coming up on our t.v. you remember dolly the sheep when she was cloned in the ninety's it caused quite a controversy so how would you feel about a three d. printed human it's a question we're asking today. and a real life battle of david and goliath proportions monsanto is battling a small farmer all the way to the supreme court coming up a look at the biotech giants battle to protect its seeds. and ivy league interrogation reports says that yale is partnering with the pentagon for a training center on interrogation techniques and will dive deep into the end though we've gathered this story ahead. it's tuesday february nineteenth five pm here in washington d.c.

i'm liz wahl in you're watching our team. we begin in texas where another child adopted from russia has died in november of two thousand and twelve three year old fema cruz mian was adopted by the shadow family in gardendale texas they renamed ten max and less than three months later the young boy died members of the russian government expressed anger that they have only now learned of max's death and are blaming the death on parental abuse today russia's parliament observed a moment of silence dedicated to the boy and artie's honest. report from texas russian officials are outraged at yet another case of the death of a russian child living an adoptive family in the united states we're standing outside the home of alan and laura shadow parents two three year old max shadow known in russia as my mean the three year old boy after suffering severe bruises to

his legs head and internal organs had died in january this year just a few weeks after his third birthday right now his parents are not making any statements if you call their voicemail it says if you're a reporter or news agency we have no comment now according to russian officials the investigation that they're conducting they're saying allegedly was the mother of the child that was behind his death they're saying not only was the child severely bruised but had also been fed for a long time anti-psychotic drugs meant to treat sky free mia in adults a drug that is sold by prescription in the united states we do know that the younger brother of much continues living with the family now not only is this death coming out a very tragic tragic circumstances but also a very sensitive time this is the twentieth time in seventeen years where russian child living in the u.s. family tragically dies the most well known case is the case of. a two year old boy

who died after being abandoned by his father in his car in the. blistering sun and after this occurred russia had adopted a law banning u.s. adoptions of russian children we do know right now that moscow is conducting a very in-depth investigation coordinating with local officials russian officials are also saying that it's outrageous that the u.s. state department had failed to provide any information on this death for as long as a month the u.s. state department has so far failed to provide any reasonable explanation as to why it took so long for officials in moscow to be informed of this case the russian foreign ministry says it is looking to investigate this case until a punishment is conducted to whoever is behind. here at the ector county sheriff's office an investigation is currently ongoing in cooperation with russian officials and local child protection services on the afternoon of january twenty first the local police department had received a call from a local hospital emergency room while

a police officer was on his way there the three year old boy had already died currently an autopsy is underway and the police is not really releasing any further details in terms of what they can tell us about this case what we do know is according to them the autopsy results may come as soon as this afternoon to any time from a month from now these tell us that there are no suspects in this case as of yet and no arrests have been made and. after county texas. well our tear earlier spoke to nira radia been the author of the stork market and former director of the american adoption congress about this tragic case coming out of texas. this is been the ongoing problem and we're russia has been demanding for more from the u.s. for years is follow up but the united states is not set up to follow up on adoptions once they're finalized that's been a thorn in the side of russian officials for good reason with these now twenty

cases of abuse that have resulted in the death of these twenty children and we don't know how many other children are living with abuse or you know that haven't died from it. and that was mere ribbon author of the stork market and we will keep you updated as the investigation continues. well out of a story that sounds like something out of a science fiction movie scientists literally printing organs and other body tissue the idea is if you need a new knee or heart the body part can be created by a three d. printer researchers from the university of edinburgh have created a machine that prints out embryonic stem cells of this may bring back memories of dolly the sheep remember her back in the late ninety's she was the first mammal to be cloned in she was living proof that a clone can be produced from a cell taken from the body oh dolly in mind and what scientists working on being

able to print body parts is it just a matter of time before humans can be cloned for more on this fascinating and perhaps scary technology r.t. correspondent very important i joined us now hi there marina so we hear we've reported on three d. printing everything from guns to food. what are some of the other ways that developers are looking to use this technology. well right now liz experts are using three d. technology to develop something that's been dubbed bio printing major universities corporate laboratories and biomedical engineers are printing experimental heart valves need cartilage is bone implants kidney cells and even healing tissue now three d. bio printing essentially squirts ink of the living cells to build up to shoot structure eventually biomedical engineer is hoped to print out taylor tissue suitable for surgery and entire organs that can be used in transplants experts

say that ideally they would like to create organs for those that are on lists waiting for organs and possibly you know in life circumstances in dire life circumstances so pioneers of this bio printing believe it will be a huge benefit to to the public and to the medical community but quite eerie knowing that a technology can create two shoes and organs possibly in the i mean certainly something like this can transform or the medical community science as we know it. raises a lot of questions i want to bring up this project it's called stranger visions and we have some pictures from this project where you're looking at there are three d. portraits and these portraits are based on a person's d.n.a. in this artist's take someone's genetic code and from that code can literally create a face based on what this person would look like so people you know marina leave

behind traces of their genetic code everywhere they go from hair follicles to skin particles so how far is something like this from becoming a reality. not that far at all what this brooklyn artist aim to do was she said that she found hairs on the streets throughout new york city and essentially tried to tried to create. faces that were touched the d.n.a. of that and the hairs that she found but there is a software called face gent that can create three d. faces from just a few photographs so i could essentially use a few photographs of you liz never possibly two of even i've met you use photographs of you and then create a three d. image of you which is quite scary because with these three d. printing if we don't know how far will go how far will develop and to know that a stranger can find a piece of your hair or your cigarette but if you smoke or

a glass that you drank out of or even a few pictures of you and create a three d. facial structure of you is is a bit terrifying i mean forget about surveillance and privacy issues knowing that a stranger could do something like that to you it doesn't mean it doesn't keep a sense of calm within the public and this is just the start of it who knows how it will develop five years from now for some of this absolutely sounds terrifying it's almost humans playing this role of god creating body parts creating other other humans other living things we had mentioned that was cloned years back is this kind of a pathway to to cloning a human being. you know i don't know if i would use the word cloning maybe some would it could be a pathway to building a human being or replicating a human being look back in two thousand and two the movie minority report was just

a size five movie but now the surveillance and the drones that we saw in the movie a little over a decade ago have become a reality today so who knows how far this bio printing the three d. printing the face gen software how far it will advance five years from now maybe a person can be cloned or a pair person can be replicate. between their photographs between the hair and their d.n.a. in between the it also add to that the virtual identity that most people have created for themselves online through social media through uses of skype through e-mail essentially there's a footprint of someone everywhere be through your hair or your activity online and that could essentially be duplicated with all this new software and technology that's pioneering right now and fascinating to say the least thanks for that report that was our t. correspondent marina poor in iowa from our new york studios. with the case of

a giant seed corporation against small farmers the supreme court that is here in the case of monsanto versus this indiana farmer a seventy five year old man by the name of vernon hugh bowman monsanto was accusing him of infringing on their seed but he's not the only small farmer the seed giant has fought in court monsanto has launched one hundred forty four lawsuits against four hundred farmers and fifty six small farm businesses months and so along with two other companies owns more than half of the global seed market so what kind of case does months and months and tell have and do these small farmers stand a chance to discuss i was joined earlier by patty lovera assistant director of food and water watch and i began by asking her about monsanto is right to protect their power and the company's argument is that they've pumped tons of money into research and development and have the right to control their product but the various as many farmers hope that that is not the case. farmers all over the world and you know all

over this country are watching this case because this is one of the critical issues involved there's a lot of issues with biotechnology with genetically engineered crops and this is one of the big ones is should a company have a right to patent these seeds and so the fact that it's made it to the supreme court means that there's legal issues to be explored here and lots of farmers all over this country and around the world really are hoping that though that monsanto does not come out of this with the right to continue to patent things in this way which has really changed really changed how agriculture works you know in the course of the regulation of let's talk more about these legal issues i know that these farmers are monsanto is saying that once these farmers plant the seeds even the offspring of these seeds month sandow has the rights to what's at stake here so that's kind of what's at stake so this farmers saying i buy seeds that we're the next generation removed from what you patented that patent should apply here anymore and months into saying the patent applies forever and so that's i mean

that's really incredibly dramatic change to the way people have done agriculture since agriculture was started people save seeds that's part of what domestic eating food sources want to kind of raises this question of how long can they control the seeds is there for the next generation is there for generations to come can they control the offspring of these seeds forever right out of this case is about that's what the fight is about and you know a lot of folks including us including lots of format because all over the world think that this is just an inappropriate use of a patent there are other lawsuits to try to deal with this patent issue as well months and of course is enormous they along with two other companies they own more than half of the seeds the seed market in the world do small farmers stand a chance against this company. it's a great question the question we're dealing with in every venue of government you know in and to date months and has gotten what they've wanted they've written a lot of the rules and regulations for how we approve these crops the fact that we don't have labeling of foods made from these crops i mean that's all because the biotechnology industry months into is a huge player in that industry they have

a lot of political power but you know i mean there's an argument here there's some legal theory here and we have to see what the court decides but there's also really at the same time this is happening people all around the world and all around the country are saying enough is enough and they're demanding a change in these rules and they're demanding labeling so there are people that are really getting involved to try to take some of the power back and this is being now argued in the supreme court let's say that they rule in monsanto's favor what would be implications of that be how would that affect small farmers across the u.s. i mean we're going to pay more for their seeds and that's been happening since you know since we've seen a lot more biotechnology in agriculture since you know more and more a bigger percentage all the time of you know corn and soybeans and cotton farmers are paying more and a large part of what they're paying is fees the technology fee for this patent and so if you know if the outcome of this is that monsanto can go generation after generation after generation it's more money for them and that money comes out of the for the pockets of farmers now what about the consumer for the average of you

are wondering how this is going to affect them i mean will it or how will it affect people's bottom lines when they when they go to the grocery store it's a good question it's hard to you know it's hard to pinpoint what causes what to happen in food price but there's a lot of hype and a lot of p.r. from the biotechnology industry about how this is going to feed the world that everyone's going to have cheap food because of this people are having a cheap food experience right now when they go to the grocery store you know for many folks who does is almost out of reach and you know we've had biotechnology for all these years it hasn't really made our food that much cheaper and it's happening on the backs of farmers and it's really changing who's farming how they're farming we have a lot less choices than we used to in the market now is there is this is there this fear if monsanto were to win that. he would kind of have this right to monopolize the seat in industry and implications like that they're pretty close to monopolise in the seat industry now so i mean they control a huge portion of the seat industry and they also control the genetics of what other companies use in their seeds so you know we're all hoping for

a good outcome at the supreme court i don't have a crystal ball i don't know what's going to happen but congress can weigh in on this we can change the laws to into that's for the political equation comes in we have to build more political power to fight back against this biotechnology where we don't have too much time left but one of the big arguments monsanto is making in other huge agra giants but not even agricultural companies other companies like technology companies pharmaceutical companies they are saying that this case could potentially impact. so when it comes to medicine when it comes to new technology that their patents are risk and this could set the precedent for that what's your response to that concern how this could have wide ranging implications for all kinds of industries and in the u.s. and in the patent law expert but i think most people in a gut level think you should be able to patent life i mean a corollary or a parallel case to this is about patenting human genes and whether you can use those for biotechnology and i think that really crosses the line for a lot of people and when it comes down to this food is different we're not talking

about the latest cell phone we're not talking about some fancy new technology this is about whether people going to afford be able to afford to forment afford to eat and we need to look at that in a smart way that doesn't give all the power to one set of folks like monsanto a very interesting argument now being argued in front of the highest court and we will be keeping a close eye on how this all plays out really appreciate coming to the studio that was patty lovera assistant director of food and water watch. an ivy league university is facing scrutiny over its partnership with the military and teaching soldiers interrogation tactics yale university has agreed to partner with the department of defense to open up a training center to teach soldiers how to effectively question subjects' these are research proven ways they say and making people feel more comfortable and open up when be in question one of the many controversial aspects of this program is that the new center is using new haven's immigrant community as test subjects here is what the director of the program dr charles morgan told r.t. exclusively quote there is no plan for anything related to training interrogators

as part of a larger proposal to help soldiers say well and resilience i suggest that we offer basic interviewing scales like the ones we teach medical students or use in psychiatry that are focused on understanding other people and on being non-hostile non-threatening and that promote positive regard for each other the army like the like that idea well some students and other members of the community are not liking the idea and earlier i spoke with our producer rachel curteous about this issue essentially it's called modified cognitive interviewing and it's something that dr charles morgan in conjunction with some of his colleagues developed in essentially it's about using psychiatry taking the psychiatry techniques to better interview people so the idea is instead of kind of showing that you're really strong and intense or that say you don't believe people so for instance they don't use lie detectors because that creates the idea that already you're distrustful of them instead they try and use you know as he said people skills they try and be very

comfortable they try and create a more comfortable situation so that people feel good about letting about giving away in the trying to make them feel that he is right i'm not your enemy i'm your i'm your friend exactly like here i am just trying to make you feel comfortable you feel at home we're on the same team here and it's essentially the idea is that. people military relies on intelligence from people on the ground and that if you're a little too forceful in trying to get that intelligence from people the likelihood that it's going to be correct actually decreases all right well some people are not liking this and i actually i want to read this part it's our in this clip it's from the yale daily news says quote it seems evident that yale would not train foreign military operatives to interrogate informants yele as an institution does not cannot align itself blindly with the goals of other militaries spoke who is to say we should align ourselves with u.s. foreign policy so i know interesting question that these students bring up can you

talk more about some of the controversy in the way students are responding to this shirt so i think that editorial says a lot of the concern which is that listen gail is a global institution it's supposed to dedicate itself to learning from people throughout the world in and to be so brazenly on the side of the u.s. military in this instance might be seen as alienating or even worsening the ability of the institution to do its main job which is to educate so you know essentially they're very explicitly a gale university is very explicitly partnering with the u.s. department of defense special operations command in order to do this i've been given a one point eight million dollar grant to start what's called the center of excellence for operational neuroscience and that center explicitly says that its main goal is to improve military intelligence so it's not to serve any purpose is for the school gale itself or its students but is actually devoted entirely to improving military intelligence interesting and want to talk about one of them are controversial aspects of this project and it is that they are using immigrants in new haven

population in the community there there's plenty of immigrants it's a diverse community. why use these immigrants what is the rationale behind that so that you're right i think that this is perhaps the most controversial aspect of the in. higher idea is that they're essentially saying we want to use immigrants because they are different explicitly they are different from americans and so they might do a better job of creating this in environment where in people feel a little feel like they have less in common and it's trying to bridge those gaps of them make them feel better but what people are saying is you know you're explicitly saying that first of all the people in the military say are all the all these green berets who are going to be doing the interviewing are white versus you know these non nonwhite immigrants the charles morgan in his response me regarding this he said you know i have the good fortune of having wonderful community relations with many non white communities and they've been eager to be

a part of my educational teaching events i can't corroborate whether that's true that's certainly what he said about it they get the people who. participate do get a small stipend for their participation they get more money if they actually trick these green berets into thinking that they've been told the truth when they've been told a lie but the question is could this lead to further ilian nation among immigrant communities in new haven who are kind of being explicitly courted for their difference it's certainly a possibility i guess and these cases they're being treated as if they are well the enemy and the battlefield laying the enemy in this case yes i mean i don't know why you would sign up for that but. if the hundred dollars looks good i want i want to ask you of more out of what the director of this program is saying he's saying you know this is more of just teaching friendly questioning how to get somebody to be almost trying to get somebody to be your friend and these are teaching non-hostile . threatening. respectful ways of communicating with each other to gain information

from each other and on the surface that doesn't sound so bad i mean it certainly sounds better than waterboarding right i mean that's much better than to teach people skills by which they're getting information in in a kind of friendship way but we can't forget that this is a means to an end so they're trying to. opportunities by which they can get information if they think it's better is through acting as if they're friends that's fine but the bottom line here is still to get the best quality military intelligence very interesting thanks for shedding some light on this interesting story that was our producer rachel courtesy as. now to the issue of painkiller abuse in the u.s. a bipartisan group in congress is putting pressure on the food and drug administration to take action they aim is to make addictive prescription drugs harder to obtain by changing the way they are classified with lawmakers saying one hundred thirty nine million hydrocodone painkiller prescriptions sold since two thousand and ten were talking about regulating one of the top sold meds in the

country for more dr lynn webster president of the american academy of pain medicine joins us now welcome doctor so can you tell us more about the effects of changing this classification system what would that do in terms of changing the ease at which patients can obtain these addictive drugs in some in some cases addictive. well we don't know exactly what the implications are going to be but likely to be far reaching one way or another as you pointed out in the introduction there a lot of a lot of this medication is being prescribed there's probably far more of that man prescribe than is necessary in fact we know that with some studies as much as sixty percent of hydrocodone formulations are never used by their patients they just go into the medicine cabinet and then that becomes a portal for diversion and unfortunately that can lead to a significant problem by non-medical users on the flip side of that though because

it's a schedule three a lot of patients have had. access to this medication because it is easier to call in. it's easier to get renewals and some patients may not be able to get access to this because it will probably cost more and. as a result of that they'll have larger co-pays and it'll even cost the insurance companies more so we really don't know what implications. or impact this is going to have long term so do you think that this is an adequate way to woodcraft the issue press can't prescription painkiller abuse or it doesn't sound like you are convinced. well i don't know i mean i don't have a crystal ball as to what impact this is going to have let let's be clear though. the problem is not hydrocodone the problems hydrocodone abuse and we know that some of the more dangerous drugs the ones that are of is the most are already scheduled to so it's not clear to me by rescheduling hydrocodone to

a schedule two that it's going to have the impact that everyone hopes that it would have and i mean everyone wants to see less prescription drug abuse in the country there's far this is a big problem it is a national poll out if not changing the classification system what do you think should be done to address this problem to curb abuse because we see that the problem is on the rise yeah well. it can hardly rise much more i mean we got a significant problem i think physicians need to be educated and so do patients in our communities that's that's fundamental first i think physicians need to understand that we're prescribing more than is necessary when there's so much of it left over nearly two thirds of it's left over that means we're prescribing far more than is necessary and it's getting into the hands of kids and people who shouldn't have it right then secondly people need to understand these are powerful drugs they're dangerous they're lethal when used in an unintended way and so if you if

they're left over or you take them at a party you may die yeah power is addictive in some cases we're seeing doctor what do you think should be done then to curb to curb this problem of abuse what do you think should be done what needs to change. a large part of it is our cultural attitude towards the medications you know most of the problem of addiction is is a genetic vulnerability under a stressful or difficult environment. there are a lot of drugs out there that can lead to an addiction the opioids are certainly fall into that category benzodiazepines alcohol there are a lot of drugs and oftentimes when. one drug is no longer available another win becomes more widely abused so it's kind of like squeezing the balloon unless we appreciate and understand the the causes and the motives for

a substance abuse we're probably never going to solve the problem we're just going to change the chemical that we're using and on the flip side i do want to ask you how do you think with strict in all our kind of regulating what the doctor can do how can that impact the doctor patient relationship. well you know most of the medications or i should say the opioids that we prescribe today are scheduled in and you know it'll be a little bit of a struggle particularly with this particular drug because it is so commonly prescribed i think that the surgeons are going to have a greater difficulty than probably the primary care or the pain specialist because we have a longer standing relationship with most of our patients so i think that's workable i'm not sure that that is is a big issue. i think though that the patients are going to have to find different ways to access the medication they probably are going to be given different medications in some instances that are not as effective but what i fear is that so

they may even be prescribed a drug that is more dangerous and we are going to have to leave it off there but i really do appreciate you weighing and that was dr lynn webster president of the american academy of pain medicine and we're going to turn now to abby martin who's going to give us a preview of what is to come on her show kicking off in thirty minutes abby so you know general stanley mcchrystal general the former general his idea for getting more cultured and learn about the world guess what it is i don't know he wants to instill the draft he says that going over the barrel of a gun will help us learn about other cultures of the worlds we're talking about this outrageous statement he made along with of course the news of the day monsanto's court case it was a pretty court versus the indiana farmer that much more check out break in the next thirty minutes thanks for that update out there but that is going to do it for the news now from around the stories we covered you can always check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash r t america our web site r t dot com slash usa and you can fall.