are broadcasting live direct our studios in moscow this is our team international ron thomas. now russia has a new government and it comes in the wake of last week's resignation of the old one as it made way for constitutional changes the new cabinet was approved by president putin on tuesday pretty specific issue of congratulations on your appointment to the government and i believe this will be a very serious challenge in your lives but at the same time it will be a very interesting journey and wish you all success the whole country is behind you the previous government creates a the proper foundation for further development and growth we should use this foundation and embrace all potential to achieve national go russia's president vladimir putin met with the prime minister the new prime minister. and the faces of the new government were unveiled to the russian public and the rest of the world now everybody was speculating as to how big the changes are going to be and i have to say they have been quite well sizable they are quite. significant but some of the veterans and veterans in the true sense of this word they are staying for instance russia's top diplomat sergey lavrov he is staying so the all the western partners they won't be needing to get used to a new face there's a familiar one that will be doing all the talking on russia's behalf also russia's chief policeman he's staying he's keeping his ministerial job as well as does russia's war chief surrogate sure now as for those who lost their positions there were mostly there were mostly people designated with fixing russia's internal policies and largely the former government was viewed as rather well it was rather unpopular and the changes showed that it is it has grown unpopular with the president to for instance it was heavily criticized for failing to deliver on the ladder putin's key internal policies now this whole thing was set in motion last wednesday when the russian president made an address to the federal assembly and the outline not only changes to the russian constitution as he proposed changes but also he outlined the new course you need with a big focus on the internal policies here in russia so it will certainly be interesting to see whether this fresh blood that has filled the veins of the russian political system whether these new people will live up to the expectations of. the un security council has debated the investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog into an incident in the syrian city of duma back in 2018 russia has question of the published findings and a during the session a former o.p.c. w. specialist said a fact finding team had serious misgivings that a chemical attack even occurred. there or. here or new. information for us. you know so. there's. this fixed. resulted in a huge turnaround situation from one of those analysts to. the majority of. you let us be in no down there was this chemical weapons attack in june we have in 2 huge 15 witnesses in the duma hospital that similarly witnesses and undisputable proof that the chemical attack in dumont was falsified and it states caterpillar categorically objects to russia's blatant attempt to use the security council meeting to weaken the credibility of the o.p.c. tapio and its findings on the duma attacked no one has just to name the guilty even without presenting any evidence and enjoy the support of a new middle someone's who you really cannot have wolf when eunice since the o.p.c. w. published its report the organizations own inspectors have voiced concerns that the probe misrepresented the facts for example the initial assessment suggested chlorine cylinders were manually placed at the scene contradicting the published version documents released by wiki leaks also show that the team that went to duma was not included in the group putting together the report ortiz came up and has been. the united nations convened a meeting in which the results of the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the syrian syrian city of duma in 2018 was discussed now that report from the ows o.p.c. w has come into question after information was revealed leaks cited that crucial evidence was essentially left out of that final report and that crucial evidence that was left out could have pointed toward the attack being staged in henderson who was a weapons inspector he participated with the o.p.c. w in their fact finding mission in duma he doesn't agree with that he says that he pretty much based on the evidence has concluded that the canisters were placed manually they were not dropped from an airplane this is what in henderson said to the un meeting speaking through video link this is what he in henderson said the findings. were contradictory. with what happened to. your. release of the interim report. 2000 and. 2 was a serious misgivings that a chemical attack. now in henderson is himself an expert on chemical weapons and the forensic investigations into them furthermore he actually participated in the official o p c w investigation but regardless that did not stop certain voices from trying to cast doubt on what he said to the u.n. meeting take a listen mr henderson's pape has a pitch reflex a person and. of course there. abound to be real best exchanges of views with voices differing from others in any scientific process but what counts is the final considered assessment now the syrian government has been absolutely adamant and clear it had nothing to do with the chemical incident some countries. led by the united states of america. continue to exceed the provisions of the convention on the point of chemical weapons. by politicizing the war of the o.p.c. wu and to trying to. go from the track it was created for that was the chemical incident let's recall in 2008 chemical incident in which the western countries the united states and france they use that as an opportunity to unleash $100.00 missiles against the syrian government there. and we've had wiki leaks publish a number of of leaks and information e-mails showing that there just was not unanimous agreement within the o.p.c. w. about who was responsible for the attack based on that this report from the o.p.c. w has been widely questioned allies of the united states seem to insist that the syrian government is responsible and the opi c.w. report is conclusive and shouldn't be question so once again we have debate over the chemical incident i think that people europeans are going to continue to turn from a view of it is clearly what they don't want to uphold their narrative and in fact what we heard is a final report and then also one of these whistleblowers who are made up of the actual scientists and the americans are saying we'd like to report let's just move on and the russians are saying wait a minute let's listen to the national scientists because it sounds like this science didn't actually go into the final core so obviously the russians and americans can sell you a big stand with the o.p.c. don't you depends on whether you're talking about the report. well the scientists who are pushing against think that it doesn't actually represent the 5. we spoke with a journalist a director died who was previously barred by newsweek from reporting the story on the o.p.c. w. leaks he quit in protest after the magazine's management gag him told us that there is no reporting on the issue in western media this is not something is going to go away it's very serious so. you know we've seen absolutely no reporting about this in the western media if we have. intelligence officials from the united states that can influence the reports of this body opens the doors to many more situations where you know genuine chemical weapons attacks might not be treated in the same way because the reputation of the body is not taken seriously i think we've already started to see the kind of counter propaganda from the united states already kind of trying to change the narrative of the c.w. must keep. in check and holder's government to account for chemical weapons attacks but it's not it's completely counter what what the information that we have a present. facebook is purging its network of content to deem sympathetic to the assassinated iranian general custom so the money one of those affected is viral content agency in the now whose own videos on some of money have been deleted here is one clip that was taken down. i think ron and its allies sent. packing us figured it could assassinate all of money and nothing would. punch the belief that western media outlets that is state department. changing their tune on the u.s. government's agenda. the social media giant has admitted to taking down the money posts across its platforms including targeting dozens of iranian journalists and influencers some of their accounts were even deleted the tech giant says it is simply complying with u.s. sanctions laws following the u.s. strike on the late general earlier this month hundreds of iranians flooded their social media accounts with tributes to soleimani. now the hosts of in the now soap box rania khalik and dan cohen told us why they think their content has been targeted by facebook think facebook took down my video basically because it exposes what the u.s. government does not want americans to see namely that the iranian general custance with the money was a top anti isis general metz something that used to be reported as i showed in my video back in 20142015 during the peak against the fight against isis but when trump assassinated for the money suddenly that fact that's noncontroversial fact was not to be found anywhere and so basically my video showed how us media tailors its line according to the precepts of the united states government and that was deemed apparently a threat they said it violated community standards and therefore was unpublished which is some orwellian doublespeak term unpublished that simply just means censorship that's what we're dealing with here less government is always raising you know a stink about oh china censoring this or iran is censoring not but in this case you know unlike those cases which are domestic censorship that only affect those countries what the us government is doing here is it's it's basically forcing these social media giants to censor things globally to cancel out any actual information that challenges the state department narrative about countries seem to be official enemies and it's really really disturbing because what you have here is it's almost like here any through algorithm becoming increasingly difficult when you have a social media environment that's dominated needed by these major big tech conglomerates like google and facebook. so i mean all the best thing that people can do that we can do i guess is that how you know content. across multiple platforms and at some point you know in the future i'll turn it up media specifically because this is an attack on alternative media needs to come up with some sort of alternative way alternative platform because they know tomorrow these social media giants at the behest of the u.s. government could just press a button and erase all of us and that's what's really scary here. the russian health ministry has warned that the country could be at risk from the new corona virus spreading through china some 300 cases have been registered in china and the countries now cheri 4000 kilometer border and it has done a quarter reports people are dying of a new virus reported cases have tripled since the weekend and it's spreading like wildfire across asia if we still know so little about this mysterious illness. this new coronavirus has been identified as a mutation of sars or respiratory disease that killed over 750 people around the world from 2002 to 2003 antibiotics have absolutely no effect on either of the viruses and that's been enough to put the russian authorities on high alert not least because the chair is a border with china. the embry of a new corona virus which was 1st recorded in china carries a body logical threats to the population of russia the 1500000 chinese tourists that visit russia every year have now become a potential public health risk russian authorities have begun screening them at all international airports prepared to diagnose the virus if it appears on top of that moscow has advised people against traveling to china the official number of suspected cases in china was just under 300 by tuesday however some experts are saying the current number of infections is much higher using the number of cases detected outside china it is possible to infer the number of clinically comparable cases within $100.00 c.t. that may have a could the we estimate that the total of $1723.00 cases own set of symptoms russia is not alone in being worried about the outbreak reaching its territory a number of other countries have begun screening for the disease at airports as well china stepping up containment efforts after she's paying stressed the seriousness of the outbreak on national television the disease also got the attention of the world health organization they've called for an emergency meeting to decide whether or not to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern that's a title reserved only for the most serious of epidemics and with the lunar new year approaching millions of chinese around the world are expected to return home to their families one can only hope beijing will have the situation under control. orders that short break his or to international. shows seem wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out these days become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. we've also discovered that there are genes in our bodies that protect us from aging we call these longevity genes and there's a set of genes that we work on in my lab at harvard called the search and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 80. join me every thursday simon chill and i'll be speaking to get a little politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back this is international psychologist who designed the cia's enhanced terror geisha techniques in the wake of 911 has testified in open court for the 1st time james mitchell worked as a contractor psychologist for the intelligence agency and developed methods including waterboarding which are widely viewed as torture during the hearing in guantanamo bay he spoke as a witness in the trial of 5 prisoners and he defended his work saying my moral obligation to protect american lives outweighed temporary discomfort of terrorists the former guantanamo bay prisoner abu zubaydah has 1st hand experience of the interrogation techniques designed by mitchell and he has spoken in detail about what happened. as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to take a curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made me scream unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . and. the. long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guards. are from this let's cross live to war activist sara flounders sara thanks for being with us here on our team international. so during his actual testimony james mitchell defended his actions saying that he was countering the threat of an imminent attack and quote protecting american lives do you think that this is enough of a justification for the methods that were used there's absolutely no justification that can ever be given or accepted for the horrendous and systematic torture that was used and it was used and authorized from the highest levels from the presidency the f.b.i. the cia the top levels of the military the studies were known the conditions were known this isn't just one or 2 people michel and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating forms of torture of pain of waterboarding of slamming of of packing into tight boxes of stress positions and on and on so how could you justify any of this and none of this torture provided any real information of course not that that that that would even be an excuse it was done to hundreds of prisoners there were also hundreds of secret prisons secret rendition and terra geisha and centers all of this really has to be exposed and then an accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture camps and it set a precedent for the very prison conditions and the conditions even against migrant children today sir you mentioned the need to expose this one thing that we understand is the hearing has been complicated by secrecy rules introduced by the prosecution preventing certain interrogation techniques from being disclosed. does this actually prevent a fair trial. well none of this could possibly be a fair trial i mean how can you have a fair trial with people who've been held in total secrecy whose testimony is based on torture. the media isn't allowed in except for conditions so strict that they can't even have a picture of the court room all the testimony is restricted. none of this none of this a layer is and layers of secrecy is about providing any kind of justice or accountability or even of information it is going through a theater in order to once again exert their power their power over people's lives and we should just note that there were juveniles who were youth who were held for years at guantanamo there were people who had nothing to do who were simply sold for bounty who were at guantanamo $780.00 prisoners and then the thousands who were held in secret rendition or around the world no accounting for them so this was a huge program and its ramifications were still feeling today according to him and international the methods that were created by james mitchell and bruce jessen set back the global fight against torture and had a rippling effect around the world. i guess i'm not stretching it too far to say that would you agree with. well of course it set it back because it set precedents to make this acceptable and along with targeted assassinations becoming acceptable and proclaimed and bragged about as we've seen just in the past weeks so yes it's made it much much more dangerous and really the the lawyers and the organizations that have struggled for years to bring this forth it's very important the testimony they have provided the legal challenges that they have tried to make the groups that have refused to be silent about this criminal conduct that at the highest level of government. the u.s. is really responsible for all right thank you very much sara flounders anti-war activist it's always interesting to hear thoughts on these matters. right norway's coalition government has collapsed after it agreed to to bring home a woman charged with supporting terrorist groups in syria the move infuriated the right wing progress party would pulled its support for the coalition and response slocum talking man had me think there was the shoe of the woman who was an ice will terrorist suspect were the 3 other parties cave down bringing home both mother and child we have always been willing to bring home innocent children who will not compromise with people who have jointure are going to see sions and are actively working to tear down all of the values noory is built on that was done last straw. the woman had been living with her 2 children in the kurdish controlled all the whole refugee camp in syria in 2013 she was arrested on her way back to norway on suspicion of belonging to the islamic state terror group something that she actually denies last week all slow decided to allow her to return with her 2 children to receive medical treatment saying it would not let a norwegian child die in syria it is not the 1st recent case of its kind in your back in november germany allowed a woman suspected of being in i saw my birth to come back with her 3 children while finland agreed to examine each such case individually to put the issue up for debate with former u.k. immigration advisor keith best and a journalist. these people have left western europe they should be judged where they committed a crime even if they deserve the death penalty following the local laws like in iraq people who go off and commit offenses abroad whether that's by joining a an organization that is inherently against the government of the day or anything of that nature then their proper place is to be prosecuted back in their country of origin don't forget the images of these 4 year olds 4 years old kid to kill in front of us parents for the camera one of the prisoners suffices so these kids from 1012 or under 10 are extremely anxious the mothers are awfully dangerous if they are norwegian citizens norway cannot prevent them from actually coming back to norway the only way they can do that is by removing the norwegian citizenship and as a signatory to the state that is what it should do invention it would it would mean well now i'm sorry they can't do that because they're signatory to the statelessness convention which means you cannot take away citizenship of somebody if that leaves them without any citizenship or talk now if this lady is also this is that if he does put. that out of his she is or not but if she is a subdivision of another state then the norwegian government could take away that citizenship and she would not then be rendered state this. this is art international we back up there with more news. say you know before george soros became vilified as a globalist in a market manipulator and electioneering or he wrote a lot of interesting books and of course c.n.n. and jim rogers had the quantum fund which was one of the best performing hedge funds ever kind of invented the modern hedge fund and he's got a lot of things to say if you look at his old work and we're going to get into it. whether they have to is he should he go to one of the few more so he can be and what because. let's write. this mean what i mean are well me and i know some of the things you. want to pre-judge. to.

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