coming up on r t u.s. troops may soon be gone from afghanistan the pentagon is preparing a full withdrawal of all troops after the u.s. and afghan governments could reach a bilateral security agreement what does this mean for the future of afghanistan find out just ahead. and the line between church and state below or is in the u.s. military american service members have come forward with claims that religion has been forced on them during training and while on duty a closer look at that coming up. a new study cast a weary months santo herbicides the study claims that round up may be linked with the war americans suffering from celiac disease blast of that possible leader in

the show. it's wayne's day february twenty sixth eight pm and the washington d.c. area and boring you are watching r t america the pentagon is preparing a full withdrawal of troops from afghanistan by the end of two thousand and fourteen president obama phoned afghan president hamid karzai on tuesday to discuss afghanistan's coming elections and the bilateral security agreement since president karzai refused to sign the agreement the white house said that they will resort to the so-called the euro option but options actually do remain on the table here is white house press secretary jay carney. the president has. tasked the pentagon with preparing for the contingency that there will be no troops

in afghanistan beyond two thousand and fourteen but we are also. remaining open to the possibility of a post twenty fourteen. troop presence should a bilateral security agreement he signed or the security agreement be signed later in the year. negotiations over the security agreement have been a diplomatic mess karzai says hello leave the signing of the deal to his successor there are eleven people running for his seats with an election on april fifth so the candidates have said they would sign the agreement with the u.s. however analysts are saying obama's trying to pressure karzai to approve the accord himself by moving forward with this zero option this decision that comes just a few days after u.s. military leaders submitted their recommendation for president obama to keep ten thousand troops in afghanistan after twenty fourteen which begs the question is

president obama more concerned with filling campaign promises of ending the war rather than completing the mission could the afghanistan scenario play out like the pull out of iraq in two thousand and eleven they are the president removed all u.s. troops from the country after the u.s. failed to reach a security agreement that would grant american troops immunity today out has taken back here areas of iraq and as america's longest war nears its end afghans and their neighbors are nervous about the resurgence and the region as well pakistani officials have said they're concerned about the afghan military ability to stand up to the taliban and other fundamentalist groups many republicans on capitol hill say the u.s. needs to keep special forces and drone bases and the country to continue america's own fight against the terrorist so after billions of u.s.

dollars poured into propping up afghanistan to fight the taliban what if they're not ready to stand up for themselves. the first amendment of the constitution clearly establishes a separation between church and state congress shall make no law for threatening establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise their up but should this apply to the military to the military religious freedom foundation have collected accounts from service members who say were lived in have been forced on them in mandatory military training in some cases of religious extremist in the military have even used religion as justification for going to war are. going to have more. of the role of islam in wars the us is involved in has been debated for years islamic islamic islam but any religion can be taken to an extreme and american soldiers are no exception they break it though somebody's got to be in

a sense given the bible is right in serving its enormous fundamentals christianity is electrically intertwined into the very d.n.a. of the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind which is our united states military this active us military officer asking for anonymity and fear for his safety says his life has been turned into a living hell by those he serves with because he's not christian. who were asked. the officer says he has reached out to higher ups for help only to receive threats of being stripped of his rank and kicked out of the military i could no more. i was excluded. i was. wanted. the military religious freedom foundation represents over thirty six thousand

active duty members of the u.s. military ninety six percent of whom are christians coming to their position feeling oppressed for not being christian enough claims its founder where we're dealing with a radical type of religiosity again not the islamic version but what's known as fundamentalist or dominion christianity well religion can certainly provide solace to soldiers out on the battlefield we have a variety of denominations and faith groups. protestant catholic muslim jewish buddhist hindu chaplains who serve in our military right now again so that our military personnel can exercise their religious liberties what some experts say religious intolerance has reached unprecedented levels in the u.s. military over the last decade whether they're putting jesus those verses for example on their him six teams or painting their bradley fighting vehicles with

christian crosses in the middle of a muslim country or whether they're espousing biblical worst to muslims in afghanistan or iraq these are dangerous people. even though a handful of attempts like providing fix-it kits to wipe off bible verse references on rifles as well as addressing military courses involving jesus have been made over the years to eradicate the spread of religious extremism insiders see significant change is unlikely. and aggressive stance towards anyone be it a fellow soldier or foreign enemy takes warfare to a whole new level with religions in addition to countries clashing on the battlefield spreading not just more violence but intolerance across borders and. new york. and here to the gulf of abraham from the council on american islamic relations thanks for joining us thanks for having me absolutely no problem. extremism and the military well me from a muslim perspective and as

a civil rights group we tend to deal more with civil rights issues of the muslim military personnel whether it's wearing hijab headscarf whether it's prayer whether it's being able to go on as a member of the military to or to wear a beard but we do on occasion get these reports of proselytisation put forward by other military personnel so it is an issue but i wouldn't say it's one of our biggest categories of work now in that video we thought u.s. soldier is wearing a jacket on their uniforms that could be considered a. very able to wear. it's a balance between the freedom of religious expression of the christian soldiers and you want them to be able to express themselves through religion that's their right just as it's the right of the muslim and the sick and the jewish personnel but you

can't have a situation where you're forcing their religion on other military personnel and you know as they say there's no atheists in the foxholes when you're in the military and you're in combat religion is an important thing to you but you shouldn't be in a muslim country pushing your particular faith on people that you're supposedly there to help you shouldn't have overt religious symbols on your weapons i mean just common sense kind of thing that's that's not something you want to do we wouldn't recommend it for muslim soldiers we wouldn't recommend it for anybody but as i said our main goal as a civil rights organization is to make sure that our military personnel whatever their faith have the ability to express themselves to practice their faith and just recently the military has come up with a broadening of religious rights and they. come under tremendous attack from the right wing when the military said that we're broadening right for instance to wear

a headscarf as a muslim a woman to wear a beard to pray in these kinds of things it's not total freedom but they broaden those rights we actually congratulated them on that but this issue of proselytisation and offensive religious symbols is one that we've dealt with in the past well a lot of people have expressed concerns about the crusaders culture is that something we should be worried about you know we've seen that on occasion to with certain patches there was even a weapon system that was going to be used by the military called the crusader it and that was eventually dropped they got as we say but. this is an issue and i think it's something that has to be dealt with by the officer corps in the military they just have to be able to clamp down on this kind of thing before it gets out of hand religious expression is fine but. religious

symbols that are proselytizing or meant to insult other faiths shouldn't be allowed and if cameras are doing that they have a lot on their uniforms and they're in another country could that make more radicalization and upright more havilland yeah obviously these kinds of things in a muslim country are going to cause problems and we saw the situation where soldiers for instance you're unaided on corpses and videotape themselves doing that where other kinds of desecrations of this type of taken place there was a in afghanistan where they were burning korans even though they said it was accidental but it ends up on video and it's counterproductive to american interests and image worldwide now considering the fights in the middle east have often been in muslim countries how have an american not fared in these wars. well there have been american muslims who have fought and died in various combat situations around

the world i personally know of an american muslim who served on d.-day in world war two the beaches on d.-day so muslims have been in the military they continue to be in the military thousands estimates upwards of eleven thousand muslims in our military so these issues will continue to come up and again it's just the responsibility of the top officials to make sure that these things don't happen while protecting religious freedoms for all of the military personnel that was either heem hooper from the council on american islamic relations. a study published in the journal of enter disciplinary toxicology so just there could be a link between month santo's herbicide called roundup ready and the increase in celiac disease and the u.s. and europe celiac disease is an auto immune disorder where the ingestion of glue in products like wheat tend to damage to small intestine the author of the study

proposes that glass ate the active ingredient and the herbicide roundup is the most important kaushal factor and this epidemic therefore states that life a favor by in suits is gluten and wheat and causes and formation this can cause long term problems such as infertility birth defects and increased risk of non hodgkins lymphoma however the study also states that this proposal has not been proven and further studies need to be done months answer the maker of the herbicide roundup tells our ts the current paper strings together numerous observations many of which are controversial and cracked or poorly established to assert proposed causation earlier i spoke with liz wright's a co-founder of farm food freedom coalition i first asked her if we can draw any conclusions here. well i think this study does offer support and questions that need to be looked at but as the researchers in the study say it's not conclusive

let's look into it more let's get some actual on the ground research going on this issue and see if we can answer some of the questions that they brought up in this. conglomeration of research well the study does point out that fish that are exposed to glass of fate they show symptoms that are similar to celiac disease do we have any idea of how harmful if it is well we do have an idea of how harmful as if it is because of other studies that have been done on it the implication on the fish there it's with the fish it was much higher levels than what we're getting in our food from that so it's it is important to look at this look at it more and do some of the research to another animals and get some long term studies done on the life of the effect that they have this is really important to long term studies now roundup is used on g.m.o. crops and the celiac disease foundation has stated that there has been no scientific evidence put forward for a g.m.o. celiac disease link however there has been no clinical human feeding trials on

genetically engineered food either so does this study create any advances and finding out the effects of g m o's on human well standing alone it does not and i don't think the authors intended it to stand alone they want to see more studies done on this and one of the important things to note in all of that though is that people have an experience when they go off g m o's including people who are gluten intolerant and they find that their bodies heal and one of the most important things that we're looking at right now is that often consumers have no way of knowing if dmoz are in their food or not because there's no label on genetically modified ingredients and this is one tiny solution we could take to give consumers just the average consumers the information they need to empower them to make the choices that they need for their own diets now although there's been no studies on g m o's and their safety for chronically ill people do you believe that they're safe for people have terminal illnesses well i can speak from experience and that

is hearing from people who are chronically ill who gets the most out of their diet they see an improved quality of life. because that right there it is anecdotal but it's people's real life experiences and that is something to take into consideration when looking at foods and looking at opportunities for this research now the authors of the study that we're linking to say to the activities they state that further testing has to be done you know we were talking about this what kinds of tests and specific do we need what we need some independent research done in institute for. national institutes of health for example or independent scientists who want to take this on privately funded we need this private research done the research coming out of the industry it's giving somewhat biased results in favor of the products that they're selling no surprise there and we also need long term scientific research on this we're getting short term studies we're not getting

a lot of the long term ones done so you don't think there should be any public funds in that these test well if there's an opportunity for that. i think all of these studies put another piece into the puzzle and we can look at the data but i think that one of the most important things that we do need is privately funded research on this because it takes some of the bias out of the whole equation but if you also have privately funded research could those private citizens hold the results from the public. well i suppose they could but it's it would be another piece of the puzzle have any scientist or group started these additional tests and where are we in the testing phase it's really tough in the testing phase because for example if we're looking at genetically modified organisms you know monsanto holds patents on a lot of these seeds and the technology and so it's difficult to do outside studies so right now most of the cities are coming from inside the industry and again we're missing so much information because we don't know what's in our food right now so

because they have patents on the seeds other organizations not use them to do studies on them and who might have access to them isn't doing it that's right so this is was right said the co-founder of pharma food freedom coalition. the food and drug administration has been conducting meetings this week about a fertility procedure that uses the d.n.a. of two but three people the purpose of bringing in another person into the baby making process is to eliminate some genetic defects and newborns the science has been successfully performed and monkey the end even on humans more than a decade ago now researchers would like the f.d.a. to allow it to be tested again on humans critics are raising ethical concerns saying this is a slippery slope that involves human engineering and could lead to designer babies to talk more about this i was joined by r.t. producer rachel curses and comedian lee camp i started by asking rachel to tell us

about what was discussed at these meetings at the f.d.a. . so the question that they're considering is what's called mitochondrial manipulation and the mitochondria provides a scam amount of d.n.a. most of the d.n.a. in a baby comes from as we know the egg in the sperm there's a little bit that comes from the medical which is where all of the energy comes from in a cell so what they want to do and what they've been able to do in monkeys is replace that mitochondria of a woman who might have genetic defects this is about one in four thousand children are affected by these mitochondrial defects and replace that with a healthy woman's mitochondria so that's where you get the kind of third person getting involved in the d.n.a. process so the talks are very much limited to this one process of mitochondrial manipulation and i really addressing that the call concerns that are being or the ethical concerns but specifically related to this one of the process not kind of a broader question of manipulating sperm and eggs broadly now when we hear that two

is better than one when you say that the resources of d.n.a. are better than two. to bring as many people into a baby making process last of all so. more d.n.a. the better but it is the will for going to worry about this you know d.n.a. and babies in this regard i think there's a much bigger problem in this country in terms of baby d.n.a. idiots are breeding and we're allowing that to have the it's a meeting other idiots and then they pump out half would be a reason so you have no way to stop that's what i'm saying exactly we should stop. and then i want to you know you were coming up with some great solutions you know i'm not saying it should be illegal i'm just saying maybe designer babies are not as big a problem as the eighty it's run around this country you know i mean why why give birth to a walkie talkie in an i phone world. people love each other and that's why they want to reproduce. maybe some scientists and lawmakers there are raising red

flags saying wait a minute this is engineering humans rachel what a. concerns have you seen race in this rate so the whole idea of designer babies you know which as i think designer rubies could solve your issue in that people would be selecting people with smarter i q's people who are a little more with it rather than people who try to remove themselves from the world as we know it but so that's the problem people are saying that this is only going to be a technology available to the wealthy and that they're going to be able to from here it's a slippery slope and anything from i color to i.q. to accuracy when it comes to throwing a baseball these are all traits that could be selected over time that's one concern people have another concern specifically related to my mitochondrial manipulation is that we don't know what happens when you introduce that healthy mitochondria into the into the gene pool right so over a series of generations there could be a lot of unintended consequences and that scares a lot of scientists who are speaking at the f.d.a. today now we professors at the new york university school of medicine he worries

that concern that just because this worked in monkeys doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work in humans and at a presentation he was quoted saying what kind of diet did you have these monkeys on and you have them on a mcdonald's super sized stress test. without a mcdonald's stress. donal superstar stress test scores are done as a result is a stress test. though it is absolutely true that there hadn't been enough testing but we like going forward with things without enough testing as your last segment on g m o's was talking about we're don't know minutes yet and we're dollar vote go in for rude things. but you know at least in this case it'll be largely tested it seems on rich people so i will be the ones that able to afford real exchanges so at least for once rather than testing on the poor people like mcdonald's does you know who knows what the chicken pavement nuggets are doing to people will be testing rich people and maybe we'll even be able to open up

a market for healthy mitochondria and we can have you know we can create a lot of. a bag of my own and i like the options and this could be unlimited. absolutely thanks again. and comedian you can thanks very. have you ever thought you might die from a broken heart turns out you were on to something according to a study at st georges university of london you losing a loved one doubles the risk of heart failure or stroke author of the report dr siegel said our study shows bereavement can have a direct effect on the health of the heart here the perfect example of a new york couple married for sixty years after being hospitalized for a deadly leg injury at a hell was miles apart from his wife lori hale when she was hospitalized two congestive heart failure with only hours left to live when ed heard the news he

insisted on being by her side this fight being on his deathbed he remarkably improved enough to be transferred to the hospital his wife was at they both passed away within hours holding hands the second amendment clearly states the right to bear arms but could that even include a right to bear drones tonight the president takes a look at that versus a journalist right to use drones. anyone can own and operate a drone for a few hundred bucks these days people are already using drones for commercial use

like taking pictures of real estate for sale and johnny law hasn't really gotten involved they don't seem to mind that too much even though it's technically illegal to operate unmanned aircraft systems in the us and can result in a ten thousand dollars fine but there aren't really any federal regulations about who can fly drones and what they can do it for and all that but law makers do apparently mind when journalists want to use drones to get close to a news story that they cannot have as evidenced by what's happening in connecticut police there recently encounters a journalist named pedro rivera using a drone he was flying one over the scene of a fatal car crash and hartford police questioned rivera and didn't arrest him for anything but they did contact the t.v. station he works for telling them he interfered with their investigation somehow as a result rivera was suspended from his job for a week without pay and then suddenly a few days later after the cops encountered

a journalist flying a drone. there is magically legislation proposed to impose horrible sentences on people who fly drones lawmakers there proposed legislation that would impose a twenty year sentence on people who commit crimes with drones equipped with deadly weapons and those who commit lesser crimes with drones could serve up to ten years . rivera filed a lawsuit in response claiming the police violated his first amendment right to police beach as well as his fourth amendment protection against a reasonable teacher he also made the point that he was on public land shooting a scene in public view and the founder of an organization called professional society of grown journalists made the point that this pace is a total double standard since journalists are allowed to use a long lens cameras they can be way more invasive so a journalist uses a drone to try to get

a story and now there is legislation being proposed to severely regulate drone use because apparently in the u.s. you can go ahead and use drones to sell real estate or kill children on foreign soil just whatever you do don't use them to disseminate information that is something johnny law just won't tolerate tonight let's talk about that me on twitter at the residence. before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king tonight's guest is san francisco forty nine ers tight and vernon davis here's larry king asking vernon about his other sports endeavors. what is this with honorary captain of the u.s. curling team why what got you into curling you know one of the beat writers came to

me a few years back and she asks me. to come out. and get on get on the ice and do some curling i don't know what it was without you know i was open i was open to do it. and enjoyed it yes i enjoyed it enjoyed it was what makes a good kernel or. just your ability to. ability to come up with the best player if he is over the middle is to say you don't have to be strong you don't have to you can you can be weak and you can be skinny you can be big it is a matter of sport it is a sport it is it is because those guys you know you have to think about the position that those guys are in when they take off with the stone i mean they are in a lunging position you know they can tear their growing they can tear their quad anything so it is it is a sport. so tune in at nine pm tonight here on r t america.

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