for. a living. and named 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 his life is that with stressing the whistleblowers condition in the u.k. prison is critical they're demanding the british government transfer him to a hospital. amazon cries foul over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft and filed a lawsuit claiming one person particular.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me and. now our top story this hour a whistleblower has cast doubt on the way the international chemical weapons aimed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization cherry picks and misrepresented facts in its official report 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 2018 the chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and while his words i 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 and 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 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 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 of this whistleblower the initial version of the report did not. this picture at all the redacted report states that the gas was likely released from the cylinders 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 whistleblower 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 because 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 called and 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. during the meeting this monday russia questions the o.p.c. w a report into alleged chemical weapons use saying it distorts reality the russian delegate also called for a reform of the special mission in syria stressing its conclusions can no longer be taken at face value. the i.p.c. director general reiterated the watchdogs confidence in the duma report and the sizing it subjective nature while not mentioning the leaked email directly he did appear to allude to it in his in his speech. these in the nature of sore inquiry for in the reader also in the team express subject

it's if you want some of these. secrets and certain public discussion. i would like to read through it that you stand by that you are full on professional conclusion reached by the side finding mission with the whistleblowers juicing documentary evidence of this travesty investigation so call it. transparent enough the problem is that the head of o.p.c. w. has said no no no i was right the 1st time i was right in overall in the majority opinion i thought the trace amounts of call reading were enough to pin the blame on jambo. the problem is that he continues to say these things and interesting lee enough it was exactly when he said no no i abide by my earlier conclusions that they have

a national class felt that now we go ahead and we say no no the head of o.p.c. w. hides by his or his claims and so all this other stuff is you got it. russian talking points the russians are reporting this ipso facto it must be wrong my speech decides to attack our democracy. come on a 4th grader can figure that out because. the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange is being put at the very risk during his 50 week sentence in a u.k. prison that's according to 60 doctors who 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 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 boy urgent no time to. weakness reports from people who saw julian in recent weeks so there. is a barrister. in the former u.k. . and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition strictly in seriously. so as a medical doctor we extremely concerned that nothing was being. by now many consider him a political prisoner. british brazen doctors from numerous countries such as the us australia and italy have made their assessments based on eyewitness

accounts following his october quarter parents back then it was reported that a song couldn't record 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 editor has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions as longas currently being held in london's belmarsh prison ways serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bail conditions and 2012 separately he's also fighting a u.s. extradition request over 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 he believes arsalan just situation is worsening rapidly. not any official response personally i'm not holding my breath. if and when it would be forthcoming in the light christian way union has been

treated to date because of months to murder the state for men who are. innocent until proven. guilty. to bring 1st for the shame. that even the critics say something like that. we talked but again personal mistake. human rights committee medical care will be held by the british state given. so far. as attending hearing in february in a democratic state you would not expect that the law does not appear to be. should be forced to stand trial. if there's one thing

amazon doesn't like it's losing a business bustle the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department after rival microsoft saw off the phone to clinch a very lucrative data contract the decision surprised analysts who thought amazon has it in the balance but the rouse about more than money taylor breaks down. and white chris soft 2 giants 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 goes softer is the pentagon's given the u.s. military spent over $600000000000.00 annually it's unsurprising there's

a bottle 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 jet die project and ambitious. that would allow the pentagon to stall its 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 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 and 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 bias and is important in these matters be examined and rectified it's true trumpton but 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 where there is really such complaining amazon thinks that there 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 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. brian baca from the on t.n.t. one answer coalition says the pentagon's always considered to be a silly business partner as defense and profits tend to go hunting. 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 in the contracts this is it this is business in america war is very profitable and war contracting very very profitable. something entirely to remove downs of bias bloomberg news has announced it won't be doing any investigative reporting on its own and michael bloomberg and other u.s.

democratic hopeful now solve the billionaire founder of the outlet officially threw his name into the hat for the 2020 presidential race the current editor in chief that the focus of its news will be on the day to day workings of those currently in power in washington. we will continue our tradition of not investigating mike and his family and foundation and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the democratic primaries we cannot treat mike's democratic competitors differently from him. bloomberg was elected new york mat back in 2002 as a republican but now enters the race for the white house as the democrats in a statement on his campaign website he highlighted his main goal was to defeat donald trump who he called it existentially threat to america but in bad news has an audience of 62000000 people across the whole platforms we spoke to pulitzer prize winning journalist and dotty show host chris hedges who sees this as

a dangerous fusion of media and politics well 1st of all the announcement by bloomberg news that they want to investigate bloomberg or any of the other candidates running in the democratic primary is an announcement that they are going to do any journalism and this i think gets to the rock of the american political system where you have oligarchy such as bloomberg or trouble or candidates like hillary clinton in 2016 who are essentially funded by oligarchy dominating the political landscape and that kind of fusion between political power and media information is extremely corrosive we are idea that they won't investigate bloomberg doesn't mean they won't cover bloomberg it means there will cover bloomberg uncritically and essentially they will act as a propagandist for bloomberg the the announcement that we won't investigate.

essential means we won't ask any questions but it won't stop them from presenting the narrative as disseminated by the candidate whether it's democratic or republican and i it's the role of journalists to expose the mendacity of those in power and everyone in power spins information to their own advantage so essentially what they're what they've announced is that we're going to turn our media platform into a giant advertising agency and behalf of these candidates. around the world with some other headlines this hour now the deaths of 9 people in an attack by rebel forces in the democratic republic of congo has led to a violent protest in the central african nation residents of the town of the storm the un peacekeeping basically set fire to the town hall demonstrators say it's in response to the u.n. doing nothing to protect them from similar attacks. in other news a charity vessel doctor did an at an italian port on sunday after rescuing more

than 200 migrants from the mediterranean sea they were picked up following 3 rescue operations last week italian foreign ministry says they will be settled in italy france germany and malta in line with a deal which by those countries in september. chile's are entering its 5th week of violent protests are the low living standards and inequality to date more than 20 people have lost their lives and around 2000 have been injured in the breast during weekend riots in the capital police used tear gas and water cannon as demonstrators threw stones and torched buildings. american academia seems to have inclusiveness issues with conservative lecturers increasingly being shut out by student protesters last wednesday more than a 1000 university of california students tried to block conservative pundit from speaking on campus in berkeley. ah ah.

ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah rows of young protesters going to human chain to block the audience from entering the building they chanted on t.v. racist slogans and held bonnets criticizing don't trump immigration policy police in riot gear then gossipy entrance from the demonstrates is up to 7 most protesters were reportedly arrested in the event eventually went ahead on c s k look 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 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 and. 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 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 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 wrecked in wild claims he was forced to leave his job as a new york as he knew as a new york university liberal arts professor and 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 ill liberals 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 a lot of and 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 that is 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. fishing for red proles which i delicacy and italian cuisine has become a whole lot more dangerous to fishermen in sicily it's got nothing to do with the sometimes treacherous things but rather because they face being attacked by the libyan coast guard with even ending up in jail it's how you know authorities have warned fishermen to steer clear of waters claimed by libya since 2005.

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. over the and i've had some bad experiences with them 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 this from prison for good behavior. but overall i was afraid it happened of 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 going to the e.u. does not help us there are shootings and many other risks if they shoot us we might die. a slow is that it we this is our job i was born a fisherman we've been fisherman for 3 generations i want to die a fisherman. widely seen as germany's most important source of when you're able energy when power is suffering something of an economic blow back the one thriving industry had been at the core of the country's attempt to drastically

reduce carbon emissions by the year 2030 and eventually account for all electricity electricity generated but financing and support is fading as evangelists that 1000 reports. angela merkel's unwavering 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 launched earlier this summer zeman last 2000000000 euros and that's a cut 2700 jobs which half of those who are here in germany and are called a nother giant in the industry have 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 how 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. a wind 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 years the prospect of protracting the legal battles and the lays is scaring off investors the fact that the federal government is threatening to sink to this over.