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a 3rd whistle blower steps forward over intimidation by the o.p.c. w. investigation into the lead to do a chemical attack in syria casting further doubt on the 2800 findings of the international chemical weapons watchdog. pro israel group called for a boycott of veteran british rocker roger waters over his support for the pro palestinian boycott movement talking to r.t. the pink floyd front man says the movement has nothing to do with anti-semitism. the equation b.d.s. movement. is an invention of people life but now i bring this in it's in the ministry of strategic. security versus ethics britain's deportation of 17 violent criminals to jamaica home office against an appeals court we hear
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whether those deported should have been given sufficient access to legal support. it is not my responsibility to pay for a foreign national to commit crime in my country many of these people they committed a single offense many years ago since then i mean obviously for that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system. from r.t. h.q. in moscow my name's column by welcome to the program this friday february 14th 1st for you a 3rd a whistleblower has chimed in accusing the world chemical weapons watchdog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation leaks referred to an investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of doomer in april 28th. the years are server the most stressful and unpleasant ones of my life i feel ashamed for the organization and i'm glad i left it. a redacted email given to investigative news
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website the gray zone project highlights issues of integrity during the probe it follows revelations by 2 other watchdog employees stressing the same issue they claim the o.p.c. w. report misrepresented its initial findings with unintended bias and simplified conclusions but also questioned whether the chemical was dropped from the air or placed on the ground with the eventual findings pointing the finger at the outside government sift through what could be fact and fiction. we like magine that these massive global organizations the un the i.m.f. the u.p.c. w. these juggernauts good but knives that at the end of the day what they do is good for mankind but as with many things in life you take a closer look and you are left disappointed one whistleblower saying the u.p.c. w. was biased corrupt well he could be wrong just an opinion to whistleblowers saying
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the same thing makes you think could they be right you would be c w says no ignore them. and be a nazi whistle blowers they are individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence as could be expected their conclusions are a road this uninformed and wrong sure sure one whistleblower could be wrong too well could be wrong but when it's 3 when it's 5 when it's a dozen whistle blows you know something's rotten. i fear those behind the crimes that have been perpetrated in the name of humanity and democracy they will not hesitate to do harm to me and my family just what the hell is going on at the o p c w what could be so terrifying that its own employees are afraid for their lives and feel their employer could target them and their families it isn't just one individual it's others too whose crimes were that they would just doing their jobs
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i submitted a request to the team leader i asked i repeated this request a number of times all requests were declined or simply ignored just the guy doing his job what it said in the job description at what was a respectable organization according to testimony given at the un that's not what the u.p.c. w. the management wanted all requests were denied the responses i received included this is too big don't make yourself a martyr i deposited a dossier requesting an investigation months later i was informed that nothing would be done i requested a meeting with the director general as i thought the situation was serious enough to warrant him being made aware of it the request for a meeting was denied and i was informed by a senior manager that you will never get to the director general and if you try to go around me to get to him there will be consequences but don't you think the
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u.p.c. w. hasn't learned that lesson it has it isn't the lesson you and me might think of you know being more honest the lesson they learned is everyone everyone working for them needs to learn to keep their mouths shut and additional bigotry organization wide confidentiality training program will be instituted for all personnel employed by the secretariat this training will be accompanied by annual are to stations and just in case anyone anyone gets any smart ideas or. the future the bosses over the u.p.c. w. could always show them this letter and tell them this is what happens to you when you dare speak out against the u p c w i don't want to expose myself or my family to their violence and revenge i don't want to live in fear of crossing the streets and what we've asked the international chemical weapons watched over to comment on the latest allegations if you get back
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to us we'll let you know the reaction. pro israel groups have demanded that veteran rocker and pink floyd x. front man roger waters be dropped from a major music festival in texas running him and his semitic over his backing of a proper listing you know organization the british musician has also seen ads for his upcoming tour dropped by major league baseball in the united states that it was down to pressure over water support for the boycott divestment and sanctions movement is backing the pro palestinian group is illegal in many states across the us border waters told r.t. why he's not giving up. major league baseball ransom pre-sale. a presale tickets for my shows which was very nice of always had a very good relationship with their moby have done shows yankee stadium and wrigley field and then we've got another great baseball stadiums all of the united states
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so i have a close relationship with them. and so there was never any question of us continuing to run more observed to the priests of the period so i think they just lend let me let it go away quietly. there is nothing and she's met a good bout b.d.'s the b.d.s. movement has consistently and constantly and and of quickly stated that it is against all forms of isms racism anti semitism anti of muslim anything any of any of that any of those race hatred or anti religious movements of any b.d.s. absolutely disavows itself and its always been extremely clear about that and so i have never done anything anti semitic or had an anti semitic thought in my life i
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do have a support the b.d.s. movement and i. and i have campaigned for the last 15 years or so against the policies of the israeli government and i will continue to do so until the human rights of the palestinian people are respected in the middle east not in another israel dominated over free speech or lawsuits being filed against the us state of georgia after a plan talk to university was cancelled when journalist abby martin refused to sign a pledge not to boycott israel which is obligatory under state law where she claims free speech is being restricted instead of embraced. i was given this contract i was pretty shocked to get this contract i heard of these laws i knew of cases for hurricane relief workers just substitute teachers but i guess i never connected the 2 that simply being a speaker on a college campus supposedly bastion of free speech nationwide would trigger this clause and force me to sign
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a contract to say that i would never boycott israel of course this goes against my 1st amendment. rights this is meant to curb the mounting grassroots pressure that originates predominately on college campuses against the state of israel and i couldn't comply with this how could i comply my entire body of work criticizes the israeli government of course i wrote back and i said i cannot comply with this and that's why i decided to take legal action with care in the p.c. jaf because thousands of contractors are being affected by this law whether or not they know where they are forfeiting their constitutional rights in order to simply work and i think that's an abomination limo's designed to counter palestinian led campaigns against israel 27 other states have described by some as pro israel lol similar to georgia they forbid state governments from signing contracts with entities which a boy called israel. the deportation of 17 violent criminals to jamaica has seen the british home office and an appeals court across old while
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those deportations went ahead on february 11th 25 other cases were held back due to a court order concerns were raised by a judge that those being held in detention were not given access to legal advice or to phone the u.k. government's defended its move saying it will act to remove serious offenders who are foreign nationals. the offenses which these people are responsible for include one manslaughter one firearms offense 7 violent offenses 2 which are in the category of rape or sexual offenses and 14 drugs offenses we make no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove syria's foreign national offenders we've got reaction from human rights lawyer shoaib carne and political commentator andre walker on whether the deported criminals should have been given sufficient access to legal support even if they pose a serious threat to society. this is not a regs issue they supposedly protection issue and it's also a rights issue people talk time and time again about your rights
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a family life your right to live in the united kingdom you don't have a right to live in the united kingdom or less your sits in the united kingdom just like any other british nationalist as anyone else in the u.k. they committed a crime they said their punishment they were convicted sentenced they serve their time now after they should be allowed to come home to their family they have british spouses british parents british children british families it is not my responsibility to pay for a foreign national to commit crime in my country any of these people they committed a single offense many years ago since then i mean obviously for the that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system they've been in prison they would have permission to then why have we not been able to be have billeted then why haven't we not been able to reduce the chances of a real offending that is the responsibility of the government i don't have a duty to deal with the world's worst people i don't have a duty for my taxes to be paid on these sorts of people get a grip of yourself look if you wish to come to the united kingdom in order to do
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a job it all to raise a family it all to be a reasonable person i love you if you wish to come to this country it ought to sell drugs beat people up rape murder pillage abuse go how many of these people they were not given the right to make their legal claims there is no legal aid for such cases anymore people who can't afford lawyers aren't able to claim their legal rights and that's why there was an admission in the pointer is not just why are we deporting black people the point is why every deporting criminals who have committed relatively minor offenses and relatively short criminal sentences when they have children british families here and reception separating them from them permanently we do not have a duty to law and support and trust and respect people who came to this country to abuse extraordinary if that sounds brutal i don't care any. one ever can be put in a situation where the you know i think in this part of the moment they act in a certain way but out there that doesn't mean that we should separate them and
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essentially destroy that i mean i guess whatever and that's the point. in that he looking at how they on this is out of the moment in the spare the moments you commits not to manslaughter out killing somebody in the spot of the moment go back this is all to say from moscow on the way the pentagon is being accused of smoke america tactics when it comes to statistics over civilian casualties and war zones takes place not among all stories after this. the liberal media are fickle they fall in and out of love quickly and often not long ago they were infatuated with. now they are smitten by me or the media love to drone on about their preferences in the mean time. their candidates.
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most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. question. lovely mexico with the palm trees swaying in the chattering special guest with us alex. they're rocking it out in the mining. welcome back muslim voters in from the start to turn their backs on president bush
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he's already facing a breakdown in his own party on plummeting support in the polls the latest issue of pivotal local elections next month comes on the back of support for a teenager who lambasted islam online correspondent. president korn has already been accused of fishing for ideas from france's a right wing parties there was the crackdown on illegal immigration france cannot host everyone if it wants to host people well they would tax changes that says observatory over economic conditions says have benefited the wealthy and left the poor well 'd poor he also made it easier for employers to have that workers but the same time making it harder for those who are unemployed to claim benefits now it seems ahead of him collections one which poll suggests his party is going to do badly in not going is once again throwing out some new bait this time defending a teenager who attacked.
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just put those comments into context they came to a muslim commentator on hope post attack target being a lesbian in france the incident became a national scandal on one side there were those who decried the 16 year old as being a racist on the others those who championed her for her right of the freedom of speech in our country of liberty opportunity to apologize it's up to those who threaten her with death harassed her insult her to be brought to justice the right to criticize not the right to install left to support a 16 year old boys who shoot him insulted and threatened with death by thousands of fanatics for having given her opinion on islam now president matt corn has waded
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into the debate defending her the law is clear we have the right to blast free to criticize and to caricature religions what is forbidden is incitement to hatred and . tax on human dignity the teenager who received a rape death threats following up with you has since had to move schools and even been given protection from the state that whole affair has opened up a can of worms in france yet again overspray speech and the right to blast mean by standing up for french values including secularism and the ability to criticize religion and possibly gaining some votes on the right is my corner alienating the more liberal base that pushed him into power and cheated by default the muslim community which overwhelmingly voted for him back in 2017 after all it's not the 1st time since he was elected. to muslims in 29000 the community to step up the
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fight against separatism in the toric that was seen as being tough on islamic radicalization it is a fact that a form of separatism has taken root in some places in our republic in other words the desire not to live together and not to be in the republic it is in the name of a religion namely islam now he also took aim at albania and macedonia chances to join the e.u. many find that difficult to understand and have suggested the real reason is the large and politically active muslim communities in both countries all of this may not play out well for truly on the right may cost them vital votes on the left and it leaves his party lacking any punch in next month's elections. r.t. paris human rights activists told us president would have lost the muslim vote regardless of this latest round. boustany do not necessarily support it but you and
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mccormick they can support mark or they can support people from various authorities and muslims are not i would genius a group in france whether with or without muslim votes money would work or has been just decried from the day of it's we should remember the conditions in which he was elected that the majority of french people did not go to vote and the majority even less people who want to avoid doing their part of it there are elections and we see no who did that the french republic is in grave danger and i think the canucks is possible in terms of us of institutions and on top of it it murderer mccollum is suing he could not be held accountable for this and this is where the ideological blindness of it money medical evaluation call will either cost him his or reelection but this or or this stability of the bill be 0 and the french pretty consistent. pentagons being accused of failing to thoroughly review incidents of
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civilian casualties a reporter failed the much more could be done by the us military to review and prevent cases in afghanistan iraq and syria could have more been looks or whether that's the reason for disparity when it comes to collateral damage to to stick. united states has always insisted that it takes reports about civilian casualties very seriously especially when we ask them about such reports what does the numbers to do the intents have to be for you to call it disturbing we always seek to minimize civilian casualties. in any kind of operation military operation air strike that we carry out the u.s. strike that reportedly killed around 20 civilians in the ice hotel city of mom be in syria was it a mistake. on monday. that's another great accusatory question you've asked here no other military works as hard as ours none no other military in the world to prevent civilian casualties those words sound absolutely certain but
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a new report indicates that things aren't always as washington insists they are columbia law school human rights institute oversees the center for civilians in conflict they have conducted 228 different investigations into civilian casualties in iraq and syria and afghanistan now they looked into how the u.s. military carries out these investigations and they determined that when investigating itself the u.s. military can be rather inconsistent military leaders have publicly acknowledged the value of investigating allegations of civilian harm however over the last 18 years examples of good practice in investigating civilian harm have been overshadowed by the inconsistency of the overall record of military investigations for example when investigating civilian casualties u.s. officials rarely ever visit the scene of the crime in only 16 percent of cases do they actually go to the site of the attack and they rarely ever interview witnesses
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either only 21.5 percent of cases involve interviews with eyewitnesses in too many instances investigations have been concluded based on incomplete or. in adequate internal information or have failed to sufficiently incorporate external evidence not to sound like sherlock holmes here but if you never interview any witnesses and you never visit the scene of the crime how exactly do you go about investigating an incident well here is a standard civilian casualties report as if he completed casualty allegation the posts for reports were determined to be credible and resulted in 12 unintentional. combined joint task force or oppression inherent says the remaining 48 to pose as non-credible that word incredible is key to everything if a flight log or strike record is incomplete the entire incident gets shocked the pentagon says that more than 1190 civilians died as a result of u.s.
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air strikes in iraq and syria however monitoring group says that number is actually 74385 times higher reports are very revealing the fact that they actually went to the trouble to outline a catalog these events. reflect that the results of certain military actions has been devastating to post strikes our. visits are. less than 25 percent even though they claim that they are winning and doing investigation when. the killing of civilians is made known to the department of defense shows that the us is very destructive. has it it has developed since since iraq it has developed in 2003 it has developed a reputation of being very destructive and which hundreds of thousands of civilians
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have been killed or maimed and wounded including u.s. forces now this all may sound shocking but think about it what criminal would ever be caught doing wrong if they were in charge of their own investigation caleb muppet. art see new york. pictures from the iranian capital for you now where hundreds have been paying their respects to the slain general cause i'm sort of money it's been $40.00 days since he was killed on foreign soil by a u.s. airstrike tensions have since spiraled further between the 2 nations with retaliatory action taking both sides. in china a 5 g. robot doctor is doing the rounds to curb the spread of the corona virus it can measure body temperature at a distance of 5 meters and recognize whether a person is wearing a face mask or it's aimed at preventing people coming into contact with others who may be contagious during the incubation period the virus is so far known to have claimed 1300 lives and infected a further 60000 worldwide. and the icing on the lake this
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is time lapse video of the world's deepest freshwater lake baikal in russia's western siberia as the surface covers with ice and snow in the final flurry of winter the ice on bike alchemy to thickness of about one and a half meters solid enough to drive a car on the places i recommend waiting till spring and taking a boat that you can get more from our checking us out on facebook on you tube i'll be back here with you next global update in about 35 minutes after larry king. seemed wrong. but also just don't. get to see out just the cut outs of. and engage with equals betrayal.
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when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the holder doctrine eric holder former attorney general under obama this is the idea that banks are systemically important they can't be processed because this would be a danger to the society as a whole but what's remarkable is that this idea has bled over into other industries so now boeing has a major scandal on its hand and it's claiming that a systemic lay important law doesn't apply to us other agricultural companies are saying now we're systemically important we're above the law now that is leading to bionic laptop or see this becoming i think it's a crack a stock or c. is the right word it's ruled by the least qualified are now in charge of running the economy and there's also obviously catastrophic.
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i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must store in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for that week with just under $23.00. doubt that had to. get out of. control and within 4 gray walls the phone it seems in. turn on to help him to leave this room. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to suffer actually it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's
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a lot of conflict within the game between the 2 most of the conflict i would say overall is around money and most of their money is made. close $1.00 money to the cosimo each other is good because the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complex just to get some 20 a life where. you don't care anymore no i cares about you so you don't care might anything. he says the democrats are complacent and donald trump is the most egregious abuse of power we're going to find out why as i go one on one with ron paul on this.
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is a lot of politicking on larry king my guest today is ron paul former republican congressman from texas he weighed 3 bids for the white house twice as a republican once as the libertarian party's presidential nominee and he's host of the ron paul liberty report me joins us from lake jackson texas in an opinion piece this week you wrote the democrats have a lot donald trump's real abuse of power which is overseas aggression one all our work. yes and i think it's a bipartisan problem that we face because i think the foreign policy unfortunately is shared by both parties and they deal with other things for political reasons and the point i was making in this one and addressing donald trump was what went on in syria you know when there was some gassing down and and people said oh assad is bad
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guys in his own people and in trump sent 100 missiles then into syria and lo and behold after a couple years of investigation and finding out that it was it was it was all fake . that the government didn't do that. there was people trying to cause a red flag and try to blame it you know on the government and they got caught at it but it took 3 years later but that generally has happened you know regardless of which party is in power they're always finding the excuses so that the people will go along with it so people went along with trump and yet that was an act of war but both in the neither party says a word that republicans are going to say anything but a democrat saying they found other things that we found to be maybe existing to some degree but rather minor in nature compared to unleashing bombs on people without authority and doing.
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