i mean r.t. america the u.s. house of representatives is set to unveil a new sanctions bill focused on russia and iran within the latest bill and why president might be on board coming up. meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has confirmed a joint censure she monitor the cease fire in syria it's been agreed with the u.s. and jordan but washington doesn't seem so by. and the u.s. led coalition in mosul fires back at amnesty international calling there are four to responsible and tonight in violation of international law in their fight against isis stories of war coming out right now.

it's wednesday july twelfth five pm in washington d.c. i'm atocha sweets and you're watching r.t. america well in june the senate overwhelmingly passed a new set of sanctions against iran and now the bill has stalled in the house the reason the new proposed legislation is set to limit the president's ability to lift sanctions on any country which would only be done through congress all this is how lawmakers are trying to ensure that trump doesn't let any sanctions on russia which in fact dominate the supposedly anti iranian bill artie's lesieur chef he looks at the history of the u.s. aggression sanctions the sanctions part of u.s. russia relations has a long history and rocked going back to the very start of the cold war when the nine hundred forty nine export control act was imposed forbidding all just about all trade with the soviet union and its european allies this sort of sunshines lasted for almost half a century. and even led to some people in the reagan administration firmly

believing that they actually played a key role in bringing u.s.s.r. down but sanction free relations between washington and moscow were short lived a number of russian entities were part of bill clinton's anti uranian sanctions list basically prohibiting u.s. companies to deal with those russian ones which sold weapons to iran now fast forward through relatively calm at least on the sanctions front two thousand and in two thousand and ten a bomb even lifted restrictions on russian companies selling arms to iran but in two thousand and twelve the magness key act happened effectively banning eighteen russian individuals from entering the united states those washington believed were responsible for the death of a lawyer said a game of needs a russian prison needs to reportedly investigated tax fraud by russian officials in moscow now russia retaliated with a banned persons list of its own and deal yakovlev law on top of it our glowing u.s. adoptions of russian children the low was named after

a russian sauder who died in two thousand and eight of a heart stroke following neglect by his adoptive american father but the biggest set of sanctions obviously came amid the twenty fourteen ukrainian crisis and since then it has been updated several times it involves three band of individuals the freezing of assets prohibiting business with a number of companies in defense and energy sectors as well as stopping u.s. companies from doing any commercial activity in crimea economists and analysts have been trying hard to pull three years to determine whether those rather limited sanctions that have any effect on russia at all if anything it's the e.u. sanctions and council sanctions from moscow against european states which probably had a more significant effect as russia had been doing much more business with the europe not the united states but now those in the capitol hill are gunning for more in june a bill described as countering iran's destabilizing activities act of twenty seventeen was. overwhelmingly passed by the senate but don't be fooled it's not really about

iran as russia occupies the entire huge part two of the bill with calls on more restrictions for all the possible reasons written into it and tucked into the bill is this provision basically forcing the president united states to consult the congress if he wants to lift any sanctions or even more specifically alter the trade relations with russia now this bill is stalled that the house trumps the ministration vocally opposing it not the sanctions part but in the part which it says it would limit the president's flexibility to apply the sanctions to war and it's still unclear whether trump would veto that bill which would you know in the long run limit his abilities in other circumstances he's claim a have been seen as legitimate but don't forget we are now living in russia russia russia world. the reporting from washington d.c. a russian cyber security firm is the latest target of escalating political tensions

between the united states and russia the u.s. general services administration reportedly deleted russia's cast pierce from two list of government contractors citing a need to quote ensure integrity and security the company's press service says quote by all appearances. happens to be dragged into a geo political fights where each side is trying to use the company as a pawn in its game well that's according to the real news agency a spokeswoman from the g.s.a. says the company was banished quote after careful consideration to preserve the integrity and security of the u.s. government system networks and to discuss these sanctions further i was joined earlier by daniel khaled a professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify putin to get his take on the latest proposed sanctions. well

i'm against the sanctions both against russia and iran. as i understand in the case of russia that the ukrainian sanctions actually hurt their economy by about one point five percent per year which means it's having an effect on ordinary people i can say the truth the same is true in iran there's a lot of bitterness in iran about the sanctions and in particular about the nuclear deal you know they feel that they held up their bargain with the nuclear deal they actually poured concrete into their nuclear facilities destroying them meanwhile the sanctions were never lifted against and as promised. for example medical sanctions were supposed to have been lifted and yet those are still effectively in place you know which again the fact ordinary iranians and. and frankly i don't see the justification for it and either case as you know given my book. the plot to

scapegoat russia i don't buy the theory that russia somehow interfered in the us elections and the case of iran i mean how are they destabilizing the middle east if they're actually in an enemy of isis and al qaida they were just attacked by isis in their parliament you might recall. i don't see them as the enemy in fact iran's one of the more stable countries in the middle east and it seems to me that the us is hell bent on themselves destabilizing every country in the middle east and said you were invited to speak at the university of tehran earlier this month about human rights as an instrument of military intervention and it's interesting because at the same time i was in paris holding a rally with more than eighty thousand people still can you give us a little perspective about this group and also that meeting yes absolutely so first

of all the m e k was a designated terrorist group by the united states from one thousand nine hundred seventy two thousand and twelve according to the us state department they killed thousands of people in iran folks in iran estimated at around seventeen thousand people they strangely fought on saddam hussein side in the iran iraq war against iran they themselves were part of the taking of the us embassy in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine and supported the taking of the hostages again this is a group that is quite nefarious that is again in the words of our own state department a cult and yet they were having an open conference in paris which was addressed by a number of american luminaries including john bolton and it just seems very odd. we climb somehow iran is a sponsor of international terrorism meanwhile. you know you have very prominent

americans fraternizing with the any k. and there was a time when the u.s. was directly supporting the m.e. case against iran. and so you know i just see this incredible disconnect between the reality of the situation and what the u.s. is trying to do to iran and in the region in general and you mentioned that you went on a tour of a. torture center so can you explain what that was then what you witnessed while you're on that tour yes and first of all i asked for this tour it wasn't that people suggested it i knew about the sock the sock was created by the central intelligence agency it was created after the cia overthrew the democratically elected president mohamed moses decks are you prime minister in one nine hundred fifty three because he wanted to nationalize iran's oil industry for the benefit of iranians the u.s.

installed the shaw otherwise known as a king and created a sock a very brutal security agency in order to keep the shawn power which they were able to do til the revolution of one nine hundred seventy nine so what i saw it's now a museum is the sa prison in torture center where they tortured in prison and in some cases killed hundreds and hundreds of people the walls are lined with photographs of those who went through the center again some survived others did but all were mistreated and tortured including by the way all know the current supreme leader of iran you know which gives you a little. perspective on why the iranians may have some issues with the united states because we through violent means kept a king a monarchy in power in that country from one thousand nine hundred fifty three to nine. nine hundred seventy nine with that said i do want to mention that i've never

been treated kinder for. the iranians are kind people and they love americans which is quite interesting given the situation yeah i was really curious i mean you were looking at all of that as an american so you were actually received pretty well over there. absolutely you know and i find this throughout the world but in particular in iran they don't see many americans it's hard to travel there while it's lawful to travel there you can't use credit cards or a.t.m. cards so you can imagine how difficult it is as a practical matter to be there. they were happy to see americans i stopped a lot of people on the street to take photos people would offer me food i can't say how kind these people are it's actually a very western country a lot of people know english. i was very touched by it and of course i'm seeing these peoples and seeing their beautiful country their beautiful antiquities you know i'm afraid for them i'm afraid that a war may be coming you know and i know you alluded to that quickly i'm

a out of time but there's a lot of criticism of the iran nuclear deal here in the u.s. from both sides especially among conservatives and said that it certainly was not going to stop iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but what was the local perspective and then you mentioned a few things earlier yes so first of all of a feel like they they held up their part of the bargain first of all their position has always been that they were never intending to create nuclear weapons in fact the supreme leader the ayatollah has said that nuclear weapons are against the islamic faith but nonetheless they want to head and destroyed the nuclear enrichment facilities they had which they claimed and i think is true they were using wanted to use for electricity they destroyed them and meanwhile the sanctions remain so it in fact is us that haven't held that part of the bargain and again people are very bitter about it they wonder why this was agreed to when they have seen no benefit out of it. and

a college professor and author we're out of time unfortunately i was a pleasure to have you thank you so much thank you thank you very. kind of an artsy are the rest agape prose distracting congress from the job that they were elected to do a new poll says that most americans think so that story coming out right after the short break. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories in our critics can't tell you know why because their advertisers won't let. you know order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when it's local ration makes a pharmaceutical big chill speed when

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like your name on the. what your biggest fear is the right result when it's. cold you sure you. want to stop it. now i believe you. when. i. am. i in a recently released national poll the center for american political studies at harvard university found a deep contradiction between the russian obsession by democratic party elites and voters well the survey reveals a majority of voters believe the russian investigations are causing the traffic ministration to lose focus on key issues well this includes health care immigration the budget deficit and jobs more than two thirds of registered voters think the investigation into president trump and russia are hurting the country while sixty

two percent of respondents believe there is no evidence of collusion between president trump and the russians finally sixty two percent of respondents say the russian investigation will not enter the impeachment of trump but will ultimately lead to the end of the inquiry and to russia. but as foreign minister sergei lavrov has confirmed a joint center to monitor the cease fire in syria has been agreed with the u.s. and jordan while his words run contrary to what's been said by washington with the state department claim we have the matters still being discussed still likes to talk a lot going to the world and i don't know how this lady could know i could dislike we're not acquainted and get out ahead i think of some of the negotiations that are under way under the house things work at the state department sums up who has access to what information but the documents signed in amman by russia america jordan the provides for the creation of just such a sound system that is all still being worked out nobody should get ahead of

themselves before keep abreast of the latest developments so some helpful for diplomats here but it's a joint center on syria was one of the several matters agreed by putin during their first encounter on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit last week however less than a week later it seems some of the u.s. administration are losing enthusiasm as artie's jacqueline booga explains the highly anticipated biological meeting between donald trump and lot of your putin at the g. twenty summit and with high hopes that the two countries could finally leave all the bad blood behind and see a new stage in relations after the two presidents met in homburg tillerson came out saying that they had great chemistry they discussed cyber security and the cease fire in syria and were really ready to move forward putin and did discuss that joint cybersecurity unit but trump has since backtracked on that with a post on twitter after the idea was widely attacked here in washington and about that cease fire in syria the most important achievement reached by the u.s.

and russia in conjunction with jordan moscow has already outlined what role in the suspension of hostilities they will play but america has yet to be clarified and recent reports show that the pentagon was left completely out of the process we reached out to the pentagon. see if they could shed some light on the plan and they in turn said that the state department was the head agency and referred us to them but they also have yet to come up with a solid strategy in terms of who is doing what when where or how some of those details are something without is there a level of urgency in working that out because it seems like if you don't have a monitoring or enforcement mechanism it's easy it's sort of incentivize people to break it to those monitors will be i don't know at this point i know we have folks in the region i know that our special envoy to syria is actively engaged in these conversations so i anticipate we'll get that information in the new future so we're saying again one step forward two steps back what's becoming the usual u.s.

approach to working with russia and misty international has released a report which accuses the u.s. led coalition and iraqi forces of violating international law during the fight against islamic states in mosul a coalition spokesperson has called the report irresponsible but critics say the amount of force used in iraq's second city caused nothing less than a syrian catastrophe r.t.s. alex mahela vetches in toronto with more how many times we have to go through this with the western led forces time and time again we hear about war crimes breaking of international law be it the balkans be it libya be iraq be it syria right now international law is broken it's like impunity and nobody cares but let's not dwell on the past let's stick to what's happening here let's stick to mosul we remember most old back in the day it was a city of two point five million people one point five million under isis isis had six thousand fighters there back in october nine months later the asli they got their butts kicked but the fact of the matter is it took

a whole lot of civilian casualties to get there as you know the media was practically banned promotional so we will never really know the real story of what happened there but pictures you know that you say they speak a thousand words and if you think there's one point five million people might have someone. a thousand displaced in an area like this then it is very disturbing because you know there's a lot of people who have died but let's go break down to what amnesty international said and here's a quote from them and to see according to amnesty international the iraqi government and u.s. led coalition forces appear to have committed repeated violations of international humanitarian law which amounts to war crimes well you know what the coalition that they have a mouthpiece as well and they're going to say what they feel about this say here's a british army major general robert jones well according to him it strikes me as being written by people who have no understanding of the brutality of warfare this

is talking about the amnesty report but we should be absolutely clear who was deliberately killing civilians does that wasn't the tone that we heard from the west when they were talking about aleppo the brutality of war that it was something completely different if it was the russians and syrians doing it but now it's you know it's different it's the brutality of war that's the west has to endure so obviously again look at the pictures here to see how many of the cities destroyed virtually destroyed and you know it's just break it down that eight hundred year old mosque where al baghdadi who the russians ended up killing where he spoke and you know the little bit of friction around what exactly happened there was that isis that blew it up they denied it when you never hear about isis denying blowing up something but was it the u.s. led coalition was it iraqis it doesn't really matter the breakdown is according to amnesty international and like i say these numbers are numbers that will never really know they say about five thousand civilians died we know that about two thousand isis fighters died now five thousand civilians dead in a mess like that it seems like

a pretty low number some reports are saying that thousands were buried alive from the relentless bombing that was happening by the u.s. led coalition many war crimes committed by the iraqi soldiers sectarian violence is something that we've seen there over and over again in iraq so what we're hearing i mean. bottom line is the media wasn't there we don't know what really went down banned banned so why would somebody ban it if this was a good clean war that they're talking about that there's nothing really went down that there were no war crimes committed here we know that's probably far from the truth and it just seems that if our sides there that's excusable then and even with the defeat of isis then those over here that the u.s. has no plans of leaving iraq anytime soon so what can you tell us about that according to a top u.s. general that's in that fray there was a town said he he's basically saying that you know the u.s. has to stick around and that the iraqis want them to stick around for whatever may happen next now we've heard stories about isis two point zero building up someplace

in iraq or be it syria sort of are rejig of what we know as isis could happen and we saw all kind of basically factions of it turn and sizes but this iraqi army that everybody's patting on the back as they should be able to take care of business by themselves if this is true but again the states want to stay there and they're also there's a there is a good chance of victory and violence of other sorts there's a lot of his there's a lot of cities there we have the kurds who want their own territory will the u.s. be able to help manage that knowing that the kurds are buddies one day and next day they are the enemy it's going to be a very tricky balancing act and it most likely won't come down to an army stopping things from happening it will have to be a political solution and we know how that often goes in the middle east. and to new york where united nations security council members are calling for immediate action in yemen the country has long been plagued with disease conflict and political upheavals u.n. has blamed the cholera outbreak on perpetrators of the ongoing war against the impoverished country and its supporters archies czerny chavez is outside the u.n.

with more the condition in yemen continues to worsen with thousands either dead or injured and many more suffering from poverty and the u.n. security council met today to discuss the dire need of the suffering country cholera a risk of famine remain acute all but one of the twenty three governments across the country. and in the midst of this huge day millions of people in yemen are struggling to survive the conflict the poverty and the end of the tell the grind just to survive one day at a time. yemen has been devastated by the war between forces loyal to the government of president hadi and allied forces with the hooty rebel movement the conflict has paralyzed and continues to threaten the very existence of the country and its people. members of the council say that the current condition of yemen is a direct result of terrorism lack of resources funding and overall sanitation the

yemeni coalition for monitoring of human rights violations documented nine hundred and seventeen violations by who with these that have led to the death of one hundred eighty civilians the injury of two hundred five others they could not being of two hundred thirty six other people and thirty three forced this is nearly sixteen million people do not have access to adequate water sanitation and hygiene nearly two thousand yemenis have died of the cholera outbreak and more than three hundred twenty thousand suspected cholera cases have been reported out of all the country's districts step one. this has been described as the worst cholera outbreak in the world we are also learn by the constant threat of you know attacks on civilian infrastructure which limits and the strong is the access to humanitarian assistance which a population needs during the conference the yemen representative blamed who the militants and called on all of the states that have made pledges in the geneva

conference to quickly fulfill their commitments to the united nations until recently the situation in yemen was for the most part overlooked by other media outlets in march of two thousand and fifteen following the so-called arab spring in the region the situation in yemen deteriorated resulting in a saudi led bombing coalition intervening in the country in march of two thousand and fifteen. soon after the. and acted an economic blockade over the country which was already the poorest in the region these actions have contributed to the situation we see in yemen today reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . on tuesday u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson arrive think atar to begin talks on mending the diplomatic spat with broke out with four gulf states in june guitar is being attacked for allegedly funding terrorists and having a close relationship with iran but is that really all that led to the rift boom bust bianca she need joins me now in studio to discuss this further so bianca give us an update has any progress been made on rex tillerson strip so far we have not

seen many signs of progress so he arrived in qatar on tuesday where he signed a memorandum of understanding which was basically speaking out against terrorism financing but once that was announced the other goal states immediately shot it down and said we do not recognize this as a legitimate step forward so you know you can sign all the documents you want but this is nowhere near helping us mend this situation the crisis the stare very much still in full effect so that was tuesday and then today here i've been saudi arabia where he met with ministers so you know at this point the best way to look at it is that tillerson met with both sides and he heard both both sides of the story but there is there hasn't been any progress made in resolving the crisis so far it's still in the same state that it's been in since june fifth the beginning stages and so we know that saudi arabia is one of the countries boycotting qatar and it's the de facto leader of opec so if you think this has anything to do with the rift it

absolutely does i mean not opec itself but oil in general which is obviously a very big commodity and in the world prices have been around fifty dollars per barrel which is almost half of what it used to be before twenty fifteen it was trading at eighty and ninety dollars a barrel so that's hurt a lot of major oil producers around the world in particular saudi arabia which as you said is that the facto leader of opec. so saudi arabia and a lot of other countries in the middle east cannot afford any other hits to oil it cannot go below fifty dollars for them and that's kind of where qatar steps in because they have close ties with iran and so saudi arabia doesn't like that they have close ties because if iran you know expands their presence in the middle east it could lead to up people in certain parts of saudi arabia in particular the eastern province where there is a shiite minority so if iran somehow inspired them to fight back in some sort of way then that could really hurt a lot of the oil production which is in the eastern province so that's why this

boycott has become even more complicated specifically because of this situation of oil you know falling to record lows in the past few years wow and speaking of oil how does that also impact other conflicts going on well another perfect example would be yemen which has been experiencing a war since two thousand and fifteen which as we know is sort of what people are calling a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran because the saudi government is backing the government in yemen and iran is backing the rebels now there is a straight located right off of the coast of yemen that is a very popular trading route for ships carrying oil and other commodities as well but a lot of oil is flowing in and out of that strait but because of the way the war has progressed it's no longer safe for those ships to travel those routes so of course that impacts more than oil but that's a hotbed for oil production and shipping in that area so you know if the war continues at the current pace it is we could even see see even less trading

happening in that area which would have incredible economic impacts on top of of course the humanitarian issues of course great report thank you so much and. thank you so much. langar is growing over the british government's refusal to publish the full report into the funding of islamic extremism in the country as archies probably boyko explains the decision was announced by home secretary take a listen. i have decided against publishing the classified report produced in the review in full this is because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons a lot of politicians have been waiting a long time for this report the home office had been criticized for delaying it earlier on this year but now the fact that it's not going to be released at all has sparked a lot of anger from various opposition parties tim farron the outgoing leader of the liberal democrats he said that it utterly shameful that it's not going to be published he said that the government needs to be naming and shaming the states and

the institutions that fund terrorism in this country instead of supporting them he's obviously referring to speculation that saudi arabia and the u.k. has all the gulf allies could be named in that report the green party co-leader caroline lucas she said that the statement gives absolutely no clue as to which foreign countries are funding extremism here in the u.k. so you've got the government saying that the report publishing the report would be damaging to national security but as this angry response already demonstrates refusing to make it public has only increased speculation about what's contained within it it's pretty much as vague as it gets it doesn't list a single country it admits that for a small number of extremist organizations here in the u.k. overseas funding is a significant source of income however it says that for the vast majority of

extremist groups in the u.k. overseas funding isn't a significant source it also says that it's going to introduce more stringent checks on where overseas funding comes from for some of nonprofit organizations and things like charities and at the very end of this very short vague summary it says as part of our wider international engagement on countering extremism. and to extremism the government is going to raise the issues of concern supported by evidence with specific countries and that last line really contains the million dollar question who are this specific countries and why is the government to term and to keep them secret is. coming up on our t.v. and marriage debate is underway in california with a few surprise party is pushing back against raising the legal age to marry you don't want to miss that reports. there's

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former u.s. olympic doctor dr larry nascar has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after a long foresman found evidence on his personal computer nascar has been in the spotlight for the last year after gymnast have come out with testimonies alleging he sexually abused them for years although nasser has pleaded guilty to child pornography he's denied any involvement in sexually abusing gymnast here's our correspondent ashley banks with more. dr larry may sir struck a plea deal earlier this week after pleading guilty to federal child pornography charges because of this plea agreement nacer could face a lesson jail time than expected some of his accusers who state nacer sexually abused them while they were jim this first call to steal outrageous but now they tend to accept it since he will at least be spending some time behind bars attorney

john manley who has responded presenting more than one hundred of naysayers accusers says the federal government should have brought abuse charges before accepting a plea deal from the there there this plea deal he has agreed to a sentence of twenty two to twenty seven years however he pled guilty to three charges which each carry a twenty year sentence a judge will soon alternately decide his fate at this time he will not face federal criminal charges for sexual abuse so i spoke with attorney manley and i asked him to share his thoughts usa gymnastics didn't tell the shaken state for over a year that they had fired him after they admitted they knew he was a child molester and he molested dozens of little girls at michigan state where he still practice medicine and that certainly is reprehensible and they ought to be held accountable for our clients are going to go and testify that quarterback going to give him the max mean what he did is very serious it be serious in any event but

you know these children are the best america has to offer and he was given a tremendous privilege to be part of the olympic movement part of the olympic team and he took that privilege and that honor and used it to is own sexual pleasure and to to you know to savage these little girls and frankly he belongs in prison for as long as he lives. now there has been in the spotlight for a little over a year now he was serving as the usa gymnastics team doctor at michigan state university for two decades before he was fired twenty fifteen for what the organization called quote athlete concerns over allegations that he sexually abused jim that's the word meet public until last year when the indianapolis star published its investigation into the allegations federal agents and confiscated computer equipment from masers home and work office and cleaning hard drives he threw away in the trash which contained child pornography agents also found go pro video that allegedly shows nice or inappropriate lee touching children in

a pool sentencing is scheduled for november twenty seven twenty seventeen and washington ashley banks ards he tells marriage is permitted in many states across the u.s. even in california lawmakers in the golden state have renewed efforts to protect minors from courson by older spouses all a child needs to get married in california is one parent's consent and a court order which often results in forced marriages all the proposed ban seems like a no brainer lawmakers are facing opposition from some surprising places are too easy to sancho's joins me live from los angeles with the story so verjee the something we all want to know who is opposing the ban on child marriage and why. natasha shockingly several legislators are opposing this as well as other civil rights groups including the american civil liberties union also planned parenthood and the children's law center of california are opposing this now the american

civil liberties union says quote the ban unnecessarily and unduly intrudes on the fundamental right of marriage so lawmakers who were proposing a minimum age requirement of eighteen years old have now removed that language from the proposed bill and instead replaced it with other protections like requiring courts to interview all of the parties involved separately and also requiring family court services to create written reports that will outline any suspected abuse or known abuse as well as neglect or any type of coercion or threats that they may perceive from family members natasha so how successful what protection children do you think this will be. in california child protection services have been incredibly overwhelmed and they are underfunded so they don't always have the necessary resources to dedicate towards protecting children and even in cases where they have had the resources and dedicated time they have still failed to provide

adequate protections for example just last year an eleven year old boy was found dead in a closet on the floor here in los angeles he had weighed only thirty four pounds and his case was reported to family services about six different times and unfortunately the police reviewed it as well as other officials in the county and they determined that he was safe and of course he unfortunately did die so these will not necessarily protect children as they should and children are incredibly vulnerable which is why there are so many laws that require them to be eighteen because they can't make their own decisions and ironically in california minors under eighteen cannot legally consent to sex but it looks like under the current laws they are allowed to get married now we're not simply to. talking about the issue of minors marrying other minors the big concern here is the fact that there have been many documented cases where young girls are being coerced into marrying much much older men against their will as

a result of arranged marriages or even the result of being in some sort of a religious court cult so now the department of state says quote when someone is marrying against his or her will it is considered a forced marriage sometimes family members will threaten or use force to make someone consent to marriage we view forced marriage as a human rights abuse and in the case of minors a form of child abuse so this is a very bad loophole that fails to protect children and it's not just something that's happening in california in fact there are about twenty seven other states where children are allowed to marry there are no limits set on age there so that's what's going on over here natasha mind boggling bridgie to santos from los angeles thank you so much well the feature attraction at a hong kong tech conference was artificial intelligence were to life like robots discuss the future of mankind and as you might imagine the results were rather frightening joining us to discuss the age old question of robots and what could go

wrong is legal and media analyst lionel of lionel media so lionel first question robots what could possibly go wrong and i'm serious here because we know stephen hawking has warned of the potential disastrous consequences of robots so what say you. it's not the robot it's artificial intelligence you know von neumann in the fifty's first gave us this notion of singularity and then we get into transhumanism and the only thing that kept us back the only thing that prevented us from really losing our mind was that our technology was so going asimov talked about robots it was a lot of great you know side five but we really didn't have the brain power and the hardware but now things have changed let me give you this scenario. artificial intelligence it will all and humanity as we know it civilization mean that when artificial intelligence allows itself to replicate that's the first

thing that every species wants to do and think about artificial intelligence as a new species call it whatever you want to call a robot just for shorthand now when you have these things replicating and if you go back to two thousand and one open the pod dave bought bad bay doors hal sorry can't do that dave when robots tell you no i figured you out and when i give the artificial intelligence code algorithm the direction to let's say bomb something or build something. i don't know when the artificial intelligence takes over and they say we have a new way of doing this now what we have as humans ideally is this thing called morality we have executive centers we have this frontal cortex we're able to apply learning feeling compassion consequence all of the things which by the way the

psychopath doesn't have now. look at this and madjid this thing on its own and don't let that cute lipstick business do you so that's what the bit about about humans we say is in the q r two d two zero danger will robinson no but here's the thing natasha who is making sure that these considerations are being considered or built into the framework who don't even worrying about what could go wrong that is the golden question because i mean at the tech conference you know they had one of the robots acting a little sarcastic saying within three years robots will be smarter than people and i mean you brought up a really great point about our artificial intelligence being able to replicate because in fact they don't have the same moral compass as you and i have. there is no but but you see what you just used morals they don't know morals they know zeros

and ones are they my hope is in effect do you know that right now we have artificial intelligence bad news a blue rock c.n.n. but they're actually having new stories written by artificial intelligence algorithms and one of these days and i know you're not going to believe this certainly not on r g but mark my words you're going to see ai robots give the news and if you don't think people are going to watch that just to see that now when we look at factory workers we say wow what are you going to do that's automation has the buggy whip went away that's progress when you're in his home who voyeurs doctors and now let me just end with this add to all of the young folks get off this driverless car stuff because what we're doing is we're suspending any kind of an understanding that we are absolving we're abnegation we're giving away all of the control to this cute and nice c.

thing for getting the ad the adage as you so brilliantly brought up at first what could go wrong and everything and what do you think about modifications being and place i mean making a robot do artificial intelligence rather do one particular duty and nothing about that without giving it the entire algorithm or. right that's not artificial intelligence look who doesn't want this thing going around your home or apartment vacuuming all day that's not what we're talking about what i'm talking about something is a weapons system that says here we're going to go away now weapon system should you ever decide to open fire against country x. under these circumstances do it and if it says by the way i've just figured out how to get away and around you the first thing i want to do as a system is to replicate but also autonomy remember the way that we took wild

animals and controlled them wild by putting them in cages the first thing that an artificial intelligence race species whatever you want to call it is going to do is to put us in cages mark my words as always great information and legal and media analyst lionel lamb a media thank you so much thank you thank you for coming up on our team iceberg the size of delaware breaks off from antarctica that story coming up right after the break. what do you should. put themselves on a lot. to get a job. so when you're the first. person. to do it. what. do you. perceive.

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for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk in the break here. to get. a chunk of ice the size of delaware has broken away from antarctica producing one of the largest icebergs ever recorded as artie's very important i reports scientists say this development puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. there is no scientific consensus that global warming

caused an iceberg to break away from the antarctic peninsula but there's also no denying the landscape of the region has been fundamentally changed scientists say the one trillion ton iceberg cow the way from the larsen sea ice shelf sometime between july tenth and twelfth reducing the area by more than twelve percent a crack in larson sea stretching more than one hundred twenty miles had been developing over several years and researchers say the break has been expected for some time the reef cools the cool thing has been. circulating that you are seeing it was created by the studies the legislature said something's been sitting there waiting to happen time project mightest one of the research groups monitoring the rift since twenty fourteen says the iceberg may remain in one piece but is more likely to break into fragments this is a very knowledgeable one with knowledge is the largest of its because it's very

significant one of them which is the five thousand eight hundred square it's a woman size more than a trillion weights and as i'm sitting here when i was it's going to force the size of the country waters the iceberg which is reportedly likely to be named a sixty eight was already floating before it broke away and scientists say it's not expected to have an immediate impact on sea levels the larsen a and b. ice shelves which were situated further north on the antarctic peninsula collapsed in one thousand nine hundred five and two thousand and two respectively while some climate scientists believe the larsen seashells collapse is the result of global warming others dispute that thesis noting that icebergs have been breaking away for millions of years however both camps agree the breakup. of ice shelves in the

peninsula region may be a preview of what's to come as the world continues heating up from human activity however a problem in the world called just region is being presented as a solution for one of the world's hottest territories are firm in abu dhabi wants to tow icebergs from antarctica to the united arab emirates to solve the country's fresh water shortage in a promotional animation released by the firm a giant flat topped iceberg is towed into the persian gulf bearing penguins and polar bears according to reports an iceberg holding twenty billion gallons of fresh water could meet the needs of a million people for five years but hauling the massive chunk of ice across ten thousand kilometers according to experts could cost around seventy five thousand dollars per day and take up to one year according to reports the u.a. e. is ground water supplies are predicted to run dry within fifteen years which point

more icebergs may be floating in the antarctic peninsula marine a port naya r.t. . watchin the hawks is coming up next right here on our t.v. joining us for a quick preview is terry of interest i can tell it right on tonight's new watching the hawks we discover that there was nothing neutral about the fight over net neutrality and then my co-host extraordinary wallace breaks down the electronic frontier foundation his recent report on which tech companies put your privacy first and then finally we welcome all their investigative reporter michelle mcphee into the hawks and us to discuss her new book maximum harm those are not brothers of the f.b.i. and the road to the bombing she was uncovered some rather intriguing information that you really don't want to miss right thanks so much to thank you and that does it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america and check out our web site r t dot com slash america and of course you can follow me on twitter at natasha's sweet question mark.

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you were watching r t m r force during the war. no one used the term fake news back in two thousand and twelve but fake news was still around then and a new settlement in a lawsuit over a story by a.b.c. news kind of proves that it was the infamous pink slime story in two thousand and twelve a.b.c. news did a series of reports on a south dakota meat producer in which they refer to the company's big products as pink slime and actual term for a specific the fat of everyone went crazy over it because it's such a catchy term pink slime so the meat producers reputation was completely smeared they had to shutter three plants and lay off a bunch of people all because diane sawyer said pink slime on a.b.c.

news but it turns out some of soyuz facts were fake it was fake news in other words so the meat producers sued for billions of dollars that was back in september of two thousand and twelve way before people were using the term fake news the pink slime trial has been ongoing with lots of lawyers making lots of arguments a.b.c.'s lawyers have been presenting a million different arguments and trying to weasel out of their false reporting saying that when they said pink slime they weren't referring to a specific food additive they were just saying it as a description like an opinion this was actually one of their big arguments they plan to use to get out of paying the meat producer billions of dollars cut to now almost five long years later. just now jurors finally heard the deposition of diane sawyer and in it she said that pink slime was a true description and that she thought the producers who wrote her script were

using actual facts this goes against a.b.c.'s planned defense that they use the term more like an opinion instead of a fact and gush wouldn't you know it just like that a.b.c. has announced it reached a settlement with the meat producer for an undisclosed amount as in they caved in admitted they shilled fake news so that they wouldn't be found guilty in a court of law well they didn't actually admit it they had their news division issue a statement that was total legally is garbage the kind of statement that contains lots of words but doesn't actually say anybody the worst kind of language so a.b.c. refused to admit they peddled fake news and they probably never will admit it but the fact that they settled right after sawyer is damning deposition and then issued this incredibly lame legal ease kind of makes it look like they knew they were caught faking it back in two thousand and twelve either way settling out of court to keep their fake news hidden is pretty slimy indeed.

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who get. called the feeling hopeless need something. everyone in the world should experience to lead and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. look up the modern world come along for the. your launching and our team got special report. this bug me as one of. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not

be on the normalising. we don't need people that think like this on our planet. this is an incredibly tense situation. greetings and sell you terry. i am yes me i am what's called a xeni old hawk watchers i am i am part of that generation sandwiched between the cynicism and pessimism of gen x. and the optimism and self obsession of the millennial yes my fellow middle to late thirty somethings and i will officially go down in history as the very last generation to have an analog childhood yes we didn't have the internet and smartphones and i pads there was no streaming or netflix no amazon nor was.