crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is to response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes it feel very proud that we need together in the germany's rock by a deadly explosion. industrial park for a chemical company, leaving 2 dead more than 30 wounded. environmentalists also selling the alarm over a huge cloud of potentially toxic black and smoking, created by the blind also ahead on the program today. hundreds of videos and images of unconscious naked women are found in the possession of a usc confesses being broken and sexually assaulting women in mexico city for over a decade. the american whistleblower daniel hale is sentenced to almost 4 years in

prison for leaking classified details about washington's bruner stuff and nation program. we get reaction from others you've chosen to labor when we kill civilians and then put in the official report that they weren't children for example, they were to go. that is a war crime. it's really a war untruth. and i just went to the governments, is that war with its own people? ah, from moscow to the world, this is the news r and r c. my name's you know, the legal good to have your company. a massive explosion has torn through an industrial park of chemical companies in western germany. 2 people have been confirmed dead and 31 more injured. the cause of the explosion remains on no

or europe correspondent peter all for reports from this scene. just before 10 o'clock in the morning on tuesday when there was an explosion at the chemical park just behind me here. the ah ah, it's been a huge clue of black cloak into the sky, could be seen for miles and miles around and caused huge panic amongst local residents. now, 2 people have confirmed to being killed the site following the explosion, and the subsequent fire over 30 people were injured some of those at a very serious condition. there is also 3 people who remain missing following this explosion and fire the chaos which it caused. well,

as still being felt many hours after the fire itself was put out, it took fire services 3 hours to do that. they were on the scene very quickly. hundreds of fire and police services on the scene, but it did take as they say over 3 hours for them to put bad out the traffic chaos that it is caused around the area here of labor cruise and is still all going. it's right in the evening now on tuesdays and speaking to you. a lot of the roads around here all still very much heavily under diversions. this area in lay the cruise and just to the north of the huge german city of cologne is incredible. hope for traffic, but also incredibly important when it comes to the chemical industry. this is one of the main centers for chemical giants of germany like via and laxness. now it was this facility that they are connected to as well. this particular area dealt with

the disposal of the waste. now there's still no word on exactly what could have caused this explosion and fire, much of what is just over my shoulder a little bit further beyond those initial buildings has been destroyed by that. and it seems that the investigation into what cause this will go on for a while now, though there was huge concern in the immediate aftermath that something could have been put into the atmosphere, which would have caused grave danger to the millions of people that live in this part of germany, it's the most densely populated parts of the country. this area of north run with volume takes in the major cities, not only of lay the curves in the load, dusseldorf and the plume of smoke. the effects from the plume of smoke were felt as far away to the north west. as in wordpress as well. no people were told initially get inside, keep your windows and doors closed. residents in the vicinity have been asked to

remain in doors and keep the windows and doors closed. and we have a large contingent on site support our colleagues in the fiber gate with their rescue and recovery work. for this reason, we have sets of roadblocks over a wide area that was while tests were being carried out to see if there was anything toxic in the air. it took a few hours for the emergency services to determine that there was no immediate risk. but this has certainly been a huge shock to the people of this area. and it has been an incredibly tragic incident. so those people working the cam park, the people behind it, the people responsible for this facility, expressing their condolences for the dead as people looking to try and determine what exactly caused this tragedy to take place. here in germany, peter oliver taken us through the local authorities war in the situation posed, quote, an extreme threat while ecologists fear toxins may have been released into the

atmosphere senior lecture in environmental sustainability and green technology. dr . sharon jordan said it's vital to find out fast what actually was discharged during the incident can show it in huge, but it's not just the issue. the contamination that you can see. it's not contamination that you can't say this. the what the blacks might, they can see is particular that that is gonna travel quite a distance from the side to. so that was where the bank i think 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 back to the doctor, it's going to be a gas in the other day. and also with when he does that. so it may then move again,

if he's soluble of waynes, and then they will travel again. the challenge here is to figure out exactly what is being displayed. and then to figure out how to contain it and make sure they know how to people to another of the headlines. stories a u. s. diplomat and mexico could spend the rest of his life behind bars. after admitting that for more than 14 years, he'd been drugging and then raping numerous women. he pleaded guilty to filming at least $23.00 victims. but despite the scandal, the story's gone largely unnoticed by the american media. with more than that, here's double quarter. sexual abuse is committed over a decade and 6 countries against drug to victims and documented in hundreds of videos and photos taken without consent. that's what a former worker at the u. s. embassy in mexico has just pleaded guilty to

live in i i use, brian. jeffrey raymond is now on trial back at home in the us, having worked for his government for 23 years in various missions across the world . other than that, we don't know much about his diplomatic career. the f. b, i launched an investigation into him after he abruptly left to mexico last year, shortly after a nude woman was seen screaming for help from the balcony of his mexico city apartment. she says she doesn't remember what happened the night before, except that he'd offered her food and drinks. eventually, the federal agents obtained warrant to search his home in the u. s. and was able to

comb through his electronic devices, leading to a number of serious charges in march 2020, approximately 2 months before his interaction with a v 7 raymond also text the same friend mentioned above about having sexual intercourse with 8989. he's a resident of mexico and primarily spanish speaker. he text to the same friend that he had to pay for a new birth for a benign and expressed that he was annoying, but ultimately worth while, because he was able to have sex with her. raymond could face life in prison if convicted and the justice department is adamant on sending a tough message. brian raymond betrayed the trust, grunted to him as a u. s. government employee represent in the united states abroad by engaging years of predatory conduct sexually abusing exploiting and recording vulnerable women. he targeted in the united states and around the world as demonstrated by raymond's prosecution. and please, the department of justice and law enforcement partners will use all of the tools

that are disposal to hold accountable those who victimized women. despite the severity of the allegations, the confessions, and the potential impact on america's global reputation. for some reason, the mainstream media is not talking much about this story. i wonder why mainstream media completely ignored the story as big as that becomes what, what we would call all over the world propaganda. where your media, your news reporting had become an arm of a political party or a political factions. we have to rely on for media outlook on anybody else on regular civilian here in the us trying to post. definitely stories like this because that is public interest, much of the questions regarding did the f b, i know about the how many years to date of the rug and still allow security clearance, secret top secret clearance to go through for the person knowing what they knew i

mean, are they, in essence responsible, i mean, in a court of law with the climate this magnitude. if somebody knew about this and allowed the person to continue perpetuating these criminal act again into that condition, they call that aiding and abetting. they would call it that they would call that either a conspiracy, a knowledge to act, or at the very least, $1818.00 a felon. and so these are the things that we need to know an american whistle. the warehouse been sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking classified information about america's drum program, while serving of the by grammar a bass enough gala stand a decade ago. daniel hale helped identify targets for substance ation. when he returned home in 2013, he shared secret details about the drone program, with journalists from the intercept, revealing the true extent of civilian casualties in the mid east and africa. in march have pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents. we spoke to

whistleblower and for us intelligence officer, john courier who attended hills sentencing. hearing the mood was one of great apprehension and the court room was packed for daniel hale. it was all quite dramatic, but we were apprehensive because we really didn't have any indication of which way the judge was going to go. and then he surprised everyone by clearing the courtroom and sealing it for 2 hours. while the justice department argued in a classified venue for a sentence of 9 years to me, the fair verdict would have been to, to, for the judge to come off the bench, shake his hand, thank him for his service to the country and let him go home to his family, i didn't think he deserved any prison time at all because he revealed a crime that was being committed by the u. s. government, the crime of, of the murder of innocent civilians. these are war crimes. when, when we know that civilians are within the strike range, that makes it

a crime when we kill civilians and then put in the official report that they weren't children for example, they were goats. that is a war crime. and it became a matter of course, it became something that many drone operators and their supervisors were doing. a head of the sentencing hail wrote a letter detailing some of the things he witnessed in his work, including the death of 2 children and one strike. he also slammed the claim of former president barack obama that drew killings abroad, protected americans. the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public, that it keeps a 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. leave strong

circle 24 hours a day and delivering that from the skies. i have turned most of the muslim world against us. it's been completely counterproductive and i think hail understood that and he sought to inform the american public. but we can't have a debate. we don't know the truth and we know the truth about drones because of the courage of daniel. and it's not just about going after someone like hale, it's really kind of a death blow to the press itself because it prohibits the press from shining a light on the inner workings of ours. it's really the misuse of the espionage act which has been continued on perhaps the most well known whistleblower of all edward snowden has commented on the case on twitter condemning the court decision and praising hail. we also got reaction from brandon bryant, a former drone operator who lifted the lid on what his work really involved as well

. he sees in the choice between ignoring civilian killings and making the treat public. there really was only one outcome for him. it's really a war on, through the nicest whistleblowers. we've got people that have been propagating this war over in the middle east for almost 2 decades. now. the government is at war with its own people. if you can't, you're part of the machine. the car runs this machine. yeah. you have to bear witness for it. not just some unfeeling part of the machine. you're feeling silly. and eventually you have to find yourself in the middle of that storm and be like, you know, this. i have to do. i have to do this because if i don't do it, who is going to, i find it strange that conscientious individuals that are 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. ok just come up to 16 minutes past the hour on a short break here in our to see you in 900 seconds in counting. ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah,

the when i would show the wrong, when i just don't rule out the same because the aptitude and engagement equals the trail when so many find themselves worlds apart and we choose to look for common ground in this let's start back stateside tuesday, so the 1st hearing of a special us congressional panel tough with investigating the capitol hill ride

back in january and motioned to running high during the session. although it seems that everyone was convinced by the words, heard with some viewers even calling it a performance. democracies are not defined by our bad days. were defined by how we can backs and bang the bad days. how we take accountability for that. i have faith because of folks like you and i am, i don't expect this will be quite so mostly, but it must be an adam a thing today. me the the ah,

the ah, what they're speaking about that special commission. it consists of lawmakers from both parties, but critics claim their minds were already made up with most known further of the trumpet. use ortiz kill mope, and was following me hearing as congress here is testimony about the events of january 6. the seems we've been hearing both police officers and politicians crying their eyes out. i was assaulted and nearly killed. i could have lost my life. there was a very good chance i would be torn apart. this is how i'm going to die. defending the sanctions. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. some are looking at this panel and saying it's simply impartial. we're not hearing both sides of the story. questions about about what kind of went wrong and whether or not the capital police allowed the protesters to enter. if they made a mistake or,

or if somehow doors were left on guarded, what exactly happened? people are looking at this and saying it's not an impartial hearing. it's speaker the house, nancy pelosi was being widely blamed for the fact that you can rational committee investigating the january 6 events which is convening today of hearing contains only anti trump republicans. it is a bipartisan panel, but there are no trump supporters represented on it. there are simply anti trump democrats, as well as anti trump. republicans, this seems to be what congress is focusing on at the moment. amid surging coven cases, continued migrant surge on the us border, rising inflation and poll saying that more than half the countries say things are moving in the wrong direction. that is not what congress is focusing on. rather they have decided to re live and rehash the events of january 6th on capitol hill. well, even democrats are worried. they're facing mid term elections. the economies in the

toilet, the covey threatened to come back, we're told, and they have to do something to demonize their enemies. and that's what they're doing is pretty unprecedented. that the republican liter kevin mccarthy is choices to sit on the committee were rejected. certainly doesn't suggest to stay bipartisan committee, the 2 people that pillows he chose, instead of them are to who voted to impeach trumpet that serves the purpose. purpose of this is not to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6. i don't support people who do violence, people who attack police officers, of course they should be prosecuted. let's not forget in the summer of 2021 so called protest in front of the white house. 60 secret service agents were hurt or injured by george floyd riders. we never had these gut wrenching hearings like this, crying in front of the cameras, which we saw kinder do and others do it today for them. i have that i am not a trump voter. i am not a republican, but it's very clear what this is about to be to show trial is to establish

a narrative and it's very, very ugly. there have been calls for come into news yet. it follows a violent outburst after the president suck the prime minister unsuspended parliament over the weekend. he made the movement growing anger over the government's handling of the pandemic as well as the country's economic woes of which there are many. but while his supporters cheered with joy, his opponents to accuse him of a power grab the me, the

or case side has now a 9 a month long curfew. and the gatherings of more than 3 people in the places. on sunday, the president said he would assume executive authority and governor following the art of spring a decade ago become 300 being dumped. a benchmark for 10 live trinket has been assessing what if there was an award for an arab spring success story denisia despite being the neighbor of field state libya would surely be on the short list of nominees. right? it's not being destroyed by civil war. again, like libya, next door in 2015, 14 asian civil society groups won the nobel peace prize for, quote unquote, a decisive contribution to the building of a democracy. but 6 years on 10 years after the arab spring swept north africa and

the middle east, there is a sense of street violence. as the focal point has been the countries crumbling health care system which has contributed to one of the highest per capita coven 19th death. rate, but it's not just the corona virus that has left many feeling ill. many people who are deceived by hypocrisy, terray and robbery of the rights of the people. i warn any who think of result into weapons and whoever shoots a bullet the armed forces will respond with bulus. tunisia is facing the biggest crisis in a decade of democracy. after president chi saeed house did the government and froze the activities of the parliament widely seen as unconstitutional because aside stain, you are a limited powers. his foes labeled the move a qu, that should be opposed, but his position remained strong thanks to the support of armed forces. troops have

prevented lawmakers from convening, which gave the parliament speaker appetite for some strong language. these decisions are not supported by the law or the constitution and we are very disgruntled by them. it's a crew against the constitution, against the revolution on a coup against the public and civil liberties. we consider the institutions to still be standing and supporters of another and the to news in people will defend the revolution. and not her is the moderate islamists ruling party which rose to power as a result of the arab spring. but the current political crisis may see it lose most of its political gains of the past decade. putting tunisia at the crossroads, once again. the question is, has the country experience a power grab by the president or just a temporary shake up to get the nation back on track? the handling of the 19 has been get this topic which made things worse. and it was

almost like the last saw for years. now, this is the way can seem going on back to work. i think very, a lot of the, the appointment in the political leave and more, you have to know that, you know, the initial revolution by the young people that believed in the revolution at the beginning. but the government, namely, more specifically in the government, has not religious since, you know, they took power. and the economic situation has gone from back to worst with the corona virus situation, unlikely to be resolved in the near future. and the rival political camps giving up to energize st. support. things are more than just dangerous and uncertain. and no peace awards or arab spring track record will help when the nation has all but lost its nerve. you'll be able to train co r t hey summer. a opening figure is now

overwhelming. majority of american college graduates wish they'd been told more life skills. that's the findings of a new nation wide survey. big numbers us always seeing according to the poll for of every 5 recent graduates wish their education had given them a better chance that independent living while a quarter admitted to having almost no d i y skills whatsoever. other areas of concern were investing long term financial planning, managing student loans and budgeting, retired new york university professor. dr. michael rectinwald's feels today students aren't prepared for real life is a combination of administrators and faculty, the curriculum they're putting together and what they're teaching people outside of the sciences, which are also being affected by all this. they're not teaching anything of value.

they're teaching, basically a gender ivy ology, but trans transgender, some, but also critical race theory. things that are effectively not validated by any evidence in allow you to critically analyze these, these assertions that are being made under the rubric of social justice. they are just accepted path, patently asked the truth and you can't challenge them. this is not only unnecessary, it's quite counterproductive. it's leaving people completely unprepared for any kinds of careers and putting them in enormous data at the same time. let's keep attention in the u. s. and that the california where thousands of national guard members have been mobilized to help bustle, fierce wildfires. there they are both going up the $22000.00 firefighters attempting to bring the situation under control. kinder dry conditions resulting from the worst draught in 40 years. i've seen the fire spread rapidly with some

experts warning the worse the still ahead and late summer and early autumn. another country hit hard by wildfires is greece were ablaze, described as one of the biggest in the past. 30 years has broken light less than a 100 kilometers from the country's capital. a number of houses being destroyed and several villages evacuated dramatic scenes from china. look at the earth where a sun storm in gulf than entire city in the north west of the country. what would you be thinking see not coming out to hurrying in at $100.00 metres in height. it turned the sky yellow and reduced visibility to just a few meters, causing us here. my local roads are more great programs that have moments here, and r t i back with all your mid week global news updates and 30 so using the

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