coming up on our team america new sanctions bill recently passed targets russia iran and north korea we've got the update as american lawmakers and the kremlin weigh in. what kind of economic impact will these new sanctions have one industry is sure to hit is or oil we'll have more on that and the agents posing as policemen received over one million dollars worth of military gear from the pentagon these stories and more coming up right now. the evening it's wednesday july twenty sixth five pm in washington d.c.

i'm on your parm pill and you're watching r t america the house overwhelmingly passed a sanctions bill against russia iran and north korea on tuesday on the topic of russia lawmakers mostly based their case for saying friends on allegations the country interfered in last year's presidential election of course without citing evidence as for iran and north korea they're being sanctioned for their weapons programs artie's natasha's tweet has the latest reactions to the passage of the house bill a whopping four hundred eighteen members of the house voted to pass a sanctions bill only three republicans voted against it one of the main reasons for the sanctions against russia is for the so-called meddling in the u.s. elections this even after new evidence surfaced revealing the d.n.c. was proven to be an inside leak however all three countries that were still put into the same category i'm confident this bill including the north koreans showing bill will soon become war and let me show you that can grow she will engage in foreign affairs. wrongest when we all speak with one voice i urge my colleagues to

vote in favor of the bill and join us in sending a clear message to vladimir putin to kim june into the radical regime in tehran that efforts to threaten the united states and to destabilize our allies will be met with a united american response dimitry peskov a spokesman for president putin reacted noting the bill was still a draft although he said any direct response from crewdson would take more study he said in the meantime it can be said that the news is quite sad with regard to russian u.s. relations and prospects for their development this is sanctions both comes after jerry kirshner went on record clarifying yet again that there's been no collusion with russia let me be very clear i did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so i had no improper contacts

i have not relied on russian funds for my business is now the fifth president from any predicament he's gone on record saying that he supports tough sanctions on north korea and iran but has wanted to better relations with russia even before coming into office it was just a month ago he and president putin met for some two hours at the g. twenty summit making some wonder if relations between the two countries would improve but now before president trying to pass to decide on whether or not to sign it into law the bill now moves to the senate it's unclear when the chamber will take it up in washington to talk to sweet r.t. . the senate judiciary committee convened today to talk about the foreign agents registration act and whether the seven year old legislation should be reviewed in light of the alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election there was a lot of confusion in between exchanges with lawmakers since some of them didn't even understand whether the law should be applied to other entities for example a pac or fusion g.p.s.

the company behind the now infamous trump dot ca but our team america was also mentioned at the hearing and panelists seem to be caught off guard. are the america was explicitly set up to avoid the foreign agents registration act because it's registered as a nonprofit instead of a government affiliate can one of you mr hickey mr priest can you elaborate on why our t. is not currently registered under pharaoh. senator i probably shouldn't comment on any particular individuals or entities but it strikes me that when congress passed fair or amended it recently i may be in the sixty's this is when the change for the forty's it deliberately carved out u.s. own media organizations was very precise about that so what that tells me as a prosecutor is that that intended to capture potentially others. for some insight i spoke earlier with dan kovach he teaches international human rights at

the university of pittsburgh and is the author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and deep state have conspired to vilify. he pointed in fact to this study by the veterans intelligence professionals for sanity a group of former intelligence officials including bill binney who's very well respected they did their own independent analysis of the alleged computer hacking in fact as you indicated concluded that the evidence showed that the evidence from the d.n.c. computer had been leaked and not half to meaning that some insider copied it the information maybe on a. floppy disk or whatnot and that it was not hacked in fact they said the evidence shows that the information was taken too quickly to have been a remote hack as has been claimed and that in fact the information was

copied and. in the eastern part of the united states which again indicates that russia was not involved so i think there is no evidence there hasn't been any evidence. this seems more targeted. gas and oil markets and let it getting that it is let's get into that what do you see as the real motivation for these sanctions some of course say follow the money obviously that bell targets russia's natural gas production among other things how that tied to you know the hacking of the election might require some explanation why is that. yeah well so the president russia actually provides most of the natural gas for europe and what this bill would do amongst other things is sanction third. could you know companies

from third countries including european countries that do business with natural gas companies in russia so what this would mean is the intended effect would be that europe would stop depending on russia for natural gas instead by natural gas from the united states so the upshot is that one it would be very damaging to russia's economy but it would also be very coercive on europe and he is reacting very upset . towards these sanctions because in the end it's also aimed at them exactly i wanted to actually quote what the you commission president john clyde juncker said this morning regarding sanctions while quote the e.u. is fully committed to the russia saying sions regime the u.s. bill could have unintended unilateral effects they impact the e.u.

energy security interest this is dan if american allies are not even in fully support her fully support this latest action. i don't see it is sustainable and frankly i see it is dangerous i mean why the u.s. is going out of its way to make enemies out of friends and. including russia frankly i would count on that list is just amazing to me and i would counter iran of that list you know if i can mention iran you know i was just there a few weeks ago and you know even donald trump admitted despite the fact that he didn't want to that iran is complying with the nuclear deal and yet now we want to sanction them moreover iran is fighting the same terrorists that the us claims to be in the middle east. and somehow we claim that they were a threat to us i just don't see any validity for these types of sanctions and i think they're going to come back to us in

a very bad way right this gives them really highlights the question what's driving the u.s. because if it's about security you think our allies would be on our side here but since you brought up the issue of sanctions against iran and also russia can you just talk about being in iran what do you think is actually do what is the effect of sanctions we make it talk about sometimes like it's very pinpoint targeting the leaves but is that the case no in fact it does affect people. every day people for example they have a limited access to medicines because of these sanctions by the way those are even supposed to be not targeted but in the end they even have an impact on their ability to get medicine in and their ability to get food and of course their ability to get other goods like cars and that sort of thing you know i can't even as a tourist use credit cards in iran or a.t.m.

cards which makes it very difficult to travel there is a tourist which again is an intended effect of these types of sanctions so really it isolates country and sanctions particularly ones they aimed at benefiting one country share of the market over another are very hostile act and typically find of more escalation to come do you see hopes for deescalation in the future. unfortunately i don't i mean i fear in another experts have said that they see these sanctions if the sanctions are imposed is making it nearly impossible to have . normalized relationship with russia in particular and i see that is a great shame and this is a great loss for the united states dan cove olic international human rights professor at the university of pittsburgh author of the plot to scapegoat russia always informative insight thanks a lot thank you on agents posing as policemen have received military gear worth one

point two million dollars from the pentagon the undercover operation by the u.s. government accountability office was to test weaknesses and care program giveaway and as jack and google reports it's not the first time u.s. military equipment has gone astray. but to come is the home of america's department of defense the body that has a budget of over five hundred billion dollars a year and is tasked with protecting the national security of the united states and yet they were duped by a completely phony outfit into selling one point two million dollars of weapons the government accountability office whose job it is to audit other federal agencies set up an undercover operation to determine whether the d.o.d. would sell military grade weapons to an unauthorized buyer and they did the g.a.o. created a fake law enforcement agency put up a bogus website use an address that led to an empty parking lot and put in an order for some potentially deadly kit less than a week later the sham agency was the proud owner of one point two million dollars

worth of night vision goggles simulated m. sixteen a two rifles and pipe bomb equipment they never d. and you verification like these it only cation and most of it was by email it was like getting stuff of eve and that's one of the most recent example of the pentagon's faulty bureaucracy earlier this year it was revealed that the u.s. army failed to properly track over a billion dollars worth of weapons and equipment and iraq and kuwait lax controls and record keeping such as this has reportedly resulted in u.s. manufactured arms and then up in the hands of terrorist groups such as i sold this means the u.s. is shipping out weapons without being sure where they end up and just this week the pentagon was criticized for wasting as much as twenty eight million dollars by selecting forest camouflage pattern uniforms for afghan national army soldiers for a sprint in afghanistan only two point one percent of the country is covered by forest the u.s.

defense secretary slammed the pentagon for the waste of taxpayer dollars and called for reform rather than minimize this report or excuse wasteful decisions i expect department of defense organizations to use this area as a consulate to bring to light wasteful practices and take aggressive steps to end waste which is all well. well and good but this is not a new problem two years ago were port service that the pentagon buried an internal study that exposed one hundred twenty five billion dollars worth of administrative waste that was allegedly hidden amid fears that congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget and maybe that's exactly what should happen perhaps if the department wasn't blindly awarded hundreds of billions of dollars every year it wouldn't be quite so comfortable throwing it into the wind r.t. washington d.c. . and director of the defense capabilities and management team said of this operation quote they the pentagon and never did any very vacation like visit our location and most of it was by e-mail it was like getting stuff off e-bay for more

let's turn to grow while she serves as senior counsel at the constitution project the theory it's easy as easy as e.-bay according to the g.a.o. to pull off this audit what kind of military equipment are we talking about here so i should backtrack in the last year or so the obama administration tried to implement some reforms to the military equipment acquisition program and so as a result of that there were supposed to have been some more oversight and control it appears that the g.a.o. was able to obtain over one hundred items on the quote unquote controlled list for which there was supposed to be additional oversight and application process so what it looks like to us is that those reforms under the obama administration were not actually implemented correctly and that's a really big concern to us because that sort of equipment on the control list

should have been. some there should have been greater control and oversight over such equipment we're talking about equipment including bombing materials yes so some of the equipment that they received included night vision goggles simulated rifles infrared illuminator and according to the g.a.o. some of the comment that they could receive could have been made deadly using publicly accessible materials can you give us some context on the program audited by the g.a.o. known as the ten thirty three program what is it yes so we have a constitution project where a legal and policy advocacy organization based here in d.c. we have a committee on policing reforms that comprised of former law enforcement former military and expert. it's on this sort of thing they came out with a report last year on the constitutional implications of the use of military equipment and we examined federal programs i should say the department of defense the ten thirty three program is one of the largest and most well known programs

that allows state and local law enforcement agencies to acquire access to military equipment from the department of defense but there are actually a number of other federal agencies that operate similar similar programs so the g.a.o. actually just studied the department of defense's ten thirty three program and these sorts of programs came out of the one nine hundred eighty s. on the war on drugs where we saw the white house and congress implemented a number of directives and policy changes that allowed for this sort of excess military equipment to be obtained by state and local law enforcement agencies. now over the years we have seen a lot of state and local law enforcement agencies become increasingly militarized we saw it on the streets of ferguson i think that's when we saw a lot of national attention to this issue coming out of were president obama's reforms and. and now what we are seeing is that those reforms actually weren't implemented correctly and what we are hearing from the current administration is

that he president trump wants to actually roll back those minimal reforms that were supposedly implemented under president obama and so we as advocates are deeply concerned that even those minimal reforms what we're what we should be doing is examining those reforms and why they weren't implemented correctly and instead what we're hearing come out of this administration and some members of congress is that they'd like to completely roll back any sort of minimal reforms that were made during the uprising ferguson i remember a lot of people passing around photos comparing riot cops in the one nine hundred sixty s. to the kinds of you know almost like soldiers out on the streets with compared with today and it seems like this program is what you're saying is largely responsible for it could it be reformed what kind. reforms that would be required or is it constitutional in the first place do we need police with military equipment that's a really great point i mean that's one of the things that we're deeply concerned about that the use of military equipment is producing essentially soldiers on the

streets we are you know in the last couple years there's been a lot of talk about community policing and trying to look at policing in a way that improves police community relations when you have the acquisition of military equipment by law enforcement what they're seeing is a community as enemy combatants rather than communities that they should serve and protect and so of course we are deeply concerned about any sort of program that allows any military equipment to be out there on the streets you hear law enforcement making this argument that they should be allowed to use military equipment and narrow sets of circumstances such as active shooter situations hostage negotiations or even. rescues where they need you know military equipment that would allow them to make rescues on mountains or are difficult terrain. and those are the arguments that you constantly hear coming out of law enforcement agencies however what we're seeing of you alluded to is.

protests in ferguson and military tanks being rolled out there and one of the things that our report is really concerned with are the implications to fundamental constitutional rights there is this deep chilling impact that it could have on folks first amendment rights you know you know protesters who are worried about being chair gassed or tanks in the streets and that really does have a chilling it impact on them so yes there is definitely the concern that these military equipment shouldn't be out there in the first place and i think the reforms that were implemented in the last administration were a step forward maybe not all the way. but certainly something we don't want to see rolled back who really fascinating report if not disturbing model grow all senior counsel at the constitution project we really appreciate your time this afternoon. a former marine was killed in syria while fighting alongside the y p g a kurdish militia group this comes after twenty five year old david taylor secretly traveled

to syria to fight the self-proclaimed islamic state tailor is a former resident of florida and reportedly studied philosophy both search before serving four years in the u.s. army my real name is david taylor. so for her arms room on the floor of the united states of america i join the wife to do to fight isis and do whatever i can to help the revolution here taylor is a third of american killed this month while fighting with the u.s. backed by p.g. in early july two that the twenty nine year old nicholas allen warren and twenty eight year old robert groden were also killed while fighting alongside the u.s. backed kurdish militia units grow it was a u.s. army that and former occupy wall street activist. a former house i t. staff or enron was arrested in washington's dulles airport on monday and juan is charged with bank fraud and pleaded not guilty but he was also accused of different

violations stealing equipment of democratic members of congress and that's while having direct access to files and e-mails of dozens of lawmakers are elects here she has the details on monday a former house staffer iran a one was arrested at dulles airport trying to leave washington d.c. for pakistan charged with bank fraud according to the f.b.i. document a one along with his wife defrauded the house credit union of almost three hundred thousand dollars do i quote obtain money by means of false pretenses and of quote it is believed that he has already wired all the money to buy interest on which eventually became the reason for his arrest and also that he claimed the money for funeral arrangements but who is a one not sure average specialist working for the house he started his career at florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz's office back in two thousand and five and since then has managed to get at least four of his own family members to work on the hill and just recently in run a one was part of

a criminal investigation after five current and former house staffers were accused of stealing equipment from members offices without their knowledge and thus committing serious but generally illegal violations again you're on a one was not just another guy on the hill in twelve years he had worked for twenty five house democrats including a high representative marsha a new york democrat gregory meeks and those two were among the list of lawmakers who cut ties with the one after his name surfaced in the equipment after allegations the only one who did not and kept him ron on the payroll was debbie wasserman schultz the former chair of the d.n.c. she kept him employed despite a one being stripped of access to house networks for months speaking of which before the theft scandal one enjoyed huge access. emails and files of dozens of congress members including password to the i pad of wasserman schultz which she had been using for business while serving as chair of the d.n.c.

one was also mentioned in one of the d.n.c. cables leaked by the week you leaks which as you can imagine has already generated a flurry of theories about a one but eventually being the leaker all of those e-mails especially when the fire over those theories was fueled by this emerged exchange between wasserman schultz and the police chief with the former demanding that the ag staffers confiscated equipment to be returned to her my understanding the capitol police is not able to confiscate members equipment when the member is not under investigation it is very pleasant and it's supposed to be returned. but if you do there's genuine circumstances in this case and i think. your. counsel. the sort of personal view that in fact is the case with the permission of the university of new jersey but i'm told that accomplished what. i think you're violating the rules when you conduct your business. interests there that there will

be consequences the one story at this point certainly has more questions than answers the man himself pleaded not guilty on tuesday we also reached out to debbie wasserman schultz office for comment but there's been no response as of yet alexy russia r.t. reporting from washington d.c. . so i also say is about ten times the size of silk road just to give you an example it also had a back up site that users were able to go to. in case one out of

a was first. shut down is made by authorities earlier in july now i spoke to a lot of people here at walk out to get their take on what was happening in the dark web space and also just sort of thoughts on alphabet a and they all had sort of the same sentiment on it on the one hand they recognize that it's a significant victory for law enforcement just considering the source of this particular market i mean there were tens of thousands of vendors on alpha they and they are had hundreds of thousands of customers so that was a big deal but at the same time they also stress very much to me that the northwest is announcing and there's so much of the dark web that has not been explored which means that they only expect more out the days and more silk road to eventually pop up over time and there's not much we can do about it on that but you know that being said they recognize that the dark web has

a negative science but also suggests that there is a positive side to the dark web it's just overshadowed by the negative side so take a look at what they had to say about that. much of what's known about the dark web is negative to many it's simply a digital version of the underground economy that's attracts nearly all is a human interaction which is its biggest selling were there criminal underground tombs to conduct most much of their behavior from a cyber perspective because software like tor provides complete anonymity criminal groups have thrived in the hidden part of the internet whether it's illegal drugs weapons money laundering and so on the dark with is chock full. market products and services even global law enforcement initiatives aren't expected to deter the high demand we see online it was just an irrational so gross so of course there's going to be many others to come off it is like they're just making huge amounts of money

out of this and unfortunately there is obviously a really high demand for a deal with that goods trade and they can't really be stopped so the downside of the dark web has made itself loud and clear but overshadowed in those negative implications for the other reasons people use it most people think about a legal activity on a dark web come to mind but a lot of security experts here a black hat say it has advantages that are seen to open society without the ability to search the internet anonymously fear over privacy rights and mass surveillance only gets worse whenever there is oversight folks will try to do their business and do it out of the public eye and so the dark web is a place where people go to do that so while we acknowledge the bad we should also consider the good and remember the tradeoffs between privacy and security reporting in las vegas with the sheeny party. let's talk more about the positives of the dark well can you give us any examples of those. yeah so

when we talk about the positive side of the dark web we're basically talking simply about privacy for example if you live in a country where there are a lot of or frictions or regulations of the internet that allows people in those countries to search the web without fear of you know interjection from those authorities or government figures and then in a more general sense the dark web allows consumers to search in peace for whatever it is are looking to buy even if it's not something that's bad i mean if you were to use amazon which is what that part of what they call the surface web you know if you were looking to purchase a television you're all the sudden bombarded with ads from companies that are trying to sell you t.v.'s or other similar products the second you type that into amazon or even disapproval but if you use the dark web it's totally anonymous and you can you know not feel like you're being watched from other companies that you know can get ahold of your data so easily so people are feeling frustrated with the

idea of mass surveillance and the dark web provides an outlet to get away from that and that's why we're seeing the dark web grow at a much faster rate than any other part of the internet. from the last conference thanks a lot you can catch bianca's reports all week from the twenty seven thousand black hat conference in las vegas right here on our team or. self driving cars are expected to hit the market within the next four years as of now a lot needs to happen to make that a reality california the mecca for solve driving vehicles and their development is now taking the leap and changing roads and regulations to accommodate the future of these cars let's talk to our g.'s santos who's in california to give us a little update how many companies. are testing autonomy's vehicles in california. anya right now about thirty six different companies have permits to test these

vehicles and currently at least two hundred different autonomy vehicles are being tested on california's public roads and this is not surprising because california has been paving the way for about twenty years testing different types of autonomy vehicles but in order to get them out on the market and make sure that things are safe a lot still needs to be done in terms of regulations infrastructure and also for the rules right now testing in california and throughout the nation does require a driver to be president so in california the department of motor vehicles has proposed new rules that would allow further testing without a driver being president i mean present and also california is also starting to modify its roads to accommodate autonomy vehicles in fact they just passed s.b. one which is a transportation revenue package that will allocate funds toward maintaining intelligent transportation systems which include things like cameras signs signals meters and charging stations and they would also build infrastructure for vehicle

communications systems that would be able to talk to things like traffic signals and other things like that but we still do need some federal rules as well here on your what about that has the federal government said any regulations yet for autonomous vehicles is this even on their radar. it is but just as of lately now just last week a u.s. house panel did approve a proposal that would allow automakers to deploy up to one hundred thousand self driving cars without meeting existing auto safety standards now this rule is meant to make it so that automakers can build prototypes without backup manual controls which is something that's required right now but critics worry that removing that regulation is going to have a negative impact on public safety the proposal also prohibits states from regulating mechanical software and safety systems for autonomy to vehicles which critics say takes away the state's rights to regulate in favor of federal rights

but supporters say that this is going to help streamline regulations and nationwide now automakers are still going to be required to submit safety assessed and assessments to the federal government and to meet certain safety criteria while states can't impose performance rules they can set rules on registration licensing liability insurance and safety inspections as well lawmakers say they are now open to updating these proposed rules but they do plan to have a full house vote in september when the summer recess is over and if these rules do pass it will become the first legislation on the federal level in regards to these autonomy's vehicles on it all right well as they hit the road i'm sure we're going to have you and testing out those cars for us so. prepare for that from los angeles thanks a lot for that report. coming up on r t the battle over banning a mexican american studies program in arizona classrooms is coming to a close at that story right after this short break. there's

a real irony going. to play a big responsible voice in the people and that's always well that's what. it always seems. to be a little ordinary you know wholesale surveillance you feel you have already and while those who need to do so since then trump has used the social media site while it always on the story goes it's garbage it's real. thing. and what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express it i'm sure. it was something i wanted. to do like to be close to see what the four three of the four can be good. i'm interested always in the audience at the age. where should.

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welcome back to our team america a years long battle over banning an ethnic studies program in arizona classrooms is coming to a close the state claims the mexican american studies program taught two songs public schools lead to resent led students to resent white people and created legislation to outlaw any such program the classes were polled and in two thousand and twelve and the state banned seven books from the curriculum in federal court the teachers argued that law was created with racist intent are to travel to tucson to hear both sides of this clash over history. the old problem has been pulled apart for years over a debate about what is racist the mexican american studies classes taught in tucson

unified school district or the law that bans those courses in the early two thousand and ten so. in tucson arizona the fight has raged on for seven years from students taking over school board meetings to holding walkouts in protest in twenty twelve the school district voted to strike the mexican american studies or mosque program but the battle continued in federal court this summer a judge is deciding whether the law banning the mosque program was crafted by arizona republicans with discriminatory intent is stems from a lawsuit first brought by former mosque judeans and teachers like curtis a costar who helped develop the program they were saying singularly talking about our program and how to use language to eliminate it they weren't talking about ethnic studies in general they were talking about our program i thought mexican american studies and itself was essentially a racist formula and not helpful to these kids in two thousand and ten then state sen john hooping ball and then state school superintendent tom horne helped push

house bill twenty two eighty one through the legislature the bill banned public schools in the state from offering classes that either promote overthrowing the government promote resentment toward a race or class of people are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individuals. in his last day a superintendent horne announced that tucson unified school district or two u.s.c. was violating this new law with its most program but it would be up to the incoming superintendent hoop and paul to carry out any consequences under who've been told the state department of education commissioned an audit in two thousand and eleven that audit did not find any evidence that most violated the new law and in fact recommended the program be expanded with a modified curriculum the state dismissed the findings on people are being observed they don't read only gauging bad behavior. everything disappeared from the camera

or not it turned out to be a very limited usefulness to us because of moss to us you was at risk of losing ten percent to state funding or about fourteen million dollars crumbling under the pressure the school board voted to eliminate the courses in two thousand and twelve a decision that outraged former students i was really upset because when they took that curriculum away and were making those types of claims off claims like we are taught to overthrow the government i wasn't taught to overthrow the government when a program is successful for and ships of color are succeeding in moving forward in their success. there's something wrong there sorry something wrong and that's the sister is repeating itself a study by university of arizona educators found that hispanic students who took classes from the controversial mosque program both graduated high school and passed state exams at higher rates than those who did not nearly two thirds of two u.s.

d's entire student population is hispanic applicable magnet high school where yolanda sotelo taught she connell literature the demographic is even bigger but when you're teaching in a school where the with a population of mexican americans do this ninety percent that that means a lot despite the program seeming success critics on both side. ides of the aisle argued these teachers were indoctrinating not educating a claim the mosque teachers vehemently deny when these girls were presented with kids they were presented as the only truth there was no balance in the classroom as you can teach it as literature but you can't proselytize and that's where that's the problem that they got into they weren't teaching it and later they were teaching it to radicalise foods as a result of a lawsuit tucson administrators banned seven chicano history and literature books from being taught in the classroom they boxed them up and physically removed them

from class one of the books is a message to onslow on and it were doleful corkey gonzales famous poem you also want keene written one hundred sixty seven it was taught by these teachers to the students a passage read i have made the anglo rich yet equality is but over. the treaty of resolve though has been broken and is but another treacherous problem my land us lost and stolen my culture has been raped a link in the line at the welfare door and fill the jails with crime these men are wired this society after so i don't see anything like the revolution and you know for folks that may find that shocking the first question is before you you over react to the language is to understand try to understand the intent this is what was happening during that time for this is what these authors these writers

were going through but lawmakers believed some teachers were taking those past experiences and politicizing students especially through the social justice courses it just was too much of ok we hate the white man we hate the caucasian that's where we're victims it's it's our fault i'm going like this is toxic while others believe. what's talk sick or the blunt comments who can bowl anonymously posted at the height of this controversy comments like this is america speak english and equals k.k.k. in a different color he tearfully apologized for those comments in two thousand and fourteen but in court showed less remorse what are your thoughts now on the comments that you made under your aliases. they were blown i'm going back over and i just knew them as being the truth in a two week bench trial that ended friday the plaintiffs used these online comments

and more to try to prove the state had racist intent in an acting in and forcing the law while the defense sought to prove there were a legitimate concerns about biased and controversial material being taught to students after a seven year battle it all comes down to this moment will a federal judge boil them off program was shut down with discriminatory intent or will the law that took it down stand a decision could come at any moment reporting from tucson arizona i'm familiar with r e o r t. now is the latest on that as whale of the trump administration announced today renewed sanctions against thirteen current and former leaders of the venezuelan government the u.s. will freeze assets and ban travel of individuals tied to toral political economic and security sectors among those sanctions are officials directly involved in the constituent assembly including to the sailors santa president of venezuela's national electoral council at the head of the presidential commission for the

constituent assembly tarik williams saab venezuela's ombudsman and president of the republican moral council nestor of all minister of interior justice and peace fleming vice minister for europe at the ministry of foreign affairs the remaining individuals serve in high ranking positions of the venezuelan bolivian army national guard. and police as well as others tied to the oil and foreign commerce sector at the latest round rather as the latest round of sanctions was announced the venezuelan opposition launched this wednesday a forty eight hour national strike to oppose the government's plan to hold a rewriting of the constitution a function of venezuela's democracy written in the constitution after calling the strike opposition's set up barricades and shut off highways preventing people from going to work even if they wanted to but not all agree with this tactic but over the only ways to work if you don't work what you do is go backwards and make things

worse then it cannot be possible that two or three people have a close two or three people i think what we have to do is respect everyone's rights . the u.s. has worn the government to call off the july thirtieth constitution in the assembly or otherwise as per senior administration officials quote the u.s. will be prepared to apply strong and swift economic sanctions as all options remain on the table this comes as cia director mike pompei all made statements last thursday saying the agency is working with governments in the region to push for regime change and a q. and a session at the aspen institute pompei has said quote so i want to be careful of what i say but suffice to say we are very hopeful that there can be a transition in venezuela and we've the cia is doing everything in doing its best to understand the dynamic there so that we can communicate to our state department and to others president maduro of venezuela blasted pompei owing to mend

a response from colombia and mexico will be following the latest ahead of this sunday's vote and bring you that. the japanese prefecture of okinawa has filed a lawsuit to halt the relocation of the a us military base okinawa says tokyo is overstepping its reach of acting illegally it cooperated with the u.s. military to move the base from wards right now by steve rabs and professor emeritus of east asian studies at brown university professor rabs and he can start by explaining for us the legal case ok now is making here what the government has done to speak gun to crush rocks with in a designated fishies arm does fishings on the prefectural government claims

is within their jurisdiction and the national government has no authority to be encroaching these rocks and infringing on this his own and they need professional government has. sought relief so the national government will stop their intrusion into this no this is part of the construction of the. airbase for the greens in the city of the noko off shore. and can you tell viewers why the people of okinawa are enthusiastic about this base to begin with why it's being relocated well. the thought is this the japanese government claim that it's being relocated so that they can close another air base in. the middle of a city in okinawa but the truth is that. they're not likely to follow through with that and the okinawans having to be trade in the past realized that so rather than

have yet another military base imposed on them they are going to try to stop the construction of this one and they're just not enthusiastic about it they are strongly opposed to it they have filed lawsuits they have elected representatives to their local government that oppose the construction and they have mounted demonstrations on the site several times a week to try to stop the the construction of the base and that's because of their experience already with living with an american military base correct why is that and i think. this is this is the problem that three quarters of the american military presence in japan is jammed into this small island prefecture with only zero point two percent of the nation's land area and less than one percent of its population and this is been going on since the one nine hundred fifty s. . when the united states held ok no as a basically

a colony as a under military occupation this was hard enough to accept but once it had reverted to japanese sovereignty in one hundred seventy two the okinawans were breached hurried again by the japanese government promising that the level of american military presence would be reduced to levels on the mainland promising that there would never be nuclear weapons there and they're breaking their promises by refusing to reduce significantly the military presence and by signing a secret agreement that would allow the united states to bring back the nuclear weapons in the future why does the united states have such a massive presence in okinawa historically and why is the perfect are still so strategic today. well the truth is that it's not and that. they have eighty thousand marines in okinawa and this is far far more than necessary these marines they do routine training. they they have very little to do with defending japan or with so this so to speak. deterring north korea already turning china most of

them could be stationed elsewhere in the marine corps resist this because the japanese government pays for their stationing of the troops and in okinawa they pay for the facilities they pay for the electricity for the civilian employees for the air conditioning for the the guards so. it's not that these these troops could be moved elsewhere is that the the u.s. military is resisting this despite the very real the very real problems that they cause ruhi homes locally ok now is resisting at that from what you've just described it seems like tokyo has a completely different agenda why is there such a massive political divide between the government in tokyo and okinawa that's a good question and the problem is that the government in tokyo goes along with pretty much anything and i say says and they will continue to force okinawa to bear

this burden and another problem is that no one annoy other prefecture in japan wants to shoulder it so you know being a place with very little political clout in the small population continues to get the worst end of the deal and this is part of the building of the new base not only poses dangers and and inconveniences for that for the local people but it's not destroying a very very precious environment of coral and good to. see biology how likely do you think it is the u.s. military won't get it wants won't get what it wants here i mean this case is their first attempt to legally block this move in the moving of the base but do you think it will be successful. it's not the first attempt and previous attempts have not been successful so this is just the latest attempt but the legal challenges in combination with the demonstrations at the base in combination with political

political lections that always seem to favor the other candidates who oppose their bases have managed to delay construction of the space for over twenty years i mean this idea was proposed first in one thousand nine hundred six that was the that was the year after a twelve year old girl was raped by three american servicemen in okinawa and this is kind of a reaction to that but of course it's totally insufficient totally unacceptable but again they've managed to put that to send this off now for twenty years so i wouldn't say at all that their prospects are that dim for continuing to resist that until hopefully both governments will give up steve robinson professor emeritus at east asian studies at brown university thanks thank you. google hopes to use u.s. law to cite a canadian supreme court decision which ordered the tech giant to remove and google search results for pirated products some analysts have expressed concern over the

canadian ruling and stand by google's argument that the judgment north of the border violates first and i'm right and united states artie's alex the hell of it is in toronto with the story. so let's put a little bit of context here back on june twenty eighth the supreme court of canada put order against google to take off web links for a company called data link technologies now data to link technologies was blamed by a british columbia court for basically piracy for labeling their products. and it was actually another company's product and selling these products as its own so intellectual property infringement if you want to put it that way now this cooper tax firm that was hurt by that basically wanted to see this happen the british columbia courts wanted to think see this happened and then the supreme court did it they told google you have to take this off of the all the web links off of your pro your web site worldwide well google says you know what that's not

the way things work they actually took off over three hundred links off the google dot ca site but that wasn't satisfactory for the supreme court of canada and now google's gone to california to fight this ruling in california what they're saying is that this violates their first amendment rights as well as other rights that they have as i'm an american company so when you look at that it's a section two thirty of the communications decency act which prevents online platforms from being held responsible for most user behavior and as you know as you can see this is user behavior this really has nothing to do with google any type of privacy is going on it's another company so what google is saying is that there bytes are rights are being violated and the supreme court of canada doesn't have jurisdiction. worldwide now some people will say you know or i should say some lawyers will say that this isn't necessarily true that companies have to play by the law that's in the country that they're doing business in but

a rights activist or i should say activist for free speech are saying that you know what this is a slippery slope and this could lead to just basically become free saying that you cannot do certain things on searches first fred just around the world out there that is way beyond the jurisdiction of one nation and free speech advocates are saying that this is just simply not right now british columbia is saying if that google feels that this is really i violation of their free speech rights they could come back to court in british columbia and i think that's exactly what google's trying to do by start saving a precedent or starting a precedent in california and getting the courts on their side at least in the united states back to you and that does it for now from on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america and check out our lives they are to dot com slash america you can also follow me on twitter and on your part tell question more.

larry you are watching our. first year in the war. not on time mainstream journalist katie couric is in the news right now because she's co-hosting a festival in new york so she's going around giving interviews to get people to go to her event and she just gave an interview to the new york daily news that i found pretty hypocritical in the interview current fed she believes that fake news is tearing the country apart of the sea she said. her friend sent her links to all this fake news and she just like cannot believe that people believe this crap she called it be effectually so current is just amazed and shocked about this new thing

called fake news and sees it as a grave danger to us all now kirk is no dummy or at least she shouldn't be she was a host on all three major networks and b c a.b.c. and c.b.s. she co-hosted the today show she anchored the c.b.s. evening news she's been at sixty minutes she had her own daytime talk show she's a new york times best selling author she's been working in mainstream news since one nine hundred seventy nine almost forty years so current should know as well as anyone just how nudes works which is why i find it all so hypocritical that she of all people would make such a naive statement about fake news is especially when you consider that she's now they think a twelve million dollars defamation lawsuit about fake news she made herself last year kirk made a film called under the gun in it she asked members of the virgin yes that is

them's defense league a question about background checks the activist group supports gun rights for citizens so kirk was asking them a kind of gotcha question in the film it cuts right from her asking the question to a shot of the activists just sitting silently for a whole nines that didn't. not saying anything so kirksville made it look like she asked a hard hitting question that left the activists mystified and without an answer and making them look stupid intentionally but that's not what happened what happened was occurring and the filmmakers edited the footage to make it look that way when the activists actually did have a response in other words kirk used tricky editing to fake the new and she knows. this she know is how little news work seriously they all do all the jake tapper's and katie curzon rachel maddow is out there they know how the news gets

made and they don't how it works how much it is made to convey the perspective you want to convey and they still sit there and pretend to be outraged by this new thing called big news to me he did a really stupid or it's their outrage itself that's fake either way right now they're all ended up looking like the real fakers. all the field we go. every the experience.

you get all the old. according to josh. the world come along for the raw data. i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents to tell the story about the ugly side of the. corporate media everything uses to talk about these. i'm not a pretty clear picture about how disturbing accounts for good conduct is because in my. these are stories that you no one else in my pepto you post to the american. question.

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