it was. unnamed employee at the un's chemical weapons watchdog const 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 says life is the greatest stressing that was to blow his condition in a few k. prison is critical but 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 to take.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me to q. and. a was a blow 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 and this should whistle blower e-mail is certainly the big elephant in the room because it was compiled by one of the cole all of those over the o.p.c. w.'s report on the 22 in 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. sure 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 we 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 this whistleblower the initial version of the report did not paint 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 whistleblowers e-mail in full you can go on our website you don't call me and find all the necessary information and links there and now meanwhile we have reached out to the o.p.c. w 2 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 question the a p c w report into alleged chemical weapons use that think it distorts reality the russian delegate also called for reform of the special mission in syria stressing its conclusions can no longer be taken at face value. p.c. w.'s director general reiterated the watchdog's confidence in the duma reports emphasizing it subjective nature while not mentioning the leaked email directly he did appear to allude to it in his speech. the peace in the nature both

for inquiry for in the reader also in the team to express subject to its view what is some of these. secrets and certain public discussion. i would like to read to rate. 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 of their 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 of pinging i thought the trace amounts of call reading were enough to pin the blame on both. the problem is that he continues to say these things and

interestingly enough it was exactly when he said no no i abide by my earlier conclusions that they have a national force class felt that now we go ahead and we say no no the head of o.p.c. w. abides by 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 it must be decide to attack our democracy come on a 4th grader can figure that out b.t.w. . the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange is being put at severe 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 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 there is no time to. miss reports from people that saw julian recent weeks so it has the souther. barrister province on 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. 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 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 replied that he couldn't think straight and wiki leaks that it's a has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions as far as currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he's serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bail conditions and 2012 separately he is 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 the song just situation is worsening rapidly . not aware of any official response but personally i'm not holding my breath. it's content if and when it will be forthcoming in the

law that is christian wage muniz been treated to date because. of the state for a man who is. innocent until proven. guilty. to bring 1st for the shame that in democratic state something like that. we'll have an impact but again personally to see me stick to the. human right to medical medical care will be a pale british say given. so far. as attending hearing in february in a democratic state you would not expect that the 1000000 does not appear to be.

futile to plead on health grounds or should be forced to stand trial. if there's one thing amazon doesn't like it's losing a business basle the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department off the rival microsoft saw off the phone to cage a very lucrative data contract that decision surprised analysts who thought it in the bag but the ows about more than money taylor 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 pocket over the holiday season but it turns

out the real money that both ofter is the pentagon's on given the u.s. military spends 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 pasta 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 by. yes 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 there is evidence of undue 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 details process in determining the need to the will fight to a best method 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 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 shares 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 clear his desk find backa from the anti war on for

coalitions as the pentagon's always considered to be a solid business partner of defense and profits tend to go. 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 dance of bias bloomberg news has announced a won't be doing any investigative reporting on its own and michael bloomberg or any other us democratic hopeful that's off the billionaire founder of the outlook to officially through his name in the hunt for the 2020 presidential race the current editor in chief set 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 but emberg was elected new york mayor 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 we call that the existential threats to america but a book news has an audience of 62000000 people across all platforms we spoke to

police a prize winning journalist and ulti 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. such as bloomberg or trouble or candidates like hillary clinton in 2016 who are centrally 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 they 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 on behalf of these candidates. and they're and i could be mia seems to have inclusiveness the issues with conservative lecture as increasingly being shut down by student protests as well it's wednesday more than a 1000 university of california students tried to block conservative pundits from speaking on campus. ah ah.

ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah where is that young protesters film the human chain to block the audience from answering the building they taunted onto racist slogans and how ban is criticising donald trump's immigration policy police in riot gear and god at the entrance from the demonstrates is up to 7 must protest as we reported the arrested and the event that eventually went ahead and the 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 an upsurge demanding the right to

discuss and debate off campus issues however lately it has become far less receptive to certain divergent ideas. with. 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. ah 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 academia 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 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 $5050.00 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 counteract 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 and i make the same insight i like don't 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 say that it is important to have different values to share encompasses 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 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 and archie new york. american scholar michael rex in wild claims he was forced to leave his job as a new york university liberal arts professor after airing 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 there are 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 let alone 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 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. russia could be banned from all may just sporting events for the next 4 years following the latest recommendations from the global anti doping watchdog wada has accused moscow of noncompliance with the agency's demands are so easy to change they cannot bring us the latest on this story good to see you and could you talk us through these allegations against russia and what's going to happen next. nicky hi well the entire russian sports community the athletes the fans pretty much everyone they were hoping and expecting that at least ahead of the summer olympic games in

tokyo they could leave the entire russian doping scandal be hide finally but in order for the russian sport altogether to finally get back on track in order for the russian national anti-doping agency to get its status back to get recognized by the international officials the russian of authorities were suppose. to meet several requirements and one of the most important requirement was that they were supposed to hand over the database of a moscow anti-doping laborde free to this international watchdog and the handover didn't happen but the world anti-doping agency investigators found that some of the elements of that database were either a raised or modified 1st this conclusion was reported by the american media but then decided to come out and publish an official statement where it did say that

indeed those were the findings and right now the world anti-doping agency committee which is an charge of. trying to review the compliance to decide whether this or that organization is complying with the world anti-doping code they are now recommending to watch what is key decision makers that rush be punished be punished and this punishment is potentially very serious there are several elements to that we do remember how in 28 in. story in south korea during the winter games russia was competing. a neutral a limp big flag but the story may repeat itself and tokyo besides this russia could be facing a 4 year ban for hosting major sporting events also there may be

a 4 year ban for the russian flag at any sport event and also russian officials could be barred from attending them so some very serious punishment possibly coming up for this country but also we do have to remember that there are a number of major events that russia is about to host including the year. championship football also the volleyball world cup the university in one of russia's biggest cities and so on and so forth so really this could be a major headache and something that some officials have already called a potential disaster for russia although we did hear from the russian minister of sports that all of this could have been a result of some kind of technical glitch anyway again that the executive committee of which will make the final decision will convene in paris on december 9th so let's wait for them to give their final conclusion and i thank you for bringing us

up to speed on the latest. thank you and thank you for watching on the international my colleague on thomas will be with you at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines and i think and then. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. with ukraine remaining in the headlines we have a look. at 2000. but it's anything but funny.

time after time here we're going on the ground on leave of the deadline for british subjects to register to vote the head of a general election in 15 days time the 22 of the u.s. presidential rally in florida by donald trump coming up on the show after a 2nd week of arguably futile impeachment hearings in the u.s. comes to an end we asked law professor and democrat turned independent if the democrats should look to their own body when it comes to attacks on democracy. in the world's youngest nation oil rich south sudan we ask the u.n. with a britain beza share of the blame in the country being from london and hollywood's george clooney coming up in today's going on the ground a festival at all supporters in florida as part of his major retain the white house

2020 but could he be depending on democrat dirty tricks to keep him on pennsylvania avenue last time around wiki leaks exposed attempts within the democratic national committee to favor alleged war criminal hillary clinton of a socialist but he sounded a democrat primaries but is the same thing happening all over again joining me now is jim going to run for congress in florida against d.n.c. boss debbie wasserman schultz who resigned over wiki leaks revelations he joins me now from miami jim thanks for coming on before. get to florida and the peculiarities of the race in florida what was your take on the democratic presidential debate in the past few days and what's your take on who's going to win is bernie sanders cool his supporters to order in new hampshire today well they spent the 1st hour of the debate discussing donald trump and impeachment and they were on agreement that donald trump is bad and we need this impeachment inquiry i'm not sure that's.