and i'm named employee at global chemical weapons watchdog. on the groups of special report into last year's chemical attack in syria. say with the leaks founder julian assange life is at risk and that his condition in the u.k. prison is critical. in the pentagon for handing a $10000000000.00 contract to microsoft after accusing president trump of interfering in the bidding process. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international launch on thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right

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 misrepresented facts in its official report the release of 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 that 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 have 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 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 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

whistleblowers 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 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 well during the meeting on monday russia questioned the o.p.c. w. report into alleged chemical weapons use saying it distorts reality the russian delegate also called for reform of the special mission in syria trusting its conclusions can no longer be taken at face value your p c w director general reiterated to the watchdogs of confidence in the duma report emphasizing its objective nature while not mentioning the leak email directly he did appeared to allude to it in his speech. it these in the nature both for inquiry for in the reader alls in the team to express subject to

its use what is some of these. secrets and certain public discussion. i would like to read. 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 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 overruling the majority of pinging i thought the trace trace amounts of call reading were enough to pin the blame on jambo 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 bides 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 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 it being put on 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 an open letter to the british home secretary outlining their concerns. mr song's require 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 son should die in prison the medical situation is the urgent there is no time to lose and we have. reports from people. so in recent weeks so much has. barrister. and the former u.k. . and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition. straight to be in seriously. so it's medical. we extremely concerned that nothing was being. many consider him a political prisoner. british phrase. 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 it couldn't recall his date of birth and when asked whether he could understand what was happening in the australian reply that he could not think straight the wiki leaks editor has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions and songe is currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he is serving a 50 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 it to the british government who believe the situation is worsening rapidly. not. personally i'm not holding my breath. if and when it will be forthcoming

in the law that is christian wage muniz been treated to date because. of the state for men who are. 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 rights committee medical care will be a pale british say. so far. as attending hearing in february in a democratic state you would not expect that that does not appear to be. your feet to plead to should be forced to stand trial.

amazon has launched a legal challenge against the u.s. department of defense after it awarded a multibillion dollar contract to microsoft but the ra is about more than just money as are you taylor explains. 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 watchdogs 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 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. 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 taxes 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 i 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 i mustn't think 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 rich 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 process in determining the need to the will fight to a 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 that conscience has refused to accept lost fortunes for microsoft it's been only 10 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 gave us his take on the dispute. 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 russia could be barred from major sporting events for 4 years following a report from the global anti-doping watchdog that story more after a short break this is art.

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international russia could be barred from all major sporting events of for the next 4 years following the latest recommendations from the global anti-doping watchdog what it has accused moscow of noncompliance with the agency's demands ellipse. 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 into the national recognition the authorities in this country had to meet some very important wire means and perhaps the most important one was

that they were supposed to hand over the database from the moscow and don't bring a 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 really erased or modified we remember how in 28 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 in tokyo but further 4 years sanctions could be even more serious russia's potentially facing a complete ban of the russian flag a complete ban for russian officials to be present at major sporting events and also potentially a band 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 upcoming 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 for now this is just what is right commendation going to zation executive committee will convene on december 9th and that's when the final decision will be made. bloomberg news has announced it will not be doing any investigative reporting on its owner michael bloomberg or any other us a democratic hopeful this is after the billionaire founder of the outlet officially enter the 2020 presidential race staff says the focus of its news will be on those

currently in power. we will continue our tradition of not investigating money 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 mayor back in 2002 as a republican but now enters the white house race as a democrat in a statement on his campaign web site he highlighted his main goal was to defeat donald trump bloomberg news has an audience of 62000000 people across all platforms or t.v. show host chris hedges 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 centrally funded by oligarchy dominating the political landscape and that kind of fusion between political power and media information is extremely corrosive fleet 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 that 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 plan. form into a giant advertising agency on behalf of these candidates. conservative lectures in the usa they're being shut out by student protesters last wednesday more than a 1000 university of california students tried to block a pundit from speaking at berkeley. ah. ah ah ah ah ah right hotel formed a human chain to block the audience from entering the building of a charted anti-racist slogans and held banners criticizing donald trump up to 7 mast protesters were reportedly arrested and the event eventually went ahead here's our chris cuomo. 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 and culture 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 he. was

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 approach 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 warped 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 and i make the same insight i like don't think that 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 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 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. czar to international stay with us. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots. mostly. pretty. much.

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