the protests of the government try to do. my work. by saying this is not how capitalism work this is our capitalism goes disastrously wrong. going up on our t.v. the fallout continues between the u.s. and russia as two u.s. embassy properties are seized and shuttered we'll bring you the details. on the u.s. to lead he is a sanctions against venezuelan president nicolas maduro and there has to opposition figures for president. then extreme weather and middle america could mean your prices go up at the grocery store we'll tell you why. good afternoon it's tuesday august first four pm in washington d.c.

i'm on your part until you're watching our team america we begin today as moscow's ordered the u.s. to cut its diplomatic presence and russia by more than seven hundred fifty personnel by september two diplomatic properties have also been seized and only sue has out one of them and has more on the impact of the new measures behind me is the summerhouse that the u.s. diplomatic mission must vacate by today as part of russia's counter sanctions against washington as you can see right here the property has been locked and sealed as of today and this comes just one day after the u.s. diplomatic staff claim that they were denied access to this summer house right here and according to sources from the russian foreign ministry they say that's because the trucks sent by the u.s. embassy did not request for permits in a fancy which is something that's required to enter a conservation area such as this and the russian deputy foreign minister today he said that nobody is trying to stop them from collecting their personal belongings here in this retreat and up the for. for this property it was sealed unlocked we

did see about five or six u.s. diplomatic trucks large sized trucks leaving the area leaving the property to collect their personal belongings and that's because this summer house is one of the two diplomatic properties that moscow has announced he'll be taking back from washington as part of her reaction towards the fresh round of sanctions that the u.s. congress has approved to target russia earlier last week take a listen to what the russian president had to say about why such actions must be taken. and people both diplomats who can technical stuff currently working in russia seven hundred fifty five of them will have to stop their activities and that's painful we've been waiting for quite a long time so that maybe something would change for the better we had hoped that the situation would change but it looks like even if it does change and it won't be in the near future i decided it is time for us to show you we will not leave anything on the cue that the u.s. congress approved the sanctions to target russia over alleged russian meddling in

the twenty sixteen presidential election and in response to that while russia has announced the twelve hundred u.s. diplomats and technical stuff working in the country have to be cut down to four hundred and fifty five that's to mash number of russian diplomats currently working in the u.s. and on top of that to diplomatic properties will be taken back including the riverside retreat and summer house right behind me. to talk more about this we're joined now by alexander macarius editor in chief of the duran and author of the latest article russia's expulsion of staff from the u.s. embassy in moscow is unprecedented and here. alex is vander alexander unprecedented in huge that's what you have to say about this latest development russia's actions as weak of course reaction to new sanctions from the u.s. why such strong language. well this is been the biggest expulsion of staff from any diplomatic mission that has happened in the more than

in modern history there's never been anything like this on this scale before the u.s. embassies and consulates in russia are going to be drastically pared down and i don't think this is been fully understood yet in the united states was a major step this is is going to be a significant reduction of the u.s. diplomatic presence in russia and this is where we now stand after these two measures absolutely and major act but how did we get to this point last year when the obama administration expelled thirty five russian diplomats from the u.s. who didn't actually refrain from taking any drastic response so why do we think of this reaction now. the answer to that is that in in december when the obama administration expel thirty five russian diplomats the

russians still had some hopes that things would improve when the new administration came into office and they said to themselves well let's wait and see we've now many months before it and we see that in fact sanctions are actually increasing and relations between the united states and russia are deteriorating and on top of everything else we've had another sanctions bill passed by the united states congress signed by the president and the russians say we can't simply go on accepting these things the time has come for us to show that if you continue to push us in this way we will push back and they have pushed back with a vengeance russia seems backed into a corner here in which it would like to respond to us as collations but is really a limited an options for doing so.

well i think what the russians don't want to do is to serve completely any chance of maintaining some kind of dialogue with the trumpet administration on the russians still hope in spite of everything the once the present crisis in relations is overcome they will be able to move forward in some way with the new trumpet ministration and improve relations at least on some issues maybe not the kind of comprehensive rough rushmore that some people were talking about last year but something at least better than what we have now so for that reason they are trying to do act in a restrained way as they see it but it is a restraint that has its limits and when i said that it was unprecedented and huge we see from that how but how what those limits are some people are

probably surprised to know there were seven hundred fifty five diplomatic staff members in russia to begin with and more of them still what is their purpose and what might this expulsion interrupt. well of course we don't actually know what all of these people were doing but i'm going to make a guess the russians believe that many of these people would have been involved in intelligence gathering and in what is often called by the united states democracy promotion activities that is maintaining contacts with anti-government activists people the united states called democracy activists in russia people who the russians see as being opposed to their government and who are part of the u.s. policy as the russians see it over trying to engineer political change in russia so the russians are reducing the staff of the embassy and i suspect we probably say

to themselves this intelligence gathering and this deployed this. democracy promotion activity that will be reduced significantly thereby and that in itself perhaps will make it more easy in the long term to improve relations with the u.s. because these activities which are annoying to the russians will have been to some extent scaled down secretary of state taylor send described u.s. and russia relations as under stress during a press briefing today all of this comes as trump is reportedly mulling a deal to provide a lethal weapons and assistance to ukraine in an effort to affront russia where do you see relations going from here. well if we look at what to listen said he was actually only salt on balance rather restrained about this on the sink tillerson represents the moral. realist saeed's of the administration which wants

to move beyond the present conflict and he's also trying to keep some kind of bridge to the russians going so that they can start talking to each other again but of course we know also have these if these proposals to start arming ukraine which the russians are going to see is extremely provocative and very dangerous in an area very close to themselves and that if it happens can only deteriorate relations even further so we see that we've moved from the situation at the start of the year where people had hopes that relations would improve to one where they seem to be deteriorating even further and as you said any any change in this course will depend on the russia gate scandal and all this energy and the russian sentiment in the us going away which might be

a big task alexander macarius editor in chief of the durand thank you two leading opposition figures in venezuela are in prison after their house arrest privileges were reportedly revoked overnight the development comes just two days after sunday's vote for a constituent assembly in venezuela a process which has been heavily criticized by the united states for more we go live now to our teaser important in miami marina both of the men detained overnight denounce sunday's election and had previously been jailed what more can you tell us . well the two opposition leaders taken away are leopoldo lopez a former mayor of a wealthy caracas district and antonio mendez another former mayor under house arrest grainy video posted to mr le does most twitter account shows uniformed men in black helmets dragging a man in pajamas out of a building and into a vehicle a second video posted early tuesday on the twitter account of mr lopez's wife shows

what disproportionally her forty six year old husband being removed government officials say both opposition figures had violated the terms of their house arrest by releasing political statements in recent weeks mr lopez via his twitter account urged venezuelans to take to the streets blocking roads to prevent the election of the national constituent assembly he also published a video urging the government to release political prisoners and accept humanitarian aid lopez was released from military prison and placed under house arrest in early july to serve out his thirteen year sentence his attorney says mr lopez never violated the terms of his house arrest conditions. to do in front of you there weren't any restrictions to make statements on his social media accounts there weren't any restrictions to make public statements on the political or social crisis in the country nor did he ever struction to meet with people. has never by legal counsel and complains the law breached the imposed sentence despite that

however you find himself in the military in a move to a prison that. the arrest of two well known opposition figures is certain to inflame tensions in the streets throughout venezuela where clashes have happened almost daily between anti-government protesters and the national police more than one hundred people have been killed since april. these developments came just hours after the u.s. issued sanctions against president maduro demanding the venezuelan president release what the u.s. considers political prisoners from the opposition isn't that right that's right the united states issued sanctions against president maduro on monday freezing his u.s. based assets and prohibiting american citizens from conducting business with the head of state mr moore is the fourth leader to be personally sanctioned by the u.s. treasury secretary steve maneuver called mr majority a dictator taking part in democratic activities the ever defiant durrell called the

u.s. sanctions a sign of america's impotence desperation and hate insisting that washington wants latin america to be a lapdog that wags its tail and obeys every command no sunday's vote in venezuela approved the creation of a constituent assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution the body reportedly gives unlimited power to the country's governing leftist party and it has the power to dismiss or dismantle any branch of government while rewriting the country's governing charter marine important i reporting from our miami studio thanks a lot thank you more now on those sanctions imposed against venezuela's president nicolas maduro they came after he claimed victory in an election for a new constituent assembly. the dictator dictator as a result of today's sanctions all systema duro subject to us jurisdiction are frozen and u.s.

persons are prohibited from dealing with him. target maduro's as you know to bay imperial orders i do not obey foreign orders of government neither today nor ever will i have a imperial orders i'm free independent president but also anti imperialist i'm against american imperialism the sanctions target maduro's assets as well as those of top and as well and officials they also ban us firms and individuals from doing business with the president however there is one economic restriction the us seems unwilling to use in this diplomatic war. which asians are against oil it seems we all knew about this toxic relationship. is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not on the kelly stuff you tell me that they literally destroyed on a deal that lawyer order they made him heat up to put them into it probably did the government. is violating its own constitution.

but pump oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet his facts of how black gold unites the. protect american states being the third largest exporter of crude to the us and numbers of growing up seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day but when it stopped then absolutely no the citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for it and is wayne state owned oil company which means the country has access to these refineries the total capacity of about seven hundred forty nine thousand barrels per day so far the sanctions that have been a mention have been against refined venezuelan oil products and against individuals in the venezuelan government they have not been for the importation of crude the fact that they are not including crude speaks to that interdependence and the fact

that us all. cers and export are don't want to up in the markets and potentially that ten percent extraction of venice oil and oil could spike us gasoline prices as well so i think that that is the concern. coming up on r.t.m. mentally ill man in new york as shot and killed by police will have the story right after this break they would. think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories in our critics can't tell you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in the order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that

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a fourteen inch knife the incident has garnered some serious concerns thirty two year old wayne june was shot and killed in his brooklyn apartment where he lived with his parents. the incident transpired monday afternoon after jews mother called nine one one for help controlling her son the nine one one call was for a nonviolent emotionally disturbed person. stated that she had no weapon but when police arrived to the apartment june allegedly charged at them with this fourteen inch carving knife and when officers used a taser to try to contain the thirty two year old it didn't work we're going to deploy the suspect the day before i thought you keep on moving forward this is only the latest shooting of an emotionally disturbed person in october sixty six year old deborah danner was shot and killed by sergeant hugh berry of the n.y.p.d. however the incident has many questioning if the n.y.p.d. is receiving the proper training they when dealing with emotionally disturbed people i reached out to the department it means their officers do receive extensive

training on how to react and respond to emotionally disturbed people and there are many moods workshops by people who were actually in the psychiatry field as well as other mental health professionals reporting in new york city choppers are t. in tennessee three sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave after a video emerged of an eighteen year old strapped in a restraint chair being more than forty times the video came to light when now nineteen year old jordan norris filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff's department accusing deputies of violating his civil rights and citing the use of excessive force norris was arrested in november of twenty sixteen on drug and weapons charges including felony possession of marijuana while the lawsuit argues used against the teen was quote the district malicious and unreasonable it also alleges that north was stunned by tasers. for a total of more than three hours or i'm sorry almost three hours and including

before and after he was forced into the restraint chair cheatham county sheriff mike breedlove issued a statement saying quote as sheriff i want our citizens to know that any inappropriate behavior that may have violated an individual's human rights will not be tolerated despite this the sheriff told local news organizations that norris displayed combative behavior before and after the incident and had been placed in the restraint chair for his own protection. extreme weather conditions across the middle america are having quite an impact on stable crops much of the country depends on archie's intelligence we have more on the effects and why they may indirectly impact your pocketbook. they're only eleven percent of the u.s. is in a moderate drought or worse according to lead meteorologists the excessive heat and little rain is hitting crops like corn soybeans wheat and even livestock this in turn is raising concerns about how high basic grocery staples like bread and beans will begin to cost in regions most affected by the drought now according to the

weekly u.s. drought monitor released thursday by the university of nebraska lincoln about half of the nation's spring wheat thirty percent of winter wheat fifteen percent of corn and fourteen percent of soybeans are in drought which are high a meteorologist with the national oceanic and atmospheric administration said in last week's drought report that quote much of montana and parts of dakotas nebraska and kansas had no rain this week some areas have been drier than normal for the last two to three months and some drought indicators reflect dryness for the last twelve months farmers in north dakota also produce most of the nation's navy beans pinto beans and canola used for vegetable oil these prices are also expected to rise for consumers the agriculture commissioner for north dakota go ring said that people in the business for the last. decades haven't witnessed these types of conditions before iowa oklahoma and texas are reportedly undergoing drought

conditions as well now seeing the early stages of their main crops and livestock being affected the u.s.d.a. designated three states as natural disasters as well as several counties granting producers emergency loans a handful of governors in states like montana nebraska and north dakota have also declared disasters in some counties to help assist in state and washington tossed sweets. boom bust is up next year in r.t.m. america samone del rosario joins us now for a preview of what's ahead what do you got going on today simone anya big news in the bitcoin world the cryptocurrency is splitting into well tell you the difference between what's now old school and the new school big cash plus wall street regulators are looking to loosen restrictions on banks restrictions that were put in place after two thousand and eight to prevent another financial crash and the f.a.a. is being forced to defend airplanes smaller sizes in court i'm sure everyone want to hear more about that one on yes certainly well thanks a lot. and that does it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube

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don't consider myself a conservative or a liberal i consider myself an individual with a unique set of values and beliefs so when i say that the media generally has a liberal bias and saying it at that human being not as a conservative out to bash liberals but still a lot of people who choose to identify as liberal refuse to see the very obvious liberal bias of most of our mainstream news outlets for some reason like they just

cannot see it so for them i have yet one more piece of evidence to consider a woman named laurene powell jobs an organization the emerson collective are buying the atlantic magazine powell jobs is steve jobs where and in twenty fifteen time magazine named her one of the most influential people of the year and in her interview for time she spoke of her love for none other than hillary clinton this is what she had to say about her queen hillary clinton is not familiar she's revolutionary not radical but revolutionary she is one of america's greatest modern creation god that the new owner of the atlantic things hillary clinton is one of our greatest modern creation now forget that it's just a weird thing to say about someone it's a really weird thing for a news magazine owner to say about a politician in general i mean the job of the news is to take politicians to task not openly worship them but there it is our job the new owner of the atlantic

pretty much worship hillary clinton and does so openly in fact the atlantic actually broke with tradition to publicly endorse clinton for president last year which is pretty crazy to the point where another liberal outlet n.p.r. actually took them to task about it and the editor actually said that yeah this is probably going to reinforce the idea that there's a media elite but who cares because we were brought. the atlantic considers itself to be a news outlet where people can go to get their news and yet not only did it openly indorsed clinton last year an outrageous thing for a media outlet to do but it will largely now be owned by a woman who thinks hillary clinton is one of america's greatest modern creation so to the people who identify as liberals who also refuse to see that most of our media has a bias to liberal it's almost comical i say if you still can't see the bias you're either not or you just don't want to see what's right in front of your face.

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