in the in store isn't shave the week, just gone. a case of negligent homicide is launched after a huge explosion of the chemical plant in germany. less probably people dead green please describe the possible environmental impact to us. and here the main question arises, is it's an acceptable to place this as it were told the kegs near large settlements wildfires raging and southern turkey kill 6 people and what officials say is a national disaster as russian athletes keep not showing up metals in tokyo, olympics western media and competitors are increasing. we've seen red. does they question the teams right to be their american whistleblower. daniel hale making

news in the week. he's been sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for leaking information about us drug warfare. we heard 2 from others who also followed their conscience and shed government secret when we kill civilians and then put in the official report that they weren't children for example, they were goes, that is a war crime. it's really a war on truth, not just with the government is at war with its own people. ah love martinez will be sent here in moscow with me. kevin, though in this is a weekly recap of the top stories. he brought you over the last 7 days. could i be company 1st and an explosion of the major chemical plan in germany, tuesday left 5 dead and 2 still missing initial investigation suggest as no risk to public health from talks in. so with that more detailed test expected in the coming

days, the sites one of the largest chemical parks in europe, employing 30000 work as well. the $5000.00 chemicals were manufactured that the site, including elements for the production of explosives, greenpeace voice is concerned over the into the situation is very difficult for mechanical point of view. it is really possible to imagine a huge catastrophe. we have a plan for the incineration of hazardous waste. that is precisely those substances that for obvious, reasons, should not enter the environment. they're collected and burned. and it is such a plan that has no suffered explosion. it was the substances which should not be in the environment that reacted with each other, burned up and spread in these clouds of gas use throughout the region. and we know that the inhabitants did not know what they might be exposed to after the explosion on the subsequent fire. if the incineration plan just behind me, residents were initially told to remain inside, keep that windows and doors closed. a tentative all clear was given. following

tests that were carried out by the state and federal environmental protection services. those tests to be looking at the quality of the, the soil as well as looking at re, was set that fallen from cloud sort of been in contact with the huge plume of smoke . the enemy emanated from the facility just behind me say they've reported so far, no elevated levels of pollution. but authorities have also said that they're pretty sure the talks were released into the atmosphere following the fire and explosion. now we have seen a lot of messages being given out to people in the local area, warning them not to eat anything that's being grown in their gardens, in the nearby area. also telling people not to allow children to use playgrounds, don't city in garden furniture, or anybody that has a swimming pool in their garden. not to use that either. there's also being warnings about making sure that you take off footwear,

outside of your home. if you're in one of the areas with london now, despite these warnings being given out, activists of sold off the, the well number of people still unsure what they should be doing. uncertainties to rain people, road to me asking whether they can go out in the gardens and whether we will take more samples and this worries me, most of all that people remain the dog. and this is not only the fault of the enterprise. after all, the main problem is that no one knows what substances have reacted and what actually happened. and here the main question arises, isn't have an acceptable to place this as it were. powder tags, near large settlements, life has pretty much returned to normal in labor cruise, and i'm the surrounding area. we've had condolences being offered to the families of those that died as well as praise for emergency services and rescue as he were on the scene. so quickly, but a lot of people looking towards that information we're expecting to here on friday,

about long term effects. that could be that this is the most densely populated area of germany. a lot of people living in the near by surrounding not just of labor, cruise and, but also cities like cologne in the why the area of north run with fall. wildfires found by strong winds reeking devastation across southern turkey, the death toll. there's reason to 6 more than 500 have been treated hospital sofa, one coastal tide and a t nearby villages and districts have been evacuated. officials of coal, the situation, a national disaster. they're also launching an investigation is a suspicion. those fires could have been the result of arson turkeys president earlier indicating that indeed one had been started by children. helicopters was seen dropping water on the fires. we got more information from the sea. there were a big party sources defects, as you can see. now if they were willing location,

hold each miller so then the more cover all their own and they start educated people where in the nearby said, because that's because the people here really threats about cultural tradition. and they've got to pick the controls and in greece, trouble where to are emergency services are also battling to contain raging forest fires on saturday. ablaze broke patrice in the west of the country footage, showing burning trees and large plume, thick smoke towering. 9 above the greek woodland for villages and a tourist resorts have been evacuated in a rather dozen homes of belief have been lost to the fire. 5 people have been hospitalized with breathing problems. greece has been gripped by a heat wave. no since friday, with temperatures soaring well above 40 degrees celsius. other news,

russian athletes continuing their impressive metals, whole at the tokyo games on saturday, the russian se, but t one gold after the victory of france. so father, it's the 11th gold for the so called russian olympic committee team, which most it's face in the table, however, can be pretty hard pressed to find many saluting the success fairly, my colleagues, you know, neil and suskin, taylor talked about it. well, the olympics should be a huge celebration and the athletes all disciplines from all over the world coming together at one event showcasing the skills. unfortunately, for russian athletes competing out this, he has turkey games. that just hasn't been the case. the atmosphere has been so hostile, it's been filled with suspicion, criticism, and very little good sportsmanship, both from the global media and of course from start to competitors. for example, us women, ryan murphy, who love to a russian, took a veil flight by saying that he probably, that it probably wasn't a keen race,

a comment that he later back tracked on. but by that a british swim, i had also come out and couldn't help. may could dig about state sponsor to pig out to the russian who beat them. he said my gold medal is the combination of nothing but like from dedication. yes. to double check the news, but i have always stood for nothing but clean competition. i have always been tested and i always go out to my documents. i've devoted my entire life to the sport and i would never be able to forgive myself if i use some doping. so i don't even know how to react to this model. now, while those comments might not seem direct to the any one particular asking or country, others very openly was quite frankly, the epitome of a sore loser. one us row up, for example, said that russians shouldn't even be the seen the crew who shouldn't even be here. walk away with the silver is a nasty feeling really disappointing overall, and i feel for the other f as in the, a final. now tell me, might be furious that she's not taking her out when that she was banking on her

belief that russians don't have a right to be there. of course just doesn't reflect reality how much she wants it to. the truth is, russian athletes are allowed to compete, but under certain strict conditions are the result of an ongoing reduced number of historic clean, clean russian athletes are allowed to compete as mutual meaning that they've been stripped of them the flag out of course the country's name hadn't r c and not russia. but despite this, despite that commitment to the very rules that the international olympic committee has set up, and despite the fact that they are the most tested, one of the most tested delegations that they are still daily faced with this wave of bitterness and malice. yeah, new and fair comments, direct or otherwise, as you're saying, indirectly the last number of there, including the swimmers. what's the media? how to say? well, unfortunately, the hostility towards the r a c team is really tenfold in western media. some of the headlines are actually pretty shocking. many of them fairly can disguise that

discuss the russians, have been allowed to learn that the actually winning metals, beautiful music. and although window dressing such as calling itself the russian, a limbic committee to suggest an appearance of neutrality cannot mask the stench of corruption and appeasement. the eye sees entire plan completely backfired. it certainly didn't keep the russians out, and it certainly didn't shame russia were putting, has used the band to pump up nationalistic pride. and that was us, gymnast simone biles had to pull out the media with disappointment, worried about, well, that's paid the way for the russians, which is exactly, of course what happened was they deserved. so one way hoping that the media will kind of take a step back and just objectively report on the ongoing offence on the trial on the loss is also is lempke as well. unfortunately, we've been disappointed. i suggest there's a little bit of back story to this as well, right. what of course, i think most people are why, but this is all the fall out from the uncovering of thought and that you don't pick

scheme amongst fresh enough things. back in 2014 washer was bound before we as many major international sporting events. and that will delay to reduce to 2 years. no, russian officials did come out. they admitted mistakes had been made in the antidote program, but they also did claim that the band was politically motivated. but the truth is, is that is the past that have been repercussions for that. what's happening now in tokyo was essentially the demonized ation of hundreds of proven clean athletes who are playing by the rules down to a team who are also getting tested repeatedly in the last number of winter and summer. exactly. they are, they are the 3rd, have to team off on us and china. so it's real beautification by those athletes by the media and not have to say really as a credit to those receipts that despite all of this that they've managed to block out all that noise and still keep mounting the podium independent jealous. rick sterling believes the original message of the olympics is getting lost these days.

unfortunately, the, the olympics has been politicized very much. you know, it's not new. there's always been a national as component to it. but of course, the olympic games charter calls for bringing countries together and in its intention is to, to promote peace. we need to resist the, the nationalist forces that are trying to politicize and polarize the anti doping situation. and the international sport situation. i think it will be a very good thing when russia is fully reinstated and can participate. we can see the russian flag and the russian national anthem. it's really a shame that the situation is continuing as it is, but hopefully we can get beyond this before too much longer. this one got a lot of people talking to whistleblower in the us sentence almost 4 years in

prison for leaking classified information about america's drone program while serving the bag room at base. and i've got to stand a decade ago. daniel hale helps identify targets for assassination 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 middle east and africa. in march have pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents, which revealed at 90 percent of strikes and actually hit civilians. the u. s. began its drone program during the bomber administration, and since then is launched, more than $14000.00 strikes and i've got to stand pakistan, yemen and somalia. thousands have been killed along the way with more than 300 children among them. we spoke to whistle blower and former us intelligence officer john kodiak, who, who attended hales 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 rage, 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 ahead of the sentencing hail wrote a letter detailing some of the things he'd witnessed. he says in his work, including the death of 2 children and one strike. he also slammed the claim of former president barracka, the bottom of the drone killings abroad, protected the americans. the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public that it keeps us safe whenever i encounter an individual who thinks that drone 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. please strode circle 24 hours a day and delivering depths from the skies 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 power. it's really the misuse of the espionage act which has been continued and other well no. whistle blower, edward snowden, commented on the case to on twitter. he condemned the cold decision and praised hale. we got reaction as well from brandon bryan to former us to an operator himself who also lifted the lid on what his work involved. he says in the choice between ignoring civilian killings and making the public away, his conscience made up his mind. it's really a war on, through the night, just whistle blowers. 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, you're part of the machine. the car runs this machine, yet you have to bear witness for it. not just an unfeeling part of the machine you're dealing. 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's 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 are 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. thanks for

watching this morning. still ed this august. the 1st pictures you may find upsetting in more of a top stories of the last 7 days. police brutality in america captured on camera. the violent arrest of a colorado man as the officer involved facing charges after the break. the driven by a dreamer shaped by those in me dares thing. we dare to ask me.

ah ah, me. ah, another 2 police brutality has been caught on camera in the u. s 2 offices in colorado that have been charged over the violent arrest of an armed mixed race man

. warning you may find the following video disturbing. oh, what do i do? both i do put your hands on front of you. okay. don't stop torn it. oh, oh. 6 0, i don't have the police officers identify the suspects. carl vinson as being wanted by the authorities to several offences of to 2 other men fled vincent appeared to initially comply with the offices commands during the arrest, but then resisted while being handcuffed. he was subsequently choked, forced face down on the ground, and pistol whipped by an officer. vincent was then taken to hospital leading treatment. the officers in question have since been charged with use of excessive force and the roar of police chief, a strongly condemned their conduct gave it does not police work. we don't train this, not acceptable. the definition of police brutality is itself is

a problem. you, you, you use the force necessary to effect in a rust. you keep yourself safe to keep the citizen safe and you actually keep the person that you're arresting safe. the job of the police officer, the street car is not the punish. that's the job of the courts. so white edition, not a punishment for conviction if so, if a police officer was aware, as was in the case of derrick sheldon, that he was being video camera right. your body cameras recording you and they were this comfortable with their actions. there is a serious epidemic, a serious problem, and then police officers history needs to be looked into. we need to look at how many other times that person been accused or have they taken excessive force beyond the level of what they were lawfully around the allowed to use. because if somebody feels this comfortable to get this out of control on video camera guarantee is that the 1st time they've done this. as an incident like us, the defined, the police movement is not properly communicated to the public. the de,

from the police moment is a political card. it's what the politicians are using to wind up bolstering your base for more voting. really just removes programs funding for certain areas for police officers. tuesday saw the 1st hearing of especially us congressional panel tasked with investigating the capitol hill right back in january. emotions were running high during the session, although it seems on everyone is convinced by the words heard with some views, even calling it a performance. democracies are not defined by our bad days, were defined by how we come back from 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 great. so emotionally, but it's, it must be an added thing today. the special commission consists of lawmakers from both parties,

but critics play their minds were already made up with most known for their anti trust views. kellum open followed the developments 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 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 on thing. 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 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 gresham committee investigating the january 6 events which is convening today's 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, a continued migrant surge on the us border. rising inflation and poll saying that more than half the country 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. i'm on new york city, the almost 200 illegal border crossings in one single day. that's what lithuania is currently facing, with a total number of detain migrants spiking to $3000.00 this summer in european nation. and well, vilnius has been denied for bringing in drastic measures to try to stem the flow to

show davinsky in the week found that the e u is dramatically shifted its position on the issue. they were p, say that all supposed to be in school. however, for some countries being in the gang seems of more benefits done. but others take the current situation in lithuania, which is going at the moment with an influx of migrant, difficult times call for difficult decisions. this will drastically change the way new immigration policy. it includes math, the tension of migrant, a bond on the release of those who are in detention for 6 months. they will be no right to a translator to obtain information about the asylum process. they will also curb the right to appeal decisions and to allow for deportation while is appeals of being examined. do whatever it takes to absolutely ensure that only people who are

persecuted for political reasons and have a good ground to look for a political shelter stay here in law has been created specifically to deal with my goodness, coming over from neighboring batteries, lithuania, and you accuse minutes could be using them as a political to as relations continue to sour. critics say the law is a step to fall the law as a potential human rights violation and it doesn't correspond to you directives. it can tries the current bad situation in lithia and in the tense, incentives in law and lives vulnerable people in and even more vulnerable situation . even criticism from lithuania, form a chair of the constitutional court. the proposals which are unconstitutional are based on the promise that all foreigners who cross the border are 2nd class human beings not entitled to constitutional rights conditions. in the mass detention

centers have also been denounced with allegations, the migrants have been stripped to fact telephones that they can only got signed for one hour a day. pressure that some say has led to people attempting to take that law. everyone detained in this building is suffering psychologically. i already ran away from iraq, since it's a prison, it is the same here clean. while lithuania is embarking on a massive project, the key would be migrant out. it plans to cover almost the entirety of its food with salaries, with a raise, a wire. so what do you think? let you and use border is an external you border which is currently experiencing an unprecedented influx of migrants and asylum seekers. these people, many of them vulnerable, need urgent support,

such as food and shelter. the european union and other member states will not leave with you and you're alone in this difficult situation. sounds very supportive, doesn't they think that when another human hungry took a similar action, only use external border with serbia following a wave of migration in 2015, the tone from brussels couldn't be any more different. we cannot accept the basic values of the european union, a being so seriously breached any one like hungry who built fences against war, refugees, or breaches. press freedom and the independence of the justice system should be temporarily or permanently excluded from the you. last year's top court found hungry, guilty of breaking, assign the rules. it says it mashed up the lose or protecting vulnerable migrant by denying them the right to apply for asylum and by forcibly to putting them. meanwhile, as other states, such as greece,

also look to build rules only use external border to keep migrant out brussels having so much as batted and eyelid leading some to feel that in the you know, all partnerships are indeed equal. but a snapshot of the way the weak pond has brought to you by us into national here in moscow. i'm kevin now in thanks for watching programs this sunday august the 1st and have a great rest of the weekend. me the join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me

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