big files from the global chemical weapons watchdog cast further down on the alleged attack in the syrian city of duma last year. love us not to this rally in paris for a 59th weekend alongside protesters marching against pension reforms. and families of americans killed in afghanistan by the taliban sue us contractors for allegedly funding the terrorists. be with us this is r t international. wiki leaks has released a 4th batch of documents from the global chemical weapons watchdog the files raise

questions over a probe into an alleged chlorine gas attack in the syrian city of duma last year with the story here's our guest you see w u b c w shows them a video of an alleged chemical attack and asked them what sort of symptoms they see could they tell what gas it was the specialists look at the video and agree on one answer 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 archive and please remove all trace if any of it's deliberate storage with documents registry archives that was from sebastian brar francis representative to the u.p.c. w. in that email 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 information but bury it completely expunged from their own all call it. that is not there is not a scientific method is it people don't just bury or delete it 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 the past they've been a quite organization remember they've won the nobel prize professionally getting on with their work but they appear to have been subverted and led astray if you like and they're going into this 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 current they were. down and be in denial as indeed is the whole pretty much of the western especially u.s. u.k. media in not actually investigating or knowledge the truth that is now actually seeming to be emerging there's 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're leading contradictory witness testimony classifying and keeping secret victims toxicology reports bringing in american intelligence agents to lecture 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. discussion were. unprofessional. reached by. you know who 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 the 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 o.p.c. 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 you do this spelling counts a call and maybe some are aware that they are they are dubious and they're not to be trusted i think there's probably too much risk in involved in shouldn't listen we shouldn't be trusting them or why should that took place in new zealand in takes place of many organizations where you go at 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 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 establishments what happened molecule by molecule now it picks which molecule to show and which to hide now the u.p.c. w. synthesizes chemical guilt literally out of thin air. we have us the o.p.c. w to comment on the claims that we are waiting to hear back from them. deliver sanctus to be marching in paris for a 59th weekend they joined forces with a mass movement against pension reforms dubin skis in the french capital for us. well it's the 59th week of protests by the jle asian ones out every saturday to show their discontentment with the french government and what they see as being

policies for the rich are they gauge the poor they've also been joined by protest of those against the pension reforms at the moment in france these the reforms that the french government is trying to put through some reforms that would see some food he chewed different pension systems joining down into one universal system so to give you a sense of the crimes that we've got here you might be able to see i simply ghana's and this protest crowd heading back towards cardinal which is about a kilometer away they are in fact also in front of vs well so far this is being a generally calm protest but as you can see some of the protesters are trying to pull down some of the barrier is that are that full the rude works of it going on in this area it seems like the tensions are starting to rise now here in paris as act $59.00 is underway we're being told not to fail not to show what's going on.

but he said any series as you can see my camera is being addressed that we still have the president. who is interested in you know 4 years or the book of all this all. the political will just trying to do our jobs in paris here by showing what's going on with the protests as you probably can see from the end of that footage where cameraman was attacked when we tried to stop the attack us from talking in the camera and that she smacked me across the face this is the kind of reaction you get from some of what people describe as being the black blocks just literally walking me smack course but so i to my face because i was trying to explain to him that way doing our job and to stop trying to harass my cameraman and attempting to break the camera. as you can see the police going to wards that there are that has been laid by the protests since you can see things being thrown out the police by some of the protesters now as they try and get closer this is the

area where we were trying to film earlier and were attacked for doing so by some of those mosques protest is that fire being said to some of the road works that were taking place and it looks like they've been able to get some rubbish to put on top of that police now putting that out very quickly and trying to secure the area as the protest is still around you can feel the tension rising in the end of this 15 or in 3 of the yellow vests protests and of course joined by those in protest against the changes to the pension system bringing book food by the french government. thank you. thank you thank you.

and the tear gas now we just purses the police trying to control those crimes you could see they were bottles they look like lost vocals being thrown into the pace you can still see some things being thrown into the air and not tear gas now that cloud coming pushing us away as a mechanism again for trying to control the protests picking up this is already it's coming quite close to say really need to move forward a bit faster if we thought if we can just to try and get away from that particular it's now dispersed by the police and attempts to control the crowds here close to shuttle a in the center of paris just give you a saying. where she actually is it's just across the water from your tie down at that famous cathedral here in paris the police there trying to move themselves away at that tear gas unusual to see the police crying from the tear gas it's perhaps

nice to see for me that i'm not the only person who is impacted by the gas. and while police say they have arrested 3 people during saturday's rallies in paris and activists are accusing offices of resorting to brutal tactics because. it is striking that there are a serial types of protesters but only the yellow thus have beaten all it's unbelievable yellow vests representatives of trade unions and these and just passers by were all gathered here to see know who their governments are for the protesters should be respected this year as compared to all the special police unit began to beat us with shields the romans in from the hit him hard with a shield once again hitting is on you fool on the ground when i was raising him out with a fine tear gas. enough to say hit my face with the sill that is what is really happening

in france now what did i do to them on the pacifist asked everyone to stay calm ask for the right to go in demonstrations. a lawsuit has been filed in the us against military contractors who allegedly paid protection money to the taliban in afghanistan in the bullpen explains. 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 redirect some fines way from the room business interests we believe plaintiffs to the consequences and the scale of the payouts was quite staggering between 20 and 40 percent of all funds for major projects in afghanistan and it 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 there is a fundamental gap of funder standing in the front end over stated objectives and over reliance on 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 we have us the companies named in the lawsuit and also the us state if i'm to come into the story of this so far they have not got back to us right quote veterans said you can check in told us that the case highlights that the plan was in u.s. policy in afghanistan. in order to make money for contracting companies they 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 state 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 finding 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. 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. at least 90 people being killed in a truck bombing in a somali capital mogadishu vehicle blew up with

a busy intersection i used to victims we university students and they say it's one of the most deadly somalia is no stranger to such assaults and it's a pretty vile kind of thing to treat. you know want to have claimed responsibility for saturday's bomb. in muslims are working to build community ties in london by making christmas presents for families in need this story ambo after the break.

it is a long held tradition on cross talk to take stock of the year that is about to pass we have a look at what moved us what changed and what gave us concern 2019 the good the bad and the.

welcome back this christmas a group of young muslims in london made presents for children in hospital and from less well off families is part of a drive to improve cultural links between communities has the story. christmas it's the time of families coming together people putting their feet up and relaxing 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 are also trying 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. why should anyone in christmas especially children be deprived of this festive feeding and 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

and 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 will messenger highlighting the answer. the 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 sense and i think it's just absolutely typical of the muslims that i know that they respond to others with compassion and with mercy and for me that's an important issue that if those are the qualities of god then you try and replicate those qualities of god so to see this is just

wonderful news to recognize in that there are some people for whom. compassion mercy general attitude beneficence all these things. are important it is a time of rising tensions in the world and hate crime on the rise it's also important to show that those issues don't represent the whole picture easily artie lange of the. deadly forest fires in your still in state of new south wales have been raging for almost 2 months now firefighters are gearing up for hotter drier and windy conditions next week with the temperature expected to reach 45 degrees celsius amid all this the country's government has just launched an expensive ad campaign designed to boost tourism getting some to wonder about its priorities.

security. committee was very upset if you just need some space. tourism australia should be an investigation full stop the toxic oxide has no hope

interest mines offshore prisons smoke cities the bush was on fire and 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 plan. brits walking into australia to seeing the kylie minogue tourism had. now finished this hour with in case you missed it in the 3rd installment of polly boy because review of 2019 where among other things she looks at trump's a pitchman and protests in paris. the end have 2019 years old trump the battle impeachment bricks and locked in its own brawl and bombshell laid out and protests what a truly global welcome to part 3 i see why my is a round up of 2019. in september extinction rebellion 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 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. 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 why. is a word that's right because america is keeping the oil also that money has a $1000000.00 catalonians really so they buy stuff. they were on happy with this time 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 very much the same 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 france 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 protest policy algeria was acting as well whatever in iraq things turned ugly quickly adams 100. demonstrators were killed in the event but there was good news for jailed wiki leaks founder julian assange on sweden had dropped those allegations of sexual misconduct against him i believe that u.s.

extradition cases. and in december. johnson finally got the election he wanted winning by a landslide. that brags it wouldn't be cancelled probably with 2019 coming to an end it's seasons greetings from the i see why my team see all. 3 parts of political just say come 2019 in full on our website as well in case you missed. this when i return with top stories and more of our latest headlines. that's geysers financial survival they say money the bill i. want you to use it this is the central plank support diabolo means 100 club and right now it's

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100 active tonight on larry king am so happy holidays i hope you're stuffing your face with some sort of refined sugars right now if you aren't that's very un-american and you get on it all right find something shaped like a elf and shove it in your face hole anyway because it is. not an actual altho beat those are anyway because it's a holiday as i don't have a live audience you might have noticed no live audience episodes redacted tonight but i still have something pretty awesome for you throughout this past year we have covered the most censored most important most redacted stories about our u.s. military and it's so early. the most important story probably being the

$21.00 trillion dollars of unaccounted for spending at the pentagon over the past 20 years 20 what it $21.00 trillion it unimaginable amount of money no matter how many times i say it it makes me angry every time a new it would take this is a real fact it would take 5 or 6 days of the stated pentagon budget to give the world clean water for a year 5 or 6 days dirty water kills millions around the world every year we could save millions of lives every year and we'd be beloved we've never you know terrorism hugs and kisses everywhere we go people be like oh it's the water people give them some chocolates. really. it's unimagined anyway you have to point our military industrial complex is completely out of control and

what follows are the best segments from redacted tonight's many episodes this year relating to our u.s. military enjoy you might recall that on a previous show i covered the $21.00 trillion dollars that has gone unaccounted for at the pentagon that's right trillion with a t. and i feel like every time this topic is even mentioned if you come would like a little just a little clue suffix a little suffix right there in that suffix should be. right there anyway the $21.00 trillion includes $6.00 trillion dollars unaccounted for in 2015 alone and when i covered this a few months ago really the only 2 journalists looking into it were david de graw writing for his own website and a single forbes article which was co-written by the economist who discovered the

unaccounted adjustments mark skidmore and i discovered i don't mean skidmore like found a dusty shoe box and donald rumsfeld's old desk underneath you know the baby skeletons underneath the baby skeletons. i mean he took a minute to look at the defense department's own inspector general's report so really he does bother to look at the thing that was designed for the public to look at. that's what he did anyway after the redacted the night after so it came out it got hundreds of thousands of views like true to go articles on the same topic also went viral and so did that forbes article yet despite thank you get this quite.