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it's been. you were when you who will . art scene in afghanistan a security guard killed three americans at cromwell hospital says while the pentagon is looking for ways to drive down its military equipment in the country more on that just had. anyhow feel the need to change now internet data travels. new rules that cap companies paying for access to faster internet. but critics say that would violate net neutrality a look at that coming up. and oh for the night that comes in one early bird watching. the lee county sheriff's office detective aerial surveillance
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over the city but how notifying residents. more on that guy in the sky for the monthly during the show it's thirsty. when port was the washington d c and enduring keep it in your watching rt america. a meeting today with the news and afghan security guard shot and killed three hurricane. the hospital in kabul today. officials say am monday dad was a pediatrician from chicago. the other two were visiting father and son another doctor in u s tourists were also wounded in the attack. the shooting or international hospital which specializes in child and it really helped in the latest incident in which afghan security forces have targeted foreigners and provides a bleak backdrop just as the us is strategizing on how to best drawing down its troops the majority of the american
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military personnel are expected to leave by the end of this year coinciding with a december twenty fourteen deadline. but in addition to overseeing the troop pullout the us is also concerned about what they're going to do with the billions of dollars in military equipment now stationed in the country that includes a very popular and expensive armored vehicle called the and graphic art evening and lopez takes an inside look at the delano. we were doing our everyday routine of working in our group which includes a marine captain. we stopped he is lucky to be a lie. my entire initiated are all still in shock when they own. in my entire set off in one of the tourney the entire evening. in the air so thick that point i really need to worry no number on his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device in november two thousand seven while out on a routine mission one
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hundred saves his life the only professional athlete didn't buy the looks on. it gave me the opportunity to live another day. and wraps or mine resistant armor protected vehicles were specifically designed for the iraq and afghanistan wars their v shaped holes help deflect bombs buried in a row twenty seven thousand of these behemoths were sent to the streets of kabul and baghdad to protect troops who are fighting an unconventional war. wonder what the enemy is oftentimes buried underground the defence says the fifty billion dollar program war casualties like thirty percent between two thousand and two thousand and ten while everyone in congress agrees these vehicles the same lines. some members of congress are worried that once the war ends and wraps could end up in a junkyard it's hard for people must
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regime for me to go home and explain them how we can build something that cost that much taken over there and just disregard like it was an invaluable. meanwhile senator joe donnelly argues that the added protection was worth the price attack when we were coming. in creating or ramps and trying to get those in the field as fast as we could. we were worried about whether nowhere in it he will get him home. what should they were going to come home on the weather all the gear was going to be cleaned out from under the tires were worried about saving lives because of the signs and weight of these vehicles. general joseph done for contends that selling them is not as easy as it sounds. doing so can save upwards of five hundred million dollars. they've already scrapped over two thousand. it cost us less than ten thousand to destroy a vehicle he was processed over fifty thousand dollars to move the vehicle the military is saving a few thousand of these vehicles for future use. however the more the battle front changes the more obsolete these vehicles can be calm. i
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think it's a distraction when we shouldn't be relying heavily on equipment and the threats today are much more more amorphous they're not. traditionally on the battlefield wearing them athens after another the pentagon has found some use for and wraps in the civilian world the national defense authorization act allows the department of defense to provide military grade equipment to federal and local agencies along with the training needed to operate at everything from bulletproof vests and maps have been for curator under this program out on the battlefield big heavy vehicles like this are key to protecting troops from ied blasts an ambush it's one that the civilian world the massive machines to war almost every other vehicle on the well known given the massive presence and growing prevalence on american streets. chances are he can be won in a neighborhood near you. local police departments have benefited the most from the ten thirty three program across the country dozens of
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these vehicles have been de militarized repainted and shipped out. swat teams can use these vehicles in hostile situations as well as for disaster relief and recovery not everyone is happy with the recycling efforts georgia congressman hank johnson recently introduced a bill to prevent deal the weapons from ending up in american cities. it would also force the pentagon to produce an annual accounts of what equipment was transferred and to whom does it cost concerns and accountability. concern has called for all concerned what's happened to america's main streets. the miller tries were becoming more and more representative of a war zone with the crashes in afghanistan winding down the number of war weary fiscal conservative says brown. they say building tens of thousands of em wraps was a mistake. but hindsight is twenty twenty at a military veteran slightly stocky these vehicles were worth every penny and a place where someone's child someone's been summoned for their
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sister. in washington and i end up as our team. and now to syria where the us is reportedly providing more arms and training to moderate levels in the region this is all according to reports now by npr which reveals that this is part of the seeker program run by the caa in jordan. sources tell and pr that the cobra program includes providing both small and some more powerful missiles to the opposition this could proceed a broader effort to expand the training program. now run by the caa sources also say that the program could include the pentagon's special operations forces and contractors training more rebels in combat skills. npr says that ran the program is part of an intent to further pressure the assad regime and its allies to reach a political settlement. but some skeptics say they don't believe the usf are one how much given the status of the opposition has no week and a bit fragmented by al qaeda fighters. and now to
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the very latest in eastern ukraine fifty miles north of donetsk the town of sundance is under the control of arms co brush and gunmen who say they want a referendum on the region's status this morning. ukrainian government forces stormed three roadblocks and intends to dismantle those groups journalist graham phillips has more. ninety minutes toss out a covert recently stated what he refers to the counter operation is convinced that the awful realizing that today the frontier with cookies check for this fortification of the isolated to the success of the items which is being hit on some two weeks of a weasel this morning with the critical be approached in this direction the north and visit with some fifty km away which is the stronghold of the credited with operations this is my end of it on by our old antique it activates of what they did before to the site pointed to a barricades to stop the video maker but the ring making for the connections that we go he of the video we would hear the air was thick it was covered in black smoke
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sucking up to this going on he seemed to be the drunk adopting some sort of gathering operation the following morning chills to stay awake and going to the ipcc run off a dozen on the up and took off up the road of presumably the pic is of which is a stronghold of the trade ministry. the situation i'm in the ukraine with the escalator we can be covering it with all throught the day. journalist graham phillips in ukraine. then one or two and warned of consequences today. as ukraine's government attempted to re gain control of the eastern part of the country are cheese i like sierra says he has the very latest. as violence once again flared up in the east of ukraine with its use of ortiz re launching its so called anti operation the russian president was quite quick to react to the ongoing happenings in that country. in fact just minutes after the first reports of dead and wounded came from east of ukraine what a mess which was the speaker. at the press conference in time in st
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petersburg and i'm told these messages were in fact kiera keith keith heard them there during the press conference when a journalist asked those questions he said that i'm jz a shooting at its own people by shooting at its own people the government completely legitimate powers in kenya are conducting a very serious crime and hiking compared to the so called authorities in kyiv to about military germs are on all operating around with a fool not accordance with international law he also said that such events such bloodletting events will have serious consequences for an interstate relations said thank god we've also heard that the russian imagery at the border with ukraine started him in which the exercise and this may be one of the reasons some are speculating at the moment as to why the ukrainian troops stopped for the error of two months on the below post off of the supporters of july station in the east of
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ukraine the situation has been happening for several weeks already. i'm also of biking to work and went on to accuse the authorities in kenya for not keeping on not getting the geneva agreements of the high interest rate agreements which were made last weekend. by sending again the troops to the east of ukraine and re launching the so called anti operation i keep the kids authorities according to linda put in are not willing to find this sort of time the peaceful compromise. this comes up to the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. i gave an exclusive. an extensive interview to artsy. when he said that the breaking of the same things that turkey it is not. this is not keeping up. it's part of the deal about the geneva agreements and turns sending troops to the use of the crate is no way to hold a peaceful dialogue. he also pointed to a certain nobleman golf washington this whole conflict. i especially in
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the wake of statements by mr newland from state department called but he admitted that at least five billion dollars were invested into one of these ukrainian situation over the last several years he said that some of the facts of some of the facts proving the involvement of the us. in time the whole ukrainian affairs are too old he is to ignore such as the first round of the so called anti operation in the east was launched after the visit of the c i a directing to kiev and the second round. i'm started exactly after joe biden the vice president of united states left the ukrainian capital of course we keeping track of all the developments in ukraine but right now there stood a very very worrying the rt correspondent alexi are sexy and moscow. earlier this week the new times published an array of photos that were meant to act as evidence of russia's involvement in ukraine. but knowing that one of
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the photos may have been mis labeled parties' on the sunset strip and has more the old days when major publications and media took the time to get back straight before making headlines out of questionable evidence. it might be high time to win those days goodbye. i mean at times don't need piece linking masked men in eastern ukraine to russia. the photos featuring unidentified men the article claimed that the men photographed in ukraine were also previously seen in russia's actions these pictures commission provided blakey and to the osce monitoring eastern ukraine were used to build a case alleging pro russian and present on the ground the state department had come to think that this further confirms moscow's involvement. essentially disregarding questions about whether this evidence would ever stand in a real court of law. we see in photos that have been again in international media on twitter and publicly available it is that there are individuals to a visit we appear to be tied to outrun the fact that publicly at countless number of times
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behind the picture is sad when a second picture is used without permission were actually taken in ukraine. so where are the statements that their link to russia coming from. shortly after we saw the state department he could step back acknowledging that these claims could have been incorrect explaining that the pictures were only used in the draft packing to get to be used during talks in geneva the times to admit that the photos means back to my questioning of this bar and moved into the paper. in a short piece on a change let the pigs nine on wednesday a shield. yet another example that in a pre disposition to anti russian whilst accepting that is crucial is making a point that the children added the key questions simply an answer before conclusions are drawn. keith and she sent continues rt they are. what does learning that local leaders in yemen have settled on an agreement with the government over and that
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the town attack that took place just last week was a nine time strike they allegedly killed four civilians. the agreement reported by yemeni media included condolence payments from the government of up to fifty five thousand dollars for families of those fake guns. in a statement from or prevent human rights organization that assists the civilian victims the strategic director said the obama administration says it only strikes when it is nearly certain it won't kill civilians. but these demons speak of themselves. neither the us nor yemeni government seem to know who they're killing. it's not known whether the us has financially back to any of the condolence payments given by the yemeni government however the confirmation process for caa director john brennan earlier this year brendan did make it clear that the us would consider peanuts. if the civilians held that where possible we also work with local governments to gather facts and if appropriate proved to provide condolence payments to families of those killed
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well the agm that people get equal access on the internet is now in jeopardy after reported rumors that the federal communications commission is proposing new rules allowing companies to pay internet service providers like comcast and verizon for higher faster internet speed. opening faster lanes to companies would allow than defend danielle and content to their customers with higher quality however the alleged changes would affect what is known as net neutrality the notion that no providers of internet content should discriminate and providing services to consumers an eighties consumers should have equal access to information. this comes just three months after a federal appeals court struck down an fcc rule in place to guarantee a free and open internet. the ncc disputes the reporting saying the commission hasn't changed its goals of preventing on reasonable discrimination among users. the committee is
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expected to outline its proposed rules later today but to help me break down what all this means i was drained earlier by jessica gonzales. she is the executive vice president and general counsel of the national hispanic media coalition. at first answer to explain this apparent turnaround from the fcc. i can't possibly imagine lying on the ncc not too long ago argued in court it was very important project to protect the virtuous cycle. anyway innovation and free expression it happens on the internet. preserving the neutrality rules and not allowing companies like verizon combined awaiting court that it would be seeking commercial agreements to provide our wealthy corporations with the fast lane. thereby creating acting class at digital citizenship for the rest of us and defend the faces and did some cleaning and ends and i think well this is the art museum really didn't have such waste
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per se because of the court ruling on that force the commission to loosen its definition of what constitutes an open and at what you make of that response was there an alternative. absolutely that i actually laid out pretty clearly for the stc and that xd see what you've done here in the last round of israeli rule. if you try to treat need a broadband access providers like the utility and you can't do that. if you think you know electronic access to the utility something for you created me to see my organization has been saying for a long time and so when they cut it down this change in course it could assert its authority over broadband access providers who can provide a really good. the project protection. i'm treating the access like twenty eighth
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that would not achieve the weight her stronger and he tallied protections for all that and i actually wouldn't open the door for the fcc to me. bryant and the universally available and affordable for all americans so it's not up on terrigal had. so this is something we care very deeply about carrying agency for the iphone and the african american community. i'm not adopted abroad and in a space theme. digital high today in large part because broadband is so darn expensive. and of course you're you're touching on this but no consumer groups do not like the puzzle they're saying at big companies with money will be able at the kmart speed internet providers over small startups who don't have a lot of money on an episode of course not fair. you think that this would eventually kill the idea of net neutrality. yes they did very hard and neutrality the fcc might be playing word games there might be a few
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little reading and neutrality rules. neutrality is that even means i'll be changing current any medium for free beers being controlled by corporate gatekeepers the wealthy have control the access to information in our ability to organize our ability to earn a living the added advantage among contending parties under the huge crowd with the aim to please people can tell their story. this is particularly important for communities of color. then again under and misrepresented on mainstream media. also i'm going for nonprofit groups play like that and others that are organizing for change when non profit group ge know they can afford to pay me to go into the internet and flooding. none of us were going to be put in the slow lane and work experience taking class digital citizenship. oh well of course the opponents are also saying that this had me eventually raise prices for consumers is which is a whole
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nother issue. i mean did you think that's likely to happen well in it. many companies who frankly i might concern by the big companies like netflix but a lot of people want to receive. captain came oranges to get access to the consumer and back taxes to the consumers union demanded they are going to pass that cost on to tx woohoo i'm really worried about a small organization in the hundreds of small business owners that have come out they put out in a trolley we can't compete with the giant target or walmart pay more to have faster access to our customers and its agents are real slap in the sport in the main creators small business owners and organizing. you're doing or anything jeff had been valid think that in my president and general counsel at the national hispanic media coalition thank you so much for weighing and. happy
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new year one of the scales showed only the police and thousands died. whether it's lawful. that's the question that the family of michael bell has been asking the people of wisconsin for years. the first time a state legislature has interned with now. bell was shot and killed by police in two thousand four and is one of several high profile cases that a spirited debate about police accountability and wisconsin the result of that debate is on your choir and the police bring in at least two outside investigators when someone dies in their custody the law also requires reports on police custody death investigations to be made if no criminal charges are brought against the officers involved at least half half to inform victim's families of their legal options to pursue her beauty and the bill garnered the support of the wisconsin professional police association which is the state's largest police union. its passage was at it
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a pass to tease me with bipartisan effort with representatives on both sides of the aisle expressing concern that police investigating their own friends and colleagues undermine confidence in the agency well it seems like the federal government is not the only institution conducting surveillance or just learning about a secret test of mass surveillance technology conducted by the lapd. the city of compton california. our teaser monday leno has that story. los angeles county sheriff's department is coming under fire today after was discovered that was when the plane over the city of compton to survey of the city the experiment was happening back in twenty twelve that the department never let any of the residents know i was appalled at the cavalier attitude of the sheriff department around not notifying the rest of the city of compton. in other cities where they have calmed down this time that surveillance mass surveillance experiment they have gone to the city council they have notified the in
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doubt with the complaints or the clutches of the may have about it when they came to the city of compton extent apartment it was added to that wall. he now people are about the sort of thing so we're just not that of the week at the political high spots to me that's problematic and also on an indication of the continued his contract that is going on with the los angeles county sheriff's department and also face the question when out of it they told people cough and that they are doing a company called persistent surveillance systems tried to sell its technology to the lee county sheriff's department ultimately decided that i was in useful when dropped in the same type of technology was used to hunt people down in war zones like iraq and afghanistan. when you concoct the great experiment and get away with almost anything. i think that there's a fragment of law to force men particularly los angeles county that looks at compton as a war zone because of the poverty because of
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the crime statistics it is the attitude of the people in compton are for the people in compton are black. the people i come to the ground so we just won't tell them anything well just a wee one a deal the people come to the nike me take this out of a real surveillance has been pitched another pizza comes across to us. it has been bought yet as police departments continue to invest in new technology. citizens will increasingly be watched with hollywood style surveillance come to california for modelling go. rg. cam before we go don't forget to tune in for politicking with larry kane tonight's guests are james you are and of the young turks network and radio and television host larry elder here's mary and jane talking about mainstream media. this traditional media missing. and then not getting through and the digital one or so and yet he alright so that's a great upside of that in a world of nc on the trust issue. you earn people's trust the programs that are
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larger and on that over a long period of time so you know that the economy to the best information like we do right. and with the traditional media is missing is you're supposed to serve the audience the forgotten that this every advertisers are serving corporate parents they're serving politicians for access where to even get to the next songs they like about harry reid has a blog about mitch mcconnell. i'm not worried about her come on my show great don't go much i don't give it a great and so i tried to tell the audience page mcconnell is crony capitalism want to live in these massively corrupt and when harry reid is corrupt. i see that as well. the worry about it in the audience can smell to two million miles away. at ten and nine pm tonight here on rt america and that does it for now one year and a bed. you know. i
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knew. and the law. that is late. the thing to worry about raising more money just focus on fixing parts of the match between broken government we have. but according to statistics compiled at cbs. if obama had attended three hundred and seventy three fundraisers since you cannot have reduced to almost one boundaries there every five days while in office. every friday daddy p diddy with the money that dream job. the guardian show that obama had voted thirty five races last year that was one of them are packed with more than the last two presidents before him and ineffective. why we live in fort hood for a memorial
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service after the shooting rampage that just to play he made sure to attend a fundraiser to lunch at the ticket to atlanta to about sixty five thousand dollars per couple. that's more than the average household income in the us for your just don't have that stupid dinner with the president. what the meeting convened by her future. but the craziest thing is that the obama learned the reason for shooting while you but that's a fundraiser in chicago he just arrived this decal is in need of major donors according to one ceo of financial company really fair because who else would be never been given out during the event including the cats back. that didn't stop the most important event for the day wandering thing to get the less that by the end when brings you another one driving right past protesters shouting obama to the wind and all along the way and that he might be for the week
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of fundraising is not criminal defendant the problem we just keep talking about that just keeps getting worse and worse. and that's the money in politics the supreme court judges ruled that anyone can do is what they want where politicians and a brother for the corporations can buy their politicians to be had so much money. delving wanting to know that a politician wants to eat in the election. she believed that defends the majority of her time fundraising just heard over the other guys can't he. pretty soon our politicians will just be professional fundraisers that they aren't already. and don't know the actual job of representing. we now live in a country that had been loudly declared that we talk with our dollars that money is a form of beach. i mean i'm not about representatives will be free to represent we the people again let's talk about that right by me and
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treated as the president. i don't. the clothesline and jacob and i to tell. japanese prime minister tun sun than the last test and barak obama have agreed that ties between the countries of unshakable a bomb attached to identification aren't any case he said for the first time that the japan u s security treaty come as a single line ends in the east tennessee to panic and kelsey items china and taiwan claim them
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