the global chemical weapons watchdog slim's 2 former inspectors who undermine the credibility of its report into an alleged chemical attack on the syrian city duma. also this hour a couple accused of a ringing in the murder of their adopted son in order to collect insurance payout walks free for now they will not be extradited to india to face trial after the u.k.'s high court decided human rights concerns. and we compare the u.s. democratic party primary in the state of iowa marred by technical glitches regularities and premature announcements with washington's hysterical response to november's electoral confusion and socialist bolivia.

you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 80 am welcome to the program. the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has lashed out at the links provided by 2 whistleblowers who undermine the credibility of the final report into an alleged chemical attack on the syrian city of duma the incident has long been blamed on syrian government forces are at the o.p.c. w.'s latest comments do not restore trust as he 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 souly to cover your butt and the u.p.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. 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 are 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 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 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 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 krrish do 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 inspector be any more seriously than inspector 8 you're in for a surprise most the duty and focus he reports on the incident the interim report in the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular 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 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 inspected be nor the engineer inspected a when it comes to inspect a b that'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 atis stations writer and freelance journalist who believes the o.p.c. w. is using every method it can to justify mistakes. fairly sure that this is been labeled as a security breach just to attack the whistleblowers think they're in

a very embarrassing situation where you know the reputation of the organization is that is at risk and to admit 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 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 manage a law essentially a narrative that is not congruent with the facts and you know that's for us 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. britain is now at the epicenter of another extradition scandal u.k.

high court has denied the indian government's request to extradite a couple accused of arranging the murder of their adopted son the decision based on concern over possible by a lation of their human rights in india as seen the couple walk free for now here saudia edwards dusty with more. the old saying goes that no one is above the law but it seems that some people aren't subject to either a british couple adopted an 11 year old orphan boy in india and promised him a better life but now they're charged with the ranging his murder all for a lump sum of life insurance payout. indian place have been battling for over 2 years to get their hands on the couple but to no avail and now british high court judges have ruled they can't be

extradited but not because the evidence against them isn't strong enough i find circumstantial prime aphasia case that ms dear mr a jogger acted together and with others committed the offense to set out above despite all this the u.k. won't send the back why well because of one crucial piece of indian at a station that means the packet face a sentence of life without parole if convicted of double murder in the country which the united kingdom says would breach the human rights i find that there are substantial grounds for believing that they would face a real risk of being subjected to treatment like a review of a life sentence which would be inhuman and degrading this would be a breach of article 3 the court's decision falls within the european convention on human rights but the ruling is raising concerns here in britain. do we really want suspected child killers roaming the streets of london this is an absolutely he knows crime and i think many people would agree there needs to be the harshest of sentences if they are found guilty it's up to the indian legal system to decide on

the appropriate penalty and we should not be standing in the way of justice being served for these victims and these suspected murderers aren't the only ones left off scot free to roam the streets of the u.k. in fact the country is going through something of an existential extradition crisis a number of high profile criminals including terrorists drug lords and even murderous haven't been sent back overseas for fear of excessive punishment the fact is here justice has been denied to the indian people the process of a trial has been prevented because of the european human rights legislation when we're saying that they can't even stand trial because the possibility that they will receive what is called an irreducible life sentence in india means that the possible sentence violates their human rights what the british government is saying is that there is no assurance in place that these 2 people will not be treated in the same way as they would have been had they been arrested in india what we are saying to the indian government and to the good right to authorities is that your

criminal justice system simply isn't good enough to try our citizens who was an incredibly serious offense indian people cannot hold people to account under the terms of the justice system without the european and british courts saying you're justice isn't isn't good enough i think these cases show is that actually what it does is it creates a difference in treatment between european citizens and the rest of the world but the decision to keep criminals here in the u.k. raises alarm bells is the concept of human rights even for those abusing them seems to provide a quick get out of jail free card shot at. london. a divided us democratic party has seen presidential contenders clash in the latest debate following this week's botched primary part of the debate in new hampshire it was dedicated to arguing over each other's viability and electability to take on donald trump. even saying the democrats would be taking too big

a risk if they nominate senator sanders or mary bluett have to win this time we have to bring along state senate and birdies label themselves me to democratic socialist i think that's the label that the president's going to lay on everyone running with bernie i think we need someone to head up this ticket that actually brings people with her instead of shutting them out of politics just as it's my way or the highway are you talking about senator sanders just because. we've got to bring as many people as we can into this process the way you bring people together is by ending the national disgrace of this country being the only major nation on earth not to guarantee health care to all people it's a human right. you have to bring people together and we have to have medicare for all how much is going to cost me asked bernie that he says. i don't know we'll find out if we do we're joined once we'll be spending some safety trillion dollars on

health care over the next 10 years that's the status quo joe george the entire capitalism socialism dichotomy is completely out of date and the fact is when people as democratic contenders expressed 2 concern with trump using this socialist label to scare off voters from the party a poll shows that most americans think socialism and a negative light are we went to the streets of new york and asked people about the socialism ideology and its principles and many same unaware of what it actually stands for. medicare in all does have some merits but i do think that we. need to find a way to balance private list with public interest i think people need personal responsibility for their health i don't know in our budget if we can afford to give everybody free health care. there was absolutely no reason that you went to

a college and took out loans and should not have paid the max both sides need to get the students can be adversity isn't that a country that i think for people that can afford it and everyone to serve 7 have an education. that absolutely yes everything's a mix of everything there's no such thing as a straight down i don't think of it is socialism per se i mean i think you know if people pay for a certain amount. they are paid what they can and. then it's not coming out of our taxes. i think most people kind of acquaint socialism with communism but if you look at our history if it wasn't for progressives we wouldn't have some of the benefits that we have today it's contrary to the american dream the american dream is the idea of social mobility not

socialism. well probably based on the old days when we were you know in the cold war. meanwhile the final results from iowa remain unclear despite all precincts now being in the states party officials have spent the week trying to verify results following a technical glitch in the voting app and one of the contenders named himself the winner before a vote tally was even released but as kilmartin explains the u.s. would have gone all in on a coup had the same thing happened and i socialist country. often the way we interpret events can be very subjective if something happens to someone else we see it one way but it happens to us we see it very differently let's compare the electoral confusion in bolivia last october to the electoral confusion in the us state of iowa last week in both situations an election took place and the results were delayed and then authorities said that some irregularities that happened to those released by the i would democratic party on wednesday will riddled with

inconsistencies and other flaws according to new york times analysis more than 100 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent that were missing data that were not possible under the complex rules of the iowa caucuses there was intentional manipulation and serious irregularities the make it impossible to validate the results originally issued by the bolivian electoral foresees in both instances the public spoke up and cried foul folks i don't know what is going on with the iowa democratic party and the slow trickle of results how many of the counties are having their results foolishly reported by the i.d.p. every county needs to release the results now the iowa caucus was rigged by mayor cheap eat pasta don't. you. think. and in both instances the authorities agreed and said that the concerns had to be addressed what happened in iowa was unacceptable and the party chair has

acknowledged that he's apologized for the. and we've worked together over the last few days to fix the challenges i have decided 1st to replace every member of the supremum like total tribe you know and 2nd to hold national elections and to allow the bolivian people to democrats clear let's a new government with new political activists except the similarities stop here in iowa a recount is being conducted to make sure the ultimate results are correct and in bolivia the military toppled the government and a woman who wasn't even a candidate in the election has declared herself to be the new leader. i see in the presidency with the middle of the fact in line with the constitution in place to take all measures necessary to bring peace to the country. while many have declared what happened in bolivia to be a military coup the u.s. secretary of state branded it as a transition to democracy we recognize the importance of believe us political

transition to democracy in our hemisphere and we had minor the believe in people for standing up for their constitution their democracy and for free fair and transparent elections after morale is flat things have been pretty messy and bolivia. and. there's one more resigning so that my opponents do not continue to persecute more socialist brothers. we want the gracious lady who is automatically proclaimed as so president to resign . i'm wondering if you were going to say she american states as they were said in an election i want you to figure out what's what's going on here you know it's clear that in the case of bolivia. a cleaning of the look told

discrepancies few to justify any. you can be demonized even more on this and then ultimately to overthrow him the reason why anybody against most of the government is you can see pursued policies that were the project you asked on leash in the region so the difference is that in the case of in the case of iwo the presumption is it's just a technical problem or you know there's nothing sort of sinister going on whereas in the case of the government that's awesome i think washington also i was on or why it's an insurance a different standard so if a us state has some electoral confusion we'll look into the matter and get it straightened out however if a socialist government that is friendly to russia and china has a mix up at the poles it's time to reduce the country to chaos caleb r.t. new york. and from one failed to another following an unsuccessful us back to last

year the u.s. has imposed another round of sanctions on caracas washington has blacklisted but as well as the largest airline and threaten new restrictions on foreign firms who work in the country russia's foreign minister expressed solidarity with venezuela during a visit to the capital. we reiterate all solidarity towards venezuela and the venezuelan people should they fight against the united states but we denounce. and the attempts to shake the will of the people as well as these to ference and internal state it's. not in any going people that there is a nucleus here for imperialist that legal sanctions and military intervention which we can reiterate that we say that it's well it can't tolerate sanctions and. the latest round of u.s. sanctions target 40 aircraft about as well as a national carrier that comes on top of existing penalties on the country's firms

including the main oil company under the restrictions u.s. companies are barred from directly importing but as well as crude and have seen financial transactions between the 2 countries severely limited earlier this week the trumpet ministration threaten to sanction for arms whose activities help them but as well the government including russia's biggest oil producer ross nafta. meanwhile about as well in opposition figurehead one wideout was warmly welcomed in washington d.c. after the white house backed him and last year's coup attempt he received fresh pledges of support. we will all 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 venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true and illegitimate president of venezuela one glider. journalist paul dobson says washington is resorting to increasingly direct sanctions against key

parts of the venezuelan economy. the sanctions we've seen applied by the united states over the last year essentially have been limited to direct sanctions there's been rhetoric all secondary sanctions on the parties but at the moment this is only rhetoric it's not unsurprisingly had not targeted yet another state owned industry inverness way that they've targeted oil out of gold and a range of other public industry so it's not a surprise in the not in the aircraft as well yes and we've seen a very clear tendency over the last 12 months. i've lost support for you here in venezuela and internationally so i think this is one of the last code to work things from left to play in quite a tale that we could see to receive in the way that donald trump did and to give him a standing ovation he received is clearly a published at least done to try and boost its popularity very internationally and here in venice way that. now for some world news in brief in paris hundreds holding

torchlight march to show their anger and chin reform the protestors play drums chanted and march with banners showing solidarity with the mass strike started after the french prime minister announcing forms in the summer they would extend the time needed to work to earn a full pension and raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. protesters chanting slogans outside the alternative for germany party congress calling members nazis it comes in the wake of an election scandal and the central german state of turn go where party support helped remove him leftwing regional prime minister it prompted national rage forcing the new premier to resign. and the state of emergency has been declared in parts of the u.s. state of oregon after rain and heavy snow severe flooding helicopters have been deployed in search and rescue operations trying to reach residents still boxed in

by high water. just after bricks that britain is embarking on an independent foreign policy we spoke to former u.k. m.p. george galloway about the chances of british relations with russia improving at that. 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 ought 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 suggest that britain realizes that at the same time britain's under countervailing

pressure from the united states. over the while we have other things so there's something to play for. it's all in the balance this year is going to be one of intense negotiation over these trading matters britain will want to be free to strike deals with other countries that are more american style free trade deals free markets free enterprise less regulation less red tape the european union will want the opposite how we balance these 2 things would be a feat of statesmanship and we're must hope that the man behind you lives up to the possibility. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. join

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