d stories from the past 7 days and right up to the minute developments this is the weekly on r. T. International a little. We begin in the u. S. Where the impeachment inquiry into. A 2nd whistleblower is reportedly considering filing a complaint over the president s dealings with ukraine. Official is said to have more direct information than the person who 1st raised the alarm meanwhile democrats spearheading the probe protections for the informants involved thats a far cry however from 2 other whistleblowers in recent years has been reports. We are now told that in this dark age of tyranny one heroic individual has spoken up like a voice crying out in the wilderness we dont know his name or his occupation but we know that he is good i think the whistleblower did the right thing i think he followed the law every step of the way the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found this whistleblower complaint both credible and urgent i want to say thank you also to the whistleblower for having the courage of the bravery to come forward on behalf of the nation now not only must this gallant hero be held in the highest level of reverence but he must also be protected from any attack on him would be an attack on the american way of life from everything we know and we dont know much this is a experienced person who saw things that bothered him thats what the whole whistle blower statue is for and it is to protect their identity and i understand hes going to testify and well let the process unfold and the you remember how Hillary Clinton apparently wanted to kill julian assad with a drone well lets not get lost in details but lets go over some recent whistleblowers in u. S. History. I never tortured anybody. But im heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers and people who were and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice ive never gained anything through what ive said publicly that ive lost everything. Weve got special ops forces the dead man cant leaks that this guy is a traitor a treasonous illegally shoot the son of a. Mr snowden was a patriot he is a law breaker he violated american law he violated his duties that he assumed when he took the job that he had lets look at snowden here you know some might try to shift say that oh hes a great human rights crusader he is not at all like the great human rights crusaders in the past might argue that this case is different because this whistleblower didnt run to the press but simply followed standard procedure but the record seems to show that a lot of cases have whistleblowers who do follow this procedure so why jail time for some of them it turns out the law does not actually protect them from retaliation they can be fired or prosecuted so are all future whistleblowers doomed well not quite secure backers carefully protecting whistleblowers who see wrongdoing of any kind in our government is essential so if youre a whistleblower in america take a step back look over what you have and ask yourself get this information benefit anyone powerful in america if not your official complaint will probably be ignored and if you dont shut up after that the consequences could be severe the current whistle blowers case is very different from others. The others were blowing the whistle on the system so these were real real abuses what crimes and abuses of our 4th amendment no this new whistleblower we need to put in quotes what was he reporting of course there are double standards there are standards for those who want to put pursue their political aims using this particular whistleblower in quotes and there are other rules for people who really oppose the system and its abuses. Well one of the people just mentioned in calebs report Edward Snowden has reacted on twitter he says its unbelievable about the media isnt pressing politicians about the case of another whistleblower former n. S. A. Analyst daniel hale whos being prosecuted for lifting the lid on u. S. Drone warfare programs particularly of a time when democrats are making statements about supporting informants where further analysis im happy to say we can go to Dave Lindorff dave is the author of the book the case for impeachment the legal argument for removing president george w. Bush so obviously if youve done Extensive Research into impeachment but we are talking about donald trump on involved in ukraine as of course this hour. There is a 2nd whistleblower reportedly with quote more direct information by the call do you think theres much more to reveal here. Oh well i think there certainly is more to reveal what went on in this particular in this phone conversation and around it. And whats important about this particular was of lower is that apparently its someone who claims to have had firsthand information about the call which would mean you know either having been on the call that would be a fairly high up person or. For it to somebody who was. Privy to it right away from the people who heard it be actual people who heard it its not clear what hand information the 1st whistleblower had to you know it could have been 3rd hand information. So it is serious it is it is important and i think this is a story that is going to grow a lot more the cold did happen in july why do you think people are coming forward not by perhaps showing solidarity with the 1st whistleblower are something else. Well i think contrary to what some people have said here. Before me on this on this particular program coming forward as a whistleblower in an agency thats riven by. I think different political positions meaning the cia. Coming forward in a public way when it posed the leadership of the cia which is appointed by donald trump. Is at least a risk to any whistle blowers career which is a big deal i mean i think the fact that they can go through the channels and go and be protected by the Inspector General who says that they are theyre following all the rules and doing what theyre supposed to do is fine but that doesnt protect them from the loss of a career and you know loss of promotions and so on the cia doesnt normally like people who go outside to the public with information from the cia who are the whats your thoughts they have just on how are we seeing at the scrap and see in terms of how with the words are treated in the u. S. To think oh absolutely i mean theres a theres whistle blowing and theres whistle blowing if you if you do Something Like snowden did were you are really trying to take the whole system down of domestic spying taking an agency that is completely going outside of what it charters said it could do. Then you know you dont have any official defenders which is what happened with snowden if you are a whistleblower who is challenging so what you consider to be run doing by an individual whether its the president or the director of the cia or the head of the state department or something youre youre taking on very powerful people but you also have people within your. Within your government in your agency. Jack you are so different. Its not in the advantage to be a whistle blower in the ok thanks very much for your time this d are we in speaking to Dave Lindorff author of the book the case for impeachment by george w. Bush thanks very much dave. This week the world celebrated the 150th birthday of its spiritual leader the symbol of the nation Mahatma Gandhi on wednesday Major Political parties paid tribute to gandhi he even ordered officials to undertake pilgrimages walking up to 15 kilometers a day in their constituencies and sleeping in villages gandhis legacy is recognised on his birthday a 2nd of october is celebrated worldwide does the International Day of another violence the indian Prime Minister sign his praises the un. Gone. Mahatma gandhi was an indian but he not only belong to india he stay far away from the government but reign sedate in the hearts of billions of people his influence the lives of people who never met him from Martin Luther king jr to know so mandela. Well spearheading the Indian Independence movement Mahatma Gandhi is often referred to as the father of the nation throughout his life he promoted the ideology of non violent resistance on tolerance towards other religions in the india finally shook off British Colonial rule in 1947 but a year later gandhi was assassinated by a hindu nationalist and today not everyone seems to be enamored of the peace tolerance i called gandhis poster in one northeastern city was there faced with graffiti which read the traitor of the nation there is also claims that an earth with some of his is was still the editor of news magazine india today blames the act on the descendants of the same hindu extremists who killed. Due to a member that not. And some of his associates shot. Gun the gun the in the you are 948 the members of this not poor sick group who also claim to be hindus they have a very narrow notion of the wisdom they want to impose some very sort of you not ignore sions of hindu ism do you believe that. The gandhi was responsible for the partition of india they think that he was appeasing the muslim the Muslim League which demanded the creation of pakistan i think such groups have been called the only marginalised and because they are marginalised therefore they carry on extremist activities so i dont see this group of this kind of activity coming into the me. Scream i see them carrying on these kind of activities once in a while in order to spin a flawed they make all kinds of extremist arguments sometimes they have even bill that held responsible for some amount of violence so but i dont think its a very large group but only had this very tolerant and you know very sort of broaden and progress a notion of nationalism which i think majority indians understand and thats why such extremist groups can never become the Mainstream Group in the country. Letting you know we trace the life of Mahatma Gandhi in a set of feature length reports on this channel today you can also watch it online at r. T. Dot com. He did make a good night but it didnt go on cruel but he did make doc good late but he didnt. Make it through the night he did love. He fought against the british people to get independent but did inflate mileage me. No you cant cure debt imagination. To love. The media. That makes the money could be avoided but he could be a man that could be a 12 year old child it could be any of these people but we need the big this is very important because the wire because of the. Major fire and major worries for locals about what was in the smoke that went up into the or during it when the last authorities in the french city of ruined help to clear the area safe after a major blaze out a nearby chemical factory late last month. There is no risk regarding aspects stores 5 in the air the results of 3 a specialist tests are available. For the best here we are in the area closest to the place of the disaster and we can see that the white swans have stayed there in their habitat and there is no trash of pollution in the water so we have physical proof that the environment and wildlife are not currently affected by the pollution that occurred to that all further away. In an attempt to kill him fears the french government even set up an emergency helpline but locals are still deeply concerned for their health on this few planes by the authorities the theory is safe to breathe Charlotte Dubin ski when theyre. The Chemical Plant just across the water that was a blaze afic plume of black smoke bellowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames. And its good is with im not saying that the smell isnt pleasant im just telling you what the results of the tests are namely that the it is not harmful since then there has been growing anger over what some say is a lack of information over what was put into not fire and the impact that could have on peoples health. You can talk to any forum and when you have any type of contact with the smoke its dangerous it can be lethal because of the Carbon Monoxide and in this case when the smoke went into the sky we didnt know what was in it we dont know exactly what is in the year and we worry a lot that in the future it might bring cancer or something else. I have 4 kids and they were impacted by the smell and my grades. I thought about having tests done before was with absolutely no information about what we should be looking for so i could take blood samples but what are you going to tell them to look for i know they could be cans of problems but the problem is that we hear lots of rumors nothing concrete. I think there is a risk for health and i can feel it because i have a need to throw it and im continuously coffee we worry about the how to murder children in the future will they have cancer or something we just dont know around rule some people are taking proportions some loopholes have also experienced. Vomiting whilst others have complained that the tap water is black and then their ways the stench you can smell that the air is foul its a bit like rotting eggs but with a chemical tinge and despite the initial denials that there was no health risk the French Health minister has admitted that its clearly polluted. It is a factory that produces hydrocarbons even if not in large volumes it is never good for the population to come across these kinds of products i cannot say that there is no danger the city is clearly polluted several schools were closed off to the fire and though some have attempted to reopen many teachers are refusing to return to work. Colleagues from schools near lubrizol who have refused to work until they receive information about what was burnt and the risk because they are just a few 100 metres away from the site they did so to protect their health and that of the children who are under their responsibility and thats why there has been a demand that the original school 30 acknowledged their right not to have children attend school under this condition. While Health Concerns are immediate whats perhaps most telling about the danger people here are facing is the fact that food sales from 100 districts around ruin have been banned any protein. That may have been exposed to contamination has to be destroyed that even includes milk. Hybrid cans and worked closely with milk producers dioxins are measured in memory grams and theyre a problem for us because they become highly concentrated in milk and are toxic so they render it unfit for consumption it is vital for us to know as soon as possible whether there are any dioxins in those burning materials whats going on he would term us what to do with our produce was so much from the fire has even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be even the lying to reaching flags have also been raised for the health of the police and the firefighters who were on duty during the fire protests like this have now formed to pressure the authorities to outline any risks they make face they demanding answers but are afraid that even if they receive and that the danger is as a result of that place may not a marriage for months or even years from now charlotte even ski altie will. A theme park worker has been fired for doing the ok gesture in a photo will tell you why just after the break. When lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. When the ruling classes protect themselves. In the final merry go round be the one percent. We can all middle of the room. You know world of big partisan. And conspiracies its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Hello again a seemingly innocent husk of a theme park employee the suck in florida than i fired employee dressed as the character grew from despicable me me it and upside down ok symbol when posing with a 6 Year Old Girl whos biracial the ok hand gesture has recently been recognized as a symbol of americas Antidefamation League sais that the once innocent sign has been hijacked by white supremacists. Even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old they regularly create new symbols means and slogan headful sentiments we believe Law Enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed of the meaning of these images which can serve as a 1st a warning sign to the presence of hate in the community or school the ok symbols of white power meaningless initially a part of an online prank but apparently white supremacist like what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the suspected gunman in the Christ Church mosque shootings in new zealand during a Court Appearance last year a former white house employee who was accused of making the white power selling but her defenders point diet was unlikely because shes Mexican American descendant of Holocaust Survivors so a storm in a teacup or that dangerous appropriation of her every day symbols and gestures and we are for discussion. I think its pretty ridiculous to label a thing like oh bull or the ok symbol as a symbol of White Supremacy i feel like races do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist Drinking Water as received in breathing air is received its just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his ear things were very lonesome with or a soused hateful subversive group