought to understand what happened here the only thing that matters is is this article technically correct this is a science based journal and if there's any technical errors in it then they need to point them out because there they have they've actually in several conversations said they are not aware of any technical errors so the problem seems to be that there are accusations being made from the outside which have no scientific merit that it appears has caused them to take pause if i suppose those articles pointed

out inconsistent sees in the official version of events but it's come under intense criticism i guess the if 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 be 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 hunchy who in 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 website 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 were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric. attack and so trump ordered a barrel of cruise missiles to be launched that syria now any doubt about as adds 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 a face in 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 that 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 dog doesn't agree with you well that are they lying like a baby for i think there is aid to address the technical points in my instead of being 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 unknown the ones we don't know we don't know excuse me but is this in the no no no. i'm not several on loans and i'm just what i'm noticing and i'm not going to say which it is because the search is going to remain here if you're 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 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. a deep political crisis is continuing to play out in peru with demonstrations held on an almost daily basis both for and against the president and that's is the head of state in the parliamentary loga heads with each other. tensions have surged after president martin vickery dissolved congress for failing 'd to support his anti corruption reforms the parliament which consists mainly of opposition parties then voted to remove the president from office appointing the vice president as the new leader. meanwhile the us embassy in

peru issued a statement. though it is choosing to remain somewhat neutral. washington supports peru's democratic institutions and continues to work as its partner in democracy. let's bring in a guest and joined on the line now by francisco is a former u.n. officer and political analyst i love to speak to francisco 1st of all what she was cesspit of what is happening in peru just how that. much of a concern is it. i think higher how are you thank you very much for going to me i think this is a remnant of the for you morry dictatorship i mean the 20 years between 1982 south and didn't leave a proper. political structure i mean mentored politically and i think it has never recovered from the original reply times in this instance how

money interferes in politics i mean the political system improves corruption so that's all i mean and secondly show us that these are very deep crisis of the liberal state or liberal democracy as such in the sense that in peru it hasn't been after food you morry you know. i would say constitutional process allows really people who do you know in a very serious terms i'm sorry to say that you know this of today reflects exactly this political crisis of the liberalism i hope to buy it in a real society. i mean it used some very for. my view in the sense that for you morry the strong institutions you know deeply into the army deeply into the political structure so i think these are the ghosts of which you

morry. into politico scenario where you know the spectrum in. if you can see him i mean the attitude usa just keep because of. finale who says that the united states doesn't trust what he goes through in the army media to portrait of his car and he's supported in a very good situation and manner because the constitution allows the parliament it under the army is allowed so we have a defacto now it was shipped by b. sky or is would be my opinion. do you have any concerns about outside influence we saw how washington stepped in and got involved in venezuela do you think there's a danger we could see the same in peru. yes both areas are eagerly independent

one with the great man i mean in venezuela biggest the upper upper crest of the south continent of south america strategic we should be an american land i mean i'm good same here who do you respect live in atlanta and the kids through the same because the japanese factor i mean peru is another reminder independent run in the united states i mean you know the state would never do scans we've been. with the rule we would never have allowed you know full independence photo knowing through i mean a lack of garment which was a kind of socialist leaning document in the seventy's you know it was immediately. a struggle by the state department so peru because the japanese stock remember harbel i mean in that case i mean we know we are holding the national police

that there is concede interested teehee going to the usa a very very key area in south america so the involvement of the comparison is a rudely. possible in the sense that what they have done why don't all they're doing it with this car and not in the sense that i mean they're supporting. this i guess reporting 2 viewpoints that coincide with if you believe the state department or cheese scour ice on tomorrow it's time to run it on to russia and china it's it said their side just wants one so to me. i mean this is the usa is operating with its key elements of american supremacy it's very all pretty messy very. so francisco if we if we look at the situation

with the public for example in venezuela they seem to be kind of split down the middle between which side they supported the acquitted a horrible situation people have been fleeing the country looking for a better life outside what is it like with the public in how stable unstable is the situation. where you are saying that. people are protesting. us. i mean their protest in a given car because this car you know very arbitrary manner you know tried to solve it will be to go to take me inside the parliament because he saw that he didn't have the power to continue governing so. you are pretty right i mean people are not supporting this current and now people are feeling threatened by this pressure of usa with the military and military to support this kind of

people protesting that you have been because whether you don't have this kind of the wall street. i mean i mean it is very clear francisco pleasure to speak to you thanks for your time francisco my guest former u.n. officer and political analyst. living on french police are being accused of turning a blind eye to human trafficking across the english channel an undercover investigation that by a british radio station also claims french officers may even have been aiding people smugglers in their efforts to get migrants to u.k. sure shadi edwards daschle has the story. well we all know that the migrant crisis is far from over even though of course scenes of boats traveling from france the u.k. are becoming much less and less frequent but according to an undercover report by l.p.c. an alleged people smuggler is claiming that the french authorities are even helping

him and his team sneak migrants across the channel here so really you could be the police police here it is for the border of course because. don't go from 6 little girls will be there this is business to the front all day you saw all the film the secret filming by l b c all of the alleged people smuggler the man in charge of that in france who goes by the name for rukh and us the video goes on he seems to be explaining that the french authorities are advising him and his team when is best to attempt a crossing and when it is best to hold back potentially possibly because they themselves have inside information as to when the u.k. border force is in operation and patrolling the channels so that in that report it seems out best the french authorities are turning a blind eye but out was actively engaging and helping that whole operation that there was something that the french police very mentally didn't know i mean well

then the home office here in britain is saying that the french counterparts with british operations have this joint plan of action and says the 2 have a very close working relationship. crime groups behind the legal terms to cross the channel or putting the lives of people in serious danger for their own financial gain we are determined to put a stop to this illegal activity well according to this undercover report it's apparently known that up to $7000.00 pounds of being charged to those people that want to go towards the united kingdom it's understood that for a group he himself has led. up to $400.00 people across the channel the ring is said to be in operation in london birmingham and of course there in france now a follow up report says that for it is very 8 or 9 himself any involvement in all of these allegations now last month we know that the home secretary prita patel met

with the french counterparts to discuss this joint action plan to stop vessels from attempting any crossing across the english channel and just today she then advocated tighter border controls. and finally the ukraine has seen a 2nd day of demonstrations in several cities across the country holding protests to the new government agreeing to the formula that makes concessions over restive regions in the country. some demonstrators gathered in front of the presidential office in the capital and the special document was adopted during a meeting of contact with the crisis in the region the area special status and allows it to hold elections many supporters of the new government claim it's a capitulation and retreat after the newly elected president's rhetoric about taking those disputed. wrap things up for this hour join me for

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