we're. coming up on r t the us continues to push for more sanctions against russia and the numerous european nations don't appear so eager to go down the sanctions road just yet more on that coming up. and could there soon be six california supporters of the six state initiatives say they now have enough signatures to put the idea on the ballot in two thousand and sixteen the details on this potential vote later in the show. and in response to u.s. spying germany is looking for ways to protect its privacy now the head of germany's n.s.a. inquiry is suggesting a counter as tactic that's rather old school find out more later in the show.

it's wednesday july sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm your i dated and you're watching r.t. america. the u.s. is now considering opposing you know wather all sanctions on russia over its involvement in ukraine u.s. and european officials say the move reflects the obama administration's frustration with europe's on willingness to take a tougher stance against moscow artie's guyon a check yon has the very latest. the u.s. is trying to isolate russia economically by working to get europe to agree on six tour of sanctions against russia but here the u.s. may be facing the risk of isolating itself as european leaders meet to discuss this word is that at least nine european countries are prepared to block sic toral sanctions including germany france and austria one source said they might agree on

a modest expansion of sanctions but are definitely not prepared to cut their multibillion dollar partnership and trade with russia thousands of european companies are doing business with russia the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people could be on the line the decision on sanctions would have to be unanimous to pass and that kind of unanimity seems unlikely u.s. officials know this of course and yet the obama administration says they're considering unilateral sanctions against russia that is to increase pressure on europe first of all we don't know exactly what unilateral sanctions the u.s. is considering but there may be several outcomes save the sanctions are unilateral and europe does not go go along then they put u.s. business is that a disadvantage because many of the services and its knowledge is the u.s. companies sell european companies have and sell this way the u.s. isolates itself from a lot of business that could be done but if the u.s. exerts enough pressure on europe to go ahead with strong sanctions against russia

then u.s. businesses get a competitive advantage especially u.s. energy companies so this could be more about business than we think. i was r t correspondent. and now to guantanamo bay where a u.s. navy nurse has refused to force feed prisoners who are on an extended hunger strike the miami herald reports that after deciding that the practice was a criminal act the unidentified nurse decided to decline his participation according to officials this is the first protest of its kind at the detention center up until now no nurse or doctor has ever refused to to feed a prisoner a spokesperson for the southern command which oversees guantanamo says the nurse is a lieutenant and has been assigned to other duties instead the u.s. military maintains it uses humane methods to keep hunger striking prisoners alive but the human rights commission said it regards force feeding at guantanamo as

a form of torture additionally the american medical association president has said that force feeding hunger strike strikers violates core ethical values and fact a recent editorial in the new england journal of medicine urged guantanamo's prison doctors to refuse to participate and that's exactly what we've now seen happen but whether this catches on as a form of protest remains to be seen there are currently one hundred forty nine prisoners still at the detention center thirty four of them are believed to be on hunger strike eighteen of which meet the guidelines for force feeding. a swedish court has ruled to up hold an arrest warrant against wiki leaks founder julian assange on charges of sexual assault a songes arrest was issued at the end of two thousand and ten after two women in sweden accused him of sexual assault. has long denied the allegations and had been

trying to get those targets is dropped the whistleblower fear is that extradited to sweden he would be van vulnerable. west where he could face charges over the release of thousands of secret documents by wiki leaks chelsea manning the american soldier who passed those documents to a songe was sentenced to thirty five years in prison slask july assigned remains in the ecuadorian embassy where he has been for two years and see government granted him asylum. well it was the war of the words between u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power and her russian counterpart vitaly churkin but surprisingly this time it had nothing to do with ukraine or syria or even iran rather it was all about the controversial russian band pussy riot r d's marina port why it takes a look at their tit for tat exchange. the russian and american ambassadors to the

united nations usually keep their negotiations and debates within the chambers of the world body headquarters however a tit for tat between the two diplomats is currently playing out in the public domain sparked by something written in the pages of a glossy magazine the august issue of vanity fair features an article on samantha power in which she strikes a bit of a verbal job against her russian counterpart here's the context the reporter says he reminded miss power that ambassador vitaly churkin jokingly asked her if she'd join the russian punk group pussy riot after she met with the two famous band members and bassett her power says she told mr churkin that their first concert stop on tour would be where russia holds its political prisoners though regrettably she can't sing the u.s. envoy claims she got the last word in that conversation saying it's what passes as a small victory oh if only the verbal jabs and snarky miss ended there it doesn't

in a statement posted on facebook ambassador churkin says while it did stoke his vanity to see himself referenced in the article he found powers pussy riot tore stop comment to be rather lame saying quote they never performed in guantanamo after all ouch a reference to america's biggest stain on international law and human rights violations ambassador churkin also sets the record straight saying quote i called samantha and explained to her that russia did not have any political prisoners she seemed to be amused and promised to get back to me on this she never did unquote ambassador churkin claims that miss power told him he got the upper hand in that exchange but he says he will claim it as a small victory hopefully when the two diplomats meet once again face to face at the u.n. there will be no hard feelings and the debates can go back to revolve around issues such as creating more peace and less calm. very important i r.t.

new york. now to the crisis along the us mexico border the u.s. deported one during children this week in the first round of deportations since president obama pledged to speed up the process of sending back illegal immigrant minors from central america record numbers of children from honduras el salvador and guatemala have crossed into the u.s. over the past year are seeking refuge from their violence and poverty stricken countries last week president obama appealed to congress for three point seven billion dollars in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis on the nation's southern border however that hasn't the controversial debate that's arisen in recent weeks over how to solve the problem in the wake of the immigration influx we've seen a whole host of opposition from different groups everything from civilian protesters to now individual militias who say they plan to take border security into their own hands one group doing just that is arizona border reconnaissance

a group of former soldiers that specializes in tracking drug runners and illegal immigrants along arizona and there is on the mexico border the director of the group who asked to remain anonymous had this to say about the potential dangers of militia groups taking on the job of border security lowish is being given a bad name by probably a couple crazies out there and by the government and media where you said we're not a militia when we have people come to us we've read them we make sure they are who they say they are they have to follow strict rules of engagement they have to follow strict standard operating procedures. and that's why when we go out we will. contact more virtual world know where we're going how many people are going to be there how long we're going to be out so there

is no what they call blue on blue which is friendly fire from the bag could happen if you get yahoos out there but we are very well trained and we're in constant communications with border patrol so we don't have any problems customs and border patrol has stated that it does not endorse or support any private group or organization from taking matters into their own hands because it could have disastrous personal and public safety consequences. and still ahead here on r.g.p. a new development in an attempt to divide up the state of california supporters of the six state unissued of say they have enough signatures to put it up for a vote more on that after the break. thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks

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and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes. believe it or not a proposal to split california into six states is moving forward the man behind the plan venture capitalist him draper says he has gathered enough signatures to place it on the twenty sixteen ballot bringing the initiative one step closer to fruition artie's miliband has more. because the most populated state in the union be split up well that's what one tech billionaire in silicon valley wants to do tim draper a venture capitalist wants to break california into not two not three not even four but six smaller states and his vision is one step closer to going up for a vote draper announced this week that he collected a one point three million signatures in

a petition to put his proposal on the california state ballot in two years well over the eight hundred eight thousand needed and with just over thirty eight million people in california if it were its own country it would have the eighth largest economy in the world but if draper has his way the landscape could change dramatically now much of the bay area plus santa cruz and monterey counties they would become the state of silicon valley and california is most northern parts they would become jefferson as some counties that there have already wanted for years and some north bay counties would become part of north california leaving stockton fresno and bakersfield they would become central california los angeles been tierra and santa barbara would wind up in the west california leaving san diego to anchor south california now mr draper appeared on r.t. america just a few months ago to explain his thought process on why california should be split

california has failed the system is not working we've had great people governing california and for some reason it has not worked and i think it's just too big too unwieldy and we're just not a closed door government anymore and for those backing draper they say dividing the state would create a more business friendly environment they say it would even fix water issues and maybe even ease traffic congestion now while draper will get his chance to have this on the ballot and. the next election cycle it's very unlikely that california voters will agree with his ideas many have already vocalize their objection to this notion calling draper's plan a colazal waste of time a democratic and g.o.p. strategist teamed up to form one california group aimed at fighting off draper and his big bucks they say draper's plan is hurting the california brand so even if

voters were to support the state split congress and then the president would have to approve it too which is something highly unlikely to happen from washington manila chan r.t. . and breaking news out of california of federal judge has ruled that california's death penalty system is unconstitutional u.s. district court judge cormac carney handed down the order earlier today he said it is so plagued by such unpredictable delays that only a trivial few are actually sentenced to death you also said the system has such a remote possibility of death that it's arbitrary and therefore violates the constitution's eighth amendment. california is facing one of the worst droughts in decades but while the agricultural industry suffers urban water use in may actually went up despite efforts to encourage conservation so now the state water board is an acting and emergency rule allowing local agencies to find water wasters up to

five hundred dollars a day but it's not only people over watering their lawns and hosing off their driveways that are contributing to the problem another one of the potential culprits is the company nestle on the morongo band of mission indians reservation the largest bottled water company in the u.s. has been drawing water from a spring in millard canyon for over a decade now keep in mind this is the cabazon area which has been facing declining groundwater levels since two thousand it's hard to say if or how much nestle's bottled water production contributes to this decrease because as a sovereign nation is reporting a car or choir are lax and the tribe is exempt from oversight but according to reporting by the desert sun newspaper the local water agency estimates that about two hundred and forty four million gallons are pumped from spring a year is accurate that's the equivalent of the amount of water used annually by at

least four hundred households in the region nestle leases the property from the tribe to package arrowhead spring water and purified water sold under the brand nestle pure life it's just one of the many plans across the u.s. that was built to quench the increasing thirst for bottled water now it's the earth that's a little bit thirsty. and still ahead here on our t.v. without us a leak showing the u.s. spied on germany revelations have grown tense between the two nations and now the german government is considering a form of cybersecurity that's quite old school by. out more after the break. elin. live. live

live live live live . it must take. over the place to do its job that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i was proud to set a goal that we've been a hydrogen right hand full of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up i'm sorry mark it on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world if we go beyond

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i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find why i feel larry king now right here on our t.v. question my. bet you haven't seen one of these in a while this is exactly what german politicians may be using pretty soon for sensitive documents so why the typewriters well as you might imagine has a little something to do with u.s. surveillance operations in the n.s.a. documents leaked by former government contractor edward snowden we learned that the u.s. had spied on chancellor on the one merkel's cell phone and receptive the communications of german citizens to add to that germany also just recently discovered that two of

their intelligence employees were allegedly acting as double agents american as being objectivity has put germany on high alert in an interview with the head of the country's parliament terry inquiry into n.s.a. activity politician patrick sense burke said that he and his colleagues were seriously thinking of ditching email completely asked whether he considered time for writers as an option he replied as a matter of fact we have and not electronic models either the idea has already met some opposition from government insiders who say that it's unreasonable to turn back to typewriters and the twenty first century but some german officials say that old technology may be more appealing the new technology in a digital collection world. and boom bust is coming up next here on our air an aide joins us for a quick preview hi erin hi mary thanks it sounds like the digital collection world is a lot like the fashion world but whatever's old is. all right so anyway coming up on

boom bust we're discussing the growing practice of inversion transactions that's one of the u.s. based company buys a smaller foreign company in order to avoid paying taxes so here's the question is there no economic patriotism anymore i mean maybe it'll come in vogue again that's what we're looking into today and in today's video edward harris and i are discussing the brics new development bank china's rise and the role of geopolitics in development it's all coming up so stay tuned to answer your question no i don't think there is any. doubt the money all right thanks derek severe and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com forward slash our to america and check out our website at r t dot com forward slash usa you can also follow me on twitter and amir a david and stay tuned boom bust is next. so ok let's start source. thank you.

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than pop music is proper music as in stupid pop music being created to promote propaganda and right now there's a huge props song sweeping the airwaves and central america it's a song called love these dia which means the beast and it's about a freight train that vibrance right from southern mexico to the u.s. border kidnappings robberies rapes even murders occur on the train which is why it's infamously known as the beast among migrants the song features upbeat could be a music against dismal lyrics about the train like they call or the beast from the south this wretched train of death with the devil in the boiler whistles roars of twists and turns these is a big hit people in honduras guatemala and el salvador led. it calling up their local radio stations to request that it's being played by twenty one radio stations in those countries and like the case with most pop songs no one really knows who

wrote it or where it came from unlike most pop songs this prop song was commissioned by the us government hence it being nothing but propaganda it's part of the us customs and border protection dangers awareness campaign which is designed to deter illegal immigration into the us love these dia isn't the first song commissioned by c.b.p. but it is the first one written specifically for a central american audience one guy was hired by c.b.p. to write it he brought in a musician from new york to compose the music he hired a bar mitzvah singer for vocals and there you go a prop song was manufactured just like any other horrible pop song at first one of the composers working with c.b.p. carlo nikolaus was hesitant the song is being played as part of a regular rotation at radio stations with no disclaimer that the us government is

behind it so it felt manipulative to them but nicholas was born in the us to mexican parents and know the horrors of that train so ultimately he ended up feeling like the manipulative product of music might be an ok thing that could save lives the thing that gets to me about this prop song nonsense is the same thing that gets to me about pop songs it's mind control by design with a hidden agenda for pop music that's just to make money with this prop song it's to deter immigration it's in atlantic and manufactured but one look at music charts tells me just how many people are willing to blindly follow along without questioning anything so maybe the masses are getting exactly the props songs to be . is there tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident .

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