the global chemical watchdog slams the leaks of 2 whistleblowers you question this report an alleged chemical attack on the syrian town of duma something the assad government has been blamed for we assessed being consistencies in contradictions in the latest comments by the a.b.c. . also to come danger in the skies of syria passenger plane narrative voice being hit by a defense is reportedly fired in response to an israeli missile. and britain's determination to stop her then this getting automatic early release from prison sets it on a collision course with you over human rights he put the issue up for debate. 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 so part of their sentence then it's unfair and potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people. hello there she's gone midnight here in moscow you watching r.t. international now the international chemical watchdog the a.p. c.w. has lashed out at the leaks provided by 2 whistle blowers who raised doubts over the bodies report into alleged chemical attack on the syrian town of doing the incident has long been blamed on syrian government forces however the latest comments by the a.p. c.w. very raised more questions than answers might have guessed it expects. 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 you. the c.w.

lets you know what type of investigation they've done pretty early on the 1st 2 pages are dedicated to stressing how independent this report is. independent 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 a 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 a study tran that these cylinders allegedly used in the duma a chemical attack were likely placed at the scene which he had no business doing in fact according to this o.p.c. 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 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 e-mail about conducting an

engineering study on the cylinders but they did give him authorization here is where the report stops making any sense they gave him permission to conduct an authorized study it's nonsense u.p.c. w. tries to get around this by saying they didn't give them 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 to go they admitted to asking him to invent arise 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 they apparently lied he did have the relevant information that the u.p.c. w. had at the time 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 needed from archives they go on to explain why they did this apparently because inspectors a and b a 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 the krish 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 it into 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 instant interim report and 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 f a and in particular the young going do more work should be discussed with of of 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 inspect to be nor the engineer inspected a when it comes to inspect to be it's what the u.p.c. w. doesn't mention that's interesting is allegations 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 access stations are gassier there were writer and freelance journalist i can that believes that the a.b.c. w. is using every method its disposal to justify its own mistakes. fairly sure that

this is been labeled as a security breach just to attack the whistleblowers what 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 essentially 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 narrowly missed being hit by the countries their defenses which had reportedly been fired in response to an israeli air strike russia's defense ministry denounced israel claiming it had used 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 pointed to 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 this is a very important point especially that russia 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 it washing aircraft with 15 russians on board who were killed were said that time also accused and said that israel is behind did this incident put the fault on israel 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 sheilas against syrian defense systems although it is yet to comment on this particular incident however it does acknowledge that it is

carrying at strikes in syria to stop iranian military intrenchments as it calls it now this footage has captured the aftermath of the missile attack that hit a suburb in the countryside west of damascus on the day you can see residents clearing rubble from the streets cars and buildings have been completely destroyed is supposed to pay pulling in the area. as we work 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 aviation security africa getting us told us why it is so difficult for civilian aircraft to avoid danger. clearly what happened was the when the attacks while the israelis were. damascus if you see. the

aircraft diverted to russia as we've seen recently structurally there are several surface when the source file isn't there are not there is only one outcome in a military aircraft there are systems on board the aircraft will to track the launch of the missile and just the countermeasures or even automatically to record the missile countermeasures appropriate to try to. launch it equally but military aircraft of course it's very maneuverable and can take physical action as well as electronic and not countermeasures. and there are no it doesn't come with accurate it's certainly not standard equipment a civilian aircraft that's not how the new. subs. system. the u.s. is slapped new for sanctions on venezuela this time targeting the country's flag

carrier airline convience it comes as washington also threatened further penalties on an entity's but eyes to venezuelan oil companies the sanctions were denounced though by russia's foreign minister who's holding talks we in caracas with the president nicolas maduro. we reiterate our solidarity towards various wally and the venezuelan people in their fight against the united states but we denounce old methods such as blackmail illegal sanctions and the attempts to dictate the will of the people as well as the interference in internal state marriages. not in any own people there is no please here for imperialist that's illegal sanctions and military intervention we again reiterate that we seek peace venezuela can't tolerate sanctions and black meal. but i just round of u.s. sanctions target 40 aircraft of venezuela's national carrier that comes on top of existing penalties on that as well in state companies including the main oil

company under the sanctions u.s. companies are barred from directly importing venezuelan crude and have seen financial transactions between the 2 countries severely restricted early this week the trump of ministration threaten to sanction 2 companies to whose activities helped the venezuelan government including russia's biggest oil producer ross next meanwhile the venezuelan opposition leader was warm and welcomed in washington's capital and received fresh pledges of support in his so-called fight for democracy we will of stay with you mr president in that fight here this evening so a very brave man. who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all that is well and joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela one me.

ok let's get reaction now with poor dobbs and he's a journalist for the independent new site venezuela analysis dot com he's with us now good evening to you paul 1st let's talk about these latest sanctions were you surprised by them it all just in terms of their apparent limited scope or was an article of the process of torah the sanctions we've seen applied by the united states they were the last last year a centrally have been limited to direct sanctions they've been rhetoric or secondary sanctions on parties but at the moment this is only rhetoric it's not unsurprisingly it now targeted yet another state owned industry inverness weyler they've targeted oil of gold and a range of other public industry so it's not unsurprising though now target in the aircraft as well what do you make of the timing to you paul because these sanctions to come in the back of the rest of 6 american oil executives in venezuela people are connecting the. well the the oil question especially given the remarks coming

out of the white house earlier this week rather threat of sanctions against including international oil from think. american. really has upped the ante is a 1st time we've seen the white house talking about all of these sort of massive sanctions which would have a severe impact impact on the economy becoming a reality and this is something we really need to keep our eyes on why wouldn't americans just go for head in. sanctions at once why do you think they do it sort of drip by drip. well also the global impact for them especially the the sanctions which they're talking about applying on the russian oil john ruskin it would be massive it will cause a commercial break down which would have a severe impact in the united states and world so i think any sort of decision they take in this respect were going to be very carefully calculated the political fallout would also be severe with some of their let's say some of their global allies or less less favorable allies or the tensions with moscow would increase if

they did apply sanctions on russia now as with the tensions with with the indian government the chinese government if they played of sanctions on their national are companies which currently do a lot of trade with caracas also to pull a surprise you would sense that america isn't giving up its hope that one why they will take charge of venezuela given the fact that he did go to washington recently but it's been a long time since they launched their initial sort of backing off and hasn't. yes and we've seen a very clear tendency over the last 12 months one where there have lost a port here in venezuela and internationally so i think this is one of the last cards of washington house was left to play in the white tail we could see. to receive him in the way that donald trump did and to give him a standing ovation he received is clearly a publicist and to try and boost his popularity both internationally and here in venezuela i think this will backfire to some extent given soden poor

international reputation we could say and especially here in venezuela so it's very difficult to see how why they're actually going to turn the support that he received in the washington into any sort of concrete shift in the parliament momentum here in venezuela interesting ok paula we'll leave it there for now that was pulled up some journeys for the independent news site venezuela analysis dot com thank you. now the u.s. attorney general has suggested that america should buy stakes in phone makers like nokia and ericsson to create strong competition against china is our way william barr added the choir way is now a leader in 5 g. developments and the u.s. and its allies do need to find ways to counter it. and there are only 2 companies that can compete with the our way right now nokia and ericsson 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 like china. now there's been some proposals that these concerns could be met by the united states aligning itself with nokia and or eric ship through american ownership of a controlling stake either directly or through a consortium of private american and allied companies washington is locked horns with huawei and the ongoing trade war with china the u.s. claims that the firm is direct ties to the chinese government and conducts espionage she also accuses the company 2 of stealing intellectual property. banned from the us market and washington is pressuring its allies to block it from their 5 g. networks. denies its doing anything wrong politics professor joseph gray green isn't confident such moves they would play to their 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 what 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 of the u.k.'s 1st policy changes since leaving the euro causing something of

a stir in its former club because the government says it wants to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders that is after sunday's a time. 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 now actually breach the european convention on human rights and so london is considering withdrawing its membership however the european commission now warns that that could force it to end you dishful cooperation. the research 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 debated the issue with steve morris from the english democrats passing and also with human rights lawyer and car. is 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 sense it's in rules are completely to pot them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years then the certified here stuff should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the parole and so you are 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 to 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 served 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 away 5 years if they say 5 to 5 years than. lisa a f no it has to be done quickly and it has to be told to make sure that london and all the parts of the u.k. safe. sanctions on russian goods imposed by the european union back in

2015 could potentially be lifted by the u.k. once the country concludes its brakes it trade negotiations as according to the u.k. department for international trade transition reviews will assess whether the current measure is appropriate for the came markets and whether it should be very changed or terminated industrial products such as aluminum foil seamless pipe sign and steel fittings are among the items that could be removed from the restrictions list earlier the host of the r.t. show sputnik george galloway joining the studio where i asked him about the chances of british relations with russia improving it. well objectively i mean logically they ought to britain has slipped its moorings in the e.u. and is 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 economies logically britain not to be looking for friends and ought to be looking therefore to thought 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. there's something to play for it was talking to me a bit earlier that's how things are looking so far today i will be back in about half an hour.

copper prices telling us about the globalisation the dollar is asian population also the big banks the market tells us the cycles of the markets are telling us something that you don't hear in my stream media and that's always been the case since markets are bad and it's always price precedes. don't try to be a showy and shallow but he has once again defied his critics this time by securing his impeachment acquittal what is it about the 45th president of the united states that makes people love and hate him so the.

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle what are we could spin the iowa vote was a disaster in pietschmann against trump fizzled in the senate and the speaker of the house nancy pelosi jumped the rails like a spoiled child and of course the liberal corporate media are beside themselves with rage are the democrats imploding. across talking the democrats are. i'm joined by my guest garland nixon in washington he is co-host of the sputnik radio show fault lines with nixon and stranahan in west palm beach we have jeanne allowed in she is a behavioral expert as well as a 2020 media advisory board member and in new york we cross

a charles or tell he is a private investor and a writer as well as host of the podcast show sunday with charles all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate garland i guess you're in the hot spot today. in my introduction i kind of password courtly rhetorical e. is the democratic party imploding maybe i should say exploding what's going on i mean you know what you're in a hole the best thing they do is stop diggin and it doesn't seem like that's happening go ahead garland well i'm at a point where you know maybe we're wrong to define this thing as a party you know my background is in law enforcement and you know we enforced rico laws racketeering influenced corrupt organization laws this is a corrupt organization and they did well there's the evidence that at the end is a corrupt organization exactly like this so i think we have to redefine.