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famous speaker's corner. the media mainly focused on what she was wearing while the city's mayor didn't even acknowledge. ah, fox, becoming a busy evening here at moscow for your worldwide headlines, went out the international role researcher welcome to so exercise caution and stay at home. that's the warning to people in and around the german city of level who isn't where a massive explosion has torn through an industrial park of chemical companies. it is feared toxins have been released into the environment. was the place. yeah, there was a huge explosion today here in level courses, piano district, there are many chemical factors here. the last one is that a waste incineration plant used to dispose of toxic substances. the police told us that it happened in storage tanks for solver. solvents have burnt,

including those containing chlorine, but we haven't yet made an accurate analysis in cooperation with city authorities. we call on local residence to exercise caution. when going outside, we ask people to pay particular attention to any abnormal fallout. we've established hotlines, which residents can coach report any site, things don't try to remove any such precipitation. stay away from it. the authorities will remove it and take it in for testing. this analysis may take a few days. we call on people to exercise patients and caution. as for the cause, we can also talk about that at this point as the emergency services are still looking for the missing. and hence we cannot as of yet conduct any analysis at the site. it's an ongoing search and rescue operation. hence we cannot hold any discussions regarding the cause. so now we call them people to stay at home and keep the windows and doors shops as we know. and now,

2 people are confirmed dead and 31 injured authorities of war. the situation poses an extreme threat. electricity has been cut off to ensure the safety of emergency workers at the site. the local have been advised to stay inside and turn off any air conditioning. i know it was like no squeak. the whole house shook. we were scared. i live in reserve 200 meters away. main roads around the side have been closed and drivers have been told to avoid the area. meanwhile, and information hotline has been set up to address any public concerns. a local police representative described to us what kind of measures that taking we've got a large presence of police officers and emergency services here at the site, especially in terms of traffic, we're having to regulate motor ways and roads so that emergency services, fire engines can pass and no one else gets hurt. warnings were transmitted by the fire department through apps. this is apparently worked as there's been no influx

of curious people and accident tourists low, but whole area around the city of labor crews and in north run west valley or in the, the west of germany is well, the roads, the whole area is old, closed down there are reports of sirens going off not only in the city of live accusing but also in near buy towns anecdotally, i've been told that the town of sali, the city is told again here people hearing sirens, then being told, stay inside, get inside of building close windows and doors, while the emergency services try to determine if there is any risk from this explosion, we seem from the pictures the huge plume of smoke, the rose up. it is covering a large area. now what we've heard from ken park, which is the body which operates this, this facility in live occasion is that at around 940 on tuesday morning and explosion took place the residence of lever cruz and are asked to go to close the

rooms, turn off air conditioning and as a precaution, keep windows and doors closed. several employees are injured in the events, at least 2 of them seriously. they are currently receiving medical treatment. 5 employees are currently missing. police and other emergency services. calling for those on the highways around the area to pull into one side or the other to create a rec. gates that they call here in germany to allow more emergency services to arrive on the theme of there are test being carried out on the air in the immediate vicinity and also in the surrounding area as well. this is germany's most populous area or its most its area of densest population as well. the area of north ryan with valley you've got and live a cruise in cologne, dusseldorf, all those major congregations, all in a very tightly packed area. so for, for this to have happened in this region, it will affect a lot of people in the,

the roads. and they said, going into lay the cruise and completely closed off right now. in fact, i'll be heading off to that area. as soon as i'm done talking to you right now, we'll be getting as close to become finding out exactly what is happening on the scene that the side is one of the largest chemical parks in europe. as peter was saying with around 30000 people actually working and more than 5000 chemicals are made there, including those use for making explosives. and we discussed the blast with dr. showering george, a senior lecturer, and environmental sustainability from keel university. she says it's not the visible black plumes of smoke, the locals should be worried about. the potential is huge, that it's not just the issue, the contamination that you can see. it's not contamination that you can't say this is this the what the black note that you can see in particular that that is gonna

travel quite a distance from the side to itself. that was where the bad thing is. what we're concerned about is not just the immediate, the immediate range, and this is why the venture so significant because it's close to those populated areas. so we're going to have this pollution spread in a long way, going fast. so to the dos it's going to be a gas in the other people and all poses a waste when he does that. so it may then move again, if he soluble, wayne's, and then the travel again, the challenge here is to figure out exactly what is being disperse and, and then to figure out how to contain it. and as to make sure they know how to people know entry without a coven health pass, that's the new law which has been approved by the french parliament. it will restrict access to public areas and travel. and it comes as local authorities say

the country struggling with a 4th wave. more than 25000 cases were reportedly registered just a number of days ago. charlotte dubin ski now takes us through how the publics reacted to these very controversial measures in a few days time. if you don't have a health pass, you simply won't be able to do this. i don't want to see that there was only not regulation is already in full was a cultural institution that will not be extended to the venue to the new law also requires all health care workers to be vaccinated against coby 9 team is a suspension without pay president macro and says she refused to be a no q lated. all selfish, prove what is your freedom worth? if you say to me, i don't want to be vaccinated, but tomorrow you in fact your father, your mother, or me, one in i think theme is that he is not the only one while more than

a 100. 60000 people rose up in anger against the controversial health feeling front . it's now being approved with poll, suggesting that the majority of people actually support the idea not who got given right for people to infect others. and if you do not want to get vaccinated, i'd like to do it. most of us actually realize that such a thing is a med, medical science exists and the father being pretty stupid but you, it's your choice but don't, don't fix, don't others via knowledge on vaccination and on the vaccine. paul. so i think the president is a 100 percent. right? be a said you're looking for a chap to around $6000000.00 have signed up to be elated. think these plans are muted just to read the go to print things. i don't ready to give up there. you do the, however, no pool has gone exactly the government way. there was fee is opposition

to the health pass that made its way through the french parliament, echoing concerns about the religion of civil liberties filled the wrong not to get vaccinated, but the health passes an aberration because either we do it for every one or we don't do it at all, and for now we do nothing. up to the law is rather directive doesn't give much choice. so it forces the community to have a common sense of purpose. i don't think it's liberty right now. it's not really france, that is governance things. it's not the president of the republic in europe, which is at present doing that, but more to see like see me, i'm vaccinated, but i'm not convinced everyone should be obligated to have the health hospital. others have said they are prepared to fight, don't to defend their right to truth whether or not to be vaccinated, while over 6000 business days have registered their intent not to of people to show

their health as for me on but can they did is my choice, i'm not imposing it on anyone lecturing anyone about it. i'll always reject any mandate that the cafe work into a police officer or health inspector pres the macro. you're messing with elements, you won't be able to control. i refused to be a policeman. i run a beast, troth, even the police don't want to enforce your orders. but all 4th wave of the corona virus pandemic, many believe vaccination and controls on those who refuse one all the only way forward was a blower. daniel hale has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking classified information about america's drone program. and while serving at the background base and off kindest. on a decade ago, hale helped identify targets for us autonation. when he returned home to the us in 2013, he should secret details about the drone program with intercept john less revealing

the true extent of civilian casualties. for example, in the middle east and africa in march, hail pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents. now ahead of it, today's sentencing hail wrote a letter, detaining some of the things he had witnessed in his work, including the death of 2 children in one strike. he also slammed then president brock obama's claim, the drone killings abroad, somehow protect americans. the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public, that it keeps the safe whenever i encounter an individual who thinks that drove warfare is justified and reliably keeps america safe, i remember that time and ask myself how i could possibly continue to believe that i am a good person deserving of my life and the right to pursue happiness. prosecutors had been asking for 11 years behind bars. his lawyers wanted this reduce to 18 months,

arguing that his actions were motivated by irreconcilable moral moral conflict. he committed the offense to bring attention to what he believed to be more a government conduct. committed under the cloak of secrecy and contrary to public statements of then president obama regarding the alleged precision of the united states military drone program. more now live out to brandon bryan, a former drone operator in america to enforce his joining us life this evening. here on r. c. international. great to see you today. thanks for coming on the program. so 45 months for mister hale, what do you make of the sentencing sofa well, i mean, as someone who is publicly outspoken against this drone program, for almost a decade myself, i find it strange that conscientious individual better inside the program that are trying to hold us accountable for the obvious blayton war crimes that we ourselves

are doing are being punished and it seems that they're punishing people in order to make them an example. and that really does disturb me, especially if america supposed to be this great country and freedom fighter amongst the world, how we're punishing our own people who are trying to do that. well, i mean, do you think then, did you think that mr. hail, you think he did the right thing? absolutely. i think that, you know, when i, when i came out against the drone program, i really didn't have anyone. i wasn't sure that i was going to have and it's a huge toll on the individual to do what daniel hale, julian assign, bradley manning, reality winner. all these people have done because you're, you basically separating yourselves from everyone that you might have in your friend or a coworker and they take an enormous amount of courage. and these people are

examples of what americans should be, what any individual should run that i wanted to. i wanted to ask you, i'm so sorry for jumping. and i wanted to ask you though, that is interesting, that washington hasn't actually, in fact, has never denied any of hale's revelations and yet is so putting him in jail. is this a war on whistle blowers? would you say i would agree with that and it's, it's a war and not the conventional sense of like they're into physicality, the fear of imprisonment on that type of stuff. but it's really a war on truth, not just whistleblowers. we've got people that have been propagating this war over in the middle east for almost 2 decades now. and making a bunch of money. we have one of the lowest health care systems. where's her health care systems in the world? we've got tons of people that are dying of a pandemic that are homeless job list and struggling to survive. and yet,

the waste of money that's going on is tremendous. and it's not government money. it's the people's money, it's tax payer money and it's in it's the government is not war with its own people . and i don't think that the people actually understand what's happening, but i think you're a good point. brandon to crit, i was just going to say, because i think there's a certain amount of war fatigue in the united states has been going on since perhaps george w bush administration with iraq and afghanistan. and then of course, syria so worn and so forth over the years. wanted to ask you though, you've operated drones yourself. mister hale's letter, what he wrote, for example, did it strike a chord with you? yeah, there were, there are a few pieces. i didn't read all of it. i only got to read part of the release before my phone died yesterday. and i just haven't picked it up yet again. but when

i read through part of it, i really felt for daniel, there's a bunch of things that we see and we are power, which is like having to bear witness. you know, if, if you can't, you're part of the machine. the car runs this machine, yet you have to bear witness for not just some unfeeling part of the machine you're feeling. and you see the results and actions that are being done. and i takes a tool like any conscientious human being that is doing things for through their heart. you know, it would take a tour and i hope that the american government would have compassion for someone who willingly served the country like he served the country. he did the best that he could and was enjoying to be a dissidence. he's a good old american boy. you know, is a good christian american boy, raised with a little bit of difficulty, you know,

but he's not alone. he's not alone. we branded if, if i could, i put it, i can just jump in just for a 2nd here. you know, you talk about, you talk about daniel hale and, and the good was, it is done. but mister haled, pretty much knew he'd be going to jail for doing this. what about the fear factor? he's not alone. you're not alone assigned. you're not alone. all these other whistleblowers are not alone but. but when it comes to the fear fact, it's pretty scary for someone out there who works in the industry, the military industry. they want to come out with the cost of an information, but it terrified what do you say to those? what do you say to those who would like to be able so blower but a terrified so this is where i'm going to just kind of pass on some ancient wisdom that i find is very useful. is that sometimes that you've run into problems that you don't know what the outcome will be and you know what the worst possible outcome could be. but you have to do it anyway. because that's the only time the right thing is ever done. and you can't

be attached to the result of whatever it is that you do. you just have to know that whatever it is that you're doing, it's right. and you do it any way. and it's, it's, it's, you know, there things variety, there spheres, there's depression, there's anger and rage, man, a fast is all sorts of complicated human emotions. orient people in this storm. and eventually you have to find yourself in the middle of that storm and be like, you know, i have to do, i have to do this because if i don't do it, going to and eventually you do something so that other people don't have to experience the trauma, the result, the fear, the tear and it brings a sort of piece, you know, it's a strange sort of piece against here. while we're going to have the other by anyone who is yes, go on, go on that, i'm sorry. i sorry, i just you know,

that's a good point. mike bite has said a lot of things that you know, support whistleblowers stop unless words that type of stuff. and if there is only these actions that individuals do with that hold these people accountable, instead of just letting them talk out of one side of them. and you know that, that the responsibility of the individual doesn't matter which country you're in. no matter what government that you're in because we don't want to. no one wants to be evil. i don't think no one wants to be part of some evil machination that other people are doing. and when you realize that that's going on, you just have to stand up against random operator and the, the us armed forces. we appreciate your insight. thanks for joining us here on asi international. we appreciate a woman believes to be a vocal critic of islam has been stopped in london at the incident happened at hyde parks, famous speakers corner. her injuries are not said to be life threatening,

but you may find the following video disturbing. the footage shows a large group of people gathering a part of the victim is towards the back. and i dressed in black, can be seen violently striking the woman's while the authorities and major media outlets did not name the victim or give any specific details of bloggers. i'm activists, aidid harris, 39 year old pattern tash. she said to a flat turkey after announcing islam for christianity and was regularly seen preaching in hyde park. previously, the woman was escorted by police through the park, over fear of attacks against her, and was even banned from speaker's corner, offer a number of threats. now, one thing that hasn't gone unnoticed though is that at the time of the attack, she was wearing a charlie epo t shirt. now that of the, the french satirical magazine has been in the spotlight many times over its caricature as a one of them portraying the prophet mohammed lead to a series of deadly islamist times, back in 2015. however, i should didn't depict the profit. instead, it showed a kiss between

a cartoonist and a muslim preacher capture and love is stronger than hate. much of the media coverage is either focused slowly on the fact that she was wearing a shoddy upto shot, or that it was a woman who was a type in hyde park. while london's mail has been criticized for not even acknowledging the incident. if a woman is stamped in hyde park and my, your funding study con doesn't mention, it didn't even happen. so city con, i thought speakers corner was a place where debate and critique could take place freely. why haven't you condemned the atrocious stabbing in the park yesterday? a little quiet on this latest london steadying said he can police in london warning against making any premature conclusions over the reason behind the stopping. i would of people not to speculate on the motive for the attack until we have established the full effect on a former metropolitan police officer peter kirk and believes that a knife crime has become so rampant in london that the non fatal attack on sunday failed to draw much attention. i think this incident is something that the major

would normally be expected to carry in some detail in some permanence and says, fortunately, the u. k. has suffers a significant increase in the number of serious happens and other matters in the last few years. and so for a more serious offenses, the national, serious incidents and this and i'm color place. and so where there are not life threatening injuries, something that's described as a minor slash rain reported and the media wouldn't normally now be able to carry that and it doesn't make the grade as if there's also the issue is who else is getting a bit about the public to no longer shop does may well,

we've got this situation where the deaths in murders are increasing. and so the non fatal stabbings a being pushed even further of the agenda. the politicians. also they do not seem to be taking the seriously and to be frank, they haven't taken it seriously right from the stuff. so tuesday saw the 1st hearing of a special us congressional panel task was investigating the events on capitol hill on january. the 6th this year consists of lawmakers from both parties with critics elijah, that minds are already made up and in line with the mainstream narrative. well, let's say a lot more about this course live now to watch kayla more than a good to say you can have you been following the hearing for us today. can you take us through what was said? the congressional committee has convened and is hearing testimony from what has

happened on january 6 with the capital riot in which say these stop the steel demonstration called by us president donald trump erupted and escalated with people penetrating the u. s. capital. now there has been no shortage of tears as we heard quite a bit of crying from police officers as well as politicians. take a listen. sorry. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. now capital police officers have been testifying about the dangers that they faced during the events in which protesters penetrated the u. s. capital. this is some of what we've heard about what they faced on january 6th. i confuse

myself losing oxy and recall. thinking to myself, this is how i'm going to die. defending the sanctions. i remember thinking there was a very good chance i would be torn apart or shot to death with my own weapon. at this point, i knew i can sustain much more damage and remain upright. at best, i would collapse and be a liability to my colleagues at worst be dragged down to the crowd and lynched. i became very emotional and began yelling. how the blank could something like this happen is this america. i began sobbing. i said as well as i could manage, i've got kids was very him. there was very emotional testimony about the trump supporters and how they mistreated the police. how the officers very much feared for their safety. the officers were at one point, asked to describe their heroism. they were,

they were told, tell us about your heroism. the officers stood against the crowd that was armed with baseball bats, flag poles, pepper spray. it is important to note that one protester was shot and killed by a capital police officer. ashley babbitt was shot. but even though some of the protesters did come to the demonstration with arms, the protesters did not fire at the police officers from what we understand. now it's important to note that there was quite a bit of controversy in the lead up to these hearings. nancy pelosi emphasized that this would be a focus on patriotism and that the congressional hearings investigating january 6 would not, would not be about getting political advantage for one side. however, there was heavy criticism of the fact that the congressional panel, which includes democrats and republicans among the republicans that are included,

it is primarily and basically only anti trump. republicans, it is those republicans that are critical of donald trump that make up this congressional committee that is investigating the events of january 6. then many of argue that the panel is simply turning into a trump hate fast. it is simply being utilized to, to merge the image of the previous president. here's some of what we've heard. no member of congress should now attempt to defend the indefensible. obstruct this investigation or whitewash. what happened that day in a democracy is or not defined. by our bad days, we're defined by how we can backs and bang the bad days. how we take accountability for that, my oath. your oath all of our oats here today. to protect and defend the constitution, i have faith because of folks like you and

i am, i don't expect this will be great so much later, but it must be an added thing today. now at this point in the united states, coven cases are surging. crime is also on the rise. the migrant upsurge on the border is also causing quite a bit of alarm. we have a situation with inflation, the debt ceiling. over half the country thinks that the government is headed in the wrong direction. but it seems that the u. s. congress is focused on re living and re discussing and investigating the events of january 6. that is the shoot, the, the, what they're essentially choosing to spend their time on. and so that's some of what we heard on capitol hill to day in the testimony about the january 6 capital riots are live in new york. ah, she's kellum often. thank you and i thank you for joining us as well. your latest headlines are on our team to national web back soon with me

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