it. was. it. was. a global chemical watch strong slums to form inspectors who questions the o.p.c. w. reports into an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of duma. passenger plane in syria's narrative of always being hit by air defenses reportedly fired in response to an israeli missile attack. i'm quoting the determination to stop terror offenders getting automatic early release from prison set it on a collision course with the e.u. i think human rights are the issue of the debate. people particularly when it if they could start applying it to people who are already been convicted already been sentenced already so part of their sentence then it's unfair potentially

a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people's human rights to be in the 1st place. as i welcome you watching r.t. international with mina caring. for the international chemical watchdog p c w has lashed out at the leaks provided by 2 whistleblowers who raise doubts over the bodies report into an alleged chemical attack on the syrian town of duma well the incident has long been blamed on syrian government forces however the latest comments by the p c w has only raised more questions than answers as mark gasnier explains. 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 are dedicated to stressing how independent this report is. and dependence 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 are 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 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 forgetting 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 they apparently lied 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 on 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 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 in 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 in due 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 doman team failed to see reports on the incident the interim report in the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent inspected b. 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 in to the final report was the team paramedic not the chemist inspected 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 who's 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 writer and freelance journalist erica dad believes the a.b.c. debbie was using every method i just posed to justify its own mistakes. fairly sure

that this is been labeled as a security breach just to attack the whistleblowers while i think they're in a very embarrassing situation where you know the reputation of the organization is that there's a risk to admit that these whistleblowers. 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 and 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 law 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's after a narrative miss being a hit by the country their defense is we should report being fired in response to an israeli airstrike well russia's defense ministry denounced israel claiming it had used these 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 sec's 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 important 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 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. 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. 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 but israel has previously denied using aircraft as shields against syrian defense systems though it has yet to comment on this incident it does acknowledge that it's carrying out strikes in syria to stop it rainy and military entrenchment well this captures the art of the missile attacks

that had just in the countryside west of damascus on thursday because the western clearing rubble from the streets cars and buildings have been completely destroyed we spoke to people living in the area. 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 garbage was only material aviation security advocates are getting in u.s. told us why it's so difficult for civilian aircraft to avoid danger. clearly what happened was the when the attacks well the israelis underway damascus 30 c. . of the aircraft diverted them to the russian as we've seen recently from

different sites there are different so from the source file that there are not there is only one outcome in a military aircraft there are systems on board the aircraft the will to check the launch of the missile and suggest the countermeasures or even what's more likely to record the missile countermeasures appropriate to the type of missile that's been launched at it equally by military aircraft of course it's very maneuverable and can take physical action as well as electronic another countermeasures and there are no it doesn't come with that kit and certainly not standard equipment a civilian aircraft does not help new problem until you 2 to subsume a system. for us to flap new sanctions on venezuela this time targeting the country's flag carrier ally in canvey arthur because washington also threatened further penalties on entities with ties to venezuelan oil company is the sanctions were denounced by russia's foreign minister who's holding talks in

caracas with president nicolas maduro. we reiterate our solidarity towards vote israeli and the venezuelan people in their fight against the united states we denounce all methods such as blackmail illegal sanctions and the attempts to dictate the will of the people as well as the interference in internal state matters. not in any one people there is no police here for imperialist illegal sanctions and military intervention we again reiterate that we seek peace and as well it can tolerate sanctions and black meal the latest round of u.s. sanctions target 40 aircraft of venezuela's national carrier that comes on top of existing penalties on venezuelan state companies including the main oil company and the sanctions u.s. companies are barred from and directly importing venezuelan crude and i've seen financial transactions between the 2 countries severely restricted earlier this

week but chump ministration threatens to sanction companies whose activities help the venezuelan government that includes russia's biggest oil producer rosneft meanwhile the venezuelan opposition leader one guy i don't know was warmly welcomed in washington and received fresh pledges of support of his so-called in his so-called fight for democracy. 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 as well ans joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela one void. let's go live now to quite a leap a career cabrera associate professor of political science at george mason university welcome to the program i surprised at the scope of these latest sanctions. well i am not never surprised because you know when

a slave to such an important country in terms of oil production and the united states is not have leverage over over those resources and now and it is very interesting how the country has been the by the over so many things democrats and president trump and his republican party have been really divided but with these issues they ignited again is very interesting and very important to see how important it is venezuela for the united states and the intervention of this country in the minutes well and matters is this is is very very interesting. these new sanctions they come after the arrest of 6 american oil executives in venezuela . could this have been a contributing factor do you think sorry could that have been a contributing factor. yeah i mean it's it it was got i

mean these sanctions will go on and on and on until until really. you know one way they'll complete control and the opposition can take control of the venezuelan government this is a never ending issue and until. the united states are able to control again the elites of the country and this is this is this is very complicated because it seems that what happened in minnesota is not really decided i mean the future of business well it's not in the hands of venezuela it has it in hands of other powers it's more actually our political issue that it's being fought today with other powers you know fighting for the control of them as well and resources and you know we have puppets that are act as leaders of the opposition or of the government when the stakes are very high and the players are different are are not venezuela were not born in venezuela and are not venezuelan. how about this their threat to target

russian companies over their role in venezuela do you think it washington will follow through or not. this is this is this is very i wouldn't know what what is what is the what what does the going to be the future of these sanctions if the russian government is going to to accept as you know when when donald trump the threats mexico is not the same thing. i guess that russia is going to who is going to respond in a way or the other one but let's see let's see how how this is going to play out and as i said this is more of just political issue and and 2 countries that are powerful might be you know showing that there is their power even in these in these in this in this time and i only expect a strong response from the russian government to the sanctions that we saw. receive a very warm welcome in washington this week what moves could we see from the trump administration to get in power given that effort so far failed. that's another very

good question there is consensus in some issues very little right now in the united states but one is in what is happening in venezuela and you saw a lot he and donald trump in the same side even though they were having a very big fight over a peterman another start and i mean you know so far the united states has been very and successful trying to change the government and trying to get like you know an animus apart from the world and i'm not sure if this is the way recognize the way that has been i mean this recognition has been done last year on several occasions and that seemed to be a moment where a lot of countries were going to support by the way they are but no i still see i still see a part of the world that's not supporting this milk and this is going to be very difficult steel one way that has not gotten the traction has not. come up with

a plan he's just seen as part of the plot from another part of the world one way goes not in the pan this is not you know it is not really in charge of a project that will happen as well and people there seems to be a puppet of another country i corrected where associate professor of political science at george mason university thank you for your time. well that's come in the program the u.s. is stepping up its support for the right wing opposition in nicaragua that story is coming up after the break. the copper price is telling us about the globalization the dollar is asian depopulation most of the big things the market tells us the signals in 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 news. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart or we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back there some of the u.k.'s 1st policy changes since leaving the e.u.

are causing something of a stir in its former club the government says it wants to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders as 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 their sentence but britain's proposed legislation could breach the european convention on human rights so london is considering withdrawing its membership however the european commission warns that this that that could force it to end judicial cooperation 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 stephen morris from the english democrats party and human rights lawyer show up and come to debate at the issue. 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 support them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years then the surf i have your stuff should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the parole and the 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 knee jerk 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 being there in the 1st place if they're still deemed as a safety risk then 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. an opposition figure in nicaragua has claimed his party is getting direct

support from the u.s. for a plan to bring down the country's left wing government certainly no serato who leads the right wing p.r. day party made that revelation and a video live streamed on facebook. in recent days we met with political consultants from the us embassy and the european union they said they're ready to support a large political movement which is forming in the krug and now. the u.s. has a long track record of intervention in nicaragua going back to the 980 s. when cash was funneled to nicaraguan armed groups in the iran contra affair and in 2018 the nicaraguan president of daniel ortega accused washington of an attempted coup that followed months of mass protests over social security reforms more than $300.00 people were killed and another 2000 injured in the crackdown that followed and ortega claims the un rest was orchestrated by washington or soon afterwards

donald trump imposed sanctions on the iraq war. washington describes ortega's government as a regime and frequently pledges support for opposition forces to the people of nicaragua they want there will be an expiration date. for the ortega regime. the american people stand with you in your fight for freedom. and for the rule of law the united states urges the regime to resume dialogue with the opposition and restore democracy in the country the us is taking action to restore democracy in the correct you are tragically the ortega regime continues to repress and abuse nigger regular and we will continue to hold them accountable. gloria river from the antiwar answer coalition says washington's pressure on ortega follows a long running pattern. the u.s. is trying now to spend more money to bring in

a right wing extreme right wing event gelug goal leader this. time in you've got one and i think they're going to lose because a vast majority of people support the presidency of the they got the u.s. is trying to polarize the situation and it's just following the playbook of the united states government most directly in recent years with one why though in this well which is a complete failure for the u.s. and the u.s. threats against cuba now and he got out where the u.s. is interested in holding on to resources having political control in other continents from latin america to asia to africa and beyond thanks chasing off the international way back in 30 minutes.

so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with the bellotti 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. what opposes to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president or injury. want to. have 2 going to be press this is like the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the ones in the house.

this is the one business show you can't afford to miss and that is one a number 2 for in washington coming up president trump and president xi are making the case that the phase one trade deal won't be affected by the coronavirus why do they need to make that public we'll explain plus the global global car industry is basically a huge shock from china the car coach lauren fix is here to break it down just the u.s. attorney general really just say that the u.s. government should take ownership stake in cell phone companies which companies and why just minutes away a lot to get through on this very busy day so let's get started. and we begin as president and china's.