leaked files from the global chemical weapons watchdog calls further down on an alleged attack in the syrian city of duma last year. yellow vests activists rally in paris for a 59th weekend alongside a protest against pension reforms. and families of americans killed in afghanistan by the taliban suit u.s. contractors religiously funding the terror group. line from moscow where it's just past 2 in the morning you're watching r.t. international welcome to the program. now wiki leaks has released

a 4th bunch of documents from the global chemical weapons watchdog the files raised questions over a probe into an alleged chlorine gas attack in the syrian city of duma last year. has this story the toxicologist pharmacologist and the bio analytical chemist walked into the u.p.c. 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 specialist 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 its 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 at ads 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 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 o.p.c. w. what's really encouraging though is we have people within the organization all willing to join get the truth that it. is out of it step here in terms of p.r. and diplomacy in apostate been a quiet 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 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 they will isolate the new pos simply double down and be in denial as indeed is the whole pretty much of the western especially us 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. youths who knew. them. were i would like to read through it. unprofessional. reached by the side. 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 this story gets bigger more scandalous which they 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 as they will be told. or no this is this is all just rubbish it is the spelling counts a call and maybe some are aware that they are they are dubious and are not to be trusted i think that's probably too much risk involved in them shouldn't listen we shouldn't be trusting and i want to show that took place at a news event in takes place of many organizations where you go at it says 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 but we have asked their p c w to comment on these claims are waiting to hear back from them. and gallup best activists have been marching in paris for a 59th weekend they joined forces with a mass movement against pension reforms challenged events in the french capital for

us. well it's the 59th week of protests by the jle asian ones out every saturday to show the discontentment with the french government and what they see as being policies for the rich are they against 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 push through some reforms that would see some food 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 god to norwich 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 or that fool 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 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 and speeding across that the schedule of 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 across both sides my face because i was trying to explain to him that we're 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 are fired that has been late by the protest 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 59th week of the yellow vests protests and of course joined by those on 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 at this is already is 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 snag dispersed by the police and attempts to control the crowds here close to shuttle a in the center of paris just give you

a sense. where she actually is it's just across the water from down 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 a perhaps nice to see for me that i'm not the only person who is impacted by the cas. meanwhile police say they arrested 3 people during saturday's rallies in paris and activists are accusing officers of resorting to brutal tactics. come out it is striking that there are a serial types of protesters but only the yellow vests have beaten all it's unbelievable yellow vests representatives of trade unions and these just passers by were all gathered here to say no to the government's reform or the protesters should be respected this year as compared to all the special police unit began to beat us with shields he romas in from they hit him hard with

a shield once again hitting is on you fell on the ground and when i was raising him they find him again. 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 u.s. against military contractors who allegedly paid protection money to the taliban and afghanistan caleb maupin has more in this case. 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 the kani network which was designed to boost the company's profits by redirects and finds 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 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 also the firms named in the lawsuit and also the us state

department to comment on this story and we will of course bring you any response we get from the iraq war veteran subject told us the case highlights the deep rules in u.s. 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 state things pretty clearly number one there was no mission we have not control the country at all so 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. a truck explosion has killed at least 90 people in the somali capital mogadishu the bomb laden vehicle blew up at a busy intersection on saturday morning the victims include university students and 17 police offices dozens more injured and it is feared the death toll could rise this was somalis deadliest it's incident in 2 years no group has so far claimed responsibility but the city man has blamed the islamist terrorist group al-shabaab . for young muslims are working to build community ties in london by making christmas presents for families in need this story i'm off to this short break. you make is like that child in the room it's impulsivity it's narcissism it's

us versus them it's fear the prefrontal cortex is empathy it's compassion it's thinking about the future in terms of what we do today that's where we need to make our decisions based from from the prefrontal cortex unfortunately when we eat the modern diet of our planet or when we watch the news or we spend too much time online we lock in to be a make believe we lock in to the child in the room and we're not able to make good decisions. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back this christmas a group of young muslims in london a presence for children and hospital and from less well off families it's all part of a drive to improve cultural links between communities there. the story. christmas it's the time of families coming together and 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 we still. why should. anyone in christmas especially children be

deprived of their 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 gift for 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 sense and i think it's just. because of the muslims that time know that they respond to those 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 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 essentially artie lange of the. deadly forest fires in the australian state of new south wales have been raging for almost 2 months now firefighters gearing up for hotter dry and windy conditions next week when the temps are expected to reach 45 degrees celsius there and amid all this the country's government has just launched an expensive ad campaign designed to boost tourism leading some to wonder about its

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tourism australia should be under investigation for false advertising thought i'd has no open interest minds offshore prisons smoke shops cities the bushes on fire and the car was a bleached deer australia probably not the best time to run a tourism but anyway call me when you have a science based crime class. brits walking into australia after seeing the kylie minogue tourism ad. while 2020 is just 3 days away and party boy has been picking out the political shock waves that defined the outgoing year in the latest episode of in case you missed it. the 19 sold trump bottle impeachment britain to its own bomb shell leda 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 phone call where the us 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 catalonians really so they bashed up false alert they were on happy with this time the government's harsh sentencing of the one of the breakaway regions formally does in fact bashing things off in the name of democracy was a very much the 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 has nothing like the smell of to gas in the afternoon in. democracy devon's. nations in hong kong were being labeled a potential civil war while in the middle east lebanon's revolution started off as a costly protest policy algeria was acting as well whatever in iraq things turned

ugly quickly out of 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 in britain boris johnson finally got the election he wanted winning by a landslide and couldn't refuse it wouldn't be cancelled probably with $29000.00 coming to an end it's seasons greetings from the i see why my team see you all in 2020. 4 you can watch all 3 parts of the boy has taken 2019 in full on our website as well as on the in case you missed it you tube channel. that is your update from our mars on the low good no be back here with the rest of the team at the top of the hour to bring you more news from around the world to see them.

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