coming up on r t america the senate approves the latest round of sanctions against iran north korea and russia with an overwhelming vote of ninety eight said to. him just a day after sanctions are passed north korea launches yet another intercontinental ballistic missile reaching an altitude of almost two thousand miles. and the skinny bill fails to pass the senate with john mccain casting the decisive vote against it. that afternoon it's friday july twenty eighth five pm in washington d.c.

i'm a military man you're watching r t america we start today with sanctions russia's not ruling out additional countermeasures if it faces more pressure and restrictions from the united states that's according to the country's deputy foreign minister it follows moscow's decision to cut the number of u.s. diplomatic staff there in russia after the senate's approval of new anti russian sanctions bills artie's tate partridge has the details of the context of where this all started there actually began back in december when the u.s. expelled some russian diplomats and confiscated some diplomatic buildings basically some compounds and what's happened is that russia has effectively responded in kind it's saying that the same number of diplomatic stoical so technical stuff but the him that they have in america must be responded in kind with the americans across the whole of russia this is not just mosco so we're looking at four hundred fifty five people by the first of september well they've also said just that they want to stop the america. having access to certain warehouses and also what they call

a diplomatic compounds now that's not an embassy or anything like that it's effectively a leisure complex out in in the forests near the city well let's look at the breakdown of those four hundred fifty five people back in december the americans expelled thirty five russian diplomats but to even up the numbers to make sure they are exactly the same in the two countries the americans would have to take out over two hundred fifty of their own diplomats this is all come about i mean less than a day as we said over the fact that the the senate has voted on these new antibodies and you've actually sanctions and then you need a donald trump's signature wissam it so i could go ahead with president putin said that russia had been patient for long enough and he felt that it was about time that there would be a response and the response was a come pretty soon to the news according to the seasons are completely illegal because they go against international law and the rules of the world trade organization with being very patient and very rich and at some point we will have to respond because we can endlessly tolerate aggressive behavior towards you and

your actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even say exceptional cynicism and meanwhile there's been a response from the u.s. ambassador to russia john test who said that he was deeply disappointed about the new measures off the meeting with russia's deputy foreign minister said get up off but read closest this might not be the end of it if he doesn't see what he calls the end of russophobia mayhem on capitol hill we. were not ruling any steps so to say to bring those presumptions russophone to their sense of who are setting the tone on capitol hill today however russia is not rejecting the u.s. where possible we don't let our emotions run high and we'll continue to fight for interest and search for solutions. and the senate and nearly unanimous vote has slapped new sanctions on russia over alleged election interference by russian hackers the bill will also prevent president trump from anything existing.

sanctions on the russian federation the bill which also imposes sanctions on iran and north korea will now be sent to president trump in a veto proof fashion to discuss this we're now being joined by paul craig roberts he's a former assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury and chairman of the institute for political economy paul great to see you thanks for joining us today. in your new article v. new russian sanctions bill is washington's monument to its criminality can you explain why you wrote that quote congress would rather destroy the president of the united states and increase the risk of nuclear war than avoid conflict with russia by normalizing relations talk to me about that. there's two main reasons one it prevents the present from ever normalizing relations with russia and as we all know the tensions are very high. higher than they ever were doing the cold

war the other reason is it's true we need to do this is the economic pressures russia is designed to replace russian sales of natural gas to europe with emerging. so it harms the ruble harms the russian economy and further isolate russia from europe this is the. economic pressure the leads to war. and you also argue that these sanctions will alienate europe and especially germany where the pipeline is supposed to end up what does congress have to gain then by passing these sanctions is it strictly to increase their to force their dependency on american that gap. well that's part of it congress gains political contributions from the american in his energy

industry and it gains political contributions from the military security complex but those this bill is constructed to serve both interests of both extremely powerful interest groups and the military security complex whens by preventing the normalization of relations which is a threat to the budget and the power of the military security complex and the energy companies when by having a new market for their natural gas the liquefied natural gas and they're getting from the fracking operations that are doing so much environmental damage in the united states and so this benefits both groups and therefore congress or as you saw the votes i think are almost unanimous only two sentences out on hundred thirty guests and i think only three u.s.

representatives out of four or five hundred voted against it so you can see the power of these interest groups and they put their interest ahead of normalizing relations between nuclear powers when you have bad relations between a nuclear powers like russia united states that is the chance of something going wrong as explaining the hot. and today we saw that russia has now taken retaliatory measures by cutting the u.s. embassy staff there in the federation in your view how should russian leadership interpret these new sanctions to take the russian leadership now has to finally abandon its cherished illusion that it can reach commendation with washington as i have made clear for a long time now the only way russia can reach it some days washington is to

surrender and to accept american hegemony. if the russian government to ten years with this illusion that it can reach an accommodation i think you guilty of a very dangerous. so i think it should be a wake up call for russia that the united states congress is now made a principal goal of american foreign policy conflict with russia. well these these are just the beginning of measures taken by russia how do you see this playing out moving forward especially when we have president trump who is looking against the wishes apparently of congress looking to normalize these relations how do you foresee russia playing this out well the trouble no longer can normalize relations the bill for him is that. he has no real turn to sign

it because we took. it does it sign that the media will use that as proof that he is working in favor of russia and that would probably lead to a teacher. so what russia does i don't know depends. how much they wake up much. is illusion delusion actually reaching an accommodation. it's a serious situation for russia to have its united states committed to this conflict with russia and that is precisely where the united states is that is the precise facts of this deal and that is the tensions of one of the two main sponsors of the bill is to search for the conflict to raise tensions

with cruise this is essential to the power and budget of the mill to security complex certainly looks like the trajectory we're headed in thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us paul craig roberts former assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury and north korea has launched yet another ballistic missile test today that's according to officials from japan south korea and the pentagon in washington pentagon spokesman navy captain jeff davis also confirm the launch of the i.c.b.m. adding that the missile reportedly traveled a thousand kilometers before landing in the sea of japan japanese prime minister shinzo abbay says north korea appears to have fired into japan's exclusive economic zone called the launch quote a serious and real threat to the security of japan and said japan would cooperate closely with the u.s. south korea and other nations to further step up pressure on north korea. and

this just in breaking news out of the white house in a surprise tweet president donald trump is naming current homeland security head john kelly as his new chief of staff this is the latest shake up there in the trump administration former orenstein chairman wright's priebus out he is out it comes just days after a former white house communications director sean spicer was replaced by wall street or anthony scaramucci the animosity between scaramucci and previous was laid out for all to see after a new yorker article quoted scary movies claim that priebus is the source of many white house leaks. and after seven years in the making over night senator john mccain scuttled the g.o.p.'s chance at repealing obamacare with their so-called going to repeal it a shocking move the veteran legislator took to the floor after one am and submitted a defiant no vote that stunned his senate colleagues here to talk more about this

is my own colleague ed schultz lots to talk about how he had the time to talk about now it was a wild ride last night right what do you make of john mccain's surprise no vote well i think mccain has got a history with the president of the snob very good and there's no question that last night was a political opportunity for john mccain to give a thumb down on the senate floor and give the finger to the president politically and that's exactly what he did let's go back to the campaign trail when then candidate donald trump said this about john mccain supporter for president i raised a million dollars from so a lot of money i supported him he lost he let us down but you know he lost so i'd never liked him as much after that because i don't like you. but pray frank let me get away he has already he's a war hero war hero he's a war fire are for years he's a war hero presumes capture i like people that weren't captured ok i hate to say well that was

a cheap shot no i don't think that john mccain is ever forgotten that although i do believe that that was the reason why he voted no last night he had good reason not to vote no some senators are already back home in their states saying it's time to regroup john hoeven who's a republican from north dakota who voted for the skinny he voted for the skinny was back in north dakota today and he was saying it's just time to regroup well mitch mcconnell says you know it's time do you know move on i don't know what that means that's not leadership of this is a big problem the last thing the republicans should do is start thinking about forgetting about it just go back and work at it again even if it takes the rest of august. this is a defeat for the president and it was a defeat for the president at the hands of john mccain who could have voted to keep the process going that's part of the bullet points that are going to be out there for the republicans is that well i voted for to keep the process moving forward while this is a lot more than process this is a heavy lift and they couldn't do it i mean this is something that is that if one

thinks of our economy they're about to head off to their august recess that's about to begin here where do the republicans go from here then when they come back from summer break this problem and going anywhere at where all this leave them on health care well susan collins when she went home today she got a standing ovation in the airport when she was walking through because people appreciated the fact that she voted against as a republican voted against the skinny repeal which of course makes sure that twenty million americans aren't going to lose their health insurance and the american people are on to these numbers and the latest polling shows that no matter what. you want to say about obamacare it polls better and it's more favorable with the american people than what the republicans have offered in the south and in the in the senate and in the house so look this is a loss all the way across the board for the republicans the question is is the

election far enough away we're might not make a difference i'm not sure about that but you know they they have had seven years to work on this could this be then a signal for mitch mcconnell to step aside as leadership because he hasn't been able to rally. off a better deal well some members in the house are already talking about that mo brooks from alabama has mentioned the fact that maybe mcconnell should step aside some other house members are also saying dent is saying that from pennsylvania look they're vocal because they did their job they sent a bill over to the house and the house did their own or the senate did their own thing and they couldn't get it done so they couldn't get everybody on board. on repeal and repeal and wait and then on the skinny repeal none of it worked so is mcconnell's future in question it might be but it's going to take time for that to bubble up as a lot of changes going on even in the white house as well so heads are rolling because this didn't work out well you know the president's response as we saw on

twitter this morning he says let obamacare die that's a cheap out for the president he campaigned on the fact that on day one he was going to repeal obamacare he's naive to the legislative process is own party is made comments about how legislatively naive e is the president doesn't know how to get this done it's too much of a detail for him he's more of a headline guy he's more of a one hundred forty character guy this goes much deeper than one hundred forty characters and the president has just been in it this is his copout saying blaming everybody else and all this talk about how the white house was so deeply involved i don't buy that for a moment mike pence takes a political hit here he couldn't get it across the goal line and neither could the president and pence is a staunch conservative and so he just could not bring the mccains of the world the collins and rakowski as to the table to support this president i think that shows his political flaws right there oh i think we have to wait and see what happens

come september because this problem ain't no one anywhere no it's not all right thanks for that ad schulte had of our scuse me host of the news that felt right here on r t america thank you ed you get. highly respected american academic is explaining to r.t. why he wrongly stated the nationality of a ukrainian businessman in an attempt to link him to the so-called russia gate r t correspondent on your part of hell breaks down the errors and finds it's not only the egregious tweet of its kind attempts to make russia gate stick have led to some bizarre moments like when one member of congress attempted to brand the president trump as part of a kremlin clan that's right clan with a k. or the numerous corrections and retractions issued in papers like the washington post and new york times for running hyperbolic stories aimed at hyping up russia gate however constitutional law professor lawrence tribe of the prestigious harvard

law seems hesitant to publicly correct his latest error after this weekend doozy asked if we tweeted d.o.j. is pursuing dimitri fur tosh russian mobster linked to wait for it man a ford but it named a lawyer for a russian bank to head crim did meaning criminal division the tweet was circulated over four thousand times there's just one problem for is ukrainian not russian blowing just a teensy hole into the conspiracy r t contacted professor tribe pointing out the misinformation to which he replied of course i know the difference between russia and ukraine i was repeating information from a source i had reason to trust as reliable if i erred i'm sorry going on to say he couldn't deal with the issue any further due to a busy schedule which apparently has him so swamp he's unable to take time to issue a correction to his original incorrect tweet but perhaps that's what you get for

relying on source is dedicating to blowing up the trump russia connection just ask prominent twitter personality and media darling louise mensch. who tweeted to her over a quarter of a million followers recently that her sources say the death penalty is being considered for chief white house strategist steve bannon for espionage and that same punishment is being considered for president trump himself with the evidence signed hard not to be envious of such illuminating sources when it comes to russia gate it seems like any facts or alternative facts as the white house would say can fly even if it ventures into historical revisionism and trumpeting the horns of escalation against russia in europe nato is twitter account recently revived the tale of the forest brothers for trade as herat a heroic group which stood up to the soviet army at the end of world war two when

nato failed to mention is the force brothers were largely made up of waffen s.s. yes nazi fighters historian david katz told alter net gray zone project in response to the tweet quote by going beyond turning a blind eye to the worship of pro hitler forces in eastern europe nato is crossing the line into offering its moral legitimization of nazi forces such as a lot of the in waffen s.s. s. nice though of course a tweet still stands and nato did not reply to those asking who exactly was responsible for the questionable video so if groups like nato aren't going to be held responsible for sloppy or dangerously misleading tweets perhaps it's no wonder someone like professor tribe sees no need to correct the record after all on twitter anyone can be a reliable source on issues of politics and war even a seven year old girl in washington on your part until r.t.

now over to venezuela as the country prepares for sunday's vote for a constituent assembly the state department has given family members of u.s. government employees there at the embassy in caracas. the option to leave the country in a travel warning issued today or excuse me thursday the state department warned the u.s. citizens against traveling to venezuela due to social unrest violent crime and pervasive food and medicine shortages near the end of a forty eight hour strike called by the opposition this week a scene of renewed clashes and violence as protesters remain on the streets in more than four months of on rests the death toll has now climbed to one hundred and eight and effective this friday opposition leaders have called for street demonstrations against the government despite a ban on protests imposed by president maduro ahead of the election until august first a spokesperson for the un human rights office called for all sides to maintain peace

amidst heightened tensions with deeply concerned of the risk of further violence in venezuela where elections for the constituent assembly convened by president nicholas due to be held on sunday. the wishes of the venezuelan people to participate or not in this election need to be respected no one should be obliged to vote while those willing to take part should be able to do so freely and joining us now to discuss all this is mark weiss brought co-director at the center for economic and policy research author of the book failed what experts got wrong about the global economy mark good to see you in studio good to be here in in this exclusive interview with r.t. spanish the venezuelan president nicolas maduro called on the trumpet ministration to stop the aggression against venezuela take a listen we'll talk about it when we come back. i don't know as president i address him president donald trump stop the aggression against venezuela venezuela is

a fundamental basis for the stability of the entire caribbean region and latin america if venezuela is divided if the bolivarian revolution is forced to take up arms we will again fight under the same flag and it will cross our borders u.s. strategists should think hard venezuela wants to live in peace wants to live peacefully stop your aggression. what do you make of that that sounds kind of like a threat if you ask me well the trouble mr ition is threaten venezuela with really severe economic sanctions that would pretty much destroy the economy i mean their export half of their oil the united states the sanctions could even prevent that as well from exporting anywhere for their oil company from doing business so it would really really destroy the economy in vastly increase the shortages of food and medicine and everything else that's why as a recent poll this week showing that sixty three percent of the people were against

it even the majority of people who support the opposition were against these sanctions from the troubling mr so the threat is really coming from washington not from venezuela and the united states though has called on various while at to to cancel that vote after this this week sanctioning thirteen current and former government officials you've argued that venezuela needs negotiation not intervention what kind of role do you think washington should play in this country's crisis well i think if you ask any academic expert on this they will tell you all of them will say that the united states doesn't really have much of a role to play because you know our government and this is way before the trump administrator all the way through the last fifteen years have been trying to topple the venezuelan government the whole time so. vay don't have credibility. in the trouble ministration doesn't have credibility to do that to to play any role in the

mediation however there are a lot of other governments who can and have and people have been playing that role it was because of the mediation partly of former prime ministers sup with terror of spain and other foreign heads of state that leopoldo lopez was released a couple weeks ago from prison to house arrest so that's where the mediation is going to come please you can be international the vatican the pope has repeatedly called for dialogue and. negotiation and that's because that's the only way this conflict is going to end or to prevent it from escalating into a civil war this is a polarized country still so the you it sounds like the u.s. might exacerbate any continuing issues they're pointing you to poke well they already are i mean just threatening these sanctions for example is severely hurts

the venezuelan economy because nobody's going to want to loan money nobody's people who are deciding whether to hold their money in dollars or domestic currency are going to take it out of the country because they figure nothing's going to it's just going to continue to get worse the country has right now a balance of payments crisis and inflation depreciation spiral between their currency and the price level and those things get worse when the most powerful country in the world tells you that they're going to make it worse and we're seeing that actually play out directly to the people there who are suffering from the food shortages and the medical struck shortages so we're seeing it that's not just on on a government level it's happening on the streets there now once once the constituent assembly is elected on sunday what do you think we can expect many have said we need the dialogue. what's the opposition take on that well the opposition

has always been divided in venezuela between people who want to just overthrow the government this is for the last fifteen years since the coup of two thousand and two for example in other terms two thousand and thirteen fourteen and so on and the kurds. so the dominant part of the opposition right now just wants to overthrow the government there are there are moderate more moderate factions and leaders who would prefer to negotiate they're just in the minority right no. mark weisbrot thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us that's mark weisbrot co-director at the center for economic and policy research author of the book failed what experts got wrong about the bubble economy thank you thank you coming up later on r t actually banks is joining us for her weekly segment about race in america you will be back in just a moment that type of money where. all

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twenty seventeen is on track to be the most violent year for the city of baltimore maryland a shooter killed a man selling water on the twelve hundred block of greenmount ave just thursday according to police marking the two hundredth homicide in baltimore this year baltimore saw more than three hundred homicides in each of the past two years but july is the earliest that the city has seen two hundred in a calendar year residents however are looking to combat the violence they're getting fed up with it. holding the days when a. war just for a community in. this city. would be it would be a little real. all to war activists are calling for a quote cease fire in the city to begin in august. and at least ten

thousand black men women and children took to new york city's fifth avenue one hundred years ago today the national association for the advancement of colored people and other grassroots groups organized the silent parade as they're calling it in response to white rioters murdering at least one hundred black residents in east st louis and the general anti black violence manifesting in thousands of common place commonplace lynchings and prevalent we've seen throughout the country in years past the silent parade was one of the first major and visible grassroots mobilizations of black people organizing for justice in the united states and many agree that this action set a precedent for the black community using the demonstrations as a means of fighting back against racism. now. it is now time for our weekly segment race in america with

a course on the ashley banks going to discuss some incidents affecting minorities across the country actually what's on the docket today hey there manila today on race in america will be focusing on two stories in which it appears police officers use excessive force first up let's go to minneapolis minnesota where police chiefs in a heart to resign just days after receiving backlash from the public and city council following the fatal shooting of a forty year old australian native just damon damon had moved from australia to minneapolis to be with her fiance but tragedy struck on july fifteenth twenty seventeen on that day damon call nine one one to report a possible assault near her home when officers arrived they claim they were startled by a loud noise and then officer mohammad nor fired his gun from the passenger side the driver's side hitting and killing damon damon's death sparked outrage worldwide prompting minneapolis mayor betsy haunches to put out

a statement saying quote as far as we have come up i've lost confidence in the chiefs ability to lead us further for us to continue to transform policing and community trust and policing we need new leadership at him p d r two was the first woman an openly gay minneapolis police chief she served a total of four and a half years in the position residents are now calling on the mayor to resign joining me now to discuss this further is samantha priest ensign activist and the green party and city council candidate for minneapolis third ward and michael wood a police management expert and former baltimore police officer thank you both for joining me and i'm going to dress with first question to you samantha black lives matter protesters in minneapolis they pushed the mayor to do something and the wake of the land of his steel death and nothing happened so why in your opinion did the mayor ask the police chief to step down after justin was kilts. so

actually what we've seen actually the verdict the philanderer what we saw was beyond just black lives matters twin cities what we saw was some intersectional coalition building across pretty much all the groups that have been working for police reform and bringing up these issues of police brutality and they all we all came together some even candidates all came together for a common cause to stop talking about the differences and to start focusing on the same this and that these issues are affecting all of us and yes it did take the death of a white woman to really take it to this global level that we're seeing of interest however despite that fact interim main supreme being polarized the bigger issue is that this coalition of groups intersectional all came together to demand that we have new leadership within within our police department and we saw that with the the rally and the march that was led to city hall where the mayor actually locked us all out. and eventually the doors were opened and you saw the open calls for her

to resign as well and for new leadership to lead our city michael as a former police officer in your opinion why don't we see this more often where police chiefs are stepping down even when the d.o.j. investigation that came out for like chicago and baltimore and they were showing police departments actively engaging and participating in practice is using excessive force why don't we see this regularly. i mean i don't know exactly why but i would have imagined we have to be looking at some of these issues where we're won't actually change the system doing that and maybe subconsciously these mayors know this and we know this as a whole but even replacing these faces what we do have to replace the faces we have to get down to the system of what is happening if you replace a police chief with the next person up that was the right hand man or woman the entire time so you end up with the same system on and on and that's an orwellian escalation so it's easy for the mayor to see in just in damon how that can really

affect her and give her an empathy level to make her step up and do something what we have to do is change the system so that the system reflects that empathy beyond just those few people that we can recognize and michael and saying that and saying that the system does need to be changed on the officer mohammad nor he was a somali in need of a and it was speculated that he joined the force or he was accepted onto the force in order to help build that relationship in the trust between the community but is that the answer no i mean fundamentally policing comes from the oppressed classes they are given more resources to jump up from being poor into like an upper middle class so by finding more oppressed people and giving them power you don't change the system we just become the oppressors ourselves samantha is there anything you like to add to that. well you mentioned something really important with the d.o.j.

report and here in minneapolis we actually had one as well after the the wake of the gym our clarke incident where we saw local community all coming together again intersectional coalition coming together at the fourth precinct and then stead of our leadership not just our local leadership but our state leadership and the at the time the existing minneapolis police department leadership again a lack of communication and a lack of a willingness to be able to not only actively listen to the community but partner with them to put all solutions on the table and do this again not these surface just treating the symptom remedies but actually getting to the root cause of the issues and planting some new seeds that we call to be that include the communities that are being affected by these injustices and with the d.o.j. report report there was actually thirty six findings those findings have been on the desk of our leadership for the last seven months and we have not seen lit we've seen little to no action we have not seen that prioritized we haven't seen it

discussed and we're in the middle of an election year where we're getting ready to november seventh elect a new mayor as well as thirteen city council seats it's not a very popular thing to talk about it's not something that necessarily will get you votes so we still have seen even to speak to his point talking about bringing a new faces it's not enough we need new faces who have the cultural competence and the understanding to know that this is a systemic issue and it's going to take much more than just resurfacing to really get to the bottom of these issues make them a priority and really change the face of policing for that so that it works for our community here boots on the grounds of minneapolis hard samantha i want to jump into what usually happens after an unarmed person is shot by a police officer now we know in the case of just seeing choose painted as a lovely woman who people were saying didn't deserve to be killed but in your opinion does it appear that when minorities are killed by law enforcement it seems like law enforcement and the media they work hand in hand to criminalize victims

instead of focusing on the tragic event that took place. absolutely and what we've seen is we've we've had the police union has here has jumped up right away in defense of the officers before any evidence comes out yet they tell the community to be patient and wait and let the system work when we already know that the system fails us because the system is broken and needs to be replaced with something that works and in the case that recently happened we also saw the america mount and say it shouldn't have happened we saw the prior police chiefs janine hard to say the same thing but when it's been somebody who's been of color whether they've been native or black or african-american however you want to put that identity forward we've seen the exact opposite so it's polarized these racial issues within the city and it's added to them and the skepticism that people see on the outside looking in where it seems like people are you know looking to make it about race they fail to

understand the direct comparison side by side that we've seen time and time again that are leading people to feel this way and so we can't deny people's realities and say that they're being unreasonable these are things that are actual and factual that are happening here but even with just in demand what we've seen is now she's also being there trying to find reasons to paint her to be not the person that she was victims have absolutely no rights there's no reason why now they're saying she slapped the car and they served a search warrant on their home looking for bodily fluids well of course her bodily fluids are going to be there and i don't know what they expected to find the hand that slapped the car it's absolutely ridiculous and we need rights for our victims and rights for those families were guard lists of what color they are and when it comes to this polarization of well what about the officer you know it wasn't a white officer this time and he's going to be the fall guy and be made the example of that might very well be the case but it doesn't change the fact that this officer did what he did and he does need to be prosecuted but it does bring up

a larger issue of the polarized racism that's happening not only in minneapolis but across the nation and like you're saying similar. a lot of people would agree with you saying that a lot of times i long for some in the media they try to find ways to justify these killings michael and samantha i want to turn your attention to a man who was fatally shot by police officers and mississippi this week after the officer showed up at the wrong house the officers were supposed to arrive at fifty eight seventy eight thirty lane but ended up across the street at fifty eight eighty one syria lane as a result of this a man was having watched his life michael it appears he also serves didn't take the time to analyze the address our officers just not trained properly. well we're not trained properly but i don't want to get into that we have is if we were trained properly what would we be training properly to do to mask our fascism to mask our oppression as much as possible that's what police best practices are best practices would be getting freddy grey to the prison cell to go into an inhumane system

without being hurt in the van those aren't actual reforms we have to be very careful about looking at those things and reform the problem is that we have a drug war going on and we have a police force that continues and it will really an escalation to do raids in people's houses risking both of those people and the police officers lives themselves so going forward we have to keep our mind that what we're doing is we are fighting sometimes over asking who will protect who who will lead us and who will police us when we should be to be determining ourselves how we will be policed versus that makes sense and makes a lot of sense thank you so much we're going to have to leave it there that was samantha an activist in the green party indoor city council candidate for a minneapolis third ward and michael wood police management expert and former baltimore police officer thank you both that separates in america be sure to follow

me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t don't forget to question more back to manila. really. as scientists and his team out of oregon are reportedly the first u.s. based group to successfully edit the d.n.a. of human embryos artie's natasha sweet has more on the discovery and the government's opposition to this technology. major revelation in the world of genetics was discovered in the us out of oregon health and science university leading scientists to leap over kazakhstan native was previously known for and viewing the world's first pole monkeys back in two thousand and seven but now he has reportedly found the secrets to correcting the defective genes in embryos which cause inherited diseases there are been three past reports of editing human embryos published by scientists in china one of the human trials involved a patient suffering from an aggressive form of lung cancer however the main issue in these chinese publications was the technology used called crisper actually

because editing the errors and the changes that were wanted were always taken up by the cells of an embryo this effect is called them it's something the leap of steam was able to avoid by injecting crisper into the eggs at the time that they were fertilized and we won't know the full extent of meet the leap of study as it was never meant to be a clinical trial the team didn't allow the embryos to develop past few days and were never intended to be implanted into a womb it's likely because congress has blocked clinical trials that involve genetically modifying human embryos in fact james clapper the former director of national intelligence has called crisper a potential point weapon of mass destruction but despite this finding remaining inside the lab the science community as a whole is intreat one of the scientists familiar with the study told in mighty tech review quote it's proof the principle that it can work is significantly reduced most say a system i don't think it's the start of clinical trials yet but it does take it

further than anyone has before as of right now the teams results are still pending publication but we're information is the way in washington and sweets r t. developers have announced what's been described as a game changer in the world of sex robots with a model that supports the ultimate in human traits and features that you can imagine will certainly inspired discussion and debate. to discuss this today is my friend legal and media analyst lionel of lionel media in new york city light on my friend i feel like we're having these ai sex robot discussions more and more frequently this is what the second time in this month alone i think we're drawing closer to these things coming out of the prototype phase now that sad what do you feel as some of the objections to this might be well couple of things first of all remember that if there is a way for people to object to this because of the of the subject matter of sex they will do it that's number one but over to let's get down to brass tacks here and chan what's interesting is that let's assume that somebody decides one day and i

don't know why but this is what you have to understand somebody decides to make a life like child sex robot or animal robot or go durbar an owl or whatever you'll know that somebody is going to say wait a minute you can't do that sex in those particular situations is illegal and for good reasons and you say but they aren't real this isn't a child god forbid they get bullish just for the sake of argument say this this is a child this isn't a go this is this is a robot yes but you are thinking it and that is the problem it's the thought police it's the thought but i'm merely how no thinking of crime. because what they're going to do is when you present them with the fact that no you know how they say no animals were harmed in this or. if you say no real humans were involved this is a robot it's not real they're going to be so offended and bothered that somebody is

buying let's say in under age robot which makes no sense but for the sake of argument you're going to say this wasn't real what they will be trying to do manila is then therefore stop you from what you're thinking because what you're thinking is being manifested in this the law says no children or animals and that's fine but this is going to bother people because it's the fact that all of a sudden the stories will say all of these god forbid under-age robots are being sold or what have you it will bother people people will not be able to sit there and understand as you do that this is harmless it might be troublesome i might be psychiatrically a piquant maybe somebody might want to consider talking about somebody you know this sure to somebody special but this is not real and what's happening is that.

you then get to the issue of what happens when you have more and more people distancing themselves from human intimacy what happens when you start having more and more people who would opt for a humanoid than a human as that may get a real conspiracy ted for your addy and let's assume some evil deep state or from some think tank said we're going to enter depopulation or introduce factor of the population or by making sex among humans distasteful and preferable or less preferable to this machine people will extinguish themselves as they opt for this but i'm going back to this legal aspect though. if you if you put on your lawyer hat and and your crystal

ball. how does somebody legislate what types of robots can be produced i mean or in this case dolls there was a while back where the supreme court eventually struck it down but there was an attempt to sascha a federal statute which would make it illegal for you through c.g.i. you to photoshop your computer whatever. to give the appearance that a child or an underage person was used in something he went so far that the books like the lead in the bible romeo and juliet would have been subsumed under those extremely overbroad statute what happens is that people are going to find out that instead of us celebrating the fact that maybe these individuals instead of preying on human beings than animals or is dead spending forty five

hundred ten thousand dollars or whatever for a for this doll it won't be enough there are people as you know in the law who don't like the fact that you're even doing this thinking this because it's if it's your thought that it as it says whatever they are after is mental they can't they're going to be people that are going to argue this moral thing that we were talking about just a few weeks ago but you know there are there are also people that have have argued what's the difference between these dolls and you know for years and years and years that women have been able to purchase motorized toys of their own how is this any different. ab so lute lee there is no difference it becomes almost a question of your creativity in finding an objection or you're right about this i mean let's face it what it now let's go a step further eventual somebody is going to say ok we're going to sell these

devices not as sex toys but as just dolls and what you do with them is up to you look this is happening right now you know this is happening and the artificial intelligence let me leave you with this one the artificial intelligence goal is to figure you out and to play to i'm not. a risky sounding sexes this applies to men or women but let me just say this the ai robot playing games playing hard to get making you jealous. knowing your hotspots knowing what what bothers you knowing you know be playing i mean just just figuring out you sure and driving you crazy because there's something because once you figure out the differential power it will figure you out and that's it just mind blowing line and we've got to leave it right there my

friend thank you so much legal and media analyst line a line on media in new york city thank you for the latest saw you spacecraft has started its journey to the international space station blasting off to the orbiting lab within just the last hour or so nicky aaron was at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for us following the crew's preparations and keeping track of the launch take a look. here the baikonur cosmodrome we are just seconds away from seeing this rocket still into outer space it will fly over the western coast of peru is it makes a four thousand kilometer journey to the international space station which should take around six hours now i can only imagine what's going through the minds of those three crewmembers inside the soyuz capsule right now let's take a look this is now says randy bresnik this is the european space to. ask.

to speak. to it's been added to the space is literally shaking but it might be right now to get a good following in the trails of say many incredible human accomplishments this started out right here with the baikonur cosmodrome from being first man in space your guard in one nine hundred sixty one to the first woman in space and of course the first space walk i'm starting here at the very same sports now i had the privilege over the past few days of getting up close to that rocket that you see now soaring through the sky i also got to meet with space fans i got to meet with the families and the children of the crew members also got to chat to the cree

members themselves and they told me that during that one hundred thirty nine days in orbit they won't just be enjoying the beautiful view of planet earth they have a whole list of experiments to get through some of them sound a little bit more peculiar than others as has my reports. one of the most peculiar sounding experiments to be conducted on the international . spacestation this time in both testing sensitivity to pain in zero gravity people how they think it will be done but you could do some tweaking but. i think because you know when you are in the grave and everything's very slow with imaginations running wild i decided to get the details from the crew themselves. when it's there is a device you put your finger inside to begin to squeeze as soon as you feel the pain. since it's time you put your hands on the stones when it comes to.

once richest. experiments in space have touched on everything from the way it's wonderful but the question is that most people really want to know the answers to are a little less complex. you should keep. that. let's just say. that having to answer the same old questions it is a small price to pay for the incredible journey this is making aaron reporting for some. super cool visuals all right that's going to it for now for more on the stories we just covered go to you tube dot com forward slash art america and check our website argue about port flash america you can also follow me on twitter at military and remember to question more have a great weekend. i'm

a trial lawyer. for documents to tell the story of. corporate media or users to talk about news conner's. i'm not a pretty clear picture about how disturbing. for condit has been. these are stories that you know we know it's hard to turn your nose to the american . west to. john gabriel is the editor for an outlet called ricochet and he just did some media analysis that i found really compelling in an article entitled what americans care about versus what the media cares about for that article gabriel first takes

a look at part of a recent bloomberg poll which asked americans what they think is the top issue facing the country right now by far easily the top issue for americans in the hall was health care thirty five percent of those polled said that's the most important issue which is not surprising because this is the nation that actually affects people's lives unemployment and jobs came in second followed by terrorism and gratian and climate change all of those seem like reasonable items to top the list and then after all those way down at the bottom was america's relationship with russia only six percent of those polled cared about that as their issue then after reviewing the poll gave real shifts to information from another recent survey in which the media research center calculates the amount of time network news spends on covering issues in that survey the m.r.c. found that over the course of about a month network news spent over three hundred fifty minutes of time covering the whole russia investigation story but when it came to health care the way they

covered it of course was talking about the repeal and replace of obamacare only and they only spent seventeen minutes covering that then gave real compares the two he looked at what americans care about and what the media cares about and saw the ridiculous difference between the two even though only six percent of americans think russia is a big issue in the news seventy five percent of their time talking about it ad nauseum contrast that with the fact that ahead. care is the biggest concern for americans and the news only spend four per cent of their time talking about it seriously how insane is that the difference is beyond striking between what americans care about and what the media cares about it is such a difference that there is no way to think that the news doesn't have some sort of all teary emotive year and then talking about what americans care about i mean it's clear that americans care mostly about health care and the news ignores that

because ask yourself why why does the mainstream news hard on something americans don't rank high in importance it all adds up to one thing the media has a whole other agenda with their coverage and there's nothing how to be about it. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those who are the faces your wife our. dogs and. what your biggest fear our little bit on the right was so let's talk a little bit bored you say a few of the things that but what about. exploring the topic that doesn't belong. now i do do do do take question more.

all the feelings of. every the world experience. that you get out of the old world. but according to josh. the world come along for the raw data. i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the ugly side of. corporate media everything uses to talk about these. i'm going to get a clear picture about how disturbing alcool forward and that is because.

these are stories that you no one else might have to close to the american. west. greetings and salutation as william shakespeare once wrote the buttes of greatness is when it just joins remorse from power one of the great duties of the artist today yesterday and tomorrow is to remind us of our remorse so that we do not lose our greatness in our power artists whether on the stage or through the screen should always be the storytellers and historians of both a cultures trial and sorrow we have to celebrate our triumphs to remind us of what we've accomplished but we also must remember our sorrow.