3rd was lower costs further doubt on the chemical weapons watchdogs investigation into the alleged doom a chemical attack in syria claiming he faced intimidation. political woes get bigger as a key ally of the french president drops out of the paris mayoral race following the leak of a sex tape. company's foreign minister says the days of american policing the world have come to an end and that europe has turned a blind eye for too long the comments come on the 1st day of the munich security conference.

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight international i'm dan hawkins welcome to the program. and we've heard whistleblower has chimed in with claims accusing the world chemical weapons watchdog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation during the investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma back in april 28th in the years i serve or the most stressful and unpleasant ones of my life i feel ashamed for the organization and i'm glad i left it. to the mail given to investigate investigative news website the gray zone project highlights issues of integrity during the probe as follows revelations by 2 other watchdogs employees stressing the same issue they also question the findings of the final o.p.c. the reports which in effect pin the blame on the assad government rug as if sift through the evidence. we like magine 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 makes you think could they be right u.b.c. w. says no ignore them space is a and b. a nots 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 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 share 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 personnel 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 in. 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 street or as i mentioned the o.p.c. there when he went public in doubting the credibility of the 1st 2 was a blow the device the international chemical weapons watchdog to comment on all the allegations will let you know it's for spots if we do hear back. hundreds of officials from across the world are converging on munich this friday for the city's annual security conference among the topics in focus the day of the conflict tearing libya apart as well as refugee flows across the mediterranean and german foreign minister high court must speak in before a panel discussion spoke of a new stage in the world political order. on the american global police and is over think of syria but africa afghanistan not because of the lack of

military or economic power but because the commitment of those responsible in the white house has changed when it comes to the world older. first cross live now to r.t. speech all over in the thick of it all there peter thanks for joining us bring us up to speed what is the latest at the conference. hello. well the overarching theme for this year's munich security conference is called west listen this now if that sounds a little confusing don't worry you're not the only one journalists politicians alike a little confused by what is essentially a really rather nasal navel gazing term for a. shakeup of the world order a change of defense and security policies and which countries like germany are saying that the likes of russia iran and turkey and now the ones taking the the front foot when it comes to deciding policy in areas like the middle east that

we actually heard tycho must go on in that panel discussion which is speaking out to say that. they teeth felt that the future of the middle east was decided in places like an astronaut not in new york or in geneva in fact germany blames the the role of the united states in stepping back from international involvement for this current switch around in geopolitics. must be critical of ourselves. europeans have long closed their eyes to uncomfortable realities what does it mean for the us to withdraw from the military commitments and international contracts we've closed our eyes even if we kept them open we couldn't have assume how quickly the pendulum of american diplomacy and politics would swing the other way as. well in fact the united states is pretty much taken on a role of disruptor in chief on the current world stage at the moment we saw them

pull out of the i.n.f. treaty we of course saw them pull back unilaterally from the iran nuclear deal which is caused such tensions and problems in that region as well but moving away from that we heard from. coltish steinmeier the german president former foreign minister himself of course talk about russia's future role in european defense as a defense partner with europe in talks about a reporter small with moscow. more than a new different relationship between the e.u. and russia and russia in the european union. that was just the 1st day of the munich security conference what 2 more days of talks to come up with there should be plenty of more news coming out of that when you think that libya is set for discussion on sunday we're also expecting a speech from the minute mark on the french president's about how he sees the

future of european defense on saturday plenty of more news to come from the security conference no doubt will be come back to you peter when that news comes in peter all over there with the latest from munich. one of the french president's closest political allies has withdrawn his candidacy for mayor of paris that followed the leak of a compromising video of benjamin grieve over the surgeon to drop out of the race for president a major blow to him at all whose party is suffering a crisis of confidence going into next month's local elections charlotte has this report. well the dissemination of these incredibly lewd videos and photos has resulted in that shock announcement by benjamin claiborne benjamin cleaver one of the closest allies and he hasn't authenticated those videos but it is being reported in the french media that he did recognize them as being authentic and that's why he was drew his candidature so quickly let's have

a listen to what he said. when i announced my candidacy for mary paris our new harsh political life forms for over a year my family and i have been subjected to defamatory statements lies anonymous attacks the release of private conversations and death throes 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 the photographs has been largely supportive towards benjamin cleaver and that comes from across the political spectrum there is 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 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 mack want 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 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. for the party to win that one here in paris would have been a very big coup so 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. in university of virginia in the united states has come in for sharp

criticism online after one of its students claimed too many white people were using a multicultural community center on campus video of the incident was posted to social media where it's got of nearly 4000000 views probably there's just too many white people in here this is a space for people of color so let's be really harmless they are the space that you're taking because it does make some of those heroes feel comfortable when you see too many way to one here imagine if 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 multicultural student center is apparently just for people of color that's not multiculturalism that's

racism. the center was opened in late 2016 with a view to supporting under represented and marginalized communities by providing a collaborative space conservative students though have said the video documents a clear case of racial intolerance forcing the university to clarify that everyone is in fact welcome at the facility let's cross live now to legal commentator horace people from all on this earth thanks for joining us good to have you on today quite an astonishing who do their earlier guest described it as crazy in fact what do you make of it all. well i blame the university of virginia they apparently are not communicating to all of their students that as a state institution they're not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race they're not allowed to have preferred racial groups they can't have disfavored racial groups and when they built this facility even though they've built some

other ones when they built this facility they needed to make sure that they were signaling to the students that this was for all 'd 'd of the students there can't be facilities built on the campus with taxpayer dollars that are just for certain groups based on either gender or based on race so do you think this shooting was was right to silence people at the facility or do you think she just it was a case of how moderating a language is not being so direct through to avoid you know offending people and causing such a scandal. oh she was saying exactly what she thought the university was telling her that it's ok to exclude people on the basis of race this is my point it was the university's job to make sure that when people come to uva they understand that the institution does not discriminate on the basis of race the fact that this

person use this facility and was able to conclude that tells you that the university isn't doing its job it is simply not true that when she was in high school that she was told yes when you go off to college there are going to be black spaces and white spaces it is not true that the town that she lived in taught her this it was the university of virginia that left her with this impression and i blame the university of virginia for not making it clear not just to her but to all students and that waiting. and to a video goes viral in order to clarify that that is the case yeah i mean certainly p.r. side of this has been handled quite badly but just going back to the aim of this center it's a multi-cultural center is there specifically to cater to people as said in that report marginalized groups of people ethnic minorities do you think this has come from a good place perhaps the intentions here were good the way it's been perhaps put

out in the media the way this should react it is questionable but the intention is there were good to do to make a situation better. look if you want to have a place where people learn to be more tolerant one of the key aims of such a place is supposed to be explaining everyone can come here and everyone is going to be tolerated it apparently is the case that not just this center but the university communicated that there are places that are preferred for some racial groups over other racial groups and that is in fact not a marketing problem not only which problem but a fundamental rejection of what our country stands for every american is local regardless of their racial group and there's a long is the u.p.a.

is a taxpayer funded institution it not only must adhere to that it ought to be championing that horace cooper legal commentator thanks for joining us good to have in the program today. the u.k. prime minister's reportedly perspire on the trip to the united states to meet with donald trump tensions grow between london and washington it's now believed was a boris johnson won't meet the american president until june 7th summit. 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 weigh in rolling out the u.k.'s 5 g. 2 tensions in iran following the murder of gen so they money and now a wretch the scene of unity in the house of commons to the outgoing leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn the prime minister boris johnson agreeing that the extradition treaty between the u.k. and the u.s.

to simply too one sided in america's favor while the u.s. continues to deny justice to harry dunn 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 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 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 the 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 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 governments that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse the use of an extradition treaty to attempt to. turned 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 will be desperate to strike some kind of trade deal between the you can the 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 dunn family lawyer rads eagar and keith west a former chief executive of the u.k.'s immigration advisory service on the nature

of british u.s. relations. 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 i didn't carry guns like we've moved into an era of

hardball rather than softball in dealing with the united states and that's partly the character of the present president of the united states soon if he's prepared to slam the phone down on our prime minister clearly shows that he can let his own personal anger get in the way of good relations and that's not particularly helpful so i think we have to go into that continued relationship with the united states with very wide open and very great kefir iroh national interests. are staying in the u.k. the british government's concern that an appeals case could see a killer and rapist released on bail within just days there among 25 violent criminals who avoided deportation from the u.k. this week off their last minute legal challenge blocked that return to jamaica and one of those 25 was found guilty of stabbing

a 50 year old man to death from fitzroy day he's currently serving a 10 year. well convicted rapist fabian henry is being behind bars for raping 2 teenage girls now they'll stay in britain pending an appeal by the government which is concerned they might pose a threat to the public of one although they've been reprieved as the people's judge ruled they hadn't been given access to legal advice or a phone the u.k. government says it doesn't regrets rather the u.k. decision and stressed that it will act to remove serious offenders who are not u.k. nationals 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 made no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove serious foreign national offenders or we've got reaction from human rights lawyer should card and political commentator andrew walker on whether the border

criminals should have been given sufficient access the 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 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 served 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 if we did that 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 not been able to rehabilitate them why haven't we not been able to reduce the chances

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 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 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 additional thing the point here 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 a strawberry if that sounds brutal i don't care anyone. ever can be put in a situation where the you know in the spirit of the moment they act in a certain way but after that doesn't mean that we should separate them and essentially destroy their family lives forever and that's the point we need in the end he looking at other young this is out of the moment in the spur of the moment you commits an act of manslaughter or killing somebody in the spur of the moment go back. 10 seconds of being accused of failing to thoroughly review incidents of civilian casualties reports revealed much more could be done by the u.s. military to review and prevent cases in afghanistan iraq and syria kaleb orpen now looks at whether that's the reason for the disparity when it comes to so-called collateral damage that is. ited 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 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 cold 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. 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 city of combined joint task force oppression inherent and says the remaining 48 for post as non-credible that word non-credible is key to everything 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 there they actually went to the trouble to outline and 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 going to go in and do an 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 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. new york. i think tensions in the gulf being in the u.s. sports industry and look up the whole. ratings and sal you take. all.