most women want to be brits. consider wife to be pressed with what would look for three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. one hour to america spanish police killed a suspected barcelona terror attacker shot dead with explosives around his waist earlier today. with president trump set to address the nation tonight on his plan for afghanistan we take a look back at how the war torn country has been ground zero between the east and west for decades. and ten u.s. sailors are missing after a u.s. destroyer collides with an oil tanker in the asian pacific the fourth major sea accident involving a u.s. vessel this year.

it's monday august twenty first five pm in washington d.c. i'm natasha sweet and you're watching our t.v. america well president trump is set to outline a new path forward in afghanistan tonight deepening u.s. military involvement in the torturous country what's expected to be a troop increase will be announced just following a major shake up on the president's advisory team with senior white house counsels to execute the administration just last week while the war in afghanistan has officially been waged since two thousand and one r t correspondent on your parm poll explains how the u.s. has been involved in the country for decades. the united states began openly meddling and ask an affair is in nine hundred seventy nine that with the introduction of operation like one of the i age train and equip program aimed at a fifth in the afghan mujahedeen in their fight against the soviet allied democratic republic of afghanistan the program that was one of the most expensive

in cia history banning ten years it initially budgeted twenty to thirty million dollars a year to back the fighters by nine hundred eighty seven that number rose to six hundred thirty million dollars a year why was it worth spending a billion dollars to defeat a democrat. actually elected government the programs godfather former national security advisor to president carter zbigniew brzezinski once said his purpose was to believe the soviets and it's a decision he never regretted u.s. national security adviser brzezinski pluto pockets gone to set about rallying resistance he wanted to arm the mujahedeen without revealing america's row. on the afghan border any other type of pos he urged the soldiers of god to redouble their efforts but we know because of their deep belief in god we are confident that their struggle will succeed the very to meet up with the stuff it does for

almost anyone on yeah you know that's land over there is yours you'll go back to it one day it does your feist will prevail and you'll have your homes in your mosque back again because your cause is right and god is on your side. the purpose of originated with dr stonings would be commend the soviets bullied and joining us special relationship with what. the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special reward for chesapeake bay from pools are to sandy point maryland just a river to queenstown maryland patapsco river including baltimore harbor until six

thirty pm at five or one pm a strong thunderstorm was located near fort miller island moving southeast at ten knots. hazard wind gusts 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 impacted include fort smallwood state park point pine forest north point state park maggots the river part miller island chester river baltimore light gives an island bond can point to old chester beach and seven foot no move to safe harbor until hazardous weather passes. increase tonight it should become more and more evident a war which has been waged for decades still has no end in sight and with no obvious goal in washington on a parm pill r.t. and for more insight on the president's upcoming announcement we bring in michael

maloof former pentagon official thanks so much for joining us today and so what is your take on president trump do you think he's going to ask for more troops and also will he try to work with other countries who you think will be invested in afghanistan's future as well i think the likelihood is that he will ask for more troops estimates are up to around five thousand that's what the going rate is right now this minute in terms of working with other countries that is my personal hope and expectation that he can do that because the other countries surrounding afghanistan have a very vested and historical interest in afghanistan up until now there hasn't been all that much consultation which is surprising to the russians for example have a working group on afghanistan the united states has been invited a number of times and the united states has turned down the russians on this and that says that is just not the way you go about trying to bring some because all those countries have a vested interest in the future of afghanistan from economic political to even

military and i think one of the things we may see is the possibility of him trump hardening his position towards pakistan which has been a refuge until now for the afghan taxes afghan taliban which pakistan actually created to go into afghanistan years ago yeah i know a lot of times when they're short on men over there they can easily get somebody just across the border from pakistan to you know basically reload their troops so it's definitely an issue it's a refuge and i think one of the things you might see and which has occurred in the . asked is hot pursuit just to go in to pakistan notwithstanding any of the issues that pakistan may have about that but that would be legitimate if they're running from. an attack and in that regard i think we might also see

a lessening on the rules of engagement they've been very strict until now hot pursuit for example in pakistan has not been allowed we have under the obama administration we did do some drone attacks and that created tremendous consternation but if you're actually going after a unit of taleban. that might be allowed now it before it was not you think that assad would be willing to work with us in a capacity well it depends upon the level the i.s.i. which is their intelligence service actually runs the the afghan taliban and they would be loath to have that happen at the more political level politically pakistan is in turmoil right now and the question is who has the most influence and and whether the united states can actually do anything and make headway i think what's really intriguing is that all the countries involved with afghanistan from pakistan to china to to russia to iran to india they're all

members of the shanghai cooperation organization they should be all convening together in meeting him and trying to figure out the problem of pakistan until now it's been a nato issue and because as robin a reluctance for nato countries to come back in after sixteen plus years has all of a sudden become an american war all over again and we're stuck with it and. president trump has inherited that the question is what can he do to get us out of that conundrum and just sending in five thousand troops doesn't necessarily answer the question you've got to engage the others in that otherwise it's just going to continue to sap our our. resources which we don't have we don't have the budget for it anymore and we've lost over two thousand soldiers already so this could either become another quagmire of which under under trump or if we can get more of the cooperation from the other countries i think that will benefit us all it's going to

take more diplomacy right do they still have more strategy with the help that he has in the administration right now as opposed to just you know sending more troops do you think they'll be more strategy behind it this time i think there's going to be a balance i think he's going to i think it could be a hybrid type of thing i think that the troops to go in would be do more and will do probably more advise and train activities but i think you'll also bolster the. the counterinsurgency aspects through cia and bring in the more of the private contractors that actually erik prince wanted for example and so that sort of ban him before he left there i think there will be a hybrid element there that will allow certain amount of contractors come on and we have a lot of contractors there already and i think it's about ten times the contractors to the number of troops that are there so it conceivably they could actually conduct the more counterinsurgency operations that would be much more clandestine and so you know moving

a lot of troops around and that could save something and try to regain territory but then you've got to hold it what's the ultimate goal what's missing here is what's going to be the strategy he needs to outline that in game in his speech tonight and people are just wondering well what we've heard so far doesn't necessarily reflect a strategy for that endgame as yet and we know that the u.s. has received a lot of heroin in the past from afghanistan that is kind of changing now we're getting more from mexico nowadays but do you think the heroin. the poppy president has anything to do with the number of troops that we have over in afghanistan to have any kind of impact on the war at this point no i think it used to we used to have we used to have. elements that would go in and try to clear out the poppy fields but that became an issue because there was nothing to replace it with is a cash crop and it didn't bring in the cash that they as much as a. or the other other elements that were. subject to agriculture didn't bring

in the cash crop that that heroin did so and so they basically leveled off but it still is a problem you you still have heroin what have you going up through central asia into russia so it has another path of business like some of it still comes into the u.s. certainly into europe and it remains a problem but that's not the major focus the major focus to try to defeat the taliban and that doesn't appear to be the case that we have seen as yet in terms of a strategy and and the question then is how do we preserve that the existing afghan government because if the u.s. were to leave tomorrow which trump actually proposed during the campaign to get out the government will fall within days. but this regional police say the suspect and driver behind last week's barcelona van attack has been shot dead for the latest because lives are he's made a point in miami so marina a suspect had been the subject of a massive manhunt so thursday's attack which left thirteen dead and more than one

hundred twenty people wounded so how did spanish police locate the suspect. well that happened very quickly after a photo of the suspect was released early monday morning police released an image of eunice a be a coupe to the public identifying him as a suspect in last week's terror attack on last round last hours later catalin police tweeted that an operation was under way in that. town roughly thirty miles west of barcelona authorities asked people in the area not to broadcast the location of checkpoints as the security operation was ongoing at that point local reports say twenty two year old boys shot as he approached a police vehicle according to some spanish media the bomb disposal unit deployed a robot to the scene to inspect what they thought was an explosive belt worn by the suspect police later said it was actually turned out to be fake bombs now will be

a coupe is believed to be part of a twelve member cell responsible for the deadliest terror attack in spain in thirteen years as coalitions continue battling terror groups like isis the lebanese army scored major victories saturday securing the over a dozen outposts from the islamic state and raising a spanish flag in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in catalonia . now we're hearing the marsland attack was supposed to have multiple targets and a much larger death toll what are you hearing well according to spanish media the twelve person cell had originally planned to drive three explosive pop bands into a number of tourist hot spots including the famous so gratified bilia cathedral those plans were reportedly boarded up one could say when a bunch of explosives accidentally went off in one of the hideouts that was used by

this cell roughly one hundred twenty miles south of barcelona now the cell was that allegedly forced to resort to service days of an attack in the popular tourist area many know as. that's where you see scores of people walking through open streets now after that we also saw a knifing in the seaside town of cum grills the day after on friday police say all twelve members of the terrorist cell which carried out the attack are either dead or in custody but authorities have not get closed this investigation. thank you thank you finish authorities have named the main suspect behind friday's terror attack in the city of turku who reportedly moved from germany in late two thousand and fifteen place apparently knew about the suspects possible radicalization a year before the attacks peter oliver has more from berlin. finnish courts of

started giving out more information about their main suspect in friday's deadly stabbing attack deadly knife attack on the streets of the south western city of turd they've named their main suspect is eighteen year old abdel rahman meche car moroccan national who had according to the authorities failed in an asylum application in finland it's also been revealed though that he had spent time in germany now. is the main suspect as he was shot at the scene following the attack that took place on friday that left two people dead eight more wounded in what authorities are saying is that at times it was designed to target women so it's also being put across is that if the other arista time it's taken place in the middle of it does throw more questions about one of the key founding principles of the european union that of freedom of movement when we look the. it

seems was able to travel from germany where they understood he lived back in twenty fifteen over to finland we don't know the route in which he took but he's he hasn't so far appeared on any. authority as watch lists along that way before popping up in finland as sad as they say being beat main suspect in this fatal attack. united nations is working on a report detailing saudi arabia's killing of hundreds of children in yemen spoke to a representative from the un children and armed conflict office who confirm drops of the report released last week according to reuters the draft report said a saudi arabian led coalition killed more than six hundred eighty children since it started airstrikes against hutu fighters in yemen twenty fifteen well the u.s. supplied ordinance for the air strikes in yemen as ongoing civil war u.n. representative said the report will come out next month. coming up next on our team

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a look at me i'm going to question more what you're looking for this little. i. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. the u.s. and south korea have a joint military exercises every year as the two countries prepare for their drills at the end of the month this year is quite different as the tensions between the u.s. and neighboring north korea continue to escalate and discuss war let's bring in journalist paul god in. all things so much for joining as many are concerned about the threats of north korea leader kim jong un has had very strong words and actions in terms of ballistic testing do you think there is a clear threat here or has it been hyped up by the mainstream media

i don't hear anything right now. ok let's see if we can fix these that technical difficulties we might have to go back to paul and fortunately. we'll get to him in just a minute i want to give you this story joint military exercises between the united states and the south korean militaries actually do begin today the old chief freedom guarding exercises occur every year but never has the rhetoric of impending war with pyongyang been this intense of use the exercises as a practice run for the invasion of north korea but polls show south koreans are increasingly against the escalation of war tensions on the peninsula marty recently spoke with christine on co-founder of the korea policy institute and founder of women across the d.m.z. regarding the upcoming drills let's take a listen oh without a doubt in south korea polls all indicate that the south koreans would like inter

korean reconciliation and dialogue but they want war that they feel terrified by trump's. callous tweets threatening me a potential crisis. that would impact the south korean people first and foremost and so i would say that south korean is elected. overwhelmingly picos his pro peace pro justice pro transparent government stance but that they were tired of ten years of time hawkish policy that had maintained a hard line against north korea but there is a need to resolve the longstanding conflicts including a brain war so that the militarization of northeast asia doesn't continue with the peace that it is and that we're seeing you are mysteries like none other i mean if

you look at the. military spenders and or half are in. in northeast asia the united states china russia japan south korea at and now north korea possesses nuclear weapons it's a tinderbox that needs some kind of regional mechanism to address issues of peace and security what i think is important for any audience to understand is that north korea's never threatened to preemptively strike the united states with a missile or with a nuclear weapon and that it has always been in every statement and even reiterated by the foreign minister in the latest i.c. and eatings is that north korea will not consider. being or ending its nuclear missile program as long as a hostile policy remains against north korea and when we look at the coming over to rex for sizes that are raised between the u.s.

and south korea these are the largest in the world they involved the wind their aircraft carrier simulating invasion a preemptive strike on earth that would kapatid its regime and so you know i don't think that north korea is paranoia is not justified it is because they feel that their regime and their country sovereignty is at threat and so i think that's where the conversation needs to go is what are we going to do to assuage our korea that the u.s. is truly not about regime change because we're seeing the truck ministration speak for many sides of the mouth on the one hand we hear rex bush and cheney we don't want regime change and then you hear hawk mike come here from the cia say we want regime change so you know from the north koreans point of view it's not clear to them where the trump administration policy lies with regards to regime change

and so. i think that that's where the focus should be is that north korea's never ever threatened. to preemptively strike the united states whereas the united states has since the bush administration granted that preemptive strike capability without any kind of congressional authorization it's some kind of video game fantasy that the u.s. could conduct some kind of preemptive strike surgical strike on north korea's nuclear facilities that's just not possible new york north korea as. you know there they have mobile units that are hidden behind trees i mean the way that i've seen intelligence reports about north korea's. you know missile sites is that they are movable people as they are interpretation for some kind of preemptive strike from the u.s. and so to assume that this would be a bloodless surgical strike is just pure fantasy and that is as general

mattis has said. the consequences would just be devastating and nothing compared to what we witnessed during the one nine hundred fifty fifty three korean war where up to four million people were killed and to discuss more let's bring in journalist paul guiding or thanks for joining us paul can you hear me i can yes thanks redway wonderful and so many are concerned about the threats of north korea leader kim jong un has had very strong words and actions in terms of ballistic testing do you think there is a clear threat here or has it just been hyped up by the mainstream media. well i think there's a important report that came out i think just last week. tomic bolton of scientists one of the lead authors is dr ted postol frustrate mit and he basically shot major holes in the media's narrative that north korea has the ability to use a missile strike the u.s. mainland and he said that basically the missile tests that north korea conducted

last month were basically they were designed to deceive the american thinking that they had a credible retaliatory threat that they could strike u.s. maidment and he basically runs through the science he's obviously he's a rocket scientist a former advisor to the pentagon and says that this is they don't have the capability it is unfortunate it is for them but they don't have it it's always a good news for the americans i think the important takeaway here is that this buys and this is the point that he made with this buys the americans and north koreans time to find a diplomatic solution which is really what we should be moving towards and there's an even bigger threat other countries are expecting exactly what north korea has. well i think that that's an important point and the point that dr post made this is an extremely secretive government and country u.s. intelligence knows very little there was a defense intelligence agency assessment that said that north korea's miniaturize a nuclear warhead he basically dismissed this is. something that he would take too

seriously and we should remember that intelligence has a long track record of getting things wrong we don't have to remind people about the u.s. war in iraq was also the anniversary of bill clinton's cruise missile attack on sedan which destroyed a pharmaceutical plant that basically created half the country's pharmaceutical products some intelligence agencies had said that it was making chemical weapons so these suspects we should probably be pretty critical about this when i think and you think north korea's technology. i think i think that obviously i mean it's extra one of the most sanctioned regimes in the world so they have pretty serious limitations one of the things that i think is important to stand that there's a good chance that they don't have the capability of making their own rocket engines they may have just. had a number a small number of them that they were able to get the soviet union and they're not able to actually manufacture their own this would really limit what they're able to do defensively against u.s. interests and we really appreciate your insight that was journalist paul guiding or

thank you. british prime minister theresa may has rejected in a pail by survivors and families of the nine eleven attack victims they were demanding the publication of the u.k. reports into the role of saudi arabia and funding islamic extremism artes and turkey has the story. following a series of appeals actually from campaigners m.p.'s and other politicians here in the u.k. nine eleven survivors now become the latest group to see a refusal from the british government to release the full contents of this quite controversial report focusing on extremist funding in the u.k. this was a report that was commissioned back in twenty fifteen and is largely believed to be focused on saudi arabia's activities and now the nine eleven survivors had sent a letter to theresa may demanding answers we respectfully urge you to release the report now finished and finished we'll show you to consider all the victims of state sponsored saudi finance terrorism and families in the survivors in the u.k.

and all over the world the longer saudi arabia's complicity is hidden from sunlight the longer terrorism will continue well the british government has long maintained really for months now that diplomatic relations with saudi arabia have nothing to do with this decision to not reveal the contents of the report they've also said that it's actually reasons of national security as well as private information contained in the report that's keeping them from publishing it and they've also said that the media has been misinterpreting this relationship with saudi arabia when it comes to this report let's take a listen to what theresa may had to say on this at some point bush explained her refusal is simply because the contents of the report would embarrass the government's friends in saudi arabia or is it because ministers cover more about arms sales to riyadh than they do about public safety. it is absolutely nothing to do with that there is there is certain confidential information in the reports that

means that it would not be appropriate to publish it but might write on the friend the home secretary has made it available on a pretty council basis to opposition parties well we have to keep in mind that despite the british government and the home office particularly saying that saudi arabia is not in fact the focus of this secret report and it's in fact something that looks at overseas funding into. general criticism really has been running rampant that the british government would have released this report if they had nothing to hide specifically these nine eleven survivors from the sense this letter in the latest week to see the contents of call this decision of the british government quote shameful really believing that it's the special relationship that the u.k. has long had with saudi arabia this marriage of convenience cozy relationship that has led the u.k. to decide to not reveal this information again and again we have to say that obviously this is something that the british government denies but does have quite a history of protecting the special relationship they have with saudi arabia the

u.s.s. john f. mccain came back to port but ten of its sailors have not a navy destroyer rammed into an oil tanker just east of singapore the collision with the tanker ripped through the destroyer's hole causing flooding and some of the areas ship including the crew sleeping quarters the navy dispatched the u.s.s. america to singapore to aid in searching for the ten missing sailors at least five senators were injured it's the second such incident this summer seven u.s. sailors died in a crash off the coast of japan a few weeks ago. and coming up on our t.v. as in many states are putting more restrictions on how much doctors can prescribe their patients are these restrictions actually healthy. there's a real irony going. to liberate a responsible way from the point there is always well that's what the dollars always expensive. you know liberal already you know hold still so well and he's you

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the rise of opioid addiction continues to skyrocket to record levels more than eleven million americans abuse prescription opioids in two thousand and fifteen that's roughly ninety one million people all the center for disease control and prevention notes the latest numbers are from twenty fifteen health officials have been seeing a dramatic increase in addiction levels in the past two years as many states are putting more restrictions on how much doctors can prescribe their patients my next guest questions if these new restrictions are really helping let's bring in bill tackett who has been prescribe opioids long term for his condition so bill you were diagnosed with the generated distances in your twenty's you're now in your forty's and have had to have surgery after a disruption of a few years back and another one in twenty thirteen so now lawmakers are trying to limit opioid per script so people won't become addicted which is a good thing but your case is different you're more of a long term user with your diagnosis tell us where you think lawmakers are going

wrong when it comes to this battle of addiction. well the way that they're trying to control this is really going through in limited supply in there also going through and setting things up so that doctors are now becoming afraid to prescribe. the actual prescription rate for opioids from two thousand and fifteen to two thousand and sixteen actually decreased. the d.a. it actually reduced the amount of. opioids the drug manufacturers could produced by twenty five percent for two thousand and sixteen and seventeen and now they're talking about cutting it another twenty five percent for two thousand and eighteen and in addition to that they're actually setting up through the guidelines that the . c.d.c. has put out that talk about things like mandatory drug testing weaning people off or discontinuing altogether. and so i'm looking at sorry let's talk about that so

the cost of your drug tests the something that i did not know about so you're not actually opposed to the tests themselves but just the high cost of them right so the drug test for me prior to getting in switched to medicare so we've got some people in my condition or my situation who either have private insurance or they're on medicare because they're getting social security disability in prior to switching to medicare that drug test was actually out twelve hundred dollars and had to take that every three months now with the medicare guidelines it's still about two hundred fifty dollars each time that i take it in addition to what we're paying for you know our care our therapies injections the medications etc and you mentioned that medicare can't negotiate drug prices so is this something that you think lawmakers should focus on. absolutely when i was on. my

private insurance through my company that had me through my disability i had two major medications that i took daily one was a pain patch and the other was just an oral pill. with then the pill was about fifty dollars a month the pain patch really about one hundred dollars a month after going on medicare the patch jumped up to twenty five hundred dollars a month and the pill actually went up to about three thousand and they were two of my primary medications that helped me to have some semblance of comfort on a daily basis in remain active to some degree. and i basically had to stop taking them because you know you start looking in that you know forty five hundred dollars a month for two medications and then i still have four others that i take on a daily basis in addition to using my hydrocodone opioid medication

plus muscle relaxers were sort of those breakthrough things but that actually ends up being three to four pills a day on average and then if i'm active i'm actually taking more than that to compensate for the additional activity so in the end you know i end up having to take more opioid medications because i can't afford to take the nano opioids that i was taking prior to going on to medicare it's just a really as that sounds like and now it's something that none of us like to talk about the high rate of suicide among those destabilizing condition is what have you learned about that. well it actually was a bit of an eye opener i knew that it was going to be an issue that came up because if you lose access to all your pain medication in your physical condition due to you know some well established long term pain condition like fibro my allergy diabetic nerve pain peripheral neuropathy which i suffer from. a spinal cord injury

which is what my actual problem is you know it gets to a point where that pain is so great that you really start to question whether or not you should go on you know partially because it's unbearable and partially because of the burden that you're putting on your family because you literally can't do anything you know you essentially become bed ridden in not a whole lot better than someone who's in a coma. going through this process though as i hear more and more really attacks in the war on opioids which really is punishing the patients you know i discovered in a recent survey that seventy eight percent of chronic pain patients in a survey that was done earlier this year with over three thousand respondents seventy percent of them said that the suicide rates going to go up and forty two percent of them had said that they had personally contemplated it and doctors also and so their survey there was about three hundred medical professionals fifty eight

percent of them said that they had had discussions with patients who were contemplating suicide and unfortunately ten percent of all the medical professionals who answered the survey said that they've actually lost at least one or more patients to suicide in it's all related to pain in their access you know through having them cut down or weaned off or just broccoli discontinued its own are sad and it it seems as though a lot of people who use opioids might be put in a certain category and clearly you're not wanting to get higher anything like that you just want to manage your pain so you can spend time with your family and try to you know live the best normal life that you possibly can. correct and to be perfectly honest with you you know myself and i think a lot of other chronic pain patients who take these medications we don't really understand the hide that people get from them. you know we take this medication and

it's just waiting a little while later and it helps tamp down our pain you know there's nothing psychotropic or psychedelic or you know. anything we've noticed other than the food hope you're paying homage to now we really appreciate you sharing your story with us bill tackett we really appreciate your time thank you so much thank you for having me on. over the weekend protests erupted from boston to california as tensions escalated over confederate statues around the nation well this follows the death of thirty two year old activist heather higher after a white nationalist rally descended into chaos in charlottesville virginia last weekend in boston saturday an estimated forty thousand counter protesters took to the streets to voice their opposition to a controversial free speech rally a total of thirty three arrests were made and while in texas over two thousand demonstrators gathered near dallas city hall saturday to rally against racism

politicians faith leaders and activists spoke at a candlelight visual however tensions intensified as protesters approached a confederate woman moral or controversy remains over whether to remove those statues or several hundred more gathered in the green to beach california ahead of in america first rally planned city hall sunday and on sunday three were arrested after hundreds of counter protesters showed up in opposition to the events hundreds also congregated in atlanta saturday to march in protest of white supremacist and other hate groups well they started downtown and paraded to the home of late reverend martin luther king jr and in memphis six demonstrators were arrested following a rally to remove a monument dedicated to nathan bedford forrest a slave trader and lieutenant general finally and indianapolis thirty year old anthony ventura was arrested after police say that he damaged a confederate statue with a hammer. in washington d.c.

the millions for prisoners human rights march and rally kicked off saturday prisoner rights advocates called on congress to abolish the present system and institution that they say functions as a sister. modern slavery we first turned to yusef salaam founder of the innocence projects and one of the men exonerated in the central park five case. which was the firestorm two weeks after this crime happened here already has judgment against full page ads in new york city's newspapers calling for the brilliant statement of the death penalty specifically fornicators what that allows people to do was this is nobody said ok let's just publish their names phone numbers and addresses in new york city's newspaper my younger brother got sentenced to ten years in prison and it's only. one of the things that stuck to me when i was speak it's a brother what he would like to argue for in the morning i got to be at work at six in the morning and i get paid to sit. in the prison for twenty seven years and stay

in place that you. don't just within this investigation. space pretty including to freezing that actually let me know these are mostly test. results but . it lacked a vis called on their representatives to amend the thirteenth amendment exception clause which legalizes the enslavement and forced labor of individuals who had been convicted of a crime. while the movement to succeed in california continues with a third attempt at making a calyx that reality of the movement has faced constitutional roadblocks since gaining steam after the election supporters in the golden state aren't giving up a ballot proposal has now been filed to rework the constitution so states will legally have the freedom to leave the united states archie's brigitta sanchez has the story today from los angeles so brigitta how will this calexico effort be

different than the previous ones. natasha previous efforts were calling for california to secede from the union when it just constitutionally was impossible so now they're calling for a constitutional convention to try to amend the constitution to allow all states to have the legal option to exit from the union and again this is just an option it's not something that would have to be taken clare had seen the initiative korda nater told me this morning that we have not had a constitutional convention since seven hundred eighty seven when the founding fathers first had one even though they had intended for a constitutional convention to be held every twenty years to rewrite the constitution take a listen to what she had to say. this you know so i don't know. why. i should want relations time man who came across. from another country and just want me to. structure a political power and territorial elements. whether that's

your parents or ownership of that position so obviously that's all remotely relevant to today's life so many things. many things have changed since then as she was saying there so they are calling for an update under article five of the constitution which would allow for those amendments natasha i see and appreciate it what are some of the economic things that california wants to see changed and why succeed. so they want to see it for several social reasons why they don't agree with the federal government things that have to do with immigration and other liberal policies that were at odds with the federal government right now but in terms of economics they want to see things like limiting corporate personhood for campaign finance and political speech purses

they also want to require all people to receive equal pay for equal work and of course they want to change how the federal government allocates funding to states so that would be based on individual states tax federal tax. how much they pay in federal taxes so that's something that california pays more in and doesn't see as much return in natasha c. and pretty to how likely is a constitutional convention to happen. so right now it's actually fairly likely however it could still be a little bit of time and that's because at least twenty seven states have now supported a national constitutional convention and that's twenty seven out of the thirty four that would be required to put this forward on a national level so it's something that these initiative proposers say they think will happen soon but i do want to mention it's very very hard to change the constitution and in fact since seven hundred eighty seven over eleven thousand proposals to amend the constitution have been put forward of those only thirty

three have ever been approved by congress and sent to the states to ratify and of those only twenty seven have ever been ratified including the first ten in the bill of rights so they have a long fight ahead of them and again they want to let people in california know that if you are supporting this convention it does not mean you are necessarily supporting as a session movement you're simply supporting california's right to go to the national convention and represent itself there and this is an initiative so they still need over half a million signatures to even get this proposal on the twenty eighteen ballot in california natasha very interesting thank you so much for you to santos and ally for us. well throughout history massive volcanic eruptions have had damaging effects to our planet and its people well scientists at nasa are now trying to prevent future avenge which they say may just be the only way to save the human race are to train a child says explains super volcanic eruptions have had some devastating effect on

our planet and all those on it therefore experts at nasa are working on some risky strategy is to prevent one from happening since we may be on the brink of one of wrapping very soon yellowstone national park and why you only use famous words tranquil geysers and hot springs but beneath its beautiful surface of the park lies a massive volcanic chamber that could be on the verge of exploding according to the united states geological survey three extremely large explosive eruptions have occurred at yellowstone in the past two point one million years with a reoccurrence interval of about six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand years the most recent took place six hundred forty thousand years ago suggesting that yellowstone is overdue for an eruption but outlets like geysers and hot springs out the park can bleed out some heat delaying the inevitable option and when nasa experts analyze the problem they thought the most logical solution would be to cool the volcano down nasa has a plan to drill a hole into the side of the volcano and pump water through it when the water comes back out it'll be heated to over six hundred degrees slowly cooling the volcano the

team hopes that given enough time in this process will take enough heat from the volcano to prevent it from ever a rough day according to the b.b.c. brian wilcox a former member of the now said by his very council on planetary defense talked about the actual devastation that could come from an eruption and the risky techniques that the agency is considering for preventing one including ways that could potentially set one off the possible plan would drill into the bottom of the yellowstone volcano using high pressure water to release heat from the magma chamber but will cause said this could be very risky he told the b.b.c. this can make the cap over the magnet chamber more brittle. and prone to fracture and you might trigger the release of harmful volatile gases in the magma at the top of the chamber which would otherwise not be released all or nasa is considering other plans it seems that cooling down the volcano could work even though it's a risky process and it's not cheap either the plan would be around an estimated four point five billion dollars reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t.

and if you were half as excited as some of these people were. then you probably got a glimpse of the told or a solar eclipse that made the entire nation was this alessio hasn't been seen in over thirty years and made its way across the united states starting in oregon and ending in south carolina with many viewers taking caution wearing special eclipse glasses to protect their eyes from the sun here's one more look at today's stellar events pretty neat. and before we go don't forget to tune in later for larry king now tonight's guest is anthony michael hall talking about his latest movie war machine play general paul and it's based on flynn and i understand that you adept at method acting for this set right is that not your normal course question sir

sometimes i do it just depends on the material the last time i i can recall doing this when i played bill gates this is going back about fifteen years but i think it's when i make these decisions in support of the work it's somehow to protect the level of concentration for myself that i just kind of want to. a lot of the gap between what we're doing in and the down time so that's a new study. i did and did i read a bunch about him but knowing that we had that latitude i chose to kind of take it another direction you never met him. when you play a character you have to like him right or believe in him you don't play at one hundred you play or it's a good question do you have to like the character yeah i mean i think for me the impetus was i had a lot of inspiration my grandfather served in world war two had an uncle in the korean war and one and vietnam to me my personal spiration was to sort of honor our great men and women to serve our nation all around the world so knowing that the same would be seen by the military that was important. to respectfully represent mr

flynn even though what was being fictionalized was important to me so absolutely and i did as much reading as i could about this and i kept the book with me throughout the making of the film because my show did actually take an excerpt from it and created scenes. watching the hawks is coming up next here on our to going to preview tara all right on tonight's new watch and the hawks we discuss the poisoning of our nation's military bases and we ask if there really really is free speech in a free market and finally we try to rein in wall street and the big banks with rolling stone's matt taibbi should be a fun episode should be fine all right thank you so much tara and that's it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to. our team america and also check out our web site to our forward slash america you can follow me on twitter. question more. you guys i made a professional is powerpoint to show you how r.t. america into the greater media landscape. right we are

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a stage and we are definitely. the democrats are having a rough time of it let me just say out of the gate i feel really bad for them i hate to see a fight so and evenly matched i mean it's their own fault for having lost the election and the white house which they should've been able to walk right into but still it's pretty ugly out there for the blue team and it just got a little worse because now even c.n.n. senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is saying that the democratic party has no leader and is in complete disrepair and is the rag he was on a panel talking about possible candidates the democrats could run in two thousand

and twenty now that might sound preposterous to people outside of politics like twenty twenty or so far away we just got through with twenty sixteen but considering how listless the democrats are right now i think it's mission critical for them to be thinking about how to run because three years flies by fast especially in washington so on the panel delany actually admitted that the democrats are math and that the party needs someone to look at that's new not old and he said the democrats can be laughing all they want about these poll numbers for donald trump but the reality is democrats are in complete disrepair and disarray in their own party and that there's no leader there of course is that donald trump not president trump because this was still c.n.n. after all but it was great that c.n.n. senior correspondent actually admitted something obvious anyway but then the panel also moronically discuss the candidates the democrats have already seem to live up

and they exemplify exactly where the unease that the dems should not do because so far. the dems have lobbed kemal harris cory booker and deval patrick for possible candidates in two thousand and twenty and these are all extreme examples of the old not the new harris has gotten donations from steve menuchin who she refused to prosecute magically when she was attorney general in california so i know said their bunker has ridiculous ties to wall street and actually has defended mitt romney's bain capital on the record and patrick actually works for bain capital how are any of these people supposed to represent what the democratic party is supposed to represent they don't that's the answer and these are the people they're lobbying not to run against donald trump who took down a freaking clinton so yeah that when he got it right about the dems being

a mess for the sake of a fair fight i hope they reach a little deeper always from the deep state for their twenty twenty candidate and i hope they do it soon because like it or not the clock is already taken. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you pick up this is your wife or. daughter to me. what's your biggest fear i have a bit on the right with the let's talk a little bit bored you say a few of the things that but what about. exploring the topic so simple. now i do do do do to. push more.

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this is an incredibly tense situation. ratings and salutation there is a dark shadow creeping its way across the land here in the united states and no i'm not talking about magnificent celestial events like we saw earlier this week i'm talking about the poor hundred military installations crisscrossing the united states some active some long closed whose use of toxic chemicals over the years have contaminated or are suspected of contaminating the grounds and drinking water of the communities that surround them.