Of the world this is r. T. International pleasure to have your company i mean in the middle. A Chemical Plant in Southeast Texas is ablaze following explosion early on wednesday morning in which 3 workers were injured. Well this is what we know the refinery owned by. P. C. Group produces thousands of tons of chemical and Petroleum Based products the situation in port neches is still ongoing as Emergency Services seek to bring the fire under control as quickly as possible journalist and campaigner on health and Environmental Issues over to kill believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any toxicity. To really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturers on this site i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the following distance the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this Golden Triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the e. P. A. As its intending to do. So it gets the uns poison gas watchdog conference are at odds over a new body which will be able to assign blame for toxic attacks several countries are threatening to block funding during wednesdays budget vote if it includes provision for the new fault finding Team Previously the o. P. C. W. Could only say whether or not a chemical attack had taken place but as morocco as the of reports even the mandate is in question after leaks from whistleblowers. U. P. C. W. Was all that stood between humanity and the terrible terrible curse of chemical weapons they did this by never taking sides they never assigned blame they came they analyzed then reported not what they thought but what they knew not who but what there was never any reason not to trust that you cant argue with pure science it was utterly impartial objective apolitical it was past simple. It is highly likely that russia was responsible to the old russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder. It was always a technical allchin where consensus prevailed and now we see that it is completely politicized with a politicized agenda from various parties we want the o. P. C. W. To get back to where it was before wasnt enough for the u. P. C. W. To present facts some wanted opinion to political opinion they wanted to give the u. P. C. W. All them it power to blame the sentence and condemn nations we look forward to receiving the 1st records in the near future it will then be for us. To decide. To respond to the i to its a crucial in this to siri means of identifying the paper trade is behind these horrific attacks we cannot accept impunity for these horrible crimes other nations are putting their foot down why they are sick would you want to destroy the essence of what made the u. P. C. W. So special so trustworthy and are you doing this in the interests of humanity or for your own personal ambitions as we know this whole attribution mechanism adventure was started to put pressure on damascus a number of these missions investigations including the last one which made headlines the incident in duma on the 7th of april 28th have convinced us that we cannot take the special missions conclusions at face value we also refused to fund in. This team and refused to grant access to a war. Confidential documents provided to the office w. And a Security Council and therefore reject any reports issued by this team i reiterate indias principle. To the attributes of mechanism due to the manner in bits it was set up and didnt disregard of indias concerns on the substance as the less the process it couldnt have picked a worse time to give the o. P. C. W. A judges not less multiple o. P. C. W. Insiders have sparked a huge scandal alleging that the organization cherry picked the facts on the alleged chemical attack in syria last year to suit a political agenda. After passing through the ceiling in impacting the floor at lower speed the cylinder continued in altered trajectory until reaching the position in which he too is found the 1st whistle blower said that the gas canisters used in the attack were likely placed at the scene rather than. Dropped from the air. Observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggest that there is a high probability that both cylinders will money placed at those 2. 00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft u. P. C. W excuse that self by saying that it took into account other reports not just his then the 2nd whistle blower struck a veteran who was on the ground in syria connecting some poles and he went one better or worse the squad big political pressure secrecy and potential fraud most of the duma team failed to see reports on the instant the interim report and the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent all he wanted was a little transparency to be able to speak at this conference where the vote is taking place to set things straight all he got was a letter from management telling him no i would like to. Find the mission. At the end of the day every country in that room is going to have to decide for themselves whether to let the u. P. C. W. Play god to blame accuse and condemn nations and governments to be the excuse that sparks wars to give that power tool a new organization which doesnt even have the trust of its own employees. Or former British Ambassador to syria peter ford believes its dangerous to give me organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons blame giving powers because the organization has become highly politicized and the left of. The competence in we owe the government you which you not even capable of mounting a reliable investigation of whether a chemical attack occurred in durham are after all let alone assign responsibility marginal or d. Dominated by one country you add them with generally if not. Be liberating an object there would be in any investigation within 3 days in the us ground in the u. K. Bomb syria without waiting for any investigation they needed. Of you who just knew by act the fact that the. Illegal bombing of syria on thought goes off. Ok another story getting a lot of people talking this week a major u. K. Cinema chain has bucked truck on its bombing of a critically acclaimed film about london gang warfare after it was accused of institutional racism a policy released last week blue stories violent themes spilled beyond the screens of british cinemas with dozens of violent incidents reported the plot centered on the lives of 2 young friends who become employed in gang life. From difficult. With writing with my son in the case and i remember. Sometimes he says dont leave the room but you. At least 25 incidents were reported across several cinemas showing the movie and following a massive brawl involving some 103 youths in birmingham view cinemas decided to drop the phone the incident which saw some teenagers carrying machetes resulted in a number of injuries and 5 arrests. Ah. Buseys its initial decision came after curfew a consideration was taken to ensure the safety of its staff and customers at the nih as the move as a race issue however said its notable as faced claims of suppressing block art while the movies director insists his piece is not but violence but rather love conservative radio host dave perkins london social activist leigh just per share their thoughts. Away incident so all sorts of films right across the world almost every day those films do you know and getting banned. Culture is under constant attack grime music now they say now black films whatever were doing even in the areas where we have fabulously successful we still dont escape the big criticism why dont we just assess all leisure and to tame and activities in britain in relation to the hot coals because football at least people would then movies in a cinema you could think of thousands of types of fact to 50 that take place where serious crime in criminality is much more in excess than we witnessed over the. So lets treat everybody on an equal Playing Field i dont think its possible for the movie to cause violence i think its possible for the movie to set a foundation for violence and then predict with some level of confidence or even certainty that violence is going to happen so i want to clarify it like that in a sense in the sense that all movies do when theyre about a cultural feature it glorifies the business of being in a gang that doesnt mean it glorifies the violence per se but people involved in gangs do have a considerably higher rate of violence than people who arent involved in gangs and heres the thing when you draw them all to a place at night a whole bunch of young people together with a very high degree of involvement of one form or another in gangs thats why they come to see the movie because it glorifies the culture that theyre in the likelihood of something terrible happening is very high. At the bait sure to run still to come on the program i raise no head of Human Rights Watch is facing expulsion from israel we took a look at why right after this. Sort of thing wrong. Why dont we just dont call. Any new world that is yet to stamp out does this kind of attitude and in danger because of the trail. Went through many find themselves worlds apart when just in the common ground. What politicians do you should. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president injured. Or somehow want to. Have to write to the press this is what the 3 of the people are. Interested in the audience at the. Question of. Quarter an hour into the Program Welcome back the director of Human Rights Watch for israel and palestine has vowed to continue his work after being expelled monday by israel tel of eve has accused omar secure of supporting a bomb Boycott Movement on the country which it seems as a strategic threat. Hes really government has been trying for 3 years to expel Human Rights Watch their rationales have different have differed most recently really government claim that we call for boycotts of israel and their focus has been our work on the illegal settlements we do not take a position on boycotts of israel what we do across the world is documented abuses by all actors including businesses in call for actors to a frame from contributing to rights abuse in order to comply with their obligations under International Law and when we applied that universal call to the illegal settlements in the west bank israel said it was a call for a boycott and under a new law called revoke my work permit and then deported me on november 25th Human Rights Watch has long been critical of the Israeli Governments rights record the construction of settlements in the west bank it is the 1st time a Human Rights Watch stuff member has been expelled from israel and the organization is 30 years of operating in the country well marcia here believes the ruling is part of a targeted campaign against rights advocates. Clearly theyre trying to do you by throwing out a representative of one of the Worlds Largest human rights organizations is to say to others that you know your work documenting rights abuses could result in you facing a punitive sanction this move shows the degree to which israel has lost even the pretense of 1st specked for basic International Norms if israel despite you know criticism from much of the world deports me as it did earlier this week for my Rights Advocacy how would ever stop abusing rights are the reality here is the Israeli Government feels emboldened and the world spoke out against this and they still did or did meet so i think the message is quite clear here that the government intends not only to continue with systematic assault on human rights organizations but intends to continue its abuse of policies that weve been exposing and bringing to light. Lets head states where a c. N. N. Host has found herself in the spotlight after a controversial tweet a lot of our o. Cardenas question the increased support of donald trump along americas black population calling it fake the backlash whispers. 0 chance this is accurate 0 the poll must have been only conducted in the homes of band carson that sheriff guy with the had and those 2 cubic zirconium polyester spandex ladies 0 chance you are not a racist another example where on the less you know who she really is ana the rest of the country stop thinking of them as property 154 years ago please catch up with the rest of us. Well the journalist was responding to a number of recent nationwide polls including one carried out by Emerson College that Research Claims almost 35 percent of americas black community now approve of Donald Trumps presidency thats almost this is the important 30 percent higher than previous stuff highlighted well if indeed correct those numbers would mean a huge boost for the president when compared back to the election in 2016 mr trump received little endorsement from africanamericans bach then getting support from only 14 percent of black hand 0 black women while his democrat rival in the race Hillary Clinton won over the vast majority political social commentator Anthony Bryan logan sais its all acceptable for anyone to advise a whole community on its voting preferences beaning is the name they say things like date is pretty much how they operate they are never dont know work it doesnt really matter how to get the point across which she did was most certainly disrespectful to the black community the real feelings came out she may faker in everyday life that the black community we just dont know anything were not really intelligent so they need people like her and others in the left politics and media to just direct them and go in the proper direction when we go outside a day it becomes kind of a person or least on our list instinct kicks in you see she thinks day black folks like myself who vote for china are somehow wrong somehow incapable of being able to understand what the president is all about so she put things out there to just kind of explain to black voters vote for chung that we are doing the wrong thing so it wasnt in an effort to try and cleaner so it was more of an effort to try to just justify her tweets. The man who invented the World Wide Web wants to save the internet certain berners lee has unveiled a plan to prevent humanity from sliding into a digital dystopia. Backing from the likes of google and facebook but our correspondent dont quarter questions next whether in fact those companies should have a major role in it given a series of recent scandals. Privacy breaches censorship fake news with all the controversy surrounding the internet these days its easy for people to feel pessimistic and now we have good reason to be the founding father of the internet itself is back in the public eye creator of the World Wide Web in 1909 Tim Berners Lee is a bit concerned if we leave the web as it is theres a very large number of things that will go wrong we could end up with a digital dystopia if we dont turn things around but fear not hes unveiled a 9 point plan to fix it its called the contract for the web intended to prevent that digital dystopia he mentioned so there shouldnt be anything to worry about especially when big names like Google Facebook and microsoft have all publicly back to the contract even a handful of governments have joined in approval so what exactly are the principles theyre all throwing their support behind respect and protect peoples privacy personal data and other online data rights to build online trust respecting peoples privacy surely no one can disagree with that definitely not facebook after the cambridge analytical scandal remember that using an app that the social media giant knew about cambridge analytical harvested personal data from millions of facebook profiles without their consent and for the purpose of political advertisement surely facebook supports that principle heres the next one. Develop technologies that support the best in humanity and challenge the worst so the web really is a public good that puts people 1st putting people 1st is easier said than done especially when Companies Like google and facebook are supposed to lead the charge they are the all of arks of private Information Online accused of ignoring human rights for the sake of profits by Amnesty International and if you dont support the principles they do well prepared to be sidelined there will be some global actors who will never back the contract principles just as they flout other global agreements but we know we will have succeeded when those governments and companies are true outliers. If Google Facebook and others want to be able to prove that theyve changed then they are going to need to adhere to the principles set out in this particular and shoot it if a company is found to have been obviously breaching this accord how do you react do you strike the most of mediately one of the sanctions against them and how serious is a measure need to do before any measures to be taken against them for them to be a jetted from this particular group very little in this is actually been defiant one has to be a little bit wary if companies are signing up to this a body simply by the letter of the law only to the extent they can get away with then that would be a major concern. The 5th Russian British Business Forum is underway in london with thousands of participants in attendance the british governments businesses that element institutions are leading International Organizations are all represented now the newly appointed Russian Ambassador to the u. K. And rick allen was there to open the forum he underlined the importance of improving relations between the 2 countries now speaking to us he also said why any accusations of russian meddling have no substance or make any sense. I could say sir. That moscow is right the mail in relation to what it said in the order of the internal affairs of any country or the United States or united you know i get on voice we do not do it because there is this way to say there is no sense in the right to intervene you know if they dont listen see it because it will be a choice of but it is people who do elect whether the ways that are or to stay inside of the European Union and most important is that we have no special position for all pointed out whether we are in favor of but exist or to be out in favor or same with the European Union because that up allows us and minuses in these positions. Ok we focus next on the only growing protests in lebanon with a former president of the western asian nation speaking to going on the ground on the situation begins. Its an understatement to say america is a very divided country many have even spoken openly about the possibility of civil war what is scaring the country apart what is keeping it together and it cannot only be about donald trump what will it take to start a sustained social and political dialogue before its too late. When theres only johnson. And i just got out of prison for. 41 years. Im 72 years old. I got arrested for some i. Feel like just everything was taken out of. My work and. I think it was. Meant to snow man it looks a little bit like me. About. Homicide want to come. Now. Were tough and. Youre going. To go. On the front trying to frighten people to. Do something about. It. So were going on the run 48 hours after the u. N. Security council met to discuss resolution 1701. 00 between israel and lebanon as israels primary military backa the United States defies its own congress by continuing to withhold more than 100000000. 00 in aid to a country suffering some of its worst protests since the civil war coming up on the show after failing to overthrow the government of syria and amidst wiki leaks whistleblower revelations of sexed up chemical weapons dossiers to persuade britain to bomb syria now with the intentions of nato nations in neighboring lebanon we speak to the former president of lebanon emil hood about decades of dubious intentions all this and more coming up in todays going underground but 1st alarming news from belmarsh prison 13 miles from the studio 60 doctors have signed an open letter claiming the worlds most famous publisher julian a sandwich of wiki leaks may die without Urgent Medical attention as he waits trial for extradition to the usa for revealing major nation war crimes here is that journalist john pilger in the past 72 hours who has been speaking about the issue of a character after its metering by newspapers like the guardian who are sons supplied with the revelations for so long whenever i see it online on mine. Responsibility of the person to face. Yes issues of freedom of speech freedom of journalism. But of the home office struggle and struggle of all is one. I repeat character and demonstrate the most astonishing card i salute before you keya thora hes attempted to silence wiki leaks his revelations of mass killing at the hands of nato countries as on japan on our t. V. Interviewing us not enough or has a bowler who had successfully saved lebanon from israel in 2006 shakiness around the famously told the sun is that hezbollah believed in the freedom to worship and the freedom not to worship god today lebanon is in the grip of demonstrations as well or accuses the usa of interference in its internal affairs joining me now from beirut is former lebanese president and me of the hood former president thanks so much for coming on going underground before we get to the ongoing demonstrations in lebanon your reaction to a wiki leaks whistleblower alleging the o. P. C. W. Report which claimed chemical weapons use by outside of syria may have been compromised it was the report which britain used to bomb syria yes as usual we used to it especially in lebanon you know after our experience with the u. N. Had unfortunately they do what the us tells them weve been through that and as you said there was a blog a said that they were making that can eat dog and the poor that that was such an odd thing to poor