the industry this is simply an issue our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. wiki leaks cost further down on the o.p.c. w.'s final report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year policing internal documents that suggest a cover up may have taken place. also this hour families of americans killed or injured in afghanistan by the taliban through u.s. contractors allegedly funding the terror group. and a transgender physics teacher in the u.k. faces a storm of criticism for wearing a t. shirt that said trans women are men. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach here in moscow

thanks for joining us this hour. with the leaks has released a 4th batch of documents from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that cast further doubt on its report on allegations of a chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year they reveal the o.p.c. w chose to ignore evidence that contradicts its conclusion that the attack came from the air are picks up the story talks a caller just a pharmacologist and bio and then the chemist walk into the. room of review of an alleged chemical attack and ask them what sort of symptoms they see could tell what gas it was the specialists look at the video and agree on one and the rest is classified or was classified. it was agreed among all present that the key takeaway message from the meeting was that the symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate chemical causing the symptoms could be identified another day another leak another

embarrassment and another blow to the u.p.c. w.'s credibility they knew they knew the rebel video was questionable didn't find any nerve agent any chlorine in quantities sufficient to indicate a chemical attack nothing but they wouldn't admit it we know of at least one person at the u.p.c. w.'s very selective about what gets saved and what gets deleted please get this document out of documents registry archives and please remove all traces of it's deliberate storage with documents registry archives that was from sebastian brar france's representative to the u.p.c. w in that e-mail he demands the deletion of a technical report which concluded that the gas canisters most likely were dropped from the air by acids aircraft but placed at the scene obviously placed by someone

staged. they've tried not just to exclude certain from asian but beriah completely expunged it from their own all call it. that is not there is not a scientific method is it people don't just bury or delete and actually delete all traces of a report that is that the smoking gun of a cover up and now we see the capture and the politicization of the a.b.c. w. what's really encouraging though is we have people within the organization all willing to try and get the truth. out of it steps here in terms of p.r. and diplomacy in apostates been a quite organization remember they've won the nobel prize professionally getting on with their work but i appear to have been subverted and led astray if you like and they're going to uncharted waters where now i think from a p.r. perspective they're finding it difficult to cope and in the past if the past 3 leaks because this is a false leak now of documents if the past 3 leaks are guarded very well i say. down

and be in denial as indeed it's the whole pretty much of the western especially u.s. u.k. media in not actually investigating your knowledge and the truth that is now actually seeming to be emerging as not enough time to run through everything that the u.p.c. w. edited out every corner they cut every piece of evidence they twisted to make asaad look guilty and like excluding all but one of their investigators who went to syria for writing the report they needing contradictory witness testimony classified and keeping secret victims' toxicology reports bringing in american intelligence agents 10 electric chemists 2 dozen employees suspected professionalism fraud or even foul play according to leaked e-mails but the boss he stuck to his guns weren't some of these. new. public discussion. i would like to read through it.

unprofessional. reached by the side. you know disagrees with him the 1st director general of the o.p.c. w. who has cosigned an open letter calling on the organization to let people who they've gagged speak out with every week this story gets bigger more scandalous which may not be the impression you get on t.v. or in the big big has it's all obesity w defends its report and hits back at whistleblowers many of the people writing these are they're scared there's only so much that they're allowed to write many editors and many journalists aren't even aware of the propaganda so what will take place is they will be told. oh no this is this is all just rubbish look at the spelling counts a call and maybe some are aware that they are they are dubious and they're not to be trusted i think that's probably too much risk involved in them shouldn't listen

we shouldn't be trusting them i want to show that took place at a news event in takes place of many organizations where you go and it is you know possibly senior reporters where you know they go and work in these think tank release you know that cultivating relationships with us state department officials or heads of different political organizations and i think what not stars do is. you know it becomes a conflict of interest this is the new p.c. w. it is no longer about 5 didn't the truth stablish in what happened molecule by molecule now it big switch molecule to show in which to hide now the u.p.c. w. synthesisers chemical guilt literally out of thin air. we've asked the o.p.c. w. to confirm whether the latest revelations are indeed true so far they have not responded . a lawsuit has been filed in the us against military contractors who

allegedly paid protection money to the taliban and afghanistan martin has more. ever since 911 the u.s. government has been working to criminalize prosecute and sanction those who fund terrorism however there's a recent lawsuit that seems to hit pretty close to home a new lawsuit alleges that some u.s. companies operating in afghanistan contracting with the u.s. military have been paying out large amounts of protection cash to the taliban now the lawsuit is filed on behalf of those who have lost relatives in afghanistan this is how the lawyer representing those family members explained the legal action the antiterrorism complaint alleges that 8 launch multinational corporations most of which are american regularly paid protection payments to the taleban including

conny network which was designed to boost the company's profits by redirects and fines way from the room business interests we believe plaintiffs buthe consequences and the scale of the payouts was quite staggering between 20 and 40 percent of all funds for major projects in afghanistan and up lining the pockets of insurgents now 2 of the firms that are named in the papers the da i global and louis berger group they received roughly $1000000000.00 in development aid between 20072009 now one of the companies named in the case says it's very proud of the work that it did in afghanistan a spokesman for black and veatch said he's completed followed the directions of u.s. government agencies and was proud of his projects in afghanistan earlier this month congress released a report regarding the war in afghanistan and which u.s. military officials revealed some hard truths about the u.s.

campaign. what are we trying to do here we didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking the reason fundamental gap of funder standing in the front and over stated objectives and over lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary so this latest case adds to the overall picture of billions wasted and pointless loss of life in what has been the longest war that the united states has ever waged about the companies named in the lawsuit and the u.s. state department to comment on the story of us so far they have not gotten back to us iraq war veteran sergio curch arrogant told us the case highlights the deep laws and us policy in afghanistan in order to make money for contracting companies that don't care they will they will bid the contract they'll take the contract and then on the ground once you get the money then you figure out how you go about it afghan war papers i think they they say things pretty clearly number one there was no

mission we have not control the country at all so the taleban and al-qaeda and whoever else is in their islamic state which is actually a minority basically the funding and the money gets funneled down that way this is where the issue goes back to actually going back to the perpetrators of the war and the conflict and not just you can blame contractors for a lot of things for sure but they're also they get these contracts and they they get to operate. libya's internationally recognized government has officially it requested military assistance from turkey as it attempts to stave off an offensive by the warlord but we are the turkish president has said that lawmakers will decide in early january whether or not to deploy troops to the war torn country. although it didn't. we would go to

a place where we are invited to go we would not go to a place we are not invited to go to at the moment since there is such an invitation we were sworn to the 1st thing we will hopefully do as soon as the parliament resumes is to present the military deployment bill god willing on the 8th or 9th of january whichever we will pass is now parliament and we will be responding to the invitation. libya was plunged into chaos in the wake of the 2011 uprising and the subsequent killing of it then leader moammar gadhafi by u.s. backed rebels the country is currently being fought over by 2 rival administrations the un backed government in the capital and a government based in tobruk in the east the renegade general kofi if i have to his forces have been closing in on tripoli in recent months or both the united states and the arab league have voiced their opposition to a turkish military intervention this interference will only prolong the confrontation and increase the suffering of the people of libya it will also hinder international diplomatic efforts aimed at

a peaceful settlement of the libyan crisis president donald j. trump spoke with president. egypt regarding we'd be at the leaders rejected for an exploitation agreed that part is must take urgent steps to resolve the conflict before leiby and sluice control to for an act mark allman the director of the crisis research institute told us why he believes turkey is poised to intervene in the libyan conflict. libya in some ways is a proxy conflict between these rivals for domination in the middle east but also turkey not only has problems with these allies to the west like egypt and saudis in the americas. in libya it also has problems with some of its nato allies greece and france in particular turkey in a sense is saying you've rejected us we can show that we can be rather awkward to you so libya in some ways is a kind of sand pit conflict where there are also some local reasons why after in the tripoli government directly charges for the capital government in east face it

controls oil and gas but if you want to buy it from the market you have to pay the money into tripoli thank you so long as the tripoli government controls the international bank account of libya it may not control much territory but it does as it were control the cash but these outside forces will nominally allied to each other are also at each other's throats struggling for influence over after all the very oil and gas rich country. this christmas a group of young muslims and london made presents for children in hospitals and from less well off families that's part of a drive to improve cultural links between communities is ally has a story. 1st worst it's a time of families coming together and people putting their feet up and relaxing if only for just a few days however it can also be a tough time of the year for many in the u.k. both personally and financially and for that reason many people here also try to make an effort to help their fellow citizens in this festive period one such initiative also seeks to strengthen ties between culturally different communities

we thought. why should anyone in christmas especially children be deprived of this festive feeling so by providing them with the gifts we can try and. you know lessen their pain by drawing a big smile on their faces this initiative has been put together by the foundation the shia muslim youth group based in north london it's all about coming together with other like minded people and wrapping presents to be handed out to families in need as well as in local hospitals and to children in foster homes the organizers say it's a part of their faith to reach out to others particularly those in need the campaign was called gifts or messenger highlighting the intimate relationship between islam's mohammed and christianity jesus at the end of the day we hope that we can build bridges to become a positive i said to society in london. one local priest is enthused by the message of unity that this event sends and i think it's just. because of the muslims the

time they respond to with compassion and with mostly and for me that's an important issue that if those the qualities of god then you try and replicate those qualities of god so to see this is just wonderful news in that there are some people for whom. compassion mercy general beneficence all these things. are important it is a time of rising tensions. in the wall the hate crime on the rise it's also important to show that those issues don't represent the whole picture beside the all. still to come a transgender teacher faces a storm of criticism after wearing a top that says trans women are men that story is next after the short break.

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magistracy in brazil and in rio de janeiro it's awesome it's beautiful it's gorgeous hey if you were running a country that had an amazing pristine rain forest what would you do it. welcome back a transgender physics teacher from the u.k. could be kicked off a union committee for allegedly transphobia that behave and faced a storm of criticism after wearing a top that said trans women are men. respects her own gender less than the rest of us respect her gender pathetically confused person the sooner your idiocy and discriminatory behavior is closed down or you'll continue to be known platforms the better what's a clown how do you as a trans flack on your profile and say such transfixing get educated haven wore

the t. shirt back in july outnumbered and organized by the campaign group called fair play for women did not go down well with some who complained to the general secretary of the committee she is part of they said she was propagating hate speech against the trans community she could now face disciplinary action and expulsion from her seat on the trade union congress committee hate mo is sticking to her view that trans people are biologically attached to the sex they are born we spoke to trans advocate jordan i've been to says he views are too controversial for some in the community. i do agree with debbie on a number of things but we don't see eye to eye on everything in regards to this it's why any activist does what they do is to send a message and in debbie's case she wanted to send a message that trans women do often tend to have x.y. chromosomes myself included and it is a message that tends to be very controversial in trance or to actually in my

opinion a greater issue with cancell culture as a whole this is something that we need to have a conversation about not just as a community but as a collective demographic as a generation because there is no end to cancell culture right now there is no. time for redemption no opportunity to actually. from what you've done you have done something wrong and now you must be punished if this goes through and she is severely punished for saying what she has done in the trance monikers a very important part of who i am it's a very important part of my journey i'm a woman with x.y. chromosomes most of the time they tend to exists on social media circles and they have their own followings they lash out at people like debbie because they see her approach and they react accordingly they don't resemble people you necessarily see on social media but there are definitely people who exist solely to

keep us down. deadly forest fires in the australian state of new south wales have been raging for almost 2 months now firefighters are gearing up for hotter and drier and windier conditions next week with the temperature expected to reach 45 degrees celsius amid all of that the country's government has just launched an expensive ad campaign designed to boost tourism i think some to wonder about its priorities. sure you. can live with. it you just need some space.

tourism australia should be under investigation so sometimes it does nothing for the treatment of show prisons cities the bush was on fire in the car was a bleached deer australia probably not the best time to run a tourism anyway kumi when you have a science based crime class. brits walking into australia after seeing the kylie minogue tourism ad. the world anti-doping agency has received an

official complaint from its russian counterpart after the country was banned from major sports events for 4 years for allegedly manipulating drug test data on a says it's ready to defend the ban in court under the ban russia cannot participate in the 2020 olympics in tokyo or the football world cup in qatar preventing clean russian athletes can participate as individuals under a neutral flag but russia also won't be able to host world championship sports events for the next 4 years either a sports minister says want to decision is politicized. but. you know my opinion and of that of lawyers the water decision runs counter to a number of sports norms as well as the international olympic committee's charter and other legislation and we will bring this out for jury in the appeal trial yes there have been violations in connection with the athlete listen code we're not

going to deny that it's a proven fact and listening to himself has admitted to it and he will now face the punishment as well as his coach's nickname would be. over the past few years we've essentially built a whole new system of the founders of the earlier saga and now russia's olympic and paralympic committee is it has a completely transparent management system in the past rushes a ministry of support and was accused of interfering with their activities but now there are no such accusations and the recent check of the results confirms this its work was evaluated and satisfactory bar the next go round the council of europe despite that the wada made this decision because i think it

was greatly politicised they made this decision despite the fact that as i just said we had fulfilled all the requirements. and their financials but i believe that this point should adopt a unified firm stance and talk to those people who are doping and talk privately that we need to take this problem on together because we all bear responsibility not only the minister i mean because if you have an. swallowing some thrills of your fellow creature not reaching. for what is keeping silent about that dr clean athletes he is going to have all that responsible there's no other way to overcome with you this no matter what the mulch you offer but. we finish this hour with in case you missed it and the 3rd installment of polly boy goes review up 2019 for

among other things she looks at trump's impeachment and protests in paris. the ends of 2019 sword trump bottle impeachment britain elect its own bombshell lida i'm puerto tests when a truly global welcome to paul 3 i see why my eyes round up of 2019. in september extinction rebellion and back with the global strike to draw attention to climate change by community says meanwhile in washington the dems finally had the donald where they wanted him staring down the barrel of impeachment proceedings for georgie's phone call where the u.s. president may or may not have put pressure on that comedian ukrainian president to investigate jerry biden's son in return for military aid allegedly in ontario hit the fan when donald trump decided to pull u.s. troops out of syria abandoning that kurdish allies to face and by turkish forces

only by the end of the month the u.s. military had pulled out $1000.00 u.s. troops and sent back another $900.00 why because. that's right because america is keeping the oil also that money was a 1000000 catalonians really so they bashed up false alert they were on a happy with the government's harsh sentencing of the one in the breakaway regions formally does in fact bashing things off in the name of democracy was a very much the autumn trend in november bolivia chile peru and ecuador went up in flames as frustrated latin americans railed against corrupt governments on top economic conditions and in fronts the yellow vests celebration is a year of protests where another protest one that i see why my extended that is

nothing like the smell of to gas in the afternoon. democracy demonstrations in hong kong were being labeled a potential civil war while in the middle east lebanon's revolution started off as a cuddly protest policy algeria was acting as well whatever in iraq things turned ugly quickly atoms hundreds of demonstrators were killed in that event by that was good news for jailed wiki leaks founder julian assange sweden had dropped those allegations of sexual misconduct against him i believe that u.s. extradition cases. and in december. and finally got the election he wanted winning by a landslide. that brags it wouldn't be cancelled probably with $29000.00 coming to an end it's seasons greetings from the i c y m i t c all. you can watch all 3 parts take on

2019 in full on our website as well as on the in case you missed it. let's hear it for now but i'll be back with the latest. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. the world. mexico's a red state you see her but do you get into the burning questions of this election cycle. every week. student debt trade wars money universal basic. and more. running this sunday exclusively on our. today there are good dentists and bad evidence the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be

a threat the looked at it is those who are in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding an army of death squads there's no any more because there's always a small people for a really good that's. a profit. max kaiser this is the kaiser report back to stacey in brazil in rio de janeiro it's awesome it's beautiful it's gorgeous hey if you were running a country that had an amazing pristine rainforest what would you do with it let's

think about this stacy i would not chop it down and sell it for matchsticks as max keiser is famous little video you made back in 2004 or 5 talking about gold and that gold actually comes into this because. after this 1st have i'm brazilian amazon deforestation this year nearly the size of puerto rico says agency destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest total 563 square kilometers in november which is more than double the area in the same month last year according to the country's space research agency i.m.p. on friday that would bring total deforestation for the period from january to november to 8934 square kilometers 83 percent more than in the same period in 2018 and an area almost the size of puerto rico now you know i have an idea for brazil actually they should entered this a oxygen futures market and so the countries around.