in the news today though an unnamed employee at the international chemical weapons watchdog casts doubt on the group's official report into the disputed chemical attack in syria. amazon cries foul over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft calls a lawsuit claiming one person in particular. plus hong kong's pro-democracy movement takes a break from protest big vote this last weekend secures a big win in closely watched local elections seen as a litmus test for beijing. either

just this 25th of november her days going good if you just joined us welcome to the program live from the r.t. world news center with this update hope you can stick around so 1st off and a whistleblower is casting doubt on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog handled last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal e-mail from an unnamed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization cherry picked misrepresented facts in its official report the release now by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. w.'s 5 day conference about to start a bit later today in the hague as he goes down off reports. on the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in that room because it was compiled by one of the co all of those over the o.p.c. w.'s report on the 20 team that chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and well

his words a should say sum up better than anything his feelings when he saw what the report that he was working on turned out to be as he's accusing the o.p.c. w. of manipulating facts after reading the modified report i was struck by how much it misrepresents the facts an unintended bias has been introduced into the report undermining its credibility crucial facts of morphed into something quite different what was originally drafted now this is not the 1st time this report is drawing criticism some have been pointing out that it took the o.p.c. w. investigators some 10 days to get on the site of this chemical attack saying that well this is plenty of tying for people on the ground to tamper with evidence it didn't take that long for the u.s. and the u.k. and france to pin all the blame onto the assad government and to launch air strikes against the syrian army facilities and while this o.p.c. w.

report which by the way took a whole year to finish was not tasked with assigning blame one of its findings did circumstantially pointed fingers at the saga for instance that they have concluded the final version of the report concluded stated that the canisters carrying that deadly chlorine gas they fell from above and the opposition the rebels they simply had no means of doing so they have no air force and that was sort of a redemption for the action taken by the u.s. and its allies but according to the e-mail according to this e-mail this whistleblower the initial version of the report did not paying. this picture at all the redacted report states that the gas was likely released from the cylinders the original report purposely emphasised the fact that there was insufficient evidence to affirm this so now with all this criticism coming from both the outside and now the inside of the o.p.c. w. this whistle blower he's calling on the body to make public the version of the

report that he saw and that he worked on i'm requesting that the fact finding report be released in its entirety as i fear that this redacted version no longer reflects the work of the team well if you're interested in reading this whistleblowers e-mail in full you can go on our website if you don't call me and find all the necessary information and links there now meanwhile we have reached out to the o p c w 2 and it's just to see if they have anything to say regarding this guarding this leak so far they are to come back to the us. senate thing. doesn't like it seems it's losing the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge now against the u.s. defense department after rival microsoft beat the firm to click should bring lucrative data contract decision surprised analysts indeed who did think that was another in the bag kind of thing but the rose more than just about money is saskin taylor explains. amazon and microsoft 2 giants that have changed the way

we experience the wild. yes warm and fuzzy ads to appeal to our pockets over the holiday season but it turns out the real money that those soft are is the pentagon and given us military spent over $600000000000.00 annually it's unsurprising there's a battle for the big contracts. so head to head and microsoft have been vying for the pentagon prize of $10000000000.00 over the next 10 years the contract in question is for the judge by project and ambitious event that would allow the pentagon to stall at sensitive data on a single large cloud it would also allow the military to take full advantage of

artificial intelligence tools tools which have drawn concern from ethical watch dogs for their lethal potential in guiding missiles and drones amazon thought it had its foot in the door not only is it the lead in the walls of cloud computing it's also made $600000000.00 from its dealings with the cia since 2013 so you can understand the shock when microsoft was crowned and the amazon's not happy it's so unhappy in fact that it's filed a lawsuit saying that it was passed over at the recommendation of a certain donald trump we believe is critical for our country that the government and its elected leaders administer procurement subjectively and in a minute is free from political influence numerous aspects of the joint enterprise defense infrastructure evaluation process contain clear deficiencies there is an unmistakable bias and it's important in these matters be examined and rectified

it's true trump and best also have rarely exchanged a kind wad the president argues that amazon is swindling the u.s. postal service out of money and doesn't pay enough tax he's also not a fan of the bezel so and washington post whose printing press is pretty hot from all its anti trump coverage so it probably wasn't hard to guess who trump was not going to throw his support behind we're getting tremendous. really complaints from other companies and from great companies some of the greatest companies in the world are complaining about it having to do with amazon and the department of defense. and i will be asking them to look at it very closely to see what's going on because i have had very few things with israel such complaining i mustn't think that is evidence of one to influence something both microsoft and the pentagon deny the acquisition process was conducted in accordance with the political laws and

regulations in law for his retreated fairly and evaluated consistently with the solicitation stated evaluation criteria we have confidence in the qualified staff of the department of defense and we believe the facts will show they've been a detailed. process in determining the need to the warfighter best made by microsoft but while these companies fight it out for the pentagon's affections others have been more reticent last year outrage was sparked after it emerged google was cooperating with the department of defense on a project that helped the army identify drone targets over 3000 employees signed a petition calling for the trial of morality over money and ultimately resulting in the search engine not renewing the contract we believe that google should not be in the business of war building this technology to assist the u.s. government in military surveillance and potentially lethal outcomes is not

acceptable so while some battle with their conscience and mothers refuse to accept last fortunes for microsoft it's been a golden autumn with its war chest filled by a milestone contract shares jumped 3 percent and to top it all off bill gates has recently returned to his favorite position the world's richest man rumor has it even helped jeff bezos clear his desk so as to tailor reporting there we go with thoughts abroad birchard from the antiwar answer coalition who says the pentagon's always considered to be a solid business partner no mother was. amazon's lawsuit represents indicates the cutthroat competition between the mega monopoly corporations that are competing with each other to become an appendage of the pentagon big technology companies know that in order to really prosper and thrive in the american economy you have to affix yourself to pentagon spending because the lion's share the majority of

discretionary budgeting each year in this massive federal budget actually goes for death and destruction for the u.s. military machine so this is not simply a matter of war the defense department and the contracts this is it this is business and in america war is very profitable and war contracting very very profitable tempo c.-o. no thanks take the term situ to a t. today next truckie what happened in hong kong over the weekend big vote the pro-democracy movement now we can report celebrating victory in the chinese territories district council elections of a record number of voters flocked to the polls sunday the opposition is one row 90 percent of the 452 seats being contested putting them in control of 17 of the 18 districts it's the 1st election since those violent protests kicked off back in june and is widely seen as a vote on how the probe raging government's handling the unrest hong kong

opposition leaders say the result sends a clear message to the authorities and the demonstrators demands must be taken seriously the huge win means the pro-democracy bloc them look at a bigger say on how the election committee that selects hong kong's next chief works currently. says she hopes the territory won't return to the chaos and for the city to have a fresh start indeed the streets were notably quiet on polling day compared to what hong kong is in jude in recent months. thank. you thank. i. i was. i. thank you. wells hong kong based economist benjamin show whether or not

he thinks this current lull in the unrest is going to last. on one hand the leaders security measures so new police chief. weak words on the other hand both sides can actually call poise cease fire peace and courage and tell it that actions and inactions of the rioters are highly coordinated contrary to the cream having no mass to my even people preaching can last most of these election not directly impact much good majority all. council lawmaking nor that you action committee for the next chief executive so i expect why you could still go on the respect that you actually read so it's expression of ultimate pension up that right is really not just up all the wealth on a global competition between powerful nations this is all it's international coming

out when it comes to wind power that everyone's a big fan in germany as the countries go to a new bills industry is dealt a blow that's not good news these days it will tell you about blowing. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by thinkers and if those. thinks. we dare to ask.

you should. you put themselves on the line to get acceptable injective. so when you want to look for. i'm sure. somebody wanted. to be close to see what the full screen can't be good. interesting holes in the wall how. close it. again american academia seems to have inclusiveness issues these days as conservative lecturers are increasingly being shut out by student protests as several indeed were arrested last wednesday where more than a 1000 california university students tried to block

a conservative pundit from speaking on campus in but cle elum open. universities are supposed to be a place for learning getting a useful degree and exploring certain ideas however lately they've become a home to some rather intense political activism as well as excluding certain ideas take the university of california berkeley as an example during the 1960 s. the campus was home to the free speech movement and upsurge demanding the right to discuss and debate off campus issues however lately it has become far less receptive to certain divergent ideas. a columnist with right wing conservative views that are too extreme for some ann coulter opposes women's suffrage and called for militarily converting the middle east to christianity now arthur laffer is different from ann coulter arthur laffer

served in the reagan white house he's not a pundit but rather an economist he just wrote a book about trump's america 1st economic vision well being on the university students did not like that he was given a platform. for why the university had to issue an apology it seems like the rules of free expression and open discourse don't apply to right wing speakers and approach from voices conservatives often complain about a perceived a liberal bias in aca damia and the constant curling of accusations of naziism at right wing scholars samuel abrams a professor at sarah lawrence college actually called for regulating political balance this wolf the ideological distribution among college administrators should give off students and their families pose the ideological imbalance coupled with their agenda setting power threatens the free and open exchange of ideas which is

precisely what we need to protect in higher. cation in these politically polarized times now this idea of hiring professors based on their political views and mandating that it be 5050 among the left and right didn't go over too well in fact many called for him to be fired just for suggesting this is what new york city college students think about the atmosphere on the campuses any ideas that counteracts this progressive movement or this so-called leftist movement often get met with a lot of backlash conservative professors or people with conservative viewpoints doesn't get shut out of the conversation would be compared it to me going into a class that was something against what i believed and i make the same insight i like don't think that they should be allowed to do that when they hear whatever they want to hear it's not allowing them to experience new and different and challenging ideas that might open their eyes i do think that it is important to have different values share on campuses not just progressive values or ideas or the

ones that cater to ours you we can't just allow ourselves to be put in an echo chamber of liberal ideas or in an echo chamber of conservative ideas we have to be unbiased we have to look at you know different viewpoints and make our own decisions on them and if we only hear one side that's all we'll ever hear in the last several decades ideas described as liberal and progressive have pretty much become the dominant view of america's institutions of higher learning and despite rhetoric about diversity and freedom of expression these folks are pretty determined to keep it that way and don't mind silencing those who might disagree a little up and artsy new york ok some point next americans come to my correct some bold claims that he was forced to leave his job as a new york university liberal arts professor off airing his conservative views he says to the students who are increasingly turning against lecturers that they don't agree would. i would call them ill liberals 1st of all they're not liberals they're

air liberal leftists who are attempting to shut down any speech that they don't approve of even if they don't know what it is because in many cases they don't even know what the speaker say or have to say they don't even understand different viewpoints lot of on listening to them they are complete political thought so think that their viewpoints are the only ones worthy of. a hearing and therefore they have turned the university into nothing but a semi violent echo chamber so yeah there is a new wave of activism but i wouldn't call it grassroots by any means it's it's an astroturf movement and this synthetic it's being whipped up by members of the democratic and other. leftist groups and it is completely. frenzied it is no it is not rational at all. but she read prawns which are a delicacy in italian cuisine has become a whole lot more dangerous for fishermen in sicily right now it's got nothing to do

with the sometimes treacherous seas they have to work in but instead because they face being attacked by the libyan coast guard the some italian is even ending up in jail over it is despite the italian authorities warning fishermen to steer clear of waters claimed by libya in 2005. i know that my life has been filled with tragedies each time i go out to sea when i say goodbye to my wife she says i don't know if you're coming back families remain in fear because for us fishermen the mediterranean is in a continuous war. although

i've had some bad experiences with them on the 22nd of march 996 a libyan patrol boat seize my boat after 4 or 5 hours of shooting it all happened in international waters after 6 months they released this from prison for good behavior. but overall i was afraid it happened off the coast of tripoli while we were below deck they kept shooting we hid in the machine room in the freezer cells and they continued shooting and didn't want to stop. right here on the e.u. does not help us there are shootings and many other risks if they should us we might die.

a slow is that it this is our job i was born a fisherman we've been fisherman for 3 generations i want to die fisherman. my deceit is germ. his most important source of renewable energy wind power suffering something of an economic blowback these days may be surprised to hear the once thriving industries being at the core of the country's attempt to try to get those carbon emissions down by 2030 and account for the lion's share of electricity generation but financing and indeed support fading is evangelists explains. on wavering commitment to protect the environment has earned her the nickname as the climate chancellor as part of her latest green initiative her government approved a 60000000000 euro package of climate policies it's aim to generate a 100 percent of its electricity supply using renewable energy by 2050 it's induced

feast we as industrialized countries are also on the frontline we need to do something to minimise our carbon footprint to stop climate change and reverse the rise in temperature if you push for climate protections it will cost money but this money is well spent if we ignore it i think it will cost us more money that's the truth the linchpin of germany's green shift is wind energy ringback. considering that you wonder if the industry is booming well it's none earlier this summer zeman last $2000000000.00 euros and that's a cut $2700.00 jobs which half of those were here in germany and are called a nother giant in the industry had to cut twice as much as zeman did and it's

blaming all that on the government the current energy and climate policy not only jeopardizes the innovations in jobs created in our industry over the years but also climate protection and the energy transition as a whole after the federal government presented its climate protection package it became clear that the problems are even greater other companies have been hit even harder by the energy crisis nordics was in the red and was bought out by a spanish firm said the on have to file for bankruptcy you are probably wondering why is the green shift facing so many problems well even though many germans do agree with wind energy a lot of them are not keen on the idea of having. when farm in their backyard. in an effort to appease protesters berlin announced new regulations forcing firms

to seek permission from local authorities if they want to build within one kilometer of a residential area during approval however can take up to 2 hears the prospect of protracting legal battles and delays is scaring off investors the fact that the federal government is threatening to sink to this one of the most important aspects of our economy because of public criticism over the initiatives shows the current political weakness studies show that if it wants to achieve its carbon neutrality by 2050 germany must increase its wind power production 6 fold but so far this year wind energy witnessed a significant drop off as investors become increasingly wary about investing into the wind business the dream of turning germany into a green state seems to be fading eventually. that's why things are looking so far this monday lunchtime from the newsroom thanks for watching one is kevin now and check it out. the latest most as it comes as well the

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