global chemical weapons watchdog slams 2 full inspectors to expose significant flaws in its report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma we look at the credibility of the o.p.c. to produce claims. couple accused of arranging the murder of their adopted son in order to collect an insurance payouts free but now they will not be extradited to india to face trial after the u.k. high court cited human rights. we compare the us democratic party primary in the state of iowa marred by technical glitches irregularities and premature announcements of washington's historical response to november's electoral confusion in socialist believe you.

or good afternoon to you this is r.t. international. the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has lashed out at the links provided by 2 whistleblowers who revealed serious defects in its final report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of doom unverified video emerged in april of 2008 claiming to show the aftermath of the alleged assault and was immediately blamed on syrian government forces prompting the u.s. u.k. and france to carry out airstrikes on scientific facilities they blame for the incident even before any probe into what happened at these mega theory explains how these latest comments in other peer 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 invest. is intended soonly 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 a dedicated they're 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 i 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 the study tran that these cylinders allegedly used in the duma a chemical attack were likely placed at the scene which she had no business doing

in fact according to the soupy she 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 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 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 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 incident 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 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. it 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 eric had to believe that the a 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 while i think they're in a very embarrassing situation where you know the reputation of the organization is that there's a risk and 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 that 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. and you know the be 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 what you're so 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. but the epicenter of another 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 the decision based on concern over a possible violation of the human rights in india and seen the couple walk free for

now the couple denies the allegations is on the shady edward stashed with. 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 ringback. 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 acting together and with others committed the offense to set out above

despite all this the u.k. won't send that 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 your party 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 botched iowa democratic primary remains unclear despite all precinct information now being in the party state officials have spent the week trying to verify results following a technical glitch in the voting up one of the contenders named himself the winner before a vote tally was even released this caleb maupin explains the u.s. would have gone all in on a coup had the same thing happened in a 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 have 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 thor sees 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. 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 acknowledged that he's apologized for that and we have worked together over the last few days to fix the challenges to see the i have decided 1st to replace every

member of the supremum like total tribunal 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. the more they i see in the presidency with 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 had minor 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 and 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. the cleaning of the let's talk discrepancies to you to justify any campaign to demonize this and then ultimately to overthrow him the reason why did he go against. them just because he pursued policies that were of objecting to the west on nation 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 the whites and it was a different standard so if a u.s. state has an 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 caleb up and r.t. new york ok please when you are coming away after the short break. 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 so. the world is driven by shaped. thinks. we should ask.

there is a closed hearing taking place against a private security company accused of spying on julian assange a spanish court is deciding if they violated the privacy of the wiki leaks publishing spanish you see global was hired to protect the ecuadorian embassy in london mahler songs was in exile that last summer recordings of his songs from inside the embassy with leaked online and allegations of emerged the company might have shared surveillance with the cia so far the u.s. intelligence agency and ecuadorian embassy officials have declined to comment the director of u.c. global says all information regarding the case is confidential. spoken to julian assange is lawyer who's been attending the trial he claims that the company shared thousands of documents with the cia. exists only in their events there's a large amount of evidence related to the word global company carried out while providing security services to the embassy the company's e-mails indicate priority

is knowledge goals including mr assad his lawyers his doctors and ecuadorian diplomats themselves there's also evidence that they gave the gathered information to u.s. intelligence these are hundreds if not thousands of images of. documents on the visits of mr assad photos visas entry and exit stamps they also installed bugs inside the embassy one of them was placed on a fire extinguisher in the meeting room listening device recorded many hours of mr sanders meetings which led to reinforce the case it was just on suspected that they were spying on him and started holding his meetings at the back of the building in the female restroom as soon as they discovered it they installed the microphones there. julian aside was arrested in london in april of last year in a serving a 50 week sentence for skipping bail back in 2012 he also faces extradition to the

u.s. on espionage and computer hacking charges the american case centers on the publication by wiki leaks of thousands of classified military files in 2010 including this incriminating video of american troops in iraq if convicted could get a prison term of up to 175 years the final stage of his extradition trial has been pushed back to may. remains in belmarsh prison size was only recently moved from solitary confinement after repeated appeals by his legal team who cited poor health he still faces tight restrictions on visitors while his lawyers say that they have also found it difficult to make their client in an open letter last month dozens of leading medical experts warned the u.k. government that the wiki leaks co-founder could in fact die in prison we discussed the issue with his lawyer. so instead out of. prison he's been kept in very severe conditions during the day he spent little time outside he is practically in

isolation is all this was in his state of health recently the un special rapporteur on top job mr mills most visited mr stands with a team of doctors and found that such a situation considering his health could be described by legal authorities as torture. following an unsuccessful u.s. bank killed last year the u.s. as imposed a nother round of sanctions on caracas washington has blacklisted venezuela's largest airline and threatened new restrictions on foreign firms who work in the country versus 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 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 own

people there is no police here for imperialist that illegal sanctions and military intervention we again reiterate that we seek peace in this world can tolerate sanctions and let me. the latest round of u.s. sanctions target 40 aircraft of venezuela's 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 venezuelan crude and soon financial transaction transactions between the 2 countries severely limited earlier this week the troubled ministration threatened to sanction devotees help the venezuelan government including russia's biggest oil producer person after. meanwhile venezuelan opposition figure head wound why don't i was warmly welcomed in washington after the white house had backed him in last year's coup attempt he received fresh pledges of support. of stay with you mr president

in that fight here this evening so very brave man. who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all that is whelan's joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela one. journalist paul dobson says washington's 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 they've been rhetoric or secondary sanctions on parties but at the moment this is only rhetoric it's not unsurprisingly it now targeted yet another state owned industry inverness way and they've targeted oil of gold and a range of other public industries so it's not unsurprising though now target in the aircraft as well yes and we've seen a very clear tendency of the last 12 months where one where there has been lost

support for here in venezuela and internationally so i think this is one of the last cards are working some have left to play in quite a tale that we could see to receive him in the way that donald trump did and to give him a standing ovation here at sea is clearly a published at least done to try and boost his popularity very internationally and here in venice weyler. with a recap of news from around the world in paris hundreds torchlight marched to show their anger at pension reforms the protestors played drums chanted to the march with banners showing solidarity with the mass strike started after the french prime minister announced reforms in december they would extend the time needed to work in a full pension and raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. elsewhere protesters chanting slogans outside the alternative for germany party congress calling members nancy's comes in the wake of an election scandal in the central german state of the

party support hope to remove a left wing regional prime minister prompted national. age forcing the premier to resign. they state of emergency has been declared in parts of the us state of oregon after the rain and heavy snow brought severe flooding helicopters have been deployed in search and rescue operations trying to reach rural residents still box that i will. just have to break the ukase in banking 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 not 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. it's all in the balance this year is going to be one of intense negotiation over these trading matar's britain will want to be free to strike deals with other countries 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 women's talk but the man behind you lives up to the possibility

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it had the welcome to going underground through the lebanese embassy in london i'm here with ambassador ron we want to have a coming up of the show with britain 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. armed israeli bombing of a nearby syria how stable is lebanon the 1st arab country to sign a post-grad it's a trade deal with the u.k. bass i thank 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. well to to have you thank you for having me with you on trade i think we started from from a kind of modest but the potential as a high and we're trying to work towards and seeing this relationship and we think that there are opportunities in the lebanese market for u.k.

companies as 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 war who have been was been appointed the last july and we think that with her and with other pot months of course h m g we can work on identifying these or porch and a 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. 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 are 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 cultural him to change between the 2 countries in the document what cultural into change you want between lebanon and really well you know in the u.k. universities are becoming increasingly attractive for many students so we need to take stock of that and we need to work also on their access access of these students on the opportunities they might find post graduation and the and the u.k. market so are you worried before the deal was finally signed off because lebanon is no member of the noble if you yes do you think there could have been a problem that's why we rolled over this i mean we signed this agreement lasts a.