what as we were talking on and see why they've been the hubble calling the university of zambia, who, who says that the geo political importance of the african continent is growing. and african countries independently coming up with their own peace initiative for ukraine might have come, was a bit of a surprise to certain western pounds. i think now if it goes what you are increasing when you look at, you know, the, the, the kind of, you know, create a global architecture. we have sort of, you know, uni pullout and that's basically benefits the west where the united states of america udall. i book the dictates what i forgot to do and you know, i'll, african countries would leave. so we fist conflict. we often strength in size between ad i saw on the often conditions where, you know, they have right increasing roll of breaks in the global trade, global politics. so africa coming off with that initiative and then being independent, all of the difficult things. one is

a slap in the face of the usa europe. that's why you're seeing that the professional, the of, of the whole process and the people that the frustrating bill process don't want this conflict in by the of the got one to multiple out us present under a bite and has a fund that he does not for c, ukraine joining nato. any time soon? if you find it in trends to corruption and an inability for that, the country's military to meet the prox stand of the year for ukraine to join nasal? no, because they got to meet the same standards. so i'm not gonna make it easy. i think they've done everything the coordinate system from all the standards. but western media reports in recent days have set that up by and then is overseas

allies supported? expedite, i think nato membership for ukraine, citing government forces davis at nato chief get installed and bug proposed the initiative. i think we better learn a bit more about this now across live to international consultants and political analyst, earl resolution. joining us live from washington dc where it's about 12 minutes past 6 pm. that great to see you url. thanks so much for the coming on that program . now i know you know the story, but i mean look, can i just play devil's advocate just for a 2nd earl? i mean, do you think of the nathan members besides america actually want to truly expedite membership for, you know, i, i, there, there's obviously there's dialogue going on there and i think that's a measurements into potentially get data involved the more but directly it could be dangerous that i do not believe that the support is there and if they're going by their in the typical, unanimous direction that i just cannot hungry. i don't not see hungry supporting it

. i do not see turkey 40. yes. there's a list of other countries that would not support the ukraine, the media to an expedited the entry and they will just abide, at least in this situation. i agree with them is uh they do not meet the standard and uh, i think would be very, very dangerous for the blocking for the world. if uh, if they, if there was some type of expedited, the exceptional acceptance made for bringing them into the, into the block. but are we, we keep hearing, you know, what, what some people called flip flopping. i mean, you know, we, we came here in these different officials and certain parts of the world, say, ukraine's jenna is going to join nato. no, it's not going to join. no, no, you cried mike. joy noted what we'll, we'll just see what happens. why does that seem to be this disparity among what is supposed to be a unified blog? well, i don't think, i don't really think there's unity going on. i think in the background, we've got

a lot of disagreements. especially this, this whole conflict in the actions that nato's role that really, that, that help for both it's on. but um, i think that some of the members realize that there's uh, a lot of hesitation in the background. i, i just the, not the i said it's if they actually did accept the ukrainian, um, it would be, it definitely would provoke uh, even more reactions even to work with just escalated in more uh ukraine should have a set of remain neutral in the life thing we're after the fall of the soviet union is uh, i think their constitution, they didn't change until the 2014 cool. um there was an announcement by nato that they wanted them back in 2008. right. so it's been very clear on their concern as far as george and frank goes. ambassador burns,

denmark rushing to us and bass or to russia, made it very clear that no political entity in russia would approve of a ukraine acceptance in the nato. and so the, the writings been on the wall, the red line has been drawn in and it just is a, it's a nightmare scenario if someone does that, but i personally do not lead to the, i think there's too much dissent with them in the background. not stick to them being accepted as this is to send the clearly the mainstream media is having a very difficult time reporting one might say, earl that, let me ask you this. if i may, you know, we, we bought this in petersburg, economic form wrapping up, right? now, independence of the north and an african delegation, a team of 7 different delegates from several different nations. i propose a piece initiative for ukraine understands that landscape just kind of costs at all pretty, pretty quickly. you know, china is going to attend the step piece plan as well as the landscape said no to the pope, even put out

a piece initiative as well and all this while. so get off it off and the, even the russian president have said, look, guys, we are open to negotiations. earl, why is it the african proposal? but china proposal the pope's proposal. why is it the key of genuinely keep saying no to these proposals? well, i think that's because they're, the higher ups are telling them no, i think it as we see from the, the draft agreement that president clinton showed in the african leaders. there was agreement going on early on in the, this conflict with early stages. it was a settlement that's basically what the group is just had to be finalized the wording and final signature. but uh, but then again, we had uh, you know, an unannounced surprised does it by mr. johnson. yes, and i'm sure we had phone calls coming from washington. and lo and behold, overnight,

the agreement with withdrawn and there's been no real real serious discuss that. so i think, yeah, unless you have the us uh, maybe lender to some degree unless those who are in agreement with the settlement piece and nothing's gonna happen or nephew listen semester blinking. whatever they're proposing is unrealistic. it's a non starter. it provides too many to meet the conditions. it basically is a, is laying out a plan. the rest of it has to surrender, and it does not provide any type of the address any of russia's needs. and that's why, that's what, that's what got us into this to begin with is a, the arrogance, of, of, of western diplomacy, or either call a policy, but the foreign policy personnel. and that would put us to the situation. and so there's, there's really no right now they're on the same page. there's some,

there's some talking going back right now because they realized how can i add to the situation the most. um, but uh, so far there's been real no serious. it was a willingness to negotiate in a realistic manner was put forth by the west. well, i certainly see this definitely seems that, you know, there's a certain amount of support in western countries that is waning. you know, as this conflict does drive gardner, also these failed counter offensive as well older as the reason i wish we had more time for this or international consultant, political analyst joining us from washington dc. it's always a great pleasure. thank you very much. like to uganda. well, as we understand of 40 people including kids, this idea of being killed and others abducted in an in search at the top on a school near the congolese border authorities that a terrorist group, a ties to islamic staples behind the attack. the school is just a few kilometers from uganda. is western board over the democratic republic of

congo. a national police spokesman said that the drama tree was brought down a greeting locals, and we supposed to basically said the killings and the directions. well, they weren't the only atrocities that were carried out of the government and buddy to pdf, hold subs with destructions of the health of hundreds of solution. but just to the moment we've sold it to people. i sold it to all the people list plus somebody i am most to blame because they usually had students who updates on somebody like yourself when the kids get around really simple mental grief. so i think that they did when they entered in the school, they met the, the us for,

for i'm the morning they met the me says director in the, in his room. they were like, do you have a form? she said, yes, you bring that for you have money. she said, no. you how will fault, then the village took them to the store and they told our fairy and the house sucks . oh for sure. then i'll have suckled bins. as the multi polar world continues to blossom it rounds president has completed a tour of latin america during which dozens of deals was signed with allies, a shared server, uninstalled. so pushing that of a well a more of a multi problem. the world. i thought he's correspond to would the president raising his bag from his tore to 3 lives in american countries historic trap that don't you have to venezuela, nicaragua, in cuba? they want to do is countries definitely have a lot in common as uh on on there. you want sanctions and all have been targeted by

region change attempts by washington. so racing is, was it tries to build on this common ground to both. both are its ties with like minded nations that are the same time are geographically close to the u. s. something which american officials have reacted to saying that grace is trim, dennis trace the failure of presidential by it is not in the american policy. so now one is trying to create a unified fonts comprised of the sanctions head nations to define washington as pressures during his 4 day latin american. trad pricey saw assigned dozens of economic and political agreements and different fields from energy to id and mining to power plants to pay the way for a future cooperation with them as well. they can argue, and cuba with signs 35 agreements and member on himself understandings with these 3 countries in the fields of energy, industry, mining, power plants, and the subject. the have good capabilities in latin america, like biotechnology,

to just in character as the 2 sides vouching boost bilateral trade from the current of $3000000000.00 to $20000000000.20. also, inc, 6 major cooperation deals with him on several other agreements with mag you up. do you want me to president said to confront the us. i still of the, there's no way bought to read this. if something, this is what to be our enemy. naturally, we will conduct a resistance down through gold and such an adversary have declared that an rams nation has acted on that. and now this resistance has been taken for, i'm on countries was interest, are completely aligned when he was in cuba already said that to one and have on i have a common world view including there's trundle for independence, the one who present a survey. you want us as so called maxima, pressure campaign, against a wrong, has fail the phase of resistance. he said that this is thanks to constructive

relations with independent countries, such as been as well to you, bar and nicaragua, so really believes that it was ties with. there was a lot in american countries are not normal, but the strategic sense is election as it was president raise. you said that everyone needs to avoid tying gets economy to the 2015 deal with the way i send that to raw, should find new destinations to interact with them. partner with to neutralize this anxious. and this seems to be perfectly matching the multiple reward order. one is looking to bring about with the help of its partners, like russia and china. the 17 people including 5 children have been killed in an ass strike on the suit. and these capital is according to authorities. and right now is unclear whether it was a drone or a jet. that struck southern costume has been described as one of the deadliest single, the types. and the ongoing conflict between national forest isn't a powerful power military organization of the following footage, uh,

with civilians who are essentially right there trying to line up and get free meals and mid wide spread shortages level john, less than most i'll be able to hear. besides, the ongoing conflict in general has severely impacted civilians in this thought process. and the trend developments we all things have inside the neighborhoods and we can see the army. our missiles reassessed us, or having skipped themselves from side to see below citizens. unfortunately, there was a missed subsidy in the saw, so i presume not here. most neighborhoods, no furniture shouldn't have. they are more than 16 or 17 member was being folded from 4 to 5 from 3. and this is free step. this ration fighting for innocent people turned inside your house is inside the home by and missile? well, it says trust funds is out of your mood. can many different discharging spaces for petroleum in a gas station. these are maintenance vision for providing the country,

or we can say this is the main cause of structure. so our set up are trying to this friday. they're trying to take it out to try to control way. so when they say like good their bond is to confirm that many reports and this project raises they, they can. busy provide their soldiers with petroleum, and you can see it's been a week, 3 weeks are as it members are out of petroleum and all the people are told they don't have the charging more. it's very difficult to find petroleum or a guess really thinks that to provide you with the charlie service sense in a new episode of going on the ground after a time. she speaks to pack a style and spoil my prime minister in wrong calling about the countries and total political signed off its ties with washington. and his mom about this immediate political future is a. it's a sneak peak. congressman brad sherman is written to blink and at the state department saying, you know what north is going on in august on as regards democracy as regards the

imprisoning of your party members and leaders that alone. what's happening to you as well? you know, i don't care what this, you know, if the, don't comment about what's helping me. and frankly, i think by just something doesn't match as eventually we will have to solve it sort of problems. but my only point is, you know, how on the western countries talk about what does have the dialogue was how to do. and in hong kong, a lot of the week as a giant all of our russian human rights issues. so is it only our human rights only, but and democracy in border when it comes to rivals, shouldn't not be consistently across the board. that if you all profess am's a democracy and human rights, then shouldn't be wherever they are, why they just, they should speak out with those boxes on right now. the was human rights,

human rights violations that going on and focused on right now. when do we running? if all this quote, extra managed to wrap up before the next election and buckets from willie run for prime minister as well? of course this is the election. yeah. i mean my part is or, or what is for the election. but what the, what is happening is the team is so scared of losing that they want to either text it to marco. so be going to not be on to better take, or there's a similar called skinner, you know, because it is on voters. so natalie or nancy goes to actually uh, disqualify it or would it be present? uh, what again would it be? would it be a big fos, whatever cause my apologies was do with the election when i was there because it says the public opinion never has the public stood with any one body as it stands today, we does all the parties together, the competing against us,

the you know, this is all to international as a ecuador, scholastic, as islands have received a much needed shipment of natural gas, its following weeks of shortages on the archipelago and the south american nation has been struggling with an economic crisis of critics. the accused, the government of trading its suffering safer lucrative deals with american investors. one such agreement is said to have reduced equity was debt by over a $1000000000.00, but a former senior officials as the pact lacks transparency and may ultimately have some pretty bad results to see what's up conducted under the best practices with respect to the best buy and see and go over and it's these very quickly go, we are talking about these kind of resources and simply to benefit the intermediaries with private actors to reduce the transaction costs. we have sacrifice fence binds and we have to set up an international origin. that is no

more mean. it is not managed by the government and then migrate the bose. the big safety board are not on the government, or we said that the public sector this is very troublesome because the way that these deal has been set up is using international i resources. brenda, you'll be information at the netherlands by private actors. so you're looking for, can we solve the climate issue? thinking of the next week we will have the meeting barrels above the solving deal to that financing and restructuring. i can the little guy that i was say, it's a pretty bad example and a president that shouldn't be making skate any other countries. we have a way worried now we understand what it was active for the same model. with these lack of trans binds the data also for you guys is our also written decisions on public policy and the use of others are dropping out the program for now here, analysing international from all of us here and most good. thank you so much for joining us. all the stories you want to catch up on, you know,

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it's not. we don't want to watch it because it might just change the way and say oh, now it shows the wrong just don't you have to shape out the application and engagement equals the trails. when so many find themselves will support. we choose to look so common ground the sometimes we come across whistleblower stories that just make us angry. they're emblematic of everything that's wrong with the way whistle blowers are treated. today we have that kind of a story. we're going to talk about the airline industry and industry where safety

is absolutely paramount. after all, if a plane is unsafe, if it falls out of the sky, god forbid, there's literally nothing that anybody can do about it. passengers are at the mercy of the reliability of the aircraft, the end of the ability of the people operating it and maintaining it. so what happens when a pilot blows the whistle on potential safety violations? the airlines supposed to investigate? and if necessary, take the plane out of service, maybe even ground, the fleet, change the policy, making the repairs, do everything else necessary to maintain safety and security. but what delta airlines did instead was to go after the whistle blower? i'm john kerry. aku and welcome to the whistle blowers the . 2 2 2 2 today we're going to tell you the story of captain carlene petted. she's a veteran pilot with delta airlines,

one of the largest carriers in the world in 2016 carlene raised concerns about potential safety violations at delta. and it almost cost her her career. that's not the way it's supposed to work. as i said in the us department of labor complaint, she said. busy after she brought her safety concerns to light that she was subjected to psychological exams and a phony diagnosis that had the potential to end her career and administrative judge sided with her in a december 2020 order. but the airline drag did speed to implement the decision. the complaints that carly made were that delta had falsified training, records had conducted retaliatory a line checks. and the airline treated employees unfairly and outside auditor hired by the airline found that the allegations were true. and delta eventually made changes to its policies and its training manuals. but in the meantime, carlene was suspended with pay. a doctor chosen by delta said that she suffered with bipolar disorder,

but the airline couldn't fire her because every time she was examined by a psychiatrist, she was deemed to be mentally healthy. there was no bipolar disorder or any other mental health disorder. the airline's goal was to have her declared mentally unfit to fly, so that they could fire her and she couldn't then be hired by another airline. in the end, carleen was examined by a panel of doctors at the esteemed mayo clinic, as well as by a neutral doctor. they all found that she had no mental health issues whatsoever. in 2022 carlene won a complete and total legal victory labor department tribunal award. her $500000.00 in damages, and she now flies a $330.00 between seattle and european destinations currently petty joins us today . thank you so much for being with us. hi, thank you for having me, john. oh, thank you. and well, wow, is all i can say every article i read about your case made me angrier than the

previous one. you conducted your whistle blowing exactly the way we're all trained to do it. you presented a 43 page report with your concerns to to delta pilots, who are also company executives and who are responsible for this kind of information. so walk us through what happened next. you made your revelations and then what to um. well, was an interesting cuz we learned so much in discovery during through the trial, but we learned that this was a pre meditated plan back in 2015. we're captain james graham, who is now delta c e o, an endeavor there wholly owned subsidiary. he actually had planned it and said he was going to do it if i came forward with my report. and so that was 4 months before they created the pre test for this, we learned that they paid the doctor $74000.00. it took me 3 years to get him in illinois medical the word to take action against him and he forwarded forfeited

his medical license. yet the company before on has never been held accountable. the union was not there for me at all. we learned that i learned that the union was actually working with the company and fortunately, and, and many union representatives after the fact, apologize to me and said that they hadn't been there at the time, but they couldn't do anything anyway. it was quite a battle because from beginning to end, it was over 7 years. and yeah, 7 years i was 6 years of litigation. i was told that they did engaged a war of attrition. i'm actively trying to change this uh, the air 21 statute, which is the airline was a boiler statute because it has the shortest statute limitations only 90 days. i locked out because i knew immediately my union wasn't helping me and i began researching. i didn't know about this and found out and i was able to file and time . it's a key factor. we also were challenged after the judge of worthy me $500000.00. the

they appealed and the part where it said, wait a minute, delta you're bad, you still is. but they went after the judge why he could award so much because it's all compensatory damages, typically $50000.00. we were headed back to trial to support the order that the judge and give it. they ordered me to go back to court and we all know that the current was almost more painful than what delta did. i have to tell you a 6 years of trial. so yeah, and we were to posing them and going back and at the end of the day, delta finally came in and said, okay, will you settle? will give you what the judge ordered. we won't take this any further, you don't have to go back to court and we'll give you all your attorney fees, which was huge value to me because typically that's another problem with the law. you only get reasonable attorney fees. typically that's about 90 percent of what

you spend. so could you imagine spending 7 years in a little. ready ocean and receiving $50000.00, but your attorney bills are 1000000 and a half you. you only get 90 percent of that back so you can't win even if you win. so it's kind of, yeah, it was a no brainer to settle. i actually retired on january 31st. i yeah here, here's the biggest problem. delta has not changed really changed much of anything. they're still putting pilots on duty for up to 25 hours to as a nose. they are looking the other way. they called it a loophole in a workaround, but when you work around of federal regulations such as fatigue, you're violating safety management systems, which is a risk mitigation tool. so they're looking another way. they're still behaving badly and they don't monitor their policies. cuz when adults, as corporate policies are no re, retaliation will not be tolerated,

it will not be subject determination. and delta has helped nobody accountable in this entire process. all the old didn't did this to me were still there and promoted. and so yeah, and so it was kind of like they went this far and how many millions and attorney fees and they spent, you know, what's next and as a captain, flying with my fellow pilots, they're going to be going along to the right. if they're going to come and get me again, or what are they going to do next? and, and i just thought that i do not respect this company enough to continue flying for them. the fact that the people are there, they haven't anything. and the problem is the board of directors and new and they're not taking any action. so c o is involved and bastion. and he was just named and number one, c, e o and their ceo group. so when you're the leader of your company is behaving this way and condoning a retaliation and attacking on a whistleblower. and i also find it very difficult. i'd like to change at work turn

whistle blower because i really didn't whistle blowing. anyone. i use my doctoral research and created an 8 your ethnographic study and, and created this report that would help out. i was trying to help somebody something i guess if they went out and hired an outside company would have spent, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars to get what i was giving to them for free. and instead of thinking me or ripping up and throwing it away and said goodbye, they decided to go on the attack. so let's talk about what you, what you offered them, the kind of information that you offered them. you wrote about falsified training, records, retaliatory line checks, and unfair treatment. can you tell us exactly what that means and what other concerns did you have? yeah, so the falsifying records training is a huge is a huge issue. and what they were doing is we're required to give an oral to assess the level of understanding.