dr dhar kuala discouraging for much of the big. unnamed employee at the un's poison gas watchdog casts doubt on the group's official report into last year's disputed chemical attack in syria. scores of doctors say wiki leaks founder julian assange is life it is a risk stressing the whistleblowers condition in the u.k. prison it's critical they're demanding the british government transferred him to a hospital. arms and cries foul over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival the microsoft and files a lawsuit claiming one person in particular.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me to keep airing our top story this hour a whistleblower has cast 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 and misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. wus a 5 day conference which is now underway in the hague. 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 i should say sum up better than anything he's 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 while 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 for. this picture at all the redacted report states that the gas was likely released from the cylinder as the original report purposely emphasized 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 whistle blower's e-mail in full you can go on our website coleman find all the necessary information and links there and now meanwhile we have reached out to the o.p.c. w. 2 and just just to see if they have anything to say regarding this scandal regarding this leak so far they are to come back to us. deputies director general reiterated the watchdogs confidence in the duma report and the sizing is subjective nature while not mentioning the leaked email directly he did appear to allude to it in his speech. the piece in the nature both for inquiry or for in the reader all's team to express subject to its views what some of these views continue to secrete through certain public discussion.

i would like to read to rate that are you stand by that you are full and professional cokers is breached by the finding mission well i think if stably gauge is trying to be transparent themselves at this late stage it's a bit too late to clear up the issue altogether but at least it would acknowledge the problem and perhaps restore some of the confidence. it's important to have an undertaking of this sort it's no serious to charge a country with using chemical weapons. to be able to rely on the international inspection procedures that have been established. to verify whether. or in order to truly fault it's.

the health of wiki leaks founder julian a song is being put at severe risk during his 50 week sentence in a u.k. prison that's according to 60 doctors to say the whistleblower could die they've signed an open letter to the british home secretary outlining that concern mr saunders requires urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health were such urgent assessments and treatment not to take place we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr sanchez could die in prison the medical situation is the urgent there is no time to lose and we have credible witness reports from people who met song recent weeks such as he's father. barrister. and the former u.k. ambassador. and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition

westray to be in seriously. so as a medical doctor he would be counted as free milly concerned that nothing was being . by now or many consider him a political prisoner was. british brazen. doctors from numerous countries such as the us australia and italy have made their assessments based on eyewitness accounts as following his october court appearance back then it was reported that a song couldn't recall his date of birth and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian were part replied that he couldn't think straight there were leaks that it's or has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions as long as currently being held in london belmarsh prison where he's serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bell conditions and 2012 separately he's also

fighting u.s. extradition request that's over wiki leaks publishing classified information on american political and military dealings we heard from one of the doctors the pealing to the british government who believe the songes situation is worsening rapidly. not. because. personally i'm not holding my breath. it's called. youth and when it will be forthcoming in the life of the disgraced wage muniz been treated to date because. of this. and who. is innocent until. be able to. bring 1st for the frame that even the critics say something like that. if there's one thing doesn't like it's losing a business battle the internet giants formally launched

a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department has often rival microsoft so off the phone to clinch a very lucrative data contract the decision surprised on a list so i thought i wasn't in the bag but the royals about more than money as taylor breaks down. and white chris aust 2 giants that have changed the way we experience the world. yes warm and fuzzy ads to appeal to our pockets over the holiday season but it turns out the real money that goes softer is the pentagon's own given the u.s. military spends over $600000000000.00 annually it's unsurprising there's a battle so 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 offended that would allow the pentagon to stall at cents. of 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 what dogs for that lethal potential in guiding missiles and drones amazon thought it had its foot in the door not only is it the need in the wilds 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 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 is important in these matters be examined and rectified it's true trump and bezos 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 where there's been such complaining amazon thinks that there is evidence of one to influence something both microsoft and the pentagon deny the us. 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 the event a detailed process in determining the needs of the war fighter are 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 $3000.00 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 lost 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 linebacker from the antiwar answer coalition ses the pentagon's always considered to be a thought a business partner as defense and profits tend to go hand in glove. well 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 almost always coming up for you this monday i'm not internationally including a war of words on us university campuses with conservative speakers in the file and i think.

you know world's big partners. 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 smart 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 washington closely watching the hawks. the world is driven by a dream. the

dearest thing. we dared to ask. welcome back american academia seems to have inclusiveness issues with conservative lecture is increasingly being shut out by student protests this now is wednesday more than a 1000 university of california students tried to block a conservative pundit from speaking on campus in buckley. rows of young protesters filled the human chain to blow field events $1.00 and

$2.00 in the building they chanted and he raised this slogan from halliburton is criticizing donald trump's immigration policy police in riot gear them god at the entrance from the demonstrators up to 7 mosques protesters were reportedly arrested in the event eventually went ahead of more people now looks at the bigger picture. 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 free movement upsurge demanding the right to discuss and debate off campus issues however lately it has become far less receptive to certain divergent ideas. this.

is 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 a man coulter arthur laffer served in the reagan white house he's not a pundit 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 pro trump 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 education 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 comparative to me go. going into a class that was something against what i believed in and making the same insight i

like don't think 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 encompasses not just progressive values or ideas or the ones that cater to as you we can't just allow ourselves to be put in an echo chamber of liberal ideas or 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 they'll ever hear in the last several decades ideas described as liberal and progressive have pretty much become the dominant view in 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. american scholar michael rex and wild claims he was

forced to leave his job as a new york university liberal all this professor as off the air and his conservative views he says activist students are great increasingly turning aggressive against rector if they don't agree with. i would call them ill liberals 1st of all they're not liberals they're liberal leftists who are attempting to shut down any speech that a 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 few points lot of on listening to them they are complete political thoughts and think that their viewpoints are the only ones where the. 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 astro turf and it's synthetic that'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. fishing for red prawns which are a delicacy in italian cuisine has become a whole lot more dangerous for fishermen in sicily it's got nothing to do with the sometimes treacherous sea use by raul that because they face being attacked by the libyan coast guard with some even ending up in jail it's how little thought he's of one fisherman to stay clear of waters claimed by libya since 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. well although i've had some bad experiences with them on the 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 us from prison for good behavior. 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. this flu is that it this is our job i was born a fisherman we've been fishermen for 3 generations i want to die fishermen. if you say your thoughts that day stories by fellow. on social media give me a comments that are back in 30 minutes with the latest thing about. tiger financial from on the job today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this confession to 3 different. oh good this is

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very warm welcome to you watching us and see us. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle with ukraine remaining in the headlines we have

a look how russia's foreign policy is changed since the 2014 coup in camp and the impeachment circus continues but it's anything but funny. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to alex 1st in london well ukraine remains in the headlines and the 2nd half of the program we'll talk about the impeachment circus but let's focus on how ukraine the ukraine the ukraine project that the west has had since the coup in 2014 it's changed russia's foreign policy and it's something that's beginning to worry people being sent to and i mean worrying people at the

neo cons in washington in the in the swamp we could talk about sanctions we're going to energy policy that turn to china and europe's reassessment in there's a lot going on right here that's never talked about in western media go ahead alex . we just have over the last. period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2040 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic with them and they will always adjust very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy in the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their energy policy and they weren't going to let you.