coming up on our team america several reports of violations of the cease fire in syria as we hear new calls for the removal of u.s. warplanes from the country. at least forty are massacred in an afghan village with reportedly the isis and the taliban to blame but does that make sense we've got expert analysis on the never ending war coming up. and new reports say north korea has developed a miniaturized warhead for its nuclear arsenal those stories and more up in the.

evening it's tuesday august eighth five pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part until you're watching our team america we begin this hour in syria where the country has been engulfed in war since two thousand and eleven there have been many efforts to deescalate but those attempts have been unsuccessful largely thanks to outside actors just recently the russian defense ministry announced there have been several cease fire violations in the country since a peace agreement went into effect last month now there's renewed effort to get u.s. warplanes out of the war torn country here's our correspondent ashley banks with an explanation most of the violations are cases of unselective firing from small arms some of those are registered in areas controlled by the terrorist organization al nusra russia defense ministry put out a statement saying quote within the last twenty four hours the russian party of the russia turkey commission on violations of the joint inquiry ment has registered eighteen cases of firing in provinces of aleppo damas allowed to keep the. his side

has registered three cases of ceasefire violations in the provinces of damascus russia and turkey are just two countries involved in trying to deescalate the war in syria the us has also had its share of involvement as well most notably its bombing of the islamic state and the bombing of president bashar al assad's military back in april of this year after it was allegedly conducted a chemical attack against its own people many people are unhappy with the us is involvement in the war some citing not only does the us not have a real reason to wage a war in the country but it's also unlawful today a conference call to know what u.s. warplanes over syria was held at the national press club in washington there were a total of five speakers at the conference including cia whistle blower john kiriakou and alter david swanson each gave their reasons why they support a petition that's calling on congress and defense secretary james mattis term move

all of us military aircraft in syria kiriakou you said the u.s. is involvement is a legal and swanson talked about the horrible impact this war is having on the syrian people take a look there is a solution to all of this but it's not sexy or quick or easy it's something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually seen it's called diplomacy. whether trump likes politics or not the only way to save that country from becoming a failed state or an isis state is to sit at the table with all of the stakeholders including the syrians the russians and whether we like it or not the iranians we're going to have to accept the fact that assad is not going anywhere nor should he whether we like it or not his is the internationally recognized government of syria

no one has given the us legal authority to decide the fate of other nations by any means and since world war two the united states has interfered as we know in at least eighty two foreign elections though not in the bad russian way presumably and bombed over thirty countries you know this is no one appointed the us to this role this is not a legal this is not enforcing law this is violating law and so it has to end the nation magazine or it's action dot org and watchdog dot nat are just some organizations that are sponsoring this petition so far fifty thousand people have signed a document in hopes of ending the u.s. is involvement in the syrian war and washington national banks are. we're going to talk about this a little more now with the executive director of the institute for public accuracy and corden nader for redaction dot org norman solomon how are you today norman fine

thank you can you start by telling me why you participated or were here today at this event at the national press club to publicize the petition calling on congress and defense secretary mattis to remove all u.s. warplanes from syria well as americans afraid that we are party to an almost invisible war as far as americans are concerned and half a dozen groups got together to put forward this idea which i think is crucial syrian airspace should not be a place where u.s. planes are flying and bombing and that also includes a drone aircraft as we just heard a minute ago john kerry yaku the cia whistleblower pointed out this morning at a news conference of the national player press corps that like it or not there is an internationally recognized government there the assad regime i don't like that regime i think we should denounce that regime that doesn't change the fact that the

u.s. government has no right to fly its own planes into syrian airspace without the permission of the syrian government. and we should mention as well part of the secret war that's been waged on syria which you've described is also ground forces i mean there are u.s. military personnel training militias on the ground we know the cia ran what they've admitted now is that one billion dollar program to train and equip syrian rebels so this is a very large secret war almost norman as you say why won't the media ever talk about it or at least point out what the u.s. has done to create a situation that will in terms of u.s. media in general the mass media describe it in a fairly favorable way it's the modern equivalent of thirty years ago forty years ago and social america we heard the line that there were freedom fighters they were supposed to be in existence in nicaragua the contras then in afghanistan their

freedom fighters to kick out the soviet troops in the one nine hundred eighty s. and i think what needs to be adhered to and pushed for is a single standard of human rights we don't want intervention by the us by russia by any other countries to go in and bomb people who are trying to get on with their lives and as americans i think we need to face the fact that there are eight hundred plus u.s. military bases outside of this country around the world a grand total of forty military bases for all the other countries of the world outside their borders that is an indication of just how expansionist in a political geopolitical sense the u.s. government has been and the pentagon has been and we need to face that fact and then pull back on the political and military power absolutely stunning fact larry pointed out you have an only spoken out against u.s. escalation in syria you're also a vocal critic of the sanctions regime recently imposed against russia signed into

law by president trump why do you think sanctions are a hazardous policy well it's really an escalation towards russia and the fact is that what took place af. the sanctions were approved by congress was totally predictable as a matter of fact i had a piece in usa today just before the response from flooding our putin which was to then escalate and order hundreds of diplomatic personnel off the jobs in many cases out of the country in russia and this is a spiral that involves the two nuclear superpowers on the planet so in a way it doesn't matter if people like or hate trump like or hate putin we have one planet we have thousands of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of each of those countries and it is in some sense insane to believe that there is something ethical about escalating the tensions we should be trying for detente we should be trying for better relations which is something trump has been lambasted for suggesting of

course these sanctions are being implemented in response to russian meddling in the last year's election according to those who support the saying since do you buy that justification well whether russia intervened in the us elections or not that doesn't change the fact that escalating towards nuclear war is an attack on the survival of the human species so i don't think that the kremlin or the white house are as pure as any driven snow we can imagine in the real world though to escalate towards nuclear conflagration is beyond irresponsible and i think it would be very helpful for people around the world and as american i think it's especially important to get on for a very high horses stop preaching to the world and begin to curb our own imperial policies which have been and continue to be so militaristic as someone who has

dedicated their career to as a media watchdog to really hold the media accountable what do you think of the condition of the fourth estate today i mean they could be going out. after trump if they wanted to be critical of trump first so many things domestically if they wanted to do stories criticizing the administration but if you turn on the t.v. all you hear mostly is russia russia russia that's been their tactic well you know donald trump unfortunately has a version to facts and he lies so often and yet when you look at his foreign policy . it's that parable that sometimes a broken clock is correct once every twenty four hours i think his statements in favor of detente are absolutely correct and in terms of foreign policy he has been hammered into announced by the us mass media precisely for his best policies and we ought to reexamine why that is the case because there is a tremendous war lobby in this country it's lucrative military industrial complex

we've got to turn that around and turning it around may be very difficult though as you know especially with the media i mean when you hear something like a peace agreement being reached in syria what we heard is oh it means trumps putin's puppet not you know celebrating the potential deescalation of a conflict there do you see as just headed down a perilous path at this point or or what are the opportunities for deescalation certainly perilous i mean our news conference this morning was an effort to help turn this momentum this very dangerous destructive ominous momentum around so that when we're calling for pulling u.s. airplanes and drones out of syrian airspace we're saying that escalating and escalating some more is not pre-determined it's up to whether we can marshal the strength from the grassroots to say that what martin luther king jr called the madness of militarism must be opposed and must be stopped he said what militarism. tiriel of them are that's three main drivers of the us empire something

he gets less credit for pointing out i think these days yes there's a lot of stuff you know what just. action called the the idle dream or the mortar on a postage stamp or we hear a lot about i have a dream we don't hear a lot about how martin luther king was a great peace activist targeting the military industrial complex here executive director for the institute for public accuracy and court major for its action dot org norman solomon always great to talk to you thank you analysts say the democratic republic of north korea can now successfully produce a miniaturized nuclear warhead which can fit inside its missiles in response to repeated threats to the united states president donald trump issued a grave warning to the country today they will be met with fodder. like the world has never seen. meanwhile a confidential assessment conducted by u.s. intelligence officials was also published in the washington post today this

analysis was reportedly completed last month by the defense intelligence agency and comes on the heels of an assessment which raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the country's new nuclear or rather atomic arsenal as many as sixty nuclear weapons are now controlled by north korean leader kim jong un while other independent experts say the number of bombs is much smaller according to the world nuclear stockpile report the united states has at least six thousand eight hundred nuclear weapons this comes after the obama administration committed to a one or a thirty year rather one trillion dollar program to modernize the e.u.'s two clear arsenal back in two thousand and sixteen. the taleban and islamic state forces reportedly combined power to massacre at least forty men women and children in syria pull afghanistan sunday that's according to some local officials there they said combatants captured

a village and subsequently executed the shiite minority civilians who live there the taliban has yet to claim responsibility in fact they deny responsibility and the united nations has not pub. glee acknowledged the massacre yet however liam mcdowell from the u.n. assistance mission to afghanistan told r.t. america quote the mission's investigations into the reported incident are ongoing he wouldn't comment on the nature of the murders or the current investigation we're going to dig a little deeper into the state of affairs in afghanistan now with former marine corps captain matthew hoh just briefly if i can get your reaction to that story does it make sense the taliban would work with i says to commit an attack here no it doesn't make sense and they work with you know the islamic state group in afghanistan they haven't done so yet just the same day a taliban commander issued a statement saying if i catch any of you referring to his subordinates talking to

any islamic state members i will kill you know certainly the taliban prior to two thousand and one was engaged in very heinous atrocities against a shia minority in afghanistan but recently they have not been doing that type of sectarian slaughter that seems to be more of an islamic state type action interesting while you resigned from the foreign service in protest of the war in afghanistan two thousand and nine this week it was reported the u.s. is sending more marines in june president trump approved the transfer of four thousand more troops to the country with later reports suggesting he's a little reluctant to approve another surge are you surprised or still waging this war a decade since you left the obama administration disappointed of course and greatly saddened but i'm not surprised you know i mean the war's good money the war is good business. you know is having a conversation about how. gentrified washington d.c.

has become the price of houses the price of rents how expensive neighborhoods are in washington d.c. i mean can tie that directly into the defense budget in the intelligence budget some washington d.c. house since two thousand and one mean exactly how the salaries that people make for working for the defense corporations how the salaries they make for all these things mean so the war is or great business so the fact that if we bomb the philippines as was reported in the washington post that will now be the nation we are now bombing so no i'm not surprised that the war still continuing greatly saddening brings the point because the afghan people or a near fourth decade of suffering but. you know it's an interesting point you make there because i can tell you going around washington you see all these luxury apartment buildings popping up wondering who can afford them oh there is a b.

a systems or booz allen hamilton off of that building right there i have no wonder so convenient in twenty fourteen the obama administration released a statement celebrating the end of a combat mission in afghanistan did that milestone really mean anything though no really i mean we still have ten thousand troops there possibly more i mean there is discussion or there was some discussion about pulling troops out but that seems to be dead you know you know the original milestone was for a withdrawal of troops by summer of two thousand and eleven and remember the great discussion with between betray us and obama or that the troops would be out within eighteen months of course that milestone was passed and then it became this continual pushing back of when the end day in afghanistan would be and then it became two thousand and fourteen and then the president kept pushing it and pushing it and pushing and then it's then that you know it's strange that exactly and this

. future of the mission in afghanistan it's apparently causing a lot of tension in this white house with reporting suggesting trump's national security adviser h.r. mcmaster and his wife out white house counsel steve bannon are actually battling over this strategy pretty brutally with mcmaster apparently supporting calls to send more troops to the country what do you think about these reports well of course the general or the former general you know master is going to want to win that's all these guys want they want is winning that this is a this is a legacy. sure these guys could actually tell you what winning is but this is their legacy this is their career this is their past this is what they want they can't defeat. so yes for them. to say that we didn't persevered we didn't go through it that is just anathema and they can't have that now a guy like bannan he sees the world differently and see it in

a better ally and make master because bannon sees the world in this with the specters of islam this and global this and he wants erik prince to come in with army of mercenaries and subdue the all full brown people to make afghanistan ripe for the plucking of rare earth minerals so you have in one case in the white house a general who doesn't want to a myth that afghanistan was in a moral war that could never be won as a war were based were trying to occupy a people and subjugate them and we have a man in a bed in who sees global islam is and he wants a mercenary to subdue them a great way to break it down i'm glad you brought up erik prince because he is everywhere in the media lately i don't know if you've noticed this of course his sister also happens to be education secretary betty device i want to play you

something he said recently on another network. their fuel remediation their parts on time that's what you need to keep the afghan forces afloat pentagon needs over fifty billion dollars more than the entire u.k. defense budget. i'm not sure if that was the correct one but essentially he's been saying all over the media that he has a plan where we can affordably go in and like you say with his private mercenaries to take care of the problem in afghanistan he doesn't think we should be getting out what exactly would. prince is a model or plan for afghanistan b. what kind of situation would we be looking at a country oh i think his model is to make himself money in subjugate the afghan population by brutally suppressing them i don't think there's any of the model in that i mean when i first heard of this plan was several months ago and he compared it to the way the british the british used to control the indian

population which was just brutal subjugation utilizing the rifle on the band and i believe that it's prince's model he laughably suggests that somehow a contractor force would be more affordable which never thing we've seen over the last however many years we know that contractors are not cheaper than the government but this is the logical extension of the neo liberal policies the last several decades i mean war is the ultimate mass the station of these near little policies so why would we not private ties. this inherently governmental function absolutely right i mean it's plain as day with the way they're discussing it but i mean you have a lot of experience then your own perspective what would you say if the goal was stability in afghanistan or putting it back in the hands of the people there not you know permanent occupation what would a strategy be you have to achieve peace you have to have cease fires no

negotiations can take place while the violence is occurring this slaughter you you open this segment with that's the madness that always occurs in war you're always going to have violence in atrocity and war so it's that's always going to happen but you must have cease fires that lead to negotiations that lead to reconciliation in order to have that you talk about negotiating with the taliban of course absolutely of course in order to have that all parties from outside the conflict must so stop their financial and material support to parties within the conflict so no more meddling from outside parties whether it's the inept meddling. the united states is so good at but certainly no supporting of warlords and drug lords and militias as we've been doing no supporting by pakistan or india or iran bad is what

is keeping this conflict going that is what is keeping the suffering of the afghans going or all these outside parties just as we see in syria and the u.n. has been there since been involved there since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine so this is been decades decades of discipline relation all leading to this point matthew hoh former marine corps captain thank you so much for coming in today very fascinating insight thank you. u.s. officials say an iranian trone flew a thin one hundred feet of an american fighter jet in the persian gulf that during a carrier landing today the drone reportedly ignored calls several radio calls before the incident occurred of course the drone was operating in the persian gulf . which actually borders iran unlike the united states while the official does not specify which unit the us jet belong to the only carrier in the gulf is the u.s.s. nimitz that's according to public navy documents the super hornet jet is part of the strike fighter squadron at one forty seven the u.s. naval institute says it was operating in international airspace during the

encounter. canada is working with a quote real sense of urgency following reports that canadian made weapons are being used against civilians in saudi arabia by that country's troops this according to count us foreign affairs minister opposition parties and human rights groups are calling on the canadian government to halt all weapons to the saudis as the investigation into human rights abuses intensifies or just alex and held it in toronto with more alex we are hearing that canadian armored personnel carriers are being used by evil beat saudi forces against the shia minority in the kingdom what's the latest well what's the latest is that there's some video now to back it up and we got it for you these are terrifying gurkhas it's a it's a vehicle that it's made just outside of toronto city called new market to gurka itself i mean it's a very versatile vehicle it could be used from anything from civilian to to obviously military a reasons and it's something that we have here in canada others police forces that

use it in the states around the world but the problem here is that the saudis are using it against it so people also a candidate is not allowed to export vehicles to for military purposes when human rights violations are involved now the issue here is you could see these vehicles are being used in eastern in the eastern part of saudi arabia twenty to thirty people dead this is been an operation that's been ongoing since may nobody's talking about it you're not hearing about it in the mainstream media cities like i will me i would be is one of the largest cities in that area it's only about thirty to thirty five thousand people i mean this is a you know it's sparsely. area of of eastern saudi arabia that is mostly shiite populated and this is the population that the saudis are going after but as we know the saudis are sunni muslims one hobbyist what many like to call much is like a stream version of the sunni islam and they're now attacking these people which make up the according to some thinkers fifteen percent of the saudi populations

when i say that i mean that. muslims make up about that much of the population were if you look at the city this is a site that is reminiscent of mosul and the destruction that's there this is something again that's been ongoing and the saudis are saying it and they can think of it believe this or not is that there's a lot of narrow roadways in these cities that need to be blown up so that they can make space because that be a terrorist operations are taking place there and terrorists are usually utilizing these narrow paths for their operations as we know this has been going on for a long long time population in that country has is a poor population and it's a population that has basically been pushed into a corner and this is what we're seeing now with canadian vehicles at the forefront what steps can the cane government take to address the way these vehicles are being used in fact. look where the second largest export or is of military equipment to saudi arabia after you guys after the united states and here's

a quote from justin trudeau our prime minister i think this is pretty interesting this was said about a year ago it was back in two thousand and sixteen around i believe in may we need to be able to project to the world that one candidate agrees to something it sticks to its word now what he's talking about is another arms deal which is worth fifteen billion dollars canada's biggest arms deal ever to the saudis for other vehicles not the ones that we're seeing here but they're also armored vehicles light armored vehicles and this seemed to be sort of a priority now that priority must be changing with what chrystia freeland our foreign affairs minister is saying it's no longer hey you know i promised you a gun so i have to. give it to you but you know what if by that whoever promised a gun to his to be a psychopath probably a good idea not to give that gun to the person great so this is what's happening right now candidates are looking at the situation very seriously they're talking about possibly maybe even stopping arm shipments this is against canadian law you cannot export these things there's export permits that are given and those permits

if they're violated like what we're seeing happening in saudi arabia well then there's an issue between the canadian government and the saudi arabian government what can canada do we either have to stop our military exports altogether to saudi arabia and another thing that canada is doing chrystia freeland in particular she's talking to our allies people in the european union we know back in two thousand and sixteen the european union did a non-binding agreement with the in the european parliament weapons and bargo basically toward saudi arabia say we can't sell the weapons because of the yemen situation now this is the saudis killing people in their own country their own civilians so this is a step up at least in the eyes of canada and this is something that did we're looking at very seriously and hopefully a lot of people are open a lot of politicians a lot of human rights groups there were to stop selling arms to these countries that are causing these type of human rights violations and killing their own people to the bottom line why do they think they're going to do with all those tanks alex . i mean i don't i sure that's my question and it's such

a good way to take not giving a damn what happened it will take all these weapons just just don't hurt anybody it creates idea that it's a hell of it from toronto thanks for that report thank you coming up on our team or defense contractors in afghanistan that's what infamous blackwater founder erik prince has suggested that we've got that report after this break. there's a real irony going. to be. responsible for placing the people in there is always well that's what the terms of it was and always saying it's realistic. or carrying out wholesale surveillance is there you. ammo meanwhile goes in and suits you so this is the instructor has used the sauce on your table while i always thought this story is garbage and real. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or

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tractors last week prince admitted a business proposal to send a private air force to the country equipped with intelligence collection and close air support capabilities that's according to a senior afghan military official in june prince called for an approach similar to that of general douglas macarthur his leadership of post-war japan for afghanistan he wrote authorities should be consolidated to one person a quote american viceroy who would lead all u.s. government and coalition efforts in an op ed piece for the wall street journal prince and the article by noting afghanistan is home to an estimated one trillion dollars worth of mineral resources and says we should quote focus on pounding the taliban and other terrorists so hard that they plead for negotiation erik prince founded the private military contractor now known as academy in one thousand nine hundred seven he profited to the tune of over one billion dollars in no bid

contracts from the bush administration during the iraq war artie's it jacqueline vogel explains how military contractors are still thriving. meet erik prince the founder of blackwater a private military company with a controversial reputation with its legacy you might expect princes career to be over but this cannot be farther from the truth there's no backlash for him no shame the man's gun for hire business is booming what i care about says it's pays the large you wasting food say five billion dollars a year in afghanistan i don't think it's appropriate to pull out completely with all the wars the us is waging abroad times are lucrative for private security firms yet you'd struggle to find one with an untainted slate dyna corp for example for over a decade the u.s. state department was giving almost seventy percent of its funding for afghanistan to this particular firm this company's record features a sex slavery scandal in bosnia a male prostitution scandal in afghanistan and also there a botched seventy million dollar worth construction project were also means big

business for sally port global who were paid nearly seven hundred million dollars to secure an iraqi base they allegedly turned a blind eye to alcohol smuggling theft security violations and allegations of sex trafficking and then fired investigators who uncovered wrongdoing that's all according to an associated press investigation the list of controversy goes on yet private security firms are doing just fine and filling their coffers with the spoils of war. are t. washington d.c. . miami lawmakers are calling on the trump administration to grant temporary asylum to them as well and immigrants living in the united states this comes as a new united nations report accuses the venezuelan government of using widespread and systematic excessive force to quote months of violent protests which have included lynchings setting fire to the streets and attacking of government buildings for more on these developments we cross live parties marine important in miami right of the trunking ministration has slapped sanctions against the

venezuelan president maduro categorizing him as a dictator pressing his own people however that's not enough for lawmakers in miami is it. commissioners mislead passed a resolution one day urging congress and the u.s. president to extend temporary immigration status to all that is well and living in the united states he adds is reserved for citizens of countries under extraordinary strains such as a natural disaster or a government collapse this that is temporarily halt schools that would otherwise require citizens to return home g.p.s. status has been granted to citizens of p.d.-l salvador honduras and paul nicholls. and a few more countries. are set to expire next year according to the pew research center the chaos and a little address in venezuela has ignited a surge in u.s. asylum applications filed by venezuelans as she thousand and sixteen and as well as

among the top nations of. asylum applications to the u.s. a one hundred sixty eight percent increase. in venezuela from twenty sixteen to twenty thirteen to twenty sixteen now while president charles has vocalized washington solidarity with that as well as opposition it's unclear how he would be willing to extend temporary protection status to immigrants just last week mr trump . whose immigration reform plan the level of illegal immigration into the u.s. why are boozing skills based immigration system so while out he is vocalized to work with those that are are fighting against them with the world government is not their views on his policy he's so easy to just sign off on temporary protection status quo venezuelan immigrants. all right now while this is all happening while

the u.n. human rights office presented its preliminary report today about the situation in venezuela the findings don't necessarily paint a good picture of them into a government is that right despite their response to what have been very very violent demonstrations that's right that's true a two month u.n. fact finding initiative has concluded that venezuelan security forces have used widespread and systematic excessive force against anti-government protesters a spokesman for the un human rights office says officials but two months conducting video conference interviews with the victims and witnesses in venezuela the team of experts found patterns of human rights violations including house raids torture and the use of deadly force against protesters take a listen in several of the cases that we reviewed there were credible reports of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment by security forces of such detainees

amounting in several cases to torture. tactics used included electric shocks. beatings including with helmets and sticks while handcuffed hanging detainees by their wrists for long periods suffocation with gas and threats of killings and in some cases threats of sexual violence against the detainees or their families. as of july one hundred twenty four people are believed to have died in venezuela since demonstrations began back in april u.n. officials say it's too soon to tell whether the matter is warranted or has warranted or warrant an international investigation but they can see the patterns of violence in the streets show no sign of abating over the weekend two people were killed and eight others captured after a group of our men in military uniforms stormed a venezuelan army base and incident president nicolas maduro categorized as a terrorist attack on saturday but as well as newly elected constituent assembly

was inaugurated miss amid mass public demonstrations during its first official session the assembly fired the attorney general louisa ortega dia's who was critical of mentor oshie was replaced by the dora loyalist meanwhile a fierce opponent of the venezuelan president leopoldo lopez was released from a military prison after his late night arrest last tuesday lopez is back home where he is serving out his house arrest all right marie an important for us in miami thanks a lot thank you these days we hear a lot about hacking and cyber security there is one aspect however if you focus on the united states giving up its control of the internet and doing it voluntarily particularly when it comes to selling domain names to countries argues a lecturer chefs looks at one case where hundreds of thousands of those were given up to china.

specialist jeff baron was seen as one of the internet pioneers i was fortunate enough to be able to develop some software in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and we were able to register some very valuable good domain names like. servers dot com his hundred million dollar company ran the domain creation this is a guy who had who had around one hundred million dollar company he had around eighty million unique visits per day to his site and he had a one million domain names that he controlled but often a business dispute between baron and his business partner landed the company in a courtroom jeff became the first person in the post slavery era and america to go into human receivership with a federal judge in texas stripping him both of his material wealth and his civic rights but the most surprising thing came later when barron's assets and it up not

quite in a place you would expect the court seized these assets to belong to these companies and they so when the court according to the higher court didn't have jurisdiction to do that there were my recollection is there was about three hundred fifty thousand internet domain names and a lot of those domain names did end. in china the domain name sold by the u.s. court to chinese and other foreign countries ranged from simple three letter websites to the longer ones but there was always one common denominator the dot com extension imagine the internet as the real estate market so in this case the dot com domains would be the elite houses large pompous villas while all other domains would be affordable cheap housing but regardless now imagine somebody with bags of cash rolling in and buying off all property in a neighborhood easy to imagine that in either case such individual would have

a major say in how things are run in such. immunity and this is exactly the concern that investigative journalist john griffin has when it comes to the chinese buying off those domains now we have a bunch of non western countries like iran who censors the censors the internet monitors what their people look at online china same thing competing now against russia the united states britain germany for influence over what is traditionally been a very open equal and competitive space when china gets fifty one percent control of all d.n.a.'s addresses it also then can dictate to the rest of us to russia to the united states what we will see online how we will consume news online such interest from the land of the dragon is not new barron's assets were given up in two thousand and thirteen but this block posts from two years ago suggest selling the domain names to china was quite a profitable business the person who wrote this outlined the pricing at times going

to hundreds of thousands of dollars and that the market is hot and that the chinese own it but the most bizarre part is that america is doing this to itself not only signified by barron's case but also by letting go of u.s. government's grip on domain name system or the d.n.a.'s last year to a nonprofit company called i can which has governments and foreign businesses among its stakeholders i think the risk is extremely serious that a foreign after or a number of foreign actors could obtain control over i can and therefore essentially control the internet at least for a short period of time so in the instance of america being at war with hostile foreign powers if they were able to obtain control hostile i was able to take control over the i can over the internet i think it puts the united states security in extreme jeopardy the american government has stood behind the internet historically that's what it's made the internet what it is today so simply

restoring that not going further not going back further. for the forward but restoring the system we had i think would do a lot to alleviate these issues the current media world is buzzing with everything cyber related the story of us giving up its domain assets to foreign governments however is not as sexy as hacking allegations so jeff baron as well as a handful of internet activists are waiting to see where the trump's administration would take any steps at all to make the internet american again. reporting from washington d.c. the special counsel overseeing an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the us elections robert mueller is reportedly considering a pouring a grand jury for the case the media has been focusing their attention in particular on one meeting which involved donald trump jr and russian lawyer tallia bestselling at sky we spoke exclusively to vessel at sky and i asked her what she thought about the possibility of

a grand jury being involved in the investigation into alleged clue between trump and russia take a listen. i don't know what exactly mr miller's going to investigate regarding my meeting with his president's son i can only say what i know that my meeting was determined by my duties as a lawyer i was defending a russian citizen in the united states of america if it turns out the defending a russian citizen in the us is a crime in that case there is a subject for mr miller's investigation you see it's interesting how the u.s. media machine works the new york times sent me a request with a list of questions on the eighth of july i was very surprised by these questions they were focused on my meeting with mr trump at first i couldn't even remember when exactly that meeting happened it was so fleeting and in consequential but here's what's interesting after receiving a quite detailed response from me the new york times published only a short part they needed today this article has changed significantly if you open

the first story they had on this matter and compare it to the original version they published on the eighth you will see how dramatic the difference is i understand the whole story surrounding my meeting with trump jr has been manipulated by whom i see only one answer to this question if you find the motive you'll find the explanation we got so close to the truth behind the magnitsky act who was pushing it and why for years we found out so much about what was happening in russia between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and six we found out so much about the real cases of them battlement of russia's budget and considering that i publicly challenge mr browder the man behind this story i think it's all orchestrated by him and his team. american finance ca william browder emerged as a central player in the scandal between us and that sky and donald trump jr even testifying to a senate committee leaked u.s.

state department e-mails reveal browder was actively gathering information and personal details about vessel in the sky if she believes a broader had a personal vendetta against her because she lost or rather he lost a court case to her which opened in two thousand and thirteen back then best on the sky was representing a site based company provision holding owned by a russian businessman browder had accused the company of money laundering the case was settled in may this year and cleared provision of any guilds. coming up on our team who will finds itself in hot water following a sexist memo circulating around the tech giant purported reporting men are more fit to work in tech than women are stay with us. with a whole to. put themselves on a lot. to get a little joke. so when you want to be trusted. you still want.

to do it. she would. be. interested. for sure. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taken your last turn. 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. you secretly promised to never. it's one does not believe that the same is mine and

mine consumed with this. speech you know. 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 a break in the break. but. i've got to. your. question.

welcome back to our team america internet giant google is in the middle of a major controversy after one of its male engineers wrote a company memo on why women aren't engineers the manifesto has sparked a global outrage as artie's trinity chávez explains. google is the most popular search engine out there and now the company is finding itself right in the middle of a firestorm google fired an employee over a controversial memo he wrote criticizing the company's diversity policy james the more wrote a ten page manifesto arguing that the lack of women in tech jobs is caused by biological differences as opposed to discrimination to more claims that women don't handle stress as well as men do therefore men are better suited for demanding jobs he wrote in a memo quote the distribution of prefer. says and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership google c.e.o.

. bonded in a letter to employees he wrote demar crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace he said to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not ok meanwhile some say that the more may just have a lawsuit on his hands because google just might have violated his freedom of speech and that might be true reuters did confirm that to moore is exploring all legal recourse reporting in new york trinity charges r t musical legend roger waters as calling out fellow performers for refusing to participate in the boycott divestment and sanctions movement for palestinian rights waters and other supporters of b.d.s. recently asked the band radiohead to join the cultural boycott of israel and cancel a gig scheduled in tel of eve last month the group rejected the call leading to a high profile spat between rock stars waters told rolling stone quote i have made

every effort to engage with radiohead frontman thom yorke personally and would still like to have the conversation going on to say in reference to the fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of palestine quote fifty years living under occupation fifty years for a people with no civil rights fifty years of no recourse to the law fifty years of apartheid york justified the band's decision by stating quote we've played in israel for over twenty years through a session of governments some more liberal than others as we have in america we don't endorse israeli prime minister netanyahu anymore than trump but we still play in america now in an exclusive interview with r t waters has responded to york's remarks here's a preview of our discussion. thom yorke is wrong about indorsing the purposes of israeli government planning that. spokespersons of that government have said

how excited they are this is the best thing that's happened for the hospital which is the explaining to the rest of the world. what a wonderful precious democracy israelis. and willy nilly when they cross the picket line they are making a public statement that they do indorse the policies of the cup what ever they say because that is what will be reported in israel and that is what gets reported around the world that is why radiohead have being so soundly criticized by anybody with progressive ideas about human rights. because they have taken that step the other thing is about performing in the united states of trying to boycott the people of the united states got together as a civil society and asked performance from the rest of the world not to come and perform in the united states because they are not people and there is an organized

resistance against the occupying army civil society in palestine in two thousand and five started the b.d.s. movement themselves this isn't something imposed by a bunch of foreign musicians this is something that they started that they have organized and they have made an appeal to all of his rights as musicians actors directors anybody in the rest of the world to observe the picket line which they have shown and because not to to to to observe a cultural boycott of the country you're one of the most beloved rock stars of a generation you're very vocal outspoken and i would say are fairly accessible why don't we hear from you on mainstream media or on popular late night television shows. so. that they come to the question but that it comes from

above. i was told by charlie rose not directly but by his producer why isn't roger and charlie rose and we're not quite sure but it comes from above does that change for you to hear you're out here so it's not rocket science my entire conversation with roger waters will air here in our team america at five pm on thursday be sure to tune in to hear all about the israel lobby as efforts to shut down his tour as well as his views on fake news trump and the new cold war against russia. that does it for now for more on the story as we cover go to you tube dot com slash r t america and to get our web site r.t. dot com slash america you can also follow me on twitter at on your part phil question mark. john i thought all you're watching are.

just a year ago no one i know in real life was into politics now cut to just a year later and suddenly they're all expert and they have all these opinions about what's a credible news source and what's not and since i live in new york city everyone in my real life now is suddenly super into the new york times they'll name drop it in bars even saying yeah i read this in the new york times the other day and the other person will say oh yeah right the new york times of course i saw that one too it's a whole thing now to be cool and into the new york times for all these people who did not know anything about politics last year at all on the flip side they say the words fox news as if they're spitting something gross out of their mouths they probably never even read anything on fox or watch the channel even they've only seen clips on the daily show making fun of so many of these folks who are newly

into politics don't even realize how slanted the news they're getting is they just think the new york times only present facts not a nuanced perspective and i was reminded of that recently when mark ames exile on twitter pointed out a pretty crazy had line the times ran last fall it read berlin one nine hundred forty five grozny two thousand aleppo twenty sixteen which is a pretty nuanced perspective all right because as mark ames exiled pointed out. the not subtle implication in the headlines lift is that the nazis were helpless victims of russian aggression which is totally true because russia is the common denominator in that list insinuating to perspective that russia was the aggressor at the nine hundred forty five battle of britain where they were ending the nazi youth so i laughed when i saw mark and exiled tweet but all those people new out there to politics walking around quote in the new york times who publish that

headline they have no idea what it even meant let alone how nuanced it workers and that's because the times is as nuanced as they get they're really good at it they are masters of it because a lot of them are really smart. like any news outlet the times has good stuff and they have bad stuff and they have a whole lot of perspective so if you're going to start all of a sudden reading the times you better start watching fox news too because you've got to look at all the perspectives if you want to see the whole picture where the truth really lives or just go back to watching cat videos like you were last year and that's fine too just either way whatever you do please just stop name dropping the new york times at the bars i go to because i've had enough of that already. or.

would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those to the face your wife or. donkey why do you need that now i could give you due to him more. people. would know the street looks like a real bitch it would be analyzed it came from the bottom of it. would it be like you not i got. three. minutes.

gratings and sal you taishan. on a long enough timeline everything's life expectancy drops to zero including russian election meddling conspiracy theories and time has not been kind of the purveyors of this new cold war fear mongering you see for those of us paying attention and reading between the corporate news headlines this summer is seen too many significant revelent tory blocks pulled from there now teetering russians are coming.