a 3rd whistle blower casts for the doubt on the probe by the international chemical weapons watchdog into the alleged chemical attack in syria adding he also faced intimidation. while washington's nato representative warns of cyber threats coming from russia and china the report reveals the cia and its german counterpart used a swiss company for decades to spy on other governments but also to come on the weekly is concern grows over the coronavirus that great people of asian descent find themselves on the receiving end of racism like. hello there the latest developments and look back at what's been happening to you

over the last 7 days you're watching weekly here on r.t. international our 3rd whistleblower has accused the world chemical weapons watchdog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation. investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma in april of 2018 redacted e-mail given to investigative news website the gray zone project highlights issues of integrity during the probe it follows revelations by 2 were the watchdog employees stressing this same issue also question to the findings of the final report which in effect pin the blame on the assad government. has more detail. we like magine that these massive global organizations the un the i.m.f. the u.p.c. w. these juggernauts are good but now i know that at the end of the day what they do is good for man. 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 specter is 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. 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 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 secretariat 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 but as mentioned the a.p. c.w. went public and doubting the credibility of the 1st 2 whistleblowers we have asked the watchdog to comment on all of the allegations and let you know what they say when we received their reply. washington's nato representative has claimed that russia and china have between them cyber attacks every single alliance member and have also said that the world must strengthen its fire walls against moscow and beijing meanwhile the report is revealed the cia in its german counterpart did rig swiss made encryption machines back in the 1970 s. allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions in 120 countries for decades on quarter as the story. the washington post is calling it the intelligence coup of the century the cia working with west german secret services pulling the

strings of a swiss and christian company and stealing government secrets from over 120 countries foreign governments were paying good money to the us and was germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least 2 foreign countries it was a foolproof operation 1st called the saurus and later renamed rubicon for over half a century of the company crypto a.g.t. was a captain of the world's encryption industry based in neutral switzerland most governments were quick to believe their secrets were in safe hands little did they know the cia and west germany's b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1988 western spies had complete access to the egyptian president's communications with cairo during the camp david peace talks with israel a year later washington was spying on iranian officials during the hostage crisis

and as late as 1986 u.s. intelligence was listening to libyan officials congratulate each other for the bombing of a burl in disco although the c.i. a and b. and d. weren't able to hook their main rivals russia and china had enough foresight to look elsewhere for their encryption needs nowadays though those 2 are the scapegoats for all of the west's cyber woes if you see throughout our alliance every one of our countries has had side by and hybrid attacks from russia some from china for washington it's become a routine to point the finger at russia and china but it's not like u.s. intelligence operations have wound down since then on the contrary they've adapted . edward snowden is the 29 year old intelligence contractor who leaked top secret

national security agency information revealing the incredible extent to which the u.s. government is monitoring and keeping records of not just our phone calls the national security agency has developed is built into the structure they can intercept almost everything. national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data the group by president obama who is reviewing the washington spying program has largely defended it although the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was still vital to homeland security. the central intelligence agency has lost control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out into electronic

devices things like android phones. and julian assange and london accusing the cia of devastating incompetence saying the agency has lost control of its cyber weapons it doesn't matter who you are friend or foe they're coming for your secrets . i have since we started talking about them to see always made it clear to the u.s. president that spying among friends is not acceptable and if you take wiki leaks vault 7 documents into consideration it makes operation rubicon look like child's play the scope and direction of the cia's global covert hacking program its malware arsenal and dozens of 0 day weaponized exploits against a wide range of u.s. and european company products include apple's i phone google's android and microsoft's windows and even samsung t.v.'s which were turned into covert. microphone's even their own citizens aren't safe now increasingly we see that it's

happening domestically and to do that. the n.s.a. specifically targets the communications of everyone even just some by default it collects them in its stomach filters the minute hand losses the minute measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these snowden took the revelations about crypto eiji even further comparing it with a formerly secret $10000000.00 contract between the n.s.a. and a major u.s. computer security firm it begs the question what info grabbing operations are still going on right now under our noses. to developments in the coronavirus break which has officially been named as coded 19 the week has been marked by the disease is 1st fatal case and side of asia in europe and 8 year old chinese tourist from who a province the at the center. died in france meanwhile the world health organization

has warned against fueling hysteria around the situation early this week the agency's executive director refusing to downplay the threat noted that the disease can be overcome. the total death toll has risen to nearly 1700 with the number of infected around 69000 well against the drop the backdrop of panic people of asian descent are increasingly becoming the target of racist abuse across the globe we asked people in london's chinatown if they made a change in attitude. terrible loss we feel. sadness and sorrow but i don't think people should be targeted or hate on because it's something i think it should be putting people into a craft to get into the box and think it's a dangerous lately this is chinatown in the center. london is going to be one of the most popular destinations by locals and tourists alike but today as you can see

it's very quiet and the reason for that well after talking to locals and people on the streets they say it's plain and simple xenophobia the oldest chinese community group in chinatown has been handling the backlash against the corona virus and the fear factor is clear. what about your personal experiences i think it was last thursday i was to train to work as normal guess what happened is also beside me and i thought 1st was the. matter because we were standing normally. sit bolivar to get the. most because i'm trying to ease and people think oh i mean be a potential carrier. what kind of reaction have you had from own members of your community a lot of people just absurd to suppose for young children because i. didn't hear

a lot of complaining from the parents the children got picked up. children just don't understand that student here hear from their own parents when the call school or when they see chinese students or young children these are so the year you because you might have a virus the education for important the laws of important people understand that. the. transport the global problem here so are the one thing the people with the thing that just because you're trying to or your piece of chinese your prudence who carries the way that we've documented things that go on in the eastern world it's always it's always been told like that anyway it's always been around a think a moment like something like this happens like there's a virus it just allows people to see the things that they're actually have been fed for a very long time are probably out that they harbored a heartbeat. anyway i mean it just gives people a platform to say what they want because this fear i feel like it's just

a very horrid time right now for the chinese people i feel like using the disease. way to be 0 for this is just terrible. if it was someone from the us said i think people treat people americans coming over the same way as they are treated chinese people and chinese students etc most crazy i mean i mean you can see that we can see here the 1st 2 pieces chinese to the other pieces people come to the homes in the pool so you can see that they did they don't own cars or you could be and human being can be can be carriers we have seen this before and now the coronavirus has instigated another wave of racism despite there being only a small number of cases confirmed in the u.k. and there's no doubt that the effect on the british chinese community has had huge implications the diva cuter r.t.

. now the facebook boss mark zuckerberg has called for tighter government regulation of online content saying it shouldn't be left to private companies his comments do come during an address at this week's munich security conference i do think we don't want private companies making so many decisions about how to balance social equity use without a more democratic process so i think that where where the wind is in my opinion should be drawn is there should be more guidance and regulation from the states. or during his speech there said his company already employed 35000 people to review content and security on the platform with more than a 1000000 fake accounts being taken down on a daily basis however in recent years facebook has come under fire for helping to spread fake news along with its policy on political advertising we raised the issue with the previously activist bill knew who did question how such

a policy could work on a global level. but i think facebook are very reluctant to bear the responsibility with coming up with the rules themselves because whichever rules that they come up with and then seek to employ somebody is going to just like that the problem is if you say well the state should define the rules which states are we talking about because the viewpoint in europe is going to be very different from the viewpoint of the u.s. which will again be different from the viewpoint and else we're there are different regulations in a country we are g.d.p. are here in the u.k. we have a new privacy regulation in california that possibly will be federal regulation less to come and then there are other countries developing their own groups regulations and when it comes to look at online holmes who defines what is our goal because if we were sitting in the middle east it would be hardly uncommon for there to be critical comments about judaism but they would take

a great offense at any critical comments about islam or the koran it is very much the viewpoint of the eye of the beholder and who gets to set these rules it's going to be a very difficult question. the mylan strayer dentists there is trying to take a bite out of google because in a groundbreaking ruling the tech giant has been ordered to unmask the identity of an online user who posted a sour review of the dentist when a scathing assessment in on mr strain warned that warned others to stay away from the melbourne based dentist calling his teeth whitening service extremely or quid and uncomfortable the dentist says his business was affected as a result as was his personal life despite requests though google initially refused to take down review however and australian court has now ruled that the tech giant must reveal the review is identity and a dentist lawyers say once that's known they may bring a defamation case against him or her and believed could pave the way for new cases

. i believe it's extremely unfair that people are allowed to or not. attack on is hardworking small businesses we think google has a duty of care to australian small businesses and business is globally for allowing these reviews to go on this ruling is groundbreaking but google has faced numerous death and a defamation cases before however the tech giants long argued it's not responsible for material posted on its platform under strain law firms with less than 10 employees can sue over a negative review we've asked for comment from google and of course we let you know what they say when we get a reply and meantime let's talk to radio and t.v. host parent with her view on this and also the journalist chad will he joins us think he's against all of this to you karen let's start with you do you think this story in court was right in this particular case to insist on the identity of this person to be revealed. i do i think we have

a widespread problem this is an international problem and we have a lack of regulation on the internet this is a new platform this is a new world we're dealing with things that we haven't dealt with before and we have not been equipped to deal with that and just like the dissemination of fake news by you know irresponsible journalists and irresponsible media people now don't know where that line is so having anonymity and being able to post these reviews is totally ok with them it's just another form of fake news and i don't think anybody should be able to hide behind a screen of anonymity and be a keyboard warrior and hurt other people if they're willing to put the review up they should own it they should say who they are they should reveal their identity and it should only be posted if it's true and trustworthy chandu it let's go to you mean people really should be able to defame others and ruin their business and get away with it should they online. you know i think more of

a wild west approach to the internet and speech and free speech absolutely i mean this guy had one negative review and this is how he wants to get the courts involved you want to put this in google you want to sue the guy i mean just take care of your own business right it's sort of ridiculous and this is also a massive slippery slope so has this weird law about small businesses well how long if we keep up this culture until you're no longer allowed to criticize google itself or its interior some other massive corporation and also with with individuals so no where do you draw the line you know we don't know what these companies are we do know that these companies want to have it both ways in the publisher platform debate so google facebook twitter they claim to be neutral platforms which means you should be able to go on and basically say anything you want as long as it's not direct threats of violence you know the sort of speech that everyone would agree should not be on the internet you know child porn something like that however 2 they. they don't be able to be about publishers when

they get the benefits of publishers this is a move if they want if they have to give up the name of someone i think that people feel will sort their own things out this dentist comes up is foolish if a bit unhinged if he thinks it's a good idea to be going after a troll on the internet now when someone is looking for a dentist their neighborhood. might google this guy and think do i want to go to the guy who's bringing the courts down on the troll on the internet or maybe i'll go to the dentist on the street instead so maybe it would be smarter business decision to either ignore negative comments or respond on the review itself and say how can we fix this what did we do wrong please call my office i think that's a much better approach than getting the courts involved and getting a google involved. and i don't think it's very wise to go that route ok let's just bring in karen is all very well saying look we need more regulation but then the question is will have i mean us how on earth do you regulate the internet without

causing you problems. and that is the big question and i'm also all for free speech but you know it's given people a mask to hide behind and they're not taking responsibility for what's being posted and they are hurting innocent people and this is becoming way too widespread i don't know what the answer is i don't think any of us do because this is a relatively new problem but we have to find some sort of balance and i think once the media becomes more responsible it'll trick down to individuals in the public i think one of the problems that we have is we have this whole mentality of fake news and this cancel culture where you can completely ruin someone over a personal agenda they see the media do it so why not do it as an individual and that's a problem that we have known not only in america but a problem internationally and this new council culture is a really big problem. respond chadwick but now that's what you're getting now

you're getting into the you're getting to the grist of it right so the biggest people who heard this dentist will show you i mean come on who cares the biggest people who are hurt by this by this by this culture and you are right karen is absolutely right that there is a huge problem with defamation with people being have their lives destroyed on the internet i am mainly thinking of conservatives effective job supporters who have been banned and constantly smeared on the internet by journalists by fake news organizations and then like the new york times like new york magazine these people i've yet myself included look at someone like gavin mcinnes for example who is keenly smeared by mainstream media on twitter he can no longer defend himself on twitter so that is a bigger issue but if you start trying to regulate all of this regulation and all of this forcing only goes in one direction right it's never going to come through the fence of conservatives it's never going to come to the aid of a republicans of some support it's only going to ok this is a small businesses i don't care or big corporations or leftie or any talk about big

news c.n.n. new york times or the biggest perpetrators of fake news ever and they have absolute protection from silicon valley from google from you tube there was a just a young right winger yesterday very popular guy banned from youtube which is obviously owned by google for no other reason than they don't like his opinions just quickly chadli google responsible it's a very slow have slowed. to a case of anonymity says the way forward just to make sure that everybody has to announce who they are when they go on the internet that could get rid of a lot of this. with the faming in defamation slung the people want to just force people to to. because that's even more terrifying reality in my opinion because i don't want all of these and these knowing who i am and what i'm up just respond to that i think i think people who are not it's like. i totally i totally don't agree with chadwick and

chadwick and i agree on a lot of things but i think allowing people to hide you know and creating this anonymity just allows them to defame other people and hurt other people you know you look at twitter you look at the twitter trolls that follow me that follow trot chadwick you know we're in the same boat and he's right about the point that he made about conservatives but this is a slippery slope he's right about that too but the reality is the longer that we allow people to hide behind their screens and be keyboard warriors the more this is spinning out of control but we have to find a way to control this and i think you're absolutely right i think if you're going to post it you need to own it why would you want to be enormous if you go into the internet. well i think this is a prob the sort of the free market in just basic social etiquette is solved itself because when you have someone anonymous on the internet they automatically are not taken as seriously as someone who is putting themselves out there so if someone is anonymously attacking someone anonymously leaving a bad review you know i actually have faith in my fellow man that man and woman

that they're smart enough and discerning enough to know when something seems a bit off and to know what sums anonymous that maybe you don't like that person as seriously you know this is same with what the so-called fake news are going to write. when you have some extremely agreed news story of it's obviously fake most people look at it they look at the source and say yeah that's probably a joke or not real so much rules on the internet you know the vast majority of people if you ask them who would you trust better a bad review from a fake person or a good review from someone who's put their identity out there everyone's going to say i'm going to trust the person's but their identity out there i don't really think you need to go that next level people just a just people thought about going that way on their own account is not fair enough we can all police we can all decide when we read something by the we should believe it or not. now i don't agree i think that you know we are in an environment right now that so divisive and there's these people out there that just

love to hate and they're just looking for something and i would be the 1st person to walk in and get teeth whitening from this dentist based on this because i feel very bad for what happened to happen and i think we're just in an environment where we have to find a way to make people own the things that they're going to post yeah ok just let me put a counter-argument to this i know the focus on this dentist chadwick is about the negative reviews he's made but people will post fake positive reviews just to boost their own business and then people might go to that dense anyway thinking it's a good place to get in reality it isn't this is the whole point isn't it this is the issue of being anonymous. yeah that's a very good point as well and. what happens more often i would imagine it's probably the fake reviews people getting their friends and family members to leave reviews on their business i think everyone knows that happens you know who's leaving fake bad reviews someone with a personal vendetta maybe you're just some irate customer with this one review i

mean you look at it you know the person said they felt uncomfortable and awkward so how how if that's a subjective feeling anyone reading that would say ok maybe this is a crazy person they just had a bad day what have you but i think we're also a preview when you see a bit too many good reviews on something you and there are anonymous then you can also sort of make the same judgment maybe google just did to have a little notice on the top of pages saying you know trust people who put their identity out there i don't know if karen just looking at the response we've had from that was in a response to this growing pressure on everybody on the internet to regulate content just from your own perspective how do you see this going do you think it will be the state that jumps in 1st you think people start to regulate themselves better. think this story will develop and he will effectively police the internet. listen i would love to have faith in people and say you know that we're going to police ourselves and that it's going to stop this problem but one of the things that you just brought up is that you know it's just the whole thing whether it's

a good review or a bad review these reviews aren't trustworthy anymore so i don't see that changing overnight i think the only way to do it is have validated profiles where people have to actually post who they are and there has to be some way to validate it that's the only way that these reviews are ever going to be trustworthy and what we're creating is we're creating a monster here because nobody's ever going to believe anything they read whether it's a news story or a view and that's really hurting all of us in this entire world ok chadwick can i just give the last 30 seconds to. sure well with the you know the sort of synthetic human ordered mark zuckerberg saying he wants governments to regulate speech as company hey if we do that america i'm all for it we got a 1st amendment mark that means that basically everyone who ever band is going to be let back on that's wonderful i hope that we do that with it comes through reviewers you know what let's not empower these companies anymore they have so much

power why don't we just all decide maybe we don't need to read these reviews on google maybe ask your your friends or family members say i need a dentist you've got someone you could recommend maybe that's the way forward because the more we started with these vast complicated companies and the more regulation and speech it's a spiral and in they already have too much power and influence our lives anyway don't yes. perhaps just go back to the old trust trusted way of asking a friend what he thinks karen we have got a bit more time on is there anything you want to add to this because i know we're not quite clear always which way this is all going to go you're sure the anonymity should be removed from the internet everybody shouldn't be a keyboard warrior. what do you like about the internet yeah. i love the internet i love social media i love everything about it i love free speech i love the fact that we all have an outlet now and a platform.