coming up on our t.v. the crisis in iraq leave the nation divided isis militants continue to gain ground while washington struggles for a way to end the crisis so is there a solution to the crisis and more on that ahead and the pentagon is researching the cause of global on rest and movement groups but critics fear this could help the military stifle and control protest movement more on that later in the show and it's day nine of the brazil world cup while fans and gather for today's games in the street protests turned violent over social issues and government spending and update on that later in the show.

it's friday june twentieth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america three hundred american special forces are prepping to head into iraq as president obama announced yesterday saying they'll be in the war torn nation solely for advising roles but while the president emphasized the forces will not be returning to combat loyal followers of anti-american shiite cleric will talk to al assad or warn that an attack on those american soldiers would be eminent secretary of state john kerry will also be in route to the region beginning this weekend hoping to broker peace talks among shiite sunni and kurdish leaders also increasing pressure on iraq's prime minister was iraq's shiite spiritual leader grand ayatollah ali sistani. who today called for

a new more effective government as the isis sunni militants continue the attack on the big oil fields isis has also seized a former chemicals weapons complex with a stockpile of munitions although the u.s. state department says that there are new civil joining me now to talk about the sectarian violence in the region is adjunct professor at georgetown law school dawood carolla professor thank you so much for joining me here in studio now. back in the early days of the u.s. led invasion. we saw the rise of a young shiite cleric leader by the name. that's right darryl sutter siders followers are now warning that the u.s. would feel the strike on those three hundred special ops advisers that are being sent there so if the u.s. the sending of fires advisers to the region to assist the government which is

largely which is largely shia anyway should these guys be welcoming the u.s. well president obama in his conference here for a press conference try to keep distance from either. party whether shiite or sunni to maintain is certain appearance of neutrality and to be able to play a role configured this is the purpose of the gist of the conference now if and when the u.s. interest would be affected we can be sure that the u.s. is going to react so the u.s. needs people on the ground to know and report for these three hundred people and not necessarily in my judgment advisor to the government we have to help poll how to bomb and what are the strategic positions that they should take i think they are

there primarily to protect american interest whether the u.s. will be able to maintain a neutrality a beautiful from a pilot in the mind of everyone that is a challenge that removes three things that you personally don't feel that that the three hundred special ops teams that are being sent over there are are there to back the government on three hundred individuals no matter what position they might be might be the government there has advised. advisers has. dampened people i don't know to what extent these three hundred individuals if they are there just to advise the government i think if the if it will appear but they could have a significant role in favor of the government then they would put themselves and the us would have put itself in less than favorable position to the isis and and

the friends of isis in the area i mean isis is supported by some governments that are very close to the u.s. yes yes it's a very mired conflict right now there are a lot of varying schools of thought on how to resolve this conflict one of those being is to divide the region in just three secular states take a look at the map here that we're putting up here on the screen this is what where the ethnic regions currently are and what it might look like if the regions were split up in such a way for for the the sunni the shia and the kurds now do you think this is a good idea. of course not this is something that would already as a result of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three and the democracy that has emanated in this we see this integrated society we see is a society where secondary identities sectarian identity i think i did whatever i

have taken over and replaced any kind of allegiance to a national government so this has been promoted that is in place if we are going to make that reality physically that means that iraq would be weakened and it would be promises of continuous problems in the future among sects dividing those three into three different regions than it was in a very bad very bad idea now take a look at this other map that we have here this is. what isis has already seized all these little points here isis has already seized all those areas in the region what do you think isis is trying to achieve is it that they're trying to achieve their own isis state is that possible could they could they make their own way they have declared they have said they want to establish an islamic state in iraq and syria and they will go as far as they can and once they are in

a position of power they will start getting threatening other neighboring countries for sure and doing whatever. they have done in other places rebel as of right now that the isis movement has has crossed different country borders if they were able to establish their own borders across all of these existing national borders do you think the other regions such as like jordan if they're trying to move into jordan with a response first i don't think that theory that iraqis or city and soon the muslim would go along with with isis that is certain level of awareness a certain level of nationalism that there are people who feel oppressed to see frustrated with the existing government in. iraq government american government and there are people who are injured by the us do but if you cation

dissolving the are we there are people who are really. very upset with what has happened so they have in a sense coalesced but this doesn't amount in my judgment to a consent that. in both in syria and in iraq would accept to be ruled by isis or. that actually call them and reject that now let's take a look back real briefly. here in history at the region for a moment in two thousand and six another sunni insurgent group as we all know is called the taliban they took over afghanistan and not until the u.s. led invasion that overthrew them back in two thousand and ten. the country was overrun by them do you think this is something maybe that we can compare to what's happening in iraq now to a large extent that are so many similarities first they are of the so you again logical background and the friends of time you bought at the time. the countries

that have recognized funnybone saudi arabia and pakistan they were the first a and b. are the closest allies of the u.s. and we know what happened after that i don't know whether the u.s. is repeating the same mistakes that we've seen that we don't learn from our mistakes of the past but i don't think that. isis would be a success was probably one to. dividing the country or this would depend on what the iraqi the level of awareness among the iraqis still iraqis should go because foreign for powers might not care very much even if the iraqis kill each other and it would be turmoil eternally it is contained it's all right but for iraqis it's a total loss and i hope they will be they will act in a way that shows that i should not at the factory it isn't. a decent sense of what

it means to be iraqis and to keep an iraq strong and healthy and peaceful thank you sir and just law professor at georgetown and attorney and former deputy general counsel at the world bank that would carolla thank you for your time sir now new sanctions have been issued against seven anti kiev separatists by the u.s. the u.s. claims there is new evidence that shows russia is amassing more. weapons and munitions near the ukrainian border the kremlin has confirmed that it hasn't deed increased its military forces along the border but claims that it's always for security purposes and that this measure was approved by european leaders this as ukrainian president petro poroshenko and russian president vladimir putin hash out peace talks to end the month old conflict the peace deal may include creating a six mile buffer zone between the two countries and

a centralized power from kiev into smaller regional governments ukraine's foreign minister has also announced a temporary ceasefire until june twenty seventh with more from the region here's artie's roman coaster up or people in the one family actually lost two members as a shell flew right into the backyard of a private residence instead of the killing a mother and when doing her child's teacher gives would so she would be thirty knowledge. of how to speak of people switch off the camera. moments to get to the line for my daughter said look the saudi shelling i told you to get into the basement immediately she grabbed her son turned around and that's when the shell hit she was no more. the child was taken to the hospital where doctors worked on him all night said but multiple head injuries prevented the doctors from saving his life they discovered thirty shell fragments

in his head and he died right on the operating table meanwhile fighting continues close to the russian border and according to this post personal for the russian border guards a shell actually flew into russian territory and injured one of the customs officers and damaged a building as well now moscow is outrage and demands a quick in this occasion and a problem so apology from the crane authorities the ukrainian defense ministry had already denied all these accusations that any shooting took place near the russian border now the shelling was probably accidental but russia is not concerned about the security in this area let me put in spokesperson dimitri bischoff said the president ordered back called for russian border guards in order to exclude such events from happening in the future he said this is being done in order to boost

security in this highly volatile area. that was artie's roman kosar if. and another hurdle has been set on the path to closing the military detention center at guantanamo bay late last night the u.s. house of representatives approved a measure in a defense appropriations bill that would put get most detainees transfers on hold for one year the republican led house voted two hundred thirty to one hundred eighty four on the amendment that bans funding for transfers as well as another amendment that would financially block the transfer of detainees to yemen the home of most of the hundred forty nine current detainees the ban was proposed in response to president obama's exchange of five get mode attain ease for u.s. p.o.w. sergeant bowe bergdahl lawmakers are upset the president did not give congress the thirty day notice required by law which the white house said would have hampered

the exchange now the president a prisoner swap is just the latest snag in president obama's push to close gitmo which has been embroiled in controversy since it began housing terror suspects back in two thousand and two decides working to mitigate reports of waterboarding and torture a federal judge has now ordered the government to release footage showing the for speeding practices used during a hunger strike last year now at the height of the tube feeding it had more than one hundred of its hundred fifty four detainees as unwilling participants the pentagon says the practice of feeding hunger strikers liquid nutrients through a tube snaked down from the nostril into the stomach was necessary to keep the detainees healthy but the united nations called it yet another form of torture meanwhile israel is also faced with a hunger strike of its own dozens of palestinian inmates have been on a hunger strike for two months to challenge that country's practice of the

detention without charges. and the u.s. department of defense has teamed up with universities and social science researchers to study the dynamics of civil unrest both abroad and at home it's being called the minerva research initiative many scientists educators and activists fear the initiative could not only lead to the militarization of the study of social sciences but that the information gained from the research could be used by the military to control and to stifle ideological and grassroots driven movements like the occupy wall street movement with us today to shed shed some light on the minerva initiative and the military's use of social sciences is professor of anthropology and sociology socio lot so theology at st martin's university david price thanks for joining us professor now i'm glad to be here the

minerva research initiative was started back in two thousand and eight and just this year it received one hundred seventeen million dollars from congress professor please walk us through how this initiative works what are its goals and what does the military hope to gain from this initiative. well as you said the minerva initiative started in two thousand and eight it started with very modest funding around four million dollars it was announced by then secretary of defense robert gates with the idea being that the defense department would try. social scientists and other academics in american universities to research. issues and problems that were of interest to the military when it started it was it was very broad but as you said your interjection right now it appears that many of the programs that are being funded try to model ways for the defense department to

monitor civil unrest and so they're studying those. domestic populations and more generally looking at groups around the world and trying to use social science for militarized eons now how does the military and intelligence agencies the information that's being gained working with the social scientist an anthropologist like yourself is it something that they're they're looking into as far as behavior is is concerned as as large groups. well there are several answers to that one is we simply don't know how the information being used as with any any sort of social science research that how can you i don't know. well because you know i'm not involved in i don't work for minerva i'm a critic of. and so but anyone who's who's doing research puts it out in the public domain and it can be used for ins that the we the

researchers don't understand now with minerva. the results there's two parts of minerva one is a program where people come up with with research designs that they want to do and it goes through a very public process using the national science foundation and the other. is not public it uses a classified process so there are scholars out there that are doing doing work where they're doing things like analyzing texts so they'll take one of the one of the funded programs as they took seize documents from iraq from the invasion of iraq that were taken back and then they use very sophisticated programs or programs like there's one called the new disk which is a qualitative analytical software package that social scientists can use to look for themes that show up in documents and so in terms of what it's being applied for we don't know because all of this occurs behind

a wall of secrecy. do you think that the professors that are involved in the minerva project do they even know what they're involved with or why this information is useful to them just to know you know that on the one hand it's one of the sort of dual use things on the one hand the scholars working on these these projects are working on issues that are very interesting to them as individuals i don't think they're necessarily thinking through the applications or just in terms of counterinsurgency and other applications or perhaps they are in their politically comfortable with it having their research being used for these sort of manipulative and i don't i don't really know i think there's a lot of naivete not really understanding the history of abuses of programs like. oh thank you so much for your time sir that was david price a professor of anthropology at st martin's university. and it's no secret

detroit was hit hard during the recession the once bustling city of auto workers has seen the years of high unemployment poverty rate near forty percent and a foreclosure crisis that has devastated the region now some of the poorest residents are facing yet another crisis no water the city is cracking down on people with overdue accounts back in march the detroit water and sewage department sent shut off notices to nearly forty five thousand residents so far more than three thousand people have had their water turned off the crackdown comes as the city just recently voted to jack up the rates for the water by nearly nine percent concerned groups claim the move is violating the basic human rights to water so they've decided to appeal to the united nations foreign groups admitted a request to the u.n. special reporter this week it details of

a problem in detroit and calls for the un's help. they're urging the u.n. to work with the state of michigan and the u.s. government to stop the shut off and restore service and make water accessible and affordable now be affordable line is the key word here over the last decade detroit residents have seen water rates rise by one hundred nineteen percent. and the world cup news as your finished beating england two to one in sao paulo protests which have been simmering since long before the tournament began finally boiled over a year ago residents of brazil's largest city had successfully demonstrated against and defeated a public transportation fare hike and these protests started as an effort to mark that victory but issues of funding for public services have been at the core of the anti-government. protests and what began peacefully escalated into vandalism

and property destruction protesters wearing masks and dressed in black broke into clash windows sprayed with c.d.'s and also vandalized a luxury car dealership military police report that around thirteen hundred people took part in the initial protest and so police responded with tear gas there were no reports on that number of people arrested or if arrests were even made public spending on the world has been a major source of discontent in the country which still suffers from glaring poverty and declining public services such as education and health despite recent average income gains a whopping sixty percent of brazilians still live in a valid or brazilian slum now though the soccer tournament and its organizing body fever have been the focus of recent protests these demonstrations did not target

the thousands of international soccer fans in the country and there were no reported injuries. so boom bust is coming up next right here on r t aaron eight is joining us for a quick preview hey aaron miller thank you know coming up on the boom bust scandalous behavior gets a shameful and i mean shameful ousting of the c.e.o. of american apparel we bring you the full and i really mean full frontal details coming right up you might want to miss that actually and that is the end of the week which means we're bringing you the best of the very best for the past seven days it's all coming up. full frontal sounds interesting thanks erin. and that does it for now for more on the stories we just covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our web site r t v dot com forward slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at manila chan stay tuned boom bust is coming up next. star wars.

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of. our politicians use the term national security to justify spying on the entire world invading countries stealing resources he name it and now the court just used national security to justify the f.b.i.'s practice of torturing americans when they're traveling abroad the u.s. district court of the district of columbia just dismissed a case brought by the a.c.l.u. on behalf of the u.s. that is send them your michelle in two thousand and six he was in somalia when fighting broke out this led to kenya where he was trying to find a way back to the west when kenyan soldiers picked him up tossed him in the filthy cell and called in u.s. officials to decide what to do with the f.b.i. showed up. and started questioning him they accused him of being trained by al qaeda which mr michaud denied so the f.b.i.

started threatening him they told him they were going to hand him over to the kenyans forever they told him they were going to transfer him to israel where he'd been made to disappear they threatened his family they repeatedly threatened him with execution and torture and all kinds of bad stuff to get him to confess when a canyon human rights group filed a petition on his behalf the f.b.i. is equally flew mr michel back to somalia and then over to ethiopia in total he was detained for over four months by the f.b.i. interrogated over thirty times and he lost eighty pounds he was finally returned home where no charges were filed against him he would just let go with no explanation or apology so the a.c.l.u. brought the case to court to try to get some protections in place for americans against their own government when they travel abroad because apparently there's a need for that in the past other americans have similar stories about being

tortured by the f.b.i. off american soil and brought cases to court that were also dismissed and that's exactly what's happening in mr michel's case right now it was just dismissed and guess what the court used as grounds for dismissal yet they said the u.s. government had a right to detain and torture an american citizen abroad because of national security. the court also said that while they found mr michel's case disturbing they think it's really up to the legislative branch to figure it all out is such a joke our government treats us like a bunch of three year olds who they can keep in line by scaring us with their terrorism believe man and they're played out phrase national security but the very unfunny part of this joke is that now they've got the courts on their side. tonight let's talk about bad bad balogna on twitter at the resident.

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