that's a good. trick because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. it's revealed french authorities were warned of the dangers of using military grade tear gas grenades against demonstrators the. most horrific injuries to. protesters. coming out party hears from a law professor a fighting for the release of. inmates who was subjected to shocking torture of.

coming up a u.s. family entertainment t.v. channel. for dropping an elegy commercial we get. this is just a handful that sort. of christmas is all coming together i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas cover herschel. from our international news center here in moscow this is our to your world welcome to the program my name's unanimity. after a series of her injuries against protesters it's come to light that french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against

demonstrators as far back as january last year. the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks all of its grenades being used by riot police. the blast a fact of the devices produced by an expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injured an individual well those within 10 sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage the resumption of production is impossible without completely reviewing the production process well in a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the money fucks for a warns the defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved france is the only european country where riot police use the weapon despite the warnings they're still used on occasion been known to simply explode when being the gasconade caused serious injuries among yellow vests protesters 5 often last an elderly woman also

died after she was hit by one the other demo in more say last year dozens more protesters say they have been left wounded by their weapons. the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg he tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction. was. good. i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been targeted and we want the truth and justice.

i will try to fight against the use of july for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns. meantime industrial action in france centered heard. transport workers causing severe disruption to road on real systems nation these are the scenes right now in the french capital. protesters have been coming out onto the streets all day long just after 4 act clock in the afternoon you can see a number of yellow vests gathered among the crowds making their way to the op to tramp which is a ferry at the stations which they have been making their way to for the past 2 weeks and indeed months since the beginning of the september public sector employees have been protesting against the government's pension reform plan sometimes violently i spoke earlier to charlotte to that speech she brought me up

today. well of very strong turnouts in paris for what is now a strike that's in its 3rd week across the country another cool by unions for a nation wide set of strikes the suggestion is up to a 1000000 people could take pause in this strike today we are waiting though for those official think is to come the 3 people jam packed in all around the pasty as you could probably see there in the distance the police have cordoned off parts of the area which means it might be difficult for the protest this to move further on the already designated route to take them all the way down to plastic for the moment people look like they are grouping here to work out what's next people all furious they furious about the changes the government has made to the pensions is this changes that have already been posed by the government are expected to be

passed in the national assembly here in fronts it is 2020 these changes perhaps the most controversial of them is the idea that french people would have to work for 2 years extra to receive. time and that would be a retirement age of 60 who the government says it has to do this it has to join these pension systems with all the different special bonuses in rates into something this universal favor people say no it means we're going to have to work for longer and possibly end up with less money at the end this strike has paralyzed paris for the last 3 weeks it's also had a massive impact on services across the rest of the country and it is a strike that was called by the railway workers by the metro workers here in the city but it's also been joined by firefighters the police times were taking part in this also health workers in teaches in students it feels like there is

a huge anger across the country but it's not just about the pension is that was just the struve the broke the camel's back there is a wide i'm a lazy in front so we have been witnessing over the last year a malays which has seen people unhappy with all different forms of professions and that's why this strike is being perhaps so well supported we've been having a chat to some of the health workers who hate to say for them to explain the problems within their own profession. today because we have problems with financing for hospitals we have lots of expenses and the raw constraints when it comes to procuring materials and recruiting staff we're here today to say that with public hospitals and we want to save them. the working conditions are bad they have no future it's very difficult for us to live properly on our current salaries there's been no change it's just

a trauma. nobody cares about stuff and off with all these days medicine is no longer a profession anyone wants to get into he doesn't pay. so concerning is this threat to their professions that on monday 6 her. hospital workers sent a letter to the government announcing that they would resign unless there was a massive injection of money into the health service they said it wasn't just about the money it was also that they needed more stalls and there was concern over shortage of hospital beds one health worker has told us that the situation is so bad it could now pose a risk to the lives of patients normally decline in particular we as health care professionals want to be able to continue to do our job so the way we were targeted and the way we want to do that without any discrimination of our interests which has become systemic we don't have the equipment but it's not our fault that we are understaffed but that's not our fault either one of my work in hospital one of our

patients died almost a year ago simply because we don't have enough stuff to take care of everyone that was a year ago but nothing has changed since then while the government would say it has already offered more money to the house service but that was rejected by just groups when it comes to the pension reforms which was the match that sparked this latest round of strikes now into that we the government also says it won't capitulate it won't make a huge hit that's despite the fact minister involved in organizing these pensions and putting those proposals together himself resigned yesterday the government says it won't move the strike is say they won't leave it looks like it will see its troops before christmas it was. american magazine is in the spotlight after a former reporter claimed he quit when editors throughout his story of a chemical attack investigation in syria the no

a public road between newsweek to record has intensified since he accused the publication of suppressing the truth. i decided to hand my resignation in because in essence. i was given a simple choice on one hand i could continue to be employed by the company stay in their chic london offices and earn a steady salary only if i did to what could or could not be reported and suppressed fighter facts or tentative lee i could leave the company and tell the truth. well toric is a writer and freelance journalist who joined newsweek in september this year just 2 months after he quit after pitching a story about the global chemical watchdogs handling of its reports into the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma the outlet rejected it. fears a legal battle over his publishing of an exchange of corporate emails in his pitch

to the editors he planned to refer to recently the e-mails from c w employee it's in which the whistleblowers and fox had been misrepresented in the watchdogs report on the alleged pedophile. but i'm very happy to say we can cross live now to the journalist himself to rick had a trick thanks for joining us this hour can you tell us what was that the main spanked all of your story on the o.p.c. w leaks that newsweek chose not to roll. right i'm not sure if your audiences are aware of the peter hitchens story in the mail on sunday that is but was made available at around the same time. i just wanted to report the presence of the letter the leak he acquired. in a much some of the letters acquired by wiki leaks the fact that you know another british journalist to publish this in a reputable publication i thought you know that was more than enough for newsweek

to be able to do it the letter a since been verified by reuters there's no one that disputes the presence of this letter so i just i thought just the mere presence of that matter was newsworthy enough for audiences how did they decide to drop your story what were you actually told. it went through kind of different stages based on you know how much pushback that i gave. it started off which was kind of you know very casual. marks of oh you know it's the mail on sunday or it's it's peter hitchens so for people who on aware of peter he's a opinion writer in the u.k. but you know many people don't know that he was an accomplished journalist for 20 years you know it's not someone that's going to be just writing this for the sake of. you know creating a controversial opinion especially the mail on sunday still produces quality

journalism they expose the 2005 m.p. scandal here in the u.k. so that they are there are still good journalists there they still have good editorial standards. so you know when i kind of realized that they were you know it's it's some that's why i mention in my report it's the facts get ignored and it's the kind of people presenting the information that gets hacked so i kept pushing with this and then after i kept pushing i was referred to a bell entire article. in my experience and kind of my own research i kind of come to learn that i think isn't what they ought to be don't think we as journalists should be aligned and for all information there is of the riverdance that we're you know more than qualified to understand for ourselves and to go through and that's why i did in the evidence pointed to a specific way so i was i was a bit disturbed. you know i wasn't really given any valid reasons other than i had a few to this article and like i said they're not

a source to be trusted in my opinion. and then finally what kind of happened as i was i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like it's of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me so my kind of what i detailed in my piece and it is a kind of nit picking on and on certain things i was doing and my articles but it was purely on just to be able to target me in an email so often i kept pushing kept pushing essentially was told a couple alarms about why. i wouldn't run the story and then it was a long list of things that are done personally wrong. and i was very unhappy about this because you know i've never experienced like this something like this in my in my job and some career in late november your former colleague the late briefly mention the o.p.c. w. leaks in an article concerning a fox news host who was skeptical about the d.n.a.

instant why did the story run and not yours. roy. i mean i think this is kind of a trend in newsweek and many other places is that. you know if a you know if someone goes on fox news or someone writes story in the guardian they'll happily recycle that story but instead of you know if if you know we are encouraged to do this is journalists to do our own original reporting but in a situation like this where it's obviously very controversial. i think you know if they didn't feel confident on less you know someone else would have said it but you know my argument is the the document documentary evidence that we have a solid it has been verified by reaches it's been verified by the mail on sunday. there's no reason in my opinion that it shouldn't be published o.p.c. w. whistleblowers claim the final report was somewhat doctored something more than

others with others suggesting it was to pin blame on the syrian government what made you think that those leaks are trustworthy story. trustworthy. well i think like i said. you know peter hitchens you know detailed how we met one of the sources in europe. you know that letter which he acquired has since been verified by reuters you know if news organizations can trust the reporting of reuters any more than you. kind of just speaks to how kind of topsy turvy the world has become you know journalists have always trusted reuters to you know to produce reporting and to supplement all reporting i'm not was kind of the big big worrying sign for me is that ok sometimes i understand certain stories if they only have one source or if they've come from a source that's not particularly reputable we might have issues one of them and i have no problems with that but it's when we start seeing you know reputable

journalists or you know sources from reuters that no one is you know this is still not been reported on in the western media artful. and that is just unacceptable well tarik we thank you for coming on the program and sharing your story with us we've been speaking to to wreck had to wreck is a writer a freelance journalist and former news week reporter. well as for the magazine itself newsweek has given this statement saying i had pitched a conspiracy theory they couldn't run because it goes against objective reporting. the abuse of prisoners in secret cia run prisons has been thrown into sharp relief following the release of a report called how america tortures it contains a series of chilling sketches produced by abu zubaydah inmates at guantanamo bay the picking the interrogation techniques he was subjected to between 2005.

was captured from a safe house and pakistan in 2002 sent to a so named cia black sites in thailand where the torture took place he was then transferred to guantanamo bay he's still there without charge so by that was the 1st person to be subjected to the brutal interrogation program which was approved by the administration of george w. bush and has since been acknowledged by the cia here's a quick overview of his story.

as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to crawl position but to no avail it was too tight a very strong pain made the screen unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning in my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen. long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling

asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guard. as a by and as a lawyer who was the driving force behind the torture reports told us why his client should not be kept in detention any longer. work. or very slow and i think they are. understand why he has to be charged. or released or. he was never or never. did not seem to you know it's. transparency issue with what. the fact is there were you were 'd on him for 17 straight is and wrote it in

one of the accountability is very good i would love many people who do but it turns out the american model right now is 'd to look forward not backwards or through probably 'd right now is look if they don't work backwards the people who are stuck there are going to remain stuck i believe. there are all right well let's say. 'd it is. caught between a rock and a hard place america's family friendly hallmark t.v. channel has apologized for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple has promised to create more inclusive content the company division which operates the network says it's been a tough call all run the crown media team has been agonizing over this decision as

we've seen the hurt is has unintentionally caused our mission is rooted in helping all people connect summer break traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives we are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused. the apology comes after the channel poll done and for a wedding planning website that feature the gay couple getting married sparking complaints. planning your perfect wedding easier we did. we felt a 1000000 couples plan registry and invitations started. the adverts spurred a petition by the christian conservative group 1000000 moms called in whole more to not 'd show any proof l g p t content on mitchell the aiming it went against the values of its target audience however the removal calls the bar close and social media to channel exacts change their minds kevin all spoke to media coming to the human rights activist peter

tatchell about the run. this was just a handful that sought to include women who love each other and that is a fact of life and christmas is all about love and coming together you know i can understand what the fuss is about you know if i saw a card or a verse or anything with a man or woman kissing i think beautiful wonderful i love it they were viewers they were watching it they were thinking hey you know if i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas commercial and that to some people is understandable i mean doesn't mean that they were necessarily bigoted or that this was in any way anti-gay it might just be that they wanted to be the ones to have that conversation with their 5 year old is there any reason why a channel which describes itself as family friendly and shows 1st 2 shows this time of year it once children families together on the t.v. popcorn watch is there a reason to describe themselves as that they should take

a bit more care not to offend people that may be offended most young kids get it when they see 2 people in love young kids don't think you know man woman boy girl that they think of love and these were about love not about 6 about love and i would have thought in a modern mature democracy we were better to celebrate love in its many forms is this the time of year where we want to be making political statements during you know what is a the holiday season where we sitting around the fire. with our families you know having having a good time and maybe not thinking so much about l g b t or even abortion or other things that might be more of a political statements almost apologise for pulling the did they need to apologize i think they did yes because it's quite offensive to say that you know an image of 2 women in love is somehow not certain proper for

a broadcast channel in this day and age. by putting the ad that was a deep insult an assertive rejection of the many same sex couples who do love each other and love each other just as much as any husband or wife you get pushback that is from a political action group be it conservative or liberal what you're really getting is a falsely inflated political pushback from people that aren't necessarily your viewers when you hear the pushback initially from the viewers saying you know hey we're we're moms we're watching your network and we don't want this on their my guess is that the majority of that was probably organic. the leaks further cuts thing in dollars home state chemical attacks in syria that propose the antidote to opioid overdoses. and it's next here on 247 our 2

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a guilty plea before the trial. oh you know what it. was. not me not people who live around it and all. through through to me has been forgiven himself for something. i knew she was there and i knew exactly what i was doing. people life. sometimes there's no way to clinician. all of us will hopes it has been absolutely true a baby but so is a behavior that appears even in death and going babies even. you never heard of seen love to. tickles by a parents. and then we learn how to use this in a more complex way i'm one of the things that we learn is to have to join in with love to contagiously to love and somebody else laughs even if you don't know why

they're laughing. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage 3 parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks on the population of belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mobile strike can put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing them they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were. as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and the take rates which the pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers were delayed to be named. the gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is. the water where all the taste and you. give the go ahead.

salutations as julia sobs tragically sits rotting away in a london jail cell that hasn't stopped his organization wiki leaks from continuing to publish the secrets that the warmongering powerful do not want published and they were out of the game last weekend with the release of a new batch of documents once again revealing that when it comes to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and chemical weapons attacks in syria all may not be what we. but sold according to wiki leaks the new documents clearly show internal disagreement within the o.p.c. w. about how facts were misrepresented in the redacted version of a report on an alleged chemical attack and do most syria on april 2018 amongst

these is a memorandum written in protest by one of the scientists sent on a fact finding mission to investigate the attack along with this new memo wiki leaks is also releasing for the 1st time ever the original plimer narry report as well as the redacted version that we the public got to see when it was eventually released by the o.p.c. w. so now you can compare the 2 reports and come to your own conclusions about the motivations behind those were the actions as antiwar dot com as dave de camp points out among the many interesting little discrepancies you'll discover when comparing the 2 reports is that one of the most important details left out of both the redacted report and the final report was that the symptoms of the alleged victims were not consistent with the korean chemical attack not consistent with a chlorine chemical attack you need to hear that twice.