i. the global chemical weapons watchdog slams to foreman inspectors who exposed significant flaws in its report on alleged chemical attack in a syrian city of do we look at the credibility of b o b t w claims. british couple accused of arranging the murder of their adopted son in india free but now the u.k. high courts blocked their extradition citing human rights concerns. we compare the us democratic party primary in the size of our state of iowa washington's response to november's electoral confusion in socialist bolivia.

thanks so much for joining us this is r.t. international where we start this hour with breaking news a soldier in thailand has gone on a shooting rampage is in a city northeast of bangkok local media is reporting that at least 12 people have died and that have been many injuries the suspect apparently hijacked a military humvee from his local unit and randomly opened fire in the city center seemingly targeting a shopping mall we'll bring you updates on that story as they come in. 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 duma and verify video emerged. in april of 2018 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 strikes on scientific the cities that they blamed for the incident that before and he probe it even taken place. explains how the latest comments do not appear to restore trust in the official findings there are 2 types of investigation the 1st type is intended to find out and explain what went wrong the 2nd type of investigation is intended solely to cover your butt and the u.p.c. w. let's you know what type of investigation they've done pretty early on the 1st 2 pages are dedicated they're 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 inspector 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 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 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 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. it just ignored well not entirely. as could be expected their conclusions are a road it's an informed and wrong mission accomplished but covered and if you add 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 tarik had to believe that the o.p.c. w.'s using every method at its disposal 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 to admit that these whistle blows. 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 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 ally essential 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 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 possible violation of the human rights in india the scene the couple was free for now they deny the allegations he added stashed with all 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 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 there is circumstantial primer for a she case that ms dear mr a jogger acting together and with others committed the offense is. 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. there is a closed hearing taking place against a private security company excused of spying on julian assigns a spanish court is deciding if the firm violated the privacy of the wiki leaks publisher spanish company you see global was hired to protect the ecuadorian embassy in london while the science was living that last summer recordings of a science from inside the embassy were 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 and

the director of u.c. global says all information regarding the case is confidential. r.t. spoken to julian assange his lawyer who's been attending the trial he claims that the company shared thousands of documents with the cia. it will in their event there's a large amount of evidence related to the word that the u.c. 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 past documents on the visits of mr assad photos of 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 to voice recorded many hours of

mr sanders meetings which led to reinforce the case mr sloan 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 2nd microphones there. julian size was arrested in london in april last year and is serving a 15 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 in putting this incriminating video of american troops in iraq if convicted the science could get a prison term of up to 175 years now the final stage of his extradition that's been pushed back until may in the meantime a science remains in belmarsh prison so it was only recently moved from solitary confinement that after repeated appeals by his legal team he cited poor health he

still faces tight restrictions on that as well his lawyers say that they've also found it difficult to actually meet with 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 even die in prison we discussed the issue with his lawyer. so instead i don't in this prison he's been kept in very severe conditions during the day he spent little time outside he's practically in isolation all this was in his state of health recently the un special rapporteur on mr mills most visited mr sounds with a team of doctors and found that such a situation considering his health could be described by legal authorities as torture. ok let's go back to our breaking news story a soldier in thailand has gone on a shooting rampage in a city located northeast of bangkok local media now reporting at least 10 deaths and further injuries the suspect apparently hijacked a military humvee from his local unit after killing his commander and several cell

just then randomly opened fire in the city center before entering a shopping mall and it's believed the suspect is currently holding several hostages that police are at the scene of lockdown the surrounding area details are still emerging on this breaking news story will bring you any updates as we get them. ok to stay without say we will bring you more stories coming up after this short break . so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with an ability to negotiate for drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so when your own people vote they should

look at how much does this politician get from the power pharmaceutical industry that's. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when one of the pres. wanted. to go to the press this is what the 4 of the 4 people are. interested in the way. they should. welcome back the final result from the botched iowa democratic primary so remains

unclear this spy's all precinct results now being in the state officials have spent the week trying to verify the figures following a technical glitch in the voting up many no question how the chaotic scenes could have been allowed to happen and all while donald trump has been reveling in the back. democrats don't know what the hell they're doing. they can't. simple votes but they want to fix your healthcare system i. mean questions of raised over any election results in the us they all seem followed by pledges that it will be sorted quickly for that he scared them open explains when it happens in other countries it doesn't usually take washington long to start shouting fraud. 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 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 the iowa caucus was rigged by mere cheat be pursued own.

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 to see the i 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. 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 a sled 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 they were going to say nation 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 electoral discrepancies to you to justify

a campaign to demonize. and then ultimately to overthrow him the reason why they are against. you because he pursued policies that were of objecting to us 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 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 caleb artsy new york . senior members of the ruling conservative party in the u.k. are demanding the chinese telecoms john twell way is banned from helping build the

country's 5 g. network. with the in jordan for a means by which we ensure that only trusted vendors are allowed as primary contract is into a critical mass in the infrastructure comes as the government approved limited involvement from the trip to london last week the u.s. sect of state might pump a once again stated washington's opposition issue has sparked a rift between the u.s. and u.k. with the u.s. vice president even hinting that it will put trade talks at risk mike pence insists that he simply worried about the security implications for britain we are profoundly disappointed we just don't believe of them that utilizing the assets the technology of war way is consistent with the security or privacy interests of the u.k. of the united states we spoke to former british m.p. george galloway on the u.s. u.k. split over while way and other issues as the country develops new foreign policy

ties have to quitting the e.u. . we're always looking over our shoulder of the united states that's the nature of the special relationship but it doesn't require us to be slavish in the special relationship and to be fair to boris johnson not a phrase i often use he did stand up against. bullying and bluster over the why we have why we will be involved in our 5 g. network not truly not comprehensive labor in a significant way and it's reported that trump was in cannes desolate with boris johnson and sounds pretty colorful. 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 under 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 more want the opposite how we balance these 2 things would be a feat of statesmanship and we must talk but the man behind you lives up to that possibility. kayla to finance our breaking news story a soldier in thailand is in a shooting rampage in a city northeast the bangkok local media now reporting at least 10 death and further injuries the suspect apparently hijacked a military humvee from his local unit after killing his commander and several soldiers he then opened fire at different locations in the city center including a buddhist temple and a shopping more than have been unconfirmed reports the suspect is holding several hostages police are at the site of the shopping mall they have locked down the surrounding area details are still coming through we'll update you as new information comes in. and do you study with and see for all of the bowl coming your

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