us democrats demand protection for the whistleblower i'll be a part of the trump impeachment inquiry in stark contrast to the way other key informants being treated. also the stories that shape the weekend marks 150 years since the birth of mahatma gandhi seen as an icon of a nonviolent resistance. at a chemical plant in northern france for health concerns across the region despite assurances from officials.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas really good having you with us as we recap the week's top stories a 2nd whistleblower has emerged in the impeachment probe against donald trump and the unnamed intelligence official reportedly has information on the u.s. president's dealings with ukraine meanwhile democrats spearheading in the investigation are demanding protection for the informants involved that is despite their attitude toward other whistleblowers in recent years and comments. 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 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 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 got 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 sees justice i've never gained anything through what i've said publicly that i lost everything. we had 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 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. 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 mentioned in caleb's report edward snowden has reacted on twitter he says it is unbelievable that the media is not pressing

politicians about the case of another whistleblower former n.s.a. analyst daniel hale who is being prosecuted for leaking information on u.s. drone warfare programs. this week india marked 150 years since the birth of mahatma gandhi a man seen as a global symbol of nonviolent resistance on wednesday major political parties paid a tribute to gandhi even ordered officials to undertake pilgrimages walking up to 15 kilometers a day in their constituencies and sleeping in villages gandhi's legacy is recognised globally and his birthday the 2nd of october is celebrated worldwide as the international day of nonviolence the indian prime minister honored him in a speech at the un. gandhi. mahatma gandhi was an indian but he did not solely belong to india he stayed far away from the government today in the hopes of billions of people his influence the lives of people who know the man from

martin luther king jr to know some mandela. all right mahatma gandhi spearheaded indian resistance against british rule and 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 the british colonial rule in 1907 but a year later gandhi was assassinated by hindu nationalists. today opinions on gunday are more mixed gulleys poster in one north eastern city was the face with graffiti which you read in the traitor of the nation there's also claims that an urn with some of his ashes was stolen the editor of a newsmagazine india today believes or blames the act on the descendants of the same hindu extremists who killed gandhi. who would remember that not. and some of his associates shot. gandhi gandhi in the you are

148 the members of this not too damn good sick group who also claim to be hindus they have a very narrow notion of in the wisdom they want to impose some very sort of you know notions of hindu ism deep believe that marked by 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 i only had this very tolerant and you know very sort of broaden 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. we trace the life of mahatma gandhi in a set of feature length reports you can watch them on at the r.t.e. documentary website and also the r.t.e. documentary channel on you tube. he did make a good night but it didn't go through and through but it did next open doc good night but again i again take it i. eat. if i'm a good thing british people do get in a bit but didn't fight might injure me too you know you can't do that in my nation

. to know if they did the media. that makes 2 of the could be of them that makes gandhi could be a bat that makes god he could be a 12 year old child it could be any of these people but we need the big sky which is 34 of those deal with wife because she. a recent fire at a chemical factory in northern france has caused a major public health concerns but this week authorities in the city of iran declared the area safe there is no risk regarding asbestos fiber in the area 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 habitats 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 to the 2 the other way. 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 are deeply skeptical about authorities claims that the air is safe to breathe i would have been ski travel there. 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. to new 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

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 test 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 an e g throat and i'm continuously coffee we worried about the how to march children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around the rule some people are also taking that to washington's some locals have also experienced more 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 the fire

and though some have attempted to reopen many teachers are refusing to return to work. colleagues from schools near lubrizol who have refused to work until they receive information about what was burnt and the risk because they are just a few 100 metres away from the site they did so to protect their health and that of the children who are under their responsibility and that's why there has been a demand that the original school 30 acknowledged their right not to have children attend school under this condition. while health concerns are immediate what's perhaps most telling about the danger people here are facing is the fact that food sales from 100 districts around ruin have been banned any produce that may have been exposed to contamination has to be destroyed that even includes milk. hybrid carrots and work closely with milk producers 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 whether there are any dioxins in those burning materials what's going on who terminus what to do with our produce so much on the fly ash has even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be eve. preaching flags to vosa being raise for the health of the police and the firefighters who won't do you see during the fire protests like this have now formed to pressure the authorities to outline any risks they make face they demanding and says but are afraid that even if they receive them that the danger is as a result of that place may not to manage the months or even years from now challenge even ski all seeing the world. a peace plan for

eastern ukraine has sparked mass protests in kiev that story much more after the break the start international of the week when. you know world a big part of new laws 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad 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. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those great. dares

thinks. we dare to ask. the weekly r g international now if you park employee in florida has been fired for a seemingly innocent hand gesture the former employee dressed as the character grew from despicable me despicable me made an upside down ok symbol when posing with a 6 year old girl who is biracial not the ok hand gesture has recently been recognized as a hate symbol america's anti-defamation league says that the once innocent sign has

been hijacked by white supremacists even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old they regularly create new symbols means 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 warning sign to the presence of hate in the community or school the 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 christian church mosque shootings in new zealand during a court appearance. now 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 is mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors we asked our guests for their views on the story. i think it's pretty ridiculous to label

a thing like oh bull 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 little 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 forest 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 a symbol it was an invert the swastika and that became the symbol of nazism 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.d.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 people

there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used to . incite violence and crime and you know fundamentalists political ideas put this democracy in jeopardy it is not. it is in a seething if people want to use it for whatever when you want to use it for ok but you can see. ok millions. versus the ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. really looking old can ensure that. the russian embassy in the u.s. has center in note of protest to the state department over the detention and questioning of a russian lawmaker in new york r.t. saskia taylor has more. the russian foreign ministry reported on sunday that

a member of the russian parliament. was detained at the airport after flying into new york earlier this week she described how she was led to a separate room my documents were taken away from her and how for around an hour she was questioned by an f.b.i. agent with the questions being described by the russian ambassador to the u.s. some as unclear others as unacceptable what makes this quite curious is that after this interaction the f.b.i. agent suggested that he and you washable go to a more informal setting a coffee shop in fact seemingly to continue the conversation now your washable is a coordinator for relations with the u.s. congress and she was actually flying in her professional capacity on a visit to the fore for us somewhat ironically given it is a conference that's dedicated to improving dialogue between russia and the u.s. in moscow the russian foreign minister for instance disappointment. over the incident saying that calling it really

a hostile act that can only serve to wosm relations between the 2 countries and indeed noted that if the situation were reversed there would undoubtedly be a huge outcry from washington so that's where we are at the moment you must have said that she of course reported this to the russian authorities she's not going to provide any further comment tonight and she's going to wait for the diplomats to get to the bottom of the issue. of violence sadness and fantasy just some of the themes you might expect to see when you visit in our gallery but london's tate britain museum has a warning necessary for a new exhibition of 19th century drawings by william blick.

never ever ever we need to see the visions of people's minds not how we'd like the world to lose if they say they feel offended in this very very easily if in the world we live in you know we're not interested in going to gallery of everything's . going to william but here expects you to get. i think you've got to actions of religious grand scale that some saying. 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 expensive considered by you to be inappropriate we have noticed a facebook consistently rejects works of all peter paul rubens.

thousands of protesters are rallying in the capital kiev against any e.u. back to fly and to hold elections in the country's war torn down the demonstrators say the plan amounts to a capitulation to russia president selenski previously said there would be no elections in your. on the road map. they hold. another news. police say that 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 has been detained in connection with the. iraqi government has approved new social reforms. unemployment since tuesday the country has been wracked by violence and protests in which at least 104 people have been killed and more than 6000 injured security forces have repeatedly used a live fire against demonstrators the internet has been cut to most. back with more of the weekly 34 minutes.

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