coming up on our t.v. in iraq government forces and isis clash in a crisis that's tearing apart the nation and today president obama laid out his plan for dealing with the growing conflict the latest just ahead. and we feel leaks founder julian assange remains in ecuador's london embassy it's been two years since he was granted asylum in a long saga of legal legal troubles more on that and wiki leaks coming up. an international travelers are ecstatic at brazil's twenty fourteen world cup and sports fans are still in high spirits even though the games are large by street protests and local concerns more on this year's world cup later in the show.

it's thursday june nineteenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america the isis crisis continues as insurgents battled the government for control of iraq's largest oil refinery near to create the grounds near the baiji refinery became a battlefield as troops loyal to the shiite led government held off the isis militants who stormed the perimeter threatening national energy supplies despite iraqi government calls for the u.s. to help ward off the insurgents with air strikes president obama announced his plans for the u.s. response this afternoon after meeting with his national security advisers air strikes are not in the cards for now the president says he will be sending three hundred. metairie advisors to assist iraqi forces in

a security and intelligence capacity only he's also working to secure the embassy in baghdad relocating personnel and sending in reinforcements to protect the u.s. facilities now the president also said the u.s. will increase its intelligence and reconnaissance efforts to better understand what isis is up to the u.s. has already sent more naval ships to the region to have an immediate response of necessary secretary of state john kerry will also be heading to the middle east to encourage a diplomatic plan that includes pushing iraq to form a more inclusive government and obama try to quell fears of americans that another u.s. conflict in iraq is not on the horizon i was joined merican forces will not be returning to combat in iraq but we will help iraqis as they take the fight to terrorists who threaten the iraqi people the region and american interests as well. i was joined

earlier by retired marine brigadier general david reste i first asked him if he thought president obama took a strong enough approach towards iraq in his speech while putting america eddy's take a listen. i think what the president needs to do and tried to do was to determine what the what iraq needs to look like say ten years from now and hopefully his team is thinking long term in the us. as senator mccain has indicated there aren't any good options at this point in time and as you pointed out our country is a little war weary but we need to create some order out of the disorder because there are some critical elements in iraq that have global interest oil and the president met mentioned this from the energy side so we need to i think we need to calm down at this point in time we need to count down the rhetoric the dialogue and get things inside the box and now the u.s.

is sending three hundred troops into the region as military and visors as they say these are not considered troops on the ground per se but what would happen if say they were they were shot at what would put these forces that put them into combat officially will the combat per se term this is a slippery slope it's probably a her own concern to the administration the president and those troops that are there and the iraqis also if shot at any u.s. soldier or marine airman sailor is going to under the rules of engagement he or she is going to be afforded the opportunity to protect themselves hopefully that situation won't come about but these are the dangers that need to be looked at and the long term impacts when u.s. forces are put in a position that things like this could happen and knows things need to be thought through and you can what if this forever this is

a tough tough position that secretary kerry said recently that the u.s. would consider using drones in iraq what are the implications of that. well there drones as we've seen in afghanistan. it's that in between phase of doing nothing and doing something heavy it gives us that standoff but the perception of the u.s. fighting with drones obviously the rest of the world looks at this especially the folks on the on the ground and the potential collateral damage can have impacts so when you target someone with a drone you hope and you want to make sure that you're getting the bad guys that doesn't always happen those collateral of facts can impact how we employ against target systems and we've got to be very careful on that then speaking of collateral damage doesn't that make our image in the eyes of the rest of the world that much

worse if we had so much collateral damage. it could and that's why when i started off saying how do we want iraq to look in ten years and that we it's not the united states that's iraq also and that's the rest of the world this is something hopefully where the u.s. is taking the lead to shape the environment here and u.s. you bruce can't get in the way here we can't get too far in front of that and we've got to lead without taking total control that's a that's a razor's edge to to work on well they u.s. has deployed navy vessels into the region already and could this be perceived in the eyes of the world as posturing but do you think that. it could be it's also deterrence at its best that's why we have these forces those capabilities and that's the ideal use for is to be out there it's kind of like a bouncer at the door of our if there's no trouble the boss who doesn't engage if

there is trouble or engages and that's a nice signal to be able to send and that's why we haven't. ok so it's been over a decade now since we toppled saddam hussein's regime and we're hearing his name floating around again back in the media and many people both in iraq and those in the global community are saying that iraq was better off before the the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three what are your thoughts. you can't put the genie back in the bottle unfortunately been a lot. you've got to you've got to play with what you've got right now. anybody who was first that that's nice but. that's a discussion that could that can't be won or lost it's just the discussion i'd stay away from that and just let's deal with what we have right now let's look at the strategy for what and stay we want to create as a nation with iraq with its neighbors and let's strive for that that was a very balanced answer sarah thank you so much that was retired brigadier general

david reste he's also the vice president of strategy and planning at the potomac institute. and while president obama and congress bigger over what to do in iraq the american people are fed up with washington new poll numbers make it clear the president and lawmakers are not very popular take a look at the latest gallup poll which surveys how people currently feel about congress now just sixteen percent of americans think this congress is doing a good job sixteen percent is actually the lowest that gallup has ever measured since it began its polling back in one thousand nine hundred seventy four so how will this translate on election day this november political experts predict most incumbents will be reelected no matter how bad the country feels about capitol hill and president obama can tout that his approval rating is higher than congress forty

four percent of americans are happy with the job he's doing that's at the same point of his first term back in two thousand and ten so he's holding steady gallup says the reason for the president's low poll numbers well americans are simply dissatisfied with the economy and we should note some other recent polls have showed even a lower ratings for both congress and the president and today marks the two year anniversary since we can leaks founder julian assange has been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london the forty two year old australian sought refuge at the embassy to avoid extradition to sweden for a four year old sexual assault claim against him a claim that a son vehemently refutes artie's poly boy goes in london with more. that's house of one of the world's most famous department stores and there's always a policeman nearby and not worried about shoplifters but the perpetual presence of one man inside that building is to his since june in

a sauna refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy inside a bottom floor flat in this red brick mansion in that time that wiki leaks editor in chief has still managed to run for the australian senate and become the subject of a hollywood film he's also had to shed the title of the world's most famous whistleblower off the n.s.a. contractor edward snowden revealed details of mass government surveillance programs last year two years inside the building for a songe all say means two years to come outside it for the london's metropolitan police the bill for god things that door and takes us on should ever imagine something like eleven thousand pounds a day the ecuadorian ambassador admits his nonpaying tendon is suffering but we didn't want to give assurances that whistleblower won't be extradited to the u.s. if he travels to stop home for questioning allegations of sexual assault which

means the ecuadorian ambassador isn't ruling out the possibility his unlikely houseguest could be rustling around inside the building for the rest of his life reporting from london on party boy. to talk more about a saunders legal battle and the future of wiki leaks i was joined earlier today by wiki leaks spokesman kristinn hrafnsson i first asked him where we can we expand today. well i mean despite all the difficulties that julian has to endure and the difficult situation his mender and and the rest of the staff. let's not forget that there's still an ongoing fight between. attempt to find a case against which least here in the united states we have been able to continue our work and actually strengthening our core base with building the. document base into a short engine driven database with more than

a million documents. and secrets so we have we have been building up our base and look we are looking towards the future we have not given up now as you say they are building up your base we've actually had that over the past few years we've seen the rise of other whistleblower support organizations and edward snowden took his n.s.a. leaks directly to journalists has your organization had to rethink its approach as far as getting whistleblowers to come to you instead of. well i mean we have. of course we always are rethinking. that into new realities but we should do is to approach us and and the information that we can publish. to the general public. we are ready to do that we have

an ongoing cooperation agreement with probably under twenty or thirty media organizations that we can. basically put into work whenever things that come our way just as we did today with the release of on board documents now what is the benefit for them to go to wiki leaks versus going directly to media sources. well the benefit is that we are totally committed to. to secure their only miti if they so desire. and we have. very good records but we have never done anything that has revealed our source and that is the security that we can offer whistleblowers are something that is of course very important and of course the the network of. media outlets that we are cooperating with something of an asset and we have. a platform for

that where we can get the information. in a. tactical manner platform and tactics that others might not have and you feel that your audience base is still there then. oh absolutely i mean we do have a huge support and people understand what we are doing we have courts have been moving on to other fields very importantly we are committed to the course of protecting whistleblowers and encouraging whistleblowers only last week we had of course a hand in the creation of the courage foundation. which is based in berlin foundation that is helping edward snowden and supporting him but now will be expanded and will be ready to assist the future whistleblowers when they step forward and needs immediate action mr snowden did a little over

a year ago now speaking of support let's talk about julian assange shall self do you feel that the world will ever see mr us on the ecuadorian embassy a free man. of course i mean because it's becoming extremely so shameful for all the parties and whoa this is tarnish the image of sweden and the way the swedish government has behaved in this towards mr songs there's been an absolute willingness on all parties to find a solution to the this push it should but the swedish government has not given an inch and it has become obvious that there is some spurious motives behind the way that they are behaving it is obviously not a concern for the human rights of junior sons is rights are violated is evident by the testimony. of the fifty nine organizations that now have submitted to the united nations. review that

he is. his human rights are violated by this situation is in. that was mr crist in her office and spokesperson for wiki leaks and ukrainian president petro poroshenko announced a plan to end the violence in eastern ukraine he promised a unilateral cease fire after discussions with russian and german leaders the kremlin says that russian president vladimir putin discussed the possible ceasefire in a phone conversation with poroshenko late tuesday he also discussed his peace plan with german chancellor angela merkel so if they can come to an agreement this could be a major development in bringing peace to the region as our tears roman coast road has more on the fighting that continues while peace talks are being discussed. so the fire resumed this morning and one man actually died as

a result of that fire he was near a christian orthodox church which was actually destroyed now in terms of us live as kids and continued to have left to the citizens without water supply without interest to supply or even the food in some instances still folk proclaimed donetsk republika officials are claiming that so they are heading for humanitarian catastrophe you can see empty shelves in stores you can see people lining up for water nearly all the hospitals are closed most of them please are simply not there finding refuge somewhere else plus ambulances have no fuel that was artie's roman coaster of and this city of albuquerque new mexico must pay six million dollars for the wrongful death of christopher torres who was suffering from schizophrenia when he was killed by police back in two thousand and eleven torres was shot in the back by police while they were serving an arrest warrant state district judge shannon

bacon rejected claims that the officers were acting in self defense and saying instead they ask elated the situation by not making an adequate in korea into the facts behind the warrant albuquerque has faced heavy criticism for their police department's use of force and joining us today to talk about the torres case and a few other cases is civil rights attorney shannon kennedy hello shannon let's start with the torres case do you feel the judge's decision was fair absolutely judge. heard over a week's worth of testimony and found that the shooting officer in that case was not credible. and there there have been actually from what i read thirty seven police shootings in albuquerque in just the past four years and twenty three of which were actually fatal obviously the police have to protect themselves and were

aware of that but with these kinds of numbers it's a little disturbing it would appear that the forces maybe rather a little trigger happy is a problem and training is this just that a tough beat for caught no the city of albuquerque is not a tough beat for cars it's just the officers here have not been trained in deescalation techniques and in carry encountering people who are suffering from mental illness in addition to that they were trained in what's called the reactive control model which teaches them to react and to escalate instead of to deescalate encounters with people suffering from mental illness they also are working within a system that allows them to cover up their crime so for instance in the taurus case it was clear that he had been shot in the back and that was the physical evidence and yet they continue to claim that they had acted in self self-defense when that was fall and so the city of albuquerque police officers for the last four to five years have committed

a number of killings and no one has held them responsible and it isn't the city are the citizens of albuquerque outraged by this case. yes they are outraged by this caged and many other cases there's a group of the families who have lost their loved ones including a number of children who have been orphaned by these unlawful shootings and so there have been protests in the street literally colleen for reforms within the police department now speaking those other cases you represented the family of kenneth ellis the third who was an iraqi war veteran who was killed in two thousand and ten during a police standoff and in that case the city actually settled for nearly eight million dollars and the city has a massive amount of money that they've been paying out involving all of these different allegations of police misconduct over the past few years are the citizens upset about what i assume our tax dollars that are being spent on these settlements

well jurors that found that kind of ellis had been wrongfully killed and that his son who was five years old at the time would grow up without his father i'm awarded more than ten million dollars and then after another year of litigating he said oh that paid for approximately eight million dollars but the citizens want to see investments in reforms so that there are fewer shootings now let's take a look at this video of the events that led to the death of james boyd a homeless man who faced off with the police because he was illegally camping in the sandia foothills in new mexico and you called this a game changer in how the city has responded to the use of excessive force tell us why. this is a game changer because the city was caught lying because there was a helmet cam video showing that at the time that james now can you believe was shot had his back to the hitting officers moments after the video was released there was

a press conference in which the chief of police said that the shooting was justified i had and people were outraged because it was so clear that at the time of the game you boys were on the no threat to anyone and at the city another group of officers on the scene. after they shot him in the back they released a dog on to him and they shot him with being big devices and then they let him bleed out for over forty minutes when he was finally taken to the emergency room his arm had to be amputated and he died but on the video you can hear him breathe in a very labored manner and they fail to render emergency medical care and so he died it's the kind of thing that just. such as this is sickening and it's so tragic and as a result of that video the bayer finally came down to the homeless shelter where

again now he go it had resided and he has a pledge now to spend money to help the homeless people living within albuquerque instead of criminalizing their mental illness well it isn't isn't this is more of a issue with the police station rather than the homeless people themselves we'll have to get back with you again another day to further discuss this that thank you so much for that shannon tenet a civil rights attorney in mexico thank you you're welcome they ate at the world cup in brazil in a last win match up for both teams you're away defeated england with a final score of two to one for us more on the latest on the world cup is our team is nicholas o'donovan thank you. copacabana rio de janeiro brazil the world cup it just doesn't get any better than this the football fans actually this is ground zero for football fans around the world thousands and

thousands of them here in brazil even if they don't have the take it to see it and they're here to live the experience the live the party surrounding the outcome so walking up and down copacabana one can see flags and polish practically every country in the well many of these fanatics belong to countries that haven't even qualified for the world cup others the argentinians are here by the tens of thousands and despite some clashes with local and chilean fans the truth is that the vast majority of here only for the fun. then there's a mexican army that has invaded brazil actually they came against the house there were nearly as many mexicans in the stands as they were brazilians others that are here in massive numbers are obviously the brits and americans are starting to get the hang of it as well some call it football others call it soccer but the truth is

that they all live in the brazilian next celebrate empire and may never for round about having a great time when a bunch of them up and say it's a circus as you can see as mayor simi for. this massive concentration of people requires an enormous display of security and the truth is the police presence is constant so fans fail pretty safe down here there has been some protests in rio de janeiro and just on wednesday thousands rallied in sao paolo tourists were very aware of the situation here but they say that once they arrived in brazil they were happily surprised fantastic forget all of the negative press that had been far right and everybody from the well. it's coming together. that you have a great time just mouse of joy so the world cup goes on at the end of the day here in copacabana victory is celebrated with joy and defeat well defeat is just

a bit sweeter when you have. to leave so to. rio de janeiro. and that does it for now i'm manila chan see you back here at eight . on marriage in the financial world. to see these developments have not started. in life there are blues and there are such. in the u.s. there are sixteen states that have laws that outlaw law is in political lead you

know how corporations can be sued for making false claims in their ads well so can people who make false claims in political ads at least in these sixteen states but apparently the supreme court thinks that not being able to say whatever the hell you want about a candidate whether it's true or not in a big giant ad that is violating people's free speech big just ruled that a group could go ahead and challenge the no lying law in ohio you see the group known as the susan b. anthony list ran an ad against a candidate that bordered exactly true and that candidate was going to challenge them to the no line law so the not exactly true didn't run and that made the group very angry so they went ahead and challenge the no line law because they'd like to continue lying about politicians in the upcoming election and not get in trouble

boy lower courts throughout their challenge but now the supreme court just said that the group can go ahead and challenge the no line law after the ruling the president of the group was thrilled she actually was quoted as saying the truth or falsity of political speech should be judged by voters in other words she thinks the onus of truth is on the people who see the ads not on the people who make them which is ludicrous either something. it's true or but you shouldn't be allowed to lie in about candidates who are running to represent us you can't lie that you're stupid product cures cancer or makes you look twenty million years younger you certainly shouldn't be able to lie about a candidate who could potentially make huge decisions affecting all of our lives but apparently our supreme court thinks otherwise in his ruling justice clarence

thomas says that having to prove truths in athens would put a hardship on advertisers and might make them refrain from free speech the court also warns that these no lying laws have a chilling effect on free speech and that they could impose serious burden on the like total speech yet god forbid we hold political advertisers to the high burden of checking their acts before spewing out their garbage to the whole world what i mean would be man our supreme court has become a joke when it comes to political campaigning our justice isn't just blind anymore it's death it's certainly dumb and it clearly has an agenda.