it's 10 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. leaks a document seems to now cast doubt on the world chemical weapons watchdogs final report into a deadly incident in the syrian city of duma last year it contradicts the o.p.c. debbie's official conclusion that toxic cylinders were dropped from the air which western governments used as evidence to plane the syrian government for the attack our senior correspondent. is across the story more on that once the o.p.c. w. being accused of here well. this leaked document portrays a very different version of events and make no mistake judging by how in depth and detail that was the authors the experts scientists behind this looked at everything even simulated the physical properties of the canisters themselves the concrete. roofs the rebars the steel supports and they simulated under different conditions how the canisters could have penetrated the roofs and ended up where they allegedly did end up and they came up with a lot of questions a lot of questions an inconsistency for example in one location which they apparently visited they found that the impact crater in the canister simply don't match and they think they allege that the impact crater itself was caused the prior or later date by a high explosive shell it's consistent with an explosion canister didn't explode the canister just fell through they also remarked that the impact crater itself the steel rebar and the canister. there would have been marks left if this thing had fallen for hundreds of metres and penetrated through its steel supports but they found no such markings on either the roof or the canister itself. a 2nd location they found that the canister simply couldn't feed through the impact crater with the nozzle still intact that it should have broken off and there's much more many more examples inconsistency that they found but the conclusion that they drew was that the canisters were likely placed their observations of the scene of the 2 locations together with subsequent analysis suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed if there is 2 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft. now you think these findings are incredibly important day in the face of the. official report but so far there's been no comment from the u.p.c. w. regarding what was inside these documents what. these experts found instead we have the official narrative which completely contradicts what was in these leaked documents and the narrative that was established hours after this incident took place the chemical incident in duma where asaad was blamed of ordering helicopters to drop a cat canisters full of chemicals on dumont civilian areas a narrative that was then used to launch an armada of cruise missiles at syria. now the c.w. has admitted the documents were leaked which perhaps. helps you know hints at their veracity that the legitimate they're also investigating how this happened they've been very quiet otherwise the documents themselves what was in them all they said is that they looked at all versions of events the different sub investigations by different teams and compiled a final report we asked for comment we sent a list of questions a week ago last friday asking the p.c. w. you know why did you admit this why did you go for one version of events and not the other why are you now being so quiet about it why is there no comment being made so far all we've gotten is silence unfortunately but you know with the story getting traction. sometime soon. i have to respond at some point later into the update and the explanation thanks kathy. professor piers robinson here's a leading member of a british academic research group on syria says the response to the leak is the significant. it's very important the c.w. not dinara eat. this engineer comes move in europe the c.w. not deny that what they're trying to do is to create great going between this engineering report investigation and we made clear that there is no good reason to accept what no sound. the bottom line is that the documents have been passed to us we have confirmation from multiple sources which clearly shows that there has been investigated carried out from within europe you see w an investigation which is not found its way or to move leak into the fire and do not report which came out. about a month ago question our question now is what has been going on within the o.p.c. w. over the course of the last 12 months why is it the case this document has not found its way to find out the c.w. . in rights group service sharply criticized what they're calling an unacceptable attack of press freedom in france there's a growing that 3 journalists who lead a classified 17 page dossier on the use of french weapons in the yemeni civil war could be set to face prosecution and prison time with the latest is shall it depends. the question that's being asked now is press freedom under attack fronts and that question is being posed not just by journalists but also by human rights activists who are hugely unhappy about this investigation that's going on now back in april we covered a story here in artsy which was that a number of french outlets had revealed and uncovered a secretive military dossier which was allegedly showing that french weapons sold to saudi arabia will you being used on the front line in yemen a french government has always denied it but this dossier has said that the french government was made aware of this fact now as a result of that an investigation was launched by the domestic intelligence services here in france and 3 journalists were hauled in as part of that investigation to be questioned about their sources and some say to be pressurised to reveal who their sources were which is course is something we as journalists considered to be absolutely sacred well our assistant channel r.t. france has actually been speaking to one of those journalists from disclose who is now under investigation of course for we were very surprised that we were summoned because it's unusual for journalists to be treated in this way we were summoned yesterday morning for disclosing national defense secrets we were told from the beginning that we were not there is journalists and the case would be decoupled from our role as journalists i think the freedom of speech needs to be supported by as many people as possible this is not an isolated case there have been many documented instances of intimidation especially during rallies. so why was this revelation so controversial not just because the french government according to that dossier knew that these weapons were being used by saudi arabia on the frontline in yemen it also showed how they were being used and suggested that french ships were actually being used to blockade yemeni ports which meant that much needed medication and to monetary assistance into. the food was not getting to the civilians who are being hit by this war now this what's been going on since 2014 it's been described by the un as the worst manmade humanitarian disaster it's seen thousands of people killed and millions of people pushed towards the brink of starvation and human rights organizations have said that in june this should be doing this kind of work this should be revealing things like this that are going on and governments the undersigned n.g.o.s consider the information unveiled by disclose and its partners to be of essential public interest the threats of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an arm except through press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources the fresh government has repeatedly denied that its weapons that it sells to saudi arabia are being used on the front line in that conflict and even last week we had where surance is from president michel that he had spoken to the government in riyadh and they had once again confirmed that that was not the case but the reality is here on the ground many people aren't seem to be believing that in fact so much so that last week saudi called the ship was due to pick up arms from the french quarter of last it had to leave because there were protests by people who just don't want any more french weapons to be sold to saudi arabia possibly being used to implicate the country in war crimes the u.n. warned this week that yemen is sliding into oblivion and it's almost reached the point of no return with one child dying and on average every 10 minutes rights groups say that the fighting led coalition's intervention in the conflict there has been a key driver of the humanitarian crisis most recently on thursday a series of airstrikes by riyadh and its partners hit the capital killing 6 people and injuring of 50 others the attack struck a hoot the rebel military facilities and a residential neighborhood in sana'a obliterating a number of homes for children. the teletubbies saudi state media quoted the coalition as saying the bombings were in retaliation by the saudi oil infrastructure and only targeted sites controlled by the militants locals though have disputed those claims. to the we won't voices and shouting the only thing now left of the building is a column everywhere there was destruction and dust are those and children were shouting our neighbors were running towards us there were more strikes in other buildings nearby then help arrived and we were taken to hospital to show him how about the holy month of ramadan and didn't even stop them this just didn't bother them suddenly a bomb hit the house why why us we weren't hiding anything you know we are normal simple people just look at us god will punish them i hope their own lucky i hope they suffer the same fate as her saying they are killing us saudi arabia's yearly rate in america chasing us ad of our homes what have the people there killing done . one of the front runners in the 2020 us presidential election well for the launches campaign on saturday says joe biden threw his hat into the ring last month several polls have put him neck and neck with veteran senator bernie sanders for the democratic party nomination but their skepticism after the polls has proved to be wide of them all in 2016 hours artie's kelly more predicts playing. there has been widespread criticism of how major new media networks in the united states are reporting on the polling surrounding the presidential primary for the democratic nomination now recently of a number of media networks have come forward with polls that they say conclusively show joe biden to be the front runner ahead of bernie sanders however of people are starting to scrutinize some of these polls for example c.n.n. is citing a poll they conducted themselves showing that joe biden is the clear front runner in a far lead ahead of bernie sanders however those who examine this poll have looked into the fact that it seems to under represent the voters under the age of 50 the age group of 18 to 49 which is a rather key voting constituency especially for bernie sanders a number of his supporters are younger people while the age group of 50 and older which tends to not favor bernie sanders a strongly is overrepresented in the result now it's also important to look at a poll put forward by m s n b c saying similar things saying that joe biden was the clear front runner let's take a look at this poll they came forward with a new poll shows just 2 percent of non white voters support to judge that is far behind joe biden and 28 percent and bernie sanders the 27 percent now this is even more questionable because those who dug into this actual poll they cited have seen that the results are completely opposite the actual results of the poll show sanders as the front runner yet m s n b c reported it showing that joe biden was the front runner now from there many sanders supporters have dug into the fact that m s n b c is a part of the media conglomerate known as comcast and comcast chief lobbyist is none other than david cohen and david cohen the chief lobbyist for comcast the media conglomerate that owns m s n b c actually hosted fundraisers for joe biden in his home joe biden's kick off campaign fundraiser within the home of david cohen the chief lobbyist for the media can go. that owns m s n b c so many sanders supporters and others are very critical of these polls that are being presented in mainstream media in the united states now it's important to note that in the lead up to the 2016 election almost every poll showed that hillary clinton would be the clear winner of the vote however the results came in and trump was victorious the results were trump winning winning the elections so many people are questioning and have been questioning how accurate these polls from mainstream american media really are and now as we face the lead up to the democratic primary in 2020 to determine who will be the nominee for the democratic party many people are scrutinizing those polls busy and looking in and seeing kind of a bias in the lead up to the vote. apparently it's now much more difficult to tell fact from fiction a new reporting in the u.s. according to a new study by the burned think tank. so we end up in a situation where not only are we not sure what's true and what's not but we're not even really sure where to go to find that factual information that's cognitive bias and the way we process information we like to be right we seek out things that prove that we're right we just regard things that say that we're wrong technology changes fast and institutions change slow so schools haven't caught up in terms of providing students with the skills they need to be able to navigate that space and then finally polarization we've alluded to it here several times in the political species but it's also important to think about social economic and demographic. the news in the digital age reporting some of the coverage of 15 media outlets they include such as the new york times and the washington post major t.v. networks like c.n.n. n.b.c. and fox under the microscope to along with a digital platforms politico. and buzz feed the report suggests that from $1809.00 to 2017 u.s. media has taken a gradual and subtle shift towards subjectivity and away from facts and analysis it says online media in particular reflects personal frames on subjective references it's also claims t.v. news reporting is being replaced with opinion based shows led by pundits prize winning journalist chris hedges says the findings justified. i think on the cable news channels whether it's m s n b c or c.n.n. or fox they've actually given up on journalism. and replaced it with. we reality show. you know news programs newsprint at the same time has become so in the mic. and that real journalism in most major cities has withered away you take for instance philadelphia live an hour from philadelphia the philadelphia inquirer was once one of the great newspapers with its own foreign correspondents and it's all gone and the internet is a kind of free for all where people get a wise deal to whatever particular political belief system or you know conspiracy theory to day happen to embrace their reinforce so if you look at the especially the electronic media fact is interchangeable with opinion people believe whatever they want to believe and. facebook has taken down hundreds of pages and a counseling to an israel denies ation suspected of attempting to disrupt elections across the world the social network and to him a says the archimedes claim spent more than 3 quarters of a $1000000.00 on the facebook and instagram platforms to quote disseminate that content and artificially increase and gauge meant that our correspondent in tel aviv policy here. well what we know is that this has been happening for years where you have fake accounts that i'm escalating are there as the locals or as local news outlets and they are either providing blowing information off forming part of a smear campaign regarding candidates who are standing in local elections and part of the tactic they use is to quote so-called and identified sources and leaked information now what we're hearing from facebook is that this has affected countries such as latin america and numerous countries across asia and africa where we centrally but try and swishes have changed the reality on the ground facebook saying that this is an extensive israeli run political influence campaign having said that facebook has not been that forthcoming and that is largely presumably because the relationship between facebook and israel is very close facebook in the past has taken down political advertisement that are considered in distasteful inconvenient by the israeli government the head of the facebook cyber security policy had that had had this to say today removed 265 facebook and instagram accounts facebook pages groups and events involved in coordinated behavior this experience originated in israel and focused on senegal and goler niger and tunisia along with some activity in late in america and some of these stories are now out some of the pages boasted as many as 2800000 followers there were also a series of events that were advertised online but it's not clear whether or not those events actually took place more than $800000.00 is estimated to have been spent over the past 7 years on these advertisements aimed at deception and a lot of that finds its source in an israeli corporation that's called the archimedes group. now we have asked the group for comment but we're still waiting to receive a response from them at the same time a lot of the people all the organizations involved have concealed their own data identities now there was a similar case with another israeli organization whose motto was to shape reality it was forced to close its doors after it was implicated in the whole investigation and it was criticized and came under fire for possible involvement in the donald trump presidential election so we need to wait and see how the story itself develops. the french president will meet the libyan rebel commander khalifa haftar next week as part of efforts to renew peace talks in the war weary country the announcement came after the relegate general manage the italian prime minister for crisis talks in rome on thursday after us forces control large swathes of libya and since early april have been waging an offensive against the un recognized government in the city of tripoli it's fear that the clashes will further destabilize the country potentially jeopardizing european business interests and creating more refugees. fighting is continuing continuing around the libyan capital so far it's called more than 430 people and left over 2000 others wounded libya has enjoyed fighting since 20143 years after the toppling of moammar gadhafi middle east specialist crew russia shanley told us europe is doomed to fail in settling peace in libya. going to be very very hard to to get in libya because libya is a country with a lot of tribes the real power in libya has been held by these different tribes and monica that he was the one who could control destroyed and you have a lot of militias general half that feels he can get in one piece he's going to be like if you 2.0 and he can get back to libya in one piece but not going to happen because you have all the people from syria all the terrorists from this. who has fled from syria and iraq and afghanistan that now are fighting in libya so peace is going to be very very hard to get for for either of the party either prime minister of the road you are backed by the u.n. or half there who is backed by western countries and the united states. the north stream to project a gas pipeline that's intended to pump russian gas to europe by way of the baltic sea has passed an important milestone with over 50 percent of the construction work now completed we got exclusive access to one of the vessels laying the pipeline. the seeds somewhere in between in helsinki and st petersburg and i have a vow to show you something that could cause a real scuffle between germany and its european coach and the us it is a real gas pipes to get to the ship. this is where the industry the project is born right here. the heartbeat of the ship to change the channel and controls the pieces the forms the kings the route. one makes the solitary 5 like vessel real think the odds of them are about the fact that to get the army here right on board. 5 tanks you have to be protected well and tested. just imagine you are a real shopaholic you love going to all kinds of stores but then i hand out comes out what you do is you swipe look for the best thing push the button and your shipment is ready so probably you're going to change your shopping habits a little bit but what if someone forces you to do it this is probably not a perfect analogy but it does explain what's happening with the north st jude project if you will not supply me to someone else will but in the end i'm still would only guess i'm going to lose. just because we decided to have a guess where this project just loads in washington they want american companies to sell liquefied natural gas to europe and send it there on ships and america has literally been pulling europe with all kinds of threats the american ambassador in germany put on preston pressure on local companies sending out letters to them and just recently and draft bill has been proposed in the u.s. senate suggesting that companies and individuals working on the one strain could have their absence frozen and they could even receive travel bans to the u.s. can i do better from the ship to do a job and if so why do we all need guns. it has to come from somewhere when you hear these kind of things are you ever worried or do you ever think about it. to be honest i try not to think about it in the way we apply to all of the world. political view shouldn't really come in at the end of the day if you've all got a job to do but no matter what there you have it what's probably going to be long is the getting strength of the world is making its way into the seawater and the pace is. kilometers a day when this kind of performance the team is expecting the project will be complete by the end of this year. i'll be back around 30 minutes with a mobile update so stay with us. is donald trump's national security advisor john bolton a clear and present danger to america and the world is saber rattling in the middle east particularly against iran should concern us all we are forced to ask a fundamental question is alton the primary architect of trump's impulse. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in meaning this is with your 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