you're. coming up on our team america president donald trump lays out his plan for afghanistan or says he and the trumpet ministration is planning five hundred million dollars worth of expansion and renovation as i want tom of a detention facility. to the famed columbus circle statue in new york city to be next on the statue chopping block all that and more coming up right now. good evening it's tuesday august twenty second five pm in washington d.c.

i'm on your prime kill your watching our team america they begin this hour with a major shake up in the ones waning war in afghanistan monday night president donald trump valid to win this sixteen year battle that offered little details beyond increasing troops and lifting military restrictions artie's to moaned over sario reports his actions not only contradict his previous stance on the war but also threaten to expand it beyond afghanistan's borders in his first formal address to the nation as president donald trump acknowledged frustration felt over decades of middle east involvement the american people are weary of war without victory. nowhere is this more evident than with the war in afghanistan the war in afghanistan will enter its seventeenth year this fall so far the us has suffered twenty four hundred military deaths now troop levels in the country have gone from just a few thousand at the start to hitting

a peak of one hundred thousand in two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven and then slimming down to roughly eighty four hundred by the time president trump took over as commander in chief from monday's announcement we learned troop levels will again rise but we do not know by how much or in what capacity we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities conditions on the ground not arbitrary timetables will guide our strategy from now on. seemingly taking aim at former president barack obama for giving deadlines to his strategy in the country it's not the first time trump has disagreed with his predecessor on how to handle the war in the past trump has advocated for complete withdrawal but now that he sits in the oval office he's changing his tune not only is the increasing involvement in afghanistan he's putting neighboring countries on notice like india for help and most notably taking

aim at pakistan pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in afghanistan it has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists. like afghanistan any plan with pakistan is short on detail a regional leaders are urging against pushing the country to heart as for afghanistan its president is pleased with renewed u.s. support as the government loses ground against insurgents. a clear message to all oppositions you're not going to win militarily joy peace and accept my useful invitation. the taliban meanwhile is vowing to continue fighting in the region until all american troops leave afghanistan for good in washington cmon dollars ario r.t. what many people feeling a sense of confusion about military strategy for afghanistan others are expressing

a bit more concern about the u.s. involvement and possible consequences at home former congressman ron paul is one such individual sounding alarm. there's going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is nobody will know when it is ended but i think trump has been maybe a little bit more up front his goal isn't to get done in six months or a year it looks like he's planning to be there for the long term and trump says that we should be killing more people in afghanistan and i think is a recipe for disaster is going to be very costly so i think it will finally end and our empire will and when we run out of money that's maybe in the too distant future from some gut instincts but so far he hasn't been able to stick to them so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be. for some insight i was joined earlier by phyllis bennis

director of the new internationalism project at the institute for policy studies and author of the book understanding isis the new global war on terror i first asked her if she had an interpretation of trump's plan which is low on details i think the strategy is to continue fighting the war as he has been this president has already really reduced the insufficient restrictions that existed before on using military force where civilians were involved he has allowed the generals to make all the decisions saying that they should make all the decisions based on conditions on the ground not taking into account the politics the diplomacy the regional considerations and he's been doing all of that for the last six months since he's been in office in that context he hasn't really made any changes at all this without any new information about how many new troops how long they will be

there this is a recipe for permanent war. well you heard what someone reported there are last night what trump said about pakistan afghanistan neighbor calling them out with some pretty harsh words can you explain for viewers what the relationship between the taliban and pakistani intelligence services is and where the u.s. had since the taliban was a local group of afghans but who were quickly adopted given arms and training by the pakistani military and they became the sort of main supporter of the taliban during the years of afghanistan's civil war in the late ninety's india at the same time was the main regional supporter of the opposing group that was known as the northern alliance and those were the two forces fighting each other in the civil war the taliban won the civil war in one thousand nine hundred six and pakistan continued to support them when the us invaded and overthrew the taliban government in two thousand and one claiming that the taliban was harboring osama bin laden

interestingly the guy that the u.s. used to support back in the eighty's the the role of pakistan became a very tricky one because they were now supporting the afghan taliban against u.s. interests but at the same time there was a pakistani taliban operation that they were challenging that they were fighting against so it became rather complicated and in the meantime the other group that was known as the northern alliance more warlords not that different than the taliban they were now created in by the u.s. into the new afghan government and they became the government they still are so you have these groups of competing warlords on both sides both of which have not been very helpful to the people of afghanistan with the u.s. fighting continuing it's the afghan civilians that are paying the biggest price and what we now know is that in the months that trump has been in power the afghan civilian casualties are sixty seven percent higher than they were

a year ago so we know that. trump is already responsible for more dead and injured afghan civilians than any president before him i want to get your reaction to what house speaker paul ryan said during a town hall last night after a trump speech during which he praised the president's remarks. they have a time we have the watches meaning they will wait us out and if they believe that we have some end date some timetable then they will wait us out. they have the time and we have the watches phillis that because the us is trying to fight an indigenous population. absolutely and what this says is that pole ryan is supporting permanent war and permanent occupation there's no question that the u.s. military is more powerful than the taliban if the u.s. is prepared to permanently occupy afghanistan with potentially hundreds of thousands of troops they can win if you want to use that as the definition of

victory what it doesn't do is end the fighting what it doesn't do is stop the killing of afghan civilians afghan children women that's the part that is continuing and that's the big problem we hear over and over again there is no military solution it's time that we stop acting as if there was only a military solution and got down to the real challenge of having diplomacy as difficult as it's going to be win out over wars we need diplomacy we need diplomats we don't need more war and more soldiers speaking of diplomacy while trump talked about targeting the taliban militarily last night secretary of state rex tillerson also has said the u.s. is ready to support peace talks between the afghan government and taliban without preconditions as you know the taliban is currently battling the self-proclaimed islamic state and the country is defeating the taliban militarily

a wise goal for the united states. well it's not clear that it actually is the goal part of the problem in afghanistan right now is that the u.s. goal is not very clear the taliban has never targeted the united states the taliban goals have always been to control afghanistan they are a local organization it's not an organization who i would want to live under but i don't live there you know the claim that people like john mccain and others in congress and presidents have all raised is that we. have to continue the war in afghanistan so they don't any longer threaten us in the united states where the taliban does not threaten us and the notion that we are going to continue to fight the taliban in the interest of the afghan government that we created an arm and support and pay for despite its massive levels of corruption the fact that it includes warlords that are almost as terrible towards women as the taliban this doesn't make any sense the real goals of the united states are just not clear is

our real goal to get control of the the the minerals that are potentially part of the wealth of afghanistan is that what we're doing there we want soldiers so that our mining companies can get in with the protection of the u.s. military is that what is going on here we don't have any clarity we do know that the taliban is not challenging the united states outside of afghanistan so if the goal is to protect americans they're certainly not going about it the right way and they're certainly not doing anything that's protecting afghans because they are the ones who are dying in enormous numbers to last i think any president would be privileged to have you as that as an advisor with respect to the region i'm wondering if you had that anybody in power in the air at the moment what would you advise as a peaceful solution forward for the country. i would say let's be serious about what we all know to be true there is no military solution withdrawing

the troops is not going to turn afghanistan into switzerland overnight but until we stop the fighting until we withdraw the troops the possibility of serious diplomacy is simply not going to take effect if we want to have diplomatic engagement you can't do that while you are trying to wipe out your opponent so i think that's what i would advise we need to pull out the u.s. troops stop the bombing stop killing afghan civilians and engage with all of that energy and money and high level attention into real diplomatic solutions in the region. the un has condemned reports that over seventy civilians have been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in the i still held the syrian city of raka on sunday. looks at the heavy price civilians are paying and roc-a as well as in similar operations in iraq. well just to bring everyone up to speed racket was once considered the

capital of isis in syria and for many months now it has been besieged by the u.s. led coalition and the local allies in syria and that is be the brutal siege not a week goes by without reports of not civilian casualties and this last week has been no exception the u.s. led coalition is accused of killing forty civilians in an airstrike and that's a conservative estimate there are more people believed to be still buried under the rubble we contacted the coalition asking them to comment on this matter and they said that they take reports of civilian casualties very seriously in the they're investigating but you know if confirmed if their previous responses are anything to go by we'll hear more apologies some regret condolences and we'll see more strikes not a lot will change we all remember the horrendous price paid by civilians in mosul

during the city's liberation this talk of as many as twenty thousand dead killed by isis and killed by the u.s. led coalition by the iraqi military in ceaseless airstrikes they kept apologizing saying how sorry they were they regretted the loss of civilian life but the bombs kept raining down and the civilian death toll kept mounting it's happening again this time just west of mosul in an area known as fodder which the iraqi military says it is determined to retake from isis and to him and the town of telephone next in the march of liberation the heroic security forces preparing to liberate this region i say to islamic state you have a choice surrender or die as with mosul that pounding telephone with all they've caught me sile. strikes artillery tanks the sorts of weapons that don't

discriminate between isis fighters and civilians now consider that in the middle of this hell there are forty thousand civilians according to the u.n. and the situation is desperate for food medicine even drinking water becoming a luxury and the u.n. is warning that there's a real exodus thousands of civilians or expected to flee from iraq still a far and surrounding communities during the iraqi military operation there's little doubt that isis in telephone will be defeated but the cost will be tremendous the iraqi military and the u.s. led coalition have shown time and time again that it is a price they consider worth paying. four suspects in thursday's the barcelona terror attack are appearing in court one of the alleged assailants has admitted a bigger attack was planned at the city's iconic figure out of familia church the

attacker who drove the car into pedestrians and last week was found and killed on monday that's as the cattle on police when these footage of the raid conducted in the spanish town of st paul or the attack suspect licked the officers searched several apartments and numerous gas canisters were found artie's peter oliver is a report for us now. as the investigation continues into who was behind last week's terror attacks that took place in spain that investigation is focusing in on this small town just to the north about an hour and a half's drive to the north of barcelona they pull is where. the terrorist cell was put together and radicalized and it's believed that radicalization was carried out by. now he's understood to have been the mom who was operating out of a mosque based in this building just behind me here. he did have

a criminal past he was sent to prison back in twenty ten for a number of years for being involved in dealing with the imports of hasheesh from his native morocco into spain and it's during that time in prison that we understand that he became radicalized himself he may well cording to some reports of beating contact with some of those who were currently it was serving time who were involved in the two thousand and four madrid bombing which killed one hundred ninety two people which al qaeda took responsibility for what we are piecing together from the investigators as they give us bits of information is that this was the hope for a group of twelve a number of. courts and with those that are in court and those in custody that were . hoping to get more information out of what we know so far is that they were all local they were all relatively young we know they played football together they they were some went to a local institutes and study together but they all had one thing in common contact

with. this particular mosque and that's where the investigation is focusing because this is a very small very quiet town in the foothills of the pyrenees mountains but it seems that this was the by his nest that was able to raise up a group of people and radicalize them in order to strike and attack in two spots alone on the surrounding area killing so many. confederate monuments across the country are being taken down following tragic events during a white supremacist rally and starlets fell for ginia now the war on statues can spread beyond confederate landmarks the famous statue of christopher columbus and new york maybe the next taken down are to try to chavez is in new york with more computer at statues are not the only ones being called into question we are here acholi the famous statue of christopher columbus is now in the middle of some major controversy as city officials look to remove controversial monuments the legacy of

christopher columbus is a complicated one some believe him to be a brave pioneer who discovered america and others consider him to be a ruthless men who were enslaved abused and murdered native americans the seventy six foot tall structure is only one of the statues on the long list of monuments that will be reviewed by city officials this is a part of mayor bill de blasio efforts to re-evaluate quote symbols of hate on city property something city officials are doing all across the nation the deadly violence in charlottesville gave a new urgency to the process of taking down confederate monuments. being vandalized before their removal was on monday the president at the university of texas at austin ordered the immediate removal of statues of robert e. lee and other prominent confederate figures from the main area of campus saying such monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo nazi ism i believe. represent. a system of oppression violence

exploitation against a community community in the black community. do not need the protection of the public space and over the weekend duke university in north carolina remove the statue from the entrance of duke chapel after parts of lee's face were vandalized other states removing confederate statues include california florida and ohio just to name a few and the bronx. community college also removed the busts of robert e. lee and stonewall jackson from the hall of fame for great americans new york governor cuomo said in the tweet there are many great americans many of them new yorkers worthy of a spot in this great hall these two confederates are not among them mayor bill de blasio says that there will be a ninety day review of the hate symbols that are on city property and he will announce a task force to complete this in the near future reporting in columbus circle trinity chavez r.t.

and in baltimore a video was released yesterday showing a two hundred twenty five year old monument to christopher columbus the oldest in the country being vandalized the video shows someone taking a sledgehammer to the inscription at the base of the forty four foot tall statue the narrator starts the video by describing how christopher columbus symbolizes the invasion of european capitalism into the western hemisphere initiating centuries of quote terrorism murder slavery ecological degradation genocide and exploitation of labor take a look over evolution is the new interim systems of democratic economics it's going to be poor african american and. according to the man featured in this video the very systems that the foundation of american culture helps sustain white supremacy and need to be dismantled. donald trump is being accused of using his big afghan policy announcement as damage control after widely criticized

remarks about last week's deadly violence in charlottesville after the violence he issued a call for unity but was condemned for his alleged reluctance to single out the role of white supremacists in the clashes one side has upped the ante by launching a petition on the white house website calling for and teeth to be to be declared a terrorist organization more than two hundred thousand people have signed it in just five days requiring the administration to now. bond under the petition rules jack lena vogel looks at how opposing sides are turning divisions into a tool for political gain. political tensions are reaching new heights in america and both sides of the divide the left and the right are trying to paint the other's most radical violent elements as being the true face of their whole movement.

politicians are happy to pour gasoline on the flames as well trump has made it clear with ban and gore can the white house and the klan in the streets it is now the white supremacists house the hyperball that vitriol from the left has spurred threats and now action without historical power but violent extremism within political groups is far from a new thing for the u.s. except earlier they didn't appear as tools in a political debate take timothy mcveigh a white supremacist who actually blew up a federal building twenty two years ago killing one hundred sixty eight people at the time politicians draw a line between his political leanings and his actions motives to me of course is irrelevant no political motive is worth the life of a child or an innocent human being so this appears to be a domestic terrorist act but that sentiment of motive being rolled and suddenly no more nowadays after the recent near enough the attack in virginia both motive and blame the place at the feet of president tom by the mayor of charlottesville he should look in the mirror and he made

a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with him to you know go right to the gutter to play on our worst prejudices and i think you are seeing a direct line from what happened here this weekend to those choices the same goes for the other side in one thousand nine hundred nine some forty thousand anti-globalization the city of seattle into a battleground purchasing a world trade organization conference. right by what some may today branded the left were exactly used by the right to make a political statement this was the reaction and that we really never saw any of the excitement that was going on in the streets i think frankly much of the media focus . on what was going on on the streets from the most of the serious meetings were going on behind closed doors a similar left leaning crowd wreak havoc in berkeley earlier this year and scale it failed to match samples events and the political outrage had

a very clear target what the president timing and as well. if you see but he does not allow free speech impressions is violence on innocent people with a different point of view no federal funds this is kind of an evolution of things throughout the past i'd say two or three presidency is where it's easier to divide people and make them feel like everyone again is against them on the opposite party so when you start playing with identity politics you start looping in hate groups with that identity politics game it's not going to go away and it's not something that started with trump it's not something sadly that i think will end with trump this tablature it might tell you politically motivated violence is something new but it's not maybe the bigger picture is it's just now being exploited for political gain. r.t. washington d.c. . the governor of missouri has issued a stay of execution in the case of forty eight year old marcellus williams today a man scheduled to die tonight despite d.n.a. evidence and removing him from the crime governor area greetings and nouns to you will appoint

a five member board of retired missouri judges to look into the case this comes after opponents of the death penalty organized rallies and vigils throughout the state in response to plans to kill the man and using lethal injection tonight. in august of one thousand nine hundred eight the death row inmate was convicted for the murder of forty two year old felicia gail his jury consisted of eleven white jurors and one black juror however a d.n.a. profile developed from the handle of the murder weapon did not match williams's d.n.a. furthermore the a.c.l.u. reported there was no forensic evidence or eyewitness testimony linking him to the crime additionally the jury had not been made aware of his history of severe abuse and mental disability. the trumpet ministration is planning to oversee a tremendous building boom at america's most notorious prison base according to reports the pentagon is requesting nearly five hundred million dollars for a proposed construction projects at the guantanamo bay detention center or to use

marine important i have brings us the details. well forty one knees and fifty five hundred residents reside on a mobile a navy base a forty five square mile island prison the trumpet ministrations says it's intent on refilling and by the looks of things even expanding according to the miami herald the u.s. military is planning for nearly half a billion dollars in new construction at the detention center over the next four years included in the short term development plans a sixty six million dollars school for up to two hundred seventy five students that breaks down to two hundred forty thousand per child additionally a one hundred twenty four million dollars for new barracks twelve point four million dollars to build a new dining room for prison staff while eight point four million dollars has been allocated for a new clinic for detainees the u.s.

navy has requested two hundred fifty million dollars to build a five bed hospital now the last request prompted the republican led senate armed services services committee to ask defense secretary james mattis to conduct an analysis and comprehensive study of the cost of. the request noting the proposed two hundred fifty million replacement hospital at guantanamo would cost fifty million dollars per bed now in a statement the d.o.d. health agency said it wants to replace the current twelve bed hospital built in one thousand nine hundred eighty six with one that could better withstand earthquake tremors rattling the region now according to a document obtained by the miami herald the barracks would be ready by twenty twenty one if congress approves the funding soon while president trump made a campaign promise to reduce costs the remote u.s. navy base his about face on the afghan war has shown voters that promises made

aren't always guaranteed to be kept all right argues reid important in my. for us thanks a lot for coming up on our team most of the country's antibiotics aren't heading to the doctor's office stay tuned for that report. there's a real irony going. to be like a play a finger at a responsible choice in the people and parents always say well that's what it was it always seems. to be a little the ordinary you know wholesale surveillance you feel you have already in while those who need to do so since the instructor has used the social media site while are always on the story because it's garbage and real. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. it was something i wanted to.

have to do i would be the first to see what the four three of the more people that . i'm interested in the waters at the age. there should. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't tell me you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes

a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends. polluting a river that causes other illnesses they put all the bills risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you don't want your working. welcome back to our to america antibiotics have helped dramatically reduce illnesses and even death from infectious diseases since the one nine hundred forty s. but as our teams in the toughest weed explains most of the countries and biotics aren't heading to the doctor's offices and some worry are contaminating our food supply once considered a miracle drug and biopics even paved the way for the possibility of more surgeries including organ transplants as patients built up a resistance fighters for disease control and prevention have been urging doctors

to prescribe antibiotics more wisely however little progress is being made when it comes to the use of better biotechs on farms were most of these drugs are being administered and found a whopping eighty percent of antibiotics sold in the u.s. are used in meat and poultry production the vast majority of these drugs are used on healthy animals to promote growth or prevent disease in crowded conditions and according to the agriculture industry the use of these drugs contributes a little if any to the burden of human embryonic resistance but the c.d.c. says that more than two million americans become sick as a result of drug resistance bacteria and more than twenty three thousand of them die and the incidence is the highest among children younger than the age of five according to the american academy of pediatrics and health officials have been voicing their concerns since the late one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred eighty eight the institute of medicine said quote data shows the flow of seminal the clones from farm animals medicated with antibiotics in

concentrations through food products to humans. acquire clinical some analysis but recently dr thomas frieden director of the c.d.c. has come out and said quote there is a strong scientific evidence of a link between biopic use in food animals and a bout of resistance in humans according to mayor political director at organic consumers association these antibiotics could trigger of things that we normally associate with. i have been looking into the problems with because i am coming off of farms and resistant infections you're very tracks infection is the latest it's becoming very common that women will get your inner tract infections that cannot be treated with antibiotics and these infections are coming directly from the food that they're eating. and the issue is it's not just in the food we eat as a vegetarian i think while i'm out of the woods i don't have to worry about these

food borne resistant infections but unfortunately that's not true because the big problem that we have with factory farms is the runoff of water that people contamination from these huge lagoon of waste from the animal factories and so it's just as likely that i could get a food borne antibiotic resistant from blood that was washed with contaminated water according to consumers union bacteria doesn't only spread to other livestock contaminated in small quarters but also the farm workers and the people who visit the farms and if the infectious bacteria is drug resistant even an iyonix at the doctor's office would be ineffective it's a nightmare some health organizations are worried about but the industry maintains that it's nothing but a dream as people know how to cook poultry thoroughly and won't rare a superbug outbreak does happen in two thousand and eleven the c.d.c. linked ground turkey to one hundred thirty six illnesses and one death in that specific case some thirty six million pounds of ground turkey were recalled and

according to bated mer if you do eat meat and find organic. is the best way to go in washington r.t. . a jury in california has ruled against multinational pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson and the costliest decision to date for the company concerning its talcum products linked to cancer j. and j. now must pay seventy million dollars and compensate tory damages and three hundred forty seven million in punitive damages after the jury sided with california resident. who says she developed ovarian cancer through her use of johnson's baby powder for feminine hygiene. said her lawyers or others say j.n.j. encouraged women to use the product despite knowing studies show it can lead to a varian cancer and death for more let's bring in host of america's lawyer mike papen tonio he's also author of the book law and then gents. mr mike happened tonio

welcome to the show today as a well respected trial lawyer and someone who spent three decades fighting corporations in court the significance of this has the price tag in your reaction to the jury's decision. it looks like we have a lost mike. unfortunately and we're going to move on to somebody else for you a trampoline a thermos and escalator are just a few examples of words that used to be protected by u.s. trademark laws in the united states until they became synonymous with the product or service they performed a case before the supreme court will determine if google will suffer the same fate joining us now is legal and media analyst lionel of the lionel media to explain. lionel can you start by explaining a what exactly this case is all about. no i'm kidding of course i can't i

mean there is something called the land act and what happens is a trademark that has been used becomes deemed abandoned if you don't use it for three years or more or if the word becomes so much a part of our vocabulary that it is lost through genericized now let me give you a couple of things these are words that are a part of our dictionary are not our lexicon our way of speaking that at one particular time were trademarks aspirin cellophane dry ice escalator flip phone heroin kerosene laundromat linoleum teleprompter trampoline and videotape these were words which were trademarked and xerox sometimes was been thought of kleenex and others

they've been used for so long as to describe what the project is and there are various tests that courts will employ right now google is facing genericized somebody had google len and had basically a stock to the term out and now a chord is disturbing whether google deserves his fate we google the word google that anya you don't yahoo that are being that and i don't think it's likely for a host of reasons that that happens but it's a fascinating case about when something that you have used a word for example when a guest is on your head when somebody is does does raked over the coals somebody who has submitted to one of your incredible cross examinations you are absolutely. well you did examinations one is you could lose your name theoretically but i don't

think that's going to happen but i did this is fascinating because we all say google we've goole things and what didn't if you're a brand when you like wouldn't you like it if your word becomes what's associated with the product overall i mean your your name and then for google right because no you lose the trademark because guess what happened bear had aspirin aspirin was only bare now you have other forms of generic aspirin and for all of our friends who enjoy heroin even that was trademark you lost that one of me that was a brand name kerosene so the idea is that when something is used so often now a couple of things here a while back years ago there was this plea of the half of xerox xerox was worried about this because the term has been used then for copying for photo copy and then a court has to ask here's a best one how does

a court determine its affidavits there's a sit back and say wow let's see you bring in expert witnesses linguists people who look at khan and words and phrases to determine if something by virtue of its frequency but but not only that it has been identified as that saying we take an aspirin we don't take care we don't take tylenol we take an aspirin scotch tape was a veggie of the in some particular part of my grandmother always referred to the frigidaire as the refrigerator so when you say this and here's the best part and you bring up a great point which suddenly become so popular so when grain so much a part of our consciousness as to that particular item you risk the chance of losing the very protection which project they were in the first place can you say irony it's a fascinating case lionel and we'll have to stay up on and see exactly how it all plays out lionel lionel media thanks so much for coming on thank you. back to that

story we just brought you a few moments ago a refresher for you a jury in california has ruled against multinational pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson in the costly as decision to date for the company concerning its talcum powder products linked to cancer jane j. must now pay seventy million dollars in compensatory damages and three hundred forty seven million in punitive damages after the jury sided with california resident eva edge of the area who says she developed ovarian cancer through her use of johnson's baby powder for feminine hygiene and lawyers say j.n.j. encouraged women to use the product despite knowing studies show it can lead to ovarian cancer and death for more let's bring in host of america's lawyer might happen tony he's also author of the book law and vengeance mike welcome to the show thanks for coming on today can you just start by explaining as

a well respected trial lawyer someone who spent decades over three decades fighting corporations in court explain the significance of this hefty price tag and your reaction to the jury's decision. this is a monumental the problem for johnson and johnson this far at this point five separate juries have listened to weeks of testimony and reviewed document after document directly coming directly from the file cabinets of johnson and johnson each one of those juries and this is extremely important they all found the same thing that johnson and johnson failed to warn consumers about the link between talcum powder in the increased risk of ovarian cancer apparently twenty two thousand americans are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year the autopsy in the johnson and johnson case though it shows that women have the presence of talc inside the ovarian tumor so there's no guesswork here they actually do the path ology they found the right inside the tumor still johnson and johnson's refused to

create any type of legitimate warning system they still are not warning women who should have the choice to make an informed choice about whether they're willing to accept this risk or not you even need to use baby powder there's all kinds of alternatives and what's so important is in one thousand nine hundred seventy one johnson and johnson had way more than enough information to begin asking questions about cancer and their tout body powder their ninety seventy one their own scientists discovered particles of talc in bedded in ovarian and cervical tumors so they've known about a long time the juries get furious about the fact that they put these women at risk this is a deadly ovarian cancer is a killer and these these folks know it and they kept it on the market anyway in one thousand nine hundred two while an amazing that showed woman i'm sorry go ahead as you explain the most damning aspect of this case is the fact again jane knew about the effects of talcum powder on one's health yet marketed to marketed it to women

anyway why would the so-called family company make such a decision. well it's all about money here's what they do they calculate how. many people are going to die how many people are we going to have to pay for their losses and then they calculate well we're making x. billion dollars per year so they do it's a mathematical exchange they figure out how many cases are they going to win in trial how many are they going to win in on appeal what will the supreme court do what are their chances of being able to work their way through this with no with no losses but it is it's absolutely a risk benefit financial risk benefit analysis that we see time after time with these companies it's not just changing it's all of these forms suitable companies understand when they have a product that kills people all they have to do is do a quick number on find out do we come out ahead by killing people or do we come out ahead by pulling the product off the market or making people aware that the powder

that they're using on their body can kill them by way of ovarian cancer so there's no guesswork here it's no surprise that just these juries are furious about what they're finding here well jane j's attorneys were able to argue this suit and drug administration has not determined their talcum products are carcinogenic can you talk about the government's responsibility and this case and others like it involving major corporations. we see the f.d.a. the e.p.a. the f.c.c. and these regulatory agencies all the time bought and paid for by corporate america this is another example of it the f.d.a. anybody looking just just reviewing the documents that come directly from the file cabinets of j.j. just taking the time to sit through a jury trial and listen to the testimony that comes out that's all they'd have to do to do their job but they typically don't do their job because they have other reasons sweat we typically see as we see people working with the f.d.a.

day one and then day three they're working for the very industry that they're supposed to be regulating it simply is a passage of money again and so the idea that regulators are looking out for us is the bigger. smith that we've that we promulgate in this country time and time again we see situations just like this f.d.a. letting johnson and johnson literally kill people with ovarian cancer and taking no action and you know what the worst thing about it is the mainstream media corporate media let this happen for so long why because johnson and johnson they've had this story a long time the story's been out there time but corporate media let allow this to happen because of advertisers or unfortunately out of time of course the fear is now if they want to get some of those cases which aren't covered by the mainstream media they can watch your show america's lawyer every wednesday night might happen tonio thanks so much for coming on today thank you. piracy is a huge problem in hollywood costing movie studios billions of dollars every year

but the movie industry has an even bigger problem hacking data breaches are costing some studios their reputation and the financial consequences are harder to calculate r g three to santoso has a story from los angeles h.b.o. has been hacked again with the allege the cyber attackers releasing new episodes of the network's hit shows game of thrones and ballers other data that has reportedly been compromised includes things like a contact information for actors employee e-mails internal documents scripts and even job offers for the damages from the leaks at the so this may be easy to calculate the losses due to other early data is not back in twenty four thirteen the infamous sony expose in i'm favorite culture behind the scenes costing the studio forty one million dollars and its reputation so far the h.b.o. hacks have been less dramatic than sony but still the hackers reportedly held the contents ransom demanding six months of salary paid in because which we quibble

into roughly six million dollars to which h.b.o. replied quote we have received your letters and we appreciate you making us aware of the security vulnerabilities we have a bug bounty program to reward white hat professionals who bring these types of things to our attention as a show of good faith we are willing to commit to making a bug bounty payment of two hundred fifty thousand dollars to you whether h.b.o. actually intended to go through with the payment is unclear and why the company referred to the hike as a white hot incident is also unclear as the studio has yet to respond to requests for comment the hackers are now threatening to release the new game of thrones season finale and with so many studios susceptible it's likely only a matter of time before we see a sequel in los angeles privy to santos artes. in order to treat neurological disorders like all. autism schizophrenia or depression it's important to understand

how brain cells communicate with each other in a new study scientists from the salt institute and the university of california in san diego are seeking to find out how the human brain works on a molecular level they're using a new method of categorizing brain cells and found new subtypes which promise to significantly increase the understanding of how the human brain develops and why things can go wrong joining me now is iran assistant professor of cognitive science at the university of california and co senior author of the study thanks for joining me today mr move please explain for us how our brain works and what difference your study makes what is it added to our understanding. well thanks for thanks for your interest so one of the one of the key aspects of how the brain works that we've known about for a number of years is is the fact that there are many different types of cells in the brain that have to work together both neurons in and other types of cells in

the brain that signal to each other. to allow us to sense the world around us and to think and to at. what our study was trying to do was to try to get a molecular understanding of one of essentially one landscape of different types of brain cells is specifically we were looking at the genome so the. changes to the d.n.a. in each cell of the brain and different from each other that makes honor and specialized for being what we call it senatorial runs meaning they increase the activity in a part of the brain and other neurons are inhibitory neurons they lower down the activity in the brain and the balance between these different cell types is is is really what allows us to be who we are and how can ordinary people understand what the breakthrough was with your study. well essentially the it was in part it was a technological or on a new technological breakthrough we were able to for the first time look at the

cells in the brain one at a time so instead of a traditional technique might be to collect a piece of the brain tissue and collect the d.n.a. from all of the cells which piece of brain tissues that many thousands or more cells and really measure an average kind of. picture of what's going on with the gene expression and the gene regulation in all of those thousands of cells what we were able to do is to actually look at the cells one at a time and that's really critical in a in a part of the body like the brain where all of the cells are are really different from each other and have specialized function so. now is really the breakthrough and can you talk to us a little bit about how you conducted your research. sure so the starting point was a new experimental technique for being able to capture the d.n.a. from single cells so the challenge there is the essential has just two copies of the genome and so we have to very carefully prepare our. libraries of

d.n.a. from single cells so that we don't lose the material. my lab is a computational neuroscience lab and so our all in the project was to take the data that came from. genome sequencing of the cells and specifically we were looking at what's called d.n.a. methylation so it's. we were using the genome sequencing to measure where we did the genome. metal marks it deposited so the genome consists of the letters ac g.m.t. and the site is eans the season in our genetic code it can either be methylated or not manipulated they can have those metal marks so are the took the data set which consisted of essentially billions of these methylation call's methylated or methylated and then trying to make sense of you know what cell types do we have in the brain how can we group the cells into some meaningful structure that we can

understand all right aaron mccomb alice's temper fessor of cognitive science at the university of california coast in years after of this new study thank you so much for joining me this afternoon right pleasure thank you. tune in tonight for a special edition of on contact tonight chris hedges travels to anderson indiana a former auto manufacturing town that lost thousands of jobs after general motors closed its plants and the line explores how a community and its workforce recover after high paying a unionized manufacturing jobs disappear. gas station that's what he had stage but guns and ammo still open ground and i am not got to have that. there is a leg or show or hammer them you ever see a glove. you know you don't say the larger stores take up more. than i would you know briere your father did yeah yeah working class you know. and

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a result of their own investigating but just a complete rip off of a list made by an organization called the southern poverty law center the article completely failed to mention that the article also failed to mention that the s.p.l. the is a very liberal leaning group which is why they include conservative groups who espouse traditional values. as hate groups it's a totally biased list from a completely separate organization who considers conservative christian values hate in other words c.n.n. totally mongered their hate in a completely irresponsible biased way and they knew it because shortly after they published the active hate groups where you live article they actually changed that headlight into the southern poverty law center a list of hate groups they got rid of the list and then they link to the reader out to the as site instead writing a lengthy editor's note at the bottom about how and why they updated the article

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questions. greetings and salutations sixteen years drawn and it appears that the united states military adventure in afghanistan will still be going strong under president donald j. trump despite despite his numerous campaign trail statements to the contrary a monday night president trump took to the podium and the airwaves like president george w. bush and barack obama before him to once again pledge the united states is.