in the us democrats protection for the whistleblower at the heart of the trial. and a dramatic departure from the other key informants have been treated. around the world 150 years since the birth of mahatma gandhi. celebrations. flashing the ok hand gesture is apparently not always ok it's now branded a hate symbol. in the u.s. it's also fired up debate here. when you search for.

the problem the symbol has become. a hey we are part of this group. and that means we're taking you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days we're going to start in the united states where the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump 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 than 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 attitudes to other whistleblowers in recent years and reports. 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 and 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 through what i've said publicly that i've lost everything.

we've got special ops forces the dead man can't leaks that 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

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 reports edward snowden has 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 mchale daniel hale sorry he'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 around the world celebrated the 150th birthday of its spiritual leader the symbol of the nation mahatma gandhi on wednesday major political parties paid tribute to gandy even ordered officials to undertake pilgrimages walking up to 15 kilometers a day of their constituencies and sleeping in villages and his legacy is recognised globally and his birthday the 2nd of october is celebrated worldwide as the international day of nonviolence the indian prime minister sang his praises at the un. mahatma gandhi was an indian but he not

only belong to india he stays far away from the government but raincy day in the hearts of billions of people has 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 with 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 but he later gandhi was assassinated by hindu nationalists but not everyone seems to be enamored with the peace and tolerance icon gandhi's poster of one northeastern city with defaced with graffiti saying the traitor of the nation are also claims that an urn with some of his ashes was stolen the editor of news magazine in india today blames the act on the descendants of the same hindu extremists who killed gandy. do remember that not too long.

and some of his associates shot. down the gun the in the your 1948 the members of this not too damn good sic 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. notion of hindu ism do you believe that. the gandhi was. is 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 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 broadened 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 and letting you know we're tracing the life of mahatma gandhi in a set of feature length reports on this channel today part one is on air next hour you can also watch it online right now at r.t. dot com. he looked ok but it leaked all on group group but in the mixed up and down the lake but in a game they call it a group. eat love. you fought against the british people to get

in event but did inflate mileage me too low became too in their imagination. to know if they didn't leave here. the next door they could be of them with the biggest gun the could be a man they could be a 12 year old child it could be any of these people but we need the big scar which is very important because deals are required because changeable. a seemingly innocent hand gesture has landed a theme park employee in hot water in florida an actor dressed as the character group from despicable me made an upside down ok symbol when posing with a 6 year old girl who is by russia racial and has autism the ok hand gestures recently been recognized as

a hate symbol america's anti-defamation league says that they want 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. ok symbols white power meaning 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 and last year a former white house employee was accused of making the white power sign but her defenders pointed out that was unlikely because she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors so i was told to take up all the dangerous appropriation of every day symbols and gestures we put up for discussion. because

pretty ridiculous to label things like global or the ok symbol as a symbol of white supremacy races do do certain things i mean at a certain point they do everything in 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 certain his particular point sounds a little some of these beings that have been in his new things were very low with. 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 this is. 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 fluorescent but my point is you

know for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b.c. and you know some people in germany it's ok to put on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an invert the swastika and that became the symbol of nazism ok ok. you can find it right now on your phone. 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 long time it wasn't a couple years ago were some kind of troll thing happening on the internet then it became some nose because the mainstream media picked it up and i think the whole purpose of the 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 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 insight to 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 they want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions. like. verses do ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. an indian. whole can ensure that although it's not the. this is also you had more of the big stories we brought you from the week just gone including a toxic ascared after a massive fire at a french chemical factory locals are really worried we'll tell you why after the

break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. in syria how it started and became exacerbated is probably because the united states and the russian federation both of them decided to deal with it at an arm's length they allowed the regional allies to take care of things there are a number of opportunities there were if they were seized and there were really serious attempts by moscow in washington to solve the problem and i was witness to

a number of them and it could have been possible and with a short in the war would have saved a lot of lives there's no doubt. i'll come back a major fire and major worries for locals about what was in the smoke that's went up into the edge of ringgit nonetheless the authorities in the french city of rome 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. 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 habitats 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 to the other way. and an attempt to calm fears the french government set up an emergency helpline but locals are still deeply concerned for their health and dispute claims by the authorities that the air is safe to breathe. the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze a thick plume of black smoke billowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames. and it's good is 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 and 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 carbon monoxide 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 migraines 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 health of our children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around rule some people are also taking that precautions some locals have also experienced nor vomiting whilst others. complaining 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 these conditions. 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 term us what to do with our produce so i don't know if i advise even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be eve. i don't know why you joe reaching flags have also been 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 face they demanding answers but are afraid that even if they receive and that the danger is as a result of that place may not image for months or even years from now charlotte devinsky r.t. the world. violence sadness and fantasy they're just some of the things you might

expect to see when you visit an art gallery but london's take britain museum has deemed a warning necessary for a new exhibition of 19th century drawings by william blake we take a look. never ever ever we need to see the visions of people's minds not how we'd like the world to be a loser they think they feel offended in this very very easily offend the world we live in you know we're not interested in going to gallery of everything's been in the congo julian but your species expects music and. i think you've got to actions

have religious grand scale that something. and i suppose i would have issues if there is another sexual violence against women or anything like that that being when in fact i don't think. the bad press some put sex painted by our autistic considered by you to be inappropriate so we have noticed a facebook consistently rejects works of all peter paul rubens.

a couple of other headline developments this sunday starting in ukraine thousands of protesters are rallying in the capital kiev against an e.u. backed plan to hold elections in the come true for war torn east the demonstrators say the plan amounts to quote a capitulation to russia. lansky previously said there would be no elections in ukraine's breakaway regions until they were back to government control under the new road map and yet school receive self-governing statements once they hold a free and fair. u.s. police now say the 2 people may have been involved in a shooting at a bar in kansas city early on sunday morning 4 people were killed in the attack and another 5 injured no one's been detained in connection with the incident and the motive is not yet known. iraq's in battle the administration has signed off on a slew of new social reforms it's a good times to quote a popular outburst of the desperate living conditions since tuesday the country's

been rocked by violent anti corruption protests in which at least 105 people being killed more than 6000 injured security forces have repeatedly used live fire against demonstrators in the internet's been cut off to most of the country. that's it from a year on a nail happy next edition of the weekly after more of an in-depth look into the factors that led ukraine into more than 5 years of conflict. i. was.

paradise with some around turned into a round experimentation feel the 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 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 research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with it because the people have less political power.

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to going to you know a lot about. that that you can bank on you get nothing back up. in the next you know on the bottom the shipping list which i live in control cannot hold. under one name plus and then later today what did gandhi the new law and gandhi. on the face. keep you know do you then go to mock you then they will join you. what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. they've got to go to a barely spoke all of the cool but the most of the most go float of could and. as long ago as 1804 sevastopol as naval base became the main military port of the

russian empire on the black sea. during the 2nd world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were now angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea lays at russia's doorstep.

the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which in general. but almost a sum up as soon as natural. you have taught me to. put you in with a. post today and you know unless. you know us enough to speak with practical. opinion it's. just in the not the users into the support do not say no in a system that was sold me on the leader on the. it. was a piece of the schools would. estimate what i get there but only in the way but as it is but they're both saying no.