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it's tuesday june twenty fourth four pm in washington d.c. i'm amir a david and you're watching our team america we begin with the crisis in ukraine with a cease fire in place it appears tensions in the region may be easing slightly russian president vladimir putin has asked his lawmakers to cancel an authorization for the use of russian armed forces in ukraine the latest development comes ahead of a european union summit friday where members said they would consider toughening sanctions on russia for its role in the country's unrest artie's paul scott has more. the continuing conflict in the east of ukraine was very much top of the agenda as russian president vladimir putin is on his austrian account of all kinds of asia faced the media after an afternoon of meetings now the leaders were you not a mess in suggesting that ukrainian president. could be doing more to engage. to

engage the population of the restive south east by assuring that the rights and aspirations of the population were realized. just that the declaring a cease fire is not enough there should be substandard talks on the core problems of keep saying here you're seven days and you must disarm within this period if there are no efforts made to reach any substantial agreements with eastern ukraine there won't be any results. studios' to leave austria is and he is primarily aimed at finding a peaceful peaceful solution for the crisis in ukraine and bring it into some constructive stage of negotiations where some substantive arrangements could be meeting the most important thing is for russia and ukraine to have dialogue on all the relevant levels and mr president has just did that.

the austrian president was also king to praise about him a putin's decision earlier on tuesday to ask lawmakers to withdraw permission to use force in ukraine fisher says about is an important step towards deescalation well austrian on the russian energy giant put pen to paper on the agreement which will see construction work begin on the austrian section of the south stream now the south stream will pipe gas from russia to europe bypassing ukraine of course is seen as a more reliable and stable source as tensions between russia and ukraine continue to rise now australia is came to see the work started and complete it despite deep divisions within the european union divisions that have seen well cultured in vogue area earlier this month people kerry and prime minister announced that work on the south stream on the pipeline in his country is going to be halted following meeting with three u.s. senators including john mccain now the official reason being given was that. they needed to whole walk in order to iron out concerns that e.u.

competition rules had been breached however many within russia feel that the decision was politically motivated so there are some divisions over the south stream within a with the signing of the agreement here in vienna on tuesday the idea of the south rim is one step closer to becoming reality now as our reporting. and now to iraq where the sunni militant group isis is violently carving its way further into the country united nations reports today that. more than one thousand people mostly civilians have been killed in iraq just this month making it the highest death toll since the u.s. military with grew from the country in december of two thousand and eleven isis claims it is now in control of the largest oil refinery in beijing which the iraqi military denies but also says that over the weekend it took over major border crossings into syria and jordan this comes as the head of kurdish intelligence tells the telegraph newspaper that he warned the cia and britain's intelligence

agency m i six about the isis threat five months before the recent attacks while the insurgency has been growing since the us left about two and a half years ago president obama has repeatedly said that it won't send in u.s. troops to play whack a mole every time one of these organizations live up to the kurds on the other hand would like to encourage the west to intervene as the shiite government struggles to challenge the rapid and vance of isis last week the u.s. announced it would send three hundred special forces into iraq to advise local military which of course six while of course securing the embassy and pushing for a new more inclusive government secretary kerry is in iraq today urging kurdish leaders to support this endeavor. well americans confidence in the news media has tumbled to a new low when it comes to trust in newspapers television or the internet

a recently released a gallup poll has found that the level of faith in each of the three major news media platforms is added or tied with record lows following a trend that's deepened in the last few years the gallup poll shows that confidence in newspapers has declined declined by more than half since its one nine hundred seventy nine peak of fifty one percent while t.v. news is seeing an ultimate low of eighteen percent down significantly from its forty six percent high in one nine hundred ninety three and although confidence in the internet has gone down from twenty one percent in one thousand nine hundred ninety to about eighteen percent in two thousand and fourteen it's still fairing better than television news when you look at the flipside of these numbers gallup has revealed that seventy eight to eighty two percent of americans who were asked a question about their confidence in media answered that they have some very little or none no confidence in the media to give us some insight on this continual decline that we're saying i want to bring in two people who know this topic very

well are tiebreaking the set host abby martin and producer ben wall raffaello thank you guys for joining me so abby let's talk about t.v. media first it's now at eighteen percent which is absolutely abysmal down from forty six percent just twenty years ago in one thousand nine hundred three the first year that they took this poll quite a dramatic drop what do you think it's attributed to i think it's a tribute to a lot of things i think there's a consolidation of media where we have dozens of giant media outlets and now there's only five corporations controlling everything american see hear and read ninety percent of which i also think it's the switch over to infotainment news i can there's a lot less investigative journalism and i think it's the rise in the running of alternative media in the internet as there's a lot of those things factors play into it absolutely and many how much of this you think has to do with sort of the t.v. media model changing editorially at least right i mean we are. launched the media kind of a ball over the last two decades like c.n.n. the rest of c.n.n. that i miss and b c kind of filling in the boyd for of

a left voice and fox news filling in the void for the right voice but all of that has sort of turned in like abby said and infotainment so what is the model today the model isn't toward being informative it's being toward entertainment that's why you're seeing more and more shows on c.n.n. look i like anthony bourdain and i like the things that he does but that's not news right so that's exactly and when you're watching a regular newscast be interrupted because there's news about justin bieber getting arrested or because there's some celebrity being found drunk d.w.i. or whatever that's that shouldn't take away from other stories that are important and so alternative media. outlets on the internet like independent journalists there are successfully filling in the void where the corporate media is missing absolutely and abby one of the things that's now circulating is this exchange between fox news ed henry and this that he sees chuck todd just before the president spoke last week about iraq let's take a listen at that. but. they both said of the way this is it's

right now oh yeah yeah we think of it like the case that had our growth rates with it will be quicker to decrease that way. though that is what you know you're always going to have something got a good voice i find is that ok with summer an hour or so. for us to evolve with or you wish you the right so there are go i go give a speech yesterday it was ok with the air force right that's what surveys are so just kind of joking off camera but do you want something that should be pointed out to the american people maybe on camera lewdly that if i do what i do i have i'm so bias and i think that other people should put their opinions out there because we see things like this it's shameful to just be regurgitating what the government says and based ona go first on government press releases and not let the american people know that you think this is bowl and calling people out on their b.s. and that's why i just it's it's funny i mean i've loved hearing them say things there because i'm like you got to like there you're always yes well they are

usually seen on here acting and kind of just repeating these thing right and pretending like or this unbiased person when we know that no one is really unbiased you might as well put it out there that it's not going to do absolutely offend this and be seen as openly biased toward like the liberal perspective and fox news doing this in the others will be doing it in the open if we can connect with them want to personal level they would be far more successful what's so great is that one was from an assembly see what's on fox so it's just kind of fun to watch them do that well many for the first time americans actually trust news on the internet more than they do t.v. perhaps not surprising when we watch you know that the major cable channels but do you think this is all around a good thing i don't i think it's more like a double edged sword right so yes it's great for a citizen journalist to be able to like write a story and immediately see that or danny kind of viral. story go viral now that's great because that shows you what people organically want to see what news. that they actually want to take in but at the same time we're living in the age of data

mining every like that you make makes every bit of information that comes right back at you tailor made to what you're looking for so that almost narrows the news that you're getting so a lot of people are now getting their news from facebook and twitter and your face or even your own bias only the news and the viewpoints that their friends have i mean so like twitter and social media it's great and amazing platform to get information out there and for sharing and getting the stories that are under reported out in the media but at the same time like the more legs that you make the best narrows your point of view so you're like as you said reinforcing your own bias or perhaps you can consciously follow people from the left the right you know third parties and so you can get sort of a diverse array of information i mean i want to shift to talking about something else making headlines it's a little bit disturbing the n.y.p.d. has a new initiative and which they're writing press releases but they're kind of using a story format so when you read it it sounds just like a real article i want to read a part of it so it says it begins

a rookie bronx cop on the foot step on the foot post this morning chased down and arrested and arrested a gun toting seventeen year old who moments earlier fired four shots into another man and left him for dead on a mount st it's kind of crazy that this is this is being put forward by the n.y.p.d. and clearly not you know there's no journalistic credibility whatsoever behind it i mean what what do you think the department is really trying to do here oh boy you see a lot of entities kind of taking up these algorithmic reportings where they can kind of manufacture like what seems like an actual article but it's hilarious because the n.y.p.d. is getting so much so much criticism for their brutality because over the last couple years that it's just amazing that now they're creating kind of these robotic algorithms to to actually pretend like they're writing press releases that are turned into stories that make it seem like journalists are actually agreeing with what the line is a gun toting crazy seventeen year old if i had a couple shots pick ourselves i mean. really really. if

it's got to get it but i just hope people call it out because that's not journalism and i know that vice is called it out which is really good but manny i mean do you think there's a danger in this i mean do we really need that because there's so much information out there how much do you know we need to be really sifting through and distinguishing between what's real and what's not absolutely and i understand that the average american doesn't have time to go and check the three sources like we do in journalism and make sure that the story is founded in something but it is important that you know people know that it's not about boycotting the corporate media it's about finding a journalist that you can trust follow the stories a they're doing and if you question it find another source it can be hard to do but we are in the age of information there's a lot of information out there there's a lot of conflicting reports you never there's never one side of the story there's always you know different versions of the truth but the truth remains singular right so seek that out never take any staying at face value for sure i mean not to put you guys on the spot but i want to know what you guys have coming up for

tonight what can people look forward to regular south. banned books week and so we're having on markers for mailers and media studies scholar and he's going to be talking about you know in other countries people actually overtly ban books at the state you know china things like that but here in america we kind of censor things in a lot more strategic ways whether it be corporate litigation you know marginalizing books by saying that they're too friend or radical and like it's not marketable so we're going to talk about the top five books that are really have been banned in this country and kind of talk about why why have they been banned because they provide an alternate history of america as a story and i'm saying for headlines out tonight it's. the sat are you guys are tiebreaking us that host abby maher and producer and manuel thank you very much and i think and now to sweden where julian assange just lawyers are trying to get an arrest warrant that was issued to him tossed out today warriors filed a corp. edition in stockholm where he's facing allegations of sexual assault and

rape there were those charges would be weeks founder has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for two years of finding extradition he was granted asylum by door but the british government says they'll arrest us songe if he sets foot outside of the embassy fears that if he returns to sweden it will be extradited to the u.s. and face charges for leaking thousands of classified documents including those leaked by chelsea manning lawyers say the warrant should be repealed because it can't be enforced while he's in the embassy they also say a swedish prosecutor could and should interrogate him in london instead last week us on spoke on his second anniversary of being in the embassy where he made it clear that he will remain inside the building until the impasse over his future is resolved and still ahead here on our t.v. the streets of chicago may soon have an increase in surveillance some are worried about a new project that could be used to track the movements of people in the area more

on surveillance in the windy city after the break. on marinating in the financial world. to see these developments coming out stopping cigarettes only to. me like there are are there. chances are forced to. live. near the finish line of the marathon. i'm abby martin it's the stories we cover here we're not going to hear anyone say other big story that extra that winds and talk there is

a reason that they don't want to do not want to tell their friends that we should be completely outraged now let's break the set. washington. is being. perceived. player doesn't do too much for ad revenue in my old testament culture giant seventy six year old american farmer based in indiana. is going to create for the cia do you think that's what's triggering. this a lot but it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world that is mostly about alternatives to the status of what might be a real point to working for the american dream for the next day we're just trying to survive this time for americans and lawmakers in washington to wake up and start talking about the real cause of the problem.

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lists. can data collection on unsuspecting u.s. citizens be a good thing that's what government officials urban planners and most importantly the citizens of chicago are asking themselves after the city unveiled new data collecting streetlights a project is called a ray of things and i can tell small devices attached to chicago's streetlights a will monitor everything from air quality to sound volume privacy experts however are concerned over how these sensors could be used to track people in the area to discuss this i want to bring in our t. producer tyrrel ventura tyrrell always good to have you on so break this down for us how do these sensors track residents and what exactly are they collecting well what they do essentially is they they measure the foot traffic in an area so over time and they measure that through why five am like you have smartphones and

elements like that so every and they do it every fifteen to sixty seconds so every time like a pedestrian walks underneath a street lamp it sends a signal to the sun sir and that kind of registers and counts off how many times someone's done that and then you know aggregate the data and charlie catlett the director of the urban center for computation and data you know has basically stated that the sensors do not save the cell phone data or the user's personal information in that it just literally counts the number of wife i signals the past underneath it. you know with the goals of this entire thing also kind of the it does it doesn't just people's walking underneath it also looks at air quality light intensity sound volume heat precipitation and then there are good general goals of the kind of create this public utility to you know that these boxes can give so that way people you know cities can better build their infrastructure essentially and also give private citizens and companies the information to build apps and

things like that that can make it easier for pedestrians and us to navigate our thoroughfares so that's their stated goal you know since they say they're only keep . the number of smartphones in the area not the personal data of the user why is it that privacy advocates are so riled up about this because i think that in the scheme of things and looking back over the last few years from the n.s.a. to the kind of sting ray operations going on down in florida with local police they were kind of tired of every time you hear government and personal data our government tracking anything especially our phones we get nervous and you know the other side of this too is that you know about a million dollars of contributions was put into this from big business like cisco and intel and qualcomm and so anytime you see businesses and big government you know scooping up data from the citizenry even if it is used for a good thing which this has the potential to be it makes one nervous because one good thing today can very easily be used as a bad thing in the future knowing that they have the capability when they say it's

very easy to do to you know readjust to these a little bit to pick up and you know the city of chicago has a lot of you know cameras around that city you know we don't have necessarily be assurances that they're not going to take advantage of that yet i mean they've said hey we're going to be above board we're going to have community meetings about this they've done a very good job of keeping it above board but at the end of the day like i said today is good could be used for evil tomorrow and that's a bear and we have to pay attention to situations like this now besides the city of chicago are there other entities that are sort of behind this initiative yeah you have the mentioned earlier the urban center for the computation of data you also have the university of chicago was in on this the are going national laboratory helped develop this and then they even use the school of art institute of chicago to kind of develop the containers that these sensors are held in to make them look very pleasing to the eye as they set up on the street lamps of chicago it's it's very interesting the kind of factors involved and like i said earlier the big

businesses that have also contributed money for this and it reminds me of in minneapolis where i grew up target actually paid for all of the security cameras. on every street corner of the city so it's very bizarre when you see kind of like all these different you know all these different interests lie in them do you know their vested interests and i think that they they target initially so they're vested interest with public security you know look at this great job we're doing with public security to put cameras in lot of times in situations like this they will you know say look we're we want to know you know you know for companies like well common things like that you know they just want to know knowing the infrastructure knowing how a city moves i was city breeds you know is very important to you know to us and the city perhaps better target than the government. so when are these sensors expected to be up and running and will they be located throughout the city yes they will actually the first sensors are expected to be up in about mid july they're going to put about eight of them along michigan avenue at a different intersections and then hopefully by the end of the year they're hoping

to have about fifty of them around kind of the chicago loop as they call it and then in the next few years they're upping of over four hundred. you know it's really interesting when you think about that much kind of data being the cars that's not what i know they're there metro system probably has so many cameras and well that's the fear that gets back to you know what a lot of the privacy you know advocates are stating is that like again you know in a might be used for good now but in a few years you could link up with the monitoring of our cell phones as we walk in under them you could link that up with the video cameras and then suddenly you have a full tracking system for any one individual based off their phone or and this kind of the lab rat for this do you think that there are other cities that are looking to chicago to perhaps you know chicago in the city of chicago has stated very much that they want to kind of be at the cutting edge of technology the jointing the joining of technology in the city and yes i think that if this works and if it works in the in the proper way and used in the proper context again this

could be a great way to improve the infrastructure of a city and you know how convene it would be to go on your phone and say are there icy roads are icy sidewalks i had can i how can i. void them there's a lot of potential good and if they're good groups out there i think you'll see cities around the country if not the world you know using this kind of technology will definitely have to keep our eyes on this initiative to see what i have a bit more of alright r.t. producer tyrell ventura thanks for weighing in on that thank you alright guys it's a boy a u.s. exchange student studying in germany was rescued by nearly two dozen firefighters after getting stuck inside a giant the giant a sculpture that's actually a true story emergency responders received a call about a person trapped in a stone wall and rushed to the scene in southwest germany to find the on identified student stuck now while he reportedly climbed inside on a dare some people suggested online that he pulled the stunt to take a funny picture while you may have not gotten his own photo there is certainly

enough going around on the internet so needless to say this young man has given a whole new meaning to being stuck between a rock and a hard place and that's all i'm going to say about that boom bust is coming up next here on r t aaron a joins us for a quick preview hi aaron wowsers you have about wowsers i don't expect him out one you know i wasn't will get rid of him but it's coming up on a serious prosecutors are rich a settlement over fraud claims being people that will see the french firm temporarily banned from trading in u.s. dollars now it's a pretty big deal and we'll look into the implications it could have on the global banking system and colin roche is on the program today sitting down with me to discuss the u.s. economy and tells us if we're finally thawing out after a brutally cold start to this year it's all coming up so stay tuned all right thanks erin thanks america and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america check out our website r t dot com ford says she will say and follow me on twitter and

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