coming up on our t.v. harvey strikes again this time making landfall on the border of texas and louisiana we bring you the latest on the storm and a sign of solidarity between venezuela and the people of the united states the south american nations says it will donate five million dollars to help victims of harvey. then the international community can damage the d.p. r. k. that most recent miss our launch but where they disagree is how to resolve the situation.

good afternoon it's wednesday august thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part of the hill you're watching our team america we begin this hour with the latest on tropical storm harvey the storm is showing no sign of mercy for residents of texas in louisiana overnight record shattering rain fell in the cities of the lawn and port arthur in southeastern texas unleashing more devastating floods artie's trinity chavez joins us live now with the details what are the latest conditions trinity. this tropical storm continues to batter the gulf coast region with torrential rains flooding and strong winds we know that at least ten refineries on the texas coast have shut down and now we're learning the ark my chemical plant in crosby texas is at risk of an explosion because of the massive flooding families in the area have been evacuated as you mentioned earlier harvey made landfall again hitting louisiana and the cities of bell beaumont and port arthur just in the last twenty four hours port arthur and belmont were pummeled

with at least twenty inches of rain which brought flash floods that swamp the already packed local shelters forcing hundreds of the residents who were in those shelters to retreat to higher ground the shelter of our civic civic center was overrun by floodwaters forcing people to stand on chairs and tables let's take a look at some cell phone video that was captured by an evacuee. we came here to see. going to get away. to get away from being trapped in our house and we end up being. exploited by small boats with a big speed toward. we don't quite know what it is coming in from every angle. the mayor of port arthur says the whole city is underwater and we have to keep in mind how polluted this water is there's everything from insects to garbage in there and many are also extremely worried about the damaging effects if there is

an accidental toxic leak but officials say that they're working around the clock to get residents to safety so far thirteen thousand people have been rescued but the harris county sheriff's office has confirmed two more deaths north of houston bringing the death toll to at least nineteen trinity you mentioned not only are the shelters overflowing now they're dealing with floods of their own how are officials responding to this. that's right while female reported that they have over two hundred and thirty shelters operating with over thirty thousand people in them but most of the shelters are nearly at capacity the energy convention center has opened its doors and that shelter will hows about ten thousand people officials said that everyone will have a cot to sleep in the lake with seventeen thousand mega church has also opened its doors but officials say that they are still thousands of people who need to be rescued and around thirty percent of harris county is under water between thirty to forty thousand homes have been destroyed along with over five hundred thousand

vehicles officials are urging using jet skis helicopters both and even big rigs to get the stranded victims to safety and here's what the governor had to say at a press conference today let's take a listen there will be ongoing challenges both during the time that rain continues to fall as well as for approximately four days two weeks to come i mean bridges specifically flooding conditions that will continue to be a challenge for people in the area. governor abbott also added that the number of national guard troops aiding the disaster had been increased from twelve thousand to fourteen thousand trinity it is absolutely a fight for survival out there but i know law enforcement officials are on the lookout for people who may be taking advantage of the situation where is the line between breaking the law and the fight for survival. you know that's a very good question it is a fight for survival out there but situations like this brings out the best and the

worst in people there were reports of stories of stores drastically inflating the prices on things like water which people need and people standing out in some store parking lot selling cases of water for hundreds of dollars some looters are even trying to take advantage of the situation and breaking into homes to rob people but the houston police chief says that he is not going to tolerate criminals taking advantage of people in the community during such a devastating time a right to a new job as reporting in new york for us keeping tabs on the situation as harvey continues to plunder the south east coast thanks a lot meanwhile nearly six thousand inmates were evacuated from five prisons across texas as heavy rains battered the region this week approximately four thousand five hundred inmates in the houston suburb of richmond boarded buses and were relocated to other texas department of criminal justice facilities tuesday those inmates joined an estimated four thousand five hundred others evacuated from three prisons

in brazee oriya county just south of houston along the coast of texas it was the first time these three syllables were evacuated in may and june last year prisoners were also evacuated relocated to rental downpours yet some prisons are not being evacuated at all in houston tuesday the sheriff's office for harris county tweeted none of their inmates had been evacuated despite this some progress has been made during hurricane ike the state's criminal justice system came under fire for failing to evacuate county inmates. more than twelve hundred people have been killed after floods paralyzed india bangladesh and nepal hundreds of thousands of civilians have been cut off from the world with no clean water and food millions have been left homeless the national disaster response force and police are evacuating people from the most dangerous areas a senior official in mumbai as disaster management unit said more than one hundred

fifty rescue teams are on site to help the rains heavy heavy rains should pass in the next twenty four hours or so according to weather fishel. the venezuelan government announced today it will donate five million dollars to victims of hurricane harvey in making the declaration foreign minister jorge said quote let not war or threats be imposed but instead let's impose solidarity we will always be with the people of the united states and the peoples of the world in difficult times he said the program has been approved by venezuelan president nicolas maduro as well as you with authorities and local mayors the show of solidarity from venezuela comes as the u.s. has imposed harsh sanctions on the country the strictest to date speaking to r.t. foreign minister at a says said he believes it's the opposition in venezuela that should shoulder the blame for new u.s. sanctions he believes. they're responsible for. the world that

is the most natural reaction of international organizations let us be to recognize that the super g. of those countries must be respected so insufficiency of the internal affairs of venezuela and refrain from adopting opposes the new law to sanctions violate the principles of international law. so that you understand what kind of focus issue we have there have been libya going to washington to achieve those sanctions against venezuela now they are trying to convince the people of venezuela that the sanctions are the fault of president ma durham this is completely absurd and the world must know this economist and co-director of the center for economic and policy research mark weiss brought says these sanctions will harm the venezuelan people i spoke to mark earlier and started by asking for his reaction today's announcement from crocker us well sure the united states they did it was a few years ago that. and there were there was

a letter from members of congress i think that asked all of the oil companies operating united states if they could help people with fuel oil for the winter in the northeast especially the and nobody came forward and then citgo which is owned by venezuela said yeah we can help and they gave. you was tens or even possibly hundreds of millions i think of dollars of. subsidize heating oil all over the two to several states and it was a very big program it was joe kennedy here in the u.s. that helped organize it and so yeah they've always tried to make that point. that their fight is not with the people here in the united states but with the government there was trying to you know overthrow their democratically elected government for all those years and of course still is today and in the hemisphere

of course they gave many billions of dollars in fact and one point they were providing more aid to the hemisphere then the united states was despite having an economy that is maybe or that time was about one thirty eighth. the size the united states. is so yes i think they've always been they've always been like that. they've been very solid touristic cuba has been like that of course as well those two countries and a number of the other left governments have adopted an official policy of solidarity and respect this comes as the trump administration last week imposed on president thanks and on venezuela washington claim these things since target the government martin do they. yeah that's the thing i think is a little of this leading the way it's reported in in. media because most of the

media because they're saying well yeah it's targeting the government and they're you know these sanctions are just cutting off new lending and some say well they're not be able they're not able to issue new bonds anyway but i think what's really wrong about that narrative is that you know that is well it's true that israel hasn't been able to borrow in the last year or so but that's not necessarily irreversible there's a whole set of policy changes they could make that would change their situation and they would be over but in the terms ministries it has now really declared an economic war by saying no the matter what you do you're never going to be able to borrow you can't do a debt restructuring for example which they came very close to doing. last year towards the end of the year because if you do a debt restructuring. which can save you millions you know billions of dollars in

interest and principal payments that service you have to issue new bonds so they will be able to do that and then you have one of those big one of the biggest wall street financial intermediaries today announced they weren't even going to let publicly warning going to facilitate trades or handle trades of existing venezuelan bonds which of course. makes it even also more difficult for anybody investing that is where they would be able to get doing very well so this is a really really big thing these sanctions in the situation you've arrived will undoubtedly make venezuela much more dependent on other players like russia and china for support as we gear for the brakes on it what role did these two countries play in the saga of venezuela. well i think especially china which has a lot of reserves and has them on something like sixty billion to venezuela in the

past which most of which has been paid back and. i think they really could help a lot and i think they should because this is and both china and russia have denounced the saying she is this is a threat to the whole world that one that could decide the fate of israel in other words he's trying to overthrow the government and he's committed and now to destroy was left of it is where the economy. until the government is removed from power and that is something that let all you know the whole world has to care about let's talk about that a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry strongly denounce these sanctions saying quote there clearly aimed at further unbalancing the situation in the country and exacerbating its economic problems they embolden the irreconcilables who do not see how they can realize their political potential without removing the venezuelan leaders from office mark how do you assess this read of washington

strategy well it's similar what they did to nicaragua in the one nine hundred eighty s. well they actually had a military award there as well where they paid people to try and overthrow the government and they haven't reached that stage yet here. because it's you know in the twenty first century it's not so easy to do to get away with but i think if you want to you know drop went to the united nations and said you know in trying to get a vote in the general assembly on sanctions he'd probably get zero or two or one vote because this is really again it's something. that the whole rest of the world finds abhorrent do you get he's managed to get the strategy the sense do you get this out strategy or the sense that the strategy is to push the country to war. you know i think the well first is trying to force them into default. because you know because but by hurting their

finances you could push them to fall which create a whole nother set of mess in venezuela i mean he's even cutting off dividends from from citgo for example with the sanctions and yeah it does push the country more toward civil war because if you think about it look at the opposition you know they're supporting the say the main coalition is supporting the same things and they it makes them look completely treasonous and it further polarizes. the country and i think that's the opposite of what you need because you really need a negotiated solution there and what you know rubio and trump and the extreme right here are basically saying is we don't we don't want a negotiated solution we want regime change and we're going to get it by destroying

the economy and they did do that to nicaragua by the way as well during you know they had an economic embargo beginning and nine hundred eighty five so it's very similar in that respect all right economist co-director of the center for economic policy research mark weiss brought thanks a lot. thank you. coming up on our team president trump and defense secretary matt it doesn't seem to be on the same page when it comes to how to handle the latest from north korea how it all plays out we'll take a look after the break. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories in our critics can't tell you know why because their advertisers. let them. know order to create change

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condemnation of the launch disagrees on how to deescalate the situation searching for resolution to the crisis will be the main task of the new u.s. ambassador to south korea according to reports donald trump will soon announce former white house official in georgetown university professor victor cha to represent the country in seoul we go live now to our team correspondent ashley banks in the newsroom ashley what's the latest thing out so early this morning u.s. president donald trump he tweeted quote to the u.s. has been talking to north korea and paying the mic store ssion money for twenty five years talking is not the answer now this tweet was in response to north korea's latest missile launch did not give any direction as to what the answer is however secretary of defense james mattis contradicted president trump's tweet during a meeting with his south korean counterpart saying the u.s. should not abandon diplomacy with north korea he also had this to say we're never

other things we can work together and the minister and i share a response will be provided for the protection of our nation relations and our interests with what we are here to do. the white house put out a press release today saying quote president donald j. trump spoke today by telephone with prime minister shinzo abbay of japan the two leaders confirm their continuing close cooperation on africa to address north korea's launch of an intermediate range ballistic missile that overflew japanese territory earlier this week the chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman also responded saying quote the facts have proven that pressure and sanctions cannot fundamentally solve the issue both the china the and russia's ambassadors to the un the post sanctions on north korea and believe the best way to stop north korea from continuing to launch but let's take missiles as the employment the double free strategy which would require north korea to suspend its missile launches in

exchange for the suspension of the joint us south korean military drills however the u.s. has rejected the opera poles ola nikki haley u.s. ambassador to the united nations condemned north korea's actions and so did fifteen members of the security council we are all denouncing north korea's outrageous act against another u.n. member state japan we are all demanding north korea stop any future missile launches we are all demanding north korea abandon its nuclear weapons north korea has violated every single security council resolution and violated international law we are all calling on every nation to strickly fully and immediately implement the all you south all security council sanctions on north korea the world is united against north korea there is no doubt about that. this

latest test missile tacet marks north korea's the longest missile test avar troubling close to one thousand six hundred seventy seven miles and reaching a height of three hundred forty one miles experts say north korea's missiles are getting stronger and could potentially reach the u.s. mainland soon beyond yang says its actions are a necessary response to a south korean military build up near its borders however the u.n. is urging north korea to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and to express a commitment to a peaceful diplomatic and political solution anya r.t. correspondent ashley banks in the newsroom thank you. moving on now things are not better in the palestinian administration in fact u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez says he hasn't seen a humanitarian crisis like one in gaza for years artie's policy clear has the story yesterday i was with romo. unfortunately.

one of the most dramatic humanitarian crisis that i have seen the many years. as a humanitarian even in the united nations in chief after spending several hours ingalls on wednesday has called on these radio forays he's to lift the siege that has been in place on the coast along clave for the better part of ten years the visit by the un chief comes amid a spike of tensions between israel and the united nations earlier this week he's ready to party foreign minister warned that if the united nations does not change what she perceives as a bias against israel well then this would stop its funding and support of the international body but the israelis are not completely blameless ways of one eight six of course for an immediate cease fire in gaza that would see a full between withdrawal that would lead to food fuel and medical supplies into gaza this is not the case there is a diet humanitarian situation inside gaza as we heard. from the un chief and at the

same time there are thousands of people who are prevented from exit in gaza to receive much needed medical care on the israeli side there is a twenty year old boy who we caught up with who is suffering from chronic heart disease who for seven months has been refused permission to leave the coastal on pave. my sicknesses tightness in the aortic valve it's a chronic disease and a congenital defect in the referral procedure is very important because i must leave to have an open heart surgery and replace the defective models from february and seal now we've applied monthly to get his permits he was supposed to have his surgery in february his muscle has to stay strong he just weakens she will be in serious condition he will not be able to have any surgery after that gaza is often referred to by people living there as the largest prison in the world a place where people are deprived of basic needs.

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there are so far to the left they practically fall off the map but now attack billionaire has thrown out a new proposal for the state instead of the c.d.a. and he thinks it should be split into three tim draper is a california who made a bunch of money in tech as a venture capital investor among other things his net worth is supposed to be just about a billion bucks and he just filed for a new measure with the state's government stating that california would be better served if their state were broken up into northern california southern california and just plain old california northern california would include most of the techie stuff like san fran and the weed stuff like it would consist of thirty six counties while southern california would cover twelve mostly in the middle eastern and southern parts then regular old california would include l.a. and then a barber among others and just basically be a little strip right along the pacific draper wants to do this because he thinks those three regions have such different political leanings he says the way this

date is now it's practically ungovernable and that californians deserve better he doesn't think they should leave the united states though like all those calling for a complete calyx that and it's not the first time he's come up with such a plan that in twenty fourteen before anyone even mentioned the name trump seriously for president draper spent over five million bucks trying to get another break up on the ballot that time he called for the state to be divided into six jefferson north california central california silicon valley west california and southern california that such a breakup would help to stay. a deal with its poverty rate and infrastructure problems among other things it didn't work out then and this time around he still needs to get about six hundred thousand valid signatures before his measure could make it on the ballot come this fall. honestly i think the whole let's break up california thing is getting super tired it's all just another way to divide us not unite us and i as an american am sick and tired of all of the device that noise

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investment the rally surrounding it could be short lived i discuss the c.e.o. of euro pacific capital peter schiff stand by us starts right now. a looks like we could see some changes to the trans-pacific partnership after all officials from eleven countries involved in the deal are meeting in sydney this week with the goal of keeping all remaining nations on board after u.s. president donald trump withdrew from the partnership back in january fears of other leaders following his lead grew in an interview with reuters peru's deputy trade minister edgar vast was said we are all open to evaluating what we can do and what viable alternatives there may be the talks will only last for three days and

a final decision is not expected at the end of it but we could see a few changes at the request of vietnam regarding labor rights and intellectual property and so far it looks like japan and new zealand are on board with an acting those modifications. the second revision for second quarter u.s. gross domestic product came in and an annual rate of three percent and that figure was higher than forecasted of a rise of two point seven percent originally putting the g.d.p. pace at the quickest climb in two years this was reflected in more robust consumer spending and stronger business investment as we wait for another important jobs data point on friday we'll look to the a.d.p. national employment report out today which shows american businesses tacked on two hundred thirty seven thousand new positions this month the more comprehensive august jobs report from the labor department is expected to be a surprise to the upside on friday candidate for president donald trump did pledge

to double g.d.p. growth to four percent or better when here originally took office but the congressional budget office countered that it projected a growth average of one point nine percent of the next decade looking to the more immediate future though we are waiting to see the extent of the devastation brought by hurricane harvey analysts fear it could take a half percent of this quarter's growth which may bounce back when rebuilding begins and oil refineries come online again. natural disasters can have severe economic ramifications in the areas they hit for example hurricane sandy and hurricane katrina both cost the areas impacted billions of dollars will harvey have the same effect or could it be even worse than bust bianca for she has more on that for us right now what makes this. so much different

than what we've seen before so what sets harvey apart is oil because texas is home to some of the biggest oil refineries in the u.s. and most of them since the storm began have had to shut down in preparation for her . mccain harvey most businesses along the texas coastline had to shut their doors first that didn't include which runs the biggest oil refinery in the u.s. but on wednesday the company reversed that decision the plant is located in port arthur which is about one hundred miles east of houston and near the louisiana border in the wake of the storm it slowly started reducing operations but never explicitly announced plans to close down due to the way the flooding has progressed the stores won't open until the waters recede the decision follows a similar move by exxon mobil which shut down one of its refineries in baytown which is the second largest in the country and then again on wednesday the company said it closed another refinery in foam months due to harvey related damage all of

those closures are expected to have an impact on gasoline prices current estimates suggest prices could increase fifteen to twenty five cents a gallon nationwide up from an initial forecast of five to fifteen cents now as of wednesday morning the national average was two dollars and forty cents up only six cents from last week but if the refineries stay closed for long it could lead to a bigger increase your leak ten percent of the u.s. oil refining capacity is shut down and it might be weeks before production is back in full swing so we could see a bigger impact on oil than we've seen before in the aftermath of hurricanes with the exception of hurricane katrina in two thousand and five hurricanes gust of an ick in two thousand and eight the industry off that speed for a short period of time and the impact doesn't stop at the gas station other industries like shipping and travel could be dealing with the brunt of the storm for a while. and the people unfortunately as well they're on the ground losing more than

just their houses i mean access to basics there's been complaints about price gouging since the beginning of this hurricane one of the new details on that well according to the attorney general of texas the state has received almost six hundred formal complaint. it's and over two hundred emails regarding price gouging now those numbers keep increasing so by the end of the day could be hundreds more certainly by the end of the week if those numbers look very different but before i even get to the examples i would just like to point out that it is in fact illegal to excessively overcharge on basic necessities in natural disasters not on everything but in the usa the baby might need yeah right anything a human or a need like water or a perfect example. was heavily criticized after they charged forty two dollars for a case of water bottles and necker that they had a sign expressing that there was very limited supply of them so that quickly went viral and you have to just to let everyone know as if they didn't have any idea

already but that you know that quickly went viral on social media and they quickly apologized for that but they're not the only company that has been accused of overcharging on water and then there are plenty of other businesses that have been doing the same things with for example who tells have been accused of overcharging on room rates double and triple the average price some cases quadruple and back to gas for a second some gas stations have been accused of charging ten dollars a gallon so it really is you know not just unique out of one sort of industry all these businesses are being accused of them and don't really know the full extent of these actual complaints until the end but even if just half of them are accurate these companies could go a lot of these victims a lot of money what's interesting here is that if oh these stories are true and there's documentation of it how did they ever think they could get away with this what kind of damage in a broader sense the o.c. economy we're looking at when most analysts are expecting one hundred sixty billion dollars worth of damage which is point zero eight percent of our g.d.p.

so on the one hand you have the physical damage but houston horses are fourth largest city so the economy is not a whole and how far yes oil importantly but also just you know they have a huge economy and they're. going to be creating the same output that they're used to. doing right now so over time we could see you know a bigger impact them are expecting now all right thank you so much boom bust. america's war machine has received a major financial infusion with the pentagon signing a multi-million dollar contract to support the afghan air force the agreement as to the seven hundred eighty billion dollars the u.s. has already spent on the afghan war america's longest running conflict that has no end in sight with people like blackwater founder erik prince at the table the private sector is making big bucks are. following the story for us from toronto big numbers here let's start with the new contract the pentagon has signed breathtaking what can you tell us about this. well it's

a leaderless innovation corporation that signed the contract and they're a contractor that's worked many times with the pentagon and the n.s.a. but let's go to what the department of defense is saying this is a quote that basically some so just how much money these guys are getting a little sort of asian corporation gaiters bird maryland was awarded seven hundred twenty seven million dollars six hundred eighty nine thousand seven hundred ninety six dollars in total firm fixed price contract to provide support for the afghan air force and special mission wing helicopter fixed wing fleets the bid was solicited on the internet one bit was received remember that movie war dogs i do this kind of looks a lot like that so you know this company itself and i mean look this is a major contract but there's plenty others out there this just adds to the seventy six billion in weapons already spent by the u.s. since two thousand and two on the afghan military that includes six hundred thousand guns and rifles that have gone to the army as well as police forces in

afghanistan so i mean the numbers are absolutely massive when you look here the number one of them out of weapons that have gone from afghanistan from the u.s. it's huge and what's what's scary is a lot of times we get reports of the u.s. and other countries not keeping track of those weapons this is one of the many contracts contributing to the war in just syria and the sand is a gold mine for u.s. companies in the business how big does this get what's the future of this you know lindsay if you think that number i just tossed at you was big if you're just recent to recently what's happening here's a nother defense department again we're talking about the defense partner another quote from that am general so from some of bend indiana look this is a two point two billion dollars plus firm fixed price for eleven thousand five hundred sixty humvee like vehicles in parts of cetera and that this is going mostly and it's headed first the first order is heading to afghanistan now that again huge

that look at this. this chart tells us something else it's not just about the equipment it's also about people currently there are nine thousand eight hundred u.s. troops stationed in afghanistan and get this more than twenty six thousand contractors and that is a massive number so with as we're talking about people like blackwater here as i mentioned this is and as you mentioned i should say this is this is building on top of the seven hundred eighty billion already invested by u.s. taxpayers into afghanistan and if you look at the number of just want to break it down for you it's like unbelievable what it's because just think about this it's not only that we're talking about money here going to taxpayer dollars being said here to buy for this stuff and that's four hundred million dollars for the cost of the war every hour by the u.s. taxpayer let's break it down to the amount of people that have died there twenty four hundred americans have died since two thousand and two and then you take it even further i mean we're taking it further hundred seventy three thousand

civilians have been killed either on the pakistan or afghanistan side of the border and tens of thousands have been injured in the most awful injuries that you could possibly think these are bad bad injuries. and sent a single one of his trial of children to the front line to fight this war but he seems to be back to get any money going and these are just some of the contracts were writing about well i mean there's a lot more in the president's defense than any american leaders defense who says we need to go into afghanistan to secure the place we've seen the number of civilian casualties we've seen what happens when we turn our attention away to our initial sort of thrust into that country and something's got to be done and the u.s. doesn't want to go nation build anymore but something's got to be done in such a catch twenty two that to contain this you've got to do more we don't want to do more and yet we watch that money flow in those important tax dollars one direction would people like blackwater founder erik prince like to see the war industry we've heard what he said we understand what is and game might be but some of the points

he lays forth are pretty interest. thing all of these people want your tax dollars and if the government's willing to hand over your tax dollars to companies like blackwater was or to any of these other companies like northrop grumman or whatever it might be in the war industry they want your tax dollars and that's right now the heart if you talk to basically anybody it looks and i would say it is the heart of the american economy at this point is the war industry making billions of dollars on all ends so example iraq billions of dollars of the ends of the weapons being made weapons being export what is being sold being used by the us army that on the other and blow everything up rebuilt you have companies like halliburton coming in there how about it goes in there getting paid for it as well so on both ends the us economy is making money off of this it's just basically you know they looked. at the marshall plan after the second world war something was figured out there yeah we bombed the spot of the place was bombed to oblivion but hey we can make some

money on the back into by rebuilding it and that's what you see these guys living high lifestyles right now like mr prince the fact of the matter is that the these people are being paid to be soldiers so what we know of the traditional soldier that's fighting for his country these people aren't fighting for their country they're fighting for money these are mercenaries well let's be honest here the guys on the ground are necessarily the demons unless they take upon themselves to commit some sort of a war crime they're out there given a gun and told to go get injured or killed in a foreign war that has nothing to do with protecting the colonies like back in the day when the british are coming this is a foreign war they get in here and they're like what did i get in here for what is this fight for but just that end of story i mean end of story anybody that's over there right now and if in afghanistan look afghanistan is unbeatable nobody's been able to do it for hundreds of years the brits were booted before them empires and fell in afghanistan the russians couldn't do it the americans tried their best and look it's not a winnable war so any to stories that we're hearing this is all about money in the

long run has nothing to do about saving people on the ground or about terrorism thank you so much for your employed on this alex and highlights oh it's a pleasure to talk to you coming out us from toronto thank you. but he and i agree on a lot time now for a quick break stick around because when we get back the world's largest power plant is forming where you are you guessed it china and as we go to break here the numbers are a cousin down. all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are into america playing marty america offers more artsy american personnel. in many ways the use landscape just like to see the real moves big names good actors

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a little bit bored you say if you ever met the best what about. that's one topic that doesn't belong to you know i did did you do you think. more. emerge are between electricity producers in china a good un and coal company will group is granted approval now it has created the largest power company in the world by capacity the joint companies will generate the majority of its power from coal but the capacity of more than two hundred twenty five gigawatts the chinese government approve the merger which will create combined assets of two hundred seventy one billion dollars this comes as the chinese government pushes for state owned companies to cut layers of bureaucracy and to cut twenty percent of their subsidiaries within just three years it's an

effort to react more quickly to market demand both go to. have subsidiaries with shares traded on stock market exchanges in hong kong and shanghai. gold a bullish move this week when it hit above thirteen hundred dollars it rose almost one percent on tuesday morning in the midst of political tensions with north korea and the devastation caused by hurricane harvey in the texas gulf but the last jump in price propelled by safe haven rallies was short lived today it retreated from that eleven month high losing four dollars eighty cents to thirteen fourteen and ten cents and now analysts point to unconventional monetary policy for the climb which we heard talked about at last week's jackson hole wyoming meeting of central bank leaders financial markets are jittery about a possible fed rate hike at the end of the year if it happens at all but upbeat u.s. spending data and

a stronger dollar have taken some of the wind out of gold sails december comex of gold was last down six dollars ninety cents an ounce to thirteen hundred dollars twelve and no set. the venezuelan government announced today it will donate five million dollars to victims of hurricane harvey in making the declaration foreign minister hor hair raising said let's not let's not let war or threats be imposed but instead let's impose solidarity we will always be with the people of the united states and the peoples of the world in difficult times he said the program has been approved by venezuelan president nicolas maduro as well as u.s. authorities and local mayors to show solidarity from the venezuelan government comes as the united states has imposed harsh sanctions on the country district as we've seen to date in fact speaking to our chief foreign minister said he believes that it's the opposition in venezuela should shoulder the blame for new u.s.

sanctions he believes that it's the opposition in venezuela that should shoulder the blame for new u.s. sanctions economist and co-director of the center for economic policy research mark weiss brought says these sanctions will harm the venezuelan people on a par impel spoke to mark earlier and started by asking for his reaction to today's announcement from caracas well sure the united states. it was a few years ago that. there were there was a letter from members of congress i think that asked all the oil companies operating united states if they could help people with fuel oil for the winter. in the northeast especially and nobody came forward and then citgo which is owned by been is will said yeah we can help and they gave. you was tens or even possibly hundreds of millions i think of dollars of. subsidize heating oil all over the

two to several states and it was a very big program it was joe kennedy here in the u.s. that helped organize it and so yeah they've always tried to make that point. that their fight is not with. the people here in the united states but with the government there was trying to you know overthrow their democratically elected government for all those years and of course still is today and in the hemisphere of course they gave many billions of dollars in fact at one point they were providing more aid to the him his fear than the united states was despite having an economy that is and maybe or that time was about one thirtieth. the size of the united states. so yes i think they've always been they've always been like that. they've been very solid or istic cuba has been like that of course

as as well those two countries and a number of the other west governments have adopted official policy of solidarity in that respect commons as the trump administration last week imposed on president thanks and on that as well washington claim they think since target the government mark do they. yeah that's the thing i think is a little bit is the leading the way it's reported in the the in. media because most of the media because they're saying well yeah it's targeting the government and they're you know the same sions are just cutting off new men being in some of the say well they're not be able they're not able to issue new bonds anyway but i think what's really wrong about that narrative is that you know that is well it's true that as well hasn't been able to borrow in the last year or so but that's

not the server irreversible there's a whole set of policy changes they could make that would change their situation and they would be over with the tremendous trace it has now really declared an economic war by saying no the matter what you do you're never going to be able to borrow it you can't do a debt restructuring for example which they came very close to doing. last year towards the end of the year because if you do a debt restructuring. which can save you millions you know billions of dollars in interest and principal payments that service you have to issue new bonds so they will be able to do that and then you have one of those big one of the biggest wall street financial intermediaries today announced they weren't even going to let publicly they were deemed going to facilitate trades or handle trades of existing venezuelan pawns which of course. makes it even also more difficult for

anybody investing in venezuela they would be able to get there would be less so this is a really really big thing and these sanctions in the situation you will undoubtedly make venezuela much more dependent on other players like russia and china for support as we gear for the break summit what role did these two countries play in the saga of venezuela. well i think especially china which has a lot of reserves it has though something like sixty billion to venezuela in the past which most of which has been paid back and. i think they really could help a lot and i think they should because this is and both china and russia have denounced the say is this is a threat to the whole world but one that trump could decide the fate of it israel in other words he's trying to overthrow the government and he's committed now to destroy what's left of it is where the economy. until the government

is removed from power and that is something that all you know the whole world has to care about let's talk about that a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry strongly denounce these sanctions saying quote they are clearly aimed at further unbalancing the situation in the country and exacerbating its economic problems they embolden the irreconcilables who do not feel how they can realize their political potential without removing the venezuelan leaders from office mark how do you assess this read of washington strategy well it's similar what they did to nicaragua in one nine hundred eighty s. well they actually had a military award there as well where they paid people to try and overthrow the government and they haven't reached that stage yet here. because it's you know it's the twenty first century it's not so easy to do get away with it but i think if you want to you know after went to the united nations and said you know and tried to

get a vote in the general assembly on sanctions he'd probably get zero or two or one vote because this is really again it's something. that the whole rest of the world finds of horror do you get he's managed to get the strategy and do you get this that strategy or the sense that the strategy is to push the country to war. yeah i think well first is trying to force them into default. because you know because by hurting their finances you could push them to fall which created a whole nother set of mess in venezuela i mean is even cutting off dividends from from citgo for example with the sanctions and yeah it does push the country more toward civil war because if you think about it look at the opposition you know they're supporting the sake of the main coalition is supporting the same and

they it makes them look completely treasonous and it further polarizes. vic country and i think that's the opposite of what you need because you really need a negotiated solution there and what you know rubio and trump and the extreme right here are basically saying is we don't we don't want a negotiated solution we want regime change and we're going to get it by destroying the economy and they did do that to nicaragua by the way as well during the you know they had an economic embargo beginning in nine hundred eighty five so it's very similar in that respect all right economist co-director of the center for economic policy research mark weiss thanks a lot. thank you. that's all for now check out the show on youtube youtube

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that evening is wednesday august thirtieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm on your parm pill you're watching our team america we begin this hour with the latest on tropical storm harvey the storm is showing no mercy for residents of texas louisiana overnight record shattering rain fell in the cities of beaumont and port arthur in southeastern texas unleashing more devastating floods are. joins us live now with the details what are the latest conditions you can bring us trinity. this tropical storm continues to batter the gulf coast region with torrential rains and flooding and strong winds we do know at least ten refineries on the texas coast have shut down now we are learning the arkema chemical plant in crosby texas is at risk of an explosion because of the massive flooding families in the area have been evacuated as you mentioned earlier harvey made landfall again hitting louisiana and cities of beaumont and port arthur just in the last twenty four hours poor arthur and beaumont were pummeled with at least twenty inches of rain which brought flash

floods that swamp the already packed local shelters forcing hundreds of residents who were in those shelters to higher ground a shelter at the bowery civic center was over one by floodwaters forcing people to stand on chairs and tables let's take a look at some cell phone video that was captured by an evacuee. we came here to see. to get away. to get away from being trapped in our house and when. they get the want to. they don't know the water is coming in from. the mayor of the poor arthur says that the whole city is underwater and we have to keep in mind how polluted this water is there's everything from insects to garbage in there and many are also extremely worried about the damaging effects if there's an accidental toxic leak but officials say that they are working around the clock

to get residents to safety so far thirteen thousand people have been rescued but the harris county sheriff's office has confirmed two more deaths north of houston bringing the death toll to at least nineteen trinity mention shelters there are only overflowing with people there now dealing with the risk of overflowing with water dealing with a major flood risk of their own how are officials responding to that. that's right well family reported that they have over two hundred thirty shelters operating with over thirty thousand people in them but most of them are at nearly capacity so the energy convention center has opened its doors and that shell will shelter about ten thousand people officials said that everyone will have a cot to sleep in but the lakewood seventeen thousand seat mega church has also opened its doors but officials say that they are still they need to rescue thousands more people out there around thirty percent of harris county is under water between thirty and forty thousand homes have been destroyed along with around

five hundred thousand vehicles officials are using jet skis helicopters boats and big rigs to get to the stranded victims here's what the governor had to say at a press conference earlier today there will be ongoing challenges both during the time that rain continues to fall as well as for approximately four days two weeks to come i mean bridges specifically flooding conditions that will continue to be a challenge for people in the area. governor abbott added that the number of national guard troops aiding in the distance the disaster had been increased from twelve thousand to fourteen thousand trinity it's absolutely a fight for survival there we've heard many reports of price gouging people actually trying to take advantage of this desperate situation so many people find themselves and what can you tell us that's a good question indeed it is a fight for survival but situations like these bring you the best and worst in people there were reports of stores inflating the prices drastically for things

like water that people need and some were even standing outside of parking lot selling cases of water for hundreds of dollars some looters are even trying to take advantage of the situation to break into people's homes and rob them but the houston police chief says that he is not going to tolerate criminals taking advantage of people in the community at such a devastating time. as reporting for us in new york thanks so much thank you meanwhile nearly six thousand inmates were evacuated from prisons across texas as heavy rains battered the region this week approximately four thousand eight hundred inmates in the houston suburb of richmond boarded buses and were relocated to other texas department of criminal justice facilities tuesday those inmates joined an estimated four thousand five hundred others evacuated from three prisons in brazoria county just south of houston along the coast of texas it wasn't the first time that these three facilities were evacuated in may and june last year prisoners

were also relocated and downpours yet some patients are not being a back you waited at all in houston tuesday the sheriff's office for harris county tweeted none of their inmates had been evacuated despite this some progress has been made during hurricane ike the state's criminal justice system came under fire for failing to evacuate county inmates. meanwhile more than twelve thousand people have been killed after floods paralyzed india bangladesh and paul hundreds of thousands of civilians have been cut off from the world with no clean water and food millions have been left homeless the national disaster response force and police are evacuating people from the most dangerous areas a senior official in mumbai has disaster management unit said more than one hundred fifty rescue teams are on site to help the rains should pass in the next twenty four hours according to weather officials the venezuelan government announced today

it will donate five million dollars to victims of hurricane harvey and making the declaration foreign minister jorge arriaga said let us not let not war or threats be imposed but instead let's impose solidarity will always be with the people of the united states and the peoples of the world in difficult times he said the program has been approved by venezuelan president nicolas maduro as well as u.s. authorities and local mayors the show of solidarity from the venezuelan government comes as the u.s. has imposed harsh sanctions on the country the strictest to date speaking to our team foreign minister are they as us said he believes that it's the opposition and venezuela that should shoulder the blame for those sanctions. yes. the most natural reaction of international organizations like us would be to recognize that the sovereignty of our country must be respected curb attempts of interference in the internal affairs of venezuela and refrain from adopting

a policy of unilateral sanctions that violate the principles of international law. so that you understand what kind of opposition we have they have been libya going to washington to achieve those sanctions against venezuela now they are trying to convince the people of venezuela that the sanctions are the fault of the president not doing this is completely absurd and the world must know this economist and co-director of the center for economic and policy research mark weisbrot says these sanctions will harm the venezuelan people i spoke to mark earlier and started by asking for his reaction today's announcement from caracas well sure the united states they did it was a few years ago they had. and there were there was a letter from members of congress i think that asked all of the oil companies operating united states if they could help people with fuel oil for the winter. in the northeast especially the and nobody came forward and then citgo which is owned

by venezuela said yeah we can help and they gave. g. was tens or even possibly hundreds of millions i think of dollars of. subsidize heating oil all over the two to several states and it was a very big program it was joe kennedy here in the u.s. that helped organize it and so yeah they've always tried to make that point. that their fight is not with the people here in the united states but with the government there was trying to you know overthrow their democratically elected government for all those years and of course still is today and in the hemisphere of course they gave many billions of dollars in fact and one point they were providing more aid to the hemisphere then the united states was despite having an economy that is maybe or that time was about one thirty eighth. the size

of the united states. so yes i think they've always been they've always been like that. they've been very solid terroristic cuba has been like that of course as well those two countries and a number of the other left governments have adopted an official policy of solidarity and respect this comes as the trump administration last week imposed on president thanks and on venezuela washington claimed the thinks is target the government martin do they. yeah that's the thing i think is a little of this leading the way it's reported in in. media because most of the media because they're saying well yeah it's targeting the government and they're you know these sanctions are just cutting off new lending and some say well they're not be able they're not able to issue new bonds anyway but i think what's really

wrong about that narrative is that you know that is well it's true that israel has been able to borrow in the last year or so but that's not necessarily irreversible there's a whole set of policy changes they could make that would change their situation and they would be of are but in the chemistry's it has now really declared an economic war by saying no the matter what you do you're never going to be able to borrow you can't do a debt restructuring for example which they came very close to doing. last year towards the end of the year because if you do a debt restructuring. which can save you million you know billions of dollars in interest and principal payments that service you have to issue new bonds so they will be able to do that and then you have one of those big one of the biggest wall street financial intermediaries today announced they weren't even going to let

publicly they weren't even going to facilitate trades or handle trades of existing venezuelan bonds which of course. makes it even also more difficult for anybody investing that is where they would be able to get doing very well this is a really really big thing these sanctions in that situation you've arrived will undoubtedly make venezuela much more dependent on other players like russia and china for support as we gear for the brakes on it what role did these two countries play in the saga of venezuela. well i think especially china which has a lot of reserves and has though something like sixty billion to venezuela in the past which most of which has been paid back and. i think they really could help a lot and i think they should because this is and both china and russia have denounced the saying she is this is

a threat to the whole world that one that could decide the fate of israel in other words he's trying to overthrow the government and he's committed now to destroy was left to the venezuelan economy. until the government is removed from power and that is something that let all you know the whole world has to care about let's talk about that a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry strongly denouncing sanctions saying quote they are clearly aimed at further unbalancing the situation in the country and exacerbating its economic problems they embolden the irreconcilables who do not see how they can realize their political potential without removing the venezuela leaders from office mark how do you assess this read of washington strategy. well it's similar what they did to nicaragua in the one nine hundred eighty s. well they actually had a military award there as well where they paid people to try and overthrow the

government and they haven't reached that stage yet here. because it's you know in the twenty first century it's not so easy to do to get away with but i think if you want to you know drop went to the united nations and said you know and tried to get a vote in the general assembly on sanctions he'd probably get zero or two or one vote because this is really again it's something. that the whole rest of the world finds abhorrent do you get he's managed to get the strategy there's a sense do you get this out strategy or the sense that the strategy is to push the country to war. yeah i think the well first is trying to force them into default. because you know because but by hurting their finances you could push them to fall which creates a whole nother set of mess invent as well i mean even cutting off dividends from

from citgo for example with the sanctions and yeah it does push the country more toward civil war because if you think about it look at the opposition you know they're supporting the sage the main coalition is supporting the sanctions and they it makes them look completely the treasonous and it further polarizes. the country and i think that's the opposite of what you need because you really need a negotiated solution there and what you know rubio and trump and the extreme right here are basically saying is we don't we don't want a negotiated solution we want regime change and we're going to get it by destroying the economy and they did do that to nicaragua by the way as well during the you know they had an economic embargo beginning and nine hundred eighty five so it's very similar in that respect all right economist co-director of the center for

economic policy research mark weisbrot thanks a lot. thank you. the united nations security council unanimously condemned the latest missile launched by the democratic people's republic of korea over the territory of japan the international community although united in their condemnation of the launch disagrees on how to deescalate the situation searching for a resolution to the crisis will be the main task of the new u.s. ambassador to south korea according to reports on a trump will soon announce former white house official and georgetown university professor victor cha to represent the country in seoul live now in charge of correspondent actually banks in the newsroom ashley what can you tell us about the latest on your earlier this morning u.s. president donald trump tweeted quote the u.s. has been talking to north korea paying them extortion money for twenty five years talking is not the answer this tweet was in response to north korea's latest

missile launch trying to not give any direction as to what the answer is however secretary of defense james mattis contradicted president trying to tweak during a meeting with the south korean counterpart saying the u.s. should not abandon diplomacy with north korea he also had this to say. we were never out of the marriage and we continue to work together and the minister and i share respond to let me provide for the protection of our nation our populations and our interest with what we're here to. the white house put out a press release today saying quote president donald trump spoke today by telephone with prime minister shinzo abbay of japan the two leaders confirmed their continuing close cooperation on africa to address north korea as a launch of an intermediate range ballistic missile that overflew japanese territory earlier this week the chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman also responded saying quote the facts have proven that pressure and sanctions cannot fundamentally

solve the issue both the china's and russia's ambassadors to the un opposing north korea i believe the best way to stop north korea from continuing to launch ballistic missiles and set employment that double freeze strategy which would require north korea to suspend its missile launches in exchange for the suspension of the joint us south korean military drills however the u.s. has rejected that proposal and nikki haley u.s. ambassador to the u.n. condemned north korea's actions and so did fifteen members of the security council we are all denouncing north korea's outrageous act against another u.n. member states japan we are all demanding north korea stop any future missile launches we are all demanding north korea abandon its nuclear weapons north korea has violated every single security council resolution and violated

international law we are all calling on every nation to strickly fully and immediately implement the all you all security council sanctions on north korea the world is united against north korea there is no doubt about that. this latest missile test marks north korea's longest missile test average traveling close to one thousand six hundred seventy seven miles and reaching a height of three hundred forty one miles experts say north korea's missiles are getting stronger and could potentially reach the u.s. mainland soon it says its actions are a necessary response to u.s. south korea military buildup near its borders however the u.n. is urging north korea to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and to express a commitment to a peaceful diplomatic and political solution anya our correspondent ashley banks in the newsroom for us thanks a lot to legal stories worthy of discussion today the first the fact the f.b.i.

is refusing to release hillary clinton's files a second class action suit dismissed on technical reasons that in effect says the d.n.c. has the right to rate primaries or had the right to rig it against bernie sanders joining us as legal and media analyst lionel vinyl media let's start with the f b i lionel can you explain their refusal what exactly this debacle is about and why have they just decided to not release her files there was a messenger you for your request was made to do the f.b.i. to release information they had as to potential claims of fraud in criminal misconduct on the part of hillary clinton what's interesting to note. and what i commend to you is the way the f.b.i. refused to turn this over they could have done one of two things number one said sure on the out here it is and you get three thousand pages of redacted nothing

which they do or it could say i'm sorry this in some way compromises potential national security interest and this information is is too too too special to too sensitive they could have done that but what they did was they said to the petitioner in essence you have not satisfied our requirement that there is nothing there is enough of a public interest in us providing this information and that public interest has to outweigh any privacy concerns on hillary clinton's part there was not enough of a public i mean after all who's this hillary clinton you speak of and it's shocking because it's almost maybe i'm just too conspiratorial i'm thinking did he do this on purpose was this basically a a not so blatant rebuff to teach you

a lesson and how dare you question madam hillary or is this brad a new element to for your requests which is pretty much pro-forma do you haven't i haven't you kind of presume that hillary clinton former secretary of state presidential nominee i mean about you know if they maybe the public might be interested in claims about servers and this and that but no they said you have yet to show that so i'm sure there's an administrative procedure or an appeal forthcoming but i'm yet this is odd very odd well she's been in the woods for a while lionel so maybe it's best not to revive the story can we get into this other one dan slight loss here rode out. no way which kind of complicate situation can you describe what exactly went on. well what happened was it was a class action suit that said it asked and that i would really minimises

a debbie wasserman schultz at the d.n.c. you know rigged it against bernie this is wrong this is you guys are in cahoots you basically being very pedestrian that that's pretty much it would have been a federal judge of florida said was number one he's going to dismiss the cake case which could be brought up later on maybe but there was a diversity among the plaintiffs and defend is boring and there was not you didn't have any standing how were you hurt by this but what do you really spoke to and i must concede i tend to concur you know not everything is subject to a federal court basically writing the wrong the as since of this process the essence of the d.n.c. oftentimes involves some stuff which may look a little fast and loose which may violate the spirit of the d.n.c. maybe of some you know internet scene rules and the like but it doesn't necessarily

rise to that of a federal litigate should translation you can read this it's ok it's not necessarily against the law and might be unseemly might be a moral might be wrong but not necessarily illegal per se definitely going to have a major impact on the upcoming elections lionel if the democratic party wants to counter trump with a more progressive candidate. well what would also help as well as if perhaps maybe those individuals who do this understand that this is a very brutal world out there and that while you and i or democrats or progressive as whatever may say this is unfair it's amazing when you look at what exactly you can do what exactly the d.n.c. chair can do what can be done within the confines of the charter with the inter the internal regulating rules of the d.n.c. that may be really rotten if you're the recipient of said rottenness but it's not

against the law it's not subject to a class action suit and i can kind of short understand that that does not mean that this can't be refiled because often times when a case is dismissed the judge is telling you here's what you did wrong oh thanks we'll fix this and really address this later perhaps fascinating stuff lionel vinyl media thanks a lot we always appreciate you taking the law to death terry and. i think. in chicago a federal jury handed a conviction to a veteran city police officer of civil rights violations and a twenty thirteen shooting incident caught on dash cam video forty two year old marco pronto now faces up to twenty years in prison after firing sixteen shots in less than ten seconds at a car with six teenagers inside two were injured the president of chicago's fraternal order of police released a statement announcing the decision his the justice system of not holding quote the

real criminals accountable however chicago's former us attorney remained undeterred saying quote our office will continue to independently and vigorously pursue civil rights prosecutions to hold officers accountable and strengthen public trust in police since two thousand and eleven at least eight complaints have been filed against the officer in question including two use of force cases his hearing is set for november twentieth. coming up on r. and t. ice is fighting in the middle east has been devastated the lives of civilians and left many children without homes or families our story from the ground after the break. was a real irony going. to be going to let you figure out a responsible way to meet people and there is always more that's what the terms of the arts noise machine in syria is going to be a little ordinary you know to hold still civilities you know you have already while there's going to be shows us that in trying to use the social media and the

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iraq has devastated civilian lives particularly those of children are in tears continuing its campaign to find the relatives of children abandoned by their parents fighting for eisel more children from mosul were recently brought to a baghdad orphanage the children don't speak russian but the kids who are with them say they're from chechnya goddamn takes a look at the problems children's face in iraq. these children have seen more bloodshed and agony than most adults will in a lifetime nearly ninety percent of children have lost a member of a family either they were kidnapped or killed and when they were escaping from the fight many of them have lost family members they were shot at from behind or when they were falling on booby traps it has been a horrible experience. so this helicopter flies around. dropping down on the floor and i'm crying some of them

my some of them feel when they see for a mess some of them feel when they see you know people that they are not comfortable with some of them shut up and say no what for quite a long time until they could act what opened up definitely they go all the extreme distress and also physically unfortunately i'm one of them a wounded. many of the hospitals as we visit confirmed that. the biggest number of civilians they have in the hospitals are children traumatized in mind and body but alive lucky by local standards though let's be frank stuck in orphanages and refugee camps in iraq in june believe given the sheer magnitude of the problem thousands and thousands of orphans with little. do you believe you

can adequately help them we are helping those sold and we we see certainly we don't have enough resources they sold or not almost everywhere but ultimately the support comes from family from government and the extended family that once we connect children. everybody scheme to receive them and the support of the problem is made. king the connection all of these orphans iraq so many a foreign children of isis fighters. and how big it is much better a foreign children were reunited with their families they will have problems here with documents in schools with health care they need their families love problems is putting it lightly in iraq tribal culture venerates blood feuds and revenge isis harmed millions there are those who would use these children who hate them

for what their parents did. vulnerable for all abuse they are vulnerable for trafficking they're far notable for. any danger that children exposed to in today's technology any. bad group. could go get those children unharmed them some of these lost children a raped their assaulted abused and abandoned killed for their organs hated for the sins of their fathers the un and uni set do what they can to protect them but there are too many getting them out is a reward unto itself. we helped identify and reunite a number of these children yet it isn't straightforward uni set for example once

these kids identities protected fearing stigma or exploitation we know we tell our children do not know who is playing chess. because if we do not allow the children to talk to normalize tensions that we do not know how do we think of allowing a child that have gone. crisis is. to become a. choice you can choose their thesis for everyone to see and let their relatives recognise them pray that they find them themselves one desperate young refugee among the rocks medians or i guess the year. for many be iraq. a week long after a week long military campaign along the border in syria in northern lebanon the lebanese army with its syrian allies and hezbollah allies declared

a cease fire with the self-proclaimed islamic state the lebanese army said the ceasefire would allow for negotiations and possibly for the release of lebanese soldiers captured by us however it did not claim to have completely defeated the islamic state to discuss we're joined now by brad blankenship a journalist with al mazar news brad can you give viewers a brief primer on what's been happening at the lebanese syrian border which led to this surrendering to hezbollah. so i think it's important to start with the fact that al qaeda has been on the lebanese border for many years using essential using the population there as human shields. holing up in hospitals traumatizing the local population oppressing minorities and so eventually you had it isis step in basically hand in hand with al qaida and so initially the syrian army and hezbollah alongside the lebanese army had launch. their first offensive against al

qaida and after they had won this they centrally launched their assault on isis. basically asking for their complete surrender when isis had essentially been defeated unequivocally and so what's going on now is the cease fire basically in return for the whereabouts of soldiers information and in return that isis so that they would not negotiate until they were on buses basically headed towards their new capital in iraq along the syrian border and why it has all of being so heavily criticized for reaching this cease fire agreement. well yeah absolutely and the united states it's hypocritical for them even to suggest that this is you know somehow a new i mean this happened in northeast aleppo and monday. when the americans had opened up a corridor for isis to escape when the syrian democratic forces. where we're

heading and they use this under the guise of a humanitarian mission or a humanitarian corridor but in fact it was it was most likely just because they want to and you know to to avoid a long siege and this is kind of the strategy that you see a long time you've seen for a long time in syria with what i like to call horseshoe theory aficionados who like to somehow compare hezbollah bashar al assad to isis say that they're supporting isis somehow they're catching a lot of flack for this from the united states but what the u.s. didn't you know and i understand that donald trump has no problem as he said bombing civilians but there's over five hundred civilians family members of those isis and other people who are alongside isis and there's about three hundred soldiers and lebanese border so the fact that the war is wrapping up now i mean with such. you know your loss to human innocent human lives you know it would come

at this. you know with three hundred soldiers so i think that that it's kind of and do i mean you would have over five hundred people in danger for three hundred soldiers in this in this border battle is pretty much over right an order to to. take care of that issue has all of the syrian lebanon would have to do what the u.s. has been accusing them of which is just indiscriminately bomb the entire group what role has had to go back played in the fight against extremists in syria. well hezbollah's played it extremely important role absolutely and you can definitely tell that by some of the pieces that have been published and slate in the york times recently talking about this growing iranian influence and in fact the piece that was drawn in the new york times the opinion piece the picture was a picture of his son not bashar al assad next to each other and so i think what

their role has been is to empower the resistance to extremism their role. you know other hostile nations and so their role has been extremely important today the u.s. targeted and i ask envoy evacuating the border with lebanon what is the united states doing there what exactly is going on so and and i've said this on other programs as well as the you know there are essentially at this point the u.s. is you know basically just trying to stay relevant in this conflict and they put in menial effort here in syria lebanon and iraq as well which is i mean extremely marginal compared to what hezbollah syria russia and iran have been putting into this conflict and they're just trying to have some type of say when the conflict is over they want to have a say in the political situation while they were on the other side of the conflict for much of the time correct i mean having the lyrical support to the fighters

battling russia iran syria iran and allied militias hezbollah. yeah that's i mean that's absolutely correct and they just. as they say ended the the they failed to rebel program right and so and actually yesterday we've heard reports that the rebels were firing at american soldiers you know the u.s. has played this hypocritical role for a very long time which you could see was starting to shift in two thousand and thirteen you know you have this kind of conflict between the pentagon and the cia the cia was putting billions of dollars into the failed rebel program while the pentagon was starting to side with the s.d.f. democratic forces in the kurds right and so this shift has come a long time coming and now they are starting to come to the table but i do think that there are still some elements within the government within the deep state the military industrial complex women and in the trumpet ministration which is

committed completely permeated by these groups now where they are trying to least have some type of foothold which i think you can see. in this political process moving forward that they're engaged in all right brad blankenship journalist with almost our news we appreciate you bringing your insight to the show today thank you . the international community is attempting to shine a light on the war torn yemen and open letter has been sent to the united nations human rights council demanding an independent international inquiry on human rights violations there sixty two international n.g.o.s signed onto the letter with reports and accounts about the civilian population suffering from the two and a half year war there which includes a u.s. assisted bombing campaign led by saudi arabia which has devastated the country since march two thousand and fifteen a letter asserted a disrespect for human rights law from fighters within the country but also named to saudi arabia a potential perpetrator of war crimes noting its airstrikes on civilian targets like schools and hospitals the un told r.t.

america expects a finished internal report in october detailing the deaths of more than six hundred eighty children resulting from saudi airstrikes alone things aren't improving in the palestinian administration in fact u.n. security general u.n. secretary general antonio appear as says he hasn't seen a humanitarian crisis like the one in gaza for years artie's policy or has that story. yesterday i was in the rubble of two very guarded unfortunately to witness one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises that i have seen the many years working as a humanitarian in the united nations the un chief after spending several hours in gaza on wednesday has called on the israeli authorities to lift the siege that has been in place on the coast along clave for the better part of ten years in the visit by the un chief comes amid a spike of tensions between israel and the united nations earlier this week the

israeli deputy foreign minister warned that if the united nations did not change what she perceives as a bias against israel or them is what would stop its funding and support of the international body but the israelis are not completely blameless resolution one eight six of course for an immediate cease fire in gaza that would see a full israeli withdrawal that would lead to food fuel and medical supplies being allowed to enter gaza this is not the case there is a dire humanitarian situation inside gaza as we heard from the un chief and at the same time there are thousands of people who are prevented from exiting gaza to receive much needed medical care on the israeli side there is a twenty year old boy who we caught up with who is suffering from chronic heart disease who for seven months has been refused permission to leave the coastal enclave. my sicknesses tightness of the aortic valve it's a chronic disease and a congenital defect in the referral procedure is very important because i must

leave our open heart surgery and replace the defective brown's models with helen from february until now we've applied monthly to get his permit he was supposed to have his surgery in february his muscle has to stay strong if it weakens you will be in serious condition he will not be able to have any surgery after that gaza is often referred to by people living there as the largest. present in the world a place where people are deprived of basic needs. coming up on ard to researches in canada say eat more fat will tell you why after a short break. and. what holds in change do you should at least. put themselves. to begin to show. soul immunity for us to. want to. achieve the right to be

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speak to is no. lame that mainstream media has met its maker. for decades the american middle class so the bread railroaded by washington politics i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get a break in the break you. you're . welcome back to our team america mining may soon be banned at yellowstone national

park the recommendation congress president trumps national monument review moves forward earlier this year president trump signed an executive order allowing national monuments sites like yellowstone to be reduced but water would make more federal lands available for mining drilling and development which has drawn opposition from conservation groups are just on has a story from los angeles that what kind of mining will be banned exactly yellowstone bridgette i don't know people are still mining there first of all just north of yellowstone this would ban gold mining now this comes up as a two year review of that area is underway now this is examining thirty thousand acres of land in montana just north of yellowstone in paradise valley and that's where two new gold mines have been proposed one of these has been proposed by a canadian based company called lucky minerals and the other by a washington based firm called crevice mining group now both of these involve

private lands but the operations would likely span into public lands and of course locals have long opposed new mining sites mainly due to ecological concerns yellowstone and the area surrounding our home to grizzly bears many different types of fish and other wildlife that could negatively be impacted by mining waste water and other areas that are reclaimed now there. are also worried about property prices and businesses so the u.s. interior secretary ryan zinke he has now fast tracked a proposal that would ban mining for gold in that area for the next twenty years he also says that he wants to expand his review to include other types of minerals like oil coal phosphates and gas now if this is implemented the ban would likely only be temporary and that is unless congress approves a permanent ban and that's something that's also been proposed as well anya and

what exactly is the status of the review of lands which may be reduced under the president's executive order. so earlier this year is inky began reviewing twenty seven national monuments that could be affected by this executive order now pending the results several things could happen here first of all it could potentially reduce the limits on oil and gas production as well as undue protections for millions of acres of federal land or it could do the opposite and pass further protections for federal lands and i think he has taken measures like the ones in yellowstone to ban the mining of minerals but he has also recommended shrinking the boundaries of several other national monuments including oregon's cascade siskiyou and also utah's bears ears and grand staircase escalante and he has delivered a draft to the president just this week but that draft has yet to be made public so

a lot of those details will likely be emerging in the next few days and that will really let us know what the state of our federal lands and our national monuments is going to be big news for anybody who likes visiting those sites so we'll have to keep on it version this antos from los angeles thank you. canadian researchers are saying toss out that nutritional food guideline and eat more fat it's good for you alex male of age is in toronto with the story. more delicious fat tom i like this story and according to the latest research because the international study headed off by mcmaster university just outside of toronto got a place called hamilton ontario well take this list that you see here this picture what they've been telling you for years tossed out right out the window because it's simply not true that's not the way to stay healthy folks they did a questionnaire the study of fat carbohydrate protein intake of one hundred thirty five thousand three hundred thirty five people eighteen countries than all of them

on an average of about seven years they found people were eating way too much carbs not fat it's the right that's the way it is all the bread that you're eating that's the bad stuff not the fat stuff good news i think but hey you might not agree with the any way you turn this this is a study that is pushing forward some beliefs that we've had for a very long time for decades and it's saying that we've been wrong now when you look at this because of the talk that we've had about fats carbohydrates they're saying could have been taking the place of a lot of facts that people didn't want to eat anyway turns again the study and this is a big study folks it says that researchers looked at whether or not participants of the study develop heart disease or stroke they also documented the number of deaths due to cardiovascular disease other disease cancer respiratory and other infectious diseases and they found that contrary to popular belief guess what it wasn't fat

fat people or people that ate fat i should say are healthier on average than people that eat sixty percent carbohydrates or more in their diet that's actually a danger zone and they're saying that we should be eating more fats instead of the thirty percent recommended maybe thirty five percent around that now the study did not find that certain types of fat like saturated or on saturated fats made any significant difference but don't forget it's those fats that are still the hydrogenated oils the artificial fats called transfer. those are not good for you there's been study after study those do cause heart disease according to our expert we know that new york city has banned these bats and canada is looking to do it across the board as well bottom line bottom line don't go out and pig out are just body stop now moderation for everything that is the key and that is the bottom line back to you and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king live guest is musician vic mensa and he talked about depression among black men in

america here's a snippet in the black community things like depression and legs are played down one hundred percent because well as black men this is an idea of masculinity they oftentimes is misleading we've been led to believe is how we have to act to assert ourselves you know i mean i'm not going to go down a full history lesson you know but the traditional avenues for being a breadwinner and being a man in the black community was stripped from us and provided for your family and. and bringing home the bacon for your family is something that was there was often like out of reach for black men so we had to develop certain other ideas of masculinity that often are very hyper masculine very aggressive and leave no

room for vulnerability and i believe that that leads us to a place where we're not able oftentimes to be open and be honest about things going on in our brain because we don't want to appear weak in youth you feel that if you if you give any sign of weakness that you'll be torn down. watching the hawks is up next here on r t tab the wallace joins us now for a preview of what's to come what's up today tabitha well on tonight's you watching the hogs we're going to talk mercenaries atomic bombs and hillary clinton's new book tour and you can decide which is a bigger waste of money i guess they founder and chairman of one mind karen stagnation and next to discuss a silent epidemic that everyone should have on their mind you know what i missed it all right sounds good to have the thanks a lot. and that is are now one of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our website r t dot com slash america you can

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question for what you're looking to see. we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. i said. there's been a lot of hysterical media hype about states seceding from the country lately one of those states of california a lot of people started talking about them succeeding after the election since there are so far to the left they practically fall off the math but now it takes billionaire has thrown out a new proposal for the state instead of the c.d.a.

and he thinks that should be split into three tim draper is a california who made a bunch of money in tech as a venture capital investor among other things his net worth is supposed to be just about a billion bucks and he just filed for a new measure with the state's government stating that california would be better served if the state were broken up into northern california southern california and just plain old california northern california would include most of the techie stuff like san fran and the weed stuff like it would consist of thirty six counties while southern california would cover twelve mostly in the middle eastern and southern parts then regular old california would include l.a. and then a barber among others and just basically be a little strip along the coast that draper wants to do this because he thinks those three regions have such different political leanings he says the way this date is now it's practically ungovernable and that californians deserve better he doesn't think they should leave the united states though like all those calling for a complete calyx that and it's not the first time he's come up with such

a plan back in twenty fourteen before anyone even mention the name trump seriously for president draper spent over five million bucks trying to get another break up on the ballot that time he called for the state to be divided into six jefferson north california central california silicon valley west california and southern california they think that such a breakup would help to stay. a deal with its poverty rate and infrastructure problems among other things it didn't work out then and this time around he still needs to get about six hundred thousand valid thing a chair is before his measure could make it on the ballot come this fall. honestly i think the whole let's break up california thing is getting super tired it's all just another way to divide us not unite us and i as an american am sick and tired of all of the device that noise all of it.

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