peaceful protests turned violent in st louis over the weekend following a controversial court decision we have the latest. plus president makes his debut at the united nations we'll hear what the president had to say at his first general assembly. then a tension between the united states and north korea are far from dying down find out why one journalist says the un's new sanctions against north korea are counterproductive.

it's monday september eighteenth four pm in washington d.c. just weeks and you're watching r.t. america we begin today with news in st louis missouri where a peaceful protests turned violent over the weekend when it took to the streets after a judge found former officer jason stokely not guilty in the twenty eleven death of anthony lamar smith stokely was charged with murder just last year that's five years after the shooting took place and since two thousand and fourteen stokley has left his post with the st louis police department and has been living in houston well it's comes three years after girls and a former officer in ferguson it just north of st louis was acquitted for shooting and killing an unarmed teen michael brown in august of two thousand and fourteen well things acquittal led to the violent protests all over the city and some believe the st louis protests will come close to those that we saw and ferguson let's go live now to actually banks in the newsroom so actually what's the latest poll today marks the fourth day of protests in st louis. missouri this morning more

than one hundred people locked arms in march silently on market street located in the downtown area of the city to protest the acquittal of former police officer jason stokley softly tried to arrest smith on a suspected drug deal smith decided to flee and while doing so had a police car with his vehicle a high speed chase then ensued when police caught up with smith stuff lee says he felt in danger because he saw smith holding a silver revolver prosecutors believe smith was unarmed in that stockley planted a gun in smith's car because stokely his d.n.a. was the only d.n.a. found on the gun and just five minutes before stokley shot smith he said to his partner that he would shoot him since friday residents have been protesting southwards acquittal saying he is responsible for smith's death according to authorities protests in st louis are pretty peaceful during the day and become destructive at night st louis missouri interim police chief or lawrence all told

spoke during a press conference earlier this morning saying quote we are in control this is our city and we're going to protect it earlier sunday more than a thousand people gathered up police headquarters without incident however sunday night things turned violent most of the protesters from earlier how to go on what we do around one hundred ten. decided to march back toward downtown knocking over planters breaking windows at stores and hotels and scattering plastic is at an outdoor venue authorities say police made calls for protesters to disperse some didn't listen and as a result more than eighty people were arrested and on friday at thousand protesters paid a visit to st louis mayor lyda cruz and home during rocks and breaking windows they were met with two hundred police in riot gear who used tear gas to disperse that over the weekend at least ten police officers suffered injuries many protesters are arguing police are provoking them by showing up in riot gear and armored vehicles

and police argue they have no choice but to protect themselves authorities are gearing up and intense anticipation for more protests for the time being at least one protest is scheduled for this evening and university city natasha all right that's our correspondent actually banks live from our newsroom ashley thank you. well n.y.p.d. released disturbing footage of fatal shooting of a man from three officers body cameras from last thursday the go richards was killed in his apartments in the bronx after he pointed what turned out to be a toy gun. the incident happened around four pm police were called after the victim's landlord

reported that he had seen his tenant in the month the officer said that they found a man who was holding a knife in one hand and a gun in another after richardson didn't comply with police when they asked him to put down the weapon he got tasered and then to other police officers fired their guns and killed him lori daniel favors general counsel for the center for law and social justice at medgar evers college said quote in the n.y.p.d. statement they said the footage clearly showed that the individual who was killed clearly raised his gun with a laser sight that's not what i saw now according to the new york daily news a girl richardson that didn't have any criminal records or a history of mental illness we were all a police officer tasered a pregnant woman in pass christian mississippi after the woman's brother was pulled over for speeding last week and i witnessed at least a burton shot a video that showed a passing christian police officer who used a stand gun twenty seven year old aviano white who had begged not to be tase

because she was pregnant now according to the statement the police officer deployed the taser in attempt to get the female to comply and stop resisting will pass christian police chief jim hendricks says that white was quote very defiance with the officer and that's what led up to this the officer asked her to repeal the stay in the car and she refused to do that he added quote i think the charges are justified after the incident white was allowed to go to the hospital to get checked out on tuesday morning she was arrested for assaulting a police. officer and taken to the harrison county jail the incident is under investigation. and coming up on our team president try to make his debut at the united nations we'll see what the president had to say.

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and now we head to new york where president made his presidential debut at the united nations at a special form today the president used his time to urge the one hundred ninety three nation organization to reduce bureaucracy and costs are trying to chavez has more a day before the u.n. g.a. general debate president almost trump attended a u.n. general assembly meeting to discuss reform in the united nations and he took his criticisms straight to the source during his first appearance at the un as president donald trump called on the international body of leaders to improve the way it does business in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by one hundred forty percent and its staff has more than doubled since two thousand and we are not seeing the results in line with this investment speaking for about four minutes president obama will trump also called

on the world leaders to hold every level of management accountable and to focus on the results not the process and share his views on how the u.n. can be better on development management peace and security we seek a united nations that regains the trust of the people around the world in order to achieve this the united nations must hold every level of management accountable protect whistleblowers and focus on results rather than on process. to honor the people of our nation we must ensure that no one and no members shoulders a disproportionate share of the burden and that militarily or for nature meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met sunday night in new york on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly meeting that was initiated by the u.s. lasted about forty five minutes among the issues discussed was the cooperation on

the syrian crisis issues in the middle east and the agreement to bring peace to ukraine according to the u.s. department of state at the two recommitted to the complex military operations in syria reducing the violence and creating the conditions for the geneva process to move forward pursuant to united nations security council resolution the seventy second u.n. general assembly debate will begin tuesday where president donald trump will make his formal debut on the world stage in front of one hundred and ninety three member nations this is a very big week for the president several one on one talks with foreign counterparts are lined up to discuss global issues one a very important meeting he is having later on in the week as a lunch with the leaders of south korea and japan to discuss rising tensions in north korea which is also a top priority on the u.n. g.a. is agenda report again new york trying to be chavez are. tensions between north korea and the u.s. are not dying down anytime soon this as the u.n. security council voted last week to implement another round of sanctions in north

korea the ninth in eleven years daniel is our journalist and author wrote an article on his take on how north korea is responding so daniel while extremely controversial you say that kim jong un's actions are working explain to us why you don't see his actions as being destructive. well i think that kim jong un's saw what happened to serbia iraq libya syria etc and he decided that the only way to protect against an american invasion which we have devastating consequences for his country was through nuclear deterrent deterrence and that is what russia and the united states did beginning in the one nine hundred forty s. and it's applying the same logic today and it's working the u.s. is unwilling to unable really to do anything in response so there's a lot of bluster a lot of threats being made. a lot of you know harsh language back and

forth talks about rocket man and oil embargoes but nothing is really happening because i think that can really has gained the upper hand and now it seems as though these things are going to hurt a lot korea a whole lot as you mentioned oil supplies are being affected why still implement these things. well the u.s. is hoping to hurt north korea it's hoping to apply economic pressure but it hasn't worked very well in the past the north koreans and their trading partners in the region primarily china but elsewhere have gotten very good at dodging these sanctions and they are it's a very it's very porous the barriers and so consequently a lot of stuff is getting through and the north korean economy is doing very well apparently it's bounced back very smartly from the the depths one nine hundred

ninety s. recession reports out of the country is that the country is is bouncing back its economy is doing quite well and a lot of trade is going on much of it sort of under the cover but it's going on and now you talk about russia and china not wanting north korea to fail and that they certainly do. i want to see a south korea takeover what exact role are the two countries plain in this fight between pyongyang and washington. well i think they're trying to balance things off very carefully up but both countries want the united states to back off they want to room to be made for. for a greater more multi-polar international arrangement in the in the western pacific so therefore they don't like united states imposing its policy in other countries including north korea and they don't want a more three and collapse that will give me a failed state right in their doorstep nor they want

a south korean takeover which will bring u.s. troops right to their border so therefore bush all countries are hoping for the u.s. to back off and for some kind of accommodations to be to be made and for a general lessening of. military tensions and going back to north korea's economy in your article you refer to north korea's economic recovery playing a vital role so this leads you to believe that more negotiations is the best approach at this point. yes i mean in the one nine hundred ninety s. it appeared that the north korean economy was reeling so severely from the soviet collapse that it really appeared the country was on the brink itself was on the brink of collapse but it has recovered since then that's the big story in the region. the economy is bounce back it's doing much better now there is more food there more consumer goods there's a building boom and young yang and reporters and observers of this of the country

come back quite impressed with it with the way it is a comeback from the from over the over the last decade or so so that's the big story the big story is that north korea is no longer a basket case it's now a country well on the way to economic recovery it has internal strengths and it's not going to go away anytime soon so the united states is going to have to sit down and negotiate as it did with iran that's simply the fact of the matter your luster that daniel is our author and journalist we really appreciate your time. thanks so much and moving back to the st louis protest and growing race tensions in the united states let's bring in mark their height inhaler and human rights attorney and co-founder of partnership first of civil justice legal defense and education fund we really appreciate your time and you know going back to all the protests

that have been happening recently in addition to those that we saw this past weekend there's also a federal lawsuit in the works alleging that columbus police used excessive force when they arrested a man earlier this month so i guess they obtained cell phone video and they were able to see officers kicking and punching timothy davis when they arrested him at a convenience store and they had a warrant out for his arrest for supposedly assaulting a police officer so in your opinion is this a case of police brutality or is this just a case of them wanting to arrest a guy using excessive force that was unnecessary over and over again and we have instances really as a matter of routine here where the policing gaijin violence excessive force brutality against a civilian population but what's changed in recent years is the fact that so many people really have become independent journalists they have their cell phones they have media or sometimes you have body camp footage that show what the police are actually doing when they're out day to day so here is an instance where there is

footage it shows what the police are doing and because of the pressure that's coming from people who are in the streets demanding justice demanding and to police violence there is now pressure put to try and bring prosecutions the problem with that is even when there are prosecutions brought over and over again police are exonerated for killing people in addition to obviously beating people and you know . this past week and we saw the protests or people were locking in arms which is perfectly acceptable but then you see other people rocks into windows into hotels police officers were injured chemicals were thrown at them is this the way to go about the injustice that is happening well first i think it's important to make sure we have our facts right because what's happening in st louis is the police are engaging in mass arrests they're sweeping people off the streets through using pepper spray and chemical munitions against people that are nonviolent demonstrators they've arrested journalists and then we have these images of broken

flowerpots or broken windows and. that said over and over again as well the police must respond to the violent demonstrators but a bloke broken far apart or a man's life that's taken i mean here you have and for me a limb are smith who is shot dead by a police officer who is heard saying i'm going to kill him just before he kills them and two peers to have planted that gun in his car since there is no d.n.a. from the victim and only d.n.a. from the officer on the gun so people are outraged over that kind of murder and yet world told that we should focus on you know broken flowerpots and again the violence that we're seeing in the streets of st louis is violence from the police against the protesters the violence is really extreme is a lot of chemical munitions being used and of course the false mass arrests there were also you know pictures of literally people throwing rocks and it was visible of them doing that as well so it seems as though there are bad cops out there that

are out of control there are protesters out there that are out of control that are giving all protesters all police a bad name when i'm sure that it's really not the majority well i don't think that protesters are giving protesters a bad name i mean there are people who are out there who are in the rage to understandably arrangement communities have felt occupied they are occupied they are faced with militarized police force and this knowledge that these off. sers who are empowered by the state who are given guns to police a civilian population can kill them with no cost with no accountability and i think it's reasonable to expect in any society that people are going to stand up and be angry but again it's the police were coming out with chemical munitions with weapons and with the power of arrest and they are using it they're using it against protesters whether or not they've thrown a rock throughout st louis right now and they used it against journalists and they were chemicals on the officers as well it's not just a one sided thing here well here you have police officers who are empowered

licensed by the state in they represent the government and the police were heard chanting whose streets our streets you have the police chief saying we own i mean this is full language of the police department which is supposed to be petroleum a civilian population and they're treating the civilian population as if they are a military enemy and when you do that i think it's reasonable to expect what comes from that and again the government the police mayor's office throughout st louis there should be responsibility and accountability for police who are behaving in this way and over and over again there's a desire to turn in the protesters say they threw something or they broke a flower pot but anything that the protesters have been shown doing is really nothing compared to what the police are doing and the police response is completely unjustified well it seems as though there's a maybe a a lack of respect on on both sides because of that do you think police officers will be less likely to want to monitor these kinds of protests of the police don't

seem to feel any restraint in terms of their capacity to come out and use the force their license to use against people again the fact that they're chanting gleefully who's streets our streets that's a police department saying that that's a lot about what their department stands for ok we appreciate your take thank you so much for your time. and hilarity human rights attorney. and in france four americans. students were attacked with acid sunday morning at the st charles train station in the southern city of moore say well they already say they don't believe extremist views motivated the forty one year old assailants now in custody but did indicate the woman suffers from mental illness the boston college juniors have been identified as courtney so really charlotte kaf men michelle krug and sleek coast ten well michelle krug said that she was one of the two students hit in the eye with a quote weak solution of hydrochloric acid however crew wrote on facebook that she

did not blame the woman say mental illness is not a choice and should not be villainize according to a spokeswoman for boston college all four of the students intend to remain in europe for the remainder of their studies and a boom bust is coming up next right here on our team america joins us for a preview of what's ahead simone i natasha well coming up on boom bust we're looking at dishing the dollar venezuela is turning to chinese currency to publish the price of oil and china is starting a crude oil venture convertible to gold so are we seeing a shift away from such a dollar dominated market plus how will trump america first policy play as world leaders just send on his hometown of new york city for his first u.n. general assembly we'll have that and a whole lot more coming up so stay tuned with a great show thanks so much. that's it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america also check out our website r.t. dot com forward slash america and you can follow me on twitter at natasha's tweet

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a lot of voice that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i bet it still on our t.v. america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk and the straight. to. i've got to tell. your watchers. there's this new habit that a lot of members of the media have acquired that is doing nothing to help repair the reputation of being fake news the latest to do it is twitter's co-founder evan

williams williams or as people like to call him just did an interview with the b.b.c. in which he actually skewers social media for helping to quote dumb the entire world down and undermine our sense of what truth even if the interviewer was asking ad about how president trump uses twitter all the time and he even said that he wouldn't become president had it not been specifically for twitter and this is what i have had just. if it the much bigger issue was not donald trump using twitter that got him elected even if he says though it is the quality of the information we consume that is reinforcing dangerous beliefs and isolating people and limiting people's open mindedness and respect for truth then he goes on to absolutely will and by the media ecosystem that supported and thrives on attention that is what's making us dumber and not smarter he said he claims add driven media that churns out stuff on a minute to minute basis whose only measure of success is whether or not someone

clicks and then never waxes philosophical about fake news and the effect it's having on the world and he says fake news is a smaller part of the problem the bigger part of the problem is the quality and depth of information and the lack thereof you get out there the guy who made twitter where people can only write one hundred forty character blurbs about whatever they want any idiot on the planet can literally send out these short blurbs of crap the guy that made that is complaining about information death and quality the guy who made twitter is vilifying social media for isolating people for limiting their open mindedness for making us all dumber and for being completely unethical in their thirst for advertising dollars now i'm not saying i disagree with any of that i most certainly agree with all of it i just can't believe it's coming from the guy who made twitter and he is not only being unapologetic about it

he's well i think philosophical and being just as smug as ever he's even smug about the thing he made after twitter a website called medium where anyone in the world can pretend to be a writer and spout off an ad it is well over one hundred forty characters. that is the new habit that members of the media have acquired to completely get this straight the media well not only themselves accountable by refusing to see their own. collusion and until they do they'll continue to earn the moniker of fake.

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the million dollars ario filling in for free and this is broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. coming up on the show it ditching the dollar venezuela turned to chinese currency to publish the price of its oil and china starts a crude oil venture convertible to gold are we seeing a shift away from the dollar dominated market un uncertainty how will trump america first policy play as world leaders descend on his hometown of new york city for his first u.n. general assembly then chevrolet standoff the us isn't the only country losing jobs

to mexico canada workers on strike demanding job security from g.m. is nothing to blame we have that a whole lot more so standby boom bust start right now. then as well as ditching the dollar opting instead to publish the price of its oil in chinese currency according to venezuela's oil ministry this is all part of president nicolas maduro plan to quote implement new strategies to free the country from the tyranny of the dollar now the move comes in response to us saying sions that blocked certain financial dealings with venezuela but it could also be a step toward the rising the global oil industry as a whole right now oil is traded almost exclusively in dollars the last week beijing

announced plans to start a crude oil futures contract priced a new one and convertible into gold and china is the world's largest crude oil buyer closely followed by the us famed financial investor. and commentator jim rogers told r.t. that a new contract in a different currency could allow exporters to avoid u.s. sanctions and that countries like russia iran and china are interested in the prospect but he predicts a significant shift away from the dollar will take nearly a decade. russia's own economy has taken hits over the years because of sanctions specifically from europe over conflict in ukraine and crimea and that's pushed moscow's trade interests to china or mutual trade is up twenty five percent so far this year that's according to the chinese ambassador to russia who announced the expansion monday that china has been russia's largest trading partner for several years but the connection continues to grow reaching forty six point six billion dollars in bilateral trade turnover the first seven months of twenty seventeen and

twenty sixteen total trade was less than seventy billion this year china's commerce industry expects it to reach eighty and trade ties between the two countries is only getting stronger russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev says he wants to increase bilateral trade to two hundred billion in the next three to seven years driven largely by sanctions from the us and e.u. russia's economy was in recession for two years when i spoke with russian direct investment fund manager correll dmitri of at this year's bric summit in china he told me russia has found a way to thrive in the face of sanctions and increased cooperation with china is critical to the success. on the topic of countries working together this week world leaders descend on new york city for the seventy second session of the united nations general assembly all one hundred ninety three member states have the equal say in this forum one nation one vote now is president donald trump's u.n. debut how will he be received ortiz trinity chavez has the story for us from new

york a day before the u.n. g.a. general debate president donald trump attended a un general assembly meeting to discuss reforming the united nations and he took his criticisms a straight to the source during his first appearance at the un as president donald trump called on the international body of leaders to improve the way it does business in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by one hundred forty percent and its staff has more than doubled since two thousand and we are not seeing the results in line with this investment speaking for about four minutes president also called on the world leaders to hold every level of management accountable and focus on the results and not the process and he shared his views on how the un can be better on development management peace and security we seek a united nations that regains the trust of the people around the world in order to

achieve this the united nations was told every level of management accountable protect whistleblowers and focus on results rather than on process. to honor the people of our nation we must ensure that no one and no members show a disproportionate share of the bird and that militarily or for the meanwhile u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met sunday night in new york on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly the meeting that was initiated by the u.s. it lasted about forty five minutes the pair discuss cooperation on the syrian crisis issues in the middle east and the agreement to bring peace to ukraine according to the u.s. department of state the two recommitted to the decomp lifting military operations in syria reducing the violence and creating the conditions for the geneva process to move forward pursuant to united nations security council resolution the seventy

second regular session of the un general assembly debate will convene tuesday where president donald trump will make his formal debut on the world stage in front of one hundred and ninety three member nations this is a very big week for president donald trump he has several one on one talks with foreign counterparts to discuss global issues one very important meeting he has later on this week is lunch with the leaders of south korea and japan to discuss rising tensions in north korea which is also a top priority on the u.n. gas' list reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. to keep the conversation going we're joined now live by trinity charges from our new york studio trinity obviously this is a gathering of one hundred ninety three nations but from the sounds of it all eyes are on one president and the president donald trump with his debut what can we expect from him this week. you know some of that's a very good question that's a question that's on everyone's mind this will be his time on one of the most whole

profile stages in the world and we're talking like you said about one hundred and ninety three world leaders i think a lot of those leaders will want to hear what he has to say as far as what kind of a. it will take especially since he has long criticized the u.n. back in two thousand and sixteen when he was a presidential candidate we heard him talk about the utter weakness and the incompetence incompetency of the united nations during his campaign trump at one point even said the united nations is not a friend of democracy it's a friend it's not even a friend to freedom but since taking office he has definitely softened his approach and his stance on the u.n. saying that it has tremendous potential but this is a chance for the president to reach all of the world leaders out the same time and talk about his america first approach that he has long talked about his national security adviser said on fox over the weekend that the president will emphasize three themes which is to protect the american people promote american prosperity

and help promote accountability and sovereignty among trinity will be following your reporting from new york thank you so much artie's trinity charges. so as we look at more issues from a global perspective let's tackle one that's a little harder to track global income inequality has been pretty hard to pin down thanks to the secrecy of tax havens like switzerland and the cayman islands but new data showed why on just how much the world's wealthy have stashed away. joining us for more on this would be younger what is this new research telling us well summed up quickly it basically argues that global income inequality is actually worse than we initially thought thanks to new data we know more about the scope of worldwide income inequality than ever before according to a report from the national bureau of economic research the amount of money stored

in offshore tax havens is equal to ten percent of global g.d.p. that's equivalent to nearly five point six trillion dollars so all that money isn't spread out evenly over a half. half of it stashed away in gulf countries in latin america well nearly fifteen percent is in europe and traditionally it's countries like switzerland that take the most heat for tax havens but they've actually been on the decline there on the other hand they've been on the rise in asia there was also an increase in the us so it's still below the average so with the exception of a few. has grown over the past fifteen years and that impacts income inequality or taxes are concerned since the world's richest can avoid some of them for example look at the us or wealthy metropolitan areas are making income gains as rural areas lagged behind since two thousand and thirteen the average income in the twenty five largest cities rose by eight point four percent according to the u.s. census bureau but for those who lived outside of those areas the average income

only grew by five point three percent now it's certainly not just the u.s. that has an inequality problem in fact the secretary general of the o.e.c.d. said he years ago that we've already reached a tipping point worldwide. that might be the case bianca let's talk more about the us what you were mentioning to us what are some of the factors that play into the growing divide that you see here well according to new data from the census bureau it sort of shows how the tech sector has had an inadvertent role in income inequality if you look at the tech hubs in the u.s. whether it's francisco seattle denver sharyn charlotte they the tech sector is really booming there so it's created a lot of jobs now as a result the average income has grown by almost ten percent and is higher than the average across the board in the u.s. which is a good thing it's creating jobs helping those local economies but in the other cities and suburbs and in particular the rural areas that don't have the tech to

benefit from they're not seen as much growth they're still having a little bit of growth since the recession but not as much and really hurts the areas that have already been affected by the drop in manufacturing and so forth so it's just an example of how something like tax haven certainly add to income inequality but there are also things that are a little less out of our control just the way that our economy changes which sectors sort of died down which new ones pop up which also of course makes it harder to one quantify the scope of income inequality but also makes it harder for us to argue and agree on a solution to fix it but as we're learning a little bit more about it thanks to this new research i mean where does the u.s. stand when you compare it to the rest of the world well definitely depends which measurement you use if you use the genie co-efficient which is a very popular method the u.s. is only we're number four in terms of countries with the most income inequality so we're pretty high up there and in fact we're getting to the point where the u.s. is being used as an example as of what not to do in australia another nation that's

struggling with income inequality there was a report from a trade organization that basically said our economy is going to become americanised if we don't stop so they're saying we're going to see jobs with less pay more hours less holidays and everything if we don't try and fix this all right . thank you so much for that report. all right time now for a quick break stick around when we return a defense contractor giant takes to the skies in space with a multibillion dollar buy of a rocket maker we'll look at what will drive president trump's decisions on immigration his heart or the country's wallets and as we go to break the numbers at the closing bell.

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these are stories that you know what they are. going to hold the american. why would you keep those for. those who do. what your biggest fear and the only result was. what would you say you ever. thought about. it. now i do do do do do. work for. defense contractor giant northrop grumman is setting its sights high in the sky with a billion dollar buy of a rocket maker orbital eighty k.

the deal announced monday details northrop paying seven point eight billion dollars in cash for the company setting orbitals shares soaring more than one thousand percent before opening bell northrop also absorb orbitals one point four billion in debt now orbital is more than a rocket maker it's also heavily involved in the missile defense business at a time when conflict with north korea is putting a bright spotlight on the industry orbitals defense system group includes development of advanced missile interceptors the deal boosts northrop's presence in the space and missile business orbital has billion dollar contracts with both nasa and the army along with contracts with the u.s. missile defense agency now the deal is still subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close the first half of next year the money shouldn't be an issue though northrop should be able to easily handle the seven point eight billion dollars price tag in two thousand and seventeen the company expects to make about thirty billion dollars in sales. another u.s.

company though is a ferry as well as we start the week general motors has been hit by a labor strike in canada with workers walking off the job at an automotive plant the union has made it clear their beef is beyond just wages and working conditions it's about survival alex the heil of it is in toronto for us with this one alex it seems like talks between g.m. and the union that they were going well what happened well into the top of the factory just both to say about two hours outside of toronto or to have a place called in your soul three thousand workers work walked out the decision was made at eleven pm on sunday night to do this and when you look at the breakdown for workers who supported this was ninety nine point eight percent of workers signed off on this in august saying if that they could not reach a deal they're going to walk out now if you talk to g.m. they say everything was going fantastic it was going the direction was supposed to go for some reason these guys got up and left g.m. started writing this off as something that is dead in the water there so they're

hoping that that's a good ones day or later in this week that they could at least have a tentative deal but for now what the workers are asking for and i'll break it down for you is higher wages better better better benefits as well as more investment in the assembly line in this factory now this factory makes the equinox the chevrolet equinox the vehicle itself they used to make the terrain as well and that went to mexico so equinox is the bread and butter of this establishment that's what the workers know that's what they want to have entrenched here by seeing that g.m. makes a bigger investment they all know that their jobs are more secure they don't want to see this truck or this car going down to the down south when mexico as well so that's the demand out there making and that's where survival is the question ok when you say that it's really about survival that actually ties into the nafta agreement doesn't it we just does another six actually this right so they would.

you see all this all of these cars are in the trucks going for manufacturing in mexico it's all within the nafta agreement canada mexico and the states and if you look at this graphic sort of gives you a good idea of what is going on here so you look since two thousand and four look at mexico i mean they shot up in auto manufacturing big time while canada and the us i mean canada had a massive drop there all of our cars we've talked about this before and trucks parts are made either in canada and the states and mexico crosses borders all the time when it comes to nafta now that we have the nafta negotiations up again canada has started to make a little bit of a push here and that's a lot of a has to do with the right to work that we're seeing in the states so in the states if you are in a union or if you are work for a company let's say like g.m. you have you could opt out of paying union dues and still the reuse basically represent to you either way what candidates say is that this is basically not fair use have to be union your workers have to pay their union dues and because of that

it's obviously that these states there's an advantage over the canadians if there you don't have this this how can you put it this hurdle of a union also canada wants to see mexican workers paid the same as canadian american workers for the exact same job that they're doing so we want to see a level playing field and that's going to be obviously there's to be a lot of head butting around that with president trump and with his team so right now the way it stands even with a negotiation like you're seeing what's happening in her shawl and terrio this really touches upon many facets that deal with all of nafta so that's a can of the states and of course mexico right artie's alex and i live in toronto for us thank you so much thank you. as u.s. president donald trump works to keep jobs in the u.s. some of his other policy goals are working to remove workers from the country whether it's mixed messaging on dreamers those immigrants his parents illegally brought them into the u.s.

. children or aims to cut legal immigration have some economists are worried trump's immigration stance will harm the economy not protect it let's bring in marshall our back for his take he's a research associate at levy economics institute marshall thanks for being here i want to first talk about these dreamers and dhaka the deferred action for childhood arrivals program because it sounds like trump is going to work with the dems to keep these eight hundred thousand some immigrants in the country trying said he would deal with these dreamers with a big heart but is there an economic reason to keep them around. where he says a lot of things are. not sure he's displayed much of a big heart and it's almost as if wherever deals with him seems to get the word they want to hear so i'm not sure whether we can take his public statement seriously but i think it's more more to the point. it's politically toxic for either party to be seen to be deporting over eight hundred thousand people from the

country even though it might please a hard core of his radical followers the main thing is that you know this is a really the legacy of a problem that's been existence since one thousand nine hundred six the last time we had a. immigration amnesty under ronald reagan and the problem and i think the tied up with this is that you had. given to a over three million illegal immigrants but the quid pro quo was that you would somehow regain control of the borders and and therefore restrict the flow of illegal immigration and ultimately what we ended up having was a mystery and there was no real reform on immigration or the immigration laws per se and that's created this bill to present skepticism which is led to extreme measures such as the proposal for the wall and you know in a sense god. tied up with that as well as being tied up with the debt limit but we

don't hear a lot about the immigration laws in this country changing we do hear a lot about that wall that you mentioned marshall what was the economic basis behind that though because you hear that you know terms pretty adamant about this he says the wall is going to happen whether it's tied to this legislation or that legislation that's going to be the case but then he's surrounded by experts that say well maybe that's not the most economic way to go with this that maybe there are some better ways at enforcing the border what say you. well look he says look we're going to do the wall because when he's on the campaign when he was on the campaign trail or when he's on some rally in arizona he gets that's where he gets the biggest cheers and then he says and who's going to pay for it and they all scream out mexico well if that's the case and why on earth do you need congress to appropriate money look there's no other than the fact that i suppose if you spend twenty five billion building a wall you're going to get some economic benefit from it in the sense of that it's

an infrastructure spend unless of course it's mexicans building the wall that mean that's the other possibility but he clearly it's a sound bite and i know that people say that you know will look good they they have a wallet in israel and it's been very successful over there but you know that slightly different circumstances you're dealing with. millions of people that are hostile to israel's national security i don't think that's the case here with the mexicans by any stretch they want to participate in the american dream not destroy it and secondly look at the map i mean you know a wall in israel wouldn't even cover you know one third of the texas border so i mean it's nonsensical and your last point general john kelly who is now chief of staff and was originally appointed is homeland security said secretary himself said that a wall in itself won't get the job done it has become by and with beefed up border security and. maybe some form of higher surveillance more border control guards

being being hired so when you've got the former head of homeland security saying this and you've got a lot of moderate republicans and of course the democrats are also saying that they want to there willing to do a quid pro quo on beefed up security another no could do the wall the makings of a deal out there and at this point i think trump is more interested in just putting points on the board so to speak than having the wall per se even though there are people like rush limbaugh lauren and coulter who will be very upset with him that he doesn't actually physically construct a wall but he's also a deal maker so we'll see if he decides to you know deal with the dems on that one but let's talk a little bit more about legal immigration now publicly back to bill that would slash the number of green cards that were awarded each year in half and it would be implemented on a merit based system which had mixed reviews and it included giving preference to those speaking english can we see examples in other parts of the world where

they've been using a point based immigration system and and what is been the result of that. yes well i'm from canada originally by the way i came here legally and used a lawyer to sue for the record i am a green card holder but look at canada australia are two problem if examples of countries that do use a points based system and yes in the case of canada for example which i know pretty well the ability to speak english in french which of the two official languages is a big factor in the point system but there are also it's also skills based so there are a number of things where that are put on it but but it is not discriminatory and it's working its work very well it commands a lot of political legitimacy precisely because it is perceived to be neutral as far as race or religion color creed goes and you know it would seem to be a very very good model for the u.s. to adopt in fact in the you. they as they've been speaking about breaks it and what

sort of. policies they'd like to follow they too have made reference to the points based immigration system so that would seem to me to be a much more sensible way for the us to go back to the way the immigration system here used to be very very skills based before the nine hundred sixty five that came into play real quick we only have about a minute left marshall but i wanted to ask him if we make the emphasis on skilled based immigration there's an argument out there that no one's going to take the low skilled jobs these are jobs that regular american citizens don't want what do you think comes of that well the answer is if you pay a living wage you'll get americans to do the jobs i mean we fought a civil war over one hundred fifty years ago to abolish slavery so while whenever i hear this argument about americans won't do the jobs that. other people will do the question is do you want to pay a living wage would you want to pay slave wages we abolish slavery so let's let's

pay a sensible wage and i guarantee you'll get americans to do them thank you so much for your take marshall our back research associate at levy economics institute appreciate your time thanks one thanks for having me. a rolling stone gathers no moss as the saying goes and right now in order to keep its brand alive magazine rolling stone is up for sale again for fifty years rolling stone has been a staple known for its music and pop culture journalism and for its iconic cover photos of celebs from john lennon to jennifer aniston however there's not enough star power to help rolling stone's financial troubles the announcement comes six months after rolling stone owner when her media announced being debt free in one year after selling forty nine percent stake in the magazine to a singapore based digital music company but with a ten percent loss in newsstand sales last year and likely declining it's less surprising here is knowing when our media is hoping the remaining shares of rolling stone fly off the shelf faster than its monthly issues all right that'll do it for

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it's monday september eighteenth five him in washington d.c. i'm going to suite and you're watching our america we begin this hour in st louis missouri were peaceful protests turned violent over the weekend many took to the streets after a judge found former officer jason stokley not guilty of the twenty eleven of anthony lamar smith stokley was charged with murder just last year that's five years after the shooting took place and says twenty fourteen stokley has left his post with the st louis police department and has been living in houston this comes three years after darren wilson a former officer in ferguson just north of st louis was acquitted for shooting and killing unarmed teen michael brown in august of two thousand and fourteen olson's acquittal while a protest all over the city and some believe the st louis protests will come close to those that we saw in ferguson let's go live now to actually banks in the newsroom so ashley what's the latest on the taj today marks the fourth day of

protests in st louis missouri this morning more than one hundred people locked arms and marched silently on market street located in the downtown area of the city to protest the acquittal former police officer jason stokley tried to arrest smith on a suspected drug deal smith decided to flee and while doing so had a police car with his vehicle a high speed chase been in suit when police caught up with smith stokely says he felt in danger because he saw smith holding a silver revolver prosecutors believe smith was unarmed and that stockley planted a gun in smith's car because stock lee's d.n.a. was the only d.n.a. found on the gun and just five minutes before stokley shot smith he said to his partner that he would shoot him since friday or residents have been protesting stuff. acquittal saying he is responsible for smith's death according to authorities protests in st louis are already peaceful during the day and become

destructive at night st louis missouri interim police chief lawrence all tools spoke during a press conference earlier this morning saying quote we're in control this is our city and we're going to protect it earlier sunday more than a thousand people gathered at police headquarters without incident however sunday night things turned violent most of the protesters from earlier had gone home leaving around one hundred demonstrators who decided to march of back toward downtown knocking over planters breaking windows at stores and who tells and scattering plastic chairs at an outdoor venue authorities say police made calls for protesters to disperse some didn't listen and as a result more than it eighty people were arrested and on friday a thousand protesters paid a visit to st louis mayor lyda crew since home there were rocks and breaking windows they were met with two hundred police in riot gear who used tear gas to

disperse them over the weekend at least ten police officers suffered injuries many protesters are arguing police are provoking them by showing up in riot gear an armored vehicles and police argue they have no choice but to protect themselves authorities are gearing up in anticipation for more protests for the time being at least one protest is scheduled for this evening and university city natasha that's r t correspondent ashley banks live in our newsroom ashley thanks so much and for more on the protests and race tensions let's turn to dora been one founder of national committee to combat police terrorism so in addition to the protests that we saw this weekend there's a federal lawsuit in the works alleging that close police use excessive force when they arrest them and earlier this month and cell phone video showed officers kicking and punching timothy davis when they arrested him at a convenience store on a warrant for assaulting a police officer so is this a case of police brutality in general or police brutality against

a particular race. well the way to the premise the united states is in the d.n.a. of this country of this nation and the failure of the major media is to fill europe of law enforcement to confront the white supremacy institutional white supremacy in the united states is one of the reasons why we have. to do we wish to because we have today i think it's very important to understand that we can go all the way back to rodney king when rodney king was beaten excessively or on national television beaten it a hundred times in all the police officers were. doing couldn't was right it was right there on television so just to go on last august which are black men black women have been murdered and killed a bit about a police since since subsist bullwhip since late and sat

a lot of cost me its genesis is. especially when it comes to people of color and i have written people so we know that just a coup of dispy of this individual clay who was a police officer is not a new will continue and it will continue until of the dialogue or of the abolition of supremacy in this country and i don't think abolition of white supremacy possible without also a readjustment of class caste and gender and i'm terrible let me ask you this question because i can direct let me ask this question to understand that you were at victim please protect the so we know that people were locking arms in protest which was completely peaceful and reasonable but then rocks were thrown into windows in addition to other damage and vandalism so what good does that do is that's not going to change the justice system isn't there a better way for protesters to get their message across you know there's not

a better because america only understands the america only to understand the united . carries out its flarm policies abroad at the end of the solar day using military around the world to intimidate to kill to mae anything and blow our influence of global so the united states is founded in data styluses americans jerry and white folks in america are white supremacists the number do you think book the homes and they have never given anybody any types of justice or remove themselves from anyone's country unless those people but they need to have so we need to really understand that not balanced is the did you cry about allison obstruction of property it is all costs up just wait in the birth of a white supremacist to shoot name namely law enforcement to to to remove the fact that in the united states today all of its citizens are potential terrorists all of

the citizens are potential of criminals and as law enforcement signaling we learned just a confirmed you are condoning the violence against fleas not theirs even when a police officer had an end your leg and they were they had chemicals thrown at them you are condoning that fan and that the only way to make people understand. this isn't what i'm saying i'm saying if you kill my dog out and shoot your cat now if you don't understand that i think to deny had just been good at the states people just what he was acquired in but with the balance expropriation of the native peoples land we would slaves in this country for over a period did you just simply use intimidation of balance this country has risen in power globally as a consequence of two world wars the war was the united states ad people to go to war in fact we didn't use balance to be had for united states interests but when it comes to the best you got ourselves against white supremacy to get us the article

going to the pollsters that we are all the bathrooms when it's all so what we need to understand that the issue here is sort of fence after people like a good terms of because we're in blue weather here and we're in a look a while we're here with a character himself he so much we'll have to leave it there that's garbage men were hired co-founder of national committee to combat terrorism thank you. and so over the weekend several hundred trump supporters from around the country descended on the national mall in washington d.c. for the mother of all rallies on the facebook event page organizers said they hope to rally one million people in support of their cause to preserve hope western culture several hundred of right wing militia groups also attend the events surrounding one of the first far right rallies from charlottesville where protests one dead and dozens injured meanwhile several hundred protesters gathered at a nearby park to voice their opposition to white supremacy over a thousand a juggalos fans of the michigan born rap duo insane clown posse descended near the

lincoln memorial to protest a twenty eleven game classification used to target people affiliated with the group . g. d's. was right there so you sure aren't sure that they are in the heavy metal and w. way anyway that tomorrow has come out for decades by. the first of eight to believe you crazy construction of arms and the right. to hear it when the f.b.i. released the evidence based on shockingly little facts. they lose that juggalos is a high jacking and the simplest one and spot market culture are sons of the middle east and i don't see in this. as. a huge time highly

dangerous and i'm glad. i don't. like the craps and ambassador. well before the march we end speakers at the rally continue to list their grievances including how the gang classification led to some losing custody of their children and prevented others from enlisting in the. terry. and coming up on r t the pentagon says it will send another three thousand troops to afghanistan what it means for the seemingly endless war. all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are anti american plate party america. r.t.

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i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't so big picture. a little and when question mark find what you're looking for this little. little snot. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. my. the u.s. will send an additional three thousand five hundred troops to afghanistan according to defense secretary james mattis but employment would bring the total number of american troops in the country to more than fourteen thousand that's all part of

president trump strategy to win the war that has dragged on for almost sixteen years joining me to talk more about this former pentagon official michael maloof so michael why do we need more troops in afghanistan and let's go back to the question of who exactly are we fighting in afghanistan. well first of all. we have so already shown that the use of troops is not going to work we got up to a hundred thousand there at one point and we still were on the losing end of it now in the very early time of afghanistan when we first went in in two thousand and one and there wasn't as many telephone today they they own over half the country there are so. that the stakes are much much higher now and it's a question of what type of troops are going to be sent in them but clearly troops have not worked and and we hear calls for discussion or for negotiation but

nobody's willing to convene a meeting of all the all the players involved in all the countries in that region in order to do that and i think that's what's really going to be necessary a military solution and have got down to stand as never worked before and it's not going to work now and what the official goal and what's trumps real strategy here well that's i think he just wants to defeat isis and to tell about beyond that there has been no discussion by the administration of what their overarching strategic goals will be for afghanistan. he's not up for it clearly to protect the existing regime that government that the new to us helped establish but countries in the region also have a stake in the future of afghanistan and i think that they really need to be standing up to the plate and doing something about it i'm not seeing that the members of the all the members of the shanghai cooperation organization as c.e.o.

at our players in afghanistan and i don't know why they they don't get can they don't convene and and discuss the future of afghanistan in a way that. brings into account the concerns about the taliban when they have the other problem is that we have pakistan which also. so is america which also is associated with the us. it's actually sanctuary now for afghan taliban and this thing could escalate once again. if the united states decides to pursue aggressively beyond the drone strikes so chasing the taliban into those sanctuaries and that appears to be where things are heading and once you go down that slippery slope it's a real problem thing and does this deployment mean that the u.s. won't leave afghanistan a time soon. i don't think so it's clear that there's a desire to maintain of an influence in the region and. we are probably to

establish bases we're going to see the same thing in iraq and there's also an indication now in syria even though we were never invited there as long as the afghan government once united states there and it's a government that we helped install i think the united states will be staying but i think that's why again you have india iran. pakistan china russia they all have major. major say in the future of afghanistan and they need to come together and discuss this once and for all and quickly of action foreign minister sergei lavrov he described the new strategy as a quote dead end brain think he meant by that well he's probably implying he doesn't see a strategy when you talk strategy sending in more troops is just tactical it's not a strategy percent a mil it's just employing your military strategy is what how do you how do you

bring about a peaceful resolution and work with a government that can incorporate the the interests of people in the region and that has that's clearly not just that strategy has not been pursued and i think i missed a lever up is correct in space sickly saying that the military option is not going to work only appreciate your insight as always former pentagon official national thank you thank you you thank. well the defense department is waiting on the finance word on twenty eight in the version of the national defense authorization act over the past fifty five straight years capitol hill green let's talk defense officials to spend the annual defense budget how they saw most fit now for fiscal year twenty eight in the pentagon's coffers will be six hundred forty billion dollars richer if the senate passes this year it's a virgin version rather of the act and the senate armed services committee unanimously passed the bill twenty seven it to zero now there are twenty twenty

three colleagues will decide if they're happy with this year's defense budget numbers and now we head to new york where donald trump made the his presidential debut at the united nations at a special form today the president used his time to urge the one hundred ninety three nation organization to reduce bureaucracy and costs r t is trying to chavez has more a day before the u.n. g.a. general debate president almost trump attended a u.n. general assembly meeting to discuss reform in the united nations and he took his criticisms straight to the source during his first appearance at the un as president donald trump called on the international body of leaders to improve the way it does business in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by one hundred forty percent and its staff has more than doubled since two thousand and we are not seeing the results in line with this

investment speaking for about four minutes president donald trump also called on the world leaders to hold every level of management accountable and to focus on the results not the process and shared his views on how the un can be better on development management peace and security we seek a united nations that regains the trust of the people around the world in order to achieve that is the united nations was told every level of management accountable protect whistle blows and focus on results rather than on process. to honor the people of our nations we must ensure that no one and no member state shoulders a disproportionate share of the burden. militarily or for the meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met sunday night in new york on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly the

meeting that was initiated by the u.s. lasted about forty five minutes among the issues discussed was the cooperation on the syrian crisis issues in the middle east and the agreement to bring peace to ukraine according to the u.s. department of state the two recommitted to the complex military operations in syria reducing the violence and creating the conditions for the geneva process to move forward pursuant to united nations security council resolution the seventy second u.n. general assembly debate will begin tuesday where president donald trump will make his formal debut on the world stage in front of one hundred and ninety three member nations this is a very big week for the president several one on one talks with foreign counterparts are lined up to discuss global issues one a very important meeting he is having later on in the week as a lunch with the leaders of south korea and japan to discuss rising tensions in north korea which is also a top priority on the u.n. g.a. is agenda report again new york trying to be chavez r.t.

. the president has said the roof that north korea think sions pass by the u.n. security council are quote not a big deal when the same sions and north korea are expected to be a central part of the year when it general assembly to explain how washington is hinting that it's pretty much exhausted every diplomatic possibility on north korea really sort of sounds like the military option is sort of becoming the frontrunner for them we've had the american ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley saying that she feels that the united nations security council has really already done all that they can when it comes to north korea and that she's really already prepared to hand off the crisis to the u.s. secretary of defense adding that in that situation north korea would be quote destroyed and that's something we have coming from a deployed. that i said yesterday i'm perfectly happy kicking this over to general mattis because he has plenty of military options if the united states has to defend itself or defend its allies in any way north korea will be destroyed and we all

know that and none of us want that none of us want war so there we have haley saying she's happy to hand it over to mattis and not long ago we had he himself describing briefly what that would sort of look like what a military option with north korea would look like and very trump us words saying that the response would be both effective and overwhelming any threat to the united states or to territories including. or allies will be met with a massive military response the response both objective and overwhelming we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country namely north korea but as i said we have many options to do show and in the same light many will remember all the comments that we've had from trump himself fire and fury and whatnot and amid those threats that we've heard coming from the president he's repeated a number of times that talking with north korea just isn't going to be effective not really diplomatic words that we have coming from the president himself and on

sunday trump also referred to the north korean leader as rocket man in a tweet comments that are unlikely to go without a response and it's worth noting that while some in the trumpet ministration are still hopeful for a diplomatic solution calling for it it does seem that the focus has sort of shifted from that as sort of like an afterthought and going more towards the looming military option tensions between north korea and the u.s. are not dying down anytime soon daniel is our journalist and author wrote an article on his take to how north korea is responding i asked him why he felt kim junctions actions are a fact of and not destructive well i think that kim jong un so what happened to serbia iran. back libya syria and he decided that the only way to protect against an american invasion which we have devastating consequences for his country was through nuclear deterrent deterrence and that is

what russia and the united states did beginning in the one nine hundred forty s. and he's applying the same logic today and it's working the u.s. is unwilling to unable really to to do anything in response so there's a lot of bluster a lot of threats being made. a lot of you know harsh language back and forth talks about rocket man and oil embargoes but nothing is really happening because i think that can really has gained the upper hand and now it seems as though these things are going to hurt korea a whole lot as you mentioned oil supplies are being affected why still implement these things. well the u.s. is hoping to hurt north korea it's hoping to apply economic pressure but it hasn't worked very well in the past the north koreans and their trading partners in the region primarily china but elsewhere have gotten very good at dodging these

sanctions and they are it's a very it's very porous the barriers and so consequently a lot of stuff is getting through and the north korean economy is doing very well apparently it's bounced back very smartly from the depths of the mid one nine hundred ninety s. recession reports as a country is that the country is is bouncing back its economy is doing quite well and a lot of trade is going on much of it sort of under the cover but it's going on and now you talk about russia and china not wanting north korea to fail and that they certainly don't want to see a south korea take over what exact role of the two countries plain in this fight between pyongyang. and washington. well i think they're trying to balance things off very carefully up but both countries want the united states to back off they want to room to be made for. for

a greater more multi-polar international arrangement in the in the western pacific so therefore they don't like united states imposing its policy in other countries including north korea and they don't want a good north korean collapse that will give them a failed state right in their doorstep nor they want to south korea and take over which will bring u.s. troops right to their border so therefore both all countries are hoping for the u.s. to back off and for some kind of accommodations to be to be made and for a general lessening of. military tensions and going back to north korea's economy in your article you refer to north korea's economic recovery playing a vital role so this leads you to believe that warning. is the best approach at this point. yes i mean in the one nine hundred ninety s. it appeared the north korean economy was reeling so severely from the soviet

collapse that it really appeared the country was on the brink itself was on the brink of collapse but it has recovered since then that's the big story in the region. the economy is bounce back it's doing much better now there is more food there more consumer goods there's a building boom and young yang. and reporters and observers who visit the country come back quite impressed with it with the way it is come back from the from over the over the last decade or so so that's the big story the big story is that north korea is no longer a basket case it's now a country. well on the way to economic recovery it has internal strengths and it's not going to go away anytime soon so the united states is going to have to sit down and negotiate as it did with iran that's simply the fact of the matter your luster that daniel is our author and journalist we really appreciate your time. thanks so

much for coming up on our senior details emerging about the fact that it's half hours and an explosion on the london tube last week we'll have that story in just a moment. there's a real irony going to. be showing up playing ping responsible choice new people and there is always someone that's what it's always been seen in sri. lanka baltimore area no wholesale surveillance you feel you have all made while there's room to move through so this is the instructor has used the social media site while i always thought this story goes it's garbage in real. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be trusted i'm sure. some want to.

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a lot of the official information is yet to be confirmed we have certainly seen the press here in the u.k. really be abuzz with alleged details on potential suspects now certainly they've been focusing their attention on two men specifically one of them an unnamed eighteen year old man said to have been for all of iraq origin the media here in the u.k. have been reporting that this is a young man that had allegedly arrived to the u.k. when he was fifteen years old following the death of both of his parents back in iraq now they've been reporting that he was arrested on friday evening near the port of dover and they're claiming that he is according to them the key suspect in this whole terror related latest incident in the u.k. because they've been circulating images captured by c.c.t.v. cameras where a young man can be seen carrying a little bag which is a grocery store here and this is the exact same bag that was captured in images inside the carriage of where this. homemade device had partially detonated on

friday morning and the second young man is actually being named a second alleged suspect according to the media they are describing him as twenty one year old for rukh and according to them he was arrested on saturday evening outside chicken shop in west london now the media here have said that they've tracked down what they're saying is his facebook page that says that he is from damascus syria that this was a person who had studied english in london and worked at events company here in the british capital and they have been saying that in the facebook page you can see that he lived somewhere near heathrow airport and that he had arrived in europe via egypt back in twenty thirty and there's also been lots of attention given to the foster care couple that are reportedly were having these two men in foster care at certain periods throughout their presence in the u.k. and there are lots of reports about the neighbors describing them as

a beautiful couple they're reported to be seventy one and eighty eight years old they are said to have fostered hundreds of children including migrants over a period of over thirty years their records to have been honored by the queen for their services in terms of helping children back in two thousand and nine and according to media reports here the neighbors are saying their god it there has been a some social media support page created for them so certainly lots of attention given to the personalities involved in this latest terror incident but more information get to come in terms of official statements as this investigation continues in france four american college students were attacked with acid sunday morning at the st charles train station in the southern city of moore say authorities say they don't believe extremist views motivated the forty one year old assailants now in custody but did indicate the woman suffers from a mental illness the boston college juniors had been identified as courtney. so

reeling charlotte kaufman michelle krug and kelsey cost ten michel progs said she was one of the two students hit in the eye with a quote weak solution of hydrochloric acid however crude word on facebook that she did not blame the woman say mental illness is not a choice and should not be villainize according to a spokeswoman for boston college all four of the students intend to remain in europe for the remainder of their studies. as the investigation into potential ties between the trump campaign and moscow's efforts to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election has taken yet another term still no valid proof of interference but now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has handed over records to special counsel robert muller regarding the russian ads on its platform all this all comes ahead of michael cohen president trump's attorney preparing to testify to the senate committee on tuesday and for more on this let's turn to steve malzberg t.v.

host and political commentator so steve let's start with one of the latest developments mark zuckerberg getting involved do you think it's interesting that now suddenly he's bringing facebook into this fight expression day after many say that he might be getting into politics sometime soon. well yeah i think that's a good point to make look this whole russian investigation has been a bunch of nothing let me just give some background recent background the head of the f.b.i. last week testifying before congress said there's not a whiff of interference on the part of the trump administration into the mother investigation yet we've heard from the media about how donald trump is trying to intimidate people send messages to witnesses with the pardon of arpaio etc we heard from dianne feinstein yesterday on one of the morning shows that jared cushion or no evidence that that jared cushion or had anything to do with anything or interfered in any way or colluded with anybody involving russia now again we were

told that jared cushier should lose a security clearance jared cushier is in trouble jared cushion a better lawyer up now this is not to say they might not find something because you could indict a ham sandwich is the expression here of course but this is all a bunch of nothing now this facebook issue seems to be also a wild goose chase maybe they'll find something maybe they won't but they're looking at every single crack and crevice in an effort to find something anything because we've been told by those in charge that so far they have found no evidence of collusion between russia and the campaign and now it's very interesting because you already touched on it that many democrats want to believe that this narrative to be true but as you said senator dianne feinstein came out on sunday saying there's still isn't any valid evidence so let's take a listen to that questioners data operation during the campaign had any role in

selecting facebook targets for the russians no not at this time so what's your take why is that feinstein jumping to conclusions like so many are. oddly enough dianne feinstein who many on the right including myself had always viewed as a huge partisan has been forthcoming this is not the first time that she has said in answer to a question on where the investigation stands with regard to any evidence of collusion and evidence of wrongdoing this is not the first time that she has said no i have not seen any so she has been forthright and honest and she's not playing the political game which i find i do find surprising and i give her credit for that certainly and now before president even took office he was making an effort to improve relations with russia why do you think so many in washington fronts so hard against the president and don't you think things now even with north korea would be a little less tense if the u.s. had better relations with moscow the u.s.

needs better relations with russia as you so astutely point out with regards to the north korea situation it's not just china it would be a lot better if moscow would help and maybe they are maybe they aren't but intimidating them and throwing in their face more sanctions and more rhetoric and more investigations isn't going to help at all we also need them in the fight against terror as has been pointed out by donald trump many times look but iraq obama was caught on an open mike telling medvedev to me or i'll have more leeway after the election he stood by as russia went into ukraine he stood by as russia went into syria if anybody colu to quote unquote could be accused of colluding with the russians it's barack obama by his actions not donald trump by ridiculous implication and what are you expecting to hear from michael cohen president trump's attorney on tuesday we know many once again are hoping for what they call

a smoking gun do you think the left will get what they're looking for no they're not going to get it in any way shape or form i know today everybody's involved with this new york times story to trump lawyers were talking and is under your. times reporter heard them the fact of the matter is that's not a story either they're building it to nothing as to you have to trump lawyers who really agree that they should hand everything over if they did trump would be vindicated but they don't want to set a dangerous precedent where the president the united states hands over too much so again they're twisting and turning that no michael cohen testimony is going to be a big disappointment if he had anything important to say i don't believe you'd be saying it to the committee he'd be telling it some other interesting all right steve malzberg t.v. and radio host and purple commentator thank you so much my pleasure the international ice hockey federation has assured the n.h.l. that players under contract will not be able to participate in the next winter olympics in south korea however washington capitals superstar alex ovechkin is

speaking out against the move after representing russia in the past three winter games r.t.s. alex the hell of it is in toronto with the story well alex ovechkin has realized that him and other players in the n.h.l. will not be participating in the olympics in korea this february it's very disappointing for him as it must be for many others that would like to represent their countries in the olympic games and would like to win a medal. it's not going to be happening this time around at least ovechkin the russians all be asleep for them it's a really big deal seeing back in sochi they didn't do so well but other countries are affected the u.s. and canada for example have many players that would love to participate in the olympics but it won't be happening this time around least that's what we're hearing and the way you turn it the n.h.l. doesn't want to see that happen because they don't want to see their season pause as you can imagine ovechkin is disappointed like other players are here's what he said. sad news it said

a moment for us but for me personally but. no respect for players and. now as i mentioned n.h.l. teams do not want to see their players go or put the n.h.l. season on pause there's a lot of money invested in the n.h.l. and obviously they want their season to flow just like any other year's olympics or not now for viewers when it comes to the limpid games there's pluses and minuses here obviously when n.h.l. players fall out of the mix the game kind of drops if you've ever seen an n.h.l. game compared to a let's say a b. league game or a game that is not at the level of the n.h.l. it's two very different sports so you will be seeing the thing type of hockey as you've seen since one thousand nine hundred four and they tell us players were have been allowed to play since about ninety ninety four otherwise this is kind of

a good thing for hockey pros for guys who are not n.h.l. players more players can get into the mix now and they can play in the olympics and they can actually show their stuff so pluses and minuses here as for n.h.l. players well you know what they're going to have to the next time they have collective bargaining this could be on the table and guess what there's always beijing two thousand and twenty two so people are looking into the future now but this february you will not be seeing any players in the olympic games back to you. coming up on our take a price i found for humans in areas in toronto area because reality was an astronomer after a short break they. were supposed to show. that it put themselves on the line. they get a chance to reject it. so when you want to express. some wanted.

to do i. feel like. i'm interested. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were yourself and taken your last turn. your act got up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got my chance to. i remember when we first met my life turned on each pair. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was a game still some more fun to those that didn't like to question our art. and i secretly promised to never let. it say one does not leave the same as one in

mind it's consumed with death this. speech. was. lame that mainstream media has met its maker. for decades the american middle class so it's been railroaded by washington politics i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get a break in the break. i'm going to get. your watchers. and now to the questions many of us are wondering about how to do aliens exist are

we alone in this universe well for the first half century astronomers have been around the world scanning the cosmo's with massive radio telescopes in hopes of finding some sign of intelligent life seth this. tak a senior astronomer at the thai institute predicts that we'll hear from intelligent life within the next two decades and after shows hackett is joining us today to talk more about that thank you so much for joining us today so you're looking for intelligence be elsewhere in the universe and you're doing this by trying to tune in their radio signals but are you also sending signals into space well the short answer natasha is no we don't do that we leave that to our t. for example or the radar sets that are around the world and of course all the the radio transmitters they've been sending messages in to space we've occasionally done it there have been various space probes that have been sent out beyond the

solar system that have you know records or our plaques or images and there have been a cage no radio transmissions but in general we listen we don't talk and some scientists think that there is a huge risk to send messages into the cosmos what are their concerns and why don't you think it's dangerous. well there have been some complaints that to deliberately transmitted to space an activity that some people would like to do as a valid experiment or a social experiment for us maybe even a valid experiment in terms of getting a reply from the extra terrestrials where they say maybe you shouldn't do that because you send a message out into space you don't know what's out there i mean maybe the aliens are friendly maybe they just like to sit around and read poetry but on the other hand maybe some of them are aggressive and you may just happen to hit an aggressive society they hear that were we're here we've located ourselves and they send their interstellar battle wagons down to earth and you know obliterate the planet or do

something else to ruin your entire day so there are people who are concerned that this could be dangerous i am not concerned because we're broadcasting every day messages in this space so it's really too late to worry about that interesting and see what kind of proof do we have so far when it comes to intelligent life living elsewhere besides earth but we don't have any proof actually we don't know about any life beyond earth and that includes you know pond scum maybe on mars or some of the moons of jupiter or saturn these are all places i mean there are a half dozen of them really there are places where there could be life relatively nearby places we could get to with our rockets other places in our own solar system and yet we still don't know if there's any life there there might be i think that probably within the next decade or two we'll find evidence that there's a life under the sands of mars or under the ice of some of the moons of jupiter and saturn that could be but today we have to say look as far as we know the only life that exists in the universe is right here on earth i would be astounded if that

were true in the end and so are there plans to broadcast messages to other cosmic societies and if so what would the message be to that. well if we were to send a message my personal preference would be to send the internet i would just send everything because if you send a lot of stuff then there's a greater chance that to begin to understand some of it when you think of the history of how the pics were decoded you know that didn't take very long it was an exercise of the nineteenth century and really the reason it didn't take so very long yes that was the rosetta stone but the real point was that there is a lot of hieroglyphics so i would send a lot of information to the aliens the more you send the greater the chances that they'll figure at least some of it out interest and so in twenty fourteen after your speech in congress the funding for extraterrestrial life research was approved and it was unfortunately terminated back in two thousand and sixteen so do you

think congress might consider such funding again soon and how much money do you need and what kind of equipment would you need to prove that aliens do exist. well of course you cannot guarantee that you would you knew that you would find the aliens that you can't do that's like sending captain cook into the south pacific in the eighteenth century hey i want to guarantee you're going to find something interesting you can't guarantee that but the amount of money required to do these sort of science is very small it's a few million dollars a year which by the standards of any nasa program or any other major science research program is terribly small at the moment it's all being done with private donations so fascinating and we truly appreciate your time step back at the seti institute thank you thank you and before we go don't forget to tune in for larry king now later this evening tonight for gas is a stand up comedian and television host w. kamau bell here's a snippet of what's to come one of the most memorable moments for this year you you

talk to right leader white supremacist which is spencer first why'd you pick him first of all thank you for calling what's promise is not everybody will do that at the time we picked him it was because he was not as famous as he is now we were trying to find some we were filming in the d.c. area and we about it was all about immigration and refugees and the producers and we find somebody who has a different viewpoint and it just so happened that richard spencer was going to be there doing one of his white supremacy is conferences why does he think because of pigment color that he's better than you but if we could answer that question later we would both win the nobel peace prize do you think he thinks that it's only pigment color i think that unfortunately a lot of this country's history was written by people who were really telling the whole story so a lot there's generations of people who've grown up reading the history books where the pilgrims are always the heroes and the indians are the savage tribes who need

to be domesticated and slavery was a sort of this and this bad thing that happened but once we got through it. and and so the history books for a lot of people were written that way and they believed them and so they think. in those issue books through it's either said or not said is that america is a white country america was dominated by europeans and the british and it's here for us and even though when the irish showed up they were considered white you know in the italian sort of they were considered white graduated to whiteness so many people and as we see some of them are in the web in the white house who believe that this country set up for white people. yes. well that does it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash artsy america and check out our website our flash america and you can follow me on twitter at natasha sweeps the question mark.

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barbara we don't spew the. talk you have led to these talking head righties oh there you go above it all to look out world in the falling down every really hard no idea how to classify as it actually took me way more time than i care to admit. there's this new habit that a lot of members of the media have acquired that is doing nothing to help repair the reputation of being fake news the latest to do it is twitter's co-founder evan williams williams or as people like to call him just did an interview with the b.b.c. in which he actually skewers social media for helping to quote dumb the entire world down and undermine our sense of what truth even this the interviewer was

asking at about how president trump uses twitter all the time and that he even said that he wouldn't become president had it not been specifically for twitter and this is what they have had to say about it the much bigger issue is not donald trump using twitter that got him elected even if he says though it is the quality of the information we consume that is reinforcing dangerous beliefs and isolating people and limiting people's openmindedness and respect for truth then he goes on to absolutely vilify the media ecosystem that supported and thrives on attention that is what's making us dumber and not smarter he said he claims add driven media that churns out stuff on a minute to minute basis whose only measure of success is whether or not someone clicks and they. never waxes philosophical about fake news and the effect it's having on the world and he says fake news is a smaller part of the problem the bigger part of the problem is the quality and depth of information and the lack thereof you get. the guy who made

twitter where people can only write one hundred forty character blurbs about whatever they want any idiot on the planet can literally send out these short blurbs of crap the guy that made that is complaining about information death and quality the guy who made twitter is vilifying social media for isolating people for limiting their open mindedness from making us all dumber and for being completely unethical in their thirst for advertising dollars now i'm not saying i disagree with any of that i most certainly agree with all of it i just can't believe it's coming from the guy who made twitter and he is not only being unapologetic about it he's well i think philosophical and being just as smug as ever he's even smug about the thing he made after twitter a website called medium where anyone in the world can pretend to be a writer and spout off an ad it is well over one hundred forty characters. that is the new habit that members of the media have acquired to completely at this rate

the media well now doing themselves accountable by refusing to see their own collusion and until they do they'll continue to earn the moniker of fake news. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money put money in escrow got a lot of boys that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm michel martin america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded

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