the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people being killed. every day. raising fears of.

just. people. from the. base. joining us we do start this. state of texas we understand two explosions rocked a chemical plant near the city of houston. by the. chemicals group. one official was taken to hospital after inhaling fumes from the. hospital but the company is warning that all of. the warned about the risk of explosions on a. major flooding. he had knocked out the primary and backup power

provided cooling to the chemical materials on site he added they had no means to prevent the blasts and residents of the town of crosby where the explosions took place already been evacuated we understand hundreds living within one and a half miles of the plant have left the area. now the state of texas is still being hit by hurricane tropical storm harvey it's already affected tens of thousands of people the city of houston has been among the worst area hit and floodwaters continue to rise.

back to our normal international out of syria where the battle for what was once considered islamic states defacto capital is taking a toll on civilians caught in the crossfire the u.n. estimates now dozens of civilians are being killed on a daily basis. the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. up to twenty five thousand civilians still remain trapped in the city and they're increasingly exposed to the crossfire of the ongoing fighting. they risk being killed either by astroids. mines if they try to flee the. area.

there is. constant air raids from the coalition so the caption said building casualties are. large and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians. planes bombed us heavily this happens in downtown underground i still slaughtering people that has mainly been killed and houses were destroyed in. coalition shelling targets civilians and civilians four story houses full of people all over the neighborhood certainly many have been killed among them my cousin died in iraq in that strike. if

we count we around twenty thousand people. our children. are suffering. family of the children especially. now the u.s. led coalition has been bombing what was once considered to be the defacto capital of ice all in syria the city of raka you can see right here it is a densely populated area and as usual civilians are finding themselves caught up in the crossfire. i think the pentagon has made a determination that they can accept a certain number of civilian casualties if they're going after high value targets and but but it's just unconscionable to be doing aerial bombing on very densely populated city areas and they know there will be casualties and yet they're willing to accept that and the way that this is being conducted is a guarantee for civilian casualties and i'm very very high number of the recent the

coalition that is that by the united states issued. a every poor twit by they claim that only about six hundred twenty four civilians died since they started operations three years ago against the irish so there is a huge mismatch between what the reality is and what this coalition. you know nobody's talking about the people who probably do not deny this the tragedy that is taking place in unfolding over there. the governor of arkansas stans province as i love an afghan civilians have been confirmed killed when a nato helicopter struck a house thought to be hiding taliban fighters the taliban took position in a civilian house for a look at. the house on a big taliban to leave but they didn't medical to came in this house that cools the . locals however say there were no taliban fighters in the house at that time.

here it. would destroy only two or three people survive. you can ask people whether. there's been no confirmation of the. u.s. led coalition the nato led mission in kabul is now saying the reports are being investigated if confirmed the strike would be the second deadly air bombardment of afghan civilians in the last four days now on monday. and wounded in an airstrike on the western province the government says it was targeting taliban fighters the locals again said the militants had left the area before the strike the two incidents demonstrate the huge risk of civilian casualties from the intensified raids on the country. meanwhile the u.s. has acknowledged that it has eleven thousand military personnel in afghanistan

that's about two and a half thousand more than previously stated the pentagon insists there's been no increase in troop numbers just a change in the way it counts them previously overlooked it seems were troops on temporary assignment along with. the eighty four hundred personnel introduced by barack obama and now the u.s. defense department says each and every head will be counted. we will characterize all forces necessary for the steady state missions of train advise assist and counterterrorism as total forces included in total forces in afghanistan will be the troops required for short duration missions which vary based upon operational conditions but are not needed for the duration of the operation and all this comes a week off the president announced a new strategy on afghanistan although some believe he may have alterio motives. we are going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of this

war to us president trump is very interested in afghanistan's economic potential the rest made one trillion dollars worth of culpa i know all rare elements gold silver zinc mercury and lithium i listed believe afghanistan's natural resources could provide the us that with a return on its investments washington has already spent over seven hundred billion dollars on the conflict and the money just keeps on flowing in whereas the potential value of resources in afghanistan varies from one to three trillion dollars among other resources afghanistan has deposits of gold precious metals and gemstones it's even been dubbed the saudi arabia over lithium and hekmatyar of the scientific conflict and peace studies believes trump is just being a businessman in afghanistan. president. meeting president trump actually pitched this idea to encourage him and tell him that look up honest

on is not only a liability but it can also be an assett it's expected of president trump given he's a business tycoon and he cares about saving money for the americans and lucrative resources of afghanistan have long been attractive to china beijing is there on the frontline of mining and development projects and is one of the country's major trading partners and hekmatyar believes there are fresh plans to carve up afghanistan's riches. making money out of gunness seem a bit difficult although it's not very new and twenty thirteen the americans were encouraging the presidents to take over the chinese investment arguing that we are paying a heavy cost so why the chinese should take all the business investments in the profit out of afghanistan so mind the standing is that this is going to be a sort of new competition with the chinese to take on to take it from them.

encourage the american businessmen and companies to be involved here. authorities in brussels are concerned that a new migrant camp is starting to form similar to the infamous jungle in the french quarter which was cleared last year the fears were sparked by the hundreds of refugees now sleeping near one of the city's train stations shouted to penske reports. the remnants of a makeshift migrant camp a in down town brussels is being described as sums potentially in the next jungle a reference that that new tourist the squalid camp in cali in neighboring france that was dismantled a year ago and one medical charity working here in brussels has said that just a few weeks ago there were any handful of people and now as you can see from the evidence around us many more people have been using this as a base most people are traveling here from countries like sudan and eritrea but

even. people you know. because. they didn't use these not play for these some migrants only agreed to speak to us if we didn't shoot their whole face may be. a bright future. but it was my fault. to hear. more difficult things in the past it difficult to survive. sometimes to get enough. people as the rain is coming down now here in brussels some people have moved under the trees to try and gain what little shelter they can now this new makeshift camp is just fifteen minutes away from the european commission's building and just a stone's throw away from some of the main railway stations here in brussels

including the one that the euro star goes through to go to the u.k. and that's leading to fears from some people that some of the migrants here we be so desperate to get to the u.k. that they were actually trying to board the trains i mean for me when i hear about things like that it makes me makes me more concerned about what's going on in the countries where they're coming from personally makes making me worry about the fact that they try to come to the u.k. . shelter and refuge are more worried about walking why they're forced into a situation in the first place i'm a bit scared because i. and of this people and how the day feel i do think. it was a lot more to be done and i didn't have to stay out in parts like that that's kind of more my worry is. why are they here and things like about is that they're not being taken care of here so what's being done by the authorities well according to

the charity made. a lot. of the situation now is that there are actually around four hundred or five hundred migrants now in the belgian story not really doing anything to. because they. want to be held the issue would apply for asylum in belgium as the authorities seem to be so reluctant to do anything so i'm concerned that park maximilian could become a new symbol of refugee crisis just like before surely even ski r.t. brussels. where we discussed the matter with our french mayor and republican party politician jacques myard he believes the free movement agreement is a key factor making the migrant crisis so difficult to cope with it is very true that not only but many aspects of the european construction

not functioning properly. isn't a porter needed to improve control of our frontiers unfortunately we should really store the internal control borders to prevent people to smuggle it in and this is why i do believe the. the schengen agreement should be revisited on the more let's say realistic bases then you to a parent you know principle of for having it freeze all without any control at the internal front is internal borders and that criticism of that you use internal borders not an isolated voice in some of those behind europe's deadly terror attacks travelled freely across the continent after carrying out the atrocities a few we've managed to spend weeks passing through different borders before being

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even france because of the terrorist attack as restore you know very quick control and our borders in the specially in the airports and also at the land borders so it shows that step by step the european states recon izing are facing reality as it is and not as they have dreamed of in the past you know in the past. so.

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president. to be. helpful. with iraq's prime minister is expected to announce the full liberation of the city of. state thought to be the last stronghold of the terror group in the north of the country but how close to peace really is the war weary nation. speaks to people. for the better part of fourteen years iraq. and

it has adapted following invasion and occupation by america iraq has steadily grown its military now its value and. iraqis whether they even knew just how many soldiers are protecting them. and. the. man. here is some perspective iraq's population ignoring kurdistan is roughly thirty million of those approximately nine million men and one in three a third of all men as soldiers.

it's a vicious cycle workman hanging up over teaches leaving schools. abandoning their fields and. service pays much better. than. mosul university once the second biggest. in iraq but it's seen better days just like everything else in the city here's the kicker though classes

are in session. with walls and ceilings still intact nevertheless young men are abandoning study in favor of easy money in the police forces they get guns. and opportunity. but. you'll hear those stories everywhere troops raised in jews this private armies shakedowns turf wars and protection rackets violence has become a currency. but surely this con cluster you might think isis will be defeated and there'll be no need for this huge on me

perhaps so but america and britain show. years ago violence sometimes is a solution. i don't. know . the system has and they it's called a war economy whereby an entire nation adapts to live and thrive in perpetual war. from mosul iraq. i made a record low approval ratings with all trumpets same as a majority of americans are also not happy with the president's style of behavior according to a new poll by the pew research center only sixteen percent like the way trump

conducts himself as a u.s. leader. and dissatisfaction is also spreading to the entire traditional two party system as a. explains. here in the u.s. capitol it seems that republicans and democrats alike are struggling to gain any traction politically when it comes to the left our recent poll shows that only forty two percent of the public views the party in a positive light and the funding coming to a crawl and as we earlier saw in new york many say the party has clearly can take trump but many struggling to define any clear policy message the policy proposals. i mean specifically. i'm not sure oh no. nothing nothing no now. i can mention one i asked the other questions about the g.o.p. here in d.c. and it seems they're not fairing any better. i don't mind. i don't know what. the safety. board

was nothing major and minor i'm trying to think there have been some minor things but i can't think of them that so minor they are despite the fact that republicans control both chambers of congress only one in six of their voters approve of what's happening here on capitol hill an all time low for the past year so many promises were made about the achievements that would finally be seen now that they have the majority the american people expect this to be done they're ready for us to talk to listen come up with a better health care program for our country who want to tax code built for growth literally designed to go jobs and salaries in the u.s. economy not just a wall but a great wall we will do this that will start early and next year and yet we're still waiting for those big ideas to come to fruition well i think it's correct that both parties have failed the american people were in the midst of maybe the most incompetent presidential administration ever and yet the democrats don't seem

to be offering very much of a good alternative the american people have been ready for an alternative party for multipart. democracy for a very long time the situation has just become critical at this point so nothing is actually getting done and politicians are dragging one another through the mud trying to find someone to blame perhaps the two party system the problem according to a gallup poll by twenty twentieth's possible that over half of american voters would be registered independent not being affiliated with either party or perhaps they could be connected. dissatisfaction with the republican and democratic party so people are now seriously discussing the idea of bringing together progressive groups to form a major political party a little party washington d.c. . let's give you a recap now of our breaking news story here on our two international about of the flooded u.s. state of texas two explosions have rocked a chemical plant near the city of houston and the incident has been confirmed by

the french chemicals group. one law enforcement official was hospitalized off their breathing in the fumes nine others have been checked at the hospital the company is warning there are risks all the explosions major flooding from hurricane harvey as a knocked out the plant's primary and backup power which provided cooling to the chemical materials on site officials adding they had no means to prevent the blasts hundreds living within one and a half miles of the plant in the town of cross we have been evacuated now the state of texas is still being hit by hurricane turned tropical storm harvey can see the pictures it's already affected tens of thousands of people in the city of houston has been among the worst area hit in the floodwaters continue to rise let's cross live to christina christina consolo founder of a new radio joining us here on the phone on the international christina thanks for joining us here on the program now what effect do you think these explosions and

they heavy smoke as well with the vapors of chemicals could have on the nearby area we understand most people have been evacuated. yes leave vacuum needed to our people at two days ago within a mile and a half radius of the plant and this plant is located in an area that is full of refineries pipelines and other chemical companies the plan itself has been surrounded by flood waters and is only accessible by boat and they had only a very small skeleton crew of eleven people that had remained in the plant to try to mitigate for anything that they could do but they were anticipating an explosion one of her essentially because of the chemicals became volatile when the refrigeration failed and the refrigeration failed because the flooding had knocked out power they did try to bring in eight diesel generators all of them failed

to i was so the first explosion to occur in sometime around two am eastern standard time this morning in the u.s. and the there are residents that did not evacuate or gone back to their homes they're being told to wait until daybreak to evacuate and we are anticipating a press conference from the company by nine am the seventh and as you say came of the company in question here we understand the company actually shut down the crosspiece died before harvey even made landfall on friday as you say christina they brought in some diesel generators that ultimately failed an official said we will not be able to stop the explosions from actually taking place so we understand a large perimeter has been evacuated but what about the bowl and particular what about the threat of these deadly nor should vapors coming from chemicals that are

now being disposed is that a big concern for those who are in the area still. that was the gentleman direction of the amount there is released and then further explosions happened i understand that these two and the fire and smoke that we see napster was actually smaller than what they had anticipated to occur the plant had warned that it could be quite a large explosion on par with the the fertilizer plant explosion that had occurred in the west texas stargirl years ago but they there was they were really powerless to stop it because of the horrendous conditions there and. the whether or not that a vacuum ation area will be expanded today i would expect we would hear well before the nine am ponse conference we are hearing from the national weather service that

there has been the there has been a plume that was detected and it was traveling east southeast the ones are coming from the north currently and the bill probably be keeping them for a close eye on that because this plan has been in the news for a few years now and was supposed to submit their risk management plans to. the environmental protection agency because it has such a large amounts of sulfur dioxide and metal propane and you know other other flammable chalk check our compounds outside i mean there's an awful awful list on their own website and they're very irritating to the eyes and long so whether or not we'll do a shelter in place order for people or extend the evacuation lines further they're not going to do any of that until daybreak because it's just too dangerous to move people around in these flooded conditions and we're showing some amazing pictures

here in austin international of just pictures of devastation shocking really some people are saying the. may recede we'll just have to see how this continued emergency operation goes on a christina consolo a founder of nuked radio joining us live here on the international many thanks for your help. thank you. and thank you for joining us here on the program today your news continues inhofe uno. thanks to ethics to. point at. life. decisions reported to us critics who are going to turn down this wall concert in protest against u.s. president are planning to build a dividing. up

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single. most of them to lose. the more you become a number but all the numbers go inside of the image get a muzzle of that it don't walk on the tracks or on the trail. run right off to the sidelines and then also by doing that you're not leaving your tracks they see that your they're trying to walk on the harder the ground you don't want them to know that you're in there. are drugs observed better my shoe is better and. we're

a volunteer organization made up of former military and law enforcement who come down here for seven to ten days a time and we saw dollars once of the wars weekend to the drug trafficking and you could sit there and you could think that well that's just an old. well it's not it's a new one sitting on top of somebody else's if this is going on twenty four hours a day seven days a week you're not going to stop all of it when you're doing it with a nine to five shift mentality you have to come down in occupy the territory just like you would in a in a war. to us this is a war they're bringing in marijuana coke heroin meth and now they're bringing in general synthetic hair when. you can see other questions. that is there

a big difference between male and female track. size depth to him because they're lighter smaller because you never have to worry about that out here to do and women or children out here i've seen. trackers be as his. and. biggest mexican nobody will ever meet and. fall him down had something heavy on because he was. illusion baghdad missile kuwait i did four tours in iraq one tour in afghanistan. got a plate my head my arm so my goal to stop the drug trade i'm from mississippi so i drive twenty five hours to get here. and there several at a steady state we got one from south carolina i think it's the right thing to do

the government's not doing anything down here that much so we're here to to try to stop the droughts. the. last time we chased eighteen of them. each one of them carrying twenty kilos of drugs. and they got it from us and so we call border patrol and border patrol get on the other side of the. kitchen when they come on the side. so if you look up there that's one of the towers that. that's our it costs us ninety million dollars and that towers what is supposed to be watching the border right now and then when that tower sees something they call the border patrol. and they try to get the gays in the air but it's so far away from anything that by the time

they get here they're already past it. charlie bass. world former military and law enforcement we know how to go about doing this and i'm slow in the time we run into somebody. but it was a ok we'll sit him down and then we ask him if they need any food or water or medical aid. regardless if you're bringing him jordan's or killing people in there then you know or if you're just sneaking into the country we don't want to see you die out there and be dying for. horrible ways like. food water medical aid we call border patrol we'll put them up. listen this is why it opens people from seventy eight different countries come in

through this length and the big problem is those who are that little was happening in europe for my god we're going to help these poor people while you just let in a whole bunch of bad guys because you don't know who the hell they are for because . society that our days is so politically correct they're afraid of offending somebody. may fifth you if i offend you. beth i'm trying to protect my people my family my friends so if you're offended i'm sorry and that's why they call us races and there is a. place

for it as a board as i'm helping that. i live here at the bunker if you could would you want to visit with one of these days actually sit on the couch and do this full time i would have stopped doing what i was doing then we would be oh well you know these guys out every single one of my guys would be very if i went to prison they have what's considered an aggravated only you know it could be anywhere from writing a bad check which is fraud and. the discharging a firearm we could be a small amount of drugs like you know used to be five pounds of marijuana i mean

it's really very small so i want to be very upfront these people need to know like that there is a crime involved and they went to prison. i joined the military in one thousand nine hundred eighty two thousand and one i served with the eighty second airborne i got i was honorable discharge in two thousand and one after i got of the military i was involved where somebody shot a firearm in a vehicle i went to prison i was sent for three years but only did a year and eight months and then i was deployed in two thousand and four i came back to united states illegally got caught begin in two thousand and ten and i stayed in mexico ever since and opened up a shelter in two thousand and thirteen. if you commit negri phony could be deported that means people who served in the military they committed. their green cards will be taken away and that's the short and simple. idiocy.

right right right. i'm in here for seven years now with the port in two thousand and ten on may eighteenth. yeah that was a day i'll never forget i was scared. i didn't know anybody didn't know the city. didn't know how to get around our only had thirty two dollars in my pocket and. immigration took my only form of id i had no id and now only had that money and i didn't know what to do i didn't know where to go and they just dropped off the board and say they go and you got to continue on a walk and try to figure it out on your own.

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people know that we're not just a number we're not just a group no we're actually living people. this just made it personal i mean this is no longer just about me but about all my brothers. especially the ones that have passed away that lost their life. here while here in mexico we didn't have the chance to go back home. you know this is very very important now and this is now become. my fight. my life just crumbled it totally fell apart i have no relatives here it's very. safe here organized crime runs this city. forty three years

when i have years in the marines. it just sucks. you get deported i mean you're going to serve the country but you're not going to stay even though you've. got no new felonies and. just sucks.

all. my belongings right now. that's only my business cards for my business which. if i don't do something about it and still have my contract those license on hand and i don't have a crate and i don't have anything else but i. i do have. in. my go can be three dollars and that's it. because that last days is does but i want that but i get by saying i don't want to go for it would be if i just got to say you know what i don't want to do whatever. they want to get into that is just put in front of all of us you know because of where. did i just go to leave this is what i do you know. i remember when you had this elegant community to get a secluded motive that is. it came from i was. in

charge of. the president of this if you know. what happened is like following up with my paperwork to became one hundred percent documented i have to go back to the immigration office be there once a week once. you have to report yourself and bring proof. so that any way this last time. when i showed up. i walk in the nine

o'clock in the morning. and i was detained according with the officer he said it very clearly i don't deserve to be here. as well remember you were not. there a minister off obama you are now a mistress of donald trump. and that's the big change. i got arrested in by five o'clock i was imported into what. it is a real nightmare because you get up in the morning at five thirty in the morning and you are home. with your family when. you go to sleep somewhere else is.

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breaking news to be lost so to chemical plants near the us city of houston texas after hurricane flooding cut off power to the site. of un estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq not every day. trapped in the ongoing siege of ice those self proclaimed capital civilians are falling victim to both coalition air strikes and the terrorists fighting. eleven civilians have been killed in afghanistan's low guard province when a nato helicopter hit

a house thought to be hiding taliban militants as according to the local government . and a migrant camp in central brussels it swells daily raising fears of another cal a jungle the notorious camp cleared just across the border in france artie's crew visits the site. just a few weeks ago there were many and few people and now as you can see from the evidence around us many more people have been using this as a base. although there is to turn to pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron now we start with breaking news from the u.s. state of texas two explosions of rocks a chemical plant near the city of houston the incident has been confirmed by the plant's owner french chemicals group arkema one law enforcement official it was

taken to hospital after inhaling fumes from the plant while nine others are being checked at the hospital the smoke which they inhaled is believed to be a non toxic irritant the company is warning that all risks of further blasts major flooding from hurricane harvey had knocked out the plant's primary and backup power which provided cooling to the chemical materials on site they added they had no means to prevent the blast hundreds living within one and a half miles of the plant in the town of crosby had been evacuated. the state of texas is still being hit by hurricane turned a tropical storm it's already a stake to tens of thousands of people the city of houston has been among the worst area hits and floodwaters continue rising. well we discussed the consequences of the explosions with christina the founder of nukes radio and here's what she told

us the plan itself has been surrounded by flood waters and there's only accessible by boat and they had only a very small skeleton crew of the eleven people that had remained in the plant. to try to mitigate for anything that they could do but they were anticipating an explosion what occur essentially because the chemicals became knowledge hold for duration failed and the refrigeration failed because of the flooding had knocked out power and i understand that too and the fire and smoke going after it was actually smaller than what they had anticipated to occur the plant had warned that it could be quite a large explosion on par with the fertilizer plant explosion that had occurred in the west texas terrible years ago but there was if they were really powerless to

stop it because of the horrendous conditions there you know whether or not we'll do a shelter in place order for people or if the evacuation lines further they're not going to do any of that until daybreak because just too dangerous to move people around in the flooded condition. let's find out more about the situation i'm now joined by environmentalist right tony juniper mr juniper thank you for joining us on r.t. international now given a situation should people be concerned and if so what precautions should they be taking. well there's evidently toxic pollution being released to the atmosphere and so people should be concerned not to breathe or expose themselves to that if they possibly can i'm not sure the company has released a comprehensive breakdown of exactly what's getting into the atmosphere and what the chemicals are following combustion that being potentially braised by people that if i live there i'd be shutting my window and i'd be trying to avoid breathing

anything that's coming from from the combustion taking place. hopefully the company can release more information and give people more advice about how to protect themselves if they possibly can the latest we know is that the explosions that had banned organic peroxides how dangerous is that. well it's not going to be great for it depends on much you breathe in but these kinds of toxic releases obviously are going to cause health impacts depending on how much people breathe in and so that more that people can avoid it but. it will depend on the wind direction obviously in terms of how much of this stuff blows towards populated areas but if people keep their windows and doors shut and try to avoid breathing this and bearing in mind of people been made how did ms which might make it more difficult for them to do that then that would be the sensible thing to do. had given your next president's failed how much of a kind of certain duties as explosion as president i guess if nothing on this scale

is almost impossible to protect against. what i think what we're getting here is a reminder of the kinds of challenges we will face as we go forward into a world with a natural more volatile climates and it's not possible yet to attribute this kind of truth and to the impacts of human induced affects on the on the climate system but we do know that there is on average kind of the and it indeed already is not reflected in temperature records and this kind of extreme flooding in droughts and there will be more of this as a result of the atmosphere warming up and so we do get a little taste in this situation as to how inadequate some of our existing precautions are and sounds of how we design infrastructure in terms of how we design safety features to work alongside the potential hazards that come with plants like this and there was a backup power system but it got flooded and so the backup power went to the refrigeration went down and then this kind of consequences as unfolded and as we

look to the future and we see the potential for more flooding and more extreme conditions than we need to design our infrastructure and safety systems accordingly and it is terrifying to know that donald trump president donald trump just a few weeks ago bust exactly that kind of requirement in terms of looking at risk the. billions of infrastructure going forward that was put in place by president obama's administration that did recognize climate change to be a problem and understood the science president trump is a denier of climate change science and he's putting citizens of his country at risk by not putting in place the kinds of precautions we will need in the future to avoid this kind of thing happening if we possibly can well so far we're hearing the only one person at a policeman needed hospital treatment for inhaling the themes though i guess they did avoid you know what could have been a disaster on a larger scale however their talent is if you think one and a half mile is that from the plant where people have been evacuated is this enough

of an area to be evacuated or should it be further i'm not on the ground there so i can't really comment in terms of whether that that's a good distance or not it will depend on the wind direction it will depend on the chemicals coming out of the fire and it will depend on whether they're expecting any further explosions involving possibly other chemicals so i don't feel qualified to comment on that but i do hope that people locally are able to to avoid the worst effects of this because toxic pollution getting into the air and being breathed is not good for anybody and it's terrible that the people who are suffering in this way but hopefully the worst of it can be avoided is also the question over how quickly our host and in the region will be able to recover from this tragedy people are saying the disaster is much worse than that caused by hurricane katrina more than a decade ago but what do you say. well i think it would take some time to understand that the scale of this hurricane katrina was a total disaster and that of course was also links not only to climate change but

also wider environmental degradation and from what i've understood so far from commentators in the united states is that that is a feature of this particular disaster that's still unfolding in so far as areas of natural grassland and coastal wetlands have been built upon in ways that are reduced their ability to absorb flood water and so what we've done is to cause a multiplication of our mental problems assuming that there is a component of human she's trying to change and here we see again a lesson for the future in terms of how we can avoid the worst of some of this fight planning carefully and not having too much concrete in areas where previously there was natural drainage going on if you start replacing wetlands and woodlands and grasslands we concrete and freeways and we've rooftops then you compound flooding and that does appear to being one of the factors that contributed to the impact of the floods here and some again one would hope that you know we don't just

wait for the next disaster but we do actually start to learn some lessons not only houston but the entire world in terms of how we are going to need to plan differently in terms of how we design cities like how we design infrastructure how we design safety systems to cope with weather events that are unprecedented this is off the scale it's not something we've experienced before and as we move to ever greater levels of global warming hopefully we can avoid the worst of this by cutting dilution but we will now have to cope with some of it as we go forward we will experience more and more previously unexperienced events and we need to plan for those and simply sticking at it and and as donald trump has done is we're not doing anybody any favors after all in fact all it's doing is storing up problems with jeff potentially very big ones ok mr tiny j percent environmentalist wise i thank you for speaking to her she. and your expertise. now in syria the battle for iraq are once considered islamic states defacto capital is taking

a massive toll on civilians caught in the crossfire the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says he's extremely concerned the u.s. led coalition quote may be failing to abide by international humanitarian principles meanwhile the u.n. estimates that every day dozens of civilians are being killed in the city. the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. up to twenty five thousand civilians still remain trapped in the city during kristie we are exposed to the crossfire of the ongoing fighting. they risk being killed either by asteroids. are still snipers all mines if they try to flee.

there is. a constant air raids from the coalition show that cashman said building casualties are. large and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians. who planes bombed us heavily this happens in downtown bend around isobel slaughtering people many were killed and houses were destroyed in a coalition shelling targets civilians and civilians four story houses full of people from all over the neighborhood certainly many have been killed among them my cousin died in iraq in an ass strike.

if we count with around twenty thousand people ereka. children. are suffering friends family of the children especially. if it's getting. the u.s. led coalition has been bombing what was once considered i suppose that defunct capital in syria the city of raka is a densely populated area and civilians are finding themselves caught in the crossfire i think the pentagon has made a determination that they can accept a certain number of civilian casualties if they're going after high value targets and but but it's just unconscionable to be doing aerial bombing on very densely populated city areas and they know there will be casualties and yet they're willing to accept that and the way that this is being conducted is a guarantee for civilian casualties and i'm very very high number of the recent the

coalition that is that by the united states issued. a every poor twit by they claim that only about six hundred twenty four civilians died since they started operations three years ago against darvish so there is a huge mismatch between what the reality is and what this coalition. you know nobody's talking about and people probably do not know is the tragedy that is taking place in unfolding over there. the governor of afghanistan's logar province it's a leaven afghan civilians have been confirmed killed when a nato helicopter struck a house thought to be hiding taliban fighters. the taliban took position in a civilian house. the house big the taliban to leave but they didn't the helicopter took at. this house the. locals however say there were no taliban fighters in the house at the time. the jet

plane bombed here and bombed the house all the houses were destroyed only two or three people survived look at the house you can ask people whether the taliban were here or not there's been no confirmation of the strike so far from nato all the u.s. led coalition but a spokesperson for the nato led mission in kabul says the reports are being investigated if confirmed this strike would be the second deadly bombardment of afghan civilians in the last four days on monday thirteen civilians were confirmed killed and over a dozen wounded in an airstrike on the west inherit province the government says it was targeting taliban fighters but locals again say the militants had left the area hours before the strike the two incidents demonstrates the huge risk of civilian casualties from the intensified raids on the country. when all this comes a week after president trump announced

a new strategy on afghanistan although some believe he has all teary about it. we are going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of this war to us president trump is very interested in afghanistan's economic potential the rest mated one trillion dollars worth of copper iron ore rare elements gold silver zinc mercury and lithium. i don't lists believe afghanistan's natural resources could provide the u.s. with a return on its investments washington has already spent over seven hundred billion dollars on the conflict and the money keeps flowing in whereas the potential value of resources in afghanistan varies from one to three trillion dollars among other resources afghanistan has deposits of gold precious metals and gemstones it's even been dubbed the saudi arabia of lithium to learn as much as any of the center for the conflicts of peace studies believes trump is just playing

a businessman in afghanistan president. president actually pitched this idea to encourage him and tell him that look up on a stand is not only a liability but it can also be an asset it's expected a president from given his. business take on and he cares about saving money for the americans back to our breaking news from the u.s. state of texas now where two explosions of rocks a chemical plant near the city of houston we can are cross live to our correspondents the miracle on with more details on the situation as a member of the incident comes amid heavy flooding caused by hurricane harvey can you bring us up to speed on the latest please. well two explosions have been reported at the arkema chemical plant in. texas this chemical plant produces organic peroxides and blacks smoke was seen coming from facility there were

deputies that inhaled smoke on the scene about ten of them and they it was reported that there it was not an irritant. with the incident has been confirmed by the plant's owner arkema and the company is warning that there are there could be blasts ahead the plant owners first warned about their weight risk on monday after major flooding from hurricane harvey had knocked out the plant's primary and backup power that provided cooling to chemical materials on site. we have lost primary power and two sources of emergency backup power as a result we have lost critical refrigeration of the materials on site that could now explode and cause a subsequent intense fire the high water and lack of power to leave us with no way to prevent a. rebel. group. yes

and his a patient of this hundreds living within a one point five mile radius were evacuated after the warning but we know now that after the explosion at least one law enforcement official was taken to the hospital and nine others that were being checked at the hospital now we know that what the. failed. we don't know the circumstances unfortunately whether they worked close to the site or if the distance was miscalculated but worst. waiting for details of a possible chemical leak or any other danger the explosions might cost ok so america there do bring us up to speed if any more details do become available thank

you. now authorities in brussels are concerned the new migrant camp is starting to form similar to the infamous jungle in the french quarter of cali which was cleared last year by face with box by the hundreds of refugees now sleeping near one of the city's train stations are two solid dubinsky visited the site the remnants of a makeshift migrant camp a in down town brussels is being described as sums potentially in the next jungle a reference that that new touristy squalid camp in cali in the france that was dismantled a year ago and one medical charity working here in brussels the said that just a few weeks ago there were any handful of people and now as you can see from the evidence around us many more people have been using this as a base most people are traveling here from countries like sit down and eritrea but you know. people you know. because people who stay here. just doesn't know how.

did you is not blame these some migrants only agreed to speak to us if we didn't shoot their whole face may be i got a bright future in europe but it was my fault. arrived here. with more difficult things in the past it difficult to survive. sometimes to get enough food. for the people as the rain is coming down now here in brussels some people have moved under the trees to try and gain what little shelter they can now this new makeshift camp is just fifteen minutes away from the european. commission's building i'm just a stone's throw away from some of the main railway stations here in brussels including the one that the euro star goes through to go to the u.k. and that's leading to fears from some people that some of the migrants here we be

so desperate to get to the u.k. that they will actually try to board the trains i mean for me when i hear about things like that it makes me wonder makes me more concerned about what's going on than the countries where they're coming from personally rather makes making me worry about the fact that they try to come to the u.k. you shelter in refuge and i'm more worried about walking why they're forced into a situation in the first place i'm a bit scared too because i don't know. and of this people and the owd they feel i don't think much at the door yeah they telling a lot more could be done and i didn't have to stay out in part so like that that's kind of more my worry is where the why are they here and things like about is that they're not being taken care of here so what's being done by the authorities well according to the charity meds and not a lot. of the situation is that there are actually around four hundred or five

hundred migrants from the belgian story to you are not really doing. that because they consider that. one to be held the issue would apply for asylum in belgium as the authorities seem to be so reluctant to do anything some concerned pockmarks a million could become a new symbol of europe's refugee crisis just like cali before even ski altie brussels we discussed the matter with frenchman and republican party politician jacques myard he believes the schengen free movement agreement is the key factor making the migrant crisis so difficult to cope with. it is very true that today not only showing gain but many aspects of the european construction not functioning properly shine going isn't

a port unity to improve control of our frontiers unfortunately we should restore the internal control at our borders to prevent people to smuggle in and this is why i do believe that the schengen agreement should be revisited on a more let's say realistic bases than this utopian you know principle of having a free zone without any control at the internal front is into an all borders and start criticism of the e.u. centeno borders isn't an isolated voice some of those behind europe deadly terror attacks travelled freely across the continent after carrying out their atrocities a few even managed to spend weeks passing through different borders before being caught.

even france because of the terrorist attack as restore you know very quick control and our borders in the specially india ports and also at the land borders so it shows that step by step the european states recon izing are facing reality as it is and not as they have dreamed of in the past you know in the past. i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more news including all the latest details on our breaking news

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greetings and salutations as you know hard watchers this week we saw north korea test launch a ballistic missile that flew directly over the japanese island of hockey to this action brought condemnation from the world over including the united nations' own security council as well it should but but there was one rocket launch in august that didn't receive nearly the press or condemnation but probably should have given its payload and that was the united states test flight involving b. sixty one dash twelve and what is b. sixty one dash well of you as well tragically it's not your favorite vitamin and who it is the most dangerous nuclear bomb in his story yes in history featuring an adjustable payload you can jump from the equivalent of three hundred tons of t.n.t. to fifty thousand tons of t.n.t. who just a little doozy just took

a joyride from the nellis air force base to the tone pot test range in the battle in an effort to test its nuclear function a lovely very lovely but no good story about bombs would be complete without some mercenaries after all bombs and mercer and birch nerves go together like mint jelly and lamb chops. and interstage right erik prince yes the founder of the controversial blackwater mercenary force that came in the in came into implemented during the u.s. occupation of iraq took he took to the new york times editorial pages on wednesday to make the case for a mercenary sorry contractor plan for winning the war in afghanistan writing faced with two choices pulling out entirely or staying the course i argued strongly for a new approach a third path and they bet you can't guess what the prince of mercenaries recommended third path. my proposal was to put into two thousand american special operations and support personnel as well as

a contractor of course you know less than six thousand people. so in this world of rising temperatures and rising tensions what are what are we offering the world. nucular bombs and mercenary forces. let's let's let's bring a little sanity back into the game and start watching the hawgs. what. the. real thing is what. you are proud of. what it's like you know what i got. this. week so i. welcome everyone to watch the hawks i am tired rolled

her up and i'm having a wallace out with a two thousand military six thousand six thousand mercenaries what you think well great plan and a great plan it's costly little but i think it's incredibly costly and i don't think that the united states citizens and innocent civilians in afghanistan are going to benefit from this but i think eric prince is going to benefit from it considering you know a mercenary makes at least a hundred thousand dollars a year and he's making between ten and twenty percent of that as a kickback from the united states government so we have six thousand we're talking about at least six hundred million dollars every year just. so a billion dollars a year and if erik prince gets ten twenty percent of that it's great for erik prince however not actually great for what's going on in afghanistan yeah i mean i look at it like this eric says look you know he's making the argument that look we can do more of the same which is basically what the pentagon has trouble doing is just you know throw more troops in there and throw more than

a few more that's more of the same and he's going to making this argument that look you could put a smaller amount of people in there majority of them mercenaries and we can work with the afghan infrastructure there and actually get the job done of disrupting terrorism which yeah eric that might work but i got a better option even better option than the other ones put on the table how about we just leave oh we'll just say you know the american adventure in afghanistan just isn't worth it anymore and let's go but we can't do that because of you know minerals and poppy fields and all the other things over there that we need to kind of quote unquote protect yes. erica also but i'm sure this one to you said he and what i loved about his editorials he never kind of brought up his own interests in this it was more like yeah my great ideas just go he's a culture and he also says that you know supplemental air force in afghanistan you know flown with the afghan markings. it would include

a contractor safety pilot next to the afghan pilot but all the decision making in that plane would be done by the pilot not the contractor. but whatever kind of fails to mention in that is again. he kind of has his own air force you know air for and he got in trouble for using you know jeremy scahill exposed to burns was building a private air force intercepting a very good very good article so again this is more of you know aerial benefit money yeah yeah erik prince and makes my money makes more money and i'll talk a lot i'm sorry i just go out on the. the thing that i have to bring up one of them quickly remember that erik prince is just doing what lockheed raytheon all the others do every single day there are parts of the new york times they just hire think tanks and lobbyists right you know and also really essentially does the same thing as a raytheon it's just not selling tomahawk missiles. selling people and bodies

and life and renting them out to the highest bidder which to me is strange because i feel like this whole push toward these mercenaries is really what's going to end up happening is we're going to lose the best people we have in the armed forces because why would you work for the united states government when you could do the same job you were doing in afghanistan and make three times as much not better benefits very prince it makes no sense what you're saying is all of these soldiers that have been trained by the united states military various arms are good enough your guys who are former military who got all their training from the same place are better to i want to i'm confused by that maybe it's i want to throw more writing by the princes kind of justification of you know the way it doesn't there's a lot of weight for it he argues the criticism if you will criticize him for the argues that quote just as no one criticizes you one must because as members of the space x. help supply american astronauts no one should criticize it private company mine or

anyone else's for helping us and there's our greed multigenerational. your. boy by now we know this is you know you do not equate the idea of delivering food and science supplies to the international space station astronauts and bringing satellites into orbit with you going over and killing innocent civilians because that's what's going to happen and then when they get caught doing things they're not supposed to which air currents has been caught and has various iterations of his company get caught over and over and over doing things that aren't right that are on ethical and make the entire united states look bad. who's going to pay for it then taxpayers well we go i remember not to look let's move the french to the. hillary clinton is finally stepping foot it was scott said no she won't be on an apology tour for never bothering to even put one foot in the badger state during her election no it isn't

a series of town halls where she could speak with people about how they've been affected by nafta it isn't even a tour of the families who lost loved ones in the various interventionist wars she spearheaded and family claims of all in washington she is selling her book that's right hillary no dairy please clinton will be performing live at the riverside arena in milwaukee wisconsin on nov ninth that's right one year and a day after her second presidential campaign last hillary clinton live as a fifteen city book tour in which the big eight will read from her book entitled one big and her p.r. team says she will let loose and tell her audience is quote personal rod detailed and surprisingly funniest story is of course if you want to be part of the whole areas hillary's spectacular spectacular you might need to dig the ticket start at around fifty dollars and go all the way to a whopping fifteen hundred dollars for the v.i.p. plenty of ticket which includes front row seating

a backstage meet and greet with photo and a sign to book but don't sweat the cost because in some cities the v.i.p. tickets are inexplicably tax deductible in the amount of four hundred fifty dollars ignorance of the massive massive insult hillary's campaign was to the poor blue collar workers of all races and rust belt states probably won't endure her to many cheesy ads but trying to profit off of the very people who meant nothing to her when it mattered to them just proves exec lee what happened. oh why oh why oh up as orders comes your harken your book now you decide to show up in michigan. wisconsin of all those states to come over north on the campaign trail with the big money you know donations and this is a new thing it's not what most politicians when they want to really realize that their careers is kind of their political aims or it was a they go to the book writing for you know words like rahm or write a book about all the great things i do in this case we're able to do because

everyone else with me i know you well i mean you have to the truth is and everyone in wisconsin knows this should have been that hard to do as it was stand up and i've said it before i keep talking to people from my home state over and over from both sides of the aisle everything i hear about why they didn't vote for was because she didn't show up she did not show up that was a major issue so it's kind of coming your nose at the people in wisconsin by showing up now especially near election day she was the first major presidential candidate of a major party to not campaign at all in the state of wisconsin since one thousand nine hundred seventy two and there hasn't been a republican hasn't won a presidential election in wisconsin since one thousand nine hundred four a time of the top of the remember remember. it's not hillary's fault the russians did it. right when you were going to.

really when you were going to durance alerts because it starts in washington d.c. and. december thirteenth in vancouver three there's like three or four stops in canada. does crisscross the country in places that she didn't go to the but again like you're saying michigan she lost by a small margin wisconsin she lost by a razor thin margin that she showed up over. the top two or packages of theirs go around for go for about three thousand canadian dollars for two seats or american dollars or twelve hundred dollars a pop is a lot of money now raking in on the goodwill tour or what happened to the what happened to our which seems where this feels a lot like the share farewell tour you think it's going to be and it's not the ad that's kind of coming back or it's like i thought this was going to be it it's not like what is she going to do vegas now we've already had a court say that you hijacked the primary. for you hijacked the primary i think i think we're good we can we finally be done with the clip after this and this really

for execution of a book can i say the thing that bothers me the most is that she's selling this book and making this big deal about oh he made my skin crawl and oh he was behind me and what should i have done you should have stood up and turned around and said something when i was hovering behind our point you were in the position to be the person who tells every little girl and every woman that it's ok to turn around and say back off when someone makes you a little bit earlier it would have been brilliant but she didn't she chose to say nothing and now it's all oh oh well once again pulling out feminism when it's profitable for her pulling out these things oh and also she's really she's releasing a children's for a very version of it takes a village during the same time a starbucks oh yea you know we go back to taking it well is there's probably going to be a cookie rest. when there is no politics you can make money while you are in office and make money while you are out of office and how is that different from the republicans how is that i mean that everything that. our our system works that's

the tragedy of it that this is it this is what you get this is a career politician at their finest and well you know the choices where i was calling them trump c'mon that's the worst or you could possibly come up with as we go to break or whatever don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered up facebook and twitter see our poll shows at r t v dot com coming up we've just discussed one of the biggest silent epidemics in the world as the co-founder and chairman of one mind and the oxen that's going to miss the state to watch.

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mainstream media often covers exotically named public health scares such as bola and and for one reason or another the media has finally caught up with the opioid epidemic that's been ravaging parts of the country for decades but what is still tragically absent in our public health discourse is the topic of mental illness to discuss the silent epidemic in more detail we sat down with parents tagline founder of one mind whose mission is to alleviate human suffering from the diseases of the brain by funding scientific research into the causes prevention and new treatments leading to cures for brain disease and injury and ambitious mr mission certainly so how does one mine tackle this challenge. well we've already got

a twenty three year history of doing a terrible but we've got a long way to go so. this our journey began with our son who had a typical psychotic break from schizophrenia. and we were fortunate to have the resources to get the right diagnosis and get him on our program of medication he wasn't well but he was able to go back to school at dartmouth college and graduated on time with honors in a dual later. we at that point in time said to ourselves you know what we're waiting more fortunate than most people we got to run towards this problem instead of away from it so in the last. twenty three years we've been funding scientific research both at an individual scientific level and a large scale project level i'll tell you more about that later to really look at

everything from the structure of the brain to the circuits of the brain to the chemistry of the brain and try to understand what causes these illnesses and then what treatments can we have that will be better for people and finally how can we actually begin to talk about cures for these illnesses in our lifetime well it's incredible great great great work a very fascinating story karen that and the numbers on mental illness now are staggering and maybe the numbers were always there we just don't know how many and all of that but in the u.s. every year you've got nearly eight million people suffering from post-traumatic stress two and a half million experience traumatic brain injury and forty four million going through some form of mental illness is is mental illness and mental disease is the unspoken epidemic of our country. absolutely it is a national emergency and i think that we've been afraid to acknowledge it or talk

about it i think it comes from several things first of all i think people believe somehow or another they are to blame or there's some fault or shame in either having the onus or not doing enough for the people they love about it secondly i think there's been a long time a belief that there was nothing we could do about this is the most complex organism the body you've got three trillion synapses in your head this is an incredible wiring diagram and people probably believe there was no way we could fix this in third i think it was just easier not to talk about things and so the data wasn't either available or people just didn't want to come forward but it is absolutely. data used in numbers sixty million people or one in five people have these illnesses it is absolutely something we need to solve let me give you another data

point which may make it even more profound for you so every day about forty people will die in a car accident about fifty people will be murdered and you will read about every one of those as front page news in the local newspaper or even national news the sad story is more than a hundred people take their own lives because of their brain illness because they don't want to live like this is all that is and for everyone who is quote successful twenty more than so every day two thousand people put themselves in this position and we are not doing clearly enough about it to make that number reduce dramatically or go away while mental health inevitably ties into many other sidle and health related issues. you see mental health the onus is often

correlating closely with homelessness substance abuse. would how do we go about kind of tackling this problem with one minor going about from a from a medical and from that end and trying to find the funding and put the funding forth for that but. what are other suspect of solution of business finding effective solutions to homelessness and other some of these other problems help also lead in to fixing the problems of the mind that we're facing. i think it's it's a chicken and egg seventy percent of the long term population are there because they're mentally ill. i don't know how old both of you are but it wasn't more than about twenty years ago that we had. this great idea of shutting down all the mental health hospital in the country does save money for budget purposes it started here in california went to new york and the whole idea was that families would be able

to take care of their loved ones and more money would follow that way well guess what that did not happen so people are out there on the street and they're not because they want to be there because their families can't cope with them we haven't had health care plans in corporations and otherwise that had parity for people with a mental illness by parity i mean that if you have the same duration of care or level of deductible for any other illness we've just passed recently a law that says that will happen but we're still not there in most states so you have inadequate health care coverage a problem that so big that people and families can't deal with it and we have in piña the health care system itself in dealing with these people by closing this centers themselves so it's you know it's not an intractable problem but we have to

get way more serious about it you know or for us to make a difference here. just another data point for you so twenty percent of the prison population are there because they're mentally or the number one dispenser of psychotic drugs is not mass general or mount sinai hospital it's the l.a. county jail and when people are in the car cerate it and get treatment they actually become stable lives they go back out into the system don't have adequate care and guess what the number one riseth of this prisoner is a male either a bipolar either alcoholic or drug addict so it's a real societal problem we need to make it a priority and we definitely do well i'm old enough for a member of the. the whole thing with reagan shutting down mental health care and stations and all of that and it has been pushed more and more on families but then the public funds to help families and to support them things that the people have

put into the system and should be there for us aren't there what what is so how is it so important that we somewhat equalize the playing field not playing field for everybody whether you're poor or rich if you have a mental illness it should be taken care of either by insurance or by some some kind of public funds what do we have to do to get people's mindset there that it's just like any other dizziness. and you said it exactly right to be very it is it's just like any other organ in your body is so that's why we call it brain health or brain disease because somehow if you use the comp to the term mental it seems like well maybe you've got a problem with character or we just don't know the american way which we get up and do things no matter what. you can't you know when you're a diabetic you have to have insulin and you have depression you need some way to balance this ms line and the sara tone and the dopamine in your system so these are

chemical disorders they're not character disorders so we've got to start with that let everybody understand that and nobody did anything wrong secondly what's not do things with the affordable care act that reduces funding for this sector of people because this is even as bad as it is it could be dramatically worse we are all we are trying new direction also you seem give it is it makes a lot of sense we all spend most of our waking hours not at home but at work and the workplace is the place in which mental health brain health has got to become a priority so we've launched a program in. into our research called one mind it work and we're trying to promulgated a standard to be a year for all corporations to deal with people in the workplace with the zones and

it involves simple things like strong message no stigma no discrimination is people when they have these illnesses even though the health care plan may cover it they are afraid to come forward is guess what they think well now i'm going to get put the back of the line when it comes to promotions they'll think i'm weak i'm not going to be a member of the team we have to eliminate that we have to stop celebrating the behavior of the people who stay up all night and work days autonomy with no rest as good corporate behavior that's not good corporate behavior because people can't be well under that kind of stress and stress is the enemy of these illnesses so we've got to have health care plans we've got to have environments in the workplace we have to have awareness that these are illnesses chemicals not of character and no one should ever let anyone who has an illness not go get help go find it you'll

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