the global chemical weapons watchdog slams true former inspectors who exposed significant flaws and its report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma will look at the credibility of the open plains. also this hour a couple accused of awaiting the murder of their adopted son an order to collect insurance payout walks free for now they will not be extradited to india to face trial in a few k. high court sided human rights concerns. and we compare the us democratic party primary in the state of iowa marred by technical glitches irregularities and premature announcements with washington's response to numbers like ball confusion and socialist bolivia.

you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 10 am welcome to the program. the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has lashed out at the leaks provided by 2 whistleblowers who are real serious defects and its final report on alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma incident has long been blamed on syrian government forces are really open this comments do not restore trust as broadcast 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. 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 sealed 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 inspector he 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 deleted 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 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 the duty and focus he reports on the instant 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 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 inspector be nor the engineer inspector a when it comes to inspect a b. 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 access stations writer and freelance journalist erica 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 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 lead the team that has to do more and in 2018 and he wrote his report that you know clearly stated that there was no evidence of chlorine use. and you know the found themselves in a situation where they're having to you know manage the elias century a narrative that is not congruent with the facts and you know this 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 currently at the epicenter of a nother extradition scandal the u.k. high court has denied the indian government's request to extradite

a couple accused of arranging the murder of their adopted son a decision based on concern over possible violations of their human rights in india has seen the couple walk free for now you're shall be at once 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 all for a lump sum of life insurance payout. the. indian place has 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

very circumstantial prime a phrase she case that ms dear mr a jogger acting together and with others committed the offense to set out above despite all this the u.k. won't send that you are 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 been 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 crime and i think many people would agree there needs to be the harshest of sentences if they are found guilty it is 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 the victims 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 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 until they could draw 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 your

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. just after brags that the u.k. is embarking on an independent foreign policy we spoke to former british m.p. george galloway about the chances of relations with russia improving. 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 armed countervailing

pressure from the united states. over the while we have other things. there's something to play for. 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 you'll be a few of statesmanship and women's talk but the man behind you lives up to possibility. still the kanye west democratic party candidates class other debate in the wake of the iowa caucus debacle that story and more after the break.

donald trump might appear 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 some of the. you know world's big partners a 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 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 to the program a divided us democratic party has seen presidential contenders clash and its latest debate following this week's boss primary part of the debate in new hampshire it was dedicated to arguing over each other's viability and electability need to take on donald trump. birdie's label himself me a democratic socialist i think that's the label that the president's going to lay on everyone running with bernie the way you bring people together is by ending the international disgrace of this country being the only major nation on earth not to

guarantee health care to all people it's a human right. to have to bring people together and we have to have medicare for all how much is going to cost me ask bernie that he says don't trade your i don't know we'll find out if we do were joe 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 as democratic contenders expressed concern with trump using the socialist label to scare off voters a poll shows that most americans see socialism and they may get a flight of our we went to the streets of new york to ask people about the socialism ideology and its principles and some seem unaware of what it actually stands for. medicare and all it does have some merits but i do think that we.

need to find a way to balance private with the public interest i think people need personal responsibility for their health i don't know our project if we can work to get everybody 3 health care. there was absolutely no reason that you went to a college and took out loans and should not have paid them back both sides need to get the students and the university of country i think for people that kind of florida and everyone to serve 7 have an education. i don't think it is socialism per se i mean i think if people a research. paper i think it is. coming. to absolutely yes everything's a mix of everything 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 meanwhile the final results from the iowa primary remains unclear despite all present information now being and 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 boat tell it was even released the scale and explains to us what had gone all in on a coup how 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 had happened to those released by the i would democratic party and wins they 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 or 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 falsely reported by the i.d.p. every county needs to release the results now the iowa caucus was rigged by mayor cheapie posset on. 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 as of now is that he's apologized for that and we have worked together over the last few days to fix the challenges to see the law have decided 1st to replace every member of the supremum like total tribunals and 2nd the whole national elections to allow the bolivian people to democratically elect a new government with a 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 of the 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 that 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 admired the believe in people for standing up for their constitution their democracy and for free fair and transparent elections after morale a sled things have been pretty messy. bolivia. that's why my resigning so that my opponents do not continue to persecute my socialist brothers. we want the racist lady who is automatically proclaims herself president to resign . i'm wondering if the organization of american states as they were said in an election i want you to figure out what's what's going on here no it's clear that in the case of bolivia. the cleaning of the electoral

discrepancies to use to justify any campaign to demonize even more of us and then ultimately to overthrow him the reason why debating against him i was stuck with him just because he pursued policies that were of objecting to the west on the issue of the region so the difference is that in the case of in the case of i was 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 all sided with washington also i was on a whites and it was 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 polls it's time to reduce the country to chaos kaleb up and r.t. new york. and for one fail to another following an unsuccessful us back last year

the us has imposed another round of sanctions on caracas washington has blacklists advance was 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 our solidarity towards venezuela 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 masses. not in any own people there is no police here for imperialist illegal sanctions and military intervention we can reach a rate that we seek peace in a small it can tolerate sanctions and blackmail. the latest wrong of us sanctions target 40 aircraft about as well as national carrier 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 venezuelan crude and have seen financial transactions between the 2 countries severely limited earlier this week the top administration threatens to action firms whose activities help the venezuelan government including russia's biggest oil producer ross douthat meanwhile venezuelan opposition figurehead won by doe was warmly welcomed in washington d.c. after the white house backed him in last year's coup attempt he received precious pledges of support. 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 venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela juan boyd. 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 the last year essentially have been limited to direct sanctions there's been rhetoric off secondary sanctions on 3rd parties but at the moment this is only rhetoric it's not unsurprisingly non-target and yet another state owned industry inverness way that they've targeted oil of gold and a range of other public industries so it's not unsurprising they're now targeting the aircraft as well yes and we've seen a very clear tendency over the last 12 months where where there has been lost support for here in venezuela and internationally so i think this is one of the last cards of watching some have left to play in quite a tale that we could see to receive in the way that donald trump did and to give him the standing ovation he received is clearly a publicist is done to try and boost his popularity very internationally and here in venice way that that's a wrap up other day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on

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come after it has you welcome to going underground the lebanese embassy in london i'm here with ambassador rami want to have a coming up of the show with brit looking to expose brags that future would violate not only you but it's only sanctions when it comes to a trade deal with lebanon and after this week's u.k. on the israeli bombing of a nearby syria how stable is lebanon the 1st arab country to sign a post gregson trade deal with the u.k. . thanks so much for inviting us here to the u.k. government it's trade websites and how does proudly the u.k. companies are going to benefit from your liberal economic system and growing u.k. trade links what is the scale of bilateral trade between britain and the. well to to have you thank you for having me with you on trade i think we started from from

a kind of modest figure but the potential is a high and we're trying to work towards announcing this relationship and we think that there are opportunities in the lebanese market for u.k. companies us for other national companies so we're trying to work on that we have now a trade and boy prime minister as u.k. prime minister as trade and boy who have been was been appointed the last july and we think that with him and with all the bought months of course h m g we can work on identifying these our ports and it kind of one way though it's britain exporting to lebanon not much from lebanon over here it's not only exporting actually we're we're looking for a holistic comprehensive. trade and investment relationship. we just signed a trade. chords for the post brags that you.

were we rolled over our association agreement with the e.u. we rolled it over bilaterally with britain but we opened some windows for further opening subsequently when the implementation phase of the withdrawal agreement with the e.u. is over so we have many tracks on which we're working and i think we have a promising what could be a promising relationship in terms of trade investments services. along with of course cultural and political relationship quite a bit on culturally to change between the 2 countries in the document what cultural interchange you have between lebanon and really well you know u.k. universities are becoming increasingly attractive for lebanese students so we need to take stock of that and we need to work also on their access access of these through the.