10 am in lima 11 pm in singapore and 6 in the evening right here in moscow the. 27th welcome to r. T. International we start in the u. S. Where a Chemical Plant in south east texas is a blaze following an explosion early on wednesday morning and was 3 workers were injured. The refinery owned by the t. 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 they can journalist and campaigner on health and Environmental Issues all over to carol believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any toxicity. Some really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and manufactured on this site i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this since the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant and 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 that 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. Delegates at the uns poison gas watchdog conference are at odds over a new body which will be able to assign blame for toxic attacks several country. These are threatening to block funding during wednesdays budget floats 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 a taken place but as maracas the 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. Is highly likely that russia was responsible for each of those 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. Dobby to get back to where it was before wasnt enough for the p. C. W. To present facts some wanted opinion to political opinion they wanted to give the u. P. C. W. All the power to blame the sentence and condemn nations we look forward to receiving the 1st reports in the near future it will then be for us. To decide. To respond to the i t. Is a crucial in this area means of identifying the pit the trade is behind these horrific attacks we cannot accept impunity for these horrible crimes other nations are putting their foot down why they are 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 through to the magna inverts it was set up and didnt disregard of indias concerns on the substance as follows the process it couldnt have picked a worse time to give the u. P. C. W a judges mallet 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 drop. From the air. Observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggests that there is a higher 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 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 spocks was to give that power to new organization which doesnt even have the trust of its own employees a former British Ambassador to syria peter ford believes its dangerous to give the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons blamed giving powers because the organization has become highly politicized. And indeed got less. Competent in we are. He the governor of you which you not even capable of mounting a reliable investigation of whether a chemical attack occurred in at all ringback let alone assign responsibility and National Organization ready. Dominated by one country. With generally if not the liberating an object there would be in any investigation within 3 days in the us ground and the u. K. Had bomb syria without waiting for any investigation they needed. Who just knew by the fact. That their illegal bombing of syria go thaw. Ok moving the program on to a story getting a lot of attention a major u. K. Cinema chain has backtracked on its bombing of a critically acclaimed film about london gang warfare after it was accused of institutional racism a politician least last week blue stories violent spilled out beyond the screens at british cinemas with dozens of violent incidents reported now the plot centers on the lives of 2 young friends who become embroiled in gang life. From depths of hell where you live it right in with my son and it takes my. People that he sometimes has to be rude. Least 25. 00 incidents were reported across several cinema showing the movie prompting security measures to be in hunts following a brawl involving around 100. 00 youths in birmingham some carrying machetes the cinemas drop the full. View says its initial decision came after curfew consideration was taken to ensure the safety of its stuff customers it denies the move is a race issue however that said its nonetheless faced claims of suppressing black art while the movies director insists his piece about love not violence conservative radio host dave perkins and london social activist firstly just share their thoughts with us. Away incident so all sorts of fail right across the welt almost every day those films do you know and getting banned. Culture is under constant attack grime music now they say now black failings whatever were doing it even in the areas where we have fabulous they successful we still dont escape the bitter criticism why dont we just assess all asia and to tame and activities in britain in relation to the hot coals because football least of all people in should movies in a cinema we could think of thousands of types of activities that take place where serious crime and criminality is much more in excess than we witness over this. 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 the foundation for violence and then predict with some level of 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 a 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 right still to come on the program recently head of Human Rights Watch is facing expulsion from israel we take you through why that is happening up there frank. You know world of big partisan movies and conspiracies its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. Seem wrong well we just dont. Get to see. These things as a kid and in detroit equals betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Quarter of an hour into the program youre very welcome back the director of Human Rights Watch for israel and palestine has vowed to continue his work after being expelled all night and day from israel tel aviv has accused omar secure of supporting a bond boycott movements on the country which it sees as a strategic threat. Israeli 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 document abuses by all actors including businesses and 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 history of the governments rights record on the construction of settlements in the west bank it is the 1st time a Human Rights Watch stuff has been expelled from israel in the organizations 30 years of operating in a country or believes the ruling is part of a targeted campaign against rights up its. Clearly theyre trying to do 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 spect for basic International Norms if israel despite criticism from much of the world deports me as it did earlier this week for my Rights Advocacy how would ever stop abusing rights the reality here is the Israeli Government feels emboldened and the world spoke out against this and they still deported me so i think the message is quite clear here that the government intends not only to continue its systematic assault on human rights organizations but in. To continue its abusive policies that weve been exposing and bringing to light. A c. N. N. Host has found herself in the spotlight after a culture of personal tweet. Dinas question the increased support of double among 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 kind 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. The rest of the country stop thinking of them as property 154 years ago please kind of sharp with the rest of us. The journalist was responding to a number of recent nationwide polls including one carried out by Emerson College the Research Claims almost 35 percent of americas black community to approve of Donald Trumps presidency thats almost 30 percent higher than previous the to 6 how to highlight it well if correct those numbers would mean a huge boost for the president when compared to the election and 2016 mr trump received little endorsement from africanamericans bachmann getting only 14 percent among black men 0 black women while his democratic rival in the race over there Hillary Clinton won the vast majority well political and social commentator Anthony Brian logan says its all mixed up the bill for anyone to advise a whole community on its foreign preferences. Benin is the name they say things like date is pretty much how they operate they have never shown no 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 fake an every day 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 in to go in the proper direction when we go outside a day it becomes kind of apartheid our lives to go on our list instinct kicks in you see she thinks that black folks like myself who vote for china are somehow wrong or are 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 folks it was more of an effort to try and 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 to still be at backing from the likes of the big boys google and facebook among them but our correspondent double quarter questions next whether 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 and 98910 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 there 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 our 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 fell out of the global agreements but we know we will have succeeded when those governments and companies are true out. If Google Facebook and others want to be able to prove that theyve changed then theyre going to need to adhere to the principles set out in this particular an initiative. A company is found to have been obviously breaching this accord well how do you react do you strike the most of mediately what are the sanctions against them and how serious does a measure need to date for any measures to be taken against them for that to be a jet hit from this particular group very little in this is actually being 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 it then that would be a major concern right i will be back with more of your midweek News Headlines are they top of the hour and before that were back cross talking once more with peter on the gas keep it close this is 247 r. T. International. Imagine a pompadour unstrung a stone and then you have the record and what we have done is to try and identify Something Like that happening in the brain where the expression of the ripples corresponds to the depths of your consciousness. Young elephants have come to us after. Especially brutal budging incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mother as not only to be killed but also be caught up unfortunate. I do believe the elephant smile i see its a nice little months they hold a certain expression taint us. They put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. So when you want to be present. To the press this is what the. People are. Interested in the water. Hello and welcome to cross talk for all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle 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 it cannot only be about donald trump what will it take to start a sustained social and political dialogue before its too late. In the political divide im joined by my guest john kearns in new york she is a g. O. P. Strategist contributor to the daily caller as well as the founder of women for a Great America also in new york we have britchka style though he is a political strategist and tech c. E. O. And in washington cross so arbonne bora he is a Libertarian Party president ial candidate as well as author of the book pull out men modern life. And mutiny right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in in the time you want and i always appreciate army let me go to you 1st i love the title of your book by the way i think its fascinating it makes me want to read it youre kind of the odd person out on this panel so im going to go to you 1st here and reflect upon what i said in my introduction if you could quite in a short way i ask the questions what is tearing the country apart but whats keeping it together and thats the tension here what is keeping it together and what is dividing the country go ahead in washington whats dividing the country right now is a deep level of in my opinion partisan intrenchments and what we have is you have some people who are going to side with no matter what even when he acts against basic conservative principles you know when trump does a gun restriction a gun bad a silencer bad a bomb stop and thats something that enraged conservatives but having dug in on that side theyre just sticking to it no matter what on the other side you have progressive that no matter what somebody on the other side says or does they are reacting in just crazy and exaggerated ways so on one side i think we have a high level over level of loyalty on the other side you have people who will not tolerate any view that disagrees with their view with their core value system that theyre not open to discussing it well i think thats whats keeping what you are then what the ok let me go to jenna. This is an age of irrationality because youre against your. Ear against your opponent and you going to take a position irrespective but irrespective of your own values its not about values then its about Something Else jan what is it go ahead. Well i do believe we are already in the midst of a civil war and i think the 1st shot in the civil war was actually was actually fired by the Obama Administration the day they filed that 1st pfizer request to eavesdrop on their political opponent donald trump in trump tower in the 2016 elections and ever since that time we have been in a civil war and the democrats cant believe that the American People actually elected a reality t. V. Star donald trump and they just havent gotten over it and so there you see the their rhetoric being ratcheted up and what our friend just said it is amazing you look at the poll numbers 1015 years ago as a political strategist you had about 10 to 15 percent of independents to work with now that number is down to around 5 or 6 percent if you look at the impeachment proceedings and the independent views on those 47 percent of republicans feel they should you know he should be impeached and 47 percent of democrats say no yes he should and then theres only really 6 percent in the middle that are open minded and those people according to a poll out this week arent even paying attention so you have the right versus the left and not very many people in between rich same question to you in new york go ahead. Well i happen to agree i think were in a cold civil war i believe whats happening is were seeing that the democrats and the far left are just not going to accept the results of the 2016 election and theyre going to use any method they can to try to take President Trump down and the problem that you get into here is that you know when 2 people stop you know people become so radical on that side that you know it doesnt just end with a censure it doesnt just end with impeachment then they want to go right down the line they want to impeach pretty much anyone who disagrees with them and debts a dangerous precedent to set i think its very very dangerous for a country as well i mean lets lets stay with that thing because i think thats very very important i mean there was a time when it was before 2000