coming up on our t.v. and teaching obama the south dakota republican party is now calling for the president to be booted from office we'll talk to a member of the g.o.p. in south dakota to find out why just ahead. and a cease fire in ukraine does this mean the region's 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 which one does the public trust the least find out later in the show.

it's tuesday june twenty fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm euro david and you're watching r.t. america while president obama isn't faring well in public opinion polls these days according to a new c.n.n. o.r.c. international survey the president disapproval rating is exactly the same as his predecessors which is fifty one percent but he likely has an even higher disapproval rating amongst republicans even since tackling universal health care obama's been facing an uphill battle from a conservative house of representatives and today that push back 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 at the party's annual convention in rapid city voted one hundred ninety one to one seventy six just by a small margin in favor. or of the measure which claims that the president has

violated his oath of office in numerous ways to 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 fare better in the polls 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 so i believe felt they couldn't you 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 exchanged 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 you do they believe this is an impeachable offense. well you know that the prisoner exchange the bottle the reason better not 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 debacle 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 a. rabid 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. lot of 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 as they feel that. his oath of office 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 it does mention high crimes treason bribery and other misdemeanors. it's

a very wide range of what the articles say impeachment can be used 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. it did affect 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 with special 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 has to be done by congress and so was this purely symbolic what was the hope. a lot of people have in this understanding on what exactly happened this past week and the party has two separate tools in which they can. bring bring something to a vote one is to the platform process and offering the platform plank which is our statements of belief it's the direction in which we believe the party should head over the course the next two years and the next is the resolution process and these are more ceremonial these are more pozen 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 the

state party honoring and acknowledging the leadership of a sitting chairman of the state party chairman craig 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 they do not bind any republican to follow them. no i was robert 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 the 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 and 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 it 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 and 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 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. 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 but 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 said on his austrian counterpart heinz maisha faced the media. of meetings now the leaders were you know in a mess in suggesting that ukrainian 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 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 made of the most important thing is for russia and ukraine to have dialogue on all the relevant levels and mr president has just retreated 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 that is an important step towards deescalation

well austrian on 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 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 cain to say the work started and completed despite deep divisions within the european union divisions that have seen. colton bowl garia 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 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 strain within the with the signing of the agreement here in vienna on tuesday the idea of

the south stream is one step closer to becoming reality. all scott reporting. while americans confidence in the news media has tumbled to a new low when it comes to trusted newspapers television or the internet a 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 owing a trend that's deepened in the last few years a gallup poll shows that confidence in newspapers has declined by more than half so that's 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 thousand nine hundred three when most people think of television media these days they think of this could be deadly battery fumes or an oxygen shortage of actually turn flight three seventy's into what some are calling a zombie play she received a very warm welcome here inside the museum at the c.n.n.

global town hall but outside she was greeted look at the video by a protester from the republican national committee the person with a squirrel costume wearing a t. shirt that read another clinton in the white house is next but it is robert bergdahl the father who is also engendering some controversy he has learned to speak pashto the language of the taliban and looks like a muslim. aside from t.v. internet has also gone down from twenty one percent in one thousand and nine to about eighteen percent in two thousand and fourteen but the internet is still fairing better than television news when you look at the flipside of these numbers and gallup is basically saying that seventy eight to eighty two percent of americans who were asked a question about their confidence in media answered they have some very little or none no confidence whatsoever to give us an insight on this continual decline i spoke earlier with two people who know this topic very well r t r t's breaking the set host abby martin and producer men well rob lowe i first asked them what they

believe is responsible for the drop in confidence. consolidation of media where we had 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 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 absolutely and manny 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 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 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.

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 abbe one of the things that's now circulating is this exchange between fox news as ed henry and imus and he sees chuck todd just before the president spoke last week about iraq let's take a listen at that. but. with the with. no oh yeah you know you think of it like the case if it were it would hurt if the first said well you know that if we're going. to have something got a good voice why is that ok with you for the hour or. three of.

the what's really wrong with our go to give a speech if you're going to i can be here for you right that's what they said so just kind of joking off camera but do they want something that should be pointed out to the american people maybe on camera loosely that if i do what i do i'm 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 like that because i'm like yeah i don't like their heroes yet all they actually see that i see are 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 as you might as well put it out there. was absolutely infamous and be seen as openly biased toward liberal perspective and fox news doing the same others will be doing

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 maybe 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 we're getting a kind of viral. story go viral and that's great because that shows you what people organically want to see what news that the. 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 just raising your own bias only the news and the viewpoints that their friends have been

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 bed 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 that 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 for you see a lot of entities kind of taking up these algorithmic reporting 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 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 line is. crazy seventeen or older fired a couple shots pick up ourselves i mean that doesn't. it is great even. if it's got it with 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 many i mean do you think there's 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 of the 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 and that was our tiebreaking those that producer men while rob lowe and the show's host abby martin. can data collection on unsuspecting u.s. citizens be a good thing well that's what government officials urban planners and most importantly the citizens of chicago are asking themselves out of the city unveiled new data collecting street light the project is called the array of things that entails small devices attached to chicago's streetlights that will monitor

everything from air polity to sound volume privacy experts however are concerned over how these sensors could be used to track people in the area and i was joined earlier by our producer tyrrel ventura and i first asked him how these sensors tracked residents and what they are collecting. what they do essentially is they they measure the foot traffic in an area so over time and they measure that through y. five in 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 sensor and that kind of registers in counts off how many times someone has done that and they're the aggregate data act and charlie catlett the director of the urban center for computation and data you know is 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 life i signals that pass underneath it

. you know the goals of this entire thing also kind of the it does it doesn't just people just 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. 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 could make it easier for pedestrians and 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 they use there 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 service because the good thing today can very easily be used as a as a bad thing in the future knowing that they have the capability right i mean it's a very easy do to you know readjust of the little bit to pick up writers no doubt and the city of chicago has a lot of you know cameras around that city you know we don't have necessarily that strength is that they're not going to take advantage i mean they've said hey we're going to be above board we're going to have community meetings about this they have 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 very 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 like i just mentioned earlier the urban center for the computation of data you also have the university of chicago was in on this the argonne 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 it's very interesting the kind of factors involved in like i said earlier the big businesses that also contributed money for this and it reminded 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 inflight you know all these different interests lie and then you know they're vested interest and now i think that they target initially so they're vested interest with public security look at this great job we're doing with public security to put cameras in lot of times in situations like this they will say look

we want to know you know you know for companies like qualcomm and things like that you know they just want to know knowing the infrastructure knowing how a city moves how a city reads you know is very important now is our key producer tyrrel and. and that does it for now guys for more on the stories we cover go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website r t dot com says usa and follow me on twitter at a mirror david make sure to follow me have a great night. on marinating in the financial world. to see these developments have a nonstop citibank's only take a look at me it's rare. but it's not like there are blue and there are. well she was with the washington well it's a relief to speak to me later. using the. marker so you are going to leave that to me doesn't do too much for ad revenue on

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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 the agreement giving the u.s. rights to use diego garcia for a military base many island dispersed 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 fifteen years which means it's coming up for renewal and twenty six teeth the agreement allows for a two year review period in which the u.k. can decide whether or not they want to give. with the three men to sit there in the process of that review great 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 are many groups that claim the cia uses the island in their rendition program meaning they grab people from around the world and bring them to this island to do whatever they want to in the name of the war on terror all without any kind of legal process whatsoever for instance according to parliament officials in two thousand and four the u.s. sought to use the island to render a guy that opposed 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 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 there when dishan

programmed and the sea international the us 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 guantanamo bay is still open so it looks like the cia will have no shortage of other island located.