the last one of. ready ready his stories and shape the week just gone. a case of negligent homicide is launched off for a huge explosion of the chemical plants in germany, left 5 dead green pace along describing the possible environmental impact. and here the main question arises is, have an acceptable to place this as it were. powder tags in the a large settlements. wildfires raging and southern turkey and some more of europe to killing 6 in what official say is a national disaster. a sporting hero or weak willed in the face of a challenge. well, opinion, big. com divided over style us jim asked, who's quit to more olympic finals of mental health concerns. while another, do you see on the competitors in tokyo, make

a stand against sexism we debate to for so ready been done? the woke games are becoming increasingly dominated by politics. i think is a great opportunity. we've seen so many changes already, and i'm not worried what it should be confirmed because we don't want to be just a vehicle for the latest 5 that comes along. american whistleblower daniel hale and the news he's been sensitive almost 4 years in prison for leaking information about us drug warfare. in the week. we heard from others who also followed that conscience shed government secret when we killed civilians and then put in the official report that they weren't children for example, they were go. that is a war crime. it's really a war on truth, not just with the government. it's at war with its own people ah! life. marty's will be sent here in moscow. good morning from kevin. oh,

in this is the weekly. now recap of the top stories have brought you over the last 7 days and 1st i'd explode and huge explosion of the major chemical plants in germany on tuesday that happened leaving 5 dead. and 2 is still missing this weekend. initial investigation suggest as no risk to public health from talk since with more detailed tests expected in the coming days. the site is one of the largest chemical parks in europe employed. 30000 workers. more than $5000.00 chemicals were manufactured the site, including elements for the production of explosives, greenpeace voice concern over the incident. the situation is very difficult for mechanical point of view. it is really possible to imagine the huge catastrophe. we have a farm for the insinuation 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 now suffered an explosion. it was these 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 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 that talks and were released into the atmosphere following this fire and explosion. now we have seen as 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, the nearby area. also telling people not to allow children to use playgrounds, don't sit in garden furniture or anybody that has a swimming pool in there by god. not to use that either. there's also the 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 told off see that while a number of people still unsure what they should be doing. uncertainty to rein 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, is it 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. it could be that this is the most densely populated area of germany. a lot of people living in the nearby surrounding not just of labor crews and but also cities like cologne in the wide area of northrop with fall in. other troubles, wildfires found a strong winds reeking devastation across southern turkey. the desk told has risen to 6 more than 500 have been treated in hospital so far. a coastal town in 18 nearby villages and districts have been evacuated. officials of coal, the situation, a national disaster now, and they're also launching an investigation into suspicions that may be those 5 of

the result of awesome. indeed, turkeys present and earlier indicating one had been started by children. helicopters was seeing dropping water on the fires and then we could got more information from the scene. there were big sources. defects as you can see. notice in their location, hold each miller. so then the smoke cover all their own and they start educating people where in the nearby said, because the people here really trust about cultural tradition and they've got to pick the same kind of problems in greece who are emergency services are also battling to contain rage in forest fires on saturday at play broke out and patrice in the west of the country footage, showing burning trees and large flumes of thick smoke. towering above the green

woodland. for villages and a tourist resort. evacuated around a dozen homes believe to be the last of the 5. so far. 5 people have been hospitalized with breathing problems and fires to on the italian island of sicily. forcing the evacuation of dozens of people from the area mediterranean regions have been gripped by a waves since friday. the temperature is soaring above 40 degrees celsius. one drama to another is more drama, the tokyo olympics style us gymnast, and simone biles. as sensation, we pulled out of 2 more finals, so she withdrew from the gym, gnostics team event on tuesday, and afterwards from the all round competitions to quote, focus on mental health. it's now left to see whether or not she'll be able to participate in the coming weeks events. and while some observers say the move is her greatest achievement, yet others claims she's let her teammates down when they needed

a most. i say put mental health 1st, because if you don't then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's okay. sometimes the even set out the big competition to focus on yourself on tuesday doing the talk, your lympics individual, all around competition and women's gymnastics sim on bias. one of the greatest athletes to ever grace the sport a for time on the big champion, quite surprisingly for many decided to withdraw from the, from the round and eventually the russian team or r o c. if you may, 1 gold in that discipline. first, it was cited him on biles decided to withdraw to medical reasons. then it became clear as cited by the teams entourage and by bio herself that this was a mental health issue. it has created quite a whirlwind of reactions. there are those who are strongly accusing and abusing

simone bias for withdrawing that i would say spearheaded by pierce morgan, a famous u. k. tv host, who well just fell short of accusing some on violence of being a chicken and checking out on her team. and i saw something that serial winners do a mental health issues. now the go to excuse for any poor performance in elite sport. what a joke. just admit you did badly made mistakes and was try to do better next time. kids need strong role models, not this nonsense. obviously, that has created huge responds online and even some mainstream media jumped in. and if you look at the language that some of the mainstream media like washington post a many out of used, you would think that simone biles actually won a gold medal rather than pulling out from the competition. whenever biles pulls on her leotard, it's as though she's tighten in a cape around her neck. she's the hero tasked to save in a solid sport embodying some tried believe in american dominance,

and also carry agenda and an entire race that's a heavy cape and it chokes. but it's one that exceptional black women and women of color are tall to wear because simply being great isn't good enough. for some reason. many of those media and bonded and commentators also decided to bring in her agenda her race into the story which is already creating another type of backlash because people cannot understand what is her decision to withdraw from one particular competition. something she has been preparing for for quite a while, because the lympics is quite important for any athlete in the world has to do with who she has, her skin color and things like that. so it's definitely creating a major rift, and we have to wait and see where the simone biles decides to continue in this lympics. she's at a 4 time champion in the land base already. and obviously all eyes are on her in the u. s. thinking that she could win more,

she went on instagram recently just saying how much of that weight on her shoulder is being hot on her. and may be this rift with such reactions coming from both sides would create even more pressure for the 24 year old gymnast with a very difficult past. yeah, to worry sushi, discuss the developers, say with a panel of guests mental health issue of simone biles. she withdrew. i mean, this must be a very, very difficult decision for gigi think perhaps she's set an example by doing this is a topic has to be over the years. and only recently, we thought that people have mental health, and i think they limited to the path examples. why not expect i really feel that 8, especially in kids they, they, they, they really try the years and years and they carry the contra mesh. oh does is okay, have to be like, okay, i have mental health, i'm not gonna be all the fact that she has withdrawn has bought further attention

to her. i mean, if she's sort of quietly underperformed and perhaps explained to the media that, you know, this is just one of those events. you can't be at her peak all the time and then quietly slipped away fine. but she really has made an announcement him put mental health health back on the map again. so the importance of mental health issue obviously shouldn't be underestimated. but perhaps putting that on for lympics as well is perhaps too much is a sporting event. it should be kept as a sporting event. if one is not ready for it, when really shouldn't, shouldn't be that. you could only find out sometimes, but you're not ready for it when you're there already. meantime, this story to german gymnast, choosing to work full body unit todd's instead of the more traditional. but katie cut leotard, that decision was made to protest the supposed sexualization of athletes. well, some find the move and important step towards equality. others said,

it's just another case of trying to make sport political. so what does our panel think about the increasing attention being paid at the games to non sporting matters? this whole issue of uniform and the sexualization of women has to go quite soon and it can be so very simply, he just say, here are the uniformed men and women, no different. any sport that tries to segregate male and female on the basis of uniform is really back in the 20th century. one of the biggest things about the atlantic pattern and your skills isn't actually and what you're judging are charging the uniform and what, what people don't realize the sex libation of women when they can be very self conscious when wearing we're beating clothing which might actually performance so really, if we really care about the school and the athletes and then we should allow them to feel confident and what they are wearing. do a bit of a problem be on the one hand, the olympics is design extolled abuse in the perfection of the human body operating

at peak efficiency. so it's there to be admired. all the other hand, we have contributed lympics, who may feel uncomfortable with that being a limb. in particular, maybe there's a case for some element of choice, but at the same time we don't want to lose the essence of what they're lympics is. are you afraid? perhaps that non sport issues or political ones in particular for example, that could become main talking points in the future olympics? no, i'm not worried. i think it's a great opportunity. we seen so many changes already. i'm not worried, i still feel like eventually it will kind of not live down, but we will respect, respect it is, but for now i'm happy with it to different hill and picks. let's put it that way. it's an a everyone watching on tv and watching, you know, 68 tests and see the stadium with everything they can come, pretend i'm enjoying it as much as i do. other olympics i have to say, well it should be confirmed because we don't want to be just

a vehicle for the latest. 5 that comes along. lympics should represent social moles as they changed, but a nice room has its own century old brand needs to keep, continue to keep that. wow. so that we have when we see the olympics are there with their own specific procedures and, and habits and ways. and that's the beauty olympics, that's what we want to say. we don't want to make it to the temporary to trans unit and just this waveform insane them. this is big news. a whistleblower in the us sentence almost 4 years in prison for leaking classified information about america's drone program while serving the bad gram base. and i've got to stand a decade ago. daniel hale helped identify targets for assassination. when you return home in 2013, he shared secret details about said drone program with journalist from the intercept revealing the true extent of civilian casualties in the middle east in africa. in march have pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents,

which revealed that 90 percent of strikes had actually hit civilians. well, us began its drone program during the bomber administration. and since then this launch more than $14000.00 strikes and i've gotten this done. pakistan, yemen, somalia, thousands have been killed along the way with more than 300 children among the victims. we spoke to whistle blower and former us intelligence officer john kerry echo in the week 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 you city witness in his work, including the death of 2 children and one strike. he also slammed the claim of former president barrak a bomb with it. drone killings abroad, protected 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 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. me strode circle 24 hours a day and delivering deaths 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 power. that's really the misuse of the espionage act which has been continued. another well known whistle blower, edward snowden,

commented on the case too. on twitter, he condemned the cause decision and praised hale gut reaction as well from brandon bryan to for us to an operator himself, who also lifted the lid on what his work involved. he told us in the choice between ignoring city and killings and making the public aware it was his conscience that made him make up his mind. 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, yet you have to bear witness for it. not just an 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 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 the whole hill ahead this august. the 1st of me, kevin, though in morning, by the way, pictures you may find upsetting in more of the top stories in the last 7 days. the police brutality in america captured on camera the violent arrest of a colorado man as the officer involved facing charges. now i will tell you all about that after the break. ah ah

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the moon. ah. another act of police brutality has been caught on camera in the united states. 2 officers in colorado charge than over the violent arrest of an armed mixed race man. what you may find the following video disturbing. you know, what do i know? i do put your hands on for you. okay. don't stop it all. 6 the police officers identify the suspect carl vinson as being wanted by the authorities of several offences up to 2 other men, fled vincent appeared to initially comply with the officers commands during the

rest, but then resisted being handcuffed. he was subsequently choked, forced face down on the ground, and pistol whipped by an officer. vincent was then taking a hospital leading treatment. the officers in question have since been charged with use of excessive force and the aurora police chief strongly condemned. their conduct. does not police work? we don't train this not acceptable. the definition of police were jelly is itself is a problem. you weren't 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 of 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. it really just removes programs funding for certain areas for police officers almost to under the legal voter crossings in one single day is what lacy lane is currently facing with a total number of to take migrant spiking to 3000 this summer in european nation. while vilnius has been denied for bringing and drastic measures to try to stem the flow of charlotte to bend ski in the week, found that the e u has dramatically shifted its position on the issue of late be will be in union,

say that for all supposed to be equal partners, however, for some countries being in the gang seems to offer more benefits than others. take the current situation in a way which is going at the moment with an influx of migrant difficult times call for difficult decisions. this will drastically change the way you immigration policy. it includes the tension of migrants, a ban 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 toilet process. they will also curb the right to appeal decisions and to allow for deportation while lose appeals are 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. the law has been created to deal with my gordons coming over from neighboring batteries. it's awaiting you and you accuse minutes of using them as a political tool as relations continue to sour. but critics say the law is a step to for 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 10th and centers in law and leads vulnerable people and even more vulnerable situation. there we even criticism from the way news form a check of the constitutional court. the proposals which are unconstitutional are based on the premise that all foreigners who cross the border are 2nd class human beings not entitled to constitutional rights conditions in the must detention centers have also been denounced with allegations,

the migrants have being 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 the 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. meanwhile lithuania is embarking on a massive project. the key would be migrant out a plan to cover almost the entirety of its food with batteries, with a breeze wire. so what does 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. very supportive doesn't it?

except when another in 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 as 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 all. the years talk court found hungry, guilty of breaking, assign the rules. it says it's 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 hasn't so much as batted and eyelid leading some to feel that in the,

you know, all partnerships are indeed equal. charlotte events here with that report in a snapshot of the way that we've brought to you by us spots internationally or moscow. i'm kevin. thank you. for watching programs this sunday, i have a great rest of this weekend this august. the 1st me the ah right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's possible to sell food that is fatty and sugary and faulty under the victim. not at the individual level, it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change as obesity epidemic. that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, ah, what's driving the mac,

it's corporate. me join me on the alex famine show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then in silicon valley elite who is out of touch with the rest of the world. this is the key to understanding lucas b walks logic. although it's not the only part is workers are miserable by design. you can write code and send your account, never talk to anyone is does. i'm so you can get the work back on a spreadsheet. if you need to, to see these letters and numbers of identifying the worker, you don't see a name, you don't see where they live. you don't see what their situation is. you don't see unless you keep track of it yourself.