since most of. president vladimir putin approves a new russian government too we take a look at the cabinet line up. western powers continued to defend the chemical weapons watchdog report on alleged chemical attack in syria despite the agency's own former inspector calling it contradictory. the findings in the final bit. contradictory or a complete turnaround. that it understood. and the russian health ministry once said that the country could be at risk from the new coronavirus spreading it through china.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and sean thomas certainly glad to have with us our russia has a new government it comes in the wake of last week's resignation of the old one as it made way for constitutional changes the new cabinet was approved by president putin on tuesday. producer were to us congratulations on your appointment to the government and i believe this will be a very serious challenge in your lives but at the same time it will be a very interesting journey i wish you all success the whole country is behind you the previous government created a proper foundation for further development and growth we should use this foundation and embrace our potential to achieve national go russia's president vladimir putin met with the prime minister the new prime minister. and the faces of

the new government were unveiled to the russian public and the rest of the world now everybody was speculating as to how big the changes are going to be and i have to say they have been quite well sizable or they are quite significant but some of the veterans and veterans of the true sense of this word they are staying for instance russia's top diplomat sergey lavrov he is staying so the all the western partners they won't be needing to get used to a new face there's a familiar one that will be doing all the talking on russia's behalf also russia's chief policeman he's staying he's keeping his ministerial job as well as does russia's war chief surrogate sure who now as for those who lost their positions they were mostly there were mostly people designated with fixing russia's internal policies and largely the former government was viewed as rather while it was rather unpopular and the changes showed that it is it has grown unpopular with the

president too for instance it was heavily criticized for failing to deliver on the lattimer putin's internal policies now this whole thing was set in motion last wednesday when the russian president made an address to the federal assembly and outlined not only to changes to the russian constitution as he proposed changes but also he outlined the new course you need with a big focus on the internal. policies here in russia so it will certainly be interesting to see whether this fresh blood that has feel the veins of the russian political system whether these new people will live up to the expectations of. the un security council has debated the investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog into in incident in the syrian city of duma back in 2018 russia has questioned the published findings and during the session a former o.p.c. w. specialist said the fact finding team had serious misgivings that

a chemical attack even occurred there ought to make clear what new. findings information doctor or nurses. feel so there's just too many talks ecology. notices. and all that it's fixed. resulted in a complex turnaround situation. where . you let us be in no down there was this chemical weapons attack in june we have in 2 huge 15 witnesses in the duma hospital that witnesses and undisputable proof that the chemical attack in dumont was falsified and estates caterpillar categorically objects to russia's blatant attempt

to use the security council meeting to weaken the credibility of the o.p.c. w. and its findings on the duma attacked no one has just named the guilty even without presenting any evidence and enjoy the support of a new middle someone's who you really cannot have wolf in unison. since the o.p.c. w. published its report to the organization's own inspectors have voiced concerns that the probe misrepresents the facts for example the initial assessment suggested chlorine cylinders were manually placed at the scene contradicting the published version documents released by we can leaks also show that the team that went to do more was not included in the group putting together the report and he's came up and has more. the united nations convened a meeting in which the results of the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the syrian syrian city of duma in 2018 was discussed now that report from the ows o.p.c.

w has come into question after information was revealed leaks cited that crucial evidence was essentially left out of that final report and that crucial evidence that was left out could have pointed toward the attack being staged in henderson who was a weapons inspector he participated with the o.p.c. w in their fact finding mission in duma he doesn't agree with that he says that he pretty much based on the evidence has concluded that the canisters were placed manually they were not dropped from an airplane this is what in henderson said to the un meeting speaking through video link this is what he in henderson said the findings. were contradictory. to. what happened to. your.

release of the interim report. 2000 and. 2 was that serious misgivings that a chemical attack. now in henderson is himself an expert on chemical weapons and the forensic investigations into them furthermore he actually participated in the official o p c w investigation but regardless that did not stop certain voices from trying to cast doubt on what he said to the u.n. meeting take a listen mr henderson's pape has a pitch reflex a person and. of course their own. bound to be robust exchanges of views with voices differing from others in any scientific process but what counts is the final considered assessment now the syrian government has been absolutely adamant and

clear it had nothing to do with the chemical incident some countries. led by the united states of america. continue to exceed the provisions of the convention on the point of chemical weapons. by politicizing the war of the o.p.c. wu and to trying to. go from the track it was created for that was the chemical incident let's recall in 2008 chemical incident in which the western countries the united states and france they use that as an opportunity to unleash $100.00 missiles against the syrian government there.

and we've had wiki leaks publish a number of of leaks and information e-mails showing that there just was not unanimous agreement within the o.p.c. w. about who was responsible for the attack based on that this report from the o.p.c. w. has been widely questioned allies of the united states seem to insist that the syrian government is responsible and the opi c.w. report is conclusive and shouldn't be question so once again we have debate over the chemical incident i think peter tunes are going to continue to turn from a view of it is clearly what they don't want to uphold their narrative and in fact what we heard is a final report and then also one of these whistleblowers who are made up of the actual scientists and the americans are saying we'd like to report let's just move on and the russians are saying wait

a minute let's listen to the national scientists because it sounds like this science didn't actually go into the final core so obviously the russians and americans can sell you a big stand with the o.p.c. don't you depends on whether you're talking about troop or. what are the scientists who are pushing it goes to think that it doesn't actually represent the 5. we spoke with journalist who was previously barred by newsweek from reporting the story on the o.p.c. w. leaks he quit in protest after the magazine's management gag him had told us that there is no reporting on the issue in western media this is not something is going to go away it's very serious so. you know we've seen absolutely no reporting about this in the western media if we have. intelligence officials from the united states that can influence the reports of this body it opens the doors to many more

situations where you know genuine chemical weapons attacks might not be treated in the same way because the reputation of the body is not taken seriously i think we've already started to see the kind of counter propaganda from the united states already kind of trying to change the narrative of the c.w. must keep. in check and hold his government to account for chemical weapons attacks but it's completely counter what what the information that we have a president. facebook is purging its network of content deemed sympathetic to the assassinated iranian general customers of the money one of those affected is a viral content agency in the now whose own videos on so many have been deleted here is one clip that was taken down. i think ron and its allies sent. packing the u.s. could assassinate. would. punch the. western media outlets

that is state department. changing their to the us government's agenda. the social media giant has admitted to taking down pro so many posts across its platforms including targeting dozens of iranian journalists and influencers some a very counts were even deleted the tech giant says it is simply complying with u.s. sanctions laws following the u.s. strike on the late general earlier this month hundreds of iranians flooded their social media accounts with tributes. to the hosts in the soap box rania. told us why they think their content has been targeted by facebook. i think facebook took down my video basically because it exposes what the u.s. government does not want americans to see namely that the iranian general custance with the money was a top anti isis general met something that used to be reported as i showed in my

video back in 20142015 during the peak against the fight against isis but when trump assassinated for the money suddenly that fact that's noncontroversial fact was not to be found anywhere and so basically my video showed how us media tailors its line according to the precepts of the united states government and that was deemed apparently a threat they said it violated community standards and therefore was unpublished which is some orwellian doublespeak term unpublished that simply just means censorship that's what we're dealing with here less government is always raising you know a stink about oh china centering this or iran is censoring not but in this case you know unlike those cases which are domestic censorship that only affect those countries what the us government is doing here is it's it's basically forcing these

social media giants to censor things globally to cancel out any actual information that challenges the state department narrative about countries seem to be official enemies and it's really really disturbing because what you have here is it's almost like here any through algorithm becoming increasingly difficult when you have a social media environment that's dominated native by these major big tech conglomerates like google and facebook. so i mean all the best thing that people can do that we can do i guess is that have you know content across multiple platforms and at some point you know in the future alternative media specifically because this is an attack on alternative media needs to come up with some say. of alternative way alternative platform because they know tomorrow these social media giants at the behest of the u.s. government could just press a button and erase all of us and that's what's really scary here. the russian health ministry has warned that the country could be at risk from the new corona

virus spreading through china some 300 cases have been registered in china and the countries share 4000 kilometer border done quarter reports. people are dying of a new virus reported cases have tripled since the weekend and it's spreading like wildfire across asia it we still know so little about this mysterious illness.

this new coronavirus has been identified as a mutation of sars a respiratory disease that killed over 750 people around the world from 2002 to 2003 antibiotics have absolutely no effect on either of the viruses and that's been enough to put the russian authorities on high alert not least because the chairs of border with china. the break of a new coronavirus which was 1st recorded in china carries a body logical threats to the population of russia the $1500000.00 chinese tourists that visit russia every year have now become a potential public health risk russian authorities have begun screening them at all international airports prepared to diagnose the virus if it appears on top of that moscow has advised people against traveling to china the official number of suspected cases in china was just under 300 by tuesday however some experts are

saying the current number of infections is much higher using the number of cases detected outside china it is possible to infer the number of clinically compare who cases within $100.00 c.t. the. may have a could thus phone we estimate that's a total of 1723 cases on set of symptoms russia is not alone in being worried about the outbreak reaching its territory a number of other countries have begun screening for the disease at airports as well china stepping up containment efforts after she paying stressed the seriousness of the outbreak on national television the disease also got the attention of the world health organization they've called for an emergency meeting to decide whether or not to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern that's a title reserved only for the most serious of epidemics and with the lunar new year approaching millions of chinese around the world are expected to return home to their families one can only hope beijing will have the situation under control and

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me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see that. national and emmy award winning actor has quit his role as the voice of poor the indian character in the simpsons amid growing criticism from those who failed to see the funny side of the much loved cartoon. clip broadcasters and i'll give you the entire book that i'm sure. would not come to a merge look who i brought up. are you rounding up immigrants. and has

there had voice the character since 1992 is an indian immigrant who runs a convenience store and uses the catch phrase thank you come again the pressure on the show spiked after a 2017 documentary slamming the character as discriminatory but many are finding it hard to believe that stereotypes even in a comedy cartoon are being outlawed. my name is harry had a great career filled with laughter critical acclaim i should be completely happy but there's still one man who haunts me. the people peddle. my documentary the problem with op who was not me to get rid of a dated cartoon character but to discuss race representation and mark community which i love very much it was also about how you can love something like the simpsons and still be critical of aspects of it there's also i mean he's not going to voice call anymore because carl is black and he is white whatever happened to

the meaning of voice acting i loved the pool as an indian i find this news ridiculous him because ari did a great job all characters in the simpsons are stereotyped caricatures i don't see the problem of the journalist who covers art and culture exactly leaman believes criticism is about fitting in with modern political correctness. i think to bring up the criticism now it just plays into the sort of trendiness that goes along with these protests today i mean if your problem with pew is that he has these stereotypical traits there are a lot of those characters on the simpsons so they have a lot of work to do if you're saying that approach is your only problem with the simpsons and your problem is stereotypical characters it just comes across as very inauthentic if you just look at movies in general you see a lot of examples of studios seemingly panicking and making a lot of compromises to kind of feed and please this sort of faceless

digital woke but the thing is we know that that really goes nowhere we've seen apologies go nowhere hollywood's in a place where they need you know they need foreign money to put a lot of movies in a profit they need a good word of mouth on social media so right now i think they're playing from a place of fear and that's i think that's apparent in the a pew controversy and i think it's apparent and a lot of the decisions hollywood's making right now so i personally i think they're going too far and i think they're going to they're going to see the results of the box office. norway's coalition government has collapsed after it agreed to bring home a woman charged with supporting terrorist groups in syria the move infuriated the right wing progress party which pulled its support for the coalition in response for them in manhattan i think that there was a woman who was an ice will terrorist suspect were the 3 other parties caved in

bringing home both mother and child that we have always been willing to bring home innocent children who will not compromise with people who have joined to are going to and are actively working to tear down all of the values new ray is built on was done last straw. the woman had been living with her 2 children in the kurdish controlled the whole refugee camp in syria in 2013 she was arrested on her way back to norway on suspicion of belonging to the islamic state terror group something she denies last week also decided to allow her to return with her 2 children to receive medical treatment saying it would not let norwegian child die in syria it is not the 1st recent case of its kind in europe back in november germany allowed a woman suspected of being an i saw member to come back with her 3 children while finland agreed to examine each such case individually you put the issue up for debate with former u.k. immigration advisor keith best and journalist luke. these people left western

europe they should be judged where they committed a crime even if they surf the death penalty following the local laws like in iraq people who go off and commit offenses abroad whether that's by joining a an organization that is inherently against the government of the day or anything of that nature then their proper place is to be prosecuted back in their country of origin don't forget the images of these 4 year olds 4 years old kid to kill in front of us parents for the camera one of the prisoners suffices so these kids from 1012 or under 10 are extremely anxious the mothers are all fully if they are norwegian citizens norway cannot prevent them from actually coming back to norway the only way they can do that is by removing the norwegian citizenship and as a signatory to the state that is what it should do invention it would it would mean

well now i'm sorry they can't do that because they are signatories of the statelessness convention which means you cannot take away citizenship of somebody if that leaves him without any citizenship or talk now if this lady is also it's. not that obvious she is or not but if she is a subdivision of another state then the norwegian government could take away that citizenship and she would not then be rendered state this. the polish prime minister has accused russia of rewriting history in an opinion piece much more of a ski or of a ski responded to a recent speech from vladimir putin in which the russian leader spoke about of the red army the liberation of the nazi death camps and hitler's collusion with certain european leaders the polish premier had a very different version of events. as the world commemorates 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz russia is trying to rewrite history far from being

a liberator the soviet union was a facilitator of nazi germany and a perpetrator of crimes of its own before and after the liberation of auschwitz the soviet union did not liberate warsaw as the russian authorities are now claiming all right the dispute between russia and poland comes almost exactly 75 years after some key turning point of world war 2 on the 17th of january $945.00 soviet and polish forces fighting together liberated warsaw and 10 days later the red army liberated the largest nazi concentration camp its in southern poland that date is now commemorated as international holocaust remembrance day. we spoke with a red army veteran who fought to liberate a shreds and crack of mark martin notion this can excuse me martin ocean again who is now 96 expressed his sadness at the way poland's leaders are now retelling

the events of that war. will come your pope oil that when i was in poland your news journalists came to me and said that children in school believe that the americans liberated auschwitz children that's ok but now the head of a government makes this childish error it's surprising that the prime minister exhibits such illiteracy how can it be i personally participated in the liberation of krakow i personally participated in the liberation of auschwitz my blood lies somewhere inside i was injured there and now i come here and hear things like that how can that be i'm a living participant of poland's liberation everyone knows that 600000 of our soldiers died during poland's liberation everywhere there are our graves i don't think this is a one off this is part of a focused propaganda exercise this is art international with us.

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we don't know childress is truthful. and of this unfortunately due to this still love no shill just. seems wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out just they become educated and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. shifting is a bit like figure skating cause it should travel sideways to specific and no less than 100 kilometers per hour. and the same time

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