the global chemical watchdog slammed the leaks into whistleblowers who questioned its reporting to the ledge chemical attack on the syrian town do something the assad government has been blamed for. danger in the skies of syria a passenger plane narrowly avoids being hit by a defense is reportedly fired in response to an israeli missile attack and britain's determination to stop terrorists and this getting automatic early release from prison sets sets it on a collision course with the use of human rights we put the issue up for debate these are people particularly when it if they go to start applying it to people who are already been convicted already been sentenced already served part of their sentence then it's unfair and potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people's

human rights to be in there in the 1st place. hello there good evening welcome it's just gone 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the international chemical watchdog the o.p.c. w. has lashed out at the leaks provided by 2 whistle blows who raised doubts over the bodies report internet alleged chemical attack on the syrian town of duma the incident has long been blamed on the syrian government forces. as more details there are 2 types of investigation the 1st type is intended to find out and explain what went wrong the 2nd type of investigation is intended solely to cover your butt and the u.p.c. w. let's you know what type of investigation they've done pretty early on the 1st 2 pages a dedicated stressing how independent this report is. and

dependent and objectivity and dependent independent dependent independent and then we find out that they were just kidding the boss nominated his deputy to explain how they were both innocent i designated the deputy director general as senior investigating officer this is an investigation into 2 whistleblowers specter a and inspected b. and its intention is to show that they're bad people. whistleblower a was behind the study tran that these cylinders allegedly used in the duma a chemical attack were likely placed at the scene which she had no business doing in fact according to the soupy she w. report inspects a new body inspector a was not a member of the fact finding mission inspector a played

a minor supporting role in the investigation of the duma incident we then find out that the guy who was apparently just there to watch did a whole lot more he was in fact the head of the u.p.c. w.'s syrian command post he helped collect samples of the alleged chemical attack site also at the hospital where he helped tag and seal those all important cylinders they then asked him to invent a rise of the classified information collected on the cylinders and asked him to decide what else might be worth investigating it's right there they say so themselves also remarkable for someone who apparently wasn't even part of the team so he did as he was told inspector a without authorization contacted companies via email about conducting an engineering study on the cylinders oh but they did give him authorization here is

where the report stops making any sense they gave him permission to conduct an ortho right. study it's nonsense u.p.c. w. tries to get around this by saying they didn't give him permission to share classified information so it's all unauthorized they also tried to dismiss the study by saying he had incomplete evidence somehow for getting that one page ago they admitted to asking him to invent a rise the evidence they had on the cylinders in june 2800 inspectors a was assigned to conduct an invention of the highly protected information collected on the cylinders so their parents in law and he did have the relevant information that the u.p.c. w. had at the on those cylinders the evidence and he used that to carry out a study but but they argue 6 months later after he left they may or may not have had additional information it was created through the misuse of incomplete

confidential information by a staff member who had ceased to provide support to the f f m 6 months prior to the release of the final f f m report duma which isn't in direct admission that he did have all the relevant information at the time in fact it was so relevant this report according to the u.p.c. w. that they all did it they lead it from archives they go on to explain why they did this apparently because inspectors a and b. not whistleblowers they were individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence allegedly this study otherwise known as a view and which apparently isn't backed by any evidence actually had classified evidence in it and had to be stored in a special top security archive now we come to the icing krrish tendo in this absurd

story this study they never even looked at it. in the interests of transparency and completeness inspector a's assessment has been transmitted to the i-t. and will be examined by 8 in jew course which adds another layer of lies they previously claimed they examine and take into account all evidence and when alice but they didn't in this case this single highest profile report they never took seriously. and if you think they treated inspected be any more seriously than inspector 8 you're in for a surprise most of the duty and focus he reports on the incident the interim report in the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally regular and possibly fraudulent inspected be end others raised concerns back in june 2018 according to this investigation those concerns were taken into account

a month after hearing out all the inspectors and their concerns and their thoughts and their dreams the u.p.c. w went ahead and excluded most of them from the investigation the point regarding the effort and in particular the ongoing duma work should be discussed with alpha it seem the least of team members was recently sent who not on that least should not be involved on the smetana. courtesy of leaked e-mails posted by wiki leaks apparently the only team member who went to syria who was allowed to pitch into the final report was the team paramedic not the chemist inspected be nor the engineer inspector a when it comes to inspect to be it's what the u.p.c. w. doesn't mention that's interesting is allegations they never address what the whistleblowers said of them by dismissing it as irrelevant and unauthorized not inspecting a whose report they apparently didn't even read nor inspected be whose main

arguments about evidence suppression and bias at the u.p.c. w. they just ignored well not entirely as could be expected their conclusions are rona's uninformed and wrong mission accomplished but covered and if you are at the u.p.c. w. watching this you may be saddened to learn that you are now going to have to attend mandatory classes on keeping your mouth shut and additional obligatory organization wide confidentiality training program will be instituted for all personnel employed by the secretary at this training will be accompanied by annual atta stations right from freelance journalist i could add believes the a.p.c. debbie is using every method it is disposal to justify its own mistakes. fairly sure that this is being labeled as a security breach just to attack the whistleblowers why i think they're in a very embarrassing situation where you know the reputation of the organization is

that is at risk to admit these whistle blows. raised valid concerns about the evidence that they found in duma would be very damaging so i think they've gone on the offensive and try to discredit the people that come forward mr henderson led the team that is to do murder in 2018 and he wrote his report that you know clearly stated that there was no evidence of chlorine use. and you know that found themselves in a situation where they're having to you know manager the ally of century or a narrative that is not congruent with the facts and you know that's your what you have to do when you have to lie you have to kind of fudge the specifics to try and make it fit your case but unfortunately that doesn't work out so well. passenger plane carrying 172 people has been forced to make an emergency landing in syria that after it narrowly missed being hit by the country's air defenses which had

reportedly been fired in response to an israeli air strike russia's defense ministry denounced israel claiming it had used a civilian aircraft as a shield. only due to the time the actions of damascus airport dispatches and efficient operation of the automated traffic control system did the airbus a 320 manage to successfully land the closest alternative if eld russia's base i was on the streets when the attack happened here in damascus at about 1 12 am local time here on thursday on the sex of this month at about $115.00 local time a loud explosion was heard and that was the syrian air defenses. trying to repel what looked like an israeli attack and then later on the syrian army command issued a statement clarifying what happened saying that israeli fighter jets carried out attacks from over southern lebanon on the occupied golan heights against various

syrian army military targets in damascus around damascus damascus countryside and also peninsula and which is in that are countryside and the result according to the syrian army was the injury of 8 syrian soldiers and the russian ministry of defense statement which also gave some information unimportant details that there were 4 actually israeli fighter jets who fired at least 8 missiles on various targets in syria at that time and that israel is using civilian and passenger aircraft in order to avoid being hit by the syrian air defense system combat operations by the israeli joint stuff involving the use of civilian aircraft to shield and prevent retaliation by syrian air defenses is becoming a distinguishing feature of the israeli air force so this is a very important point especially that russian made it clear that this is not the

1st time that this happens it happened in 2018 when also russia criticized israel for endangering and putting in danger to passenger aircraft in 2018 of course 2008. the israeli strikes not coordinated with russia caused the downing of irrational aircraft with 15 russians on board who were killed were said that time also accused and said that israel is behind this incident but the 4th one is wrong because at the end of the day israeli fighter jets put actually the russian aircraft in the path of the syrian air defense. systems well israel has previously denied using aircraft as she was against syrian defense systems although it is yet to comment on this particular instance it does though acknowledge that it is carrying out strikes in syria to stop or reign in military intrenchments this footage has captured the aftermath of the missile attacks that hit a suburb in the countryside just west of damascus on thursday you can see residents

here clearing rubble from the streets cars and buildings have been completely destroyed we spoke to people living in the area we woke in the morning to find this look at this destruction may go take revenge from them look at this people's livelihood is destroyed as you can see yesterday the area was targeted by israel this area has a lot of car hire companies and as you can see many cars were damaged thank god the damage was only material. ok let's discuss this further now with giving us sorry he's an aviation safety advocate and pilot so when he joins us good evening to you gideon in your opinion how lucky was it that this civilian plane wasn't blown out of the sky. i think a lot doesn't really come into it if he clearly what happened was the when the attacks by the israelis because under way damascus they can see. handed off the

aircraft diverted them to the russian. i don't you know from tree if a missile had been fired and as we've seen in recent weeks tragically etc if a service reminiscent was followed and now i doubt there is only one outcome so it's one of those things i'm going to says a lot think i don't really buy the whole masking thing because if you were attacking from israel you do it at lower level through the girl on the back of that income and to do what's muskets the less i'm not there fighter tactician but that's what i would imagine this aircraft was coming in from from the east and diverted to an effort to go north quite a good way to the north of the sun i don't see it as a luck thing so you are paying this commercial jet was distinguished as a commercial airline a. i think that clearly the air traffic control unit in damascus

would have been aware that flightless was didn't want them and would have seen what's going on listen but news we're going to talk going on this and offenses will be activated and divert the aircraft wisely insensibly away from the area of conflict some might question whether it's sensible to allow saving our craft to fly in a space at all considering this a conflict going on i agree entirely i think there is there is a certain responsibility and come along alan's to analyze the political military situation in regions that are which to operate and make the decisions accordingly we see this doesn't seem to me touch with syria and to ron tragically a few weeks ago. in ukraine a few years back. in fact nearly 20 years ago the same sort of thing do the analysis of what's going on politically and militarily in a certain area and make the appropriate decisions i think there is

a responsibility for the airlines actually to look at that and have their security teams make constant analysis and in terms of being a pilot are you trained to deal with situations like this. saloon pilots. are not equipped with. missile tractions no military aircraft or systems on board the aircraft will to track the launch of a missile and just the countermeasures or even automatically. the missile countermeasures appropriate to try to. launch it equally but military forces very maneuverable and can take physical action as well as electronic or not countermeasures i know one of that's come with that kit it's certainly not standard equipment maybe i'm certain. corporate governance not rail lines that exist it's

not standard it's a civilian aircraft that's not. a system ok very interesting we're going to leave it there gideon you are aviation safety advocate and pilot thank you. but some of the u.k.'s 1st policy changes since leaving the you were causing something of a stir in his former club because the government says it now wants to end the automatic early release from prison of terror fenders that is after sunday's attack in london where 2 people were stabbed by a man released from prison just 10 days earlier currently convicted terrorists are up for automatic release after serving half of their sentence but britain's proposed legislation could break the european convention on human rights so london is considering withdrawing its membership however the european commission has now warned that that could force it seems and judicial co-operation the resist partnership should provide for automatic terminations of law enforcement

cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters if the united kingdom were to denounce the european convention of human rights we put the issue up for debate stephen morrison english democrats party and also the human rights or scheibe and car. it's a good idea to have a parole board that deals with each case individually in principle there's nothing wrong with that but if what the reports are suggesting are correct that mainly they want to change the potential released release date from a half of a sentence to 2 thirds and i think that's where the problem comes in well one of the things is a sentence in rules are completely to pot them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years than the years that should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the parole and say why are these suitable for release that this is a very very serious and complicated situation that calls for nuanced. periods

of debate argument consideration not something that the government rushes through in a matter of weeks is a kneejerk reaction well it has to be at the moment because the government over the last few years of an absolutely nothing to address this problem and we do know that there is a number of potential of people in prison the moment. issues that are about to be released but these are people particularly when it if they're going to start applying it to people who are already been convicted already been sentenced already part of their sentence then it's unfair and potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people human rights to be in there in the 1st place if they're still deemed as a safety risk than they should be let out in a way because. who is likely to attack all the people is a violation of those pedestrians and those individuals human rights as well in terms of what's been suggested about you know we just keep them up until we sure that there won't be

a risk any more than we have sentences in the 1st place to me they should have been stripped away 5 years if they say 5 to 5 years and release and if not it has to be drawn quickly and it has to be told to make sure that london and all the parts of the u.k. safe. the u.s. attorney general has suggested that america should buy stakes and phone makers like nakia and ericsson to create strong competition against china's weiwei william barr added that our way is now a leader in 5 g. developments and the us and its allies need to find ways to counter it and there are only 2 companies that can compete with way right now. and interaction the main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither was always scale nor the backing of a powerful country with a large embedded market or of china. now there's been some proposals that these

concerns could be met by the united states aligning itself with nokia and oreck ship through american ownership of a controlling stake either directly or through a consortium of private american and allied companies washington has locked horns with the ongoing trade war with china the u.s. claims the firm has direct ties to the chinese government and conducts espionage it also accuses the company of stealing intellectual property always now banned from the u.s. market and washington is pressuring its allies to block it from their 5 g. networks denies any wrongdoing politics professor joseph gregory mahoney isn't confident though such moves would lead to fair competition raises a number of serious questions with regard to the fair competition 1st does it kill the market in the west and if you choose nokia or ericsson or one of the other what's the effect on the other competitor what's the effect on samsung another of

sort of strange thing that we that we have to think about is the american role as a regulator not only for the american or the american government's role as a regulator not only in the american government but but they have ramifications for global regulation these are european companies are the pride of their nation the fact of the matter is. is the attorney general basically suggesting that there might be you know what we might call it in the market terminology a hostile takeover. threat. it could completely. royle the markets it could it could destroy their business plan some nice and brief and when activists gathered at a french port after a cargo ship there they say that the boat was collecting weapons for use in the ongoing war in yemen and held signs calling to stop quote illegal. saudi arabia began its military intervention in yemen back in 25. dane and has received widespread international condemnation for its actions during its campaign large

jews have been forming it shops in hong kong as worried locals snap up when doing supplies of face mass that some need ever increasing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus is increasing hostility towards the authorities in the chinese territory you have been accused of not doing enough to protect the population and student protesters have clashed with police at the national university of colombia they are calling for wide ranging reforms over social inequalities and also corruption scandals students in face masks launched projectiles at police he responded with tear gas a ride tactics. america's war on iraq came at a huge cost in terms of lives but now a new report is also showing just how much it cost when it came to money a group of scholars is calculate the pentagon spent literally trillions of dollars funding the military ambitions something that will have a lasting legacy for u.s. taxpayers one quarter as more. war has long been part of the american way of life

it's in the news connected to many family's lives a popular theme in the media and donald trump has made it clear in his state of the union address more money is being thrown at it to safeguard american liberty we have invested a record breaking $2.00 trillion dollars in the united states military i we have purchased the finest planes missiles rocket ships and every other form of military equipment and it's all made right here in the usa. we're also getting our allies finally to help pay their fair share with that big of a budget though it's not only america's allies footing the bill the costs of war project estimates that for the iraq war alone every american taxpayer has paid $8000.00 you could go on

a vacation for that or spend it on home improvements or you know put it away it's 8 times more than most americans have in their bank accounts my colleague caleb mop and asked new yorkers themselves what they would do with that kind of money what would i do a paid $8000.00 extra dollars to spend you pay some medical bills. if you donate to the bernie sanders campaign a little bit would pay off my car. savings for my retirement pay my credit card off and with hundreds of millions of americans out there those contributions add up to a lot of money even if the us administration decided to leave or was evicted from iraq immediately the bill of war to the us to date would be an estimated $1922000000000.00 in current $1.02 trillion dollars that's larger than most countries g.d.p. and there's plenty of other ways to spend that kind of money like paying off the entire country student debt you'd still have been. means more left over and that

could be used to improve underfunded school systems or make sure everyone has health care all that money is just what was spent on the iraq war it's obscene it's criminal. really is there was no not at all. there you know really reason for us to be there when you ask people how they would like to spend their tax dollars it usually is education health care. public services you know money to go towards the public good but unfortunately we have limited say in how our tax dollars are spent and so some people actually take it to the next step and they refused to pay federal taxes we could have universal health care and universal higher education but instead we're spending money on the military and the pentagon's got way more expenses than just that let's not forget about its longest war in history afghanistan which is so far cost another $1.00 trillion dollars but

the potential cherry on top of this budgetary ice cream sundae is bigger than the entire u.s. economy a $35.00 trillion dollars discrepancy in the pentagon's 2019 budget no wonder it's never passed an audit the pentagon spending accounts who are more spending count accounts who're. all the tax money collected every year by american from american taxpayers you know arguably all our taxes go for war everything else is covered by debt you know they borrow the money for the rest of the u.s. budget i think that a lot of this is. driven by the arms industry in the united states and the fact that they bribe our you know illegally bribe our members of congress in the house and the senate with donations so it's a self generating. engine of destruction.

sanctions on russian goods and ponies by the european union back in 2015 could potentially be defeated by the u.k. once the country concludes its brakes and trade negotiations that's according to the u.k. department for international trite transition reviews will assess whether the current measure is appropriate for the came markets and whether it should be very changed or terminated when industrial products such as alimony and foil saying this pipes iron and steel fittings are among the items that could be removed from the restrictions list earlier the host of sputnik george galloway joined me in the studio where i did ask him about the chances of british relations with russia are improving. well objectively i mean logically they ought to britain has slipped its moorings in the un does setting still for the world russia's

a major part of the world moscow's the biggest city in europe russia's the biggest country in europe it's one of the world's biggest economy is logically britain not to be looking for friends and ought to be looking therefore to thaw if not warm up its relations with russia and there are one or 2 straws in the wind that suggests that britain realizes that at the same time britain's under countervailing pressure from the united states. over the while we have other things saw there's something to play for so that's how things looking safe are today on our say it's just coming up to half past 10 and even in moscow we're back again in half an hour.

so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with inability to negotiate for drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so when your own people vote they should look at how much does this politician get from the power pharmaceutical industry. greetings and sal you take issue. 3 days yes through.