the 3rd whistleblower cause further doubt on the chemical weapons watchdog investigation into the alleged chemical attack in syria claiming he faced intimidation. political woes grow worse a key ally of the french president drops out of the merrill race following the leak of a private videotape. and a series of spots that special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. seems to be on the rocks the british prime minister has now literally on the trip to america to meet with president trump.

from moscow thanks for joining us here on r.t. international tonight i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. has chimed in with claims accusing the world chemical weapons watchdog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation during the o.p.c. investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma in april 28th in. 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 well redacted e-mail given to investigative news website the gray zone project highlights issues of integrity during the probe of revelations by 2 other watchdog employees stressing the same issue they also question the findings of the final report which in effect put the blame on the government. sifts through the evidence. we like to imagine that these massive google 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 makes you think could they be right you can see w. says no ignore them space is a and b. a 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 brohm 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 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 its 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 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. as mentioned the o.p.c. w. went public indulging the credibility of the 1st 2 will suppose we've asked the international chemical weapons watchdog to comment on all those allegations we'll let you know as and when we do get a response. one of the french president's closest political allies has withdrawn his candidacy for paris that follows the leak of a compromising video of the surgeon to drop out of the race for presents on major blow to one of our crowd whose body is suffering a crisis of confidence going into next month's local election shot at the whiskey has the details. well the dissemination of these incredibly videos and photos has resulted in that shock announcement by benjamin from the bench weekly

one of lachlan's closest allies he hasn't authenticated videos but it is being reported in the french media. that means it's 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 mary paris i knew how hard 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 it reached a new level when an internet site relayed despicable attacks calling my private life into question well the reaction to those videos in 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 look at the only what's quite interesting about him is he

wanted to be the candidate for my quince party he 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 in macaroons 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 kwan a referendum on his policies particularly some of those that have been unpopular such as the pension reform which is costs huge protests here in paris the last few months now mark kong was really eyeing the prize of winning that election here in paris and that's why he wanted one of his closest allies a spoon the spokes person to be the candidate of the party to win battles won here in paris to be very big. 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 the damage has already been done. hundreds of officials from around the world are converging on munich this friday for the city's annual security conference among the topics in focus today on the conflict in libya apart and refugee flows across the mediterranean. for us i managed to catch up with the president of the red cross. 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 monitary 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 actor. like 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 tall. response to this unfolding

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 to birdland process. with transatlantic relations deteriorating reports claim that boris johnson's postponed a trip to the u.s. to meet with president trump a correspondent is in london is going to gauge that all the factors at work break. others financial survival guide i don't buy a i'm with you. that's not how much the friday that's the last time i buy it from the future cracker watch kaiser.

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welcome back to the program the u.k.'s prime minister is reportedly perspire on the 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 has the details 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 murder of general soleimani and now he is losing house of commons to the outgoing the opposition. to the prime minister post joins us with a great tradition i mean it is going to pay you back for simply 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 i to be frank i think the honorable gentleman has a point in his characterization of our extradition arrangements with the united states and i do think that there is a there are elements of that relationship that are unbalanced why certain i certainly think that it is worth looking at now all of this comes in the back of the ongoing rao over and secure last who is the wife of a u.s. intelligence agent who has been a q. news 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 as 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 u.s.

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 so 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 u.s. post brags that it would appear ever clearer that that special relationship is just a one sided one. and we spoke to the family lawyer who believes the current extradition treaty is indeed quite 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 doesn't fly 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 faces in the united kingdom keeping us safe from harm overseas but if they're killing a set home there's no point and they have to go and and harry spreads and supporters will close those bases down and we will blockade them. before moral not so u.s. u.k. special relationship was joined by keith best film chief executive of the u.k. immigration advisory service and freedom from top to thanks for joining us i got to have you on today boris yeltsin has canceled this trip allegedly sides of his domestic agenda do you think that is the case i mean why. why why we postponed it so what he needs a trade agreement with trump especially now breakfast on this but a lot of discussion there surely it's not a good time. well when the president of the united states slams down the phone on

you and cuts you off out of a fit of pique then i think it's understandable that prime minister may be a little reluctant to go over there rather than just seeing the president at a g. 7 summit or where they're both coincidentally present this is quite a string of issues now it's not just the harry dunn case for the course is the huawei decision which is angered the americans because they disagree with allowing hallway into any part of the domestic scene and yes it is potentially going to have a serious effect on any proposed by lateral treaty any trade agreement with the united states because if we have a president as we do who seems to measure its policy on the basis of his own petulance that morning then i'm afraid we can expect it to be made very personal

you're right that there's a number of cases now where this relationship is being tested the dunn case the obvious counsel as well i mean both leaders have been very enthusiastic previously haven't i about emphasizing the importance of that special relationship donald trump was very complimentary about johnson's leadership abilities is this just a blip do you think in the past the relationship or could this be more serious. well i was in parliament 40 years ago and we were then talking about the so-called 2 way street and that was principally about arms procurement and it was a 2 way street the americans sold arms to us and we bought them from the americans the americans never bought anything us on nothing substantial so it was a very one sided agreement and we've got to be prepared that if we have a trade treaty with the united states because of its massive economic power principle our economy in the world and its size and its now i'm afraid under this regime bullying tactics we're likely to lose out now i hope that's not the case i

hope that we will draw some red lines or some lines in the sand and say we're not going to be prepared to kowtow to the americans for it we've got to do pretty firm about that because they've got a very powerful position in which they stand just going back to the done family case the extradition of how optimistic are you if at all that's going to happen because the family seems to think there is a fighting chance she is coming back and this is certainly something the u.k. prime minister is going to be keen to do you know for his ratings back home he took the same 2 to give any leeway here surely justice must be served. well in the current climate and also historically it's extremely unlikely i fear that she will be extradited very few countries actually extradite somebody once they've been given diplomatic immunity but i think one has to live go back to

the convention the vienna convention on diplomatic relations $961.00 which is the whole. statute the international agreement that gives diplomatic immunity and that very clearly says that although diplomatic immunity may be given to certain people acting in a diplomatic way nevertheless they still expect those people to comply with the laws and regulations of the host country now clearly that's not been the case here so i think there's a big question about whether there was diplomatic immunity in any event you've got to remember that in the 1990 s. people working in this particular base had a voluntary waiver of diplomatic immunity for those who were employees at the base but that was not extended to the spouses and the families of those that may have been an oversight at the time but lawyers far more distinguished than i and i am

a lawyer but people like geoffrey robertson for example have cost serious doubt of over whether she really could have claimed diplomatic immunity before she actually left and of course she left in a very peremptory way before anything could be done by the police to stop or going . in reading to see where those cases they go what outcome there is keith best thanks so much for joining us today on r.t. program. thank you. now the university of virginia in the united states has come in for some sharp criticism online after one of its students claim too many white people were using a multicultural community center on campus video of the incident was posted to social media where it's gathered nearly 4000000 views. probably there's just too many white people in here this means for people of color so let's be really harmless they are the space that you're teaching because it does make some of those heroes comfortable when you see 2 anyway one here. the center was opened in late

2016 with a view to supporting under represented and marginalized communities by providing a collaborative space and conservative students they have said the video documents a clear case of racial intolerance forcing the universe clarified everyone is welcomed at the facility now many twitter users still want to press the. imagine of a white person stood up and announced there were too many black people in the room and they make other white people uncomfortable how is this not considered traces. to many white people so this is why so many of our ancestors fought and died for freedom and equality just so we can have a blacks only area really the whole point of multiculturalism is for diversity that includes all cultures but the university of virginia's new c. is apparently just what people of color. across a lot of the political and social commentator and i mean brian logan thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today quite

a. video isn't it what do you make of it. oh the video was crazy but what it was it shows to me is that a multicultural just means quote unquote people of color now why is it doesn't really mean cultures which is what i would think that it means it should be a space where everybody in college where it is not really seemed to be that way at least to some students that were right there in the center do you think that student was right to challenge people in that space at all or could you just have eased up slightly different language moderated the tone and how directly she made her point well the point should have been made because as a multicultural center that means that everybody should be welcomed she was incorrect to try to exclude certain people from a multicultural center even if it were not a multicultural center and it were let's say a black area or an asian area or an expanding every year you see you be starting to exclude certain people everybody should be welcome in these particulars basics of

who is going to say because if you're not welcome them are going back through time and pass of segregation in jim crow and separation and i don't think you want to go backwards in time you want to go forwards in time as far as i understand in this and correct me if i'm wrong that the center itself is a multicultural center but this particular room was for people all of a sudden minorities ethnic minorities if i'm correct i know in a way i understand this do you think minorities should have their own place in the campus in the 1st place or does that go against the whole point as you say of multiculturalism. well there are certain spaces in a campus for people who they are not weighed or a day may have different religions or different sexual identities i think at a certain point these sinners need spaces will go away just like you have some historically black colleges is that a point now where some of these same colleges are majority white population and the whole thing that really kind of sets me is about that you seclusion even net and

historically black college you don't just have black students white students will not be prevented from joining hispanics same way you can have a place de is generally one particular group or subset but when you start to get into the exclusion of saying you can't be here then we're going back to examine it and i think you want to go there so if i'm understanding you correctly it's ok to have spaces as you say that are predominantly for people of a certain ethnicity sexuality religious belief but barring people of other ethnicities and beliefs from moses going one step too far that's right there is right because people at a certain point are going to just have freedom of association you know you may go to a high school middle school you may have certain little lunch tables where you had a blank here's the way kids although that's not necessarily the best paying people are going to do that to a certain extent a good example would be a bus sometimes if you go on a public bus you may see some black folks saying you know in

a bag just minding your own business but then when it goes to a point of if you're black you must sit in a bag that's let me get a serious problem that must be addressed show us a question that some not going away anytime soon is that anthony brown a local political social commentator thanks for your time today here not international. thank you. now it is the most romantic day of the year some are going that extra mile to win over the hearts desire this valentine's day now i'm not content with just giving flowers and chocolates one russian soldier has brought in the heavy brigade quite literally even his fellow officers to maneuver their tight unit into a heart shape before we got down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend and she did say yes. up next the us some thoughts come by in a ghost hallway plus wells fargo delves into the book showing sector coming up next on blue bus.

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