$1000000000.00 a year prison complex gets a life where. you don't care. for your care of. the big stories the last 7 days in the u.s. democrats among protection for the whistleblower at the heart of the front page in a dramatic departure from the way other key informants have been treated. as people in india and around the world mark 150 years since the birth of mahatma gandhi seen as an icon of nonviolent resistance posters of his image and to face. celebrations. seems lashing the ok a hand gesture is apparently not so it's no branded a hate symbol and got one thing past work are in fact sacked in the u.k. in the u.s. so. you can find it ok so. when you search for the.

ok the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not. hello good afternoon live from moscow you're watching out international with our news review of the week the big stories of the last 7 days. first we start of the u.s. where the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump rumbles on and now a 2nd whistleblower is reportedly considering filing a complaint over the president's dealings with ukraine and that intelligence official is said to have more direct information the person who 1st raised the alarm democrat spearheading the probe demanding protections for the informants involved so that's a far cry from attitudes of other whistleblowers in recent years. we are now told that in this dark age of tyranny one heroic individual has spoken

up like a voice crying out in the wilderness we don't know his name or his occupation but we know that he is good i think the whistleblower did the right thing i think he followed the law every step of the way the inspector general of the intelligence community found this whistleblower complaint both credible and urgent i want to say thank you also to the whistleblower for having the courage of the bravery to come forward on behalf of the nation now not only must this gallant hero be held in the highest level of reverence but he must also be protected from any attack on him would be an attack on the american way of life from everything we know and we don't know much this is a experienced person who saw things that bothered him that's what the whole whistle ball blower statue is for and it is to protect their identity and i understand he's going to testify and we'll let the process unfold now do you remember how hillary

clinton apparently wanted to kill julian assad with a drone well let's not get lost in details but let's go over some recent whistleblowers in u.s. history. i never tortured anybody. but i'm not into prison while the tortures of the lawyers and people who were and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice i've never gained anything through what i've said publicly that i've lost everything.

we got special ops forces the dead man can leak stuff this guy is a traitor a treasonous illegally shoot the son of a. mr snowden was a patriot he is a law breaker he violated american law he violated his duties that he assumed when he took the job that he had let's look at snowden here you know some might try to should say that oh he's a great human rights crusader he is not at all like the great human rights crusaders in the past might argue that this case is different because this whistleblower didn't run to the press but simply followed standard procedure but the record seems to show that a lot of cases have whistleblowers who do follow this procedure so why jail time for some of them it turns out the law does not actually protect them from retaliation they can be fired or prosecuted so are all future whistleblowers doomed

well not quite secure backers carefully protecting whistleblowers who see wrongdoing of any kind in our government is essential so if you're a whistleblower in america take a step back look over what you have been ask yourself get this information benefit anyone powerful in america if not your official complaint will probably be ignored and if you don't shut up after that the consequences could be severe the current whistle blowers case is very different from others. the others were blowing the whistle on the system so these were real real abuses what crimes and abuses of our 4th amendment no this new whistleblower we need to put in quotes what was he reporting of course there are double standards there are standards for . those who want to put pursue their political aims using this particular was for

blower in quotes and there are other rules for people who really pose the system and its abuses. for you one of the people just mentioned in caleb's report edward snowden reacted on twitter saying it's unbelievable he said that the media isn't pressing politicians about the case of another whistleblower ex n.s.a. analyst daniel hale who's being prosecuted for lifting the lid on u.s. drone warfare programs at the same time as crucially now the democrats are making statements about supporting informants. is a big date on the calendar this last week the week that india and the world celebrated the 150th birthday of its spiritual leader and the symbol of a nation gandy on wednesday major political parties paid tribute to gandy they've even ordered officials to undertake pilgrimages walking at 15 kilometers a day in their constituencies and sleeping in villages god his legacy is recognized globally and his birthday the opera set 2nd of october celebrated worldwide is

national as a national day of nonviolence indian prime minister modi sang his praise is us. gandhi ji mahatma gandhi was an indian but he not only belong to india he stay far away from the government today in the hearts of billions of people his influence the lives of people who never met him from martin luther king jr to know some mandela. back then spearheading the indian independence movement mahatma gandhi is often referred to as father the nation throughout his life he promoted the ideology of nonviolent resistance and tolerance towards other religions and define the show cause pritish colonial rule in $147.00 but a year later gandhi was assassinated by hindu nationalists but to this day not everyone seems to be enamored of the peace and tolerance icon gandhi's poster in one northeastern city was to face with graffiti saying the traitor of the nation there are also claims that an urn containing some of his ashes was stolen the editor of news magazine india today claims the actor on the descendants of the same

hindu extremists who killed kennedy. do remember that not. and some of his associates shot. gandhi my gandhi in the your 948 the members of this not poor ram got sick group who also claimed to be hindus they have a very narrow notion of in their wisdom they want to impose some very sort of you know notions of hindu ism deep believe that mark mundanity gandhi was responsible for the partition of india they think that he was appeasing the muslim the muslim league which demanded the creation of pakistan i think such groups have been called the only marginalised and because they are marginalized therefore they carry on extremist activities so i don't see this group of this kind

of activity coming into the mainstream i see them carrying on these kind of activities once in a while. in order to stay afloat they make all kinds of extremist arguments sometimes they have even built held responsible for some amount of violence so but i don't think it's a very large group but only had this very tolerant and you know very sort of broader and at progressive notion of nationalism which i think majority indians understand and that's why such extremist groups can never become the mainstream group in the country and the you know briefly we plot the life of me again on the in a set of feature length reports on this channel for today as well you can watch the various times later or online at r.t. dot com. elite of the late but in the group group but in the dark the late but he gave

a late. late. love. if part against the british people to get innovative but didn't played me too low you can't do in their imagination. if they did leave here. the let's draw the could be of the debates gandhi could be a bad they could be a 12 year old child it could be any of these people but we need the big scar of his body because deal with wire could cause changes. on wednesday a christian doctrine the u.k. lost his legal fight against his former employer who sacked him for a fusing to use female pronouns for a transgender woman in an interview with r.t.

dr david mack with explained why he refused to back down in the disputed. there's a lot of christian i would consider it be awfully dishonest used pronouns in that way and simple deeply affected my christian walk with god and secondly as a doctor it's quite simply unscientific. unproven. that i don't know refuse to treat any patient that whatever they are they come from the question who is with a rope and be forced to do something so something which goes deep. only with a desire. to live with it but i desire not to be forced to do something that i cannot do or to david micro for britain's national health service for 26 years despite that he was subsequently sacked after a conversation with his manager during which he refused hypothetically to refer to a 6 foot tall bearded man as mother and while 'd the doctor insists his beliefs

have been discriminated an employment tribunal nonetheless ruled that his objection was incompatible with human dignity and lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgments are incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others in so far as those police form part of his wider faith his want of faith also does not satisfy the requirements of being worthy of respect in a democratic society dr mark critz says the ruling against him sets a dangerous president. i was taken off the shop floor and i was i say tara gated all the judges did i thought. about her believed in my manager are people going to be pulled off the shop floor of the national health service down interrogated about their beliefs this is really really the precedents that have been set for my case and that's that's why we're really quite shocked at the foreperson very quickly the 1st one is that you're not allowed not to leave the transgender movements maxims

the 2nd one is comparable speech the president is the belief that god made us male and female and then for sex and pronouns of mixed it's not allowable and therefore is a christian believes or christianity is not compatible with modern society or human dignity these are very big questions each one of those huge is a huge blow to. a quick developing story going into leg 2 in kansas 4 people have been killed in a shooting in kansas city in the u.s. in total 9 people shot they were here according to the city's police department seems that incident happened around 1 30 in the morning sunday morning when a gunman walked into a bar and opened fire the suspect reportedly not yet been apprehended life situation will be across it for you in the coming hours after the break here people in a french city fear for their health suspecting a cover up by officials after a blaze of the chemical factory there.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow can only really exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. the. problem in syria. became exacerbated probably because the united states and the russian federation both of them decided to deal with. allies to take care of things there are a number of opportunities there were if they were seized and there were serious attempts by moscow and washington. and i was witness to

a number of them and it could have been possible without shorten the war and would have saved a lot of lives 1st no don't. i get a major major worries for locals about what was in the smoke that went up in the edge nonetheless authorities in the french city have declared the area safe after a major blaze at a nearby chemical factory late last month. there is no risk regarding asbestos fiber in the air the results of 3 a specialist tests are available. for the best here we are in the area closest to the place of the disaster and we can see that the white swans have stayed there in their habitat and there is no trace of pollution in the water so we have physical proof that the environment and wildlife are not currently affected by the pollution

that occurred that it will further away. in an attempt to calm fears the french government even set of emergency help line but locals are still deeply concerned for their health and dispute claims by authorities that it is safe to breathe shallow depends he went. the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze a thick plume of black smoke bellowed 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 you can believe it all because of the camera mounted sight and in this case when the smoke went into the sky we don'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 so 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're 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 proportions some locals have also experienced no vomiting whilst others. complain that the top will to it's 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 the rule is 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 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 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 much from the 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 were 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 ski. while. civic leaders and hand gestures learned a theme park employee hot water at a florida in park and acted dressed as the character grew from despicable me making upside down ok symbol when posing with a 6 year old girl who's biracial and has autism while the ok and gestures recently

been recognized as a hate symbol is the problem america's anti-defamation league says that the once innocent enough science been hijacked by white supremacists even as extremists continue to use symbols that maybe years or decades old they regularly create new symbols means and slogans to express their hateful sentiments we believe law enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images which can serve as a 1st a warning sign to the presence of haters in the community or school the ok symbols white meaning was initially part of an online prank but apparently white supremacists like what they saw and then started using it nearness among them the suspected gunman in the christ church mosque shootings in new zealand your court appearance last year to a former white house staffer was accused of making the white house defenders pointed out that was unlikely because she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors so a stall in a teacup or the dangerous appropriation of everyday symbols and gestures we heard

from our guests. i think it's pretty ridiculous to label a thing like global k. or the ok symbol as a symbol of white supremacy i feel like races do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist drinking water as received in breathing air is received it's just really can of started his particular point sounds a label some of these things that have been in his new things were a very long time with or a soused hateful subversive groups the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not and you know the main point of it is like. for well it's a far it's far right movement supporting you know again far right ideologies that are

a very well known in this country to be you know florist and but my point is you know is vastly for instance and it was an indian sacred religious people in germany it's ok to put it on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an inverted this massacre and that became the symbol of nazism says and ok but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now on your phone via. device i phone you can find it ok so right now when you search for the new moji there is the equivalent to ok ok it is being used ok for a very lonesome it wasn't a couple years ago where it was some kind of troll thing happening on the internet there it became so on those because the mainstream media picked it up and i think the whole purpose of trolling campaign was to trick the mainstream media into doing it and of course now we hear that the a.b.l. is looking for here is not to label every single thing that we do say or or you

know we communicate what they are to specifically doing is trying to inform. you know people that there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used to. incite violence and crime and you know fundamentalists political ideas that put this democracy in jeopardy it is not i hate symbol it is a n.s.a. thing if people want to use it for whatever you want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions. like. versus the ok so i think i was not a hate symbol i'm still it was. an indian use a daily thing all can ensure that stockley changing times for an ex-pro grahams coming up some 30 minutes to keep you up to speed on what counts as shooting approach you know and also bring you the big news stories of the last 7 days as well more of them for now for me kevin allen thanks for watching.

what politicians do listen to them. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the 43 of them will be good. i'm interested always in the water in the house. you know world of big partisan movies 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. in $24.00 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous. is it still here. with video it's really in the new bill is that are you still a needle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of $24.00 g. . even this did over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these another goal that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. clone

welcome to worlds apart the formation of a constitutional committee for syria has been billed as a sign of hope for the long suffering syrian people the people's hopes for peace were dashed too many times over the last 8 years is there any reason to believe that this time around things will be different well to discuss that i'm now joined by rounds as our dean of ramsi former deputy special envoy of the un secretary-general for syria mr rounds it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for inviting me now you step down from based post a few months ago but i'm sure emotionally and professional you still care about

what's going on in syria given the scale. loaf suffering given the scale of divisions how significant or insignificant is this latest development aren't we all sort of overselling the whole that is there well 1st let me say that i remain of course very much attached and as you said emotionally involved with syria this is the 1st this is the reason why i took the job 1st with the u.n. to try to help bring about a settlement would to meet the aspirations syrian people you know coming from the region being injured should i think you and your audience will understand that now the constitutional committee i look at it as a milestone in the very long process in bringing about a peaceful settlement peaceful and political settlement in syria. it is something that we've been working for as you know for some time i've said it before no suit again i think we could have had it earlier it will help syrians as you

know the go to the opposition but also independents to put their minds together and work out. a new constitutional framework you know i think. i'm sure you know that there have been a number of internationally mediated efforts to resolve this conflict since 2011 and some of them failed because of the breakout citron of the syrian actors many a well at least some of them because of the positions of foreign powers what has changed on the ground to give you this faint hope that you just articulated though it's may lead to something beyond talks well 1st of all i mean you refer to the situation in. the world of the war is certainly warranted and i think people are tired in syria and beyond and i think this is. a mechanism that

allows the syrians to get together and do something about now. positions have changed and i told you i mean we could have had an agreement or your call and why it's happening now because positions have changed has the positions how the positions changed within syria or is it the stance of foreign partners or foreign sponsors affair insides that have well. as you know the syrian. conflict has 3 levels was the international there's a regional and of course there is a good message local. positions have changed both of the regional and of the international. in the sense that at some point there were countries that did not see much meaning towards a constitutional committee i think that is.