the 3rd course further down on the chemical weapon watchdog investigation into the alleged chemical attack in syria claiming he faced intimidation. on the. loose this is all good germany's foreign minister talks about a new political order and says america is the global policeman his comments come on the 1st day of the munich security conference. political woes grow. the french president drops out of the paris. live from moscow thanks for joining us here at r.t.

international tonight hawkins' welcome to the program. the 3rd whistleblower investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma 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. given to the investigative news website the gray zone project on its 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 against the of sifts through the evidence. 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 makes you think could they be right u.b.c. w. says no ignore them space is an a and b. a not 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 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 whistle blows 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 debts the 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 idea. as in 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 street as mentioned the o.p.c. w. went public in doubting the credibility of the 1st 2 whistleblowers we've asked the international chemical weapons watchdog to comment on all the allegations will let you know its response if we hear about. the 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 tearing libya apart and refugee flows across the mediterranean out of a panel discussion german foreign minister high cost spoke of a new stage in the world's political order. on the euro of american global pollution is over think of syria 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. must there speaking at this year's munich security conference which has as its overarching theme

a word restlessness might be a word many people haven't heard before don't worry what it means to the said she an existential crisis among western nations about what their role is on the world stage today was talking about this in relation to the middle east on friday saying that nations like russia turkey and iran we're now the ones who are really driving the agenda in the middle east at the moment and their decisions on the future of that region were being made not in geneva or new york but in sochi and aston are now he firmly blames the united states for this geopolitical switch and we must be critical of ourselves. europeans have long closed our 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 assumed how quickly the pendulum of american diplomacy and politics

would swing the other way. 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 frank call to shine mire the german president former foreign minister himself of course talk about russia's future role. all in european defense as a defense partner with europe in talks about a rip off small with moscow at the moment when you do different better relationship between the e.u. and russia and russia in the european union all that was just the 1st day of the munich security conference about 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 about how he sees the future of european defense on saturday plenty of more news to come from the security conference from. beijing is accused washington of abusing its power to suppress chinese companies after the u.s. justice department dialed up the pressure on who i bringing 6 the new charges against the chinese company including racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets the u.s. has been misusing its national power to oppress chinese companies with no proof of any wrongdoing such practice is disgraceful and immoral and it is beneath the status of the u.s. as a major come true. well u.s. prosecutors allege that hallway is engaged in a systematic campaign to steal intellectual property from the united states since as far back as 1909 a staffer also as her but encouraged to active your sensitive information from

competitions source code and wireless technology miles are among other information reportedly obtained by the chinese company and the fresh charges were made on the referral lore historically used to prosecute members of the mafia who always been under pressure from the trumpeter ministration accusing it of spying on behalf of beijing china's of course repeatedly denied any nefarious links to our way the tech giant also says the latest charges are without merit suggesting the u.s. was simply trying to push out a competitor or u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi doubled down on the american allegations. china is seeking to exploit its digital autocracy through its telic recent telecommunications giants while threatening economic would tell the nation against those who deny. their technology. is the most insidious form of aggression to have that line of communication fiber dominated

my autocratic government that has does not share as valid. as a major development that's going to have far reaching implications very clear that that trump administration the department of justice wants to implicate huawei broadly as a criminal organization and one has to ask what what are the what are the broader implications does that mean if it's part of the chinese government is the u.s. claims that the chinese government is a criminal organization or they if you do business with weiwei that you are doing business with a criminal organization so clearly. clearly there's some pretty profound association at work i don't want to speculate too much but if i. if i'm apple or tesla or shanghai g.m. i have to be worried about what the implications are you know volkswagen others what if if if what we're looking at here is

a new step forward in terms of right power competition or cold war 2.0 or decoupling what are the implications for these major global companies that are doing business in china in other words the united states coffee makes allegations that the chinese judiciary is highly politicized what happens if it becomes tit for tat it could have a very compelling. outcome for both. the international level but at the at the economic level in terms of the specific industries. 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 greebo decisions a drop out of the race represents a major blow to manal macron whose party is suffering the crisis of confidence going into the next month's local elections show lewinsky has more details. well the dissemination of these incredibly lewd videos and photos has resulted

in that shock announcement by benjamin kleber benjamin cleaver one of mack wants 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 mayor of paris or new 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 it 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 in my quince 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 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 candidates. 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 the damage has already been done. the u.k.'s prime minister has reportedly postponed a trip to the united states to meet with donald trump tensions increase between london and washington it's now believed boris johnson won't meet the american president until june g.'s 7 summit you saudis got the story. 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 exclusion arrangements with the united states and i do think that there is a there are elements of that relationship that are on balance why certain i certainly think that it is worth looking at now all of this comes in the background of the ongoing growl 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 1 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. 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 we spoke to the dunns family lawyer rather seger and keith best

performance of executive of the u.k.'s immigration advisory service about the nature of u.s. u.k. 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 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 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. first thing in the u.k. of the british government's concern that an appeals case could see a model and a rapist released on bail within days that among the 25 violent criminals who avoided deportation from the u.k. this week after last minute legal challenge blocked that return to jamaica now one

of those $25.00 was found guilty of stabbing a 50 year old man to death for daniels was kind. serving a 10 year sentence while convicted rapist fabian henry is behind bars for raping 2 teenage girls and of course stay in britain pending an appeal by the government which is concerned they might pose a threat to the public for now though they've been reprieved of course the people's judge ruled they hadn't been given access to legal advice or a phone or the u.k. government says it regrets the court came to the city and stressed that will act to remove serious offenders who are not british nationals one month of 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 we've got reaction

from a human rights lawyer showing car and political commentator andrew walker on whether the poor to the 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 of 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 many of these people they committed a single offense many years ago since then i mean obviously from the that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system they've been in

prison they've been of 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 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 all to be a reasonable person i love you if you wish to coach this country it ought to sell drugs beat people up rape murder pillage and 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 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 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 brutal i don't care anyone. ever can be put in a situation where. the you know in this part of the moment they act in a certain way but out of that doesn't separate them and essentially destroyed their family lives forever and that's the point really in the in the in the healing looking at how they and this is out of the moment in the sparrow the moment you commits an act of manslaughter or killing somebody in the spur of the moment go back to. the university of virginia in the u.s. come in for some sharp criticism or lie after one of his students claimed too many white people were using a multicultural community center on campus a video of the incident was posted to social media where it's garnered nearly 4000000 views privately 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 us feel seem comfortable when you see 2 anyway 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 or the center was opened in late 2016 with a view to supporting under represented and marginalized communities by providing a collaborative space a conservative shouldn't have said the video documents a clear case of racial intolerance forcing the university to clarify that everybody

is welcome at the facility is some reaction we've been getting to this from a legal commentator horace cooper political and social commentator anthony logan. the video was crazy but what is so is to me is that multicultural just means quote unquote people of color now that doesn't really mean cultures which i would think that it means it should be a space for everybody in college but it is not really seemed to be that way at least to some students that were right there in the center even if we were not a multicultural center and they were let's say a black area or an asian area or an expanding area you seem to be starting to exclude certain people everybody should be welcome in these particular spaces as we say because if you're not welcome them or going back to time and pass of segregation and jim crow and separation and i don't think you want to go backwards in time you want to go forwards into if you want to have

a place where people learn to be more tolerant one of the key chains 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 a language problem but a fundamental rejection of what our country stands for every american is local regardless of their racial group and as long as the u.p.a. is a taxpayer funded institution it not only must adhere to that it ought to be championing that. examines corporate media's role in the u.s. elections we're back with more global news headlines.

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and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. below in welcoming where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the liberal corporate media are fickle they fall in and out of love quickly and often not long ago they were infatuated with pedro rourke now they are smitten by mayor pete the

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