coming up on r t albuquerque police officers are receiving hundreds of new a ar fifteen rifles that's while the police department has been under investigation by the d.o.j. over excessive force the latest on that just ahead. and russian president vladimir putin is currently in brazil he meets with president dilma rousseff before an international summit of the brics nations a preview of that summit coming up. and is there any nother form of life out there today nasa hosted a special event to discuss ways to make discoveries of habitable planets more on the search later in the show.

it's monday july fourteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan your watching r.t. america. it's common knowledge that police departments across the u.s. are becoming more and more militarized in a surprising move the embattled albuquerque police department in new mexico is getting three hundred fifty a ar fifteen rifles at approximately one thousand dollars apiece three hundred fifty thousand bucks paid for by tax dollars what's more shocking though is that a p.t. is currently under an active d.o.j. investigation for allegations that officers engaged in a pattern of excessive force including unreasonable deadly force against civilians now back in march sparked national outrage when a police video went viral showing the assault and killing of thirty eight year old

homeless camper james boyd in the sandia foothills and to talk about the controversial news i was joined earlier by civil rights attorney shannon kennedy i first asked her how the a.p. is justifying the acquisitions of these high powered rifles well there's just a fine by st that the need be assault rifles to defend themselves against criminals and out officers are trained to use them if they should have them be with the d.o.j. decided that officers could no longer have their personal weapons which included a k fifteen assault rifles and so they purchased or contracted to purchase three hundred fifty assault rifles over the next two years. for a p.d. officers now correct me if i'm wrong but are they basically just saying these

officers who have already been trained on these high powered rifles so it's just a waste waste of knowledge that they really know how to use them so here let's get them some. in other words they're there they're trained to shoot them so we're going to give them the means to shoot people with them it's ridiculous i mean the d.o.j. has found it a p.d.s. not properly trained in crisis intervention training to deescalate situations with mentally ill people and people suffering. from like james boyd for instance and able to follow commands he was shot with intissar assault rifle. so essentially they agreed to take away their personal weapons and now they have actually contracted to buy weapons to make sure that a.p.c. is as militarized as ever through a defense contracting firm now how did they manage to appropriate funding for these arms good question because it's going to be three hundred fifty thousand dollars

over the next two years to ensure that a p.t. officer is three hundred fifty officers or farm are armed with these rifles the department has fewer than a thousand officers so you have more officers armed with assault rifles than you do have officers trained in crisis intervention training to deescalate encounters with people and i also hear that out there it's rumored that within that police community that these types of firearms are sort of like a status symbols of that kind of culture. it's the culture of aggression essentially kind of a gun fetish culture they have these assault rifles they want to use these assault rifles essentially the d.o.j. found that the majority of the shootings over the last three years could have been avoided so when they have these weapons and they have training to shoot these weapons they're creating situations in which they can use them and they're not properly supervised in the field. and it's also completely unnecessary completely

unnecessary for this police department to have assault rifles and like you said just a moment ago when you're sort of kind of playing soldier doesn't that affect how the p.d. can view civilians perhaps you know like like their enemy combatants or something how does that affect the way they handle these situations if they haven't been properly trained to deescalate. clearly the city of albuquerque police department is mean it's nose at the d.o.j. essentially saying we are going to do whatever we want regardless of what is negotiated and absolutely they are acting like soldiers instead of like officers the mission is essentially to go to a well to go to war to prepare for war against the citizens of the city of albuquerque instead of learning and being trained on how to protect and serve the vulnerable people among us such as the homeless in the middle east james boyd was shot with this is our rifle it blew off his arm his arm was an amputated had he not

been shot with an assault rifle he would have lived so this is a weapon used to kill right now the a.p. is reporting that just this past weekend that the albuquerque police department posted a new recruitment video and in a climate web site so in spite of all the negative press that that they're receiving apparently they had more than one hundred applicants in just a matter of a since friday what do you think is driving this new interest in the department there in albuquerque. well i'm hoping that hopefully people who are applying who are qualified who want to do a good job we need the officers that were hired in two thousand and seven were not properly qualified in fact the shooting officer who was holding an eight k. fifteen never should have been hired he had been fired from the state state police for lying so i am optimistic that there are qualified applicants that want to make this department better and they need to get rid of those officers who never should have been hired in the first place. all right thank you so much for your insight

that wish and a kennedy a civil rights attorney in new mexico thank you. thank you and this just in we just received a response from the a.p. regarding the rifle acquisition now the department says the rifles were ordered to replace the officers personally owned previous rifles and that they are being issued quote only to the officers who are qualified to carry rifles and do not represent an increase in the number of rifles carried by a.p. officers and the replacement rifles are the standard type of rifle used commonly by police departments throughout the united states and may be purchased by any person at a commercial retailer. and moving on to the ongoing fighting in ukraine ukrainian officials say one of their military transport planes was shot down for over twenty one thousand feet all aboard survived no one has taken responsibility for taking down

the plane as of yet meanwhile there are still ongoing fighting across eastern ukraine r.t. is maria if an ocean has more. they actually don't need to turn on the siren ambulances are almost the only cars and the empty rows of lugansk and recent days have left a message and see workers be easier than ever before. daniel is now going to finish our. private house for the residential areas. fish to get some drugs through a narrow street we enter with looks like a densely populated area locals say at least six shells landed here just minutes ago we were talking about that just yeah we're looking for the money because the mood was a little bit as you like to work on this time it seems no one was killed off. but

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see the multitude of well houses still barren and no one man is whether anybody steer inside we find out that one man was take. and buy another ambulance that you'll get out of it almost as if it was good he said but decided it's only the to do this was at a low ganske regional hospital we find the man has suffered multiple burns and missile wounds but doctors say he will leave the ambulance received another call this time no siren the doctors say it's because they could be targeted we're on our way to the area of fighting it took us less than seven minutes to arrive at the scene but it was still too late this young fighter died seconds after doctors arrived we rushed to the next address another shell another destroyed home

we hear that there woman was killed here but before we learn any further detail the air raid siren makes us run to a nearby basement. most of them have been abandoned for years but recently people have reopened them this is where we hear what happened pollution where we work right now who are going to want to come out who will go out on the sly and while the conflict continues to rage scenes like these are becoming an everyday reality. raif notional r.t. in eastern ukraine. the israeli military has downed the first unmanned drone apparently launched from gaza israeli officials say the drone was taken down by a patriot surface to air missile until now hamas has never before revealed that they had any drone so it's unclear at this time if the drone was used for

surveillance or if it carried any arms the weeks old conflict has already taken one hundred seventy six palestinian lives including a young palestinian man who was shot dead by the israeli military for taking part in throwing stones at them in the village of stand watch in the southern west bank there are no deaths reported from the israeli side as of yet artie's harry fear has more from the ground in gaza on the night after more than one hundred rockets were fired from gaza israel targeted a home belonging to the albats family the target was tice syria a batch the director general of gaza's police force who himself survived and remains in critical condition he was lucky to be among the forty two wounded and not the eighteen killed at gaza's main hospital was seventy year old name of one of the surviving injured. that the god.

of love it was said oh it has said. russia lost three of her children in the targeting. so. the strikes took place at eleven pm mohammed lives just over the road from the batch family. of unless it was saying evening prayers at the mosque while they were crying they realized that the area was becoming more dangerous and left to continue their president. when they got home the bombing started. israel has used a policy of issuing warnings in some cases before making its targeting warnings either via s.m.s. fire cool's in some cases leaflets but often roofs knocking that is issuing warning drone strikes on the roof of the building before targeting it however in this case there was no warning of any events are adamant that israel must have known that

over fifty people were in this area when it struck the way that was perpetrated it's a variation of basic principles of a traditional or traditional is very clear on this there should be principles to be preserved proper should have a thirty discrimination humanity and nothing of these prisoners have been respected by the israeli army i asked a government spokesperson whether the targeting was justified given that israel's at war with hamas and is known to target the police everybody knows that the police is the seven work and it's helping the people of service for the people who wasn't hiding actually since this conflict began last tuesday the health ministry counts eleven such incidents when family homes have been targeted with inhabitants inside israel's november two thousand and twelve operation did not see an israeli ground invasion it ended after eight days with

a cease fire but it did not fully eradicate the masses rocket capability now israel's pm says it is a must for israel to stop all rocket fire from gaza and that they don't know how long the campaign will continue given the daily loss felt by palestinian civilians here people fear how this conflict will evolve harry fear r.t. . well the world cup has come to a close in brazil and to the tune of something like a billion viewers who watched germany shutout argentina in the final minutes yesterday's championship match saw a number of big names in the audience including russian president vladimir putin german chancellor angela merkel and brazil's own president dilma rousseff and while the world cup is over another big summit is just getting underway in brazil here's our tease paul scott to explain. brazilian russian cooperation is expected to be

strengthened during president putin's latin america tour but why is brazil such an important ally for russia well brazil is latin america's largest economy it's twice the size of second placed mexico trade between the two countries last year reached five and a half billion u.s. dollars and they are hoping that that figure is soon doubled brazil russia will also have similar stances on n.s.a. surveillance following edward snowden's revelations brazilian president dilma rousseff has proposed setting up a brazilian internet which will protect latin american countries from the u.s. new ping from here in rio president putin flies to force a laser in the north of the country for the brics summits of the bric summit of the five nations that's brazil russia india china and south africa during that summit i know that round of talks is expected on the possibility of a brics development bank worth one hundred billion u.s.

dollars which is going to be seen as an alternative to the international monetary fund so it's clear that is plenty to discuss for the brazilian and russian leaders and that was our correspondent paul scott. and i think it's just the u.s. government coming under fire over edward snowden's leaks think again another week from the former n.s.a. contractor just reported by glenn greenwald in the intercept shows the british spy agency g c h q is allegedly hacking the internet feeding it with deceptive information to serve the government's purposes and the documents are allegedly from the g.c. a joint threat research intelligence group and appearing like a wiki entry they catalog all the tools that the agency has at its fingertips either currently or coming in the very near future so it outlines that the spy agency is ability to change the out. come online polls censor extremist content

online change page view counts on websites and spoof any email address and send an email under that identity just to mention a few and this comes as the u.k. is facing fallout over an emergency bill to give the parliament's sweeping new surveillance power artie's polly boyko has more from our london bureau. the u.k. prime minister says britain needs these emergency laws that force telecommunications companies to hold rec ords of customers data because back in april the european court of justice scrapped an existing law that already forced companies to do just that on the grounds that it infringed human rights so the british government wants to rush through its only law david cameron says that telecoms firms are just weeks away from deleting customer information ministers say that would have serious consequences for police and counter terror operations

sometimes in the dangerous world in which we live we need our security services to listen to someone read the e-mails to identify and disrupt a terrorist plot as prime minister i knew of examples we're doing to stop a terrorist attack according to the law mobile phone providers will have to store data on who contacted who under way for twelve months so that means your message is websites you visited and even the places you've been to with their recorded on geo location apps like facebook well we were taking only one who's followed the snowden revelations even briefly we know that we already have huge costs of massive loans here in the united kingdom. we have a program called mastering the internet inside but in france this is not protected us people have still become rattled radicalized by. we know that these policies disproportionate tunk to all of us it turns all of us from citizens into suspects

the law is being rushed through parliament and could be enforced before the week is out but perhaps one small consolation for its opponents the regulations will automatically expire in twenty sixteen which means politicians will have to re-examine the measures all over again in two years' time. london now the man who brought all of these stories to the public's attention edward snowden is speaking out about the u.k. government's new plan in a seven hour interview with the guardian in moscow snowden says the hastiness of drawing up the bill seemed quite unusual considering emergency law has a usually only come in during a time of total war here's more on his opinion of that bill. needs surveillance authorities sometimes so on some courts are actually saying we violate

fundamental rights. do we really want to authorize them on increased intrusive you know without end quote. snowden's comments largely reflect those of civil civil liberties groups in britain who are calling for more public debate before these legislations passed. and what used to be a weapon of science fiction and action movies is now reality the us navy has unveiled its brand new electromagnetic rail gun the two hundred fifty million dollar ship based long range weapon fires projectiles with electricity rather than conventional gunpowder this causes a real gun projectile to travel at more than five thousand miles an hour which is the equivalent of traveling from san francisco down to san diego in about a minute chief of naval research matthew klunder explained the wide range of

capabilities for the weapon saying it can shoot down ballistic missiles it can shoot down very advanced cruise missiles and it can shoot down fast moving aircraft it's extremely safe and extremely effective now scheduled for more testing through two thousand and sixteen each rail gun unit cost about twenty five thousand dollars per unit but it's actually well below the cost of more traditional missiles and armaments so the future is now when it comes to the military hardware. and we've been hearing a lot lately about dozens of other habitable planets being discovered and as we reported previously the labeling of these planets have been rather clinical sounding and dry so nasa has been reaching out to the public to rename them so today nasa is hosting a discussion discussion about these habitable planets that are just a short ten twenty or so light years away from us and our own meghan lopez is out

live at nasa to tell us more hey meghan so are we close to finding life hey there monella. we're absolutely closer and i think that that is the word is closer but not close enough the reason we're closer is because technology has developed so much so what these panelists have really taken the time to do today was to disseminate some of the technology technological advances that they are achieving right now and that they are shooting for in the future and kind of breaking down what they're hoping to gain from each one now obviously there are a number of challenges that face each one of these new technological advances but scientist sara seager kind of breaks down for us what the chances are of us finding life on another planet well what technology are they using to look for life on these other planets. there in using

a lot of different technology actually if we could go ahead and try to play that sara seager sound bite and then we can come back to that question because she really breaks it down for us what are the chances that the james webb will find signs of life and sort of weighs in when we have to get really lucky every small star has to have a planet in its habitable zone and he says those planets most of them would have to have life and most of that life would have to actually generate a byproduct gas that could fill the atmosphere and the second way that i'd like to answer it which i'd like you to walk away with is that with the james webb we have our first chance our first capability of finding signs of life on another planet now nature just has to provide for us. so yeah she said nature has to provide the way and she said also that luck is a matter of that but more importantly what humans can't control is the technology there you heard her talking about the web at saddle the web telescope which is set to launch in october of twenty eight team now this will give us a much farther look into our universe than the hubble or the kepler telescopes have

actually provided us the problem with one of the hurdles that they face in this telescope is that it's very big it's much bigger then the hubble or than the kepler so one of the challenges that they have had is the fact that the rockets aren't they can afford to get some of these bigger telescopes that they have planned out there so in order to overcome that challenge scientists at nasa have developed a way for the webb telescope to fold into itself after launching after getting to a certain place it will then go over a months worth of practice in order to unload it actually open up to the full size so that's one of the hurdles that they're facing also another you know kind of technological advance that they're starting to talk about and that they have a really awesome design for that kind of looks like a flower is called a star shade one of the problems that they have in trying to identify planets is the fact that the star that the planet is circling around is so bright that it's

impossible or nearly impossible to be able to see a planet so what they do is they developed a star shape that they could either have connected to a telescope here on earth or one that would block out the stars rays out in space and they're hoping to get that out there is in the future. what what are some of the major hurdles in finding life out there. there are a lot of different hurdles now first of all as i mentioned that star shine is a major hurdle also the rockets i had kind of talked about those the rockets right now are simply not big enough or not powerful enough to launch the type of technology that scientists need in order to be able to collect all the data they need to be able to make up any type of really you know massive discovery you know also the telescope size right now the telescope sizes are much smaller than what the scientists are really hoping for so the web is obviously a big step up from the hubble telescope for instance or from the kepler telescope

but it's not big enough it's not big enough for what they have planned in the future and then also there is the sheer number of planets in the last five years alone we have discovered but there are millions and billions of planets you know and so for them to be able to find life they have to go through all of these stars and to really kind of determine you know what these stars are and matt melton put it best and to what the future looks like but to find evidence of actual life it's going to take another generation of told scopes. to do that we're going to need new rockets new approaches to get into space you can just about telescopes highly advanced optical systems this david and sarah showed us. but between news. which science now says technology and today's space enterprise it's we you know grasp for the first time in human history

so as you can see you know there is a lot of different discoveries a lot of different technology the future is bright but it's going to take another generation of scientists and explorers to be able to really answer that question are any thanks for that cool info mag that was our correspondent meghan lopez out of nasa and that that does a for us for right now in manila chance stay tuned boom bust is coming up next. well you like me to want your comedy news with some t little points of comedy news to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dad. like the truth vampire plotting into the next and the corporate elite and the billionaire freaks while they're going. well that's what you get with my new show but jack tonight.

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