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the headlines in r.t. the global chemical weapons watchdog slams 2 former inspectors who exposed significant flaws in its report on the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of doing we look at the credibility of the o.p.c. claims also determined police in thailand storm a shopping center and rescue hundreds of people as authorities scramble to capture a gunman killed at least 20 in a shooting rampage and the british couple accused of arranging the murder of their adopted son in india walked free for 9 u.k. high courses brought their extradition citing human rights concerns.
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oh good even just gone 9 o'clock here in moscow you're watching international the international chemical weapons watchdog the p.c. has lashed act at the leaks provided by 2 whistle blows who revealed serious defects in its final report on an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of doing unverified video emerged in april 28th seen claiming to show the aftermath feel edged to sold it was immediately blamed on syrian government forces prompting the u.s. the u.k. and france to carry out airstrikes in scientific cities they blamed for the incident even before any probe into what had happened. as they have explained how the a.p.c. 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 why.
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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
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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 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
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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 it in jew course. and if you think they treated inspected be any more seriously than inspector 8 you're in for a surprise most of the doman team failed to see 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.
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went ahead and excluded most of them from the investigation the point regarding the f a 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. 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. they just ignored well not entirely. as could be expected their conclusions are
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uninformed and brum 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. now in thailand special forces have rescued hundreds of people after storming a shopping center there in a city northeast of bangkok they are trying to capture a gunman who killed at least 20 people during a shooting rampage early on saturday police have managed to evacuate hundreds of people and say they have secured the mall earlier suggested the gunman had been
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holding a number of hostages he's yet to be located he was active on social media throughout the shooting posting disturbing videos and also pictures which were shared online before the canker were closed or this is what we know about the gunman so far he's been identified as a junior officer in the thai army a suspect is believed to have shot dead a senior officer and 2 other soldiers inside a military base before it legibly stealing military equipment and hijacking a humvee the gunman then went on to open fire at several sites including a buddhist temple and then at the shopping mall political commentator on drivel check says the shooting comes on the back of growing social unrest in the country. has one of the very high at home also raids it is higher. than the united states. lately there is a huge donation that is a social dimension. income disparities through those close is sort of very high
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tide bar is. realistically high as well which makes it very difficult for the 10s of millions of ties to actually sort of buy and so this very common to see that. under the surface of the politeness the smiles there is a lot of anger and frustration so anything can trigger the only thing going through your reaction from the people. here to be able to talk. about the soldier or boat. you know a person who has access to the guns this is. dangerous. cocktail if you wish. the final result from the botched eye where democratic primaries still remains unclear despite all the results now being the party state officials have spent the week trying to verify the figures following
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a technical glitch innovating app and many now question have a chaotic scenes could have been allowed to happen and all while donald trump has been reveling in the mayhem the democrats don't know what the hell they're doing i i have a kid. simple votes but they want to fix your health care system i. now and questions are raced over any election results in the us they are soon followed by pledges that it will be sorted quickly but it is. never explains when it comes when it happens in other countries it often doesn't take washington long to start shouting for all. 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
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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 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 know.
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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 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. the more they 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
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a transition to democracy we recognize the importance of believe us political transition to democracy in our hemisphere and we had mire the believe in people for standing up for their constitution their democracy and for free fair and transparent elections after morale us led 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. the cleaning of the let's talk discrepancies to you to justify any campaign to demonize this and
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then ultimately to overthrow him the reason why debating against him i was adopted just because he pursued policies that were of objects to us on the 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 them electorally 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 care. asked caleb happen r.t. new york. the president of the philippines rigo to say is planning to rip up a longstanding military pact with the u.s. that after washington cancelled a tourist visa or issued to one of his close political allies who's been in charge
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of the country's tough crackdown on the illegal drugs trade washington said that the visa had been revoked because the crackdown had strengthened and human rights were being violated but he did make his feelings very clear. see above goal. been there low but go on the move i am wanting you know this is the 1st night. buggin then when you know. you know. what are you it better man may be. visiting agreement. the whole same. cycle visiting forces agreement has been in place since 1909 it provides a framework for u.s. troops coming to the philippines for joint training exercises if it is canceled it
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will affect more than 300 military personnel we spoke to political scientist and foreign affairs analyst richard darrien about the impact this could have. 3 out here is the president the 3rd is really angry at the united states not only because of the travel ban or visa restrictions imposed on saw. lights but there are concerns that the united states might actually move forward. and other kinds of sanctions against the president himself down the road especially when he's already going to step down so i think there was some complacency on the part of united states if they ease indeed taken out that means the end significant amount of american military to the philippines which amounted to $1800000000.00 or possibly decades and it's going to make it very difficult operation of allies because that be a base the software that allows the operationalization the hardware of the bilateral lines by the. britons at the center of another
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extradition scandal the u.k. high court has tonight the indian government's request to die to couple the keys to ranging the murder of their adopted son the decision based on concern i have a possible violation of the human rights in india has seen the couple walk free through they deny the allegations with more hey shadier at puts dashti. 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 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
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extradited but not because the evidence against them isn't strong enough i find very circumstantial primer for that news dear mr a jogger acting together and with others committed the offense. despite all this the u.k. won't send the juror back why well because of one crucial piece of engine at a sleigh ssion that means the package 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
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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 but 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
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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 it was not a celebrity this hour sealed with a kiss of life this abandoned pub which had been at death's door is now slowly being nursed back to life back to health sorry in some pages we'll have a closer look at the stuff. you know world big partisan lot and conspiracy it's. a way to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past
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each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. donald trump might appear showy and shallow but he is 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 you so. much.
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again you without saying now there is a close to haring taking place at the moment against a private security company keys to spying on jews you know sanch a spanish court is deciding if the firm violate the privacy of the wiki leaks publish a spanish company you see global was hired to protect the ecuadorian embassy in london while the songe was living there last summer recordings of the signs from inside the embassy were leaked online and allegations have emerged the company might have shared surveillance of the cia well so far the u.s. intelligence agency and the ecuadorian embassy officials have declined to comment and the director. global says the information regarding the case is confidential but arcee has spoken to 2 new songes lawyer who has been attending the trial he claims the company shared thousands of documents with cia. exists only when there is a large amount of evidence related to the word global company carried out while providing
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security services to the embassy the company's e-mails indicate priority 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 sands 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 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 microphones there . junior sanj was arrested in london in april last year and served
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a sentence for skipping bail back in 2012 he's still in british jail pending a hearing on extradition to the us waiters face espionage and computer hacking charges which focused on the publication by wiki leaks of thousands of classified military files and 2010 including this one incriminating video of american troops in iraq if convicted a son could get a prison term of up to 175 years the final stage of his extradition trial has been pushed back to may meanwhile a songe does remain in belmarsh prison songe was only recently moved from solitary confinement there after repeated to pales by his legal team citing poor health he still faces tight restrictions on visitors while his lawyers say that they also found it difficult to meet their client in an open letter last month dozens of leading medical experts did warn the u.k. government that the wiki leaks co-founder could die in prison we discussed the
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issue further with his lawyer. so instead i don't even use prison he's been kept in very severe conditions during the day he spent little time outside. practically all in isolation is all this was in his spirit of health recently the un special rapporteur on top job mr mills most visited mr sands with a team of doctors and found that such a situation considering his health could be described by little or flora to you as torture. in light of the u.k.'s exit from the european union the french president has called for a more coordinated in defense strategy in which france blocks only post breaks in nuclear power would hold a central role monument crum said that europeans cannot confine themselves to the task of spectators anymore and shouldn't be controlled by america. live from the amount of the collapse of the irony of treaty france hopes for more inclusive talks
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in which europe's voice and interests are taken into account in talks on a new instrument to assure strategic stability on our continent if it's blocked by some we won't stand still europeans cannot confine themselves to the role of spectator to build the europe of tomorrow can't be under american control in his speech mccrum there said renewing arms control needs to be put back on the global agenda but he ruled out any further cuts to france's nuclear arsenal the country has previously reduce its warheads to less than $300.00 despite that though it is spending 37000000000 euros modernizing its arsenal between 20192025 micron speech comes at a time when long standing of course on limiting the growth of nuclear arsenals appear increasingly risk with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty having recently been killed off signed by the us in the soviet union in 1987 band some shorter range and intermediate range missiles but it did collapse on. because the
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2nd last year when the u.s. quit the treaty and then russia followed suit professor and political commentator john briggs believes that europe doesn't need the u.s. to play a key role in nuclear defenses but the e.u. has no means of pressuring washington. there's a lot of americans in love with her lol but just what does it mean to do i'm still close with the americans we're little means of judging on the arm and the only means of pleasure that you have in jewelry would be to leave little and they'd let them do with the world if you don't want to. go to the new law medium and it's as simple as that. i'm lucky if you only get where things are so did the old you know it was well they don't even need a defense because nobody's that they can get to the fringe only does it because they were always going to a doctor in germany. some of the world in brief a mass broad in a village in kazakstan has left 8 people dead and dozens injured police arrested 47
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people in seized 2 hunting rifles the fight ended up with a number of houses and cars being torched the motive of the era of the unrest is not yet known hundreds of friesians held a true flights march in the french capital on friday evening against pension reforms the demonstrators there held banners showing solidarity with the long lasting general strike movement back in december and i'm still a and i'm just a 2 year extension to the working period necessary to worsen a full pension triggering the anger of workers and trade unionists the pension age will also be increased from 62 to 64 and in neighboring germany demonstrators there took to the streets of munster and get that the alternative for germany party was holding this new congress protesters chanted slogans denouncing the members as nazis and waving eligibility flags the congress came just 2 days after nationwide
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outrage over a deal struck between the f.t. and the ruling social democrats over a key regional prime minister has since stepped down in the wake of anger. i finally a special arrival and often seal pup is being nursed back to health. after being discovered on the baltic sea shore of the northern russian city it is believed by because she's now being called lost her mother in a storm but she is successfully capturing the hearts of the better me stuff looking after.
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the company tonight that's how the news is looking so far today it's just coming up to hamas 9 in the evening here in moscow more from us in 30 minutes. up in finding another one of our esteemed swayer both of. baloch itself movie theater. was in this way got to dog so hard not to think of the mother decide this the walk up to him and i know mr authentic that. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his own way.
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