i. coming up on our t.v. fallout continues between the u.s. and russia as two u.s. embassy embassies properties are seized and shuttered will bring you the details and the u.s. levied sanctions against the venezuelan president nicolas maduro there as of two opposition leaders returned to prison. then and drug abuse problems in the united states could be the reason many people are out of a job but the question is there a solution to this epidemic inside. that evening it's tuesday august first five pm in washington d.c.

i'm on your part impel and you're watching our team america we begin today as moscow has ordered the u.s. to cut its diplomatic presence in russia by more than seven hundred fifty personnel by september two diplomatic properties have also been seized artie's only suit is that one of them and has the impact more on the impact of these new measures. i me is the summerhouse that the u.s. diplomatic mission must be kate 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 the 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 group for side retreat and up before 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 will be taking back from washington as part of a reaction to what's 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 with diplomats it 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 quarter i decided it is time for us to show you we will not leave anything on 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 be true. and summerhouse 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 it's unprecedented and huge alex xander alexander unprecedented in huge that's what you have to say about this latest development russia's actions this week of course reaction to new sanctions from the u.s. why such strong language. well this is being the biggest expulsion of stuff from any diplomatic mission that has happened in the more than

involved in history there's no other being anything like this on this scale before the the u.s. embassies and consulates in russia all going to be drastically pad and only don't think this is being 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 up to these to put out 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 see this reaction now. the the answer to that is that in in december when the obama administration expelled 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 forward 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 option for doing so.

well i think what the russians don't want to do is to serve as completely any chance of maintaining some kind of dialogue with the trumpet ministration i think the russians still hope in spite of everything that 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 roche more that some people were talking about last year but something at least better than what we have know so for that reason they are trying to 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 how what those limits are some people were

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 of the united states called democracy activists in russia people who the russian see as being opposed to their government and who are part of a u.s. policy as the russians see it over the trying to engineer police equal change in

russia so the russians are reducing the staff at the embassy and i suspect they probably say to themselves this intelligence gathering and this dip 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 would have been to some extent scaled up secretary of state hilary send described the 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 lethal weapons and assistance to ukraine and an effort to a front russia where do you see relations going from here. well if we look at what tennyson said he was actually i thought on balance rather restrained about this i think to listen represents the more. realist

sides 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 do to your e-rate relations even further so we see that we've moved from a situation at the start of the year where people had hopes that relations with 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 duran 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 u.s. party's main important it is in miami with more. you opposition leaders taken away are leopoldo lopez a former mayor of a wealthy caracas district and antonio mendez mom another former mayor under house arrest grainy video posted to mr 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 the 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 yet to do an interview 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 any complaints the law breached the imposed sentence despite that however you find himself in the military and i moved 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 called mr moore 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 rain important i reporting from our miami studio thinks a lot thank you for more let's bring in lucas corner a journalist at and political analyst at venezuela analysis dot com he just recently returned from the country lucas and western press the revoke ation of lopez and led as emma's house arrest privileges is being framed as part of a wide crackdown on the opposition following sunday's vote what is your read on the situation does that tell the full story. i think that we need to look at the cases

of the day as money though passes as you know evidence of the complete leniency in impunity and then it's whether that here you have two politicians both of whom participated in the two thousand and two who if forty seven hours can have president chavez and took power and basically dissolved all the institutions that were established and dissolve the constitution in one thousand nine hundred ninety and these figures that they were granted amnesty at that time and they continue to serve in the opposition and then in twenty fourteen lopez actually led a what was effectively an island insurrection needs you know seeing the violent protests in twenty fourteen call that what they attempted to oust mother who was elected twenty thirteen and he was going to sentence that thirteen years and president for her an offense he's recently been given who's going to house arrest medical reasons unclear why he was given and how true that it was quite clearly a political move in any case however with the supreme court has just revealed that there was a attempt on a particle man to flee the country now this is betrayed in western media of course as we take you as i think it should be pointed out dead

a number of very prominent opposition jailed opposition leaders who for example colonel sorbet guy who participate in the two thousand and two coup was are talking to us and pedro carmona who was the dictator at two thousand and two he was the president was appointed during that period and rules for forty seven hours and it's all constitution with the blessing of washington madrid and the new york times that both of these men fled the country carmona was on house arrest and what they got was in a romal than it so i think they should be contention live that clearly there was the event as one of the areas had a reason for bringing these men back into government custody arrive the metaphor i like to sometimes use her viewers as a magnet hillary clinton had participated in a coup against but unsuccessfully then after failing to defeat trump called for a violent overthrow of his government i think if we ask how a political figure operating in the us would be punished for the. that way some of

what we're seeing in venezuela at least appears in a different light but the media is also discussing sunday's vote as a dictatorial power grab launched by maduro can you explain what the constituent assembly is and how it's a continuation of a process started by chavez in one thousand nine nine hundred. i think you're using understand it decision assembly is perhaps one of the most democratic processes that you can have in a country in fact united states never really had a constituency with the us constitution is effectively illegitimate because basically the articles of confederation history buffs know this but it is that the time was just dissolved by this group of one hundred you know basically slave owning and you know merchant elites and philadelphia at that time and they wrote a new constitution and in men as well beginning as well another child as you basically have this process in which in order to overcome the past in which you know five hundred years in which the country was ruled by a small group of all of our people leave basically they brought together representatives from different sectors of society largely grassroots social

movements in a draft a new constitution the reflects the changing times in the changing. relationships within the country and this was actually was very historic event as well as a little more progressive prostitutions in the world this this constitution this change is being promised basically giving the opportunity for to institutionalize many of the gains of the last yet years can you explain i was going to ask you how can you reflect and explain what some of those political and social gains that made by the bolivarian revolution since one thousand nine hundred beds and house and a the election was a vote to secure some of those gains make them constitutionally affirm. of course i i think to understand they represent the because it's resemble is five hundred twenty five divided into different sectors of not only is it on territorial that is you have you will elect representatives by your district but it's also set so there's a sector of her commons and understand there's basically communes are structures of local governance of governance you know communal councils at which citizens get

together and can make decisions about how their minister polities rotman and the these kind of conglomerate to form communes which actually have a local productive economic structure so basically these are kind of of institutions. local government there are designed to so plant the existing kind of bureaucratic authoritarian state apparatus to create a kind of a radical grassroots democracy so that kind of institutionalizing these structures at the heart of that as well that this is the project of the because if you're an assembly and this is what you know what many of the grassroots are worth fighting for this is why eight million people turned out to vote because it interrupted little from a little and for the you know the same figures who have been ruling minutes off about eighteen years they came out because they had the opportunity to vote for grassroots candidates and they did this in the face of great mean you know opposition violence and terror that a candidate who children's rights activists was assassinated was

a candidate and you are say was assessed it on the eve of this election so this just goes to show you that the opposition is terrified of the possibility of the grassroots really had right choices and we only have a little bit of time left but on sunday the venezuelan national police were targeted with a bombing while we aren't sure who is responsible this wouldn't be the first time the opposition employed an overtly violent tactic i think we have the video we can play for viewers and this reminds me of the so-called revolutions in syria and ukraine early on to where the opposition felt confident enough to take up arms against the government why might they feel that way. i mean this is an opposition that you know has attempted to overthrow the government under job as a model from the very beginning by any means necessary as i mentioned before we're participated in a military coup this average of dictatorship that is engaged in the you know we were thinking we have one hundred days of violent protests that have cost over one hundred lives and you know

a large number of them actually have been caused by opposition by once themselves through you know basically blocking roads and calling car accidents do assassinations like i mentioned on saturday evening so i mean this is there's a nonstop effort on the floor of the opposition which is funded by washington to overthrow the government and this is not an opposition that really responds to the needs of the vast majority of people in fact most of the opposition is divided and their supporters do not support the same bases and consists in opinion polls call for the leadership of the opposition to be new to be changed so i mean this is just the reality of you know this violent undemocratic i was the position a group had refused to recognize any election this is the reality they were they this recent election has been rejected by washington average and all letters but obviously are unfortunately out of time and if look at the corner reporter from venezuela analysis dot com a really appreciate you bringing that and i will have to talk to than with you terry thank you. thanks for having me. coming up on r t a mentally ill man in new york a shot and killed by police we'll have the story right after the break stay with us

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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 he's able to fight for 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 need when dealing with emotionally disturbed people i reached out to the department of the means their officers do receive extensive training on how to react and respond to a mostly disturbed people and there are many moods workshops by people who are actually in the psychiatry field as well as other mental health professionals reporting in new york city choppers r t. and 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 tasered more than forty times the video came to light when

knight now nineteen year old jordan norris filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff. department accusing deputies of violating his civil rights inciting the use of excessive force norris was arrested in november of two thousand and sixteen on drug and weapons charges including felony possession of marijuana while the lawsuit argues for excused against the teen was quote sadistic and malicious and on reasonable it also alleges norris was stunned by tasers for a total of almost three hours including before and actor he was already into the restraint chair cheatham county sheriff mike breedlove released a statement saying as sheriff i want our citizens to know that any inappropriate behavior that may have violated an individual's rights will not be tolerated however the sheriff also told a local news organizations that norrath displayed combative behavior before and after the incident and had been placed in the restraint chair for his own protection. construction of two brand new nuclear reactors in south

carolina which was touted as a breath of fresh air for the nuclear industry in the united states has now been halted billions of dollars already spent but now the construction company says it has become an economical holton construction has raised more questions about the future of nuclear power in the country but the new energy secretary stays defiant artie's election explains the two reactors a summer nuclear plant in south carolina were meant to be a game changer in the u.s. nuclear industry in two thousand and eight westinghouse election corporation subsidiary of the toshiba company signed a contract to build to eleven hundred megawatt reactors at the already running station in south carolina to be made operational by going to nineteen and thus rejuvenating the nuclear power industry blighted by aging plants and lol natural gas costs now off to billions of dollars spent the broad church has been the hole

to it march westinghouse filed for bankruptcy and now one of the utilities companies involved. in the construction sandy cooper says through we'd see that at best it would be seventy five percent more expensive than initially planned and would be completed several years late in the view of sands you cooper the much lauded project has become an economical and it would not want the customers to foot the bill and looking at the numbers it's not hard to see why the initial budget was agreed at around five billion dollars mark then it went up to sixteen billion and considering that nine billion already had been spent on these reactors scrapping the project would save at least seven billion dollars the jury act as if completed it would have become the first major construction in the new nuclear industry in decades so a lot of hopes was laid into this project but now that it's hold there are a lot of questions about the industry's future in general nuclear reactors in the united states to produce

a fifth of the total electrical energy in the country by department of energy estimates that by twenty twenty five this number may fall down to eleven percent primarily because of very serious competition from lower priced natural gas and renewable energy sources as well as the fact that we actors are aging and renovating those costs a lot of money as an example of that the indian point nuclear plant in upstate new york which after years of incidents at the plant and the rigorous campaign by environmentalists to shut it down will close its doors by the year twenty twenty one and a number of other plants across america may follow however the new energy secretary rick perry said that last month the rejuvenating the nuclear industry would be one of the new administration's priorities and even the faltering project of building two new reactors in south carolina would not stop this. reporting from washington d.c. the south korean defense ministry said to another north korean nuclear test in.

korean national my family and the ministry said quote north korea's nuclear test site is always ready to conduct an. their test at any time north korea's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test last week sparked a flurry of concern in south korea prompting an emergency meeting of the assembly the national defense committee monday unification a ministry spokesperson bike on maintained south korea will defend itself given military provocation but acknowledge the door is open for talk he said quote there is no response from the north about our talk or oppose also there are no particular changes in the status the south korean president said since the recent north korean i.b.m. test the u.s. and south korea are considering adding four more terminal high altitude area defense systems. france will open to migrate centers near the port city of kalai after

a court ruling the government must provide humane conditions for refugees trying to reach the u.k. the new migrant centers are set to be built about an hour's drive from callaway where the infamous jungle camp was once located. reports this comes off to the french government seems to be backed into a corner by the french courts which could rule that. decision to not provide clean water and sanitation facilities to the michael in cali was wrong in the disquiet that it's degrading treatment now that's because the french government and the interior minister said they were trying to avoid the stain mistakes again we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past but we also want to handle the problems and the reference there is a new tourist camp in cali which was new news the jungle now when it started around one thousand migrants were housed there in temporary accommodation such as tents but it grew and grew it became

a mecca for people who mainly were trying to reach the u.k. from by the time the camp was eventually. probably clear around ten thousand people were living there in some really school and conditions it was basically a camp that was out of control and when the authorities did to close it down last year it was violent see. witnessed this is the front line of the part of the jungle that's meant to be evicted today now we don't know how close we can get but you can see the riot police here in their shields with their mosques ready for any sort of action that might take place all of these settlements these hot say have been marked for demolition and the bulldozers just in the distance over there are making their way quite quickly through this part of the camp where you can see those fires burning and over there just in the distance

there are a number of refugees who are stood on top of their tents they are refusing to leave and that's why there's a heavy police presence here as we know despite the attempts there to completely close down that camp it hasn't quite worked because there are still estimated to be around three hundred fifty to four hundred migrants who are living in cali and that's one of the reasons why they will be moved to these new centers the problem is though that there's no guarantee that these new centers would become a mecca for migrants and that we could see some of the conditions that we saw in cali reemerging for example here in paris a center that was opened in the last year has become such a mecca for migrants that every night it's completely full and many migrants are yet again forced to sleep on the streets with every few weeks the police having to clear it yet again when they clear more migrants come and there is nothing to stop that from happening at these two new centers while there is also nothing happening

to stop any migrants going back to cali basically this is a cycle that nobody seems to be able to break. coming up an r.t.a. u.s. watchdog is looking into a shocking link between afghanistan's opium trade and the heroin crisis here at home well the right back. there's a real irony going to. be showing up plenty of things that a responsible voice need people and there is always so that's what it's always been seen in sri. lanka all the ordinary you know wholesale surveillance you see all you have all made while there's room to move through so this is then trump has used the social media site while i always saw the story goes it's garbage it's real. thing. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to read for us i'm sure.

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groups in canada have hit hard at the liberal government here in this country simply because we've been selling arms to saudi arabia and saudi arabia has been using them against their own people we heard about attack just last week in the eastern part of that country against the shia minority there according to some reports five people died including one police officer and according to human rights watch during that attack gurk of vehicles were built in canada just outside of toronto were used by the saudi government that violates trade deals for him from the canadian side or export deals i should say we're not allowed to do that because this is against human rights and it's we're not allowed to sell arms to any country that uses these arms against its own population so right now krista freeland the minister of foreign affairs as well as prime minister trudeau they're taking this very seriously there's a probe into what exactly is happening in saudi arabia and they want to know if we need to stop selling them weapons now saudi arabia right now we have not heard

a comment from that country yet but if this does go down it could create a rift between canada and that country we know that saudi arabia does not like battling in it where anybody meddling in their business but when it comes to meddling in other people's business well they're all over the place from iraq to yemen to the balkans to the philippines valued over wahhabi islam that they have exported around the world is something that you could track very easily if you just go to the internet or read a book at your local bookstore or really this is something that's well known as for the situation in canada with these deals if they do stop it could be worth billions of dollars there was a fifteen billion dollar armored vehicle deal signed between the canadian government and the saudis to stop that means that some people could be unemployed and the canadian government the government is already looking at a contingency plan of taking care of those workers the fact of the matter is though the bottom line canada has been selling weapons and these type of vehicles to some shift. nations such as the saudis they've showed up in libya they've showed up in

sudan so we know that they're human rights rights violations across the board in those three countries so as it stands right now the opposition parties and the canadian government are looking deep into this and these weapons might stop flowing at one point but again we've seen a light light translate around the saudi government in the past by the canadian government something like this would be a move in a direction we've never seen before back. a top u.s. watchdog is urging the trump administration to investigate potential links between the record production of opium in afghanistan and america's heroin crisis after a report came out hinting at a connection artie's kaleb moppin has more. reports from a watchdog in the united states showing that as the usa pours eight point six billion dollars into counter narcotic efforts in afghanistan the poppy fields are growing and cultivation of narcotics is spreading across the country now furthermore the report goes on to point out

a kind of contradiction between the statements of u.s. officials and the facts according to u.s. officials in the drug enforcement agency only one to three percent of the heroin in the united states originates in afghanistan however according to the special inspector for afghanistan reconstruction it could actually be much larger core to ham u.s. heroin comes from canada and most of the heroin coming in from canada originates in afghanistan this is the contradictory statements we're hearing about drugs in the united states meanwhile the states of maine the states of massachusetts the state of new hampshire with the two new you'll. go move have declared epidemics this point heroin related fatalities in the united states are reaching historic levels between one thousand nine hundred nine and two thousand and fifteen the number of people in the usa who died from heroin overdoses actually tripled at this point approximately fifty two thousand people are dying annually from heroin. in two

thousand and sixteen close to sixty thousand people died from drug overdoses and things only seem to be getting worse while cities are trying to find new ways to combat the rising numbers and residents a new report finds the crisis is also to blame perhaps for why people aren't getting hired r t correspondent actually banks has more. according to the bureau of labor statistics four point four percent of the american population is an employed to that percentage was last recorded in june of this year so roughly six point nine million americans are out of work so to six show that the loss of jobs and wage stagnation have both contributed to actually any shooting and drug abuse which then leads to joblessness and hopelessness last year five point six to five point seven percent of working adults didn't not work due to illness or disability and unknown percentage of that was also due to drug use according to data collected from the

u.s. current population survey according to the study employers and economists has said that half of job applicants do not clear drug test now according to chip cutter linked into managing editor he found a west virginia company recorded up to fifty percent of its applicants either refuse or fail to take a mandatory pre-employment drug screen federal reserve chair janet yellen says opioid use is to blame for the decline in labor participation rate so one of the biggest barriers to hiring is the fact that many people do not want to take a drug test the opioid crisis is so bad a white house panel recommends declaring a national emergency the members of the panel are calling this request their first and most urgent recommendation the panel was appointed by trump and is a looking to use many avenues to treat americans battling opioid addiction a final report from the panel is due october twenty seventh teen and washington

actually bang. art. as you know the white house is facing claims that it's and bows down that's after trump's new communications director was on the was the latest to fall on his sword after only ten days on the job the president's constant hiring and firing promoted speculation of chaos in the cabinet but there might be another reason behind the changes as artie's jacqueline vogel explains the never ending drama coming out of the white house has recently been bolstered by a number of shake ups in the west wing stuff and each time another employee bites the dust the media cries that chaos and disaster are reigning in the white house the turmoil inside the white house is real and on full display point of of profanity obscenity and humiliation this is a recognition that six months into this presidency is to fill a failed presidency we've been seeing trump repeatedly attack members of this is own staff often on social media causing headlines to erupt questioning the

president sanity these insane tweets some of donald trump's most insane tweets you know trump is completely insane a growing number of democrats are openly questioning president trump's mental health and listen carefully to donald trump and i think he's a narcissistic maniac but man this though it may be is there a method to it narcissistic mania. it's no secret that democrats hate trump he ran on the republican ticket so frankly one can expect no less but the thing is the president's own party also fosters a fair amount of opposition to him what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for i worry about the president's understanding of some of these issues. he's a race baiting ciena phobic religious bigot and i'm not going to get it done i. know it's not in the future true but on the other hand continues to defend his administration and the choices he makes the with the democrats against him and his

own party is not exactly solid support term seems to be trimming the fat leaving only those he can rely on reduce warren general kelly he will do a spectacular job i have no doubt thank you president elect for the confidence that you have shown in me donald trump understands the problem was right inside our military and is committed to restoring that readiness to have someone who's never done this who has actually created a real jobs donald trump is doing just that he speaks from the brain he speaks from the heart i mean all these trump insanity claims perhaps the president is simply used to running himself but those very few he truly trust doesn't go go r.t. washington d.c. . coming up on r t extreme weather in middle america prices go up at the grocery store we'll tell you why in just a minute. but the politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to

express. something wanted. to do i. would like. for you to keep. me interested reasonable. price. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were yourself in taken your last wrong turn. you're after caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got a chance to. i remember when we first met my life turned on each person. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was a game still some more fun to those that didn't like to question are are. there

secretly promised to never. say one does not leave the same as one and mind it's consumed with death this. speech. was. lame that mainstream media has met its maker. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get in the break. i'm going to. washington.

welcome back to our team there the air force is refusing to reimburse three communities and colorado for an eleven million dollar water contamination tap this comes after toxic firefighting foam that was used for decades at the peterson air force base at already say the foam sea. into the local awful fire making well water in southern i'll pass so county unsafe to drink while six million dollars have been spent responding to the contamination that estimate is expected to increased more than twelve million dollars by the end of two thousand and eighteen despite this the air force pledged to spend about four point three million on mitigation efforts such as providing bottled water and filters with one point seven million dollars reportedly going to local water districts investigators say levels of toxic chemicals released by the foam have reached concentrations more than one thousand two hundred fifty times the levels deemed safe by the e.p.a.

extreme weather conditions across middle america are having an impact on staple crops much of the country depends on our trees and harshest sweet has more on the effects and why they could indirectly impact your pocketbook. nearly eleven percent of the u.s. is in a moderate drought or worse according to leave meteorologists the excessive heat and little rain is heading 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 richard hi i'm a meteorologist with the national oceanic and atmospheric administration said in last week's travel port 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 wrings said that people in the business for the last five 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 aid in washington and sweets are seeing. according to

a study published in science bumble bees may be capable of positive emotion like state while bees may not have exactly the same feelings humans do numerous scientific experiments reveal bees quote possess the cognitive behavioral and. physiological mechanisms that underlie emotions to discuss this we are joined now by dr reece halter conservation biologist and author of the in comparable honeybee economics of pollination. welcome to the show dr reece halter if bees and insects are capable of emotions what would that imply i mean can you give us an idea of how complex bees can actually be. absolutely anya these critters are amazing they get sad they are pessimistic at times some are thrill seekers just like people and they can count at least two for what they can

be trained to arrive at three four and five different times in a twenty four hour cycle they vote these in six these little beings are extraordinary and they're central to our very existence on planet earth while other then produced and then being cute and producing honey and why should we care about the welfare bees how to be smart emotional beings contribute to human society oh yeah of five hundred seventy seven billion dollars for instance each years seventy five percent of all our food crops at least two point two billion pounds of honey forty four million pounds of bees wax and some of the most powerful pain and cancer and. their medicines and as well as twenty five

million tons of cotton the clothes we wear the we are we would be lost we would be unable to survive without the bees actually well the un has warned that the disappearance of bees and collapsing be colonies as a threat to global food security how serious is this threat. extraordinary i've been rattling the cages for the past decade we've got some nasty deadly poisons neo neka to annoy poisons that adubato doesn't parts per billion the bees lose their minds and shake to death just like parkinson's and all timers disease the bees are trouble we've lost at least a trillion bees over the last decade and as i said earlier we cannot function seven point five billion procreating humans without the bees we've

got to get them healthy we need bees in your book you write about banning neurotoxins and pesticides which may be contributing to the collapse of b. colonies what else should be done to protect these essential populations well absolutely these poisons have to be banned because they're not only killing the bees they're killing the soil and they're talks of finding the water. the best thing here to do is work with nature not against your model crop plantations are a disaster when we work with many crops together and the companion plants it works like a dream for we mere mortals said home what i have yours i'd like everybody it's hot it's dry take a water ball. make sure you've got stones that poke up above the water because the

bees just like us they need water need to drink and they need to perch on the rock and fill these balls refill them every morning so the bees need water all right dr reece halter distinguished conservation biologist we really appreciate it. thank you very much watching the hocks is up next here on our top of the wallace joins us now for a preview what do you have going on tonight tabitha well tonight on watching the hocks it appears that the pentagon is looking to fan the flames of the conflict in the ukraine then we discovered that the democratic party has now turned their back on the last pillar of their base and finally we navigated a pretty twisted relationship between the military industrial complex and hollywood you don't want to miss it and we won't then thanks a lot to have a. and that's it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america also our website our t. dot com slash america you can also follow me on twitter and on your part in pill

question or. i 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 worships 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 right the atlantic considers itself to be a news outlet where people can go to get their news and yet not only did it openly endorse 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.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest break in truth to stand out of the news business you just need to ask the right questions demand the right answer. questions. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests that's thrown down a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's

where i come in. i'm ed schultz i believe on r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded that you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. questionable illo. it's called the feeling of freedom. everyone in the world should experience phillida and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to jesse. the modern world come along for the ride. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington to washington post media the media

the. voters elected the businessman to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . greetings and sell you tasia and you know sometimes when you're when you're paying attention to the world around you life has this very curious way of dropping little warning signs of an impending doom sitting just around the corner you don't radically alter your current plans. like being off for a ride from a friend who just dropped a tab a bastard on three tequila shots are finding that life's betting spray in someone's bathroom. telling you.