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the 3rd whistle blower costs further doubt on the chemical weapons watchdogs investigation into the alleged chemical attack in syria claiming he faced intimidation. so israel groups called for a boycott of british rocker roger waters who defended his stance for supporting the palestinian boycott movement on. the. b.d.s. movement. is an invention of people like. the ministry of strategic. and a last minute legal intervention could eventually see a rapist released back onto the streets of britain was 25 violent criminals have the deportations to make up locked. mob responsibility to pay for
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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 that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system. live from moscow this is r.t. international. news this hour top story then a 3rd whistleblower has chimed in with claims accusing the world chemical weapons watch dog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation during the investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma in april 28th. the years or so for the most stressful and unpleasant ones of my life i feel ashamed for the organization and i'm glad i left it. a redacted e-mail given to the investigative news website the gray zone project highlights issues of integrity during the probe
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and followed revelations by 2 other watchdog employees stressing the same issue they also question the findings of the final o p c w a report which in effect pin the blame on the outside government but because they have sift through what might be fact and fiction. we like to imagine that these massive google organizations the u.n. 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're left this appointed one whistleblower saying the u.p.c. w. was biased corrupt well he could be wrong just an opinion to whistleblowers saying the same thing makes you think could they be right u.b.c. w. says no ignore them specter is a and b. a nazi whistle blowers they were individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence as could be expected their conclusions are uninformed
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and brohm 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 i submitted a requests 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
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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 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
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bigotry organization wide confidentiality training program will be instituted for all personel employed by the secretary and 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 on or want to expose myself or my family to their violence and revenge i don't want to live in fear of crossing the streets. well as mention the o.p.c. w. went public in doubting the credibility of the 1st 2 whistleblowers we've asked the international chemical weapons watch dog to comment on all the allegations we'll let you know its response if we hear back. probably israel groups have demanded to veteran rocker and former pink floyd star roger waters be dropped from
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a major music festival in texas branding him and he semitic over his backing of a profile a skinny an organization the british musician has also seen ads for his upcoming top dropped by major league baseball in the u.s. that too was down to pressure over water support for the boycott divestment and sanctions movement as backing the pro palestine group is illegal in many states across the u.s. what are waters told r.t. when he's not giving up. major league baseball ransom pre-sale adds before a presale of tickets for my shows which is very nice have always had a very good relationship with the m o b i've done shows the yankee stadium and wrigley field and fenway park another great great baseball stadiums all of the united states so i have a close relationship with them. and so there was never any question of us continuing to run more ads of to the priest so feared so i think
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they just lend leddy let it go away quietly. there is nothing and he's met a good bout b.d.'s the b.d.s. movement has consistently and constantly and and acquitted clearly stated that it is against all forms of isms racism and he semitism and muslim as anything any of any of that any of those race hatred or and religious movements of any b.d.s. absolutely disavows itself and it's all. he's been extremely clear about that and so i have never done anything anti semitic or had an anti semitic thought in my life i do have a support the b.d.s. movement and i. and i have come pain for the last 15 years or so against the policies of the israeli government and i will continue to do so until the human
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rights of the palestinian people are respected in middle east while in another israel dominated rao over free speech or lawsuits being filed against the u.s. state of georgia after a planned talk at a university was canceled when journalist abby martin refused to sign a pledge not to boycott israel which is obligatory under state law there 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 speech pathologist substitute teachers but i guess i never connected the 2 that simply being a speaker on a college campus supposedly these bastion of free speech nationwide would trigger this clause and force me to sign 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
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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. j f because thousands of contractors are being affected by this law whether or not they know what they are forfeiting their constitutional rights in order to simply work and i think that's an abomination. but most designed to counter a palestinian that campaigns against israel and the us 27 other states have what it described by some as pro israel goals some of the georgia they forbid state governments from signing contracts with entities which boycott israel. by canceling a journalist speaking on campus because she refused to support a foreign government georgiou violated the 1st amendment freedom of speech guarantee we do have a strong case ahead of us i think it is up to the judges themselves to overturn
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these laws they've done them in several cases already and that's why i'm confident that we have a very strong clear cut case that a judge of all will see that this is a blatant violation 'd of our constitutional rights it really goes to show you this isn't about free speech at all this is about controlling what kind of speech we're hearing. the british government's concern that an appeals case could see a killer and a rapist released on bail within days or among 25 violent criminals who avoided deportation from the u.k. this week after a last minute legal challenge blocks their return to jamaica one of those $25.00 was found guilty of stabbing a 50 year old man to death for troy daly is currently serving a 10 year sentence while convicted rapist fabian henry is behind bars for raping youngsters on 3 occasions they'll stay in britain pending an appeal by the government which is concerned that they might pose a threat to the public but for now they've been reprieved as the appeals judge ruled that they hadn't been given access to legal advice or of the u.k. government though says it regrets the court came to that decision and stressed it
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will act to remove serious offenders who are not british. the offenses which these people responsible for include one month slaughter 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 show you can and political commentator andrei 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 say regs they supposedly protection issue and it's also a rights issue people talk time and time again about your rights 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 national just as anyone else in the u.k. they committed a crime they said their punishment they were convicted sentence they serve their
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time now after that 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 if we had the that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system they've been in prison there's been a commission since then why have not been able to rehabilitate them why haven't we not been able to reduce the chances are 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 a job it all to raise a family it ought 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
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were not given the right to make their legal claims there is no legal aid for such cases anymore and 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 relative do my no fences and relatively short criminal sentences when they have children british families here and reception are 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 anyone. 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 of that doesn't mean that we should separate them and essentially destroy their family lives whatever and that's the point we need in the in the in that he looking at other way and this is out of the moment in the spare the moments you commits an act of manslaughter or killing somebody in the spur of
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the moment go back. this is all see from moscow on the way the b.b.c.'s warning shots at downing street threaten funding changes will prevent britain from challenging the growing influence of russian and chinese media it's our next story when we come back. you know world big partisan movies a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past 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.
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we know in psychology that the more people are told that they can't or shouldn't do something whether it's sexual or otherwise the more it makes them want to do it so trying new things violating taboos are some of the most common and pervasive elements in our sexual fantasies. welcome back the chairman of the b.b.c. is warning against funding cuts to britain's national broadcaster saying about how russia and china spread influence the b.b.c. fears it could lose $200000000.00 pounds when funding enforcement rules change plus the government's again threatening the broadcast with scrapping its public funded
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model in favor of subscription the b.b.c.'s mean competitors are the well funded state backed actors of russia and china who see news is an extension of state influence and its will for democratic disruption. the government's planning to decriminalise nonpayment of the mandatory license fee 2 years from now kevin owen talk to journalist neil clark about the challenges facing the broadcaster and what the proposed changes might mean. this whole license thing is a piece of history and the b.b.c. these to up its game do you agree with that ism is a great institution i think the problem has been really in the last i would say 10 years or so it's been with its political programming i think that that's where a lot of discontent lies now we're hearing today b.b.c. saying propaganda from the likes of china from the likes of russia are they really that important is it such a problem you know i think the funding so i don't know about the chinese or c.c.t.v. funding but i know from reading articles or reports that in fact the b.b.c.
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as a whole gets more funding than r.t.e. gets so i think that's a bit of a red herring so to speak i think it's sad that he's felt that charities for obliged to make that comment to get that to get russia because it really is and should really be about that it should really be about do we need a public sector broadcaster i think we do and how is that public sector broadcaster funded what he should be saying i think is look the b.b.c. has got a very long history. 80 odd years history of producing good programs we've done it down the years please keep the funding. i think and being accused of failing to thoroughly review incidents of civilian casualties reports revealed the person much more could be done by the us military to review and prevent cases in afghanistan iraq and syria can the balkan looks of whether the reason for disparity comes when it comes down to so-called collateral damage that it sticks. united states has always insisted that it takes reports about civilian casualties very seriously
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especially when we ask them about such reports what does the numbers to the intents have to be fleet 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 isolate held city of mom beach 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 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.
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military carries out these investigations and they determine 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 and only 16 percent of cases do they actually go to the site of the attack and they rarely ever interview witnesses 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
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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 reports for reports were determined to be credible and resulted in 12 unintentional . combined joint task force oppression inherent assess the remaining 48 to pose as non-credible that word non-credible 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. air strikes in iraq and syria however monitoring group says that number is actually 74385 times higher.
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reports are very revealing the fact that there they actually went to the trouble to outline a catalog these events. reflect that results of certain military actions as been devastating to post strikes our. visits are very. less than 25 percent even though they claim that they are women and doing investigation when. the killing of civilians is made known to the department shows that the u.s. is very destructive. has. it has developed since since iraq it has developed in 2003 it has developed
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a reputation of being very destructive and in which hundreds of thousands of civilians 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 kaleb mop and cart see new york and that's it for me thanks for watching kevin owens got you covered for the developing stories in the coming hours he could be here off we've caught up with the money team in washington all new boom bust. in 2040 you know bloody revolution 2 to prevent the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still war here i mean your list put in the new
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for those of boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss things will be with us on business one and i'm going to board washington coming up june 3rd to probe virus infections causes a drop in markets and chinese officials to be removed from their positions we've got the latest. way punching back after claims from the us government that they have been secretly accessing data for over 10 years while ways that many of us show the evidence we have a live debate straight ahead. in 1st it was boeing now airbus is facing what we in some lawsuits now that it's been hit with a series of fines what it means for. aerospace and the company's management team so much to get to on this very busy day so let's get started. and we begin with a huge new surge of over 15000 new coronavirus cases reported on just wednesday
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alone and that news was enough for china's leadership to oust 2 communist party leaders in the who by province in the center of the outbreak the news of those new infections means that indications that the virus was beginning to taper off that's what so many had hoped for is simply not accurate and when it comes to markets they reacted markets down today thanks to concerns that the worst is actually not behind us after all and that china's health commission has reported more than 1300 deaths and now more than 60000 infections aside from the 2 party officials who have been ousted in china hundreds of other officials have been paralyzed and dozens were fired for not properly performing their duties during this outbreak. and for all of this we're joined by boom bust co-host christiane who is joining us once again from los angeles christy thank you so much for joining us today. christy after record highs on wednesday the 3 major benchmarks here in the u.s.
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the dow the s. and p. and the nasdaq all took early losses before kind of stabilizing in the afternoon and just taking you know fractions of a percent off but at this point do american markets actually have any idea how to react to what is going on with the quote a virus. well at this point i think you just pointed out the markets really don't know how to react because don't forget today midday we did hit all the new 52 week highs again in the us and p. 500 so at this point the markets equity markets know that no matter what happens the central bank is going to be ready to bail it out so the good the bad news is good news narrative is still very much intact so in times like these we always think that the fixed income market is much more accurate in these market predictions rather than equity markets which as we know are subject to the central bank manipulations but so if we look at the treasury's right now specifically the 10 year treasury we see that they have actually dropped to $1.00 down from a month where we are $1.00 so that shows that there is this level of caution in the u.s. market and that the equity rally right now isn't really warranted people investors
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are actually more selective these days so of course you see the drops in apple you see the drops in nike and all of the big u.s. names that have really big in china but relative to the u.s. has actually been relatively insulated from this entire coronavirus episode up until now analysts do predict that if this virus persists and we get into the mid april time line then we will see some more effect spread such as tyson foods such as wal-mart and we will see start seeing shortages and impacts in those stores and we will start seeing empty shelves over in wal-mart as a lot of their production relies heavily in china and what's more so disturbing is the fact that a lot of medical devices and medical equipment are actually manufactured in china a lot of parts are supplied from china so when it gets to april and may timeframe and we still don't see an improvement that's when it gets very concerning for us market i mean i think you're great point about the bad news is good news kind of scenario markets reacting to the markets which as you want to talk about all the
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time right or so propped up that is the manufacturing issue right because a lot of these companies and you fracturing plants in china had hoping to have hoped excuse me to reopen and start working again either this week or next. and there was a lot of kind of hope that that was going to happen when you suddenly have the surge in a single day over 15000 cases are we looking at now weeks even months before we get production back online. we are definitely looking at we start hoping to open as soon as possible so every single day you get new data points so it's really uncertain at this point when certain plans are going to be open in production for business so far only the mission critical plants are open such as utility plants power plants those that are that i needed for basic industrial production but as for anything such as producing i phones are producing clothing retail those are 2nd priority so those absolutely take the take the 2nd half i want to talk about the chinese economy when it comes to the.
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