i i. president vladimir putin approves a new russian government. continued to defend the chemical weapons. and alleged chemical attack in syria despite the agency's former inspector calling it contradictory. the findings in the final. victory. with. the russian health ministry warned that the country could be at risk from the new coronavirus.

international and sean thomas. russia has a new government 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. prodigious there were 2 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 and 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 goals 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 now as for those who lost their positions there 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

ladder of putin's key internal policies now this whole thing was set in motion last wednesday when the russian president made an address to the federal assembly and he outlined not only the 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 an 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 are of course to make clear what new.

findings perps information doctor or nurses. testimony toxicology studies. has. and all of this fix is. resulted in a complex turnaround situation from one of those i'm disturbed by the majority of the team to you let us be in no down there was this chemical weapons attack in june we have into you 15 witnesses in the duma hospital that witnesses and undisputable proof that the chemical attack was falsified and it states caterpillar categorically objects to russia's blatant attempt to use the security council meeting to weaken the

credibility of the o.p.c. tapio and its findings on the duma attacked no one has just to name the guilty even without presenting any evidence and enjoy the support of a new middle someone's who you really cannot have wolf when eunice since the o.p.c. w. published its report the organizations own inspectors have voiced concerns that the probe misrepresents the facts for example the initial assessment suggested that chlorine cylinders were manually placed at the scene contradicting the published version documents released by wiki leaks also show that the team that went to duma was not included in the group putting together the report and he came up and as 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 oas 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. the.

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 there. 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. w. and to trying to. go from the track it was created for that was the chemical incident let's recall in 28 chemical incident in which the western countries the united states and france they use that as an opportunity to unleash 100 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 hitchens we're going to continue to turn from a viewer that is clearly what they don't want to uphold their narrative 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 5000 so obviously the russians in a mirror. a big deal with the old e.c. don't you to vote on whether you're talking about them or one of 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. 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 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 holder's 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 concepts of money one of those affected is viral content agency in the now whose own videos on some of money have been deleted here's one clip that was taken down. ron and its allies sent. us figures could assassinate. iran punch the. western media outlets that is state department. changing their tune the u.s.

government's agenda. social media giant has admitted to taking down posts across its platforms including targeting dozens of iranian journalists and influencers some of their accounts were even deleted the tech giant says it is simply complying with u.s. sanction the laws following the u.s. strike on the late general earlier this month hundreds of iranians flooded to their social media accounts with tributes to solo money. the hosts in the soap box rania colic and dan cohen 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 custom for the money was a top anti isis general mess 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 non-controversial fact was not to be found anywhere and so basically my video showed how us media tailors its wine according to the precepts of the united states government and that was deemed apparently a threat they said it violated community standards and therefore the unpublished which is some orwellian double speak 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 needed 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 so. alternative way alternative platform because they know tomorrow these social media giants that the bee has the u.s. government could just press the 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 a 4000 kilometer border artie's 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 chair is a border with china. the embry of a new corona virus which was 1st recorded in china carries a body logical threats to the population of russia the 1500000 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. it is possible to infer the number of clinically compare who cases within city that may have a phone we estimate that's a total of 1723 cases own 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 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.

is psychologist who designed the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques in the wake of $911.00 as testified in open court for the 1st time james mitchell worked as a contract psychologist for the intelligence agency and to develop methods including waterboarding which are widely viewed as torture during the hearing in guantanamo bay he spoke as a witness in the trial of 5 prisoners and defended his actions. whatever personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outweighed temporary discomforts of terrorists i get up today and do it again. guantanamo bay prison or zoo has 1st hand experience of the interrogation techniques designed by mitchell he has described in detail about what happened providing sketches.

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 take a curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made me scream unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . and.

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. a war activist sara flounders believes the guantanamo bay trial is deeply flawed. well none of this could possibly be a fair trial i mean how can you have a fair trial with people who've been held in total secrecy whose testimony is based on torture layers and layers of secrecy is about providing any kind of justice or accountability or even of information it is going through a theater in order to once again exert their power this isn't just one or 2

people michel and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating forms of torture all of this really has to be exposed and then accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture camps really the the lawyers and the organizations that have struggled for years to bring this forth it's very important the testimony they have provided the legal challenges that they have tried to make the groups that have refused to be silent about this criminal conduct that at the highest level of government. the u.s. is really responsible for. 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. so come on man had me think that there was the shoe of the woman who wasn't i salute terror suspect where did 3 other parties caved in bringing home both mother and child we have always been willing to bring home innocent children who will not compromise with people who have jointure or going to z. sions and are actively working to tear down all of the values norway is built on that was done last straw. and woman who had been living with her 2 children in the kurdish controlled all hole 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 oslo decided to allow her to return with her 2 children to receive medical treatment saying it would not let a 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 and i still member to come back with her 3 children while finland agreed to examine each case individually and put the issue up for debate with former u.k. immigration advisor keith best and journalist. well 1st of all you've got to remember this is around a child who's ill and we should not weaponize children the child has had no control over what its mother did or whom she married or anything of that nature don't forget the images of these 4 year olds 4 years old kid 2 had 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 awfully dangerous people who go off and commit offenses abroad whether that spy 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 these people left western europe they should be charged where they committed crimes even if they surf the death penalty following the local laws like in iraq it is totally unrealistic i agree are you going to have a proper trial how are you going to have a fair trial in a war torn country where sectarianism is right it's just nonsense legally 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 them without any citizenship or talk now if this lady is also this is it if it us but. not that only if 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 ready. state this but if she's only a citizen of norway then she must be allowed back into norway and if she's done wrong as i said before then she should be prosecuted in norway and i'm afraid it's no good complaining that the norwegian judicial system is a bit lenient on its sentencing or not that's got nothing to do with some whether somebody has committed a criminal offense or not that's all to do with domestic policy in norway we live in democracies so that the problem is that populism is regarded as at the seas these people are being accused of being fascists etc by the left and so there is a big problem of recognition for the people really want. the polish prime minister

has accused russia of rewriting history in an opinion piece. more of a ski responded to a recent speech from vitamin putin in which the russian leaders spoke about the red army's 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. 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 1945. soviet

and polish forces fighting together liberated warsaw and 10 days later the red army liberated the largest nazi concentration camp are shreds in southern poland that date is now commemorated as international holocaust remembrance day. we spoke with a red army veteran who fought to liberate auschwitz and crack off yvonne. who is now 96 he expressed his sadness at the way poland's leaders are now retelling the events of the war look. when i was in poland euronews journalists came to me and said that children in school believe that the americans liberated auschwitz children that's ok now the head of the 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 participants 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 focus propaganda exercise rather does it for me i'll be back with more news of top the hour this is our international. many times he should be. one of the few myself to be in luck because. that's me what i mean i was me and i got most of the same.

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