coming up on r.t. america barcelona is in mourning after thursday's terror attack killing fourteen and two others are now dead after an attack in the finnish they have turku. and the mayor of charlottesville canceled a major announcement he previously planned regarding the robert e. lee statue in the city. and the a.c.l.u. announces a major victory for civil rights as cia torture victims reach a settlement with two psychologists responsible for the agency's torture program.

it's friday august eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america now following thursday's terror tragedy in barcelona yet another attack was thwarted just one hundred miles south of the spanish city all assailants were shot by the police however one woman was killed bringing the current death toll from two days of terror in spain to now fourteen people including one american but several other attacks across europe of smaller magnitude also happened artie's alexy are chefs he is joining us now live with the details alexei so what are the latest incidents all about well first of all friday afternoon there was an incident in the rather small town of to go in finland miles from the capitol hill cindy when alone attacker went into one of the central squares and started stabbing people with knife two people were killed six were injured eventually the attack himself was

shot in the leg and detained by the police now it is reported that he has not. a finnish citizenship he's an outsider also reportedly of not rico kasian origin so he's maybe from the middle eastern country but the one thing that the finnish police is stressing particularly that it's not an act of terror which is something that the spanish authorities declared minutes after what happened in barcelona on thursday and another incident in germany in the city of. elberfeld happened on friday as well also a stabbing incident also a person running into a square one person was killed one person was injured. not much reported about the suspect also only one thing is that it's an outsider as well and the police also stress that it's absolutely nothing to do with a terror attack according to the a.b.c. news so yeah two incidents authorities in both cases say that's not terrible but you know considering what happened in barcelona that's something that people are speculating about the other two cities being

a little more conservative and outright calling it terrorism different than what we saw in barcelona so so on that topic on spain what about this second attack what can you tell us about the suspects so on thursday we obviously saw the van ramming into the crowds and in barcelona killing thirteen people and on friday morning actually friday night there was another attack in the city of cambodia which is one hundred miles south of barcelona it's a resort town. the basically the plot was the same the people in a van tried to ram into a crowd essentially killing one woman but the police was on the ground and they opened fire and killed all five people in that truck so right now they're trying to determine who those people wore but the fact that we had two attacks in barcelona in cameras in just the space of twenty four hours that led the authorities in spain to believe that it was a part of a larger terrorist plot because we know four people have been detained in connection to the barcelona attack one of them a spanish citizen the other three are citizens of morocco but all four believed to

be of moroccan origin. now the authorities are openly saying that there may have been up to eight people you know construing this attack that there may have been a larger plot maybe the you know it was thwarted but they would not rule out if there could be any more additional attacks but talking about the victims now. thirteen people were killed in barcelona on thursday one woman in cumbria also fourteen people over two days more than one hundred injured some of them are still in the very serious condition remaining in hospitals and you know for those who have been to barcelona know what the law is it's a very touristy place there's one statistic the victims were from at least thirty four countries including the united states germany australia kuwait and even peru so it's from all over the world and now we have a confirmation that one american at least one american died in the attacks that's something confirmed by the state department although the u.s. consulate barcelona is now working together with the u.s. authorities to determine whether there were be there were any more americans killed

or injured in that attack on thursday certainly thirty four countries across the globe this is a global problem acting all these nations and as we saw likely between last summer and this summer we've seen so many they had rented vans and truck attacks is this becoming a trend where they're renting these vehicles and driving them into crowds napsylate this is something for the terrorism asked pursue consider because if you've seen over the year starting in july fourteenth in nice in france those kind of tactics. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for your the newcastle county in northern delaware north central kent county in northeastern maryland cecil county in northeastern

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can hear thunder you are close enough to be struck by lightning repeating a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until five forty five pm for the following county new can delaware in the following counties in maryland cecil in kent and chester pennsylvania. vanished or knife attacks what particular concern about the spanish attack is that it does appear to have been quite a large cell of coconspirators there's also speculation that a house that blew up in what was initially thought of as a gas explosion might well have been a bomb factory down in elkan or in southern catalonia in spain so if there is a cell operating within the european country and we have all this wide ranging electronic surveillance over all our communications and they're not picking up on that chatter that is much more concerning because those are exactly the sort of groups that our surveillance agencies our intelligence agencies should be picking

up using these tools is much more difficult to try and fight against the lone wolf attacks you know the random knife attack the random car attack and you know what i'm noticing is the previous countries that have been attacked such as the u.k. or germany these are a lot of countries that were taking in many refugees from overseas in yemen in libya we don't hear so much about what's happening in spain does this play any part . well one of the the old schools of thought was that if european countries had to taken part in the nato raids against libya or syria or iraq or whatever then they were much more likely to receive pushback retaliatory attacks attacks in their own countries spain after two thousand and four with the madrid bombings which were appalling has stepped back from taking part in those sort of raids so i think they probably thought they were slightly safer however

it's not so much a push back against what the west does in the middle east now i think it's seen more as the caliph at trying to take the fight in the civilisational level into europe and let's not forget that spain was seen as part of the marsh empire up until the fifteenth century so it's almost like a status thing but there is one other aspect around this too which is that spain is the only european country i think that has a land border with north africa they have to own tave which they've owned for about five hundred years in morocco itself twitter and melia and only in the last week or two there have been these great swathes of of migrants forcing their way across the border because once they're in the enclaves then they can go onward into europe so you know there are all sorts of different issues swirling around this that make it very difficult to try and side actually who you know what is the motivation behind this event is absolutely an interesting aspect to bring up both the historical and

the geographical. closeness to to where the actual fighting in happened fighting is happening but you know as we're seeing across europe as i was just speaking with alacrity about these types of attacks are happening all too often you know from just between last summer to this summer from these london stockholm a spanish newspaper was just reporting that the cia had warned local police in barcelona two months ago that their city could be attacked is there anything authorities can truly do to get ahead of these types of attacks and prevent. well the intelligence agency's job is to actually gather preemptive intelligence to try and stop attacks before they happen that's what intelligence work is we have these great are sweeping laws now that allow the spy agencies together of all our electronic communications across europe and across north america and that it's an invasion of privacy and it doesn't hurt or rights but most people are quite happy

if they feel it makes them safer but manifestly it's not making safer what it is doing is drowning the spy agencies in the tsunami of intelligence which they can't process quickly enough so they're not carrying out the old style intelligence of you know having human agents to do the preempt intelligence rather than just having lots of information in order to do evidence police work after an attack and you know any isis seems to immediately always claim involvement in almost every violent act around the world it seems like it might be some sort of tactic to make themselves appear army present and bigger than they really are could that be what it is. absolutely and we know that as their territory shrunk in the middle east across syria and iraq particularly they have encouraged their followers to return to their home countries to carry out attacks to create this wave of terror so i think that's what we're seeing and it's inevitable and they're doing it very effectively so i think we can only see more

attacks like this. are right thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us former agent anywhere show for being here spanish police say the suspects in the country's deadliest terrorist attack in over a decade were actually planning an even bigger attack isis has already claimed responsibility kate partridge has more from the ground in barcelona. behind me when the law passed the double set is brought to the hospital around the they started to lay a makeshift memorial has been kind of the messages one was really reading about the written which was we remember the innocence and not from the the mood from where it was and the people laying there tributes that teddy bears police flowers and candles. nothing like that ever happened to me i hope they'll find the perpetrators and everything will be alright believe oh boo if you go back to the rumble and so many people are here like normal life but some put. some candles

on display is. a terrorist everywhere i feel incredibly lucky and we did consider that let's just continue shopping it's just an austere reality so we just said oh no we'll go back and catch up with a lot of the friends and that decision was just for show and i just copley that we did that and we when the sisters didn't but now there are other studies to go back to how exactly it was before there is a normality it was before lisa taken away the space that was a long flight that we first so we said came here and the businesses particularly all the cabin sort of always being here and now starting to open up people are coming in with their i think weaving their safe places almost in one to the final in many ways you can believe that this actually was.

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and he told the listeners that they were less well arms in the demonstrators. the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special memory warning for chesapeake bay from pools island to sandy point maryland chesapeake bay north island maryland patapsco river including baltimore harbor in till seven fifteen pm at five twelve pm strong thunderstorms were located along the line extending from ten nautical miles northwest of middle river to nine nautical miles west of bank river to fifty nautical miles west of fort small state park moving east a twenty five knots hazard thirty four knots or greater source radar indicated

impact boaters and small craft could be thrown overboard by suddenly high winds and waves capsizing their vessel locations and pack that include fort smallwood state park north point state park part miller island can point pools island seven foot middle pool chester beach frequent lightning is occurring with these storms if caught on the open water stay below deck if possible keep away from an grounded metal objects. but apparently it's still strong as ever what does this mean going forward for the future of policing and continuing to arm local local police forces with military grade equipment it doesn't appear as though there's any attempt to try to slow down this ten thirty three program during the black lives matter demonstrations of course there was a lot of public opposition to it there was criticism of it but i haven't seen any indication that this program is slowing down and i think that's why for i found and

our how are our police departments responding when when you ask them about the type of equipment that they're receiving what do they say about it it's interesting virginia there's a big program going on right now to try to uncover what the ten thirty three programs that provided all these different law enforcement agencies and the virginia police have been some of the most resistant to reveal some of that i mean really already of states actually they've they've they've been pretty pretty granular detail what they've received but virginia has resisted it and it was it was a battle for me to get even what i did so to find more details i think would be much more there is that public information is it something we can find out through for our requests like what is state by state what your local long foresman is receiving from the d.o.d. it should be because our taxes are paying for it now is that in reality i don't think that's the case unfortunately. and some might argue though that regardless of who's doing the protesting whether it's the k.k.k. or the b.l.m. . do you think it's over why is to use such heavy heavy handed tactics heavy machinery have you know bear cats and what have you on civilians you know treating

them with military grade equipment is that smart no i don't i'm human rights issues aside. i don't think it's even smart on a tactical level if the point is to try to shut down and shut down a protest because there's really good research on this in the criminology literature what they find is that these heavy handed tactics actually are more likely to provoke a violent response from demonstrators so i think it's counterproductive in ways beyond even just the principle you know the principle being that they shouldn't be and should be squelching speech writer think many many of us here at. r t have actually been to these these riot scenes where it does appear that the police are riling up the crowds by approaching them you know with full full riot gear when it isn't yet at that point a riot so i can say from firsthand experience that i have witnessed exactly what you're talking about like in baltimore for example and then. what does it do throw to the local neighborhoods when they see their local police officers armed like

that well there's a lot i think police happen to be a fairly popular institution within the united states so i think there's a perhaps more simply there should be for these militarized style tactics i mean you know you look at a lot of entertainment sort of reinforce the notion you know it's only the police have more powerful we didn't have all these rules that were keeping them from saving everybody you know so i think i think there are a lot of misperceptions and misunderstanding about this about this particular issue but what it should do is inspire pity i think among people i mean why should why should local police who are not military be getting military equipment and i think it's important to differentiate the distinction between movies and how police officers are armed from from the real life of what we're experiencing on the streets today thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us ken clip and stein thanks for having me. the so-called cia torture psychologists have reached a settlement which is being harold heralded as

a major win for human rights doctors bruce jessen and james mitchell the architects of the cia's enhanced interrogation program settled with the a.c.l.u. this week an r.t.s. on your palm pill has the explanation of why this first legal victory is a huge step. doctors justin and mitchell collaborated with the cia as psychologists to develop methods of torture used at v.a. black sites and prisons including the entire mess guantanamo bay location now both doctors have reached a settlement with the a.c.l.u. which is calling the development a historic victory this is a story victory for our clients and the rule of law this outcome shows that there are consequences for torture and that survivors can and will hold those responsible for torture accountable it is a clear warning for anyone who thinks they can torture with impunity the a.c.l.u. filed a lawsuit against the doctors on behalf of three victims of their program including

one man on who died as a result of their techniques techniques they were paid eighty one million dollars by the cia to design a cia report declassified last year documented the torture of thanks richard rahman harshly because of rahman's alleged he's uncompromising reactions who didn't tarry cation in lack of cooperation the pressure to break him and lack of experience with a committed interrogation resister on november two thousand and two ordered to approve the gods placing roman in the short chain position whereby he was compelled to sit on the concrete floor of his show roman was only clothed in a sweat shed they sent directly lead to roman's death by hypothermia. see a whistle blower john kiriakou exposed one tortured tactic the agency's use of waterboarding in two thousand and seven for blowing the whistle to this date kerry

aku is the only individual to serve time in prison for anything related to the cia's torture program and as the a.c.l.u. explains until now every lawsuit trying to hold people accountable for the cia torture program has been dismissed at initial stages because the government successfully argued that letting the cases proceed would reveal state secrets speaking to our take celebrate at the news this is absolutely a precedent for other victims to seek justice of course there are some who i think the cia would fight because their cases are very sensitive but there are so many other people who were sent to slee. torture for no reason people who had no ties to terrorism but were just in the wrong place in the wrong time it's going to enable them to seek justice and to seek monetary compensation frankly i think the cia dodged a bullet here now there is

a second case the american civil liberties union has filed the case on behalf of what was a beta arguing that the cia and mitchell in jest and tortured it was a beta that case is going to be more sensitive so the cia hasn't really put the issue in its entirety behind it yet we have to wait and see what happens with that was a beta my guess is that because the opposite in a case is so much more serious because i was afraid it was the guinea pig of the cia's torture program that the cia will seek to have that case dismissed mitchell intestines contract with the cia was terminated in two thousand and nine and two thousand and fourteen a senate torture report on torture determined no useful intelligence was produced by their techniques. in twenty fifteen a report conducted by medical professionals and human rights activists accused of the american psychological association of cordoning with the cia to shield and endorse the torture program several months later the a.p.a. voted to ban its members from participating in torture in washington on your part.

all prisons in the state of florida are on indefinite lockdown after officials allegedly received credible intelligence of planned uprisings and rioting the drastic move comes on the heels of tomorrow's nationwide rally organized to raise awareness about mass incarceration and human rights violations in prisons across the country are times when a court guy has the latest with the exception of meal time nearly one hundred thousand prison inmates in florida will remain confined to their dorms this weekend visitation has been cancelled state and private prisons use the offender facilities will camps and centers many say this appears to be the first time in memory that the prison system in the sunshine state has been placed on lockdown for an indefinite period of time. the exact reason isn't clear according to florida's

department of corrections officials have received credible intelligence that small groups of inmates were planning to cause disturbances in a statement correction officials say the steps being taken are quote in an abundance of caution and in the best interests of staff inmate and public safety unquote according to reports f.t.c. as intelligence division received information that the threats may be time to coincide with tomorrow's millions for prisoners human rights rallies taking place and more than a dozen cities nationwide a vent is being billed as a way to raise awareness about mass incarceration and human rights violations in u.s. prisons florida the nation's third largest prison system has been fraught with substandard and unsanitary conditions archie and other media outlets have reported about the systemic abuse of inmates suspicious deaths medical neglect and the mistreatment of prisoners with mental and physical disability corrections officials say all able

body officers including new recruits have been ordered to report to work through the weekend probation officers have also been hauled into the system with prison searches for weapons and other contraband reporting from miami marina r.t. and another top white house official is out today trying to fire chief strategist steve bannon bannon went over his former boss as he had earlier this week when he spoke out against president trying to take on north korea suggesting there is no military solution to the geo political fire he fanning that's a stance completely undermining trump's whole take on what to do about it armed and dangerous. tribes critics are happy bannon's out but it's not enough for many they think it's too little too late for the president to really. his white supremacist sympathies they alleged trump expressed with choosing bannan in the first place so

van it is the fourth high ranking white house official removed from posts in a matter of two months after the press secretary sean spicer went out former chief of staff bryant's previous out and former communications director after just like five minutes on the job anthony scaramucci. emraan a one former i.t. staffer to debbie wasserman schultz and other hill democrats was indicted today nearly a month after the f.b.i. picked him up trying to flee the country to pakistan the feds finger to one as a suspect in a millions of dollars fraud investigations centering on the congressional credit union and an i.t. equipment scam pulled on several house democrat offices a once congressional boss has fired him when it turned out that the f.b.i. was investigating him but it took debbie wassermann schultz and her office took her an extra month to ditch on even after he was barred from the hills computer system

i want to facing four separate charges related to fraud. a new study out of australia comes to solve the age old mystery of how animals first appeared on earth r.t.s. natasha suite has more on what main ingredients science says kicked it all into gear. researchers out of australia revealed the highlights of their study came out of looking at molecules buried in the rocks it was there that scientists say that led to the origin of our planet a research team from an australian national university say it all started some seven hundred million years ago during a period of what they called the snowball earth they say the earth was frozen for some fifty million years including the equator scientists a huge glaciers grown an entire mountain ranges into powder released in abundance of nutrients in the snow melted during extreme global events rivers washed loads of nutrients into the ocean well scientists say that this changed our ecosystem

forever. removing the contaminants and looking at the real smaller kills and finding out what that tells us about why these large creatures created the burst of energy that it's needed for complex ecosystems but if which then animals can evolve it was a revolution of ecosystems it was the wisest of them so it appears the key ingredient was algae so once microscopic bacteria was replaced with algae provided organisms the energy required for evolution of their ecosystems according to the scientists behind the study this phenomenon was so significant that they say humans and other animals simply when it exists have this not taken place the research has been published in nature the international scientific journal the team's findings are scheduled to be presented at a conference in paris next week in washington atocha sweet's r.t. and coming up later on r t we will continue our discussion of the charlottesville fallout in our race in america segment you want to miss that statement.

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you know what they're working. all right welcome back it is time now for our weekly segment race in america hosted by our very own banks actually what is on the agenda for today hey there manila here on race in america we will be continuing our conversation on the delhi charlottesville rally that left one dead and several others enjoyed white supremacists white nationalists neo nazis and kook klux klan members traveled to charlottesville to rally against the removal of confederate statues rachel taunting shoving and brawling and sued by the day's end thirty two year old heather higher with killed then several others were injured when police say twenty year old james alex fields jr rammed his car into big ass tree and he has been arrested and faces multiple charges including second degree murder surely. after the incident took

place governor terrell terry mccullough condemning the actions of the all right saying quote there is no place in virginia for hatred and bigotry people who come to virginia today to hurt others are not patriots they are cowards go home however president trump went on to blame both sides for the violence that erupted in charlottesville. you had a group you had a group on the other that came charging in without a permit and they were very very violent. the governor stated that the city was not prepared for saturday's violence although the city's police chief out thomas said he regrets the loss of life despite the violence that unfolded he still stands by his department's response joining me now to discuss this further is andrew batchelor organizer of d.c. anti-fascist coalition and gerald horne professor of history and african-american studies at the university of houston thank you so much both for joining me and your

i'm going to start with you you were there during saturday's rally now encounter protesters they were arguing officers were protecting the old nazis the white supremacist the k.k.k. and the white nationalists by not intervening while some counter protesters were being attacked but the police chief out thomas he's saying police were not refusing to intervene but instead when things got out of hand officers left to change and to riot gear no what's your take on this well the most telling scene for me over the weekend regarding this was actually on friday night when the nazis carrying torches marched around uva students and started attacking the police stood by they didn't do anything while that happened and then actually while the it wasn't until after the fascist left. that the cops quickly formed a lie and then started marching and actually ended up a victim of the students their community members who were being attacked by the

white supremacists they have picked those community members from their own space and did nothing to prevent the attack while professor horn i can you speak to the history of police in the u.s. why was law enforcement created in the first place. it was greed in the first place in this country in no small measure to try. and slave to africans and since that time of course the u.s. police departments have had an inglorious history in terms of bashing and cracking the scoles of black people in particular which has given rise to the black lives matter movement but even the rise of this movement has not seemed to send the message to many of our police authorities that they are well past due time to reform and change and you're given this history of these hate groups so why are we seeing now law enforcement protecting them well i think it goes back to what.

the professor said about the first law enforcement being fugitive slave patrols also we know that there's been this blue lives matter. you know in relationship to black lives about or there's been sort of a scene that police are under attack and this desire to reclaim the importance of blue lives as sort of seeing. in opposition to that. yeah but there's this old phrase cops in the klan go hand in hand. the fascist neo nazis are oftentimes happy when there is persecution against marginalized groups or against protesters here in d.c. we have a lot of we have an unprecedented two hundred people facing seventy five plus years seventy five years in jail for their not for protesting on the inauguration.

yeah all right professor warren i want to address this next question to you a study was done by psychologist patrick for sure and nor ketley they compared the rights mentality to the mindset of ice says now we just saw what took place and barcelona the other day where a car rammed into pedestrians killing several and then when it came to last saturday in charlottesville one of the members of the all right basically used a car crashing to pedestrians killing one and injuring several several others so is this a fair comparison are these white nationalists white supremacist groups terrorists . it is absolutely a fair comparison and one of the nicknames of those who committed mayhem and charlottesville is quote the law isis terrorists and i think that the turn of phrase hopes to underscore the dislike their counterparts across the atlantic these isis terrorists are oftentimes driven by our religious fundamentalism

recall that the original coup klux klan not accidentally began to burn crosses and of course they've stressed a rather demented form of christian idiology not only that but we also see with regard to u.s. foreign policy just like president trump tried to draw a moral equivalence between the fast. and those who are fighting the fascism likewise if you look at the rise of isis and so-called islamic fundamentalism in syria and libya and iraq it's heavily connected to us foreign policy recall that the two thousand and eleven nato bombing nato of course led by the united states of america the north atlantic treaty organization helped to destabilize the government and helped to create a vacuum through which religious fundamentalists have arisen are now wreaking havoc

in the north african country up to and including inaugurating a new slave trade we also know that the continue attempt to destabilize the al assad regime in damascus has involved minimally an objective alliance between us foreign policy and. the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special memory warning for chesapeake bay from pools island to sandy point maryland chesapeake bay from sandy point in north beach maryland chester river to queenstown maryland he's patapsco river including baltimore harbor until seven forty five pm it's five thirty pm under storms were located along a line extending from six not a good miles west of back river to nine nautical miles north of key bridge moving

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certain ridiculous to honor those who sought to overthrow the united states government in eight hundred sixty one in order to perpetuate slavery forever more but even worse in terms of the rank apocryphally involved is that mr trump and the deed many of us supporters they salute the fact that when in two thousand and three the statue of saddam hussein came down in baghdad they did not object that history was being decapitated likewise when statues of lenin came down in eastern europe they did not say throw those statues back up you're doing violence to. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued

a severe thunderstorm warning for newcastle county in northern delaware northern kent county in northeastern maryland cecil county in northeastern maryland northwestern salem county in southern new jersey northwestern camden county in southern new jersey northwestern gloucester county in southern new jersey northwestern burlington county in new jersey southeastern chester county in southeastern pennsylvania philadelphia county in southeastern pennsylvania delaware county in southeastern pennsylvania in till six forty five pm five thirty nine pm severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near kennett square to back river moving is that thirty miles per hour hazard sixty miles per hour wind gusts and quarter size hail source radar indicated impact minor damage to vehicles is possible expects damage to trees and power lines locations unpack that include philadelphia camden wilmington newark middletown westchester didn't have

a delaware grace gloucester city for chester willingboro west pennsville fillmore west down woodbury and burlington to report severe weather contact your nearest law enforcement agency they will send your report to the national weather service office in mount holly new jersey in addition to large hail and frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm moved indoors immediately remember you can hear thunder you are close enough to be struck by lightning repeating a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until six forty five pm for the following county newcastle delaware and the following counties in maryland cecil and can't in the following counties new jersey burlington camden gloucester and salem in the following counties in pennsylvania chester delaware and philadelphia. well justice work in your own community. and to support the work of a.n.c.

for. the fascist organizing in general all right thank you so much gentleman thank you for joining me that was andrew batchelor organizer of the d.c. anti-fascist coalition and gerald horne professor of history and african-american studies at the university of houston that's it for race in america i'm actually banks follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t and don't forget to question more back to you in the. thanks actually biologists have long been aware of the dangers associated with synthesizing d.n.a. if they create the wrong sequence of genetic code they could spread an infectious disease but what if d.n.a. could be used to infect something other than a living being a group of bio hackers in washington state have demonstrated for the first time that d.n.a. can be synthesized to infect computers arches brigitta santos has more from los angeles researchers at the university of washington have encoded physical d.n.a.

with malware that could infect computers used for gene sequencing purposes now this is a big deal because the malware can corrupt gene sequencing software and take control of a host computer while this one affects most users first hand the virus could spread through third party applications professor to yoshiko know who led the project says the malware is similar to traditional means of cyber attack which package malware on websites or e-mail attachments but for computers that handle d.n.a. sequencing for things like criminal d.n.a. testing the consequences could be dire the researchers also say malicious code could be used to conceal trade secrets by placing it in genetically modified products this particular type of malware is only a proof of concept at the moment and researchers say it is far from perfect working only thirty seven percent of the time they also say it's not a very realistic means of attack right now the leading gene sequencing equipment manufacturer illumina says quote this is interesting research about potential long

term risks we agree with the premise of this study that it does not pose an imminent threat and is not atypical cybersecurity capability the researchers say they propose this threat model to encourage defensive planning for a future when such attacks could become sophisticated enough to cause extensive damage in los angeles pretty to santos r t. more developments out of the medical industry a new gene editing breakthrough could make it possible to transplant organs into humans our team is trying to chavez explains a team of scientists affiliated with harvard university and also a private company have created piglets that could one day provide organs for human transplants this technique could help hundreds of thousands of people who are awaiting those transplants every single year and a report published thursday in the journal science researchers were able to use gene editing and cloning to create virus free piglets that can possibly be used for human organ transplants and significance of studies.

so there. can be thought of as. the scientists use the gene editing technique called crisper to modify the d.n.a. of pig cells and remove a number of viruses also known as curves that are potentially harmful to the pigs organs scientists then clone those that are that sells them put them in an egg and then put that embryo into a so this allows scientists to eventually breed pigs with virus free or. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southern morris county in northern new jersey eastern hunterdon county in northwestern new jersey northern somerset county in

northern new jersey until six thirty pm at five forty six pm a severe thunderstorm was located over and they were fourteen miles northwest of somerville moving east a twenty five miles per hour hazard sixty miles per hour wind gusts and equal size hail source radar indicated impact expects damage to trees and power lines locations impacted include morristown somerville bridgewater madison chatham morris plains mendham highbridge clinton peepin gladstone glen gardner chester hampton lebanon cali on far hills martinsville millington annandale and whitehouse station remain for a possible tornado tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms if you spawn a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure to report severe weather contact your nearest law enforcement agency they will send you

a report to the national weather service office in mount holly new jersey repeating a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until six thirty pm for the following counties in new jersey hundred morris and somerset. three d. printer in in space in this just the first of many tasks that the printers will have to undergo or is this significant enough evidence that that these three d. printers are ready to do stuff in open space. well as as you know three d. printing has kind of started to revolutionize a lot of different industries and nasa has had a three d. printer on the s.s. for a couple of years down the demonstrated they can make certain parts and as you mentioned in your report the russian cosmonauts did release the first three d. printed small satellite which is pretty exciting and and the the company that makes a three d. printer that's on the ice is did demonstrate on the earth that there they have

a printer that can operate in the vacuum so back to possibly operate in space one day so it dances are being made and this is very exciting well what kind of large structural pieces of the space station at ten can be helped by these three d. printers. well at the moment we aren't quite to that stage yet but just the fact that they're able to do three d. printing in a vacuum is a pretty pretty large step forward on the earth here three d. printing is being looked at for all kinds of applications to actually pretty buildings and things like that and so it's not inconceivable that one day once we have this ability to print three d. printed materials in the vacuum of space that you could actually make large structures up there so it's very exciting there's a lot to be done a lot to be proven of before we get to that point but this shows that the potential is there yeah i also imagine it'll make the payloads going up on the rockets too to replenish things a lot lighter if you can just start making them in space yourself so on that note

how will this technology make life easier for astronauts on the space station or engineers or even make it easier for us regular people here on earth. well you know in the space station you know if we have the resources at the brain the right materials up and you have the printer that can use these materials you could conceivably start making replacement parts up there and maybe you won't have to launch components from the earth but just raw materials that could be used in different combinations probably not dissimilar going to a lot of science fiction stories like star trek at that you know synthesizers they could synthesize parts of the food so study conceivable that one day we could be having those kinds of things be possible in space and perhaps remote areas on the earth as well could you say you know use the same kind of a model i mean we are living what a time we're living and that's all that's all i can say i want to turn the page over to this upcoming eclipse you were the first astronaut to actually film an eclipse from outer space tell us what that was like and what you're looking forward

to with us up. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a special memory warning for upper delaware be intel six forty five pm at five fifty pm strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from fifty nautical miles north of p. tach island to near warden point moving used at sixty knots hazard wind gusts to nearly fifty knots source radar indicated impact small crew could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves locations impacted include four test beach sea breeze the patch island woodland beach stony point ship joins your line and really point frequent lightning is occurring with the storms he's caught on the

open water stay below deck if possible people way from ungrounded metal objects. you're you know the sun being obscured is pretty awesome and so it's kind of interesting that it kind of turns around in this case wow i was certainly not expecting you to say that the view was better from here on earth thank you so much for always sharing your expertise insight with us we were each how veteran astronaut former i s s commander thank you good to see you my friend thank you great to see you know. and that does it for now for the stories we just covered going to dot com forward slash r.t. america and check out our website r t. o me on twitter right there on the left hand remember to question or have a great weekend. you guys and i made a professional is our point to show you how artsy america it's been to the greater media landscape our tears not left are all right but we are a solid alternative to the we don't stew liberal or conservative and as you can see

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national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for mercer county in central new jersey northwestern burlington county in southern new jersey dolphin western monmouth county in central new jersey southern middlesex county in northern new jersey southeastern montgomery county in southeastern pennsylvania southeastern bucks county in southeastern pennsylvania northern philadelphia county in southeastern pennsylvania in till seven pm at five fifty four pm severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near new hope to now versus moving east it thirty five miles per hour hazard sixty miles per hour wind gusts and his size hail source radar indicated impact expects damage to trees and power lines locations and pack that include philadelphia trenton all the bridge bensalem east brunswick south brunswick sayville north brunswick ewing princeton florence burlington bristol riverside

borough jamesburg height town jenkintown numbers and in town to report severe weather on if you're near a law enforcement agency they will send your report to the national weather service office in mount holly. pitting a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until seven pm for the following counties in pennsylvania montgomery and philadelphia in the following counties in new jersey burlington mercer middlesex and monmouth. also the u.a.w. .

the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special memory warning for chesapeake bay from durham point maryland to smith point virginia chesapeake bay from north beach to drum point narrow chesapeake bay from sand point to north beach maryland river to cambridge and in the little chap tank river actually river island maryland ten years sound and the inland waters surrounding bloodsworth island until eight pm at five fifty five a severe thunderstorm was located over reports like a river moving east a twenty knots hazard wind gusts thirty four knots or greater and large source radar indicated impact voters and small craft to be thrown overboard by sudden higher winds and waves capsizing their vessel. damage or vessel locations and pack that include coupled creek greenwell state park chop tank river down creek drum point north beach james island solomons island blanco mid-point tillman island chesapeake beach and taylors island frequent lightning is occurring with this storm

if caught on the open water stay below deck if possible keep away from ungrounded metal over. we don't people that think like that. this is an incredibly situated. greetings and salutation greed for lack of a better word is good yes the opening line of that seminal speech from one of hollywood's all time great villains gordon gekko in the film wall street appears to still be the motto to live by for the business and banking elites of the world contrary to the best efforts of many great thinkers and visionaries the engine of humanity and that small planet still runs on money.