coming up on our t.v. an exclusive from mosul among the destruction and the aftermath of a u.s. led offensive to retake the city. forget oil and gold the new most valuable commodity today is personal data we'll explain. and then the recent protests in charlottesville virginia are raising questions nationwide on what to do with controversial statues that and more into nights race in america with ashley banks.

it's friday august twenty fifth five pm in washington d.c. i'm going to you're watching are to america we begin tonight in the city of mosul where the u.s. led operation to liberate the city from isis has been declared a success despite the inconceivable human cost it was once home to about two million people god is in mosul to witness the aftermath a word of warning though you might find the content of this report quite stirring. he kept this up for a needy ten months. u.s. led coalition and the rockies one but you can still smell the ashes this probably won't shock you the destruction in mosul a city in ruins it's already been shown you've probably also heard about the thousands killed the civilian suffering what you will likely haven't heard of is

the smell it's noisy aging repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink need sick the smell of rotting bodies. the sickly permeates the entirety of the old city under the rubble hundreds and hundreds of corpses jihad ists as well as civilians families this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters two women and two children this is again just the first few hours of this warning from buildings right around us and they're still not done. most of them are women and children they called this a victory you'd never think the smell of victory would make you rich.

twenty. five. covering the market even for collection they could put the spare. it describable this is what they do day long day route i did you see it was not the time. it's high. work in move ways than one there are booby traps unexploded jet bombs rockets shells and munitions and the bodies decomposing in the sweltering heat. there was no precision here these was carpet bombing annihilation hundreds buried under rubble hundreds blocked in basements starving or choking to death it will take months to dig up all the bodies

months more of trauma. what i see here makes me cry you can bring anyone here and they will break down in tears because we are all human beings he bring him was and judy there are some things he couldn't sail camera like the fact that he and many rescuers have trouble sleeping after all they've seen and no wonder it is off to rule a city of corpses more of guys d. of from mosul iraq. and in yemen earlier today fourteen people were killed in a saudi led air strike in the capital city of sanaa five children were among those killed the strike destroyed two buildings in a southern district of the city leaving an unknown number of people buried under debris witnesses say eight members of one single family were killed in that strike . the had of a turkish nationalist movement is making harsh statements about kurds in northern

iraq as the kurdish people plan a referendum for independence the turkish opposition group is saying those are grounds for war there are currently about fifteen million kurds in turkey and the turks fear that if that move is successful in iraq it could stoke a similar movement in turkey to discuss further i was joined earlier by a former pentagon official michael maloof i started by asking him why some say a kurdish referendum would be a reason for war turkey turkey historically has had an influence in that region of northern iraq kurds occupied the and they want it back they want it back as part of . everyone's. neo autumn an ambition in this and and along with ports portions of northern syria down to aleppo. i think that this is a bit premature to say that it's going to result in war because it's not generally these referendums this is a referendum it's one of a number that have been taking place. the question is what will be the result of

that what will happen from that referendum yeah. it most likely it will be just to show the sentiment of the people there and they may not do anything in immediately that they haven't before there was a an early read from referendum and they didn't do anything. but if they go ahead and strike out the side well this is our chance and this could end the referendum will also include areas that the kurds have taken over from. in the war in iraq so they have this is actually going to. the kurds i believe feel that this will give them greater leverage and towards some form of autonomy the syrians have already given the the kurds at least temporary autonomy in that area base a little space for a time if turkey if syria becomes consolidated they could they may just go ahead and yank it back but the but the one thing that the warring factions from turkey to to syria to iran iraq all agree on one thing that is they do not want kurdish

independence a kurdish separate independent state anywhere and everywhere anywhere and now speaking. or ice and the kurds have been the most successful in the region the most successful local forces there driving a lot of the major wins that the allies the coalitions that had they're the ones that have opened the doorway for that turkey isn't thrilled that the u.s. is backing them and where might the u.s. stand if a few years down the line from here if you know more referendums like this are seen and the kurds band together across all these borders and seek their own state where might the u.s. be if the kurds are the ones to thank for defeating. well the answer is the u.s. probably will be wishy washy as usual they support the concept of autonomy for the kurds but at the same time they don't want to implement such

a push because of the disruption that it could cause now the turks could use this as a provocation real or imagined to bring in more troops into the northern part of iraq because they plan to stay there they have troops there already for training purposes and so they also want the oil they like the oil and so they've been dealing with the kurdish government in the northern part of that country the other problem that's could conceivably occurs at this road referendum could even create greater disruption. bickley internally in iraq simply because. when he was prime minister promised them all tanami in exchange it didn't happen but because. the stars are rising again against the body of the current. prime minister this how to create more problems all over again so we can we can see major

problems after the september twenty fifth referendum and and real or imagined the turks could take certain actions on their own and use this as a as some kind of provocation it's happened before while speaking in terms of just how turkey is involved in this why do they consider it such a threat if the kurds got their own state and then there's there's more than fifteen million of them in turkey alone well that's the problem because what they see the this referendum could be a catalyst for kurds not only in syria but also in iran as well as in southwestern turkey to push for similar autonomy and turkey has been violently put in the kurds down inside of turkey has destroyed entire cities where kurds have been residing have rigged have declared in the basically to be terrorists and i mean all of them are p.k. you know they are all p.k. k. in the eyes of the of the turks so this is

a problem and so. how would i know i think we're what conceivably could occur is a potential civil war and turkey so they want to keep that you want to keep it down you keep it down all right we got to keep an eye on this one thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us former pentagon official michael maloof. qatar just made a move that flies in the face of gulf state demands issued earlier this summer on thursday qatar announced it has restored full depth diplomatic relations with iran and promised to send its ambassador. back to tehran r.g.s. simone del rosario reports on the deepening rift between qatar and its middle east neighbors qatar's move to restore full diplomatic relations with iran breaks number one on the list of demands made by other arab nations two months ago back in june saudi arabia egypt bahrain and united arab emirates caught ties with qatar claiming it was funding extremists and criticizing its close relationship with iran later

that month the boycotting countries issued a list of thirteen demands and gave could target ten days to meet it that deadline has long passed and now could tar is showing defiance in going against out first demand to scale down diplomatic ties with iran in restoring diplomatic relations and sending back an ambassador qataris signaling a shift in allegiance back in two thousand and sixteen could tar had pulled its ambassador from tehran after attacks on two saudi diplomatic posts there a sign of solidarity with the kingdom could tar did not bring up the boycott when it announced strengthening ties with iran but the stalemate between it and other gulf states is now in its third month with no end in sight before arab states have cut off air land and sea routes to qatar iran meanwhile has lent a helping hand during the crisis sending food to doha and allowing its planes to fly over its airspace meanwhile the qatari funded al-jazeera network lives on even

though that too is a sticking point for other goals neighbors shutting down the network was part of the list of demands that have gone on unmet al-jazeera had called its inclusion in that list an attempt to silence freedom of expression in the region and media advocates rallied against the move critics claim al-jazeera regularly offers a platform for extremism and now under attack some say it has become the one thing it claimed it wasn't a mouthpiece for the government supporters of the network maintain its editorial independence and see the gulf states attack against them as a way to minimize. qatar's influence like atar as a whole al jazeera is were assisting the pressure and at least for now the gulf crisis continues with no indication either side will cave in washington see my dollars r. e o r t. coming up later on r t and insurance companies spend thousands of letters with sensitive medical information the problem you can see the sensitive data right through that you know that little clear part of the on below will tell you more

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my the us mainstream media is busy trying to find out who is inspiring the divided sides in american society these days so now a new article in the washington post suggests that the far right is being guided by our russian influence jacqueline boga has the story russia is used to being blamed for all things sinister in this world if it's not hacking someone that it's being labeled authoritarian or just flat out criminals but few have stooped to suggest russia backs nazis until now the washington post claiming the nation that lost more than twenty seven million people fighting fascist germany with every family losing loved ones is a source of inspiration for america's neo nazis now you'd hope such offensive claims would be backed up by undeniable facts but sadly you'd be wrong the article

kicks off with a couple of flashy quotes one from a former k.k.k. imperial wizard who calls moscow a key to white survival and then a white supremacist richard spencer for whom the kremlin stands as the most powerful white power in the world which yes sounds bad but these men will use anything to promote their agenda so how is that russia's fault when white nationalists claim inspiration in america's founding fathers as they do does that suddenly make george washington i'm not a sympathizer and what about center after all he's white and powerful too and we're spencer they found a way to drag our team into it as well spencer and his wife he welcomed this geo political analysts. outposts so just see and sputnik and while spencer yes did appear on our t.v. the post gives the fact that after his hail trump salute he became persona non grata here and was never invited again unlike the us media.

and that's not all wait until you hear what other nazi crimes russia has committed would you fifteen. petersburg hosted one of the most outspoken gatherings of idealogues europe has seen in years now it seems a shame to ruin the paper's theories but the event was not state sponsored it was organized by one party not even the russian parliament with white nationalist gathering in charlottesville just a few weeks ago does that suddenly make the state of virginia a safe haven for nazis no war but share one right wing form in the country obviously mean russian evil knows no bounds and after all no one else's house at such an event. we love. our motivation comes from the heart. say an american black walked into this room that person or even more to all of us than any of us is to each other well we're in the dirt now so let's keep digging what else you got washington post kremlin mouthpieces of infuse yes tickly promoted the views

of american neo nazis and white nationalists what is that even based on let's listen to the actual words spoken by the russian president on the issue of not only if nationalism is understood as you know he could show even if it was obvious and it is going to destroy our country which we developed as a multinational in the big multi conventional country it not only leads to a dead end up which but down a path of self-destruction russia will do everything not to allow jobs sounds like a nazi leader to you and i save the best for last the article even ties in the recent tragic events in charlottesville none of this is to say that the carnage in charlottesville is directly attributable to moscow we have not yet learned of evidence the mystic terrorist is spelled prove program lean views so why stop there if actual proof is unnecessary you also don't have evidence that he likes to watch this the cartoons but he probably does and most of the heroes are white but really

who needs proof when it comes to blindly attacking russia these days. r.t. washington d.c. . eastern texas is hunkering down for a major storm hurricane harvey is expected to hit hard tonight starting at around ten pm local time the now capped three storm is centering around the texas coastal town of corpus christi and will likely move up about two hundred fifty miles out in galveston before the worst of it is through officials have set up evacuations of the coastal areas right in the path of harvey however the storm is so big that meteorologists expect severe flooding even one hundred miles inland harvey is expected to be one of the worst hurricanes as of late right up there with katrina and sandy projected to cause billions of dollars of damage four point six million people live in the affected areas experts are saying global warming could be a culprit for the magnitude of this disastrous storm and thousands of hiv patients are fearing discrimination after an insurance company sent out some twelve thousand

letters to its patients regarding their hiv prescriptions in not so discreet on gloats artie's natasha's suite has the details. do you live with family friends or strangers chances are you like to keep your medical information private expression if you have a condition like hiv which you haven't yet publicly shared well look no further than the hipaa law the health insurance portability and accountability act and acted back in ninety six regardless of how your medical records are stored you have a right to privacy under federal law but ensure that incorporated prescription refill information out to some twelve thousand patients with hiv the only problem is that the clear plastic part of the antelope that's only supposed to show your name and address also displayed information about their h.i.v. specific prescription the company apologized and noted a name vendor was responsible for the july twenty eighth mailing but the legal action center and the aid law project of pennsylvania said corrective measures must

be taken by the insurer as people with hiv can face a widespread stigma around a gold fly with the pennsylvania aids group said quote it creates a tangible risk of violence discrimination and other trauma and is another right to privacy concerns the da won a victory in a utah court not having access to residents drug prescription information while many are for cracking down on drug abuse some like jeremy robertson president of the salt lake city firefighters union says that his numbers have had their privacy violated that's why he's teaming up with the american civil liberties union to fight with he's calling in overreach by the federal government they can to having a law enforcement officer come in and rummage through your medicine cabinet well he said the database includes more than just narcotics like harmonise and antidepressants and he's not alone job ridiculous i don't think that anybody should be able to go into any type of records like that. however some think it's an

idea headed in the right direction try to do their job cut down on crack down on people that are abusing this is the key to the buck for. and in our privacy but it's also may be beneficial to them all the utah attorney general's office said they would not be a pill in the u.s. district court judge's decision robertson is hoping this case will make its way to the supreme court's in washington atocha suites r.t. the u.s. senate intelligence committee just passed a bill specifically targeting wiki leaks and its senior personnel including joining us on it as quote hostile non-state intelligence agency it's the bill which claims that wiki leaks receives assistance from foreign state intelligence services will allow the u.s. to use aggressive and perhaps even lethal measures against wiki leaks despite the first amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press to discuss this further i was joined earlier by former cia officer and counterterrorism specialist philip giraldi

i started by asking him if president trump who had previously said i love wiki leaks is now ready to go to war with them take a look the president said he love with you for the wiki leaks release that you have to go recall if. you had a personal agenda you know i think we are at least creating the framework to go to war with wiki leaks so i think it's to go to war is the right expression i think. that you should be hostile foreign intelligence service directed by a foreign government oh this kind of language we use it we have to perception in washington now with the leaks is very much the enemy and i think we can expect all kinds of repercussions in terms of cyber attacks in terms of our national parks. i would not necessarily rule out the size of nations. but you know this is this is kind of going to war now lou the language of this new bill is almost identical to

what the cia director mike pompei o said last april when he called wiki leaks a non states. hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia how credible is the implication that julian assange is some sort of a useful idiot or tool by russian intelligence. i don't think it's credible it all only he so he's rejected this a number of times quite credibly in the us media and very good arguments the fact is he would lose all of his credibility if you were in the pocket of any intelligence service and he knows that i think this is just an excuse those being used to make a case against him i think the u.s. government has been embarrassed by the fact there's so so much you know so many leaks of information but it wound up with wiki leaks so they're not careful apparently of catching the leakers so they're going after the people who are the

research yeah that's a good plan i'm glad you brought that up because in the past week the leaks has obviously exposed u.s. government criminality and they've exposed war crimes so do you think that this is perhaps an act of retaliation against wiki leaks. oh yeah absolutely it's retaliation it's to it's to scare or i think to a certain extent potential leakers in the united states making them a hurry to go no we. don't think it definitely is a revenge. scenario that we're seeing play out here they really are angry at wiki leaks and the fact that the language in the senate bill is virtually the same as that thing came out of the director of the cia hey tells you everything this is something that's coordinate this is something that is probably happening already and it certainly will be accelerated won't we're talking about revenge in timid nation so how can a news source like wiki leaks and

a publisher or someone like join us and go from being protected by our very constitution with freedom of speech freedom of the press to being targeted as a tool of foreign agents can they try to target for example this network at some point in the same way. you know they could i mean i suspect the legal frankly for doing this is going to be the espionage act of nineteen eighteen which technically allows the government to go after anyone who winds up with class five you permission and he's not going to rise to have it so i think that's going to be the big wedge issue and sure they can go after any outlet who winds up with this kind of information it will become their option to do so and i would also add about wiki leaks that it's astonishing to me is that wiki leaks doesn't even operate the united states i mean it's it's basically something that's because based outside the u.s. joint amazon has

a an australian citizen who is is currently in the ecuadorian embassy along so he's not even here and you have they're exercising a certain extraterritoriality to go after now given those facts that you just pointed out that we can link operate outside of u.s. borders through julian assange is an australian national and he's physically an angel and in the ecuadorian embassy how will this new bill how can they go after him while they're there that's precisely why the language used to make this a hostile intelligence service because then the gloves are off this is basically intelligence services operate outside to national borders and really are a threat so they're using this lie was referred specifically to what they think do it in a song. and this will give them their we're never going to resume the east at

a certain level to go after and with this allow them to somehow show up at the ecuadorian embassy and take them out in handcuffs. no because there were dorians won't give a ball the fact is that if you really do speed up as you certainly do british well . all right thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us philip giraldi a former cia officer and counterterrorism specialist thank you. for coming up later on r.t. virginia is taking a closer look at institutionalized racism in the state after the tragic events in charlottesville that story right after the break don't go anywhere. there's a real irony going. to play up the things that are responsible for the boys and the people and there is always someone that's what it's always better than c.n.n. serials i think you need to be a little ordinary you know hold still surveillance you feel you have already while there's going to do so since then trump has used the social media. story is it's

garbage it's real. through. what holds an institution to. put themselves on the line to begin to show the reject. so when you want to express it i'm sure. it was something i wanted. to do like to be the first to say what the fuck were you before you could get. interested in the water using. your soup. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't

tell and 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. he's 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 that chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. it's time for our weekly segment called race in america with ashley banks ashley what do you have on the agenda today hi there monella right now on race in america

we will be answering the question of what should be done with confederate statues here in the u.s. but first i want to start with news coming out of charlottesville virginia where today's hearing was postponed for james alex fields jr the suspect charged with murder in the fatal car attack earlier this month while the governor of virginia signed an executive order yesterday to create a new commission that will identify what policy changes can be made to help foster quote inclusive eighty the tragic events and troll its bill the governor says should serve as a wake up call for every citizen to examine the origins of racism and assess how discrimination and hatred could have led to such extreme violets however the document goes on to describe how the commission will be charged with determining if possible funding opportunities exist within the department of justice and homeland security to better equip state and local governments looking to combat domestic

terrorism and other unlawful conduct according to a new report by think pot progress black residents are already nine times more likely to face unwarranted stops associated with discriminatory policing than white residents while charlottesville is a majority white city data shows that the charlottesville police department implemented stop and frisk tactics one hundred one times in the first six months of this year alone altogether approximately seventy one percent of those targeted were black and twenty eight percent were white or as census data of charlottesville demographics shows the city population is one thousand percent. lacke and sixty nine percent white the statistics suggest more than half of stop and frisk encounters in the city were unnecessary with further action only being taken and forty six percent of the cases joining me now to continue the conversation or intro

let's villain confederate statues as tennessee charter schools centers memphis advocacy director luther mercer thank you so much for joining me luther and i want to start with what i mentioned earlier about think progress they put out a new report showing the charlottesville police department it participates and practices that discriminate against black residents showing that charlottesville that it has a dark history of racism now many of the counter protesters are apt to unite the right protests and charlottesville a couple weeks back they argued that confederate statues in the city need to be removed as a fuel all races narrative and we see all over the nation that's the same conversation that's half and half inning and many government officials local government officials are looking to remove these statues but luther i want to hear from you what should happen to these statues obviously not just in troll its bill but all over the u.s. should they be completely destroyed. thank you for having me you know

let's begin educator and so for over fifteen years i've been in and around education and i'm a student of history and what i believe is that removing the statues conversation is one thing but i don't really necessarily believe we should go ahead and push away the history as some people are asking and the reason why is because i believe that there are testaments around the world symbols like auschwitz the total riots of one hundred twenty one many other symbols that have been around to show and remind us of the worst of us what we can be and sometimes we need these symbols to remind us in order for us to keep looking forward and to understand that we can never repeat this history and so for me there's a conversation to have about moving some of these statues to places like museums or moving the statues to off of areas or inside of courthouses or around courthouses or places of prominence i think that's one conversation but i think in

other ways we need to have these symbols to remind us of our history so that we can never repeat confidence or sing take with air as i'm sure you've heard plenty of people say they believe that these monuments should be destroyed because it brings about pain and reminds them of that terrible moment in history here in the u.s. and they just think that the statue should be done away with can you speak to why these confederate statues were built in the first place. well some of these confederates that used for example were built immediately after the civil war and then some around reconstruction but then there were a lot that were put up during the one nine hundred fifty s. during the civil rights movement which were actually put up to kind of be a front to what was happening in some of these areas look i'm a person who recognizes that pain my mother was involved a civil rights movement i myself have been involved in a lot of areas of working with issues of. justice and so we recognize within this

historical context the importance of symbols and what they mean what they mean even when they were put up and what the intent will around those statues may be at this point though that pain is what i would call the healthy hurt because we need to have symbols like this to remind us that we can never repeat and so what is important for me right now is the conversation in the country to continue to move forward and for us to have a true dialogue on what these symbols mean but also this is still a part of the american cultural context is still institutionalized and we need to be addressing some of these fundamental issues in other ways but talking through this issue by means of this statue discussion is something that's very important not that interesting take now some say removing the statues like the confederate general robert e. lee is a good start to writing this country of institutionalized racism and in the case in charlottesville where there's

a lot of deep seated race isn't there would you agree with this is a good start. i think there's been several good starts in our country's history over the last four did years of saying hey we need to move beyond a certain point we've had the civil rights act of one hundred sixty five we've had other things that have come about in change and transformation in this country as a a they start but it seems that some of the fundamental things that we forget is that there is institutional racism institutional injustice that we must deal with and that needs to come through policy that has to come to a reforming system and framework those are the things that are really going to address some of these historical injustices symbols yes very important let me not give the give the opinion that it's not important but in order to really address the system. itself we can't service this issue around dealing with these injustices

but just removing symbols we've really got to get to the core issues of what causes and continue to perpetuate these issues do you think the charlottesville event will change the way this country looks at a race moving forward you know i hope my hope is that people of faith people of moral character are saying to themselves as a no we've had a history here in this country and it's time for us to move forward however i know that we've had moments in the past where we've had issues pop up there is a passion that comes through and then over time that passion it moves away we go back to again a default setting i am concerned that we have a moment and we're not capturing every aspect of that moment meaning that there needs to be more than just conversations now we need to be moving towards discussions with legislatures we need to be moving towards discussions on a national level with institutions with with our government to say ok how can we

work on core issues such as housing such as the criminal justice system i mean these are just small things to be pointing out but over a macro system these are the things that need to be addressed to rid ourselves of this historical context that we're dealing with and hopefully we see that manifest in the future thank you so much that was luther mercer tennessee charter school center's memphis advocacy director think you so much thank you ashley over to florida where for the first time in modern history the sunshine state has executed a white man for killing a black victim as comes as florida resumes capital punishment following an eighteen month hiatus for more we go live now to our kids in a ring up or not i and my amie marina this execution is being called a death penalty a landmark in florida for several reasons among them is the racial component correct. correct

a white supremacist accused of targeting black victims was put to death in florida thursday marking the first time a white man would be executed in this state for killing a black man fifty three year old mark she was convicted in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight of two counts of first degree murder cording to data from the death penalty information center at least twenty black men have been executed for killing white victims since plourde are reinstated capital punishment in one thousand and seventy six now assaye meanwhile is the first white man to face equal punishment nationally the racial patterns of death sentences leans sharply the same way over the past four decades twenty white men have been reportedly executed for murdering black men while two hundred eighty eight black men have been put to death for killing whites critics of capital punishment say much more needs to be done to make florida and america's criminal justice system more equitable merino the recent

exit cue sion in florida is also marking another first regarding the lethal cocktail use isn't that correct. absolutely thursday's execution was the first to be carried out in the u.s. using a new and tested drug mark assaye was essentially the guinea pig he was the first person put to death using the new anesthetic at my date it replaces. zola which became harder for states to acquire after many drug companies refused to provide it for executions now though drug has been approved by the florida supreme court date has been criticized by some as being unproven in an execution that's also the first of three drugs that those being executed receive no florida officials say there was no complications during thursday's lethal injection.

the foremost objective of the lethal injection procedure is a humane and dignified process the department of corrections follows the law to carry out the sentence of the court as laid out in florida statute which. assays execution was florida's first as you mentioned actually in more than eighteen months now and i'm curious to know why exactly were exit halted in florida for such a long time while the u.s. supreme court ruling in twenty sixteen found florida's method of sentencing people to death to be unconstitutional the court ruled that the state's old system was illegal because it gave judges not juries the power to decide death penalty sentences since then florida lawmakers crafted new legislation twice ultimately passing a law requiring a unanimous jury for death penalty recommendations thursday's execution would make say the twenty fourth the death row prisoner put to death since governor rick scott

took office in twenty eleven the most executions under any governor in u.s. history marino porn reporting from miami thank you so much. and that does it for race in america i'm ashley banks follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t back to you manila thanks for that ashley and this week's on contact episode explores the rise of white violent or right wing hate groups turn in for chris hedges discussion with john will baraka associate fellow at the institute for policy studies and the green party's nominee for vice president in the twenty six team cycle take a look here's a preview it is part of the history of this country that violence has always been at the center of this settler colonial experience of violence both official and unofficial it was the militias that were part of the process of clearing the land of the indigenous it was militias and various paramilitary forces i just interrupt

you there there's a lot of people don't know that that some of the worst massacres of indigenous communities you know were not carried out by the cavalry or they didn't shy away from genocide you know but you're right from private militias raised out of denver who then wiped out entire indian camp those kind of private militias but also just local. initiatives by settlers to get rid of the local indigenous problem so that's been part of the the us experience the paramilitary forces that were part of enforcing the racial colds and the configurations of power in the south that became the centerpiece of the totalitarian experience for african-americans that is always been the as you say the d.n.a. that's been this is characterized race relations and it's kind of you so today what we have it will be see is the new. embolden the radical

right that feels that they have now the political space and the justification to ally themselves with this reactionary donald trump administration. to carry out the desires the aspirations of the white race is right there was to make america great again. coming up later on r.t. some critical lessons have surfaced from a nearly four thousand year old tablet we'll tell you more about it stay with us. but the politicians should at least. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first century. or so much wanted. to do it to be a she was a. real. interesting. question

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lame that mainstream media has met its maker. for decades be. american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get straight talk in the break. if. you're want to. move over oil companies the tech industry is now in charge of the world's most valuable commodity the resource in question personal data and the rules that

control the industry are kind of lax at best artie's alex has the story out of toronto. yeah sure everybody scratching their heads who can those five companies be well let's break it down here they are everybody surprise surprise if apple amazon facebook microsoft and google's parent company alphabet well when you look at how many people use the internet how much data is collected from these companies is gold it's really worth its weight in gold for companies that use advertising dollars and when they want to target people and know exactly who their consumers are so that's where this money is made look at facebook alone has nearly two billion subscribers the amount of photographs that are there the the likes the comments that are made companies can follow this because this data is bought and sold so this is where this is actually it's worth the wait in gold even though it's weightless obviously for companies a couple of big aspects to this the fact of the matter is that they can follow

trends before they even really happen so they see the trends happening on the internet and they can jump on board pretty much right away for individuals there's also a big bonus here and that bonus is that when you're surfing the internet it can be tailor made to you so i know when you see the internet you're surfing let's say for a vacation in the bahamas and also you see these ads popping up so that's how it's kind of tailored towards our users as well but of course there's a dark side to all this as well the dark side of privacy we want privacy and when we're on the internet when you know that all this information from print pinterest to porn doesn't matter where you're surfing is being collected you know what some people are a little bit iffy about that also look at how much of this information is actually being held by a very few companies for example facebook and google they hold eighty eight percent of all new internet advertising revenue that means that other companies such as news outlets and music companies don't get their fair share also this is this graph

is very telling it's this monopoly aspect of this all google holds eighty one percent of the market share when it comes to serve. so obviously there's some issues with this antitrust regulators like in the past you know when it was all companies and somebody is up that deal say seventy nine percent of market share there they get a little bit wary and they right away they want to jump on board and say you know what this is turning into a monopoly with numbers like this on the internet it's very difficult these companies do not work within borders it's international it's above it's it's you can't even see it so this is the thing these companies are beyond the law or above the law in so many ways but if there is political resolve that this can change in the future the problem is even you and me a lot of people at home get very afraid of the idea of the government jumping in to regulating the internet back to you all right for those of you who remember doing training on the tree in school you can forget it because ancient babylonians may have had a better way of doing it and now thanks to

a new discovery it could change how we calculate math today are to use trending chavez has that story. those of you who remember doing trigonometry in school can forget it because ancient babylonians may have had a better way of doing it and now things to a new discovery it could change how we calculate today scientists at the university of south wales in sydney australia have discovered the purpose of a thirty seven hundred year old clay tablet making it the oldest trick in a metric table to date and possibly more accurate our research shows that it's a trick in the metric table so unfamiliar and advanced that in some respects it's superior even to modern trigonometry according to a paper published in the journal historia mathematica it's called the plimpton three twenty two discovered in the early one thousand nine hundred the tablet is inscribed with cuniform script and has been of interest to mathematicians for years because it describes his theorem and according to the researchers the new data shows that it was the babylonians not the greeks who were the first to study trigonometry we've known for decades that his unusual sequence of numbers proves

that the babylonians knew the python green theorem a thousand years before it was born however unlike today's trigonometry babylonian mathematics used a base sixty instead of the number ten which is used today because according to the experts sixty is far easier to divide by three resulting in more accurate calculations the babylonians counted in base sixty the same system that we use for telling time this has many more exact fractions it doesn't sound like much but this allowed them to do a lot more exact division one divided by three is twenty minutes exactly by using this system the babylonians were able to make calculations that completely avoided any inexact numbers thereby avoiding any errors associated with multiplying those numbers dr mansfield added that it is very rare for the ancient world to teach us something new and believes that this system has huge potential for applications in surveying and education reporting in new york trinity chávez r t and before we go

don't forget to tune in tonight for larry king now tonight's guest is actor back for. field here is a snippet of what's to come you must match be very happy about where your careers by looking there are feel like dancin santa monica. major film major television show mike well i know but now the show's about to end i have to pay i mean it's going through what do you do next what do you think i should do you got that thing about versace coming yeah. sure i don't but i mean i'm unemployed as of now i'll do these eight episodes very unemployment which i do get some nice what do you think what are you going to get a big. starring in a television show ok maybe a drama there you go cop drama now we're now we're talking cop drama. ok i think i can do that detective greenfield jewish cop in new york.

very. definitely a detective not on the beat. and that is going to do it for me for right now for more of the stories we just covered go to you tube dot com forward slash r t america check out our web site r t dot com slash america you can also follow me on twitter right there at the bottom your screen i'm military and thanks for watching remember to question why. i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media a chance of the big picture. and more what you're looking for. we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. twenty million people are on the brink. in under three

years violent famine and preventable. if the international community remain silent. if talk about. james bennett is the editor of the new york times editorial page in june the paper published an editorial that said sarah palin had incited violence by circulating a map with crosshairs targeting members of congress then it edited that piece and it pretty much insinuated that palin was responsible for the shooting of former

democratic congresswoman gabby giffords but it turns out that was some fake news and the times admits that because they later issued a correction saying that there was no connection between anything pale and it and the shooting but pale and felt like the paper had already defamed her so she filed a lawsuit and now the court is hearing testimony about the case to figure out whether or not it should proceed and things just got interesting then it just testified about how he went about editing this article that basically called pailin a killer and it was pretty revealing about how the news works for instance while doing his editor thing he added the phrase political incitement the writer didn't use that as the editor he added that it then when the paper issued their corrections he took the phrase back out when asked why he added it in the first place that it said he did it because he wanted to get our readers attention got

that he basically said he used strong controversial words political incitement just to grab attention it wasn't a fact in the story but he added it just to make people click to read i'm guessing or making a judgment here that's literally what he is but he also admitted he created and ambiguity when his first priority should have been to get the facts right and. they're telling piece of testimony came from the times lawyers who tried to make it sound like the reason bennett added the piece perhaps a little poorly was because he had been pressed for time that day according to politico so that's why he wasn't able to do his research fully on the story he was pressed for time and that's why he screwed up i doubt i can totally understand how that might be true since news organizations are now churning out articles every five seconds trying to get people to click but just because it's true doesn't make it ok all of the news needs to slow down and take

a little bit more time right now before they publish stuff that's false misleading or insightful just to get reader's attention like the times editor admit he did it the reality is they probably won't and it's up to the readers now to see through their tricks. it's. called the feeling of knowing something. everyone in the world should experience. and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just.

welcome our world come along for the raw. for breakfast yesterday why we didn't put those for the faces your wife or two dogs may live. now i did give you due to luck to morrow. all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties aren t. american players are to america offers more artsy american personal. in many ways the news landscape is just like the few real moves big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear on. so much parking all the world's a stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely

a player. greetings and sal you taishan us. all right one more week in the books and remember that today is the oldest you've ever been in the youngest you'll ever be again which brings us which i hope brings us the wisdom to see what's wrong in this world and the youthful energy to change it and the fundamental wrong was definitely on display this week as the senate intelligence committee quietly released its annual intelligence authorization act for twenty eight team.