it's using. art to leave death row. heard was. a chemical weapons watchdogs investigation into the alleged chemical attack in syria claiming the face intimidation. political woes grow worse as a key ally of the french president now drops out of the paris merrill breaks the leak of a sex tape. and a last minute legal intervention could eventually see a killer and a rapist released back onto the streets of britain as 25 violent criminals have their deportations to jamaica. it is not my responsibility to pay for a foreign national to commit a crime in my country many of these people they commit the offense many years ago

since then i mean obviously just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system. here on this friday 14th of february welcome to the program live from the arts international world news center it's kevin and here for the next half hour we really appreciate company here all of us so 1st off and as mentioned top story a 3rd chimed in with claims accusing the world chemical weapons watchdog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation during the o.p.c. investigation into alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma in april 28th . the years our server the most stressful and unpleasant ones of my life i feel ashamed for the organization and i'm glad i left it. so a reductive email given to investigative news 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 also question the findings of the final o.p.c. w. report which in effect pin the blame on the assad government or senior correspondent were guarantee of next tonight sift through what might be facts and what might be fiction we like to imagine that these massive global organizations the un the i.m.f. the u.p.c. w. these juggernauts a 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 the supported 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 except think could they be right you'll be c w says no ignore them specter is a and b. not whistleblowers they are individuals who could not accept that their views were

not backed by evidence as could be expected their conclusions are uninformed and brum 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 whistleblowers you know something's rotten. 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

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 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 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. as mentioned the o.p.c. daily went public in doubting the credibility of the 1st 2 whistleblowers we've asked international chemical weapons watch them to comment on all the allegations we'll let you know if they do get back to us in due course. one of the french president's closest political allies has withdrawn his candidacy for mayor of paris

following the leak of a compromising video measuring provos decision to drop out of the race that represents a major blow to minor mccrone whose party is suffering a crisis of confidence going into next month's local elections charlotte he reports from paris. well the dissemination of these incredibly videos and photos has resulted in that shock announcement by benjamin kleber benjamin cleaver one of lachlan's closest allies and he hasn't authenticated those videos but it is being reported in the french media did recognize them as being authentic and that's why he drew his candidature so quickly let's have a listen to what he said. when i announced my candidacy for mayor of paris i knew how harsh political life was for every year my family and i have been subjected to defamatory statements lies anonymous attacks the release of private conversations and death rows yesterday we reached

a new level when an internet site relayed despicable attacks calling my private life into question with a reaction to those videos and photographs has been largely supportive towards benjamin cleaver and that comes from across the political spectrum it's even support coming from those who were opposing him in that race here in paris including one from former on the move m.p. set of a cfi yanni now said to be only what's quite interesting about him is he wanted to be the candidate for my quince party here in paris he lost out to benjamin cleaver as a result he decided that he was going to become an independent and by doing that cause massive friction imac wants party and ended up being chucked out in the last few weeks this comes at a time when we've got those elections next month back want to party is not looking like it's going to do particularly too well many is seeing next month's elections as being a test for mark on a referendum on his policies particularly some of those that have been unpopular

such as the pension reform which has caused huge protests here in paris over the last months now much wrong was really eyeing the prize of winning that election here in paris and that's why he wanted one of his closest allies as former spokesperson to be the candidate. for the party to win battles won here in paris would have been a very big coup this is going to be deeply embarrassing not just for the party but for mark on himself the party will of course choose another candidate or that election but in reality many will be questioning if it down which has already been done. and the world are converging on munich this friday for the city's annual security conference among the topics in focus today of the conflict tearing libya apart and refugee flows across the mediterranean our europe correspondent peter all of the work for us and managed to catch up with the president of the red cross no less. well as far as the things coming up over the next couple of days were

expecting a big speech by french president of money or my corner on saturday where he's expected to talk about a role for russia when it comes to defense in europe also on sunday big talks regarding libya and the ongoing crisis there and that's what we're going to talk about more with right now with peter mara the president of the international committee of the red cross you're just back from libya just this morning as i understand what's the situation in a few money monetary in terms in libya right now but libya is a context in which i.c.r.c. has been increasingly involved over the last couple of years because after the terry orating situation and the expanding warfare in particular since april last year when the attack on tripoli was launched and the bigger frontline evolved in densely populated area around tripoli we have seen 152200000 people displaced

we see multiple frontline still in the country active in which the i.c.r.c. entertains for offices in all parts of the country in tripoli misrata and it's up high in the south so a big operation which is not typical of. many other i.c.r.c. operations because as everybody knows libya is a country which has been well off for decades and oil rich and resource rich and therefore not their primary client offer you many terror in operation but it has degraded in tall a conflict to reality which now becomes a humanitarian crisis now throughout this conference you're going to be having talks with representatives from libyan authorities what are you going to be discussing and what do you hope to achieve from those talks well i hope that we can further enhanced the acceptance of a neutral and impartial act alike. the i.c.r.c.

to work in libya and as well i hope to have more support for compliance with international humanitarian law with the principles enshrined in the geneva conventions in order to minimize the impact and the effect of the warfare on on the libyan population also i think we have to discuss on how to stop the lice the situation how to build capacities in libya now to. responds to the sun folding to this unfolding crisis and of course a lot of the response will be beyond your many tarion actors its political and its politicians who have to take their responsibilities as we have seen over the last couple of weeks through department process. parts international probably brokers who for russia around the world are bringing in the latest tories to like this one after the break with transatlantic relations to tyranny take ports claim now that boris johnson is postponed a trip to the u.s.

to meet with president trunk question is why a correspondent in london gauges the factors at work when we come back. most people thing to stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest read improve to stand out of the business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. 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. lovely girl mexico on the beach at the palm trees swaying in the monkeys chattering special guest with us today alex patra see i. fear they're rocking it out in the mining space. i guess the u.k.'s prime minister is reportedly for spode a trip to the united states to meet with donald trump as tensions increase between london and washington it's now believed boris johnson won't meet the american president until june g. 7 summit he said alys got the story from london. much has been made for many decades about the special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. however in recent months it has become increasingly strained on issues such as the

involvement of the chinese tech firm why way and rolling out the u.k.'s 5 g. 2 tensions in iran following the mother of general sunday money and now a wretch to see the unity in the house of commons to the outgoing if you will the opposition jeremy corbin to the prime minister post johnston's agreement that the extradition treaty between the u.k. and the us is simply too one sided in america's favor while the us continues to do justice to harry done will the prime minister commit today to seek an equal and balance extradition relationship with the united states prime minister mr speaker to be frank i think we all noble gentleman has a point in his characterization of our extradition arrangements with the united states and i do things. that there is there are elements of that relationship that are unbalanced ricer i certainly think that it is worth looking at now all of this

comes in the background of the ongoing rao over and secure last who is the wife of a u.s. intelligence agent who has been accused of killing a 19 year old man harry done in a hit and run driving accident she was said to be driving on the wrong side of the road when the incident took place a report since coming out that she herself is also a cia agent as well now she used diplomatic community especially that of a husband to flee the country and hasn't returned since and police have charged her with death by dangerous driving however as far as the us state department are concerned they have no intention of sending her back here to face those accusations it is the position of the united states government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse the use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomats by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent

with president trump seemingly angry at johnson to the point that he's slamming the phone down on the british prime minister who himself would be desperate to strike some kind of trade deal between the u.k. and the u.s. post brags that it would appear ever clearer that that special relationship is just a one sided one yeas or alley there well one of those controversial stories we spoke to the family's lawyer read seger who believes that the current extradition treaty is indeed one sided. there has been a special relationship between the 2 countries for a long long time and we all enjoyed that relationship and are glad for it but there is really only one country that is behaving like an ally at the moment and that's the united kingdom because it complies with the extradition treaty. almost all the time at the moment the way the treaty is written is that the united kingdom must extradite people to the united states when it's requested but the treaty reserves

the americans right to have discretion so the americans may send somebody back to the united kingdom must i'm afraid the family feel that america is putting itself 1st and is trying to bully the united kingdom into ignoring this catastrophic collision which ended in harry dunn's life but the one thing that the americans need to understand is the resolve and determination of harry's parents and the millions of supporters that they have both in the united kingdom and in the united states frankly the other issue that is becoming very clear is those of us who live near these american bases in the u.k. are not say there was another near miss yesterday of an american driving on the wrong side of the road we are very happy to have these bases in the united kingdom keeping us safe from harm overseas but if they're killing us at home there is no

point and they have to go and and harry spreads and supporters will close those bases down and we will blockade them so that's an ongoing controversy in the u.k. this next one is to the british government's concern that an appeals case could see a camera and also a rapist released on bail within days there have been 25 violent criminals will avoid deportation from the u.k. this week of for a last minute legal challenge block their return to jamaica one of those 25 was found guilty of stabbing a 50 year old man to death his name. fitzroy delis currently serving a 10 year sentence over that and there's another man to a convicted rapist called fabian henry who's being behind bars for raping 2 teenage girls but their stay in britain for now pending an appeal by the government the government's concern that they might pose a threat to the public while all that thrush is through they've been reprieved as it stands at the moment as the appeals judge ruled that they hadn't been given

access to legal advice or indeed to a phone the u.k. government though says it regrets the court came to that decision and stressed it will act to try to remove serious offenders who are not british the offenses which these people 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 may no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove serious foreign national offenders so what's the deal here we got reaction from human rights lawyer and political commentator andrew walker of whether or not the deported criminals should have been given sufficient access to legal support even if they do 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 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 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 for the that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system they've been in prison there's been a probation since 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 finding 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 in order 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 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 additional thing the point here 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 loaf and support and trust and respect people who came to this country to abuse a strawberry if that sounds brute so i don't care anyone. ever can be put in a situation where the you know in the spur of the moment they act in a certain way but out of that doesn't mean that we should have created them and essentially destroyed their family lives forever and that's the point really in the in the in the only looking at other and this is where the moment in the spare the

moments you commits an act of manslaughter or killing somebody in the spur of the moment go back. to pentagon spring accused of failing to thoroughly review incidents of civilian casualties a reporter has revealed that much more could be done by the u.s. military to review and prevent cases in afghanistan iraq and syria kellam open next tonight that looks at whether or not that's the reason for disparity when it comes to so-called collateral damage has this dick's. 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 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 us 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 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 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 reports for reports were determined to be credible and resulted in 12 unintentional . combined joint task force oppression inherent and says the remaining 48 for post

as non-credible that word 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.

courts are very revealing the fact that they actually went to the trouble to outline a catalogue of these events. reflect that results of certain military actions has been devastating to post strikes our. visits are very. less than 25 percent even though they claim that they're going to go in and do an investigation when. the killing of civilians is made known to. department 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 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. artsy new york well from the big pullback here in moscow is kevin saying things have much to have a so much for watching that's the news rupp's so fuckin tell you done you'll see it with more in 30 minutes if you want to keep across the break he's doing now and then check it out seat of congress social media the next programs on it and you'll part of the world after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. one else seems wrong. well just don't call. me.

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