well coming up on our t.v. thousands around the world are planning to say no to genetically modified crops marches against month santa are being planned over thirty nations activists will force their support for changes in the food industry like the labeling of genetically modified foods we'll have a preview of the global event just ahead then california a thirty three year old man died after half a dozen police officers kicked him and beat him with clubs now footage of the incident was captured by by standards but was confiscated by the authorities but more on this case and what's ahead for the officers involved coming up. as another sign of the u.s. is crumbling infrastructure a bridge near seattle washington collapsed with cars plunging into the water and some people injured but the bridge was found to be functionally obsolete more than

a year ago a look at this incident and the nation's infrastructure woes later in the show. well it's friday may twenty fourth four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret hell if you're watching our t.v. starting off this hour the march against month santo activists have announced a global protest set for may twenty fifth the focus month santo's reach in the global food supply now protesters scheduled to take place in more than thirty six countries including the united states and california nick burnaby one of the organizers says that they're looking to inform as well as protest against the proliferation of genetically modified foods. we want to spread awareness and we want to start from the ground so you know the very very you know the easiest thing you can do to know what's in your food is to grow your own you start there at the

very top is you know where we want labeling and. i think we should work from the ground up to have the best results while other organizers around the globe have similar intentions and greece organizer roberta google spoke about how critical the protests will be and austerity plague southern europe she said months into us working very hard to overturn iraqi elations on obligatory labeling and no doubt they will have their way in the end all of this following congress's passage of the so-called month santo protection act an amendment granting the biotech giant legal immunity in the u.s. with me to talk more about this is art his own understanding of church. let's talk about the magnitude of this upcoming protest now we know it's a worldwide affair but what are the numbers that we're talking about here. well margaret march against months and was a global grassroots movement which is going to organize these worldwide protests

taking place throughout the weekend all over the world we're talking about they're saying that this is going to span over six continents and up to fifty countries with four hundred global marches with as many as two hundred thousand participants in the united states alone in about forty eight states different action is going to be taking place so all of these people planning to flood out onto the streets throughout the world to speak out against this biotech giant accused of producing genetic genetically engineered food and agriculture accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences that the food that they produce can have on people throughout the world because this is a fact a global corporation also accused of the enormous lobbying power that this corporation has in washington for one where the amount of money it pumps into lobbying allows the passage of certain acts such as the monsanto protection act very controversial extremely criticized but also block any acts that would allow

liebling g m o's in the united states so certainly all of these issues but just more generally also people want to bring more attention to what it is that they're putting into themselves what they're eating and how they can prevent huge corporations such as monsanto from creating health consequences for people throughout the world what sounds like labeling is definitely a major issue here so i want to talk to you about these protester goals you know obviously this is a march against the biotech giant month santo but participants present themselves as a part of a much larger movement now apart from speaking out against months into are there any other goals that they have in mind. absolutely i mean these hundreds tens and hundreds of thousands of people coming out there not just walking out onto the streets to talk about you know being against you most and monsanto they do have the more narrow goals of pushing through liebling g m o's in the united states they're

also asking for things like further scientific research on the health consequences of genetically engineered engine ethically modified food so we're not just talking about monsanto particularly they're talking about these particular steps that the u.s. for example is yet to implement but also the more broader scale of bringing these issues to the attention of masses throughout the world and promoting not just with this march as planned throughout the weekend but also promoting a better food culture throughout throughout the world ok so i want to talk to you briefly about the power that months has in terms of congress and how they affect it so considering the lobbying power that corporations like months and to have here in washington do you think that this global market is going to achieve any tangible results. margaret that's you know a very good question because certainly monsanto does have immense immense lobbying powers immense powers in general when it comes to politicians in washington because

we do know of course that you know the not just the blocking of jumo liebling but also the certain connections they have very close ties with some people in washington d.c. we do know that one of the people that coauthored coauthored the monsanto protection act actually receive thousands of dollars worth of campaign contributions we know that a justice in the supreme court's got nominated there after being an attorney at monsanto so certainly lots of these ties are of a big concern to people and many activists are saying that basically this is one of the things that also needs to be tackled and exactly how many people come out onto the streets and exactly how much of an impact in a loud voice they will have is going to determine whether or not certain policies will be implemented to reflect the opinion of all of these people but so far this has been a major battle and certainly the activists against monsanto even though protests have been numerous throughout the years because this is of course a corporation that's existed for over a century tackling

a giant like that is certainly a very complicated matter and whether or not it's going to happen is going to take some time for us to find out ok so we're running out of time here but i just want to get your opinion you've covered the occupy protest movement before is i understand it now do you expect a lot of the same people and activists snail to show up for this march it's very likely margaret because you know some of these issues are very intertwined the issues that were brought up by occupy wall street and certainly you know the ninety nine percent versus the one percent the power of the corporations on in washington all of these things are related to monsanto and all of these things were expected for people to talk about throughout the weekend certainly so i'm sure the occupy wall street movement is definitely going to be part of this crowd tomorrow and says here we have to leave it there think you so much for that that was going to. well the beating of david silva a father of four in california central valley garnered national attention after it

was reported that deputies took away the cell phones of people who witnessed the confrontation between silva and kern county sheriff's deputies the sheriff's an ounce of the case other cause of death rather was hypertensive heart disease well critics say that law enforcement is trying to cover up details of this death and now the f.b.i. is involved and regardless of what the video shows the big has already highlighted a growing fear in minority communities that they have towards law enforcement arts his or mental endo has been following the story. of the memory on the floor and your police beat the. frantic nine one one calls document the final moments of david silva his life grainy security video shows what is believed to be several kern county deputies repeatedly striking silva for too long the kern county sheriff's department strikes first and ask questions after the shift done to young blood claims the death was an accident the result of hypertensive heart disease and

that silva fought deputies mr silva continued to fight he said when they would try to hold him down he would bump them off he was simply covering up and trying to prevent injury to himself as these blows and dog bites are being inflicted on guns as this alleged beating is part of a troubling trend of police misconduct and is seeking justice for the father of four a magic. learning not only that your father died but that he died in such a violent way david silva came to kern medical center in order to get help from mental health services that's according to the silva family attorney he then came across the street and to this neighborhood this is where the daily confrontation happened as you can see a memorial has been set up where it's believed that silva took his final breath now many in this neighborhood said that they don't want to speak to us on camera or simply said they don't know anything which speaks volumes about the new fears that

the community has for law enforcement from almost it's not right that you don't know who to trust now i mean they can place we've asked let the said this is among the several immigrant families who live near the scene where civil died she did not see the beating but after hearing what happened she's a lot more concerned for her own safety yes i'm worried i can't go out at night so comfortably and before witnesses say that the deputies confiscated their cell phones and some of the video of the incident is now missing. but. the cell phone video which was released by the kern county sheriff appears to show several officers over a man who was crying in pain imagine your last memories of your son of your brother of your father are his screams and cries for help.

while the f.b.i. has begun to investigate the circumstances of sivits death this case has not drawn the outrage that was seen following other lethal police encounters. the death of kelly thomas prompted street protests as did the killing of charles hill in northern california well the silva family seeks justice it appears for the moment that the fear police is keeping this agricultural town quiet in bakersfield california but i'm telling the r.t.e. . well for more on this case i'm joined now by our teams remember window from los angeles well known give us a brief background of some of the controversies surrounding this case sure margaret well it was on may eighth when david silva at the age of thirty three died following that confrontation with police now it's reported that he had gone to the hospital for help at the mental health department he crossed the street and ended up passing out a neighbor's yard deputies were responding to a call of an intoxicated man and at some point there was

a of some sort of aggressive move either by the deputy or by mr silva no the sheriff yesterday has come out and backed up his deputies trying to say that silva was the aggressor and that the deputies had to use their baton on him however deputies say that it was excuse me witnesses say that it was the deputies who were the aggressors and that they used excessive force against a man who was on the ground for such a long time ok i want to get to that sheriff statement in a minute but first i want to ask you so the latest developments in this case as i understand it now can you talk to me about that you know what's happening now is it just a he said he said or is any is any headway being made. sure well this started to cause a lot of controversy because some of the witnesses who took video of the incident say that deputies had taken their cell phone cameras so there was this these accusations that there might be

a cover up over the deputy says that there is no cover up and that it was mr silva who was the aggressor now yesterday sheriff don a younger came out and said that the cause of mr silva's death was were not the injuries caused by the deputies but instead was hard disease and that the matter of death was accidental however the civil family is very unhappy about that announcement they said that they were expecting the sheriff to be unapologetic cover they say they're still going to be pursuing justice in this case and they plan on moving forward following of federal complaints for wrongful death and civil rights violations ok so i understand it many people were several people at least got their cell phone cameras out and recorded exactly what happened to this man is there any specifically maria melendez did she get her phone back and if so was the evidence still on it. that's right well maria melendez is one of the witnesses who say that she videotaped the incident however these phones were returned and there

was no video of the alter cation on ms melendez says phone now another witness who videotaped the incident his video was released and it doesn't show deputies. hitting mr diaz directly however you can hear in the video mr di is screaming in was it appears. a great amount of pain so right now the f.b.i. is still looking at some of the evidence to see if anything had been erased ok so i want to taking out of the bakersfield sheriff's department i understand that the bakersfield sheriff he did release a statement on this case what did he have to say about you know mr silvis death here. oh well anyway he tried to say that it wasn't anything that the deputies did that contributed to him to mr

silva dying what they say is that mr silva was the aggressor and that this heart disease was caused by. you know prior high blood pressure prior drug use his overweight so he's obviously trying to deflect some of the attention that the deputies have been receiving in recent days following this beating however since witnesses are still same that their story doesn't line up with what the deputies are saying there's still a lot of uncertainty about exactly what happened we're still waiting to see of more videos and more audio recordings will be coming out in the next coming days because i understand that there are other nine one one calls which also contradict the story that the deputies have been saying in the media i see so basically they're saying it was a heart condition and not the ton beating or the dogs ok the f.b.i. as i understand it has become involved in this case have they reached any conclusion at all on their side. sure well i gave the f.b.i.

office in sacramento a call today they weren't able to give me any concrete details as far as which way their investigation is going to however they will say that it is active they were able to return the phones they're starting to look at the forensic evidence to see if anybody either did deputies or the witnesses you race anything from the phones are also looking into whether the deputies there in current county committed any sort of federal crime so they're still taking a look at this and now activists after the announcement that the sheriff gave saying that this death was accidental in his words now some activists there in the area are actually are asking the department of justice to step in to make sure that there is enough on me for cutting you off we have to leave it there are a lot of valuable information that was r.t. correspondent rym uncle and oh well a large portion of interstate five just north of seattle washington collapsed thursday night sending two cars and their passengers plunging into the frigid cold

skagit river below well luckily everyone survived the collapse now the events were eerily reminiscent of another bridge crumbling in downtown minneapolis during rush hour back in two thousand and seven artie's mega lopez brings us the latest on america's crumbling infrastructure. we've got a lot of cars whizzing biases you see it's going to be slow going for a while it was just a normal thursday evening in seattle tired workers are getting home on the interstate five bridge now us that says there are other ways to get to the highways i five and i ninety of course when suddenly two of those cars that were driving over that beautiful skag at river ended up in it we have breaking news tonight the i five bridge over the gadget river has collapsed without warning a large section of the fifty eight year old bridge collapsed reportedly caused when a truck struck the side this is gotta stop we are bridges can't fall down we can't have a collapsing infrastructure that kills people hurt people. leaves us unsafe that's

just not the country we promise to be over the course of the last fifty years the u.s. has experienced one bridge collapse after another some of them resulted in dozens of deaths others in relatively few from ohio to florida minnesota to alabama headlines of infrastructure tragedies have captured headlines and even our nation's capital can't escape from infrastructure disasters in fact i was standing here on fourteenth an extreme just about a block or so away from the white house and if you look over here you'll see what washington d.c. is dealing with this is a massive sinkhole that opened up in the middle of the street so as you can see it's not just our bridges that are suffering from our infrastructure collapses it's also our roads and our waterways so with this long history of tragedy was there any way to predict the interstate five bridge collapse well let's look at the facts the bridge was built back in one thousand fifty five when it was inspected last year it

had a sufficiency rating of just forty seven out of one hundred but that low rating isn't out of the ordinary for american infrastructure and that's because we're being alap by the rest of the world in fact the american society of civil engineers has given the u.s. a d. plus rating when it comes to overall infrastructure for twenty thirteen and the group predicts that. it takes some three point six trillion dollars by two thousand and twenty to fix this growing problem now a new bill was introduced in congress today called the partnership to build america act but that bill could take months to pass and the fact is that america's infrastructure has a long road ahead of it before it can go into cruise control in washington meghan lopez r.t. president obama gave his reasons for the u.s. deployment of drones a broad yesterday in a major speech regarding america's counterterrorism efforts as well as restating his intentions to close down the detention facility at guantanamo bay they were made to be seen whole bomb as new comprehensive drone strategy it will affect the

counterterrorism debates at the white house believes its newly minted in guidelines will serve as a way to bring clarity on its drone program was that the case artists political comment commentator sam sachs explains in november of two thousand and twelve a cia drone strike in yemen killed adnan al qaida he was accused of being an operative with a q a p one of those associated forces of al qaeda are those details are still murky now a year many political analyst told mcclatchy news quote it is inconceivable to imagine that al qaida could not have been taken into custody alive and his brother was interviewed saying quote we could have made sure he turned himself in that no one was guilty of any crime than arrest him put him on trial. since the drone war began there are thousands of stories just like this as many as five thousand perhaps more people have been killed in targeted drone strikes from the air but also includes a civilian death toll perhaps into the thousands though it is very difficult to

know for sure but in his speech on thursday the president unveiled what the white house calls a new presidential policy guideline for targeted drone strikes it was signed by the president this week and this is apparently brand new and white house officials say these brand new guidelines have evolved over time and represent quote the codification of the highest standards that the administration has pursued in the course of the last several years and that is meant as a baseline to guide us going forward. now the details of this new presidential policy guideline on targeted killings are still shrouded over the white house did provide a glimpse into some of these guidelines and they include a near certainty that the terrorist target is present near certainty that the noncombatants will not be injured or killed an assessment that capture is not feasible at the time of the operation and an assessment that no other reasonable alternatives exist to effectively address the threat to u.s. persons but the question is do these new guidelines change anything after all

previous guidelines laid out by john brennan as recently as april two thousand and twelve did not save adnan al qada from a lethal drone strike even though evidence is pretty clear that he could have been captured alive nor did they save the hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians killed in drone strikes since the program began so again what impact may these new guidelines have and we do know that drone strikes and civilian deaths are down around the world in fact that white house officials attribute to these new more stringent guidelines so does that mean drone strikes carried out in the past several years under the obama administration like the one that killed adnan al qaida are no longer permissible under these new guidelines announced by the president in his speech on thursday well if that's the case then that is a small though important policy change that could eventually lead to more significant targeted killing policy changes down the road and it also indicates

that pressure coming from the left to pressure the president experienced firsthand when medea benjamin of code pink interrupted his speech thursday is working. but is it too little too late with the mid-term elections looming followed by the lame duck phase of his presidency barack obama is running out of time to explicitly and legally rein in the kill powers of the executive branch powers that a new president may or may not have the same zeal to use while stocking the planet with killer robots in washington sam sacks r.t. coca-cola the iconic american brand thrives off its history and promotes its all truism in advertising but the residents for a harvest takes a closer look at coke's impact on the world and questions whether it should really be always coca-cola.

coca-cola wants to buy the world a coke and if you believe what they say it's because they want to spread peace love and brotherhood to everyone but their history of lacing their products with coke cavemen doing business with lot of moland death squads and colombian paramilitary and pioneering the super sizing of america all points of their having another agenda in his newly released book for god country and coca-cola mark pendergast explores how coca-cola has just because of business practices filled one of the world's biggest brands the first obvious horrible practice to start with his brain in its name coca-cola was named for its two principle of drug ingredients

cocoa for cocaine and cola for the colon that which contains cathy coke contains the highly addictive drug called pavement up until one thousand nine hundred twenty eight and then once that drug was finally taken out the company had to rely on other tactics to accomplish its goal of getting a coke in every single human being hands they used world war two to establish dominance abroad after the attack on pearl harbor at the u.s. government's expense coke employee were dressed up in army uniforms and given the completely made up name of technical observer then they were sent around the world to establish sixty four bottling plants behind the line the plant has. missions them perfectly to expand globally after the war today you can pretty much be anywhere on the planet except for cuba north korea and get

a coke even in places where few people have clean drinking water or electricity think about that. in the late seventy's coca-cola used a guatemalan bottle or who allegedly hired death squads to actually murder employees trying to unionize. anything to keep costs low and profits how i write coca-cola the same thing happened again in cold bottling plants in colombia in the one nine hundred ninety s. and then not very long ago coca-cola also had no problem with not fees apparently advertising in bottling their product in germany under hitler. thanks in part to coca-cola is relentless marketing and dedication to super sizing both its products and its bottom line sugary devoid of nutrition sodas are the main source of calories in the american diet according to

a study at tufts university so coca-cola my fave they want to buy the world of coke just to keep the company but actions speak louder than words and since the us has become the united states of corporations it's fitting that coca-cola would be the perfect symbol of america if that. that the real thing. tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the red button. that's going to do it for now for more on these stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website at r.t. dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter it underscored j underscore hell stay tune prime interest is next. the same story doesn't make it news no song no poppy food i mean tom clancy thank you.

mission free cretaceous free in-store chargers free. range minster free. free. to tide free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects for free media dog hearty dot com you.

more news today violence is once again flared up fluently. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day. it's so cool.

good afternoon oh welcome the prime interest i'm harry i'm boring here and washington d.c. and these are the stories that we're trying to. hold what i thought the banks are writing their own legislation that's what a new york times article or of the old one bill in particular is carving out exemptions for trades of from new what regulation according to the times the bill which quote was essentially citi group sailed through the house financial services committee and cigarettes recommendations were reflected in more than seventy lines of the house committee eighty five line bill while this probably comes as no surprise that the trend of banks growing increasing influence is getting noticed which is probably not good for mr dimon at all and embattled hedge fund.