coming up on our t.v. impeaching obama the south dakota republican party is now calling for the president to be booted from office and we'll talk to a member of the g.o.p. and south dakota to find out why just ahead. and a cease fire in ukraine does this mean the region tensions are finally coming to an end more on that coming up. and a mainstream low a new gallup poll shows a decrease in public confidence in the news media that includes newspapers t.v. and the internet so which one does the public trust the least find out later in the show.

it's tuesday june twenty fourth five pm in washington d.c. david in you're watching r.t. america while president obama isn't fairing well in public opinion polls these days according to a new c.n.n. o.r.c. international survey the president's disapproval rating is exactly the same as his predecessors fifty one percent but he likely has an even higher disapproval rating amongst republicans ever since tackling universal health care obama's been facing an uphill battle from a conservative house of representatives and today that pushback continues extending well beyond congress take the south dakota republican party among the many political imperatives identified by the party this past weekend one of them was actually impeaching president obama delegates and the party's general convention and rapid city voted one hundred ninety one to one seventy six just by a small margin in favor of the measure which claims of the present. has violated

his oath of office in numerous ways discuss what the south dakota republican party is primarily taking issue with here i spoke earlier with south dakota republican party communications director robert burgess i first asked him about the rough six years obama has had an office and if he thought a republican would be better at the poll numbers well it was. a hypothetical question very difficult to answer but here in south dakota i feel that the sentiment is that things would be better for most of the south because history they trust republicans believe that the state level and predominately at the federal level as well and so i believe felt they couldn't do feel that republicans have the right message in the right for the ideas can only lead effectively but to lead successfully as well are let's talk about a few of the issues that the south dakota republican party has been highly critical of one of them is the exchange between five taliban detainees for u.s.

army soldier bowe bergdahl we've heard many legal analysts say that obama legally didn't break the law so why exactly do do they believe this is an impeachable offense. well you know that the prisoner exchange the bottle of reason better than a fair scandal as well as the current situation in iraq are just merely the latest set in a colossal series of president obama's failures it just happened to have boiled over at convention this past weekend the president has publicly said that if you lose the united states senate is second term will be unbearable here in south dakota we say mr president your first term was unbearable and so it's not as much the fact that the prisoner exchange the bottle is an impeachable offense the fact that our delegates believe that there was a series after series after series of violations of his oath of office and they felt that they needed to take

a moment in this convention process and state and one voice with a resolution that they wanted their congressional delegation to look into pursuing these articles of impeachment but to impeach someone it's usually on criminal grounds to impeach a president so also what exactly has he done that's criminal is what i'm asking. again the. bottom delegate and i was not one of the vote for this resolution and this was not a resolution that was presented by the south dakota republican party these were resolutions presented by delegates to delegates because they feel that. his is over the boxes has been violated and mistrusted you know he is misled the american people and they feel that this is within the bounds of the articles of impeachment to have those articles brought upon him you know that doesn't high crimes treason bribery and other misdemeanors. it's

a very wide range of what the articles say impeachment commutes for one of the things a party laid out and voting in favor of this is the affordable healthcare act the idea that president obama said people would be able to keep their existing health insurance but in reality some people actually can't is that something that really affected the people of south dakota. as do the people of south dakota you know average households are going to see their insurance premiums almost double or triple here and for an economy in south dakota let alone anywhere else in the united states that's a lot to bear on a household expenditure for a family. that boils down to misleading the american people and he has a say for trust here in south dakota the people have chosen republicans time after time to instill that sacred trust and they look forward to doing so again this year with governor rounds becoming our next u.s. senator to join senator john thune and firing harry reid and rescuing america. all

right so lastly i want to ask you you know the party obviously brought this to a vote but it can't really trigger any kind of action that has to be done by congress and so was a spear lee symbolic what was the hope. a lot of people have in this understanding on what exactly happened this past weekend the party has two separate tools in which they can. bring bring something to a vote one is to the platform process and offer a platform planks which is our statements of belief it's a little bit direction which we believe the party should head over that in course the next two years and the next is the resolution process and these are more ceremonial these are more pop and circumstance in total delegates passed fifteen different resolutions this past weekend including honoring the life and memory of a long time state legislators and as well for the first time in the history of state party honoring and acknowledging the leadership of

a sitting chairman of the state party chairman chris lawrence and so there's many more things happening on the resolution vote than just the resolution to impeach president obama these are more ceremonial these are traditionally statements of support and statement and statements of encouragement that they carry no weight of power or authority and to bind a republican to follow them now is rather burgess communications director for the south dakota republican party. 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 withdrew from the country in december of two thousand and eleven isis claims it is now in control of the largest oil refinery in beijing with the iraqi

military denies and also says that over the weekend it took over a major border crossing. into syria and jordan this comes as the head of the 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 pop up the kurds on the other hand would like to encourage the west to intervene as the shiite government struggles to challenge the rapid advance of isis last week the u.s. announced it would send three hundred special forces into iraq to advise local military well 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. now to the crisis in ukraine with a cease fire in place it appears tensions in the region may be easing up 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 on friday where members said they would consider toughening exemptions 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 counterpart heinz maisha faced the media. of meetings now the leaders were you not a mess in suggesting that he training the president. could be doing more to engage . to engage the population of the rest of southeast by assuring that the rights and aspirations of the population were realised. just declaring a cease fire is not enough there should be substandard talks on the core problems

of keep saying here you are 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 attitude is primarily aimed at finding a peaceful peaceful solution for the crisis in ukraine and bring it into some constructive stage of negotiation where some substantive arrangements could be made of the most important thing is for russia and ukraine to have dialogue on all the relevant levels and mr president has just rita rated that . the austrian president was also king to praise got him a putin's decision earlier on tuesday to ask lawmakers to withdraw permission to use force in ukraine fisher says that is an important step towards deescalation well austrian and

a 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 here a bypassing ukraine of course is seen as a more reliable and stable source as tensions between russia and ukraine continue to rise now austria is kayne to say the work started and complete it despite deep divisions within the european union divisions that have seen one. coltart in bulgaria 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 hold work in order to iron out concerns that e.u. competition rules being breached however many within russia feel that the decision was politically motivated so there are some divisions over that. within the e.u. with the signing of the agreement here in vienna on tuesday the idea of the train

is one step closer to becoming reality. also reporting. all americans confidence in the news media has tumbled to a new low when it comes to trust in newspapers television or the internet or recently released gallup poll has found that the level of faith in each of the three major news media platforms is at 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 by more than half since its one nine hundred seventy nine peak of fifty one percent while the t.v. news is seeing an alternate low of eighteen percent down significantly from its forty six percent high in one thousand nine hundred three and although confidence in the internet has gone down from twenty one percent in one thousand nine hundred nine to about eighteen percent in two thousand and fourteen is still faring better than television news so when you look at the flip side of these numbers it's actually quite alarming gallup has revealed that seventy eight to eighty two percent of americans who are asked the question about their confidence in media

answer that they have some very little to none no confidence in the media whatsoever to give us some insight on this continual decline i spoke earlier with two people who know this topic very well are tiebreaking as that host abby martin and producer men will drop below i first asked them what they believe is responsible for the drop in confidence figures the consolidation of media where we had dozens of die. 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 think there's a lot less investigative journalism and i think it's the rise in the renaissance of alternative media and the internet and 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 watched the media kind of evolve or the last two decades like c.n.n. the rest of c.n.n. that m s n b c kind of filling in the void 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. like 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 alternative media. outlets on the internet like independent journalists there be successfully filling in the void where the corporate media is missing absolutely and added one of the things that's now circulating is this exchange between fox news ed henry and m s n b c's chuck todd just before the president spoke last week about iraq let's take a listen at that.

ok with our. our. lives we just. can't be there for several. days so this kind of joking off camera but even something that should be pointed out to the american people maybe on camera loosely doesn't want to do what i do 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 on nod refers and government press releases and not let the american people know that you think this is bull and calling people out on their b.s. and that's why i just it's it's funny i mean i love hearing them say things there because i'm like you got to like they're your own ideology i usually think pete and i have acting and kind of just repeating these things right and pretending like or

this unbiased person when we know that no one is really unbiased as you might as well put it out there that it's not going to have any movie if i miss it b.c. is openly biased towards the liberal perspective and fox news doing the same might as well be doing it in the open if we can connect with them on a personal level they would be far more successful with so great as that one was from an ascendancy. so i just kind of fun to watch them do that so many for the first time americans actually trust news on the internet more than they do t.v. perhaps not surprising when we watch 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 word gannett kind of a viral. story go viral and then that's great because that shows you what people organically want to see the 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 a lot of people are now getting their news from facebook and twitter and it is made for their own bias reading only the news and the viewpoints that their friends have like twitter and social media it's it's great it's an amazing platform to get information out there and for sharing and getting the stories that are under reported on the media but at the same time like the more legs that you make that narrows your point of view so you're just 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 how do you want to shift to talking about something else making headlines that's a little bit disserving 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 rocky bronx top on the foot steps 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 amount in st it's kind of crazy that this is this is being put forward by the n.y.p.d. and clearly not the there's no journalistic credibility whatsoever behind it i mean what what do you think the department is really trying to do hear her voice to a lot and to 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 n.y.p.d. is getting so much. so much criticism of their brutality just 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 n.y.p.d. is a line is a gun toting crazy seventeen and all they fired a couple shots ourselves i mean that i'm starting to create an opinionated statics i have. read 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 not many i mean do you think there's a danger in that i mean do we really need that because there's so much information out there how much 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 resources like we do in journalism and make sure that the story is founded in something but it is important 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 the 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 anything at face value for sure not to put us on the spot but i want to know what you guys have coming up for tonight what can people look forward to break out of the banned books week and

the so we're having to mark crispin miller is a media studies scholar and he's been 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 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 but they provide an alternate history of america a story and i am red lined out tonight at the greatness that are you guys are tiebreaking is that how it's adding maren producer and then well rapido thank you very much. can data collection on unsuspecting u.s. citizens be a good thing as what government officials urban planners and most importantly the citizens of chicago are asking themselves after the city unveiled new data

collecting streetlights the project is called the array of things and it entails small devices attached to chicago's streetlights oh monitor everything from air quality to sound volume privacy and experts however are concerned over how these sensors could be used to track people in the area i was joined earlier by r t producer tyrrell ventura and i first asked him how the sensors track residents and what exactly are they collect thing. but they do essentially is they they measure the foot traffic of 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 in counts off how many times someone has done that and they really aggregate the data correct and charlie catlett the director of the urban center for computation and data he has basically stated that the sensors do not save the cell phone data the user's personal

information in that it just literally counts the number of wife eyes signals that pass 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 their general goals of the kind of create this public utility the 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 counting the number of smartphones in the area and 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 you. 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 i say it's very easy to do to readjust to these a little bit to go right or sold out 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 those 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 bought 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 argo national laboratory helped develop this and then they even used 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 good are when you see kind of like all these different inflight you know all these different interests lie in them to do you know their vested interest and that i think that they have a 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 welcome and things like that you know they just want to know knowing the infrastructure knowing how a city moves our city breeds you know is very important. that was already producer tyrrells and dora. all right 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 vagina sculpture that's actually true story emergency responders received a call about a person trapped in a stone involved and rushed to the scene in southwest germany to find the unidentified student stuck while he reportedly climbed inside on a dare some people suggested online that he pulled the stunt to take a funny picture now while he my may have not gotten his own photo there are certainly enough going around on the internet needless to say this young man has given a whole new meaning to being stuck between a rock and

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i mean ocean there's an island named diego garcia that is a british territory in one thousand nine hundred sixty six the u.s. and the u.k. side been agreement giving the u.s. rights to do this diego garcia for a military base many islander a sport forcibly removed from the island and deported to poverty stricken slums all to make way for the u.s. this new military base the agreement was to last for fifty years which means it's coming up for renewal and twenty six t. the agreement allows for a two year with the new period in which the u.k. can decide whether or not they want to continue with the three men to sit there in the process of that review right now and guess what it's not looking so good for the u.s. the reason is that diego garcia is rumored to be an infamous cia black site of course that means that no one knows exactly what the u.s. is up to there so many groups a claim the cia uses the island in their rendition program meaning they grab people

from around the world and bring them to the silent to do whatever they want to them in the name of the war on terror all without any kind of legal process whatsoever for instance a quarter. to parliament officials in two thousand and four the u.s. sought to use the island to render a guy that opposes khadafi along with his pregnant wife and send them both the dictator's torture chambers the cia wanted to use the island to help khadafi out in other words with no explanation why in two thousand and eight britain's foreign secretary just flat out stated that the us used to the island to snag prisoners twice that year and anonymous white house official confirms that in two thousand and seven the council of europe issued a formal report alleging the cia was using the island in their rendition program and the c. international the un and human rights group reprieve have all issued reports

stating the u.s. has secretly detained and tortured prisoners on the island and just to this year a u.s. senate intelligence committee issued a report confirming everyone else the suspicions members of parliament foreign affairs committee are now calling on the u.k. government to respect the cia's use of the island and british m.p.'s are insisting that the us not be allowed to use the island for anything without the authority of the british government from now on so it's not looking so good for the u.s. to continue doing whatever the hell it wants to on diego garcia the u.s. seem to use the island a lot too including for air strikes against the middle east so they're probably going to be bombed but don't worry one time the movie is still open so it looks like the cia will have no shortage of other i would locations to terrorize tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the risk of.