this hour's headlines story flames rubbish a chemical plant in western texas after a huge blast breaks out early on whedon's the morning 3 workers are injured. coming up on the program delegates flush of the world chemical weapons watchdog conference with threats to its funding over plans to a lot of the agency to assign blame made growing concerns over the bodies investigative credibility. one of the u.k.'s biggest cinema change brings back a controversial film to its big screen so after the movie triggered dozens of violent incidents its release last.

247 news live from russia's capital city this is our. names you know neal good to have your company our top story a chemical plant in south east texas in the u.s. is a place following an explosion early on whedon's the morning in which 3 workers were injured.

well the refinery owned by the t p c group produces thousands of tons of chemical and petroleum based products which are exported world wide the situation in port neches is still ongoing as emergency services seek to bring the fire under control as quickly as they can. on the top of this a we can go live now to journalist and campaigner on health and environmental issues all of her to tell all of a good to see you on the program the authorities we know immediately issued a mandatory evacuation how long would it take to give such an area the all clear or do you think after an incident of this. well it's really very difficult to know so far i'm not aware very much information having been released about the

nature of. the accident that took place what is clear is that some really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufactured on this site. carcinogen carcinogenic compounds such as beauty in benzene and lots of chemical precursors going into synthetic rubber fuel added to this. past really a very wide range of things many of which are toxic and then once they've caught fire there will be all kinds of toxic buying products so i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the following this instance the chemical plant produce ruffin 8 colorless gas which is highly flammable by all accounts what dangers could that pose i suppose not only

to the surrounding areas and residents but also of course to the people putting their lives on the line at the firefighters at that scene. yes well hopefully there is at least some kind of a plan about what to do with an instant of this type on this site you know. certainly won't be and there have been quite a number of previous incidents at this site for example back in 2004 in. overtime in the dog was released and several 100 kilograms of benzene. and these are both carcinogenic compound following that the plant actually cleaned up in sun there was an order from the e.p.a. requiring them to invest $20000000.00 in cleaning up and that was largely successful but then in 2014 another instance occurred which led them to be

fined $214000.00 for failing to maintain proper records of instance taking place and of accidental release isn't breaches of environmental limits so. the record of compliance i think has improved over the years but it's obviously still not as good as it ought to be. and that does raise concerns about any plan that should be present for dealing with an instance of this kind have they been keeping the plans up to date with regard to the different kind of chemicals or the be new because this will change over time the pictures they really are quite dramatic oliver we're looking at them as we're speaking to you and we appreciate of course not a lot of details coming out but what what could cause an explosion of that size of a said windows were blown out in the nearest houses to the plant quite

a shock for people you know the middle of the night it was 4 am local time when it happened. you know what well i think that they are dealing with very hazardous chemicals and as you say volatile and highly flammable chemicals and one particular risk factors which would be that among the product line on fuel additives which are designed to improve combustion of of petrol for example and some of these oxygenated compounds which will of the nature. be able to provide oxygen in the case of a combustion incident. and and then the more explosive kurt due to that oxygen once a fire has begun so that might hope to explain why

the fire that's taking place is of quite such ferocity. and was quite explosive in its original manifestation do you think the government should be implemented as a director of rules over just about the actual know what i think yeah because the you know the operation of telling all plans when you're looking at sites high's is so close to such a plant. well it clearly is a matter of concern and i think the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant and indeed with the many other plants in what's called the golden triangle of which has this massive concentration of petrochemical plants these please plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this golden triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents and i think the recent record is that enforcement by the american environmental protection agency

has brought about considerable improvement nonetheless this instant place. and it shows that the regime is maybe not as good as it should be i think that what probably the local community should be very concerned about at this point is that in his 2020 budget president trump is proposing a 31 percent cut in the total budget of the environmental protection agency and what this means is that the agency will have fewer resources to undertake inspections to monitor compliance and one of the particular areas that is likely to suffer is clean air and clean water. so this is being opposed by the democrats in congress and i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut

the resources of the here as it's intending to do a really massive cuts of several $1000000000.00 but we've got to got to leave merrill british running right at the time all of our thanks so much all the time in your thoughts so this hour i'm for it carol campaigner on health and environmental issues and a journalistic thank you. delegates at the un's poison gas watchdog conference are at odds over a new body will be able. to assign blame for toxic attacks several countries are threatening to block funding during wednesday's budget vote if it includes provision for the new fall fighting team previously o.p.c. job you could only say whether or not a chemical attack taking place but as rough as the of reports even that monday it is in question after leaks from whistleblowers. u.p.c. w. was all that stood between humanity and the terrible terrible curse of chemical weapons they did this by never taking sides they never side blame they came they

analyzed and reported not what they thought but what they knew not who was what there was never any reason not to trust that you can't argue with pure science it was utterly impartial objective a political it was passed simple. is highly likely that russia was responsible to the old russian culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder.

it was always a technical consensus and now we see that it is completely polluted with a politicized agenda from various parties we want the p.c. w. to get back to where it was before wasn't enough for the u.p.c. w. to present facts someone. that opinion to political opinion they wanted to give the u.p.c. w. all the power to blame the sentence and condemn nations we look forward to receiving the 1st report in the near future it will then be for us the parties to decide how to respond the i.n.t. is a crucial in this eerie means of identifying the pipa traders behind these horrific attacks we cannot accept impunity for these horrible crimes other nations are

putting their foot down why they are sick would you want to destroy the essence of what made the u.p.c. w. so special so trustworthy and are you doing this in the interests of humanity or for your own personal ambitions as we know this whole attribution mechanism adventure was started to put pressure on damascus a number of these missions investigations including the last one which made headlines the incident in duma on the 7th of april $2800.00 have convinced us that we cannot take the special missions conclusions at face value we also refused to fund in. this team and refused to grant access to a war. confidential documents provided to the office w. and a security council and therefore reject any reports issued by this team retreat india's principled opposition to the i to be submitted as a due to the manner in which it was set up and didn't disregard of india's concerns

on the substance as well as the process it couldn't have picked a worse time to give the o.p.c. w.-a judges malate multiple o.p.c. w. insiders have sparked a huge scandal alleging that the organization cherry picked the facts on the alleged chemical attack in syria last year to suit a political agenda. after passing through the ceiling and impacting the floor at lower speed the cylinder continued in altered trajectory until reaching the position in which it was found the 1st whistle blower said that the gas canisters used in the attack were likely placed at the scene rather than dropped from the air. observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those $2.00 locations

rather than being delivered from aircraft u.p.c. w excuse that self by saying that it took into account other reports not just his then the 2nd whistle blower struck a veteran who was on the ground in syria connecting some poles and he went one better or worse the squad big political pressure secrecy and potential fraud most of the duma team failed to see reports on the incident the interim report in the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent all he wanted was a little transparency to be able to speak at this conference where the vote is taking place to set things straight all he got was a letter from management telling him no i would like to.

find the mission. at the end of the day every country in that room is going to have to decide for themselves whether to let the u.p.c. w. play god to blame accuse and condemn nations and governments to be the excuse that spock's was to give that power to new organization which doesn't even have the try. asked of its own employees broadcasting while former british ambassador to syria peter ford told us he believes it's dangerous to give the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons blame giving powers because the organization has become highly politicized and then the less. competent in we the c.w. which we're not even capable of mounting a reliable investigation of whether a chemical attack occurred not at all let alone

a fine response with the conventional organized ready militia and. dominate by one country a you ask them by the way generally is not capable of liberating an object. in any investigation within 3 days in the us and the u.k. had bombed syria without waiting for any investigation they needed. we just by the fact. that illegal bombing syria goes on. a major u.k. cinema chain has bucked truck down its bombing of a critically acclaimed film by the london gang war 1st after it was accused of institutional racism on its release last week blue stories of violent scenes spilled beyond the screens had better send a message with dozens of violent incidents reported the plot centers on the lives

of 2 young friends who became embroiled in a gang life. sometimes . at least 25 incidents were reported across several cinemas showing the movie and following it mustn't brawl involving some 100 youths in birmingham the cinemas decided to drop the phone the incident which saw some teenagers carrying machetes resulted in a number of injuries and 5 arrests. well if you say it's a nischelle the session came after curfew consideration was taken to ensure the

safety of its stuff customers it denies the move is a race issue however that said it nonetheless faced claims of suppressing black art while the movie's director insists his film is about love not violence conservative radio host dave perkins on london social activists share their reactions with. away incident so all sorts of fail right across the welt almost every day those films do you know and getting banned. culture is under constant attack grime music now they say now black failings whatever we're doing it even in the areas where we have fabulous they successful we still don't escape bit to criticism why don't we just assess all asia and to tame and activities in britain in relation to the hot coals because football least of all people in should movies in a cinema we could think of thousands of types of activities that take place where

serious crime in criminality is much more in excess than we witness over this. so let's treat everybody on an equal playing field i don't think it's possible for the movie to cause violence i think it's possible for the movie to set the foundation for violence and then predict with some level of of confidence or even certainty that violence is going to happen so i want to clarify it like that in a since in the sense that all movies do when they're about a cultural feature it glorifies the business of being in a gang that doesn't mean a glorifies the violence per se but people involved in gangs do have a considerably higher rate of violence than people who aren't involved in gangs and here's the thing when you draw them all to a place at night a whole bunch of young people together with a very high degree of involvement of one form or another in gangs that's why they come to see the movie because it glorifies the culture that they're in the likelihood of something terrible happening is very high. so

a regional head of human rights watch is facing expulsion from israel we take a look at why after this. one of the things we talk about on this show if you read the financial press about the latest scandal it's just a new name for a recurring scandal like there's only 3 or 4 ways you can rip people off changes is the name they call to rip people off. who put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be rich. if you going to be close this is what the 43 of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the.

flesh of. much of a party or i'm trying to study and then you have the record and what we have done is to try and identify something coming in the brain where the explosion of the ripples. of the depths of your consciousness. where the director of human rights watch for israel and palestine has vowed to continue his work after being expelled on monday by israel tell if he feels accused of supporting a boycott move the country which it sees as a strategic threat. israeli government has been trying for 3 years to expel human

rights watch their rationales have different have differed most recently the israeli government claim that we call for boycotts of israel and their focus has been our work on the illegal settlements and we do not take a position on boycotts of israel what we do across the world is document abuses by all actors including businesses and call for actors to refer contributing to rights abuse in order to comply with their obligations under international law and when we applied that universal call to the illegal settlements in the west bank israel said it was a call for a boycott and under a new law called revoke my work permit and then deported me on november 25th. human rights watch has long been critical of the israeli government's rights record and the construction of settlements in the west bank it's the 1st time a human rights watch stuff member has been expelled from israel in their organizations 30 years of working in the country or marcia here believes the ruling is a part of

a targeted campaign against rights advocates. clearly they're trying to do by throwing out a representative of one of the world's largest human rights organizations is to say to others that you know your work documenting rights abuses could result in you facing a punitive sanction this move shows the degree to which israel has lost even the pretense of 1st spect for basic international norms if israel despite you know criticism from much of the world for its me as it did earlier this week for my rights advocacy how would ever stop abusing rights are the reality here is the israeli government feels emboldened and the world spoke out against this and they still did or did meet so i think the message is quite clear here that the government intends not only to continue with systematic assault on human rights organizations but intends to continue its abuse of policies that we've been exposing and bringing to light. moving the program on a c.n.n.

host us found herself in the spotlight after a controversial tweet. cardenas question the increased support of donald trump among america's black population twitter users i mean to clean out her calling her racist. 0 chance this is accurate 0 the poll must have been only conducted in the homes of banned carson kind that sheriff guy with the had and those 2 cubic zirconium polyester spandex ladies 0 chance you are not a racist another example where on the less you know who she really is ana the rest of the country stop thinking of them as property 154 years ago please cut sharp with the rest of us. right comes upon a recent nationwide poll carried out by emerson college the research claims almost 35 percent of america's black community approve of donald trump's president say

almost 30 percent higher than previous statistics had highlighted if indeed correct those numbers would mean a huge boost for the president when compared to the election 2016. mr trump received little endorsement from african-americans back then getting support from only 14 percent of eligible voters in the black community while his democratic rival in the race hillary clinton won over the vast majority political and social commentator of 3 brian local is all of the view it's all acceptable for anyone to advise a whole community on its voting preferences. being name is the name they say things like date is pretty much how they operate they are never shown no work it doesn't really matter how to get the point across which she did was most certainly disrespectful to the black community the real feelings came out she may faker in every day life that the black community we just don't know anything we're not

really intelligent so the mvp people like her and others in the left politics and media to just direct them into going the proper direction when we go outside a day it becomes kind of a person or least on our list instinct kicks in you see she thinks they're black folks like myself who vote for china are somehow wrong somehow incapable of being able to understand what the president is all about so she put things out there to just kind of explain to black voters vote for trump that we are doing the wrong thing so it wasn't in an effort to try and cleaner so it was more of an effort to try and just justify her tweets. i thought is just some of the news making headlines around the world today you can go further and depth as always on our t.v. dot com i'll see you in thirty's that close.

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