the ah, the amount by coven skeptics in the german capital descends into my hand with protectors clashing with police. berlin had only just found all the lockdown demonstrations amid a full wave of infections. also, i had among the stories i shaved the week. a case of negligent homicide is lawrence . dr. a huge explosion that a key chemical plant in germany kills 5 people. they bought a mental group, greenpeace alarmed describing the possible impact. and here the main question arises, is it's an acceptable to place this as it were. powder tags, near large settlements, a sporting hero or weak willed in the face of a challenge. opinions divided over us. jim asked to quit to more and then take finals to have a mental health concerns while german competitors in tokyo make

a stand against sexism. we debated what's already been done. the woke games are becoming increasingly dominated by politics as well. i think it was great opportunity. we've seen so many changes already and i'm not worried when it should be confirmed because we don't want to be just a vehicle for the latest plan that comes along the american whistleblower. daniel hales sentence to almost 4 years in jail. for leaking information on us dro warfare, we hear from others who also followed that conscience and shed government secrets when we kill civilians. and then put in the official reports 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 war with its own people. ah, i live from moscow. this is the international and in bright sunday,

which means we're going to run you through some of the bigger headline stories that we've reported on here. over the past 7 days, we will sundays developments to bring them up to speed on 1st. no clashes of erupt in central berlin has covered skeptics, protest against long running restrictions to curb the disease. but it's only been a day since city leaders. bands such rallies over the risk of spreading infections . the me germany has many restrictions in lisa months, but some are still in place such as mandatory now, squaring on public transport. despite the relatively low number of new daily coveted cases in the country, the number is rising. a german federal institute responsible for disease control

says the 4th wave of the pandemic has already begun an explosion at a major chemical plant in germany on tuesdays killed 5 people with 2 more still missing. police have opened a case of negligent homicide. no initial investigation suggests there's no risk to public health from toxins, with more detail tests expected in the coming days. of the site is one of the largest chemical parks in europe, employing $30000.00 workers. more than 5000 chemicals were manufactured of the sites, including elements for the production of explosives, greenpeace, for states concern over the last impacts. the situation is very difficult from mechanical point of view. it is really possible to imagine the huge catastrophe. we have a plan for the incineration of hazardous waste. that is precisely those substances that, for obvious, reasons, should not tend to 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. the 3 axes, with each other,

burned up and spread in these clouds of gas is 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 receive 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 would be looking at the quality of the, the soil as well as looking at re water 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 that pretty sure that talks and were released into the atmosphere following this 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,

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 the 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 told off fee that while a number of people still unsure what they should be doing, i'd have to do some certain things to reins 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 the 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 of 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 hear about long term effects that 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. yeah, it's been more drama the tokyo olympics install u. s. gymnast simone balls as sensation pulled out of 2 more finals. first, she withdrew from the gymnastics team event on tuesday, and afterwards from the all around competitions to focus on her mental health. it's now love to see whether or not she'll be able to participate in the coming weeks finals. and while some observers say the move is a greatest achievement, yet others claim that she's let her teammates down when they needed her the 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. you're lympics individual, all around competition and women's gymnastics sim on bias. one of the greatest athletes to ever grace the sport for time only. but 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, by ourselves that this was a mental health issue. it has created quite a whirlwind of reactions. there are those who are strongly accusing and abusing some on bio for withdrawing. that i would say spearheaded by peers, morgan,

a famous u. k. tv host, who well just fell short of accusing someone 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 admits 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 these mentioned media, like washington post and many others 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 says, 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 an agenda in 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 the 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 us thinking that she could win more. she went on instagram recently just saying

how much of that weight on her shoulder is being hard on her. and may be this rick, with such reactions, coming from both sides would create even more pressure for the 24 year old gymnast with a very difficult path. getting more thoughts on this re sushi, discuss those developments with a panel of analyst mental health issue of simone biles. she withdrew. i mean, this must be in a very, very difficult decision for gigi think perhaps she's set an example by doing this is a topic i have had such as the years and only recently, always talking to people with mental health. and i think the limits of the past examples why not expect i really feel that, especially in, in kids they, they, they, they really try to years and years and they carry the contra mesh. oh does, is okay. have to be okay. i have mental health, i'm not going to be able to call 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 about perhaps putting that onto the lympics as well as 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, jim gymnasts have chosen to wear full body unit todd, instead of the more traditional bikini cut leo touts. of the decision was made to protest the supposed centralization of athletes that was sudden found the move, an important step toward the quality of the say. it's just another case of trying

to make the sport political. so worked at our panel, think about the increasing attention being paid at the games to non supporting 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 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 and the, and that's what you're judging, not charging the uniform and what, what people don't realize the sexualization of women will make me very self conscious when wearing. we're beating clothing, which my actually performance. so really, if you really care about the school and i believe we should allow them to feel confident and what they're wearing, doing a bit of a problem be on the one hand the olympics is designed to extol, abuse in the perfection of the human body operating at peak efficiency,

so it's there to be admired. well, the other hand, we have contributed silly things, who may feel uncomfortable with that being late 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 wants in particular for example, could, could become main talking points in the future olympics? no, i'm not worried. i think it's a great opportunity. we've 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 and i'm happy to different lympics. that's pretty 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 change, but a nice room has its own century old brand. it needs to keep, continue to keep that. wow. so that we have when we see the olympics there with our own specific procedures and, and, and habits and ways. and that's the beauty olympics, that's what we want to save. we don't want to make it to the temporary to trans unit and just wait for the same. a whistleblower in the u. s. has been sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for leaking classified information about american drug program, while serving the bag room ad base in afghanistan a decade ago. daniel hale help identify targets for estimation. when you return home in 2013, he shed secret details about the drawing program with journalists from the intercept online news site, revealing the true extent of civilian casualties in the middle east and africa. in march have pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents, which prevailed at 90 percent of strikes have actually had civilians in the us

ramped up its drone program during the bomb room ministration. since the end it's launched, more than $14000.00 strikes in nations like afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, and somalia. both thousands have been killed along with 300 children among those victims. we spoke to whistle blower and for us intelligence officer john kerry occupant the week have attended hail sentencing. hearing the mood was one of great apprehension and the courtroom 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 reports that they weren't children for example, they were go. that is a war crime and it became a matter of course, it became something that many drone operators and their supervisors were doing on ahead of the sentencing hail wrote to the court detailing some of the things that he witnessed in his work, including the deaths of 2 children and a drone strike. he also slammed the claim of former president brock obama. the drone killings abroad, protected 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. 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. it's really the misuse of the espionage act which has been continued. another well known whistleblower waited on twitter. edward snowden condemned the cause decision and praised hale. we've got reaction from a former us drone operator who also lifted the lead on one's work involved. random

bryant says that in the choice between ignoring civilian kennings and making the public aware his conscience made up his mind. it's really a war on truth, not 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. yeah. you have to bear witness for the not just unfeeling part of the machine, your feelings. 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 are out there 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, to be this great country and freedom fighter amongst the world. how we're punishing our own people who are trying to do the still ahead this august. the 1st pictures you might find upsetting and more of all top stories from the last 7 days. police brutality in america captured on camera. the violent arrest of a colorado man has the offices involved facing charges. it's the next story after this. i in the old days before breaks it because the u. k. was attached to you. they could do it. other countries do, which is to take all their debts and dump it into the giant shadow banking system that covers the world's largest trading block. and you could kind of buy some time

there because the c, b is printing and buying and monetizing debt by the trillion, christine the garden, literally just buying trillions and trying to the garbage debt. but now post practice, they don't have that way to wash the debts. into the greater he you laundromat, and so that is going to for the 1st time post break, the debts are going to start to cause a lot of pain. join me every thursday on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business, i'm show business. i'll see you then in the the hello again, more of

a big stories from the wake and another act of police brutality has been caught on camera in the united states. 2 officers in colorado have been charged over the violent arrest of an unarmed mixed race. man. please be aware that the video we're about to show you does contain graphic violence. oh, what do i do? you know, oh, i do. put your hands on for you. okay. don't stop it, hold. 6 on the police officers identified call vincent has been wanted for several offences. after 2 other men fled, he appeared to initially comply with the officers commands during the arrest, but then resisted well being handcuffed. he was subsequently choked, forced face down on the ground, and pistol whipped by an officer. vinson was then taken to hospital because he needed treatment. the officers in question have since been charged with using excessive force and the local police chief has condemned their conduct. does not

police work? we don't train. this is 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 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 garrick shelven, 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 defend the police movement is not properly communicated to the

public 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 200 illegal border crossings in one single day. that's what lithuania is currently facing, with the total number of detained migrant spiking to $3000.00 this summer. and while the small baltic states been denounced for bringing and drastic measures to try to stem the flow, i'll be sure to do ben skate the week, found out that the use dramatic and shifted its position of light. you opinion say that full all supposed to be in school partners. however, for some countries being in the gang seems of more benefits done for others. take a current situation in a way, which is going at the moment with an influx of migrant, difficult times call for difficult decisions. this will graphically change the way

you immigration policy. it includes the tension of migrant a bond on the release of those who are in detention for 6 level. they will be new, right to a translator, to obtain information about the 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. 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 is

a potential human rights violation and it doesn't correspond to you directives, it and tries the current bad situation in lithia and in detention centers in law and lives vulnerable people and even more vulnerable situation. 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 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. meanwhile,

lithuania is embarking on a massive project to keep wouldn't be migrant out. a plan to cover almost the entirety of its food with batteries, with a breeze wire. so what do you think? let's 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. so very supportive, doesn't it? except one 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 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. hello. the in years talk 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 you state, such as greece also look to build rules only use external border to keep migrant out. russell's hasn't so much as batted and eyelid leading some to feel that in the you know, partnerships are indeed equal. and that's the weekly for this. our next form, raska president hammond, cause i talked at length to r. t is us led forces move out, and the taliban retake sways is of the nation. the

been in my phone are 69. i don't i just saw under the dollar for my isis fighters and they're now boarding a philippine naval ship with this family. i've been $900.00 just aren't abdulla still don't know who was waiting for them. can i

get a hold of me i what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy going from station let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. developments only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. a very critical time. time to sit down and talk the me the ah or

i welcome to work with a partner with american decision to pull out 1st from ghana and now from iraq. the era of 911 has abruptly come to and her is no longer listed among the help spread to the united states. although it claims more lives around the world in 20 years ago. what have the last 2 decades mad for the people living on the front lines of the war. and we'll discuss it now joined by a dentist on former president. a smith, because i, mr. president is great to talk to you. great to see you in moscow again. she's good . let me start with a question about allowed because over the last couple of years he weren't shy in saying the americans have out stayed the welcome, but there was a welcome in the beginning, including a welcome from your personal restrained, very strong. g thing there was ever a good time to leave given how they came into your country.