in the us democrats to mount protection for the whistleblower of the trump impeachment inquiry and a dramatic departure from the other key informants have been treated. as people in india and around the 150 years since the birth of the scene as an icon of resistance posters of his image a defaced in some regions celebration. flashing the ok hand gesture is apparently not ok anymore it's now branded a hate symbol. of the sack in the u.s. it's also fired up debate. you can find it ok so. when you search for. the problem the symbol has become an actual code say hey we are part of this group

you are. and that means we're taking you through some of the biggest stories covered right here over the past 7 days before we get on to that we got a developing story to update you on this hour 4 people have been killed in a shooting in kansas city in the u.s. 5 others were wounded in the incident believed to be in a stable condition that's according to the latest we've got from the city's all thora sees events unfolded at around 1 30 am on sunday morning when a gunman walked into a bar and opened fire detectives are currently working at the scene collecting evidence from surveillance video the suspects is reportedly an hispanic male who is thought to still be. next day we can stay in the u.s. where the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump rumbles on and now

a 2nd whistle blower is reportedly considering filing a complaint over the president's dealings with ukraine and valid in teligent official is said to have more direct information on the person who 1st raised the alarm meanwhile democrats spearheading the probe are demanding protections for the informants involved so that's a far cry from the attitudes of other whistleblowers in recent years caleb maupin reports. we are now told that in this dark age of trumping 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 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 and the 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 heading to 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 from what i've said publicly that i lost everything. we had special ops forces the dead man can leak stuff this guy is a traitor a treasonous illegally shoot. 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 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

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 whistleblower in quotes and there are other rules for people who really oppose the system and its abuses. one of the people just mentioning caleb's reported snowden's reacted on twitter saying it's unbelievable that the media isn't pressing politicians about the case of another whistleblower former n.s.a. analyst daniel hailed who's being prosecuted for lifting the lid on u.s. drone warfare programs at a time when democrats are making statements about supporting informants.

this week india and the world celebrated the 150th birthday of the spiritual leader the symbol of the nation by gandhi on wednesday major political parties paid tribute to gandy they even ordered officials to undertake pilgrimages walking up to 15 kilometers a day in their constituencies and sleeping in the villages and his legacy is recognised globally and his birthday the 2nd of october is celebrated a worldwide is the international day of nonviolence the indian prime minister sang his praises of thinking when. mahatma gandhi was an indian but he not only belong to india he stays far away from the government but reigns 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 the father of the nation throughout his life he promoted the ideology of nonviolent resistance and tolerance towards other religions india finally shook off

british colonial rule in $147.00 but a year later gandhi was assassinated by undue nationalist but not everyone seems to be enamored of the peace and tolerance icon gandhi's poster in one northeastern city was defaced with graffiti saying the traitor of the nation but also claims this with some of his ashes was stolen the editor of the news magazine india today blames the act on the descendants of the same hand of a mist who killed gandy. do remember that not. and some of his associates shot. gandhi my gandhi in the you're 1948 the members of this not poor sick group who also claim to be hindus they have a very narrow notion of in their wisdom they want to impose some very sort of. hindu ism do you believe that martin. gandhi 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 totally marginalized 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 bill that held responsible for some amount of violence so but i don't think it's a very large group but and they had this very tolerant and you know very sort of broadened and progress a 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

letting it away trace the life of mahatma gandhi in a set of feature length reports on this channel throughout today you can also watch it online at r.t. dot com. eco lane but it will include group but in the top down big like but. in a game. like. eat. you fought against the british people to get in a bit but didn't played. too low you came during their imagination. if they didn't leave here. the next door you could be over the place down the could be a bad you could be a 12 year old child it could be any of these people but we need the big sky which is pretty cool because deals are required because changeable.

seemingly innocent hand gesture has landed a theme park employee and hot water in florida an actor dressed as the character grew from despicable me made an upside down ok symbol when i was in with a 6 year old girl who's biracial and has autism the ok and yes she has recently been recognized as a hate simple america's anti defamation league says that the wants innocent enough sign has been hijacked by white supremacist. even as extremists continue to use symbols that maybe years or decades old they regularly create new symbols memes and slogans to express their headful 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 power meeting was initially part of an online prank but apparently white

supremacists liked what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the suspected gunman in the christ church mosque shootings in new zealand during a court appearance. last year a former white house employee was accused of making the white power sign but her defenders pointed out that that was unlikely because she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors so a storm in a teacup all the dangerous appropriation of everyday symbols and gestures we put it up for discussion. 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 very well known in this country to be you know florists and but my point is you know is vastly out for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b.c. and you know. people in germany took it put it on a red flag and now it was there a symbol it was an inverted this mass ago and that became the symbol of nazism and it nazism 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 loans and 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. or you know we communicate what they are specifically doing is trying to inform you know people that there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used to. actually inside to violence and crime and you know fundamentalist political ideas that put this democracy in jeopardy it is not simple it is in a seething if people want to use it for whatever you want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flake is absurd ok millions. like.

verses do ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. you know whole can ensure that. ahead more of the big stories we brought you from the week just gone a toxic scare after a massive fire at a french chemical factory locals are really worried we'll tell you why. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. scary dramatic development the only thing i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

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again more of the week's news ahead we're going to developments this sunday to tell you about 1st though russia's embassy in the united states has sent a note of protest to the state department after a russian politician got an hours questioning by the f.b.i. on arrival at a new york airport overnight across this force is correspondent. sounds intense this what happened. well there's very little information on this as the story has just come to light as you said the russian foreign ministry reported on sunday that a member of the russian parliament. was detained at the airport in new york this week now she described how she was led into a separate room while documents were taken away from her and how for around an hour she was questioned by an f.b.i. agent some of the questions as described by the russian ambassador to the u.s. would describe does unclear or indeed unacceptable what makes this quite curious is that often this interaction the f.b.i.

agent suggested to you mushmouth that they go to a more informal setting a coffee shop in fact seemingly to continue the conversation now you must have said she informed russian authorities immediately after the incident and she's not going to provide any further comment on it and she's going to leave it up to diplomats really to get to the bottom of the issue just a bit of background on this you must have is a crude nature for relations with the u.s. congress she was actually traveling and her professional capacity on a visit to something called the forum for ross somewhat ironically given it is a press conference dedicated to improving dialogue between russia and the u.s. in moscow the russian foreign ministry has voiced its disappointment over the situation calling it a hostile acts that can only to us and ties between the 2 countries and indeed it noted that if the situation were reversed that would undoubtedly be a great outcry from washington so at the moment that's all that's really clear to

us but indeed a somewhat strange and disappointing occurrence especially given the new mushy self over the past years has done a great deal to develop and stabilize ties between russia and the u.s. thanks to those pretty as ever it seems like for the correspondents ask you to thank you. a major fire and major worries for locals about what was in the smoke that went up into the air during it nonetheless the authorities in the french city of rule 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 now 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 effected by the pollution that

occurred or that all further away. in an attempt to calm fears the french government even set up an emergency helpline but locals are still deeply concerned for their health and dispute claims by the authorities that the every safe to breathe. 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 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 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 before 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 worried about the health of our

children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around the rule some people are also taking that. some locals have also experienced. vomiting whilst others. complain 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 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 talk sick so they render it unfit for consumption it is vital for us to know. 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 advise even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be eve. in the radio preaching flags to vosa being raise for the health of the police and the firefighters who were on during the fire at protests like this have now formed to pressure the authorities to outline any risks they may face they demanding answers but are afraid that even if they receive them that the danger is as a result of that place may not a message for months or even years from now challenge even ski altie through all. violence sadness and fantasy these are just some of the things you might expect to see when you visit an art gallery but london's britain museum has deemed a warning necessary for

a new exhibition of 19th century drawings by william blake so you have been warned brace yourself cover your eyes were about to take a look. never ever ever we need to see the visions of people's minds not how we'd like to lose it they seem. to miss very very easily upon the world we live in you know we're not interested in going to the gallery of everything. julian but here to see you again . i think you've got generations of religious grounds give them something. and i suppose i would have issues if there is a bit of sexual violence against women or anything like that have been invited to

take. the bad press some expensive considered by you to be inappropriate we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of all by open of it peter paul rubens. ok that's it for this edition of the whately up next the challenges and emotions of working in a graveyard especially when it's the biggest and oldest in the world. in

a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream 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 truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. paradise with some around turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritant there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up

locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people 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 racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. live

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