dr dhar kuala cargo on which of the big. unnamed employee at the un's poison gas watchdog casts doubt on the group's of pressure report into last year's disputed chemical attack in syria. schools of doctors say wiki leaks founder julian assange has lived as it relates to pressing the whistleblowers condition in the u.k. prison is corsica demanding the british government transfer him to our hospital. was in cries foul over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft and files on north maybe one person in particular.

a very warm welcome to new york watching r.t. international with me carrying 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 reports the released by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. w.'s 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 while his words i should say sum up better than anything he's feeling so 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 time 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 sun for instance 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 of this whistleblower the initial version of the report did not paint the. 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 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 a short time ago that the director general reiterated the watchdog's 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 of store inquiry for individuals in a team to express subject to its views what is some of these. secrets and certain public discussion. i would like to read to rate that

you stand by the partial unprofessional conclusion reached by the side finding mission. you know i can't help but just smile when i hear this. because what he's not saying is that the whistleblowers information is incorrect what he is not saying is that the report wasn't changed redacted report was changed from its original so sure the o.p.c. don't use a big one for you here ocracy bureaucracies protect themselves he's trying to protect the organization right now rather than address the facts of the situation and the facts of the situation indicate that the report was changed it was changed for political reasons remember that your p.c. w. is only good as as it's information and if it's going to be political in the summer dissemination of its. information and the construct of its analysis.

it's going to damage only it so. the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange is being put at the very risk during his 50 week sentence and in a u.k. prison that's according to fix the doctors who say the whistleblower could die they've signed an open letter the to the british home secretary out low outlining their concerns. mr saunders requires urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health 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 thereby urgent no time to lose we have credible witness reports from people that saw julian recent weeks such as the souther. his barrister robin song and the

former u.k. . and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition. strictly in seriously. so his medical doctor we extremely 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 the australia and italy have made their assessments based on eyewitness accounts as following his or his october court appearance back then it was reported that a song's couldn't recall his date of birth and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he couldn't think straight the wiki leaks that is so has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions a song just currently being held in london's belmarsh prison ways serving

a 50 week sentence for breaching his bell conditions in 2012 separately he's also fighting u.s. extradition request of a wiki leaks publishing classified information on american political and military dealings we heard from dr mark again one of those appealing to the british government to believe that just situation is worsening rapidly. lot. of problems but personally i'm not holding my breath it gets conned. if and when it will be forthcoming in the law that is christian way julian is been treated to date because. of the state for men who are. innocent until. proven guilty. to bring 1st for the shame that even the critics say something like that.

if there's one thing amazon doesn't like it's losing a business battle the internet giants formerly giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department as off the rival microsoft saw off the phone to clinch a very lucrative data contract the decision surprised analysts who thought as it had it in the bag but they rouse about more than money that breaks down. amazon and white christmas oft 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 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 $10000000.00 over the next 10 years the contract in question is for the jet die project and ambitious event that would allow the pentagon to stall sensitive data on a single large cloud it would also allow the military to take full advantage of fishel 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 wilds of cloud computing it's also made $600000000.00 from its dealings with the cia since 2013 so you can understand a short quote and microsoft was crowned and amazon is 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 procurements objectively 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 by. and it's important that these matters be examined and rectified it's true trump and bezos have rarely exchanged a kind word 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 we're 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 it is really such complaining amazon thinks that it 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 which treated 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 have been a details seren fair process in determining the need to the will fight to a best man 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 more ality 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 that conscience and mothers refuse to accept lost fortunes for microsoft it's been a golden with its war chest filled by a milestone contract shaz jumped 3 percent and to top it all off bill gates has recently returned to his favorite position the wilds of richest man rumor has it even helped jeff bezos his desk brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says the pentagon's always considered to be a solid business partner as defense and profits tend to go hand in glove amazones

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 this is business in america war is very profitable and war contracting very very profitable. almost always coming up for you this monday on r.t. international including a war of words on u.s.

university campuses with conservative speakers in the firing line pass off this break. what holds us do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what the fuck are you the more people. interested in the why. should. anyone else seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just to become educated and in detroit equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and. welcome back american i could dimia seem to have inclusiveness issues with conservative lecturers increasingly being shut out by student protest as well as one study more than a 1000 universe ugly. rows

of young protesters formed a human chain to block you idiots from entering the building they chanted on to raise the slogans and how bonnets criticizing donald trump's immigration point today and he said might get i'm going to be entrants one that demonstrates this at the 7 mosque protesters were reportedly arrested and the events eventually went ahead and his kind of more pain looks now 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 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.

for. 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 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. the university had to issue an apology it seems like the rules of free expression. open discourse don't apply to rightwing speakers and approach from voices conservatives often complain about a perceived a liberal bias in aca damia and the constant curling of the accusations of naziism at right wing scholars samuel abrams

a professor at sarah lawrence college actually called for regulating political balance this walked 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 $5050.00 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 going into a class that was something against what i believed in and making the same insight i

like don't you think that they should be allowed to do that they 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 to share on campuses 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 we'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 they looked up and archie new york americans call him uncle rex and while claims he

was forced to leave his job as a new york university liberal arts professor off the air in his conservative views he says activist students are increasingly turning aggressive against lecturers they don't agree with i would call them in liberal 1st of all they're not liberals they're 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 thoughts of 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 astro turf and it's synthetic 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 and italian cuisine has become a whole lot more dangerous for fishermen in sicily it's got nothing to do with the sometimes treacherous seas but rather because they face being a tux by the libyan coast guard with some even ending up in jail it's funny no authority as of one fisherman to steer clear of waters claimed by libya since 2005 . i mean. 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. with all that had some bad experiences with them on this on the 22nd of march $996.00 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 shoot us we might die. this low is that it this is our job i was born a fisherman we've been fishermen for 3 generations i want to die fishermen. thanks to choosing r.t. international we're back in. top of the hour we'll see that. young elephants have come to us off. myspace lee brutal pledging incidents because sadly

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