what i see is this is the that's what. the global chemical weapons wants dog slams to former inspectors to expose significant flaws in its report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma will look at the credibility of the appreciate abuse claims. also a couple accused of awaiting the murder of their adopted son an order to collect and insurance walks free for now they will not be extradited to india to face trial after the u.k. high court cited human rights concerns. and we compare the us democratic party primary in the state of iowa marred by technical glitches irregularities and premature announcements of washington's hysterical response to november's electoral

confusion in socialist bolivia. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our church q. and moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has lashed out at the leaks provided by 2 whistleblowers who are serious defects and its final report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma unverified video emerged in april of 2018 that you can see here claiming to show the aftermath of the alleged assault was immediately blamed on syrian government forces prompting the u.s. u.k. and france to carry out airstrikes on scientific until they blamed for the incident even before any probe into what happened had been carried out his modesty explains how the o.p.c. latest comments do not appear to restore trust in the official version. 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 surely the couple you'll but. 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. 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 at the alleged chemical attack site also at the hospital where he helped tag and seal those all important cylinders inspectors a and b a not whistle blowers they were individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence 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 now we come to the icing the question 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 8 in jew course. 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 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 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 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 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 atis stations writer and freelance journalist who believes they are 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 whistle blows 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 whistle blowers. raised valid concerns about the evidence that they found in duma would be very damaging so i think they've gone on the defensive and tried to discredit the people who have come forward mr henderson led 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 quarrying use. funds you know the be 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 law you have to kind of fudge the specifics to try and make it fit your case but unfortunately it doesn't work out so well. britain is currently at the epicenter of my mother 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 a decision based on concern over possible violation of their human rights in india has seen the couple walk free for now a couple denies all the allegations are shoddy at once dashti 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 old for a lump sum of life insurance payout. indian police 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 very circumstantial primer free she 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 that you are back why well because of one crucial piece of indian legislation that means the package faces 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 as 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 that that 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. the final result from the boche iowa democratic caucus remains unclear despite all precinct information now being in a party state 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 abe otello was even released but as kilmartin explains the u.s. would have gone all in on a cool how the same thing happened and they started this 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 and both situations and election took place and the results

were delayed and then authorities said that some irregularities that happened throughout the collection of records over results the i would democratic party identified in consistencies in the data and used the redundant paper records to probably correct those errors 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 now iowa caucus was rigged by mere cheap eat pasta don't. you. 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 that and we have worked together over the last few days to fix the challenges i have decided 1st to replace every member of the supremum like total tribunal and 2nd to hold 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. i see in the presidency with the middle of the fact in line with the constitution and pres 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 us 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 is flat things have been pretty messy in bolivia and that's why my resigning so that my opponents do not continue to persecute more socialist brothers. 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 where you know it's clear that in the case of bolivia you need a clean of the electoral discrepancies to justify any campaign to demonize this and then ultimately to overthrow him the reason why they are

against. you because he pursued policies that were of projecting u.s. domination of 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 all sided with washington and also i was on or why it's a different standard so if a u.s. 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 more global news coming your way after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on

the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then.

welcome back following an unsuccessful u.s. backed coup 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 that as well during a visit to the capital. we reiterate all 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 statements. not the ending going people that there is no police here for imperialist illegal sanctions and military intervention

we can reach a rate that we seek peace and it's well it can't tolerate sanctions and blackmail. the latest round of u.s. sanctions target 40 aircraft about as well as national carrier that comes on top of existing penalties on the country's firms including the main oil company under those restrictions u.s. companies are barred from directly importing but as one crude and have seen financial transactions between the 2 countries severely limited earlier this week the trumpet ministration threaten distinction firms whose activities helped about as well and government including russia's biggest oil producer ross snuffed. meanwhile but as well had one wideout was warmly welcomed in washington d.c. after the white house backed him in last year's coup attempt he has received fresh pledges of support. of stay with you mr president in that fight here this evening it's 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. journalist paul dobson says washington is resorting to increasingly direct sanctions against keep 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 all secondary sanctions on the parties but at the moment this is only rhetoric is 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 industries so it's not only surprising the now target in the aircraft as well is 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 cards are working

so i was 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 published at least done to try and boost its popularity very internationally and here in venice ways. and also world news in brief in paris hundreds held a torchlight march to show their anger at reforms the protestors play drums chanted and march with banners showing solidarity with the man strike started after the french prime minister announced reforms in december they would extend the time needed to work to earn a full pension and raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64 years. chandan slogans outside the alternative for germany party congress calling members nazis it comes in the wake of an election scandal in the central german state of turned the party support cultural move and left wing regional prime minister it prompted national rage forcing the new premier to resign. and

a state of emergency has been declared in parts of the u.s. state of oregon after rain and heavy snow brought severe flooding helicopters have been deployed in search and rescue operations trying to reach residents still boxed in by high water. 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 or 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 saw 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 will be a feat of statesmanship and we're must hope that the man behind you lives up to that possibility. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you

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