the issues that no one is there still with the gas they deserve answers from. politics. coming up on artsy a major city in iraq falls under the control of militants government security forces have fled mosul with the prime minister calling for a state of emergency the latest on that ahead. and the f.a.a. grants its first permission for commercial drone flights in the u.s. it will be used to patrol a pipeline we'll tell you where coming up. and in new york occupy protesters will be paid a settlement by the city it's meant to end a lawsuit over the n.y.p.d. wrongfully arresting activists more on this occupy victory later in the show.

it's tuesday june tenth four pm in washington d.c. and lindsey france you're watching our team there. we begin with another school shooting here in the u.s. that's left one student dead and one teacher injured shots were fired this morning at reynolds high school in troutdale oregon just outside portland police say a gunman walked into the school and fatally shot the student. a teacher was also injured and was treated at the scene the suspect was found dead a short time later it's not clear if he was killed by police or if he took his own life the troutdale police chief confirmed the gunman was armed with a rifle during the evacuation another gun was found on someone at the school but the chief said it doesn't seem to be connected to the crime students say they were told over the intercom there was a lockdown and to quietly go to their classrooms police were able to evacuate the students and reunite them with their nervous parents the shooting happened on the next to the last day of classes before summer break the school's one of oregon's

largest public high schools with more than twenty eight hundred students. the second largest city in iraq is now mostly in the hands of fighters with isis the islamic state of iraq and syria a group that shares similar goals to al qaeda iraqi army soldiers have abandoned their weapons and fled the city of mosul as sunni militants overran the entire western bank of the city according to government officials militants freed hundreds of prisoners seized police stations banks government buildings weapons depots and mosul airport iraq's prime minister nouri al maliki asked the parliament to declare a state of emergency the fight for muscle was a heavy defeat of baghdad's battle against isis which has tried to seize territory both in iraq and neighboring syria with some success earlier this year the group captured another iraqi city in the west of the country and government forces have been unable to take it back after months of fighting mosul is

a lot larger city of course making it a significant to search egypt prize the city and its surrounding province are a major export route for iraqi oil and offer a gateway to syria for more i was joined earlier by retired u.s. marine brigadier general david reste he's vice president of the strat strategy and planning division of the potomac institute i first asked him what happened with the iraqi forces there. i think what we're seeing right now is a sniff and of the congress discovering one aspect of the iraqi forces i wouldn't the i wouldn't state that that's all iraqi forces. it's part of it and that small part is disconcerting to say that say the least we would like to see them up obviously operate in a higher fashion they don't have to be as good as our forces in the us but they have to be good enough to defeat their enemies there and they have to work through this as a centralized force operating through all of iraq and that's within the shia the

sunni and the kurdish areas tell us a bit about this i says insurgent groups got a lot of power how they gained enough power to take over the second largest city in iraq what did they want at the end of the day. i think what they want at this point in time is is a few things and first of all how they got their power they got their power i think because the citizens of iraq are disconcerted with the support they're down in from the central government and that's the president right now that's why it's gained so much traction in the sunni areas because maliki is perceived by the sunni as a shia backed by tyrant so there is a natural tendency that the sunni's are going to go against that especially as maliki in the eyes of the sunni's has a as to have has disenfranchised the sunni's in anbar now what's happened i believe is what happened then they've gained strength as you just ask instead in the sunni

areas that has spilled over now that they are making gains in more than modest gains in the kurdish area and if they gain a foothold in in mosul they can continue up north and it'll be very interesting to see how the kurds address this. well as you mentioned president nouri al maliki is in a very precarious situation what can this new government do in the face of an insurgency that is gaining so much strength right now in this state of emergency that's been called to the i i would offer that what the president needs to do at this point in time is he needs to politically bring everybody into the tent he needs to listen to the concerns of the iraqi people like any president in any country does and he's got to answer those needs he can't favor one side over the other and i don't want to minimize the impact of oil production that this has there have been recent attacks on the northern line out of mosul fifty four attacks i believe in the last

few months and it shuts down the production these insurgents know exactly what they're doing they're not just going after the ideology at this point and they're going after the economics of iraq. was the u.s. move forward in supporting iraq i believe our foreign policy at this point in time obviously we have to support a freely elected government but we have to be careful to emphasize to the president over there or present in any country that there is a way to address all the citizens of the nation and not play sides against each other once again i've been in touch with some sunni friends and they feel as though they've been ostracized and almost put on the horns of a dilemma that if they're not being supported out of baghdad their only alternative is to go with the islamic state and that's exactly what happened with al qaida in the early days after the attack in two thousand and three so we're seeing history repeat itself here i believe. i've based on your experience on the ground in iraq

in theater what could some elements be at play here that the west. may not fully understand as far as your typical layman your typical t.v. viewer hearing a story idea that they're having to deal with in iraq. i think the best way you could categorize that is to acquainted to a gang mentality in one of our big cities here in the us and the complexity of how that interacts with gangs competing against themselves gangs competing with law enforcement gangs involved in the economic fabric of of a city and whether that's a drug or a rug or any other thing that that they're doing at the time the complexity that exists in iraq or iran or or any other country but especially in the middle east i would offer is never going to be fully understood by the american people there are many people who say you know we get it we understand that no we don't we don't get

it because we don't see the world through their lands and we don't have to stay in that neighborhood several times i heard shaikh say to me you get to go home we don't so they have to stay there and that's a different position to be and when you look at your long term investment who you side with how you cut deals who you vote for all things like that yet at the end of the day i'm sure he's keeping your family safe all right retired right there a tired u.s. marine brigadier general david grange and of course the vice president of strategy and planning at the potomac institute thank you very much for joining me you're welcome thank you very much. the deaths of five u.s. soldiers killed in afghanistan on monday are being investigated as a possible result of friendly fire details of the incident which happened in the province are scarce but the pentagon has released a statement saying five american troops were killed yesterday during a security operation in southern afghanistan investigators are looking into the likelihood that friendly fire was the cause our thoughts and prayers are with the

families of these fallen a local police chief did tell media that afghan and international forces had carried out a joint operation against taliban fighters on monday with coalition forces on the ground calling in air strikes against the taliban which mistakenly hit the afghan and international troops if confirmed it would represent one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in the nearly thirteen year u.s. led war in afghanistan many of the thirty two thousand u.s. troops currently on the ground there are special operations forces which still conduct regular ground operations that number is expected to drop to just below ten thousand by the end of next year and officials are waiting to publicly identify the victims pending notification of their families. caused by ukraine's newly elected president petro poroshenko to stop the military offensive in the country's restive east appears not to have taken effect as heavy artillery fire has already left one village in ruins and local militias refuse to stand down arches policy or reports

from one of their training camps we are with the anti-government fighters were on the way to a training camp here in the city of new guns they're not telling us exactly where this camp is because of security reasons bagman how much time going to take us to get there. if we correct but we'll know when we get there. was a full blown off or so with the ukrainian beach police before switching sides only a month ago he commanded a team of just twelve made today you may not. more than one hundred and are growing by the day all of them volunteers each with a code name to hide his identity how is the situation on the ground at the moment. people are very scared the city is preparing for war we're evacuating women and children from the city batmen says the ukrainian military static is to attack from

behind so he's had his men sprawled out across the city about to approach the camp and badlands asked us to switch off the camera deep in the forests it's easy to see why they've set up base here everything is camouflaged making it difficult for the ukrainian army to find them. where now at the military training camp and we're also to see them do training with knives this is training for close combat but i hope which ones come through that. is not planning on close combat fighting the heat from the bombing with. slovyansk in donetsk the guys here come from just about every background you have former students you have form of businessmen you have former drivers and you also have ex-military and police so you have people with a lot of military experience but you also have some for whom this is the first time that they're picking up a knife or a gun and so the sharing of skills and experience is vital and the guys have told me to put two of these in my ears because there's going to be a hell of

a noise. do you want to match it with kind of training is the most important bettman keeps trying to control over his men many still have families inside ukraine and what we constantly about them. it's not becoming a war it's already a war. most of the guys are citizens of lugansk city they're highly motivated they're between the ages of twenty and fifty five when i asked one of them whether there are enough people here to take on the ukrainian military his answer was there is another. but how many more need to die before the kiev government itself to clear is enough is enough force the r.t.e. outside from guns eastern ukraine. the first commercial drone flights over land have just been approved for take off here in the u.s. be done expect them to be flying over your neighborhood any time soon the federal

aviation administration has granted permission for their use in a rather sparsely populated place with the aim of helping a business survey its equipment in the field it's artie's mega lopez reports. alaska's airspace is about to get a little more crowded that's because just this week the federal aviation administration granted permission for the first ever commercial drone to fly over american soil from a small hand launched romel before an aerial surveillance over pipelines roads and equipment in the poop obey or p t the probe a is the largest known oil field in the us the f.a.a. released a statement to r.t. about its decision everything parts of these surveys on alaska's north coast are another important step toward broader commercial use of unmanned aircraft the technology is quickly changing and the opportunities are growing b.p. says this commercial drone will help save time improve safety and increase reliability the unmanned aerial vehicle was created by

a california company called aereo vironment the company says it was awarded a five year contract with b.p. now the drone is called the cooma eight as a nine foot wingspan and can fly for three and a half hours at a time at two hundred to four hundred feet above the ground aerial vironment recently released a press statement also two are saying in part thanks to the f.a.a. as a rigorous safety focused certification process for unmanned aerial systems b.p. and aerial vironment have launched a safer better more cost effective solution for managing critical infrastructure and resources the coupé is already being used by the military this company is the pentagon's top supplier of small groups who are with the war in afghanistan from me to a close the company has seen a major decline in sales so now it is pivoting its focus to the commercial world also new this month the f.a.a. has established a florida testing site for the use of poor drones and american air space this one

is located in nevada test flights are expected to begin later this summer at a privately owned airfield just north of las vegas this is just the latest step in the f.a.a. . and to address the issue of unmanned vehicles taking to american sky congress has set a deadline for the f.a.a. to develop regulations for commercial drug use by twenty teams so far the agency has written two unsuccessful drafts and is in the process of writing a third for the department of transportation and the white house to finally approve while reporting in washington meghan lopez r.t. for the past few days brazil's biggest city sao paulo has been in traffic chaos as subway workers went on strike demanding a hike in salaries just before the world cup kicks off on thursday in a four pm match between brazil and croatia that team usa hits the field monday june sixteenth and a very tough group g. match against ghana followed by favorites portugal on the twenty second and germany

on the twenty six now when it comes to supporters getting their union leaders have temporarily halted the transit strike but warned it could resume on the opening day of the soccer showcase as thousands of fans stream into the city or at least try to cram phillips's in rio de janeiro for r t. so there are real with the city's only comic book obama speech or something besides what's to be the main things i'm here to tell becomes construction with just two days until the world cup begins to zero the host of the world cup should be a celebration for any nation potentially one is famously football obsessed as penna the brazilian national team has won the world cup following toying with the right kid but the reality is this will come here brazil should have been installed one reasons is the most expensive world cup a new street cost of over eleven billion dollars not to record in a country which still struggles with poverty we've seen actions across brazil protests at events such as the clear the fella's a moment the inflation what are the conditions which you've seen reports where they

work is killed on world cup construction sites there's a feeling of general dissatisfaction is cursed right the country behind the surveys there was even one showing seventy two percent of resilience early this month feeling negatively about the world cup but we haven't seen before just the sentiments of the time for this moment to past midnight with the world cup imminent kicking off in two days of brazil's valentine's day the twelfth of june it could be the time to show some love for this once in a lifetime this truly international game the world cup here in brazil this is great for those who don't see. so it still ahead here on our team in new york city has agreed to pay a settlement to occupy activists the case around allegations of the police department of one fully arresting a group of protesters more on that after the break.

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lot of problems. for. the city of new york has agreed to pay nearly six hundred thousand dollars to settle allegations that police wrongfully arrested a group of occupy wall street protesters back in two thousand and twelve it's the largest settlement of its kind in an occupy related civil rights lawsuit artist and joins us now for more from. ceci what is this settlement really all about well lindsay this is in fact the biggest single occupy a related settlement in a civil lawsuit in new york city since occupy wall street kick started in september twenty. like you said fourteen activists are going to be getting almost six hundred thousand dollars to be more precise five hundred eighty three thousand dollars for

being wrongfully arrested the incident in question took place on january first twenty twelve where police told these protesters to disperse but instead of letting them do so the box them in so the protesters couldn't actually leave and the police arrested them threw them into police wagons took them and held them for five hours and eventually the case was dismissed and the lawyers of these activists argue that they were doing nothing wrong just peacefully marching being traffic laws now to give you some more specifics in terms of how the money is going to be split we know that two of the defendants are going to be getting five thousand dollars the other twelve will receive twenty thousand dollars and the lawyers will get three hundred thirty three thousand dollars in fees is a good time to be a lawyer. guess so right now how does this compare to previous settlements with the occupy lawsuits. well you know as you know over the years there's been plenty of concerns about police brutality so certainly there's been quite a large number of significant number of lawsuits that have taken place overall

since over the last several years since occupy kick started we know that over to twenty six hundred arrests have been me and quite a significant number of those over seventy eight percent of these cases were dismissed so that's that's that tells you something that these arrests take place and clearly that it's realize that nothing actually was was was wrong and we do know that about four hundred people actually pled guilty and were convicted and so this raises really tons of questions including this is taxpayer money that the city is paying out to the activists and also it's really a sign that something's wrong with the n.y.p.d. system the way they act if this leads to these lawsuits where these enormous amounts of money have to be paid to to protesters but what does this mean with regard to the larger occupy movement. well you know with a bunch of the larger occupy movement it seems like this is something that is a sign that these activists can keep fighting for getting restoring their rights

because in often times when they come out and talk about police brutality and being mistreated by the n.y.p.d. the cases like this show us that fighting for this is a good idea and sometimes of course this happens in favor and sometimes it doesn't of the protesters i mean we've seen plenty of cases including the torrijos one of several women being pepper sprayed by a police officer that case has still not been settled but plenty of them have including a huge one not in new york but in oakland where an iraq war veteran scott olsen was a world war dead four point five million dollars for getting his skull fractured fractured at a protest so certainly the city's keep footing the bills for these cases so for these protestors what it means is is they should keep fighting if they want to to restore their rights. all right our chief correspondent and associate you're going to in new york for us thank you. this next story will definitely make you pause the next time you step onto an elevator monday night as man got the ride of his life

was a very garra. got on the elevator in providence here chile as soon as he got on the door started opening and closing as if possessed the security camera captured the wild ride as the elevator shot up thirty one floors in fifteen seconds that it crashed into the roof at about fifty miles per hour the accident occurred in a building which only finished construction eight months prior a survey doe frantically pushes the buttons trying to shut down operations to no avail he was rescued by firefighters and taken to a local hospital where he suffered head and leg injuries an investigation was launched to determine what caused the elevator to malfunction. but does it for now folks from on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com forward slash r t america or check out our website archive com slash usa and also follow me on twitter at butlins in france stay tuned boom bust is coming up next. it's a subsidiary

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