coming up on r t in many u.s. states third party candidates are gaining surprising support in the senate midterm elections how will they affect those tight races more on that ahead. and the push for a ceasefire between israel and hamas unravels military strikes resume of the number of civilian casualties climbing the latest on the conflict coming up. now did eastern ukraine government forces continue their battle against and take care of separatists locals in cities like lugansk experienced great danger while many of the grown clashes more on that later in the show.

good evening it's tuesday july fifteenth five pm in washington d.c. islands in 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 get you a pretty good slice of voter support in the run up to the primary elections for a senate seat which is taking place in the state of north carolina today that's just what pizza delivery man libertarian candidate shawn ha has done in a tight senate race where candidates are spending many millions to win this guy is racking up a surprising amount of support with his every man issues and a cold pint forget expensive campaign ads take a look at part of his you tube series. howdy my name is sean paul and from durham north carolina and i'm writing for u.s. senate as a libertarian and you know i really didn't want to do this. but i couldn't stand the idea 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 debt and more of the same problems just keeps getting worse. watch one of those you can't get enough of them let me tell you what does this all indicate while according to the washington post in addition to north carolina libertarians are poised to draw votes and at least ten other competitive senate elections this fall in montana oregon colorado minnesota iowa arkansas michigan virginia west virginia and alaska the parties working to collect enough signatures to appear on ballots at kentucky and new hampshire and are even looking to run for governor in florida and kansas to discuss this i was joined earlier by carla howell political director of the national libertarian party i first asked her if it's possible for sean hot to make a strong impact in north carolina as upcoming elections 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 disturbed disillusioned with that to the two party options on the table for them but some experts believe that if it 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 battle 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 are can they so 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 say and 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 voter 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 in sight 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 a b. to re their members all the time now sometimes almost every time in fact and the libertarian party stays true to 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 well let's talk about virginia last year which is a good example of what the libertarian party is looking at right now a 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 so. 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 voter want 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 for 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 engage in an endless war they're raising our taxes and raising spending and selling our souls and 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 or republicans anymore 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. a subway train derailment in moscow has left twenty one people dead today and one hundred thirty six people hostage hospitalized with forty two of them in grave condition and happened during rush hour in the city's deepest metro station two hundred seventy five feet underground it was unclear what caused the training to derail investigators ruled out an act of terrorism but have been looking at a possible fault in one of the cars possible sinking of the road better even a power surge that triggered an alarm causing the train to stop abruptly and a rescue operation that lasted several hours more than eleven hundred people had to be 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 ceasefire the deescalation plan proposed by egypt was initially supported by the israeli government but rejected by hamas militants who continued firing rockets because easement of the blockade of gaza had not been included in that deal israel

sustained its first casualty when a man died following an airstrike according to the israeli army harry fear reports from the cease fire near gaza for r.t. . 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. by now in the israeli context israel has in the last several several days received rocket fire

not just from gaza but also from lebanon on egypt's sinai and also syria and in israel south 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 that. leave this hospital we're going to destroy a second missiles hitting within fifteen minutes of third one fifteen. point came

from the rules of what we are staying here to help support and protect the patients but they are helpless among the seventeen patients here only a couple were conscious and. well to talk to us the rest as they constitute some of the most severe medical cases inside gaza when the rockets hit was inside the clinic and equal to. the lives of those less known as that of a little more hamam. so we're not all modern. we're just one kilometer away from the border with israel and this is what. struck. one of the theory is that israel wants to live up to it knows their leader is all new to war but 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 a 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 visceral 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 but if it's civilian objects is a grave breach of the geneva convention. might amount to war crimes on the

international force because even. a greater level of protection. for example with thousands 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 and the health service is almost at breaking point with staff having to work around the clock carry fear seeing gaza. to talk more about the ceasefire plan and what went wrong i was joined earlier by maharaj carter the co-founder and ex-president of the palestinian 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 want 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 allied with netanyahu but at the at the same time trying to weaken. the unity government that best and have mass had established recently and the center is called 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 asked to if you want to fire rockets into israel so israel kicks back and say why we want to go through the peace because does not 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 may 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 the cease fire on palestine 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 they want to if they

want to be. peace a broker between the palestinians 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 bass

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 and civilians now who as you know you know it's 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 that hamas announced this week it's a built in phone three drones in its fight against israel and this video we've got here was released showing an armed drone in flight two of the three are unmanned aircraft their arms and one is actually intended for reconnaissance now in venice

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 their guys against the guys and people who are palestinian gaza less israel has imposed 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 by about thirty minute long so you know any airplane or a drawing or whatever could a flight from one one 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 drawings and the technology even though our resources there we liberated you know when you

are under abrasion 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 to you know i give them credit also for being creative and coming up with this technology that was my her her cofounder and ex-president of the palestinian american congress . over nine civilians are trapped in the middle of fighting between ukrainian army and anti-government militants as the military closes ranks around two of eastern ukraine two largest cities the shelling air raids and violence are laying waste to cities towns and villages and the east where if a national is following the death toll from the suburbs of lugansk. the situation here on the ground a's very dramatic contentions continue to escalate challis almost never stops we hear a two sounds over to read day and night and even right now in the burbs tanks

mortars and multiple rocket launchers known as god or hailed by use there and to government forces to say that degraded troops are getting closer to the city center and they're now not further than ten to twenty kilometers from where we are now doctors are working twenty four seven and the city more full 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 the civilian population are old so on a constant rise because residential areas are often. heat we visited many scenes shortly after the shells landed there 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 our to

correspondent mary from national. having just crossed the southern border of the united states an attempt to flee their home countries a number of the immigrants stuck in one of the worst humanitarian crises at the center of the u.s. immigration issue have been turned around and returned to their home countries and takes a look at one of the nations these people are going back to. heartbreak and fear emerge as the first wave of deportations has already begun just six weeks into the humanitarian crisis at the border where we saw thousands of child migrants from central america enter the u.s. nearly forty women and children were returned to honduras last night on a u.s. immigration and customs enforcement chartered plane only to be returned to a country marred by violence with an average of nineteen murders per day earning san pedro sula the dubious title of the murder capital of the world just to put that into perspective that is six times worse than chicago now upon arrival at the

san pedro sula airport the deportees were greeted on the tarmac by the first lady of honduras ana garcia hernandez mrs hernandez came bearing flowers and balloons and greeted the children with kisses but a happy homecoming this is not these women and children fled their home country due to extreme violence and crushing poverty more than half the country lives below the u.n. poverty line with an unemployment rate hovering around thirty percent nearly two million residents have no access to potable water. now many of the children fleeing honduras cite horrific violence and fear for their lives as drug fueled gang violence and golf their city and the adults say the u.s. is to blame for that gang violence that's running rampant called mara salvatrucha or m s thirteen that gang is traced back to its inception in california prisons in the one nine hundred eighty s. by central american born inmates who were then deported back to their country of origin these women and children risked life and limb in

a treacherous journey through mexico that took several weeks only to be returned less than two months later countless lives has been lost in route as tens of thousands flee the carnage at home for many this journey means risking their life for a chance at one or remain in honduras and face certain death now as many people stateside call for action from the white house it's actually congress that sets the rules on how to deal with the migrant search under the trafficking victims protection act border patrol is required to take child migrants who are not from mexico into custody screened them and transfer them to the office of refugee resettlement which is a part of the department of health and human services the law then leaves it all up to his chest in either finding these kids nearest relatives to release them to or put them in long term foster care but for these forty women and children that isn't

the case however some are quoted below try again from washington manila chan r.t. . well nothing like a friend who will take a bullet for you that's exactly what will happen in the american comic classic archie andrews in wednesday's edition of life with archie the famous writer had takes a bullet for his friend but not just any friend his gay friend senator kevin keller kalar is the first openly gay comic book character in life with archie and pushing for more gun control like with archie creator jon goldwater decided to kill off archie to depict the changing tides of values and tolerance towards the gay community in the united states as well as making a strong stance on gun control goldwater wanted arche to die selflessly and portray the rise of understanding and tolerance in his fictional town of riverdale they are chandra's character has been with us since nineteen forty one he will be missed but doesn't for now folks for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com

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style guides are documents that spell out rules for punctuation and word use companies have them universities publish them news organizations use them there are lots of style guides out there that govern institutional communications generally they exist so that an organization can present information in a consistent random way and if you've ever had the pleasure to read a style guide you know they can sometimes be pretty funny because they can indirectly but very clearly spell out an agenda that an organization will tell you doesn't exist such as the case with the cia's style guide the legal nonprofit

national security councilors obtained a copy of the cia's style guide and are a foil request they published it online and like any style guide they definitely showed an agenda just the idea of the cia having a style guide is funny enough and the document itself contains a lot of for instance the cia wants the phrase american imperialism to have quotes around it like it's a fictional thing that doesn't exist they also don't want anyone to use the word regime when talking about anything american or any of america's allies because they think it has the negative connotation they don't want the w capitalized in vietnam war because it was never officially declared as a small w we'll just make that whole thing go away but where the style guide really gets interesting is in its usage examples every style guide include sentences or phrases to illustrate the rules. the setting and the normally plane sentences like

these run but the cia's usage examples are much more telling for instance to illustrate their rules for the word while they use the sentence while he hated to force he recognized the need for order to illustrate the difference between the words of facts with an a and e. fact with a nice the style guide uses the sentences the blow on the head affected john's vision the assailant effected a change in john's vision by striking him on the head and the effect of the blow on john's head was blurred vision blows through there just to describe her music of course none of this is a private but like any style guide the cia's does a great job of giving insight into the organizations unspoken agenda and in the case of the cia's the guy and shows just how ruthless their stuff.