speech. difficult to watch. technology innovation all the developments around russia we. covered. what's going on folks i'm happy martin and this is breaking the set for weeks now the story of thousands of immigrant refugee children on the us mexico border awaiting processing has become in the forefront of the media it's estimated that since october of last year over forty seven thousand migrant children have been picked up walk crossing into the u.s. by border officers and held in conditions tantamount to those that are left behind but as congress continues to stall on immigration reform the government is faced with a more immediate question of how to deal with the uptick in unaccompanied minors

crossing into the u.s. from countries like honduras guatemala el salvador and to complicate matters further just this week and ice report points the deportation of seventy two thousand parents whose children were born here because children born in this country automatically become american citizens these deportations tear apart tens of thousands of families because these kids are unable to lead with their families that are orphaned as a result guys this is tragic it's clear that what this country needs is bigger fences or bigger drones at the border we need a change in the policies that create these refugees in the first place and we need immediate reform to the current immigration system and the longer we wait the more suffering will come to the most vulnerable actors in this entire mass the thousands the tens of thousands of children who sit and holding cells these children deserve better than that now let's break this.

please please. please be very hard to take a. look. at how to act like that when there's little. league. little. league. but the peak of summer rapidly approaching families all over the country are flocking to the u.s. beaches for some fun in the sun with over ninety five thousand miles of shoreline to explore beach vacations have become a staple of american culture but

a new report from the natural resources defense council paints a grim picture of the current state of u.s. beaches by collecting nearly thirty five hundred water samples from beaches across the nation the n.r.d.c. found that one in ten american beaches aren't just polluted but are unsafe for swimming altogether this means that the water near these beaches don't pass the environmental protection agency's water safety standards now of course beaches everywhere are riddled with garbage like plastic bags but at this disgustingly in the talks a vacation of this water is due almost exclusively to human sewage according the n.r.d.c. storm water runoff and sewage overflow causes water to be filled with dangerous bacteria and those that come in contact with this water can develop everything from stomach flu skin rashes to respiratory infections and happen to titus in fact according to the e.p.a. as many as three point five million people become ill from swimming in water. contaminated with raw sewage every year not to mention the destruction this

pollution inflicts on fragile ecosystems now unfortunately these beaches are hardly confined to one area of the country from california to florida many of america's beaches are suffering but the great lakes region and in particular the shorelines of indiana illinois and wisconsin fared the worst when it comes to contamination and it's no wonder why considering that according to the great lakes alliance between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven nearly nineteen billion gallons of untreated sewage was dumped into lake michigan alone from just seven cities wow but it's not just urban sewage that's creating major problems for the great lakes agricultural runoff is playing a big role too so this type of runoff comes from massive overflows of livestock manure and chemicals sprayed on crops that is very little government regulation compared to its urban counterpart these materials are largely made up of phosphorous nitrogen and when it gets into waterways due to heavy rains and floods the impact is evident nitrogen and phosphorus cause the slimy and poisonous blue

green algae to bloom which leaves the oxygen depleted water and fish killing dead zones in which marine life cannot survive and fact at least twenty one states had a close lakefront beaches because of this toxic algae last year alone but beyond the great lakes new england beaches were found of a highly concentrated level of contaminated beach water according to a six month investigation by the new england center for investigative reporting antiquated stormwater prevention infrastructure is leading to an enormous amount of sewage being released the investigation found that more than seven billion gallons of sewage spewed into new england waterways in two thousand and eleven the most recent year work for data is available this includes a stunning two point eight billion gallons in massachusetts and another one point five in connecticut in fact sewer system operators report about sewage water bypass treatment plants and was dumped into rivers bays in the ocean one of them said. one thousand seven hundred times what i'm going to for you right off going to the beach

ever again it isn't all bad in fact the just released and our d.c. report notes that at least thirty five beaches throughout the country earned superstar's status for their consistently low levels of bacteria ok but the fact that we still have to fear going into the water an unbelievable amount of beaches in this country should serve as a major wake up call because beaches are our primary connection with a substance that makes up over seventy one percent of our planet and once that connection is poisoned we'll never have it back. despite the supreme court's ruling on behalf of privacy rights this week the nine justices also handed down another decision making once again with the court's allegiance trivialize corporate america and this instance corporate broadcasters emerged victorious see in a case called american broadcasting companies v aereo the supreme court ruled six

to three that aereo an online t.v. streaming service excuse me and fringe on the copyrights of the producers of t.v. content however basic t.v. signals are for me so why shouldn't i be picked up with tennis and broadcast of the web to explain the case and what precedent the supreme court decision makes for future innovators sam sacks are typical of what's going on and what are you first please explain areas business model and how actually t.v. is free so recently ariel considers itself an antenna seller i mean right now you can go to best buy and you or you can buy an antenna and put it on your television and you can get network television for free i mean this is goes back to a deal that the network providers made with the government to basically government gave the monopoly use of all these airwaves and they were able to stream their content over these airwaves for free and the way they paid for it is they even did it on. with advertisements so a lot of people don't realize right now but that still happens the networks are

still broadcasting their content for free over the airwaves and people can go to an antenna tech store and buy an intended watch it area is basically saying look we're an antenna company what people do is they sign up for us we give them we basically lease a little intended to them which they can use to pick up these network content network channels and then we also give them the software where they can store that stuff like a tivo or d.v.r. and watch it at their at their own use so how is it that label companies have been able to take a free service and make people pay for it. well the cable companies came in and said look we can we can offer a more reliable service and we can offer a lot more channels to you and you just pay us and we'll kick back and give some money to the networks as well you know this is this is the way things usually work is is you find it why why watch something for free when you can pay for the special is what's going on here but you know she reminded people that this stuff is going

on for free and look cable companies make a lot of money because they don't have as much choice share with cable we have all these channels people think we have all this much choice but really you only choose from like basic cable or like a premium package you can't pick which channels you want to watch and which ones you don't want to watch and there's been a lot of move to kind of break up the business model and give people more choice in what they want to watch so here it was what i'm sorry the supreme court's ruling that justification against aereo and also what president is going to set for future innovators who want to follow that same kind of business model question was whether or not there is violating copyright act which will forbid you from taking someone else's work and showing it publicly in areas said look we're an authentic company we're not showing anyone's work publicly we're just giving individuals access to this on their own alternately in a six three decision the court said no you are basically a cable company you are showing this stuff publicly so you're going to have to pay the networks to be able to show this in the future interesting. among the six justices ruled. in syria where all the left leaning judges the three who ruled in

favor of aereo were the far conservative judges scalia alito and clarence thomas and they basically did body areas argument but they said that it looks like areas exploited a copyright loophole in the copyright law and it's not up to the supreme court to close loopholes or to find loopholes it's up to congress to see what areas doing and pass new legislation if they have a problem with it and that is a really interesting breakdown and realize that it was a divide along those lines and areas founder of course is calling this a massive setback i mean he's going as far as senate said in a chilling message the technology industry as a whole what other tech sectors can potentially be impacted by this there are a lot of concerns heading into this case the cloud services dropbox or whatever could be affected by this decision after all the area was found to be violating copyright act by giving people an antenna and space to store what could be copyrighted material on then why isn't google or dropbox. a paradox by giving their

users a platform to store what could be copyrighted stuff on but the supreme court says that their ruling is very narrow it only applies in this case it shouldn't affect any cloud computing services moving forward mainly because the area was specifically focused on just this copyrighted material what the networks were coming over whereas dropbox and the these other things they're not exclusively to store copyright material although they can be used for that right it gets into a little bit of a slippery slope i guess with those other services and we've just seen too fat mergers of cable monopolies here going going smaller and smaller it seems like this ruling only further consolidate the power of these companies i mean if a small company like aereo can't get it self going and kind of make use of these loopholes what chance do we have to fight this be a myth when you see right there was. pretty bad as you said see the future they see internet is future people are not not going to go to the cable companies and get cable packages the more they're going to be watching online regardless of this

recent supreme court decision or whatever so you see is all these cable companies merging with internet companies because that is going to be the one way that people access this media in the future and that's going to prevent these little internet companies that want to gain a foothold in this market they're going to still have to compete with these giant cable companies who are now working with these internet companies sam you just covered this for the show that you're on reduction tonight a really great show the average cable bill right now higher than ever i mean and it's not efficient when it comes with great customer service so how does it say i'm looking. at the horrible make of you know choice and if these nominees are the cities according to nielsen at ninety dollars a month and i mean how options do we have right cable users i mean not many and if you look there what area was offering it was that you were between eight and twelve dollars and this is drastically cheaper access to watching what you want to watch but people are going more these piecemeal approach is using netflix using other internet companies to try and. watch what they want to watch. in

a much cheaper way without relying on what the cable company says here your options this big three packages you pick one of them are sending entrants the future may cable obsolete right first line everything online home i want to. thanks for. coming up i'll talk about the navy's a war on wales state. i think that the pakistani military does realize that the lebanon have become a problem for box on but it is just too late the taliban have sunk deep roots in marcus and it's very difficult to beat the enemy. when it was previously your friend and your ph. right. first street. and i would think that you're.

an army corps. instrument. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate oh. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. the kind that come. out our teen years we have a different approach to the day. because the news of the world just is not this

funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. ok. you guys have to the jokes will handle the thing that i've got to. we all know that any military action on land is horribly destructive to both human life and the environment but given that water makes up over seventy percent of the earth's surface and the us empire has expanded to nearly every corner of the planet it's important consider the effect the military machine has on our oceanic

counterparts to and i'm not even talking about actual war with bombs and bullets so as the us and china prepare to take part in the worlds largest naval exercise in history this week it's crucial to understand just how military exercises at sea affect ocean life the multimillion dollar drill known as back of the rim of the pacific exercise will be get at the joint base pearl harbor and up to twenty three countries will be participating but alas if the navy's history of terrorizing marine life is any indication and the fisheries of the pacific that are brace themselves for a massive environmental price tag is it when the navy conducts its underwater operations very often sea creatures die and i'm not just referring to when the u.s. dropped four unarmed bombs on the great barrier reef last year that's because the use of sonar testing and navigate ships sends sound waves through the ocean and animals like whales that depend on their hearing for basic aspects of survival like finding food are interfered with and die in

a court of the navy's own estimates for their two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and eighteen exercises quote sonar training and testing might unintentionally harm marine mammals two point eight million times a year over five years the injuries inflicted on mammals like dolphins and whales include deafness and other physical trauma such as bleeding in brain the. the results of whales washing ashore on beaches from the bahamas to greece and while environmentalist are ok surely successful in winning cases against the federal government to protect ocean life the lawsuits ultimately do little to curb the navy's impact because guess what just like on land the military is pretty much exempt from international law at sea and just like the assault on our civil liberties the roots of the military's aquatic exceptionalism can be traced right back to the war on terror that's because way back in two thousand and three president bush signed a measures into law decides sweep the marine mammal protection act but making it

easier to use low frequencies sonar suspected of harming whales and dolphins not only that but the pentagon also made sure to skirt the endangered species act by exempting u.s. military bases from following basic habitat protection requirements wow so while the government was using the war on terror to attack civil liberties and violate international law abroad it also stripped the few regulations in place that protected marine life from international war games so it's not a surprise that as the years have gone by the lethal impact the navy has had on sea creatures has only increased and the virtual munity from environmental laws the effect is only slated to become more deadly but exempting our military from environmental regulations does not only result in the destruction of our oceans the pentagon is the world's biggest polluting institution in the world producing up to seven hundred fifty thousand tons of hazardous waste every year including the

largest user of petroleum products and the cherry on top it's exempt from international climate agreements to they have all the all for oil companies and chemical corporations that have to be to when that title. but look at the very least two reasons humans are able to use our voices when military immunity results in the harmful effects on our health and destruction to our own. vironment if only whales dolphins and all other ocean life were so lucky. in march two thousand and eleven a record nine point zero earthquake struck just off the coast of japan triggered a massive and devastating tsunami and killing nearly sixteen thousand people not only was the earthquake one of the worst environmental disasters in history but in the moments that followed the world watched in horror as a massive wall of water crippled the fukushima fukushima daiichi nuclear power

plant in the days ahead the crisis only heightened in a series of explosions confirmed the worst fears of full blown meltdown of three of the plants nuclear reactors unfortunately both the japanese government and the tokyo electric power company tepco have gone to great lengths ever since to downplay the disaster and continuously cover up the true severity of the crisis even today there is no end in sight to the fallout in the cleanup process is far from over furthermore conflicting reports on radiation levels make it incredibly difficult to know what's really going on just this month the radiation and public health project report that the level of thyroid cancer in children an element directly associated with exposure to radiation is forty times above normal for children near the site three years after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami were left with more questions than answers told me sort through some of them i'm joined by paul gunter reactor overside director of beyond nuclear thank you so much paul

thank you so a couple years ago tepco actually admitted itself that the rehung tons of radioactive water is spilling the pacific ocean every day i mean following your assessment and from everything that we've been hearing based on the way what do you think is going on right now it's sort of a nightmare version of the sorcerer's apprentice we. tokyo electric power company has completely lost control of basically two sources of radioactive water that are flowing into the plant and these three destroyed reactors and then flowing out back into the pacific ocean one flow is from all the cooling water that's washing over these three melted cores to keep the accident from blowing into another full blown catastrophe the other source of water is ground water flowing into the wreckage and you know they've basically have lost control of all this they've been trying to pump it into this huge tank form that's now probably more than

fifteen hundred tanks that are accumulating water saturated with radioactive strontium cesium and they've been trying to filter this out in a in a test procedure an experiment that's going on there to try to gear up so they can filter radioactivity out but again this is only a test it's been up and down it's broken it's failed it's leaked and this is ongoing i think once people see the process that's when it really settles out of how horrific the situation really is because yeah they're they're filling up fresh water to cool the reactors and putting all the radioactive water into these tanks there's literally thousands of these tanks on site and a thousand of those tanks are leaking so we have disaster after disaster on top of that the contaminated soil that's been gutted and packed in plastic bags. when they run out of room to store this radioactive water paul well there is really no

management plan here at all this is again it's an experiment all the liability is going to be shifted to the future future generations are going to be left with this legacy without any benefit but clearly right now. the tokyo electric power company is able to basically control the information while the accident remains out of control and that's a big concern that is a big concern they've been really tight lipped on a lot of things paul let's talk about the ice wall that's that we keep hearing about the one point five kilometers of underground eyes been built to keep the soil around the reactors froze and i mean one of the major problems with this idea well again this is another experiment it's unprecedented to use this kind of technology which has a very limited history where they've been able to free ground under large bodies of water so the they could dig tunnels but again this is just a temporary procedure we're talking about. putting. piping

down to bedrock ninety feet down into the ground space in these pipes every three feet for more than a mile to put a perimeter that then they will pump refrigerant into the pipes to try to get the the temperature down to minus twenty degrees fahrenheit and they're anticipating that this will then freeze the water that's flowing from the mountains behind the fukushima daichi site and coal and form a wall but already you know i procedure that there's they say their schedule for completion in march of two thousand and fifteen has already broken down in the initial testing phase and they're not able to get the refrigerant down to that level of freezing so i get this experiment is going to you know project it does now last for decades while they try to bring that groundwater flow under control and

what about the children undergo shame as i mentioned and they're experiencing forty times higher rates of thyroid cancer i want to talk about radiation does to the human body well you know there is a whole host of cancers diseases that are caused by ionising radiation to the not only to organs but to the d.n.a. and clearly the the fire. gland is recognized even by you know by the american thyroid association as being particularly vulnerable in children to exposure to radiation and you know what we're seeing is without question a spike that in the incidence of thyroid cancer in children and young. particularly the younger children but it's you know again we're seeing

now three years since the accident already a spike in early onset. this kind of onset can go on for decades so we're only seeing the initial climb in this spike of disease paul earlier mentioned in tepco the extreme secrecy the tight lipped information the censorship and they were even hiring who's a mob members to pay back debt to do the clean up process people are completely inexperienced actually how to do that. what about the this information campaign and then you hear the other side of the story which is that it's so bad it's going to poison everyone the west coast everyone stop eating fish i mean i guess sort through kind of what we know and i guess the assessment of how bad this really is for people on the west coast well i think that what we have seen is. once again when the powers that be lose control of their reactors they look to control the information and this is been true with every nuclear accident that

we've seen to date fukushima only being the most recent but clearly perhaps one of the most worrisome the. you know they have the government had the wherewithal for looking at the weather looking at the release rates of radiation fukushima and then projecting where those radioactive clouds were going to go but they withheld that information from the public you had entire populations spontaneously evacuating from one zone but moving into the radioactive cloud because the government withheld information tokyo electric power company has been time and time again disk revealed to basically show that it has no control or knowledge of the radiation levels that are releasing from from this wreckage and it's our concern that it's actually deliberate that they're withholding information that they're misconstruing it as incompetence when in fact

it's done. oh no doubt you know i can but think about twenty three sr reactors from g.e. also owns and operates almost nearly. identical design excuse me to the fukushima reactors here in the u.s. are we going to be awaiting potentially kind of the same disaster that because she might experience i mean walk away to shut these down we have about forty five seconds left well you know i think the basic concern is that we have twenty three of these mark ones and we have eight more with the mark to use which was fukushima daichi units six but these reactors from the very beginning we've known don't have containment of these reactors based here in the united states with a significant fire break in a dam that floods the reactor site we could see as work bad or worse next and as receive

a noble the sarcophagus is cracking there's no way to store the safely there's no way to really do this safely thank you so much paul gunter reactor oversight director the nuclear appreciate it thank you so much thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at adding minute i'm going to my when i break the set all over again. well if you're going to the market a lot of these. days it's a little. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm role researcher.

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doesn't sound anything. to teach me. this is why you should care only. ukraine's president has signed up for closer ties with the e.u. but it was his predecessors failure to join the club which ignited the deadly for every revolution and the ongoing armed conflict in ukraine's to find east. just hours before it's set to expire ukraine's president a man to government finances in the east extend a ceasefire for another three days but it's a truce that's already seen both civilians and national guard fighters killed in the confrontation. syria's embattled rebels are now in line for five hundred million dollars military aid package from the u.s. but there are fears the weapons could end up on the wrong side of the barricades.