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hello there it's tuesday july fifteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america. what can popping open a few beers turning on a video camera and sitting back at the kitchen counter to have a conversation with voters that you well pretty good slice of voter support in the run up to the primary elections for a senate seat which is taking place right now in the state of north carolina today it's just what pizza delivery man libertarian candidate shon ha has done in a tight senate race where candidates are spending many millions this guy is racking up a surprising amount of support with his every man issues and a call point forget expensive campaign ads take a look at part of his you tube series. not amish on hall from north carolina and i'm going to be u.s. senate as a libertarian then you know i really didn't want to do this. but i couldn't stand the idea of walking to the voting booth and just seeing the democrat and the republican on the ballot we just keep ending up with more war and more and more of

the same problems just keep getting worse you got to check out more of his videos there amazing so what does this indicate while according to the washington post in addition to north carolina libertarian parties the libertarian party itself is poised to draw all votes in at least ten other competitive senate elections this fall in montana oregon colorado minnesota iowa arkansas michigan for genya west virginia and alaska the party is working to collect enough signatures to appear on ballots in kentucky and new hampshire and are looking to run for governor in florida and kansas joining me now to discuss this is carl howell political director of the national libertarian party thank you very much for joining me my pleasure now this sean guy what a candidate he's just draw as you write in there's a lot of people saying that he is going to happen effect on his state's. campaign are that the state's election day which is going on right now not that he might get

a seat but he's going to maybe affect the election pretty powerfully what do you think certainly possible very possible now i mean he's polling double digits as are a number of our libertarian candidates around the country the word libertarian in the libertarian party is what most americans want today they want less government lower taxes they're sick of war they're sick of the failed war on drugs they want marriage equality this is what the libertarian party has been delivering for forty three years well it seems to have a very strong voice right now obviously a lot of voters are very disparate disillusioned with the to the two party options on the table for them. some experts believe that if if a third party candidate. is getting a lot of support in the preliminary polling running up to election day it doesn't always indicate that voters are going to hold true to that when it comes to whatever you know lever they poll or whatever they fill out on the ballot on the

ballot come election day why do you think this is and how is your party working to to fight against that one of the main reasons this happens some of the time is because the media quits including our candidate in the polls or they exclude them from the televised debates so signaling that this candidate doesn't really count when of course we do in fact our candidates are the only choice for real change the way we combat this is we get the message out to people ignore what the media does when they exclude candidates who are legitimately on the ballot as six hundred or more of our candidates are across the country this year you simply have to ignore that go to their website check out their issues and see who stands for what you stand for and in the case of most americans that's the libertarian party well the party has been around as you said for quite some time but what are voters what's resonating most with voters in this twenty fourteen election government is too big

and where the candidates who will actually shrink it the republicans pretend to be fiscally conservative they talk about tax cuts when they're actually voting to increase spending and increase taxes the democrats talk about personal freedoms when they pass says insight now c.i.s. a patriot act all these laws that violate our privacy rights when president obama. invades medical marijuana dispensaries and shuts them down when he blocks a marriage equality which he did for a few years and betrays his progressive supporters both the democrats and republicans be tray their members all. the time now sometimes almost every time in fact and libertarian party stays true the principles of small government and personal freedom that's what we're here for and that's what voting for a libertarian actually forwards let's talk about virginia last year which is a good example of what the libertarian party is looking at right now democrat terry

mcauliffe a democrat won the governor's seat by a two point six point margin over republican ken cuccinelli in that election libertarian robert sarvis received six point five percent of the vote so it clearly he clearly had an effect on the outcome sarvis is now running for senate can we predict that he will again have an effect on this year's election or even get a seat certainly possible he is campaigning hard he has recruited seven or eight congressional candidates in the state who are also running hard we've got a great slate of candidates in the state and he's got some name recognition he's running as a libertarian to shrink government and advance personal freedoms is a very interesting man he's married to a black woman who's a physician has a mixed race family was born into a mixed race family and he's sending the message both in the way he lives in the way he speaks that he offers republicans a real fiscal conservative alternative a real one not

a fake one like cuccinelli and real personal freedoms as well and this is what our libertarian candidates are doing across the country how do you get away from being identified as the party for the none of the voters and get get into being seen as more legit by your by the mainstream well how do you how do you do that you're walking kind of a difficult line here because you want you want the people that are angry enough to care enough to vote but you also want to tap the regular vote on voter on the shoulder and say hey we're your third option how do you how do you handle that right now well none of the above when there's a libertarian in the summer when someone votes were tarion to vote none of the above that's very legitimate because they're saying. neither the democrat nor the republican they are big government they are taking away our freedoms they're spying on us they're going to be engaging in endless war they're raising our taxes and raising spending and sowing our souls in our economy down the river forever over and over again they've been doing it for years and people are sick of it so when

they vote libertarian they're saying no that we're not having the democrats republicans and more we want the libertarians who will give us what we actually want the only way you can get what you want is to vote for it well we will see with the voter returns coming out from the election starting today all right carl how political director of national libertarian party thank you very much you're welcome thanks. well subway train derailment in moscow has left twenty one people dead today and one hundred thirty six people hospitalized with forty two in grave condition and happened during rush hour in the city's deepest metro station nearly three hundred feet underground it was unclear what caused the train to derail and best appears have ruled out an act of terrorism but are looking at a possible fault in one of the cars the possible sinking of the road better even even a power surge that triggered an alarm causing the train to stop abruptly and a rescue operation lasted several hours more than eleven hundred people were evacuated from the train which was stuck between two stations. now to the latest in

the middle east where israel has resumed its military offensive against gaza several hours after unilaterally agreeing to a cease fire the deescalation plan proposed by egypt was initially supported by the israeli government but rejected by hamas militants who continued firing the rockets when easements of the blockade of gaza was not included in that deal israel sustained its first casualty want to man died following an airstrike according to the israeli army harry fear reports on the cease fire proposal from gaza for our. israel whole to its operation on gaza at nine am local time to see if hamas would take the opportunity and that didn't happen of a fifty rockets were fired today from gaza into israel at the same time hamas is military wing has said that the conditions for it to stop its campaign on israel have not been met they include for example the full lifting of the siege on gaza so israel has now resumed its operation and that includes the possibility of

a ground invasion we've heard reports of bombings from the north to the south of the gaza strip just a while ago near our accommodation in west gaza city we heard. near by now on the israeli context israel has in the last several several days received rocket fire not just from gaza but also from lebanon on egypt sinai and also syria and in israel south of the population that a civilian population have indeed by to been terrorized of course the civilian population in gaza at least one hundred civilians have been killed here we have been meeting with civilians stuck inside one of gaza's main hospitals. after a week of fighting over two thousand two hundred sites have been targeted in gaza with missiles striking hundreds of homes as well as police stations civil administration buildings mosques and hospitals gaza's only rehabilitation hospital

was among three took direct hits its director general explained how it became a target in the morning we were hit with the first missiles from those were the warning signs for us live this hospital would destroy a second missiles hitting within fifteen minutes of third one hundred fifty four point came from the rules of what we are staying here to help so poor to protect and shield the patients but they are helpless among the seventeen patients here only a couple were conscious and. well to talk to us the rest comas they constitute some of the most severe medical cases inside gaza when the rockets hit was inside the clinic. on. the lives of those less known as adamant that little hamas. has so we had no model. with just one kilometer away from the border with israel and this is what. struck.

one of the theory is that israel wants to clear the wall so it knows there is no new war. since. the same day five o'clock on the missile that hit the hospital they called me we were. larger than the first for the time. to go as a press release the hospital made an emergency appeal for support and got an unexpected response pro palestinian international activists sitting in as human shields inside the hospital is really doesn't care too much about palestinian lives there has to be somebody from the outside world somebody from the western world they believe their presence protects the hospital claiming that israel will take measures to make certain that foreigners are not among casualties my presence here is more valuable for. for the international community in the sense that this world

cannot hurt me striking the hospital represents a significant low point in this most recent israel hamas escalation the third of its kind in the last several years that's all civilian objects is a grave breach of the geneva convention. and might amount to war crimes on the international force but those have even. greater lives are all protection. for example with houses while we were filming at the hospital an airstrike took place just a couple of hundred meters from where we were standing we ran for cover it's a measure of how dangerous this place is that even vulnerable patients find themselves at risk. most of the casualties arriving in gaza's hospitals are still noncombatants on the health service is almost a breaking point with staff having to work around the clock harry fear being

gaza. joining me to talk more about that ceasefire plan of what went wrong i was joined earlier by ma her at the co-founder and ex-president of the palestine american congress i first asked him why palestine specifically hamas rejected the plan. yes they rejected it and i think the majority of the palestinians wanted them to reject it because they want to reject the status quo israel had. you know and use this into the palestinian area looking for a you know thing their whole. government is trying to appease you know the. people of light with netanyahu but at the at the same time trying to weaken. the unity government that. had established recently the center score does not serve the

palestinian the status quo they wanted you know to put the palestinian people in one large jail called gaza that's number one number two the one time i asked to if you want so i had to fire rockets into israel so israel gets back and say why we want to go through the peace because does not help look we gave up gaz and the guys and you know they are firing rockets so the status quo is a big jail where people are starving where people are dying they're not communicating with the work world outside so i think you know hamas is and the palestinian people do not want the status quo to go back and be part of their lives ok sara someplace saying that israel was just asking for too much especially in light of the blockade that's going on with gaza right now and of let's listen to what secretary of state john kerry had to say about the cease fire and how it failed. but israel has

a right to defend itself. and it is important for us not to be provoking and purposefully trying to play politics in order to gain greater followers for its opposition and use the innocent lives of civilians who they hide in buildings and use as shields and put in danger that is against the laws of war and that's why they are a terrorist organization in light of a quote like that essentially laying a lot of blame on the failure of this cease fire on palestine and door do you think the u.s. can and should help broker a peace deal. you know i want to just reveal one piece of information i personally met with general with secretary kerry in the white house august ninth of last year and the very first question i asked him when i had a discussion face to face with him all right why are you going through this what is

different and what you're trying to achieve and he said that obama is in his second term he's not running for. another term and right now we are determined that we will create peace among the palestinian we understand they shoes and both governments they understand the issues and here we go again the wanted if they want to be. peace a broker between the palestinian and the israelis and they want to gain the trust of poor people you cannot be taken sights you cannot be siding with israel and you know claiming that you know one party is a terrorist and the other party is not personal hamas did not to provoke this recent escalation they we all know that three settlers disappeared and found you know dead and that's denied any involvement and you know israel took

a very severe measures against the palestinian the arrested over six hundred people and they start you know like it was lucky against them with bank you know cities and things like that and they start mobilizing to escalate the situation at the gaza strip because their intent was to weaken the unity government because our best was going ahead with a unity government so we know that israel had to be revoked this contrary to what the secretary of state is stating but this is them typical us position the typical u.s. position is we support you know the state of israel and you know this. and acceptable. to the king palestinian civilians now who are sunni militants look a lot of to be fair you're right a lot of people are saying that this is just in line with the politics that have have gone on forever the u.s.

is not going to point out anything really that israel is doing wrong let's talk about a possible game changer in this the hamas announced this week it's built and flown three drones in its fight against israel and this video we've got here was really showing an armed drone in flight two of the three are unmanned aircraft their arms and one is actually intended for reconnaissance now invent this current conflict how could these drones help to change the game for for palestine. you know first of all everybody has to you know ask a question. they gyptian had. you know a blockade against the guys and people who are palestinian gaza last israel hasn't caused a blockage. against the palestinians they have a drone. planes themselves twenty four seven orgasm and gaza strip is like you know ten to ten kilometers or eight miles you know wide but about thirty minute long so

you know any airplane or a drawing or whatever could a flight from one when into another within minutes irrespective of all of that and that's what's so creative in coming up with all of these machinery and the drones and the technology even though our resources there we liberated you know when you are under a brush and when you are under occupation when you are in need and when you are your lives are threatened when you are being attacked almost in daily and daily basis you're going to be creative and i think you know i give them the right you know i give them credit also for being creative in coming up with this technology. that was my co-founder and ex-president of the palestine american congress. over a million civilians are trapped in the middle of fighting between ukrainian army and anti-government militants s. and military closes ranks around two of eastern ukraine the largest cities the

shelling air raids and violence are laying waste to cities towns and villages in the east where for nationalists following the death toll from the suburbs of the gonski. the situation here on the ground days very dramatic and tensions continue to escalate challis almost never stops we hear a to the sounds over to read day and night and even write and now in groups tanks moved to tears and multiple rocket launchers known as good as its own hail i used and to governments for cities to say that degraded troops are getting closer to the city center and then no not further than ten to twenty kilometers from where we are now doctors are working twenty four seven to see timor who death toll is continuing to rise from both sides although it is very hard to say so far how many people were killed because the clashes are on to go in and casualties among civilians population the road so on a constant rise because residential area is often. we visited

many scenes the shells landed and the images we saw on the ground were really terrible some of them we cannot even show here and with all these escalation here in eastern ukraine obviously people continue to leave and they do not know when or if they will be able to come back that was r t correspondent marie for national. well to florida police officers are out of a job after an f.b.i. report tied them to the ku klux klan that's right fruitland park deputy chief david borst resigned and officer george honeywell was fired last week according to the city manager the link between the the k.k.k. and these guys surfaced in a report from the florida department of law enforcement based on information from the f.b.i. which learned about the connection during a broader investigation the city of five thousand residents is located about forty miles northwest of orlando now for one park is in lake county where k.k.k.

violence in the forty's and fifty's was chronicled in a pill a surprise winning book devil in the grove. yes that's a conversation most people have had with their friends at one time or another do you believe in life on other planets for many it's an existential question well leave it to the scientists to figure it out once and for all meghan lopez gives us a closer look now at how they plan to probe deep space to find out. it's a question that inspired generations of scientists theorists even astronauts. fully believe that we're not alone and have for many many years we saw light and we thought what that is i find it hard to believe that we're in this world alone for thousands of years human beings have looked up at the night sky and asked the question are we alone in the universe are we the only planet with the perfect combination of distance from the sun and habitable conditions to foster life or are

we one of many life forms in a universe that is constantly expanding a question as old as time was an answer that was just beyond our reach until now this past april kepler discovered the furth first earth sized planet in the so-called habitable zone with shuttle missions grounded for good nasa scientists have turned their attention to the deepest darkest parts of our universe using telescopes to live in a their way a panel discussion in the nasa headquarters at washington d.c. detail the next dive into the final frontier and the technology that will take us there in two thousand and seventeen nasa will launch the transiting exoplanet survey satellite tests test will do in all sky survey and look at hundreds of thousands of stars for thousands of planets teaming up with tests the webb telescope is set to launch one year later and will use data to search for bio signatures being amid from these planets and what the james webb telescope will do

it will find what it now is actually a standard approach to setting exoplanet atmospheres the web telescope is almost twice the size of hubble it's cameras can see much further into the depths of space and provide clearer images as well it will be equipped with instruments that allow astronomers to take pictures of very faint objects analyze physical properties of planets and their chemical composition as well as detect some newly forming stars with all of these gadgets in the bill. of stars that illuminated the night sky the question becomes what are we looking for we're looking for signs of life on a planet around a nearby star and what those signs might look like but in their search for life scientists are being blinded by the brightness of the stars earth is ten billion times fainter than its parent star sun as you just heard there's a whole bunch of analogies for that firefly by a searchlight but it's

a really hard thing to do one of the more innovative ideas to solve this problem we have this star shade and the goal would be actually to block out the star light so we can see the planet directly but the stars brightness isn't the only challenge nasa must overcome in future space exploration so too is the sunrise of the telescopes we have immense challenge of folding it up to get it into space but to find evidence of actual life it's going to take another generation of telescopes and to do that we're going to need new rockets new approaches to getting into space new approaches to large telescopes highly advanced optical systems and then they have to face public scrutiny critics on social media question if the u.s. government would inform the people if life on other planets had in fact been discovered which prompted this brief response you know of course we would despite skeptics now and challenges in the future for the first time in human history we

finally have a chance to find out imagine the moment that the news breaks we've discovered earth two point zero. imagine the moment. the whole world wakes up to the news a long loneliness in time and space may have ended but between us. between science technology and today's space enterprise it's within our grasp for the first time in human history. to make a discovery that will change the world and one day perhaps in the not too distant future humans may finally be able to look up at the night sky and know whether something or someone really is out there reporting for r.t. i meghan lopez in washington d.c. that has a pronounced focus for the stories we covered go to you tube dot com forward slash

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