an unnamed employee at global chemical weapons watchdog casts doubt on the group's official report into last year's chemical attack in syria. doctors say wiki leaks founder julian assange life is at risk and that his condition in the u.k. prison is critical. to the pentagon for a $10000000000.00 contract to microsoft after accusing president trump of interfering in the bidding process. broadcasting. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad you're with us.

they whistleblower 'd 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 misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks it 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 he's feelings when he saw what the report that he was working on turned out to be as he is 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 trying 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 saga 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 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 cooling 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 that now meanwhile we have reached out to the o.p.c. w c u 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 on monday russian questioned the o.p.c. w. 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 o.p.c. w. director general reiterated to the watchdogs confidence in the duma report emphasizing its objective nature while not mentioning the league email directly he did appeared to allude to it in his speech. these in the nature both for inquiry for in the reduce in the team express subject to

its view what some of these. secrets and certain public discussion. i would like to read 3 that are used by the even partial unprofessional cruisers reached by the side finding mission with the whistleblowers juicing documentary evidence of this travesty investigation so call it they're 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 putting in i thought that trace amounts of call reading would warn of to pin the blame on both blah blah blah 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 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 to add severe risk during his 50 week sentence in a u.k. prison this is according to 60 doctors who say the whistleblower could die they have signed on to an open letter to the british home secretary outlining their concerns. mr song's require urgent expert medical assessment of both this 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 sunshine and prison the medical situation is the urgent there is no time to lose and we have credible reports from people who saw julian in recent weeks so there he's married to her. and the former u.k. . and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition. straight in the in seriously. so it's medical doctors 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 songe couldn't recall his date of birth and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he could not think straight the wiki leaks editor has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions now is. currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he is serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bail conditions in 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 marko again one of those appealing to the british government who believe the 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 that is christian way union has been treated to date because of months to murder the state for men who. is innocent until proven. guilty. 1st for the frame that even the critics say something like that. we talked but again personally. human rights committee medical care will be a. british say. so far. as attending hearing in february in a democratic state you would not expect that that does not appear to be.

to. be forced to stand trial. if there's one thing amazon does not like it's losing a business battle the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department after rival microsoft saw off the firm to clinch a very lucrative data contract the decision surprised analysts who thought amazon had it in the bag but the rouse about more than just money as artie's taylor comets . amazon and white chris soft 2 giants have changed the way we experience the wild. numbers. yes warm and fuzzy ads to appeal to our pockets over the holiday season but it turns out the real money that goes soft is

the pentagon's own given the u.s. military spent over $600000000000.00 annually and it's unsurprising there's a battle for the big contracts so had to had amazon and microsoft have been vying for the pentagon prize of $10000000.00. was 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 that 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 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 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 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 need to the warfighter 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 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 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 becker from of the anti-war answer

coalition says the pentagon's always considered to be a solid business partner as defense and profit and 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 this is business and in america war is very profitable and war contracting very very profitable.

to russia could be barred from major sporting events for 4 years following a report from the global anti-doping watchdog that story much more of a short break this is our international. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we are here to ask.

you look at your dollar bill that says a federal reserve. note if you look that up it best a p.d.f. with it will tell you it's debt debt is a no right they're not creating this stock has nothing to do with money it's created is formaldehyde it's monetary formaldehyde and they're trying to and they're complaining that the corpses of great and they just are failing to acknowledge that the global economy died in 2008 will stop. and welcome back this is aren't international now russia could be barred from all major sporting events for the next 4 years following the latest recommendations from the global anti doping watchdog water has accused moscow of noncompliance with the agency's demands. go has been across the story for us and we can now bring us

the latest could you talk us through these allegations against russia and what what actually happens next. john hey there well the entire russian sports community the athletes the fans. the coaches they were hoping that at least ahead of the summer olympic games in tokyo and 2020 they could leave behind all that russian doping scandal claims of state sponsored doping but i can tell you that in order for the russian sport to get fully back on track in order for the washington national anti-doping agency to regain its official status and also to get back international recognition the authorities and this country had to meet some very important requirements and perhaps the most important one was that they were supposed to hand over the database from the moscow and don't bring the board treaty to the world anti-doping agency and i can tell you that this

handover did happen however eventually waters investigators found that some of the elements of that database were either raw raised or modified and these conclusions were 1st reported in the american media however then decided to get rid of any kind of speculation they came out with a statement and now we do understand that committee and charge of reviewing compliance has recommended to the organizations key decision makers to make sure that russia is punished and that punishment could prove to be very serious we remember how in 28 thing during the winter olympic games in south korea russian athletes weren't allowed to compete under their flag as the russian national team well this could happen again and tokyo but further 4 year of

sanctions could be even more serious that's not it so russia's potentially facing a complete ban of the russian flag a complete ban for russian officials to be present at major. events and also potentially a ban to host any top class competitions so this last bit could really cause a real stir or even a tragedy as some would say because you can just look at the list of the major competitions that are coming and this country which includes some of the matches of the european football championships plus champions league final the ice hockey world championships the volleyball world championships the universe and so on and you can imagine the organizational headache that may follow if these restrictions are put in place we already heard from the russian sports minister who said that these conclusions could have been made these findings could have been

made as a result of some kind of technical glitch of course we are waiting for more reaction from the russian sports authorities but i do have to point out once again that for now this is just our accommodation the executive board will convene on december the 9th and that's when they'll make their final decision all right we're going to across the story for us a lot riding on that decision of course a lot of headaches as well and in some ways it seems like deja vu all over again ilya thanks for being with us we will check back in with you have the story develops. an american. academia seems to have inclusiveness issues with conservative lecturers increasingly being shut out by student protesters last wednesday more than a found university of california students tried to block a conservative pundit from speaking on campus in berkeley.

ca. rows of young protesters. formed a human chain to block the audience from entering the building of a chanted anti-racist slogans and held banners criticizing donald trump's immigration policy police in riot gear then guarded the entrance from the demonstrators to about 7 masked protesters were reportedly arrested and then the event benchley went parties came up and 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 or. 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 voices conservatives often complain about a perceived a liberal bias in academia 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 walked ideological distribution among college administrators should give on 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 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 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 say 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 a little up and are to see new york. those are for mail be back in 34 minutes with another look at your news the sergeants rush. live. live. play. play. play. play. play. play. play.

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