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it's thursday august tenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america. we begin today with the war of words between washington and pyongyang after president trump's fiery statements on tuesday north korean media claims that a plan is now in the works to fire missiles at the u.s. pacific island of guam and says that north korean president kim jong un will have this option within days now president trump says that his statement on north korea may not have been tough enough meanwhile china is accusing the u.s. of violation of international law and the south china sea argy the like zero shots he joins us live now with the latest thanks so much for joining us alexey now how bad is the situation it's escalating rapidly now over the weekend we had new sanctions by the u.n. against north korea implemented north korea reacted with indignation saying that the u.s. will not be safe by imposing those sanctions and now obviously on tuesday president

trump said that there will be fire and fury unleashed a north korean case to try to do anything so now north korea again fires back and this time according to the local state run k.c. and they see in north korea the plan of firing for twelve missiles at the u.s. island of guam in the pacific is in the works and could be presented to the president within days for his consideration now the plan specifically says according to the agency that it does not plan to strike the island of guam or the two military bases that the u.s. has there with five thousand personnel but it will land in the waters close to go in territorial waters just to give a sign of warning but if the plan is implemented it also says that the rockets will fly above shimada hiroshima and koichi professors of japan so obviously japan and the japanese will not be happy of seeing missiles flying over their territory although that it had actually happened before and nonetheless the. stance of north

korea is very tough in this respect they held a huge demonstration just on wednesday with tens of thousands people in the. it's uniting showing their message that we're not going to stand down to the us it's really interesting what john is going to do in this respect but if you think about the island of guam and why go on would be attacked first of all it's closest u.s. military base to north korea about two thousand miles from the coast of north korea it is called the tip of the spear it's like most westerly military installation and also again a five thousand personnel and you would think that the governor and the authorities of them would be scared but funnily enough the governor of guam eighty calvo spoke to fox news on wednesday night and said that as far as i'm concerned as an american citizen i want to president that says that if a nation such as north korea attacks attacks on a little attacks the west coast they will be met with hell and fury so he supports drums you know remarks even though trump today even said that those remarks may

have been actually tougher he didn't go hard enough for north korea but he also said he was really calm and he was just i'm you know having the backing of the president and feeling the the might of the u.s. army behind his back but there's another development which is also quite worrisome now on wednesday the chinese foreign ministry posted a statement i think that was actually on thursday posted a statement saying that the fact that the u.s. destroyer sailed very close to the hunch islands in the south china sea that's a clear violation of the chinese and international laws as well as severely harming chinese sovereignty and security china was very displeased with this and will bring up the issue with the u.s. side they also a statement by saying that the chinese army immediately sent warships to the area in accordance with the law to implement the identification of the u.s. ship and warn it off the u.s. provocation according to the foreign minister of china also forced the chinese side to take measures to further enhance the national defense capability so the biggest

question obviously right now is whether this is all just a war of words or whether people will actually pull the trigger will actually send those missiles or on the other hand would the. united states be willing to take a preemptive strike nonetheless this is probably the most tense kind of situation that we're seeing in the region in the last couple of years all right thanks so much for that report that was our team correspondent. on the white house anti-war groups gather at last night for a twenty four hour vigil to protest president trump's rhetoric towards north korea they are urging him to negotiate instead of escalating tensions and risking a nuclear confrontation so we're very concerned about the erratic nature of our president and how he is escalating with his terrible comments the already tense situation in korea i just got back in there see how north korea is surrounded by eighty three military bases by ongoing war games that are very intimidating to

the north korean government by a. missile system is also changing the balance of power and it's very disconcerting so we feel like we have to rise up as americans to say to our government we need negotiations with north korea no war in the last twenty four hours donald trump and have been racketing. nuclear rhetoric and she you know on the anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki we need to make sure that no nuclear weapons ever go off again and americans do everything in their power to stop nuclear war turning international way where astonishing cell phone video has gone viral footage shows dozens of african immigrants arriving out of beach and spain. has more on this incredible moment. tourist and sunbathers in spain worst august the a boat load of immigrants float ashore on

a spanish beach and then make a dash for dry land the video which was taken by a beach goer shows a black inflatable boat packed with apparent immigrants from africa on a spanish beach near god these a little over seven half miles from the coast of north africa you could see people jumping from the boat as it approached the shoreline then many of the refugees are seen desperately running up the beach while others hold the boat ashore although it is unclear where the boat departed from spain has become an increasingly popular route for migrants and smugglers this year according to the international organization for immigration between january first this year to july sixteenth over seventy three hundred migrants have arrived in spain on what is known as the western mediterranean route while the figure pales in comparison with the arrivals in italy where more than ninety three thousand have landed so far this year spain is catching up with greece where nearly eleven thousand have arrived by sea in the same timeframe officials say the number of arrivals from north africa is likely to increase even more because of the good summer weather reporting in new york trinity

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dog. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. it has been three years since mike brown was shot and killed by officer dare and wilson his death sparked riots in ferguson missouri and protests across the nation as many were outraged and wanted to voice their concerns over police brutality since brown's death we have seen many more african-americans die at the hands of law enforcement earlier i spoke with the move brock of human rights activist and former green party nominee for vice president i first asked him what does he mean when he says police are not playing the role of protector but of an occupying force . well we understand that the police are supposed to be there to protect all of the

citizens equally but the lived experience is blind people in these zones of occupation has has been one in which is that the protection we are in fact they are perceived to be the enemy we have a situation in the us well basically the police forces have been by and the process of. systematic repression including murder. relative impunity so you know we have vacuum in terms of our lives but it appears that the representative of the state in the form of the police force don't recognize that inherent bank. and i say the negative actions of law enforcement are systematic but what do you say to those who believe these police murders of unarmed black youths are just a few bad apple. well we say that if you look at the law history of the

relationship between the black communities and the police forces you'll find that it's been somewhat consistent in terms of the the abusive nature of that relationship that the only thing that has changed over the last few years has been the technology that is. have a serious rodney king will be saw. video police forces engage in the biting street just to see if you will to rodney king the motorist and los angeles that was systematically assaulted by police forces we find that because of this new technology now we see the secret that has been kept away from most of the u.s. public and that is that has been the nature of the relationship between the police and the black communities for years that they have systematically engage and eat legal activity be. being individuals murdering and that has been in the nature of

that relationship so. is that bad apples it is the structural impediment imperative of the police forces to control and to contain a population that for so long as they are seen as a population of social problems when we talk about the united states of america we're talking about basically a settler colony. the basis of a settler colony is one thing which at the core of that about expansion is violence not about us was was directed toward the indigenous population i had to be extended to the enslaved. and it is part of the instruments as you the student to establish and to perpetuate the settler colony so even after the emancipation of the a slave after the civil war we find that the police forces have used violence

to control went to contain by black population in the south and then in the urban centers so that that experience of being subjected to a systematic state about has been a constant relationship a constant experience on the part of the black community in the united states of america now the rise of black live matter as a civil rights movement has been a big step for the black community now and your opinion what do black people need to realize about living in the us. we have to be reminded of the very difficult reality that for the most part it appears that we are seen as net equal citizens and perhaps not even citizens but as social problems as in fact the enemy. we find that the treatment that we are subjected to by the police forces

are the same as to cause that that we. experience being a systematic crisis of human rights and that we have to recognize that and organize ourselves or coordinate which means that we have to appeal to just beyond just the because the traditional authority of the u.s. we have to go to the edge of national community we have to ask. the members of the international community to impress upon the u.s. authorities their responsibility to adhere to international law and to protect the rights of this oppressed minority so this is the reality we have to come to terms with that we're never going to see. justice if we just leave it up to the to the responsibility of the u.s. authorities could they have demonstrated better they like the political and perhaps

even interest in really protecting the lives of black people here in the united states of america i guess said adam a lot of people think the same way that you can't leave the change in the hands of authorities because they believe they won't do it and that's why we have organizations like black lives matter and a lot of community activists out there trying to make a change thank you so much for your time how sod you move are aka human rights activist and former green party nominee for vice president thank you so much my pleasure prosecutors announced yesterday they will not file criminal charges against the metropolitan police officer who shot an unarmed black motorcyclist alasdair in washington d.c. however the mayor of washington d.c. is calling for officer brian trainers' resignation. we believe strongly that there has to be accountability in this case in p.d.'s already reached out to lawyers asking the officer to resign but it comes after thirty one year old terrence

sterling was gunned down by the officer after his motorcycle reportedly hit trainers a police cruiser according to local news reports witnesses say the officer was not trying to get out of his car but instead of rolled his a window down and shot sterling from inside the car another witness called the collision unavoidable while in the statement the attorney's office described the incident saying quote the officer reacted by immediately firing two rounds at mr sterling through his front passenger window the round struck mr sterling on the right side and the neck during the incident the officer failed to turn on his body camera until after the shooting had occurred a violation of department policy orders for sterling's family have filed a fifty million dollar wrongful death lawsuit in the district of columbia's superior court against the officer of the city and the m p d. a

pentagon audit is accusing a british contractor in afghanistan of wasting millions of dollars in taxpayers' money on some questionable practices artie's anastasio churkin now has more from london. this was revealed violate us to audit however somehow no no questions were asked on this case previously and now of course this is going to be unraveling and more are going to be demanded now some of the questionable items are quote really quite fascinating they include seven luxury cars from up porsches to offer a mayo's to a bentley to an aston martin and a lender over new century consulting was unable to provide adequate documentation to neither justified a need for a luxury automobiles nor verified that the use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and he admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping good records of didn't work use now also highlighted by this

audit the approximately four hundred twenty thousand dollars each in salaries to was being described as significant others for working as executive assistants however not providing any kind of details in terms of what this work was exactly also the audit brings into the light about fifteen hundred dollars spent on alcohol forty two thousand dollars spent on automatic weapons as well as personal travel expenses now the british contractor in question has said to media outlets that these assessments are unfair and inaccurate we've also reached out for more detail for commentary obviously we'll update if we hear back that we have to keep in mind that this particular audit focuses on the years from two thousand and eight to twenty thirteen and all of this has come out into the spotlight but we do know that there is more auditing going on in terms of what in terms of the years that followed so certainly more is expected to be revealed then and we have to of course keep in mind that this is far from the first time when the issue of contractor spending as well as the efficiency of those training afghan forces on the ground

comes into the spotlight to prove graham remain trouble just last month special inspector general for reconstruction who pretty because of a lack of performance metrics you. it's almost impossible to assess what they're doing hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the mentoring and training programs were effective while all of this is now being highlighted when of course the trump administration is considering its steps in afghanistan moving further so really it seems that there is quite a little bit to reconsider one to feel small well nasa captured images of a massive spot on the sun that's three times a larger than earth the sun spot a r two six six five has an approximate radius of twelve thousand miles and maybe because first so were flaring according to nasa nasa sun watching satellites first observed a r two six six five back in july until it lost sight of the spot two weeks ago now

a solar affliction the core of which can be filled with three earth has returned to the view of nasa of monitoring equipment it's rare to see such activity on the sun surface considering the sun's heading into the reoccurring solar minimum lasting eleven years and before we go don't forget to tune in for politicking with larry king tonight's episode features former u.s. representative david jolly as he joins a larry to talk north korea here's a snippet of what's to come david our defense secretary warned north korea of the destruction of its people donald trump talked about fire and fury and how long leash like never before are we going to do here is shimon not just once have once gone. you know and those messages conflict with what our secretary of state rex tillerson has been trying to accomplish when he talks about a peaceful negotiation suggesting we don't want regime change. we know that the escalation when north korea has reached

a point that no president has faced before yes they've had a nuclear program has been the subject to framework talks since the ninety's but we have never faced a north korea with a nuclear military capability of reaching the united states and that's what donald trump faces the only military solution should we end up in that situation is shock and awe where we saw like we saw in iraq which would really a blitter rate north korea and i think that would be the worst solution for the world which is why we do need to reach a peaceful solution but larry we can't overlook the fact that we also have a president that over six in ten americans don't trust who they don't find credible for decision making is like he's facing right now and that is the underlying anxiety that we face as a country we lack full confidence in our commander in chief to confront what is the threat of a madman now with nuclear weapons stay tuned for our special coverage and then of

you with the legendary musician and activist roger waters you can see the extended interview right here on our team america at five pm eastern you don't want to miss it but it's coming up next here on our team america simone del rosario joins us for a quick preview hi there simone hey ashley we have a special episode of boom bust for you today boom bust unplugged we're taking a closer look at how digital and streaming media are pushing out more traditional forms like cable and this fight for ad revenues which platforms provide the biggest bang for advertisers buck it'll be a real fun look at new media be sure to tune in all right sounds good thanks so much the man. well bad does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america also check out our website our team dot com forward slash america you can also follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t and don't forget to question more.

on larry you're watching our amount per student before. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned re months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out full tilt the balance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo of government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving of george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is quite only important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are

becoming indistinguishable. from john edward on your watch and. question. recently professors of boston university and the university of minnesota law school jointly published a paper entitled battlefield casualties and ballot box defeat did the bush obama wars cost clinton the white house the paper starts out with a dramatic statement america has been at war for over fifteen years but few americans seem to notice which seems largely true to me i mean no one i know even

realized that the u.s. dropped tens of thousands of bombs on seven countries and obama like they just don't even know that but there are americans who do notice how many wars were and how many bombs we've dropped because they are the people with friends and family members in the military who have died because of us bombs according to the paper over the years voters in communities with higher military casualty rates have become more likely to vote against politicians perceived as orchestrating the conflicts in which their friends and neighbors died in other words they vote against the war mongers and then the paper connects that to president trump's win in pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin the professors research suggests that if those critical states had suffered even just a slightly lower rate of military deaths all three states could have easily flipped from red to blue in other words all those people out there who do know all about our wars intimately had

a choice they could choose hillary clinton whose ties to the bushes and the obama's are well as close as family and they've kept us in war longer than anyone else in our history and clinton's husband even oversaw his own wars too or the people who have lost family to what wars could have chosen donald trump who got up at the podium. instead enough with the wars we've got to make better relations with people around the world we've got to spend our money on our own people enough with all the wars and the people in those three critical states with communities who've lost loved ones to war they voted for donald trump contributing to clinton's defeat the paper also points out that whoever decides to run for president in twenty twenty including trump himself they better remember this last then and should maybe run on an anti-war message like the one donald trump ran with and successfully became president with which makes sense to me as an american who knows all about those

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