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the world moves to act to serious developments have not started citibank's only take no demand for credit not going to get any economic benefit in life there are good and there are but. coming up on our t.v. iraq is an adult and violence as another city falls into the hands of isis militants they inch ever closer to the nation's capital of baghdad a look at the growing threat from isis coming up. and in eastern ukraine a russian t.v. reporter and a crew member lose their lives it happened during a shelling attack in a region where ukrainian troops still battle anti kiev separatists the latest coming up. and guantanamo bay officials claim that region committed suicide but a new report claims there's been a cover up about the actual causes of their deaths more on that later in the show.
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it's tuesday june seventeenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man you're watching r t america overnight clashes with shiite militia men in bakuba iraq leave forty four dead and much of the city in the hands of sunni militants from the islamic state in iraq and syria or better known as isis president obama has already deployed two hundred seventy five u.s. armed forces to iraq to provide support and security for u.s. personnel at the embassy in baghdad officials within the administration say that the u.s. is also considering air strikes on areas now controlled by the insurgents along with sending one hundred troops to further train the iraqi forces as the clashes in book continue government forces are focused on regaining control of the strategic city it's the last city between isis insurgents and the capital of baghdad as the
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sunni al qaeda offshoot push the shiite government further south with fewer and fewer government strongholds in the country but joe. asked who is this group who is isis we're hearing so much chatter about this organization but how powerful are they i was joined earlier today by lina contained director of the carnegie middle east center i first asked her how i stuck there start. i just had of origin and i'll try that and what god offers us and asian or iraq and saddam and very small african troops and the country and then i get off what is actually going to offer services in sunni areas in iraq so that room does not fly just became what i want to know meanwhile but shot at some of those areas. here you see how do we go if you go out and buy well before the kinds of products
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and syria to post pressure on me across the government i don't want to be here and i did i thought he had the. greatest movie i covered really really from prison and i'm a bit old for him and i. am now what we're seeing is a group that will hold you. and i don't we're on our agenda now as as far as we know isis used to be associated with al qaeda why did al qaeda split from them. what she did about as i said i said i have been a neighbor the regime has been direct way away. organization that i knew him or didn't go i'd be more free i ended up following a different vision from god. so room senator graham started and
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now they are. right. now we've heard a lot of reports about where al qaeda is getting their money where are these guys getting their funding where is the money trail where does the paper trail lead i'm going to get money from. both and you know. it's also a new thing and both the space shuttle from trolls in the area i'll also off and just not far and i'm already. i'm going to be in mobile so i did manage to stay over around longer million dollars. rebuy and. now. isis is a sunni militant group what is the relationship with the sunni is as a whole. well. that is
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a whole trying to be more or wrong all those bones muscles or about this and that in muslim to be made under isis rule but we've got your office is going to go oh god as well as the of the current government motors that regarded just going to shut down my government a lot of i want to vote for. sarkozy money more than seventy or eighty thirty because we're going to. now speaking of the kurds in the north security and strife between the sunni's the shiites the kurds is by many accounts the actual central problem in iraq now is carving the country maybe into three states a possible solution is it is it an option that's viable. or humidity iraq very very complex situation the thinking god in this country.
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the problem and not really because we're in a position of the country is that god is going to. hurt. you i'm not going to say the border is for you does not efface movie if you're going to show. what is there any possible hope at all to see a diplomatic solution to all of this or or is this a sign of a coming revolution. ah i was. being the i'm moving or i'll. shoot me. oh the government. was. not a big. regional actors like on the. whole have their own plot and.
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drive operate. out of the house. like i. just know possible solutions without any bloodshed it sounds like thank you so much for your time and your insight that was lina contained director of the carnegie middle east center and the crisis in ukraine has claimed the life of one t.v. reporter and one of his crew members in a deadly shell attack in the eastern city of gunther igor cornélie iraq a reporter for russian t.v. he's received a channel sustained wounds from a ukrainian shelling earlier today he died shortly thereafter at the hospital artie's roman kozar of has the story. that's the name of the journalist he was there rushed into the emergency room where he died during the operation as a result of his wounds that early reports suggested that he was a severely wounded as a result of heavy artillery shelling in the field village which is in the suburbs.
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gone scans he had said to colleagues with him an entire filming crew and one of them is on the launch and it's sold for no no he is the sound engineer meanwhile another man is another member of the crew the camera man he's apparently safe and sound right now looking at the footage the very last at the footage of the crew of the guns just before. you began the camera man was apparently about one hundred meters away from where the shell hit the russian a camera crew and they were among the locals who wanted to for the there as well and that was our tears roman cause a rep in ukraine in that report he said the fate of the sound engineer was unknown but just a short while ago oversea a t.v. confirmed that the sound engineer anton below sion was also killed in this attack
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and of the night of june ninth two thousand and six three good mo detainees were found hanged in their cells in an apparent suicide as what the naval criminal investigative service purports or better known as and c.i.s. recently harper's magazine published an eyewitness account of a military police man describing what he saw the night of june ninth his was just one documented account uncovered by seton hall researchers as released by four together with the senior fellows at the center for policy and research the students discovered documents along with more damning evidence related. to the three mysterious deaths that night they've uncovered a startling mosaic paper trail that points to a systemic m.c.i.'s cover up of the suspiciously bents that resulted in the deaths of these detainees for example a key statement by the medical examiner was extracted from the n.c.a.a.'s records
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and replaced by three blank sheets of paper in the version that the students reviewed through the foyer release they found one of many disturbing accounts that one of the men was still found alive with faith vital signs as he hanged in his cell. by scene hall professor mark denbeaux he was responsible for leading the team of researchers in this bombshell report i first asked him what caused he and his team to question the original and c.i.s. report in the first place or guess the simplest answer was that the description given by the admiral that night which was that the three people committed suicide by hanging themselves in their cells was an act of asymmetrical warfare and there was something in my students or trouble a boat so callously disregarding three people's deaths as if it was a or war attack and that of course i did represent several detainee's so when the
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deaths were first announced our along with almost all the other of us lawyers spent the anxious two days wondering if our clients were. alive or dead obviously in my case mine we're not we're all on you mentioned asymmetrical warfare can you explain to us but that is yeah i think that that was a model used for a long time to explain the conflict. that arises when you go a sort of plan for modern warfare which is tanks planes people in uniform machine guns fighting other armies in uniforms with machine guns but of course the problem is there really are no war setpiece battles coming like that i mean nobody is going to go out and stand and fight the u.s. air force by shooting their guns because we don't have the. powers so great so the future is going to be in
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a sense sort of chaotic and disorganized rather than said these battles for the last couple of years and i think the use of the word asymmetric warfare the phrase was designed to show that the way in which acts were being done would be called warfare to justify the actual result for instance if these people did it as an act of warfare than the assumption was that there was a symmetric warfare and there was no reason for anybody to feel sorry for them because they were just people who died in the equivalent of combat that struck us as sort of pretty harsh and not very plausible rights and that was the first red flag so tell us about the research process that you and your students conducted in uncovering these documents well it took two and a half years but eventually the and c.i.s. investigation was published and we decided to look into it this would have been in
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two thousand and eight two thousand and ten and there were three thousand pages of documents in a big jump all numbered redactions sometimes small sometimes large crowds. dates messed up names messed up and it was clearly a design to make it or least it was provided in a way that makes sorting through what and c.i.s. found almost impossible but my first students spent a year and a half going through that and they wrote a report called death in camp delta and death in kiev don't describe what the n.c.a.a.'s actual findings were about the conclusion of the data that the c.i.s. investigators can you tell us what those were what were those findings well i mean for instance if you believe the c.i.s. findings or rather would suggest that three people in a so a block with twenty four people in it if it was full and it wasn't were guarded by
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five guards and on a round the clock constant video monitoring there was always at least one guard live on the floor at all times but the n c i s investigators concluded the men have been dead for more than two hours when they were finally brought into that whether . that would obviously mean that if they had all of themselves in their cells they had to be hanging there for more than two hours while being watched by guards so it's in essence that the guards let them hang let this happen they allowed it to just transpire right in front of their eyes no i think probably my students as they puzzled through this over and over and over again couldn't believe that's what happened and they said that if that were the case and we have some soldiers who are also law students here they said if guards were guarding twenty people and three of them hanging to death in their cells for hours the guards would go to jail. the one
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of the questions my students asked was what ever happened to the guards who reportedly let three people dead in their cells for hours and in the course of looking it up they realize no guards were ever disciplined and that led the students to conclude that well however they died it wasn't an act of asymmetrical warfare hanging in their cells. now do you feel that there has been adequate media coverage of these deaths and in the information that you and your students have uncovered can say i feel like you know this is the first that many people are hearing about this and no one questioned the m.c.i.'s reports well you know i guess no academics ever think their work. or cover if they're going to enough in the program but the first report death in camp delta did generate a major piece of our harper's magazine in which they described a major investigative report of their own based on our investigation as well so it
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started to end quote in camp delta and that created some interest and several congresspeople were interested. and several newspapers the st louis post dispatch want to have a special prosecutor appointed there was some response but not a great deal i think there's a lot of want out of all the i think that people would like to believe it's closed and go and there's a sense that people's overlooking sure i have i have a feeling we're going to be looking a little more little further into this with you a little further down the line that's all the time that we have professor thanks so much that was seen all law professor mark denbeaux thanks for joining us sir. and despite the federal aviation administration's promise of reforms a new report states that air traffic controllers are at a greater risk for fatigue errors and accidents due to heavy work schedules a national research council report found that the f.a.a.
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has been allowing controllers to work schedules that put five work shifts into four twenty four hour periods these kinds of schedules are popular with air traffic controllers because at the end of the last shift they have eighty hours off before returning to work the next week the report stated quote from a fatigue and safety perspective this scheduling is questionable and the committee was astonished to find that it is still allowed under current regulations and the report was written at the behest of congress by a twelve member committee of academic and industry experts after a series of dangerous incidents occurred back in two thousand and eleven when several air traffic controllers were found to be sleeping on the job the f.a.a. responded to that report saying that it's quote adding limitations to its shifts and scheduling rules however the national air traffic controllers association defended the scheduling citing a two thousand and nine study conducted by the f.a.a.
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and nasa that examined how late night work schedules affected controllers performance the committee however was denied access to the f.a.a. and nasa study because the results have remained in a quote official use only format since two thousand and nine and still ahead here on r t a canadian grocery store horrible hidden surprise bacteria was found to be resistant to most normal antibiotics more on this superbug at the supermarket after the break. on marinated in the financial world. i mean i'm. only taking a. new life. so you like me what you come to use this is. what your comedy used to be a bring your fears to. fight to get. fire fighting in to the
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next to the corporate elite billionaire freaks well they're going. that's what you get with my new project in the eight. well we live in a society where we all carry around bottles of hand sanitizer and in our desks we carry staplers pens and anti-bacterial wipes but that is not enough to stand up against a new strain of bacteria discovered in a canadian at a grocery store here to tell us more is our teas meghan lopez. we've heard of antibiotic resistance super bugs making their way through hospitals in the past but a new discovery by canadian researchers has taken the fear of this type of bacteria to the checkout line for the first time ever an extremely deadly type of antibiotic
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resistant bacteria has been traced to a food product u.s. center for disease control and prevention published a study this week reporting that the bacteria was found it a package of raw squid incest could tune it canada in a supermarket the store says that the squid came from south korea dr joseph rubin is one of the scientists behind the study he explained to me why this is such a scary finding which should concern professionals. this type of resistance has never been. so what are the implications of being our. potential relation risk of exposure to these or. includes people who purchase these products potentially. rather than people who. travel history to areas of the world where these organisms are and been hospitalized recently received a buyout expense so a risk proportion of the population is much much greater than it before now if
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you're wondering why food inspectors didn't catch this earlier it's because answering the call we'll drug resistance surveillance programs in the united states and also in canada are limits of popular products like poultry beef and pork but with more people in north america branching out and eating foods from nisha markets those surveillance programs may soon need to expand and to be clear it's not entirely uncommon to find any biotic resistant bacteria in food this bacteria is so scary because it is resistant to carve a penance those are considered humanity's last resort antibiotics when nothing else works so if something like this exists in our food supply and becomes why spread we have no way to combat it medically researchers don't know at this point how this antibiotic resistant bacteria got into the squid they say the squid could have picked up the bacteria in the ocean when it was caught along the supply chain or
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even at the market where it was sold this is still a limited study with minimal implications at this point but if you are concerned and want to be safe dr rubin says there are ways to protect your family. the key take home message for concerned consumers would be a practice. meeting should it be avoid cross contamination in the kitchen and not using the same cutting board as they would for really cheap products or fresh fruits veggies. cleaning and disinfecting kitchen surfaces and making sure to cook food to a proper internal temperature. so in the short term cleanliness is the key thing healthy while researchers look for a long term solution on how to address this potentially catastrophic problem reporting in washington my remote as r.t. and in world cup news of course vice president joe biden dropped in to brazil for
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the u.s.a.'s game yesterday against ghana and of course third time was the charm the u.s. won two to one finally beating that team that eliminated them from the tournament back in zero six and two thousand and ten the game started off with the fifth quickest goal in world cup history as the usa is clint dempsey scored in just the first thirty first seconds of the game perhaps that goal took the staying out of the kick to the nose by a gun as john boy that left dempsey bloodied but battling on ghana didn't equalize until andre a goal in the eighty second minute rousing fears that ghana would knock the u.s. out yet again but just four minutes later john brooks snatched the lead back with his first goal in his first game for his country no doubt the u.s. his team's win put vice president biden in a good mood before he had to get down to business and meet with brazilian president
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dilma rousseff today for some loaded diplomatic talks relations between the two largest democracies in the hemisphere stalled last year when documents leaked by edward snowden revealed that the n.s.a. . they have been spying on brazilian companies the state run oil company petro bra's government officials and even rousseff herself biden called his conversation with rousseff today quote candid and assured her that the internet is not a government tool of repression later today russia plays its opening game of the world cup will square off against south korea in the city of cooee of aa at six pm eastern it remains to be seen how the team will fare with the last minute loss of their captain midfielder roman short cop due to his back injury just days before the start of the tournament. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is comedian and big bang theory star simon
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helberg here's part of what's to come. what do you make of the big bang theory being banned in china. i think it's it's they won't release a tremendous amount of information about what happened why do you guess. i think you know some of the some of the articles i've read it seem to imply without sounding egotistical or anything that the show is such an unbelievable influence on . the youth and the entire country. that i think the government is afraid of the influence them to what that is the question that has never been answered but i guess people are incredibly i think it's making well i think what it is maybe is that it's giving them enough confidence to feel like they might actually fit in and have a place as these as outsiders and as as as part of the human race and in the struggle that is a life and i think maybe that govern the government fears that they will become
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empowered with their own self assured innes. so tune in right here on our t.v. tonight at nine pm and that does it for us now for more on the stories that we covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our website our team dot com for its last usa you can also follow me on twitter at manila chan see you back here tonight at eight. thanks.
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to. the dad frank dad but then acted in twenty ten doubt the police of wall street the f.c.c. clean up some of the corruption of our financial institutions and one of the provisions of that act just made headlines in a really funny way the bill set up a whistle blowing program for the f.c.c. where employees at crooked by mantle institutions are encouraged to report corruption where they work by sending and none of his tips to the f.t.c. and if they do and their tips pan out they can receive awards for up to thirty percent of any monetary penalty at these he recovers from the information and that can add up to either lot of money last fall the f.t.c. awarded fourteen million dollars to one whistleblower and just recently the asked
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if he handed almost a million dollars to another two anonymous was the lowers those are huge rewards which means the conduct the employees were reporting must have been awful but those millions aren't the funny part of the recent news the funny part is there's this person who keeps submitting anonymous tips over and over again they submitted one hundred ninety six. whistleblower application in hopes of cashing in on a reward it's like they're playing the lottery or something and they think they've got to be in it to wit it and as these thieves is so tired of putting man hours and money into looking into these claims that they just sent the person as these and does this stored or and it gives the hilarious part according to the order of the person's whistleblowing forms lack quote even a superficial factual nexus the order calls the claims of aig utterly incredible and patently false the tone of the letter is so low and
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petulant you just can't believe it's coming from the as these thieves so here's this very serious matter how corrupt our financial institutions are to the point where they're robbing all of us blind with bad mortgages and bomb investment instruments and we've got whistleblowers treating the matter like another a.t.m. machine wires we've got what is the post to be the police of wall street acting like angry teenager is the ending hate mail and setting up rewards programs because the system is just that screwed it think about that we have an anonymous program at the as the because the institutions we all trust with our hard earned money are that corrupt our whole financial system is a total joke what's not a joke to me if that were some reason we all keep buying into it that doesn't make me feel like laughing that does make me feel like i'm living in an altered.

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