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it's tuesday september nineteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm a touch of sweets and you're watching artsy america we begin this hour with breaking news a seven point one magnitude earthquake has shaken mexico the quake struck about seventy five miles southeast of mexico city local media reports buildings swaying in the capital city and thousands of people fleeing office buildings mexico city's international airport has been evacuated and flights to the airports are diverting or on hold we're still gathering details and information on damage and injuries on this same day thirty two years ago a massive eight point zero magnitude earthquake struck near mexico city killing thousands of people we'll keep you updated as this story develops. and now to new york where president i'll track made his debut on the united nations world stage during his speech he blasted north korea and called out other countries by name are accused tourney time as it breaks down some of the biggest moments of his speech

today was a very big moment at the u.n. general assembly especially for president donald trump he took his turn on the world stage for the very first time he spoke a little over forty minutes and while the theme of his speech was patriotism and national sovereignty he uses the opportunity to send a very powerful message to north korea and its leader kim jong own who he calls rocket man the united states has great strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or zealous we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be necessary that's what the united nations is all about. that's what the united nations is

for let's see how they do trump who was previously warned of qualifier and furious pyongyang does not back down claim that quote no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people than that appraiser's gene in north korea he said it is time for north korea to realize that the nuclearization is the only acceptable future he also think china and russia for joining the vote to impose new sanctions on north korea another big moment was when trump said iranian government is quote and even on a clean depleted rogue state his chief export is violent the iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are vile bloodshed and chaos the longest

suffering victims of iran's leaders are in fact its own people trump said the world can't allow quote the murderous regime to continue with a stabilizing activities and that its government quote must stop supporting terrorists begin serving its own people and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors at one point he also not the twenty fifty nuclear deal with iran by calling it an embarrassment meanwhile trump also used this time to call out other countries including venezuela the venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing their democratic institutions are being destroyed this situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch as a responsible neighbor and friend we and all of us have a go. that goal is to help them regain their freedom recover their

country and restore their democracy the president added that the u.s. is also prepared to take further action if the government of venezuela persis reporting in new york trying to be chavez r.t. and for more on the president's speech at the u.n. general assembly this morning let's turn now to dan covalent professor at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia so dan president trump was tough on north korea this morning in his speech but he's not the only one others within the u.n. are also seeing kim jong un's actions as a threat to the entire world how do you see it professor. well i don't see it is a threat to the world. i think folks have to look at what north korea is doing from their own perspective first of all i think americans forget that we have told the annihilated north korea in the past during the korean war in fact the u.s. stopped bombing because there's nothing left to bomb. the north koreans are

painfully aware of this and they remember this and i think they see it's big through recent history that the only way to prevent the u.s. from invading and possibly destroying your country would as the u.s. did deliberately and so many other countries have nuclear weapons and i think they're flexing their muscles to show that they can defend themselves. and again for trump the then go to the u.n. and threaten north korea again with total annihilation is just completely irresponsible and repulsive frankly and brian hook of the state department said that the u.n. could be used as a force multiplier to bring a global approach to global threats so he says that president is working well with the u.n. security council being able to leverage it in war prevention whatever. thoughts. well look the the u.n. was founded after world war two in order to prevent war article two for the un

charter forbids the use in the threat of force of all for preventing war the problem is that is that it's the united states that is the biggest threat to world peace that engages in the most wars in so i'd like to see a u.n. that could hold the us accountable for aggressive war and actually prevent the u.s. from engaging in aggressive war and i'm not sure that's what they're talking about . with your reference and interestingly president did not name russia or president putin during his speech do you think they have plans to work with russia when it comes to dealing with north korea i do i think he must i mean i think he's got to work with russia and china to deal with north korea and i think the only way to deal with north korea is through diplomacy and china and russia are the keys to that and i do sincerely hope and believe that he will do that and now defense

secretary jim mattis confirmed monday that the u.s. and south korea have discussed employing tactical nuclear weapons as an option to defend against north korea's nuclear weapons program so what are your thoughts about south korea having the option to fight back since they are neighboring to north korea. well i would just oppose any further proliferation of nuclear weapons in the korean peninsula or anywhere i don't think north korea is a threat to south korea i don't think well certainly south korea many times has said that they don't believe north korea is a threat. again we have to remember north korea has been attacked anyone. since since the end of the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three a war which by the way you know while it ceased there's no official and to those hostilities in any case so i don't think that's the way to go i think north korea frankly has to be convinced that it will not be

a target of invasion and then i think it will be willing to relent. in terms of its own nuclear aspirations and all there are talks of getting rid of the iran nuclear deal as you know we heard this morning do you think an agreement like this would have ever worked with north korea. i'm not sure i think it would have a long time ago you know noam chomsky points out that north korea offered both obama and trump to negotiate over their nuclear weapons and that they were that overture was rejected both by obama and trump i do think that there is a possibility that this could have worked whether it can work now i'm not certain but yes i do think they have a lot of needs and i think in return for having some of those needs met the they might be willing to give up the nuclear weapons but again i think the u.s. has to make it clear to the world that it's not going to invade countries like

north korea will we really appreciate your time thank you so much dan cavallo a professor at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia. the senate passed a monster defense bill that goes beyond even what the trunk administration had requested the senate's version of the twenty eight hundred national defense authorization act totals about seven hundred billion dollars. breaks down the vote the numbers and what's next the senate seven hundred billion dollars defense policy bill is far beyond what president donald trump had sought and it sets the tone for america's military might in the next fiscal year now the twelve hundred page bill sets aside about six hundred forty billion dollars for basic pentagon operations with just thirty seven billion more than trump requested it also adds another sixty billion for a special war account for overseas operations in places like iraq syria and

afghanistan now the mammoth spending bill got mammoth bipartisan support in the senate eighty nine senators voted yea while only eight voted nay it needed just a simple majority to pass now getting into the nitty gritty of the proposed national defense authorization act one hundred forty one billion is set aside for military personnel costs including a two point one per. sent troops a raise eight and a half billion is for the u.s. missile defense agency to defend against north korea while seven hundred five million is for the israeli cooperative missile defense programs well more than what the trumpet ministration requested another five hundred million will provide security assistance including weapons to ukraine and one hundred million to help balkan nations to quote deter russian aggression now in addition to spending allocations senators proposed hundreds of amendments they hope to be attached to the n.d.a. most were left off but new hampshire democrat jeanne shaheen amendment to ban the use of russian based software across the federal government was attached and passed

this comes a week after the trumpet ministration directed federal agencies to remove the software saying the risk is too great to ignore that the russian government could use the private company software as a backdoor into the u.s. government and more controversial amendments were left off the n.d.a. to promote its passing that this will not be the final version it must be reconciled with the house version before heading to the president's desk the house passed its own plan in july and the to do have differences but while congress seems to agree on very little these days the national defense authorization act is seen as a must pass legislation and has been passed fifty five straight years where it will run into trouble is with finances the house and senate versions both defy seaquest ration caps set in two thousand and eleven democrats are not against blowing the cap but they also want to see caps on defense spending and a pledge to block major increases in military spending without similar boosts to

domestic programs meanwhile trumper has made clear he aims to support increase military spending by slashing non-defense spending congress will begin hammering it out in a house senate conference committee expected to last several months in washington simo dollars are. the syrian army liberating the deer as zoar region from the terrorist. is facing strong resistance and massive fire from areas where armed opposition groups and u.s. forces are stationed according to the russian defense ministry and there was a close call this past saturday syrian troops battling the islamic state cross the eastern bay of the euphrates river injuring several us fighters with an air strike the pentagon is now working on additional measures to ensure the u.s. and russian battlefield commanders are able to directly communicate with one another and for more let's bring in michael maloof former pentagon official thanks so much for joining us today pleasure and so first of all we want to talk about the reports of why the u.s. led coalition are downplaying these concerns they're talking about opening the

lines of communication of course but why would they downplay these concerns well the communication lines are there they've they've existed for some time through the pentagon directly put it down at the local commander level is something else but it wouldn't make any difference because the u.s. has an ulterior motive to. rush into that area take over take over the access to what is basically oil fields because that's the rich oil field so all of syria they can control that on the road to it it cuts off even iran so it. tactically it's really important for them and even strategically at the tent is to try and hamper your run from there by having access have and have a road basically from tehran to beirut and so it's but when you heard john the dumb for the chairman of joint chiefs of staff talk about about better communication they did not want to express what their real operational imperative is and i think

that this is something that you're not going to hear from them sane but this is what's going on behind the scenes intercede and so what about the d confliction zones specifically that your phrase were well again there was a u.s. imposed idea of using a river as a dig. confliction boundary if you will. russia and the. and this is still within syria. russia and syria didn't agree to it i mean they were in it weren't even there was not an agreement among them all to do that to recognize that as a boundary and and in fact the russians and the iranians actually built pontoons to cross the whole idea was get on over there into that region east of the euphrates to block those accesses before the us backed forces the syrian democratic forces could occupy and take it over and thereby give them access to

those oil fields u.s. has designs of actually bring in an outside companies to manage those oil fields but syria they belong to syria syria has and president assad of syria is they simply said look we want all of syria back and that's what iran and russia are pushing for well if syria and russia never agreed to the election zones you think it's a surprise to the us of the airstrike that happened well if they well they didn't agree so so it's not a surprise it's should not have been there may there was some talk some chatter back and forth of forces me in one location or the other i think the russians actually informed the united states that they were going to be doing this. but again it's it's goes beyond what the us had described as the de confliction zone boundary and but it but it was for getting that in control of that very critical

area and a judge and our major road that takes into takes that would have given the s.d.f. the access to the to the those oil fields as well as open up that road for for tehran to come in from iraq and specifically talking you said that russia might have actually warned the us about this so it's. seems as though there was actually more talk between the two countries do you see more collaboration and can anything more be done between the two countries in regards to fighting isis i think there's going to have to be better communication there is certainly communication at the command level at the top level but there's got to be better. communication at the field level and i think that general dunford said that that's got something that's got to be done it will get done and you alluded to the reason why president bashar al assad wanted to retake that city specifically why it's so important for his military to be there well it's represents one of the last bastions if you

will of. isis concentrations i mean they were really fighting hard to retain it it's also that a very strategic location in terms of access it's a main road and also it gives them it it would it would have still it would have by having the syrians take it over it stop the. isis from actually continuing to bring in people from iraq and it's a major it's a major crossroads if you will and it was it was really strategically important to take that back and bring it back under syrian control which where it's war where it belongs and and the united states as i said has their own designs they want to they want to build ultimately a base and they that's why they use in the kurdish forces they came in they came in from the from the east and and of course the syrians came in from the

west question and now syrian troops are occupying and dyers or but there was a race on to and i think that what this is going to mean for the united states is they they needed that in order to maintain leverage over the russians and the iranians and the syrians for future negotiation and i don't think they're going to get it to say that really appreciate your insight as always thank you so much that's michael malone former pentagon official. a new deadly storm is charging through the eastern caribbean mean islands already wrecked by erma at least one person is dead after a category five hurricane maria slammed into dominik overnight tearing roofs off homes and leaving behind a trail of destruction officials said the storm killed one person on guadalupe a french territory where the storm has yet to make landfall national hurricane center says maria is expected to remain in extremely dangerous category four or

five forecasters say it will approach the virgin islands tonight before slamming directly into puerto rico on wednesday and for more we go live now to our t.'s were important in miami so maria that let's begin with the prime minister of the caribbean island nation says that her camera inflicted mind boggling damage what exactly does that mean well maria is the first category five hurricane to make landfall on dominica it hit the island with maximum sustained winds of nearly one hundred sixty miles per hour ripping roofs off of buildings and homes including the official residence of dominica as prime minister roosevelt skerritt in a series of dire facebook post prime minister skerritt called marias winds merciless noting he personally needed to be rescued from the hurricane which he says inflicted widespread devastation on the island dominik is pm says the roofs of almost every person he spoke to were made contact with were swept away now the immediate priority is to rescue those trapped in the rubble and provide medical

care to the injured the prime minister is pleading for helicopter support from other countries to help in rescue efforts one hundred forty six shelters were reportedly open to house citizens evacuated from low lying areas before maria pounded the island seventy three thousand people live in the former french and british colony as of this morning phone and internet signals appear to be down leaving the island virtually isolated this as dominican airports and seaports remain in operable. now the island's economy is heavily dependent on tourism and agriculture two industries reportedly left ruined by maria unfortunately though she is not done yet hurricane warnings have been posted for the u.s. and british virgin islands and puerto rico. and so according to most forecast models the eye of hurricane maria will make landfall in puerto rico tomorrow as you said the island governor warns that it may be the biggest and potentially most

catastrophic storm to hit the island in a century meanwhile seventy thousand are still without power because of hurricane irma so how are residents preparing for their second major hurricane in only two weeks while most are just hoping for the best but are bracing for the worst residents have been stocking up on gas water fuel and wood boards to protect their homes puerto rico's governor ricardo resell zero said the storm will be violent a lot of infrastructure will be lost and communications will likely be affected the three and a half million residents on the island have been advised to prepare to hunker down for up to ninety hours forecasters say twenty five inches of rain could fall in some areas those living in flood prone mudslide prone or coastal areas have been urged to evacuate to one of the hundreds of shelters that have opened meanwhile many people displaced by hurricane irma are still sleeping in shelters the san juan airport is closing at seven pm this evening and once winds reach fifty miles per hour first responders won't be able to help or respond to anybody some puerto rico

residents seem to be on edge monday as maria was moving closer to this example don't we already filled up to six hundred gallon tank of gas so we've had this incident thank god we never used it we're looking for panels to cover up the last stores that remained unprotected. it didn't it would go to the pam in puerto rico the electricity and water go out the power system is precarious let's face the problems and try to solve them with the things that it currently have come up in the building but what worries me most is having already gone through one another comes just after. at two fifteen pm the national hurricane center said maria's winds strengthened to one hundred sixty five miles per hour that would make it a category four or five hurricane the first to hit puerto rico in eighty five years incredible more important i am reporting from our miami studio thank you. the best

is coming up next right here on our team america ellen de france joins us for a preview of what's ahead lindsey hey there we take you to the united nations general assembly with reaction to president donald trump's pronouncements about north korea in light of a big boost to american military spending and the opioid crisis we'll take a look at how small town america is struggling to pay for it that's coming right up thanks so much lindsey and that is it for now for more on the stories that we've covered go to youtube dot com slash or to america also check out our website r.t. dot com port slash america and you can follow me on twitter at natasha's sweet's question more. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money for you that's grown a lot of boys that's how we use them in the culture in this country now that's where i come in. i bet. on are you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded

you'll get a break off in the break. i'm so sick of people saying it's the end of the world or acting like everything is horrible and the planet is getting sloshed down the toilet which is why i'm very glad that business insider reason. bothered to publish an article it's untitled there's a psychological reason the world seems like it's ending right now and it should give people hope and it's all about something called mean world syndrome a phrase coined by a hungry and professor named george gervin or he came up with it in the one nine hundred seventy s. when television was just starting to grab on to people i mean world syndrome

according to our first americans inaccurate belief that the world is getting more dangerous despite statistics showing and continuing to show otherwise. came up with cultivation theory which states that people who watch t.v. are more susceptible to believing that that stuff is real even though t.v. involves someone pointing a camera at something from a particular angle that they want to show you and it's edited to make a story that they want to tell it is not real the t.v. not at all but the more you watch it the more you think it's reality and the more violence and mean stuff you watch the more you think the world is mean horrible awful you just think it's a terrible place because you're watching all those television hens mean world's interim main conclusion of cultivation theory which is where we're at today today everyone seems to think the world is ending with round the clock coverage of violence and danger this comes despite the gates foundation recently issuing

a report that shows immense progress being made around the globe making the world a better not ending it childhood mortality has gone way down over the past twenty five years hiv has seen a remarkable to climb so his world poverty from thirty five percent of the world living in poverty in one nine hundred ninety to just a mere nine percent in two thousand and sixteen that's astounding think about that people are also smoking less world sanitation has gotten way better more poor people have access to more necessary services the news is nothing but good when you take a closer look beyond what c.n.n. is. telling you but since the media has such a grip on everyone they think the world is a rotten awful place a mean world that's only getting worse not better and the only reason the media tries so hard to make you believe this drivel is to get you to watch their stupid shows so that they can collect money and control you that is it and that is all

they're doing with their scare tactics and because of that to me it's pretty obvious put the mean ones really are. people have got to know whether or not fair present or support american people deserve to know you and your friends at this point does it mean as to guard against the military industrial complex or anything we shall never know goal. or mission over there is still my changed yes we do but we're not going to think oh yeah. futures are sacred. would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those through the faces your wife or those who've gone to the marginalia that now i've had to do due to one

or two more. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that birth not fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most deluded society on politics as a species of endless and needless little theater politicians have morphed into celebrity are two ruling parties are in reality one party to corporate and those who attempt to puncture this vast breathless universe of to make news to sign the push through the cruelty and exploitation of the neo liberal torn up force so far to the margins of society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche but squeak we must.

time lindsay francis is the boss broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight the united nations general assembly is underway we take you there with reactions to the ceiling words from president donald trump aimed right at north korea and french president emanuel is in hot water as he pushes forward massive reform to france's labor laws to the protests also my guest former u.s. trade commissioner bart chilton breaks down what we might expect from the federal reserve's open market committee meeting and what it's pronouncements mean for you

and from the standby starts right now. the united states is running the highest trade deficit in more than eight years according to the commerce department it's up eight point five percent jumping to one hundred twenty three point one billion dollars that's up from a first quarter result of one hundred thirteen and a half billion it was the biggest deficit since the fourth quarter of two thousand and eight this is the broadest measure of u.s. trade and reflects in parts a drop in fines and penalties paid by foreign companies included in this metric is goods and services investment flows and other payments between the united states

and the world though exports are getting a lift from a pick up in global growth and a drop in the value of the u.s. dollar against other currencies weaker dollar makes american products more competitive on foreign markets. and over to. york now where president trump made the debut on the united stations world stage during his speech he blasted the north korea government and called out other countries by name artists trinity chavez breaks down some of the biggest moments of his speech. today was a very big moment at the u.n. general assembly especially for president donald trump he took his turn on the world stage for the very first time he spoke a little over forty minutes and while the theme of the speech was patriotism and national sovereignty he used this opportunity to send a very powerful message to north korea and its leader kim jong own who he calls rocket man the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to

defend itself words. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket. is on a suicide mission for him so and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be notices that's what the united nations is all about. that's what the united nations is for let's see how they do trump who has previously warned of quote fire and fury if young and does not back down claim that quote no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well being of their own people and the depression for team in north korea he said it is time for north korea to realize that the denuclearization is the only acceptable future he also saying china and russia for joining the bow to impose new sanctions on north korea another big moment was when

trump said the iranian government is that quote economically depleted rogue state whose chief export is violence the arena government masks and corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted ropes whose chief exports are vile bloodshed and chaos the longest suffering victims of iran's leaders are in fact its own people trump said the world can't allow the quote murderous regime to continue its destabilizing activities and that its government must quote stop supporting terrorists begin serving its own people and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors at one point he also knocked the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran by calling it an embarrassment meanwhile trump also used this time to call out other countries including venezuela

the venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing their democratic institutions are being destroyed this situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch as a responsible neighbor and friend we. have a go. that's. a freedom recover their country. or their democracy the president added that the u.s. is prepared to take further action at the venice whaling government first this new york trinity chavez r.t. . trinity joins us now live from new york trying to be on top of these threats trump has also talked about adding muscle to the military tell us more about that that's right lindsey the u.s. senate passed its version of

a seven hundred billion dollar defense policy bill on monday backing the president's call for a bigger stronger military and said today at the u.n. that soon our military will be the strongest it's ever been the twelve hundred page bill also includes a wide range of provisions that include a two percent military pay raise and an eight point five billion dollars to strengthen the missile defense as north korea conducts nuclear ballistic missile tests. thank you very much tony of each of us for us up there new york thank you. well the federal reserve's open markets committee is meeting today and tomorrow so what do we expect when they make policy pronouncements morrow let's bring in former u.s. treasury commissioner bart chilton bar to help us break it down for us look at the future what do we think what do we think of these analysts they suggest there will not be any interest rate hike increase tomorrow but might they take some sort of action we can expect. ok lindsey yeah i think what they're probably going to do is

announce some sort of getting rid of their big portfolio of four point five trillion dollars in u.s. securities these are securities that they bought in the wake of two thousand and eight after they had reduced interest rates in order to provide liquidity and some stimulus trying to fuel inject the economy which it did the recession could have even been worse but now they've got to get rid of those so they have to be careful in how they do it but we can probably expect them to at least lay out how they're going to go about that and hopefully it will take place without any big impact in market moves all right let's talk about those market moves given things like the record stock highs in recent days and other positive matter actually see which key data points well they these members actually be looking at now and in the future to make their policy determinations. well you're right they will be looking at markets

and as you covered i mean we keep seeing record highs today we saw the dow jones industrial average hit the forty first record high of the year and markets are up twelve plus percentage point on the year we also saw high close the s. and p. five hundred today a high close for it nasdaq markets are looking pretty powerful i think they'll also look at g.d.p. growth you know it was slacking in the first quarter at one point two percent the second quarter up positive at three percent but whether or not that will continue as the president and his economic advisers say will remains to be seen particularly in light of the hurricanes some smaller things that i think they'll look at lindsay the look at housing and new housing numbers just came out today second month in a row where housing starts are down but optimistically. housing permits are

up particularly for multifamily housing up nineteen point six percent also look at autos which take a beating in the last eight months those are down we saw that that comes off of a high by the way up to the last eight months of this high before that so it's not all that bad although the automakers by and large are taking a hit particularly feel chrysler who was down nine percent in august and then they just had an announcement today a recall of a bunch of ram trucks because they might catch on fire good thing to get those vehicles back in and i think those are the sort of key things they'll be looking at and but by and large the economy is you report all the time lindsay pretty positive and things are going well i don't see any major meltdowns occurring and i don't think the monetary policy that the fed embarks upon whatever they announce tomorrow

should impact the economy ok let's turn to geopolitics now in a seemingly more and more uncertain world we've seen president at the u.n. this week and had increased tensions with north korea increased military budget is using to back up those threats how are those things considered by the f.l.n. say. well they do look at them but you know like a lot of these things lindsey that. tweet to the president tree tweets it's tough to get a handle on really where he is i mean is he you know teleprompter trump or is he unbridled off the cuff the guy with is thumbs on the tweeting buttons so it remains to be seen how they'll look at it but by and large i think they take what he says including the comments that you were just covering about rocket man on a suicide mission and totally destroyed north korea i think they look at those things or take those things with not just a grain but perhaps

a shovel. old salt all right well let's talk about domestic policies now trump has joined with democrats i know you called for this by the way to have our government shutdown pass an extension of the debt ceiling provide the hurricane disaster assistance everyone was waiting for now there's another potential deal with democrats on the children who have arrived in the u.s. with their parents is this also possibly increased cooperation on capitol hill part of the f.o. emcees calculus. i think so lindsey they will look at that in particularly with regard to whether or not the debt ceiling needs political attention which it will sometime at the beginning of the year you know they passed an essentially an open ended checkbook on the debt ceiling and whatever the debt ceiling is whatever that level is nineteen point whatever trillion it will be on december eighth which is when the bill runs out they'll have that cap but then the treasury will have a couple of months to figure out how they're going to pay for it before they come

to congress on the other hand the continuing resolution that's the funding the government that it remains to be seen whether or not there is going to be some shenanigans at the end of the road when whether or not the government will actually shut down again after december eight right waiting for december eighth so with all of this what should we expect tomorrow and going forward. so on the on the fed i think we're going to go ahead and see no rate increases maybe in december unless they shut the december shut the government down in december eighth the meeting is on the i think twelve and thirteen the fed meeting and i do think there will be some tapering of getting rid of this portfolio all these trillions of dollars in government bonds etc. and former u.s. trading commissioner thank you so much for joining us on this. thanks lindsey. time now for a quick break stick around because when we get back to help you i'd crisis this

wasn't a financial panic in small town america the race is on to get it in front of the addiction epidemic and save lives on tight budgets also economist steve keen gives us a look at what french president and the new on the faces of the labor law changes as we go to break here are the number of causes. all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties aren t. american playing party america offers more artsy america first lead in many ways the news landscape just like to feed real news big names good actors bad

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consumer credit freeze this because of this breach equifax has announced that it is bulking up call centers and waiving fees for credit freezes its chief information officer and chief security officer are out of the company equifax faces lawsuits filed by state attorneys general and a multitude of class action suits which are sure to pile up in short order. just last month president trump called america's opioid crisis and national emergency however he has yet to officially declare it as one technically which would give states more funding to deal with it based on the latest figures a former a formal emergency declaration might eventually be necessary though for more on this we're joined now by for she. why how much has the opioid crisis actually cost

this country well at the national level it's expected to be about eighty billion dollars but when you break it down region by region and it gets a little more complicated than that the tolls of overdose and death resulting from the opioid crisis have soared over the past two decades on top of that being one of the worst health crises of our time it's also turning into a massive financial burden that many american. the following is a coastal flood warning from the national weather service for the following county eastern monmouth new jersey. coastal areas of new jersey delaware coastal flooding moderate flooding is anticipated with high tide this evening timing high tide on the new jersey and delaware oceanfront occurs between seven thirty pm and

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their heads which they learned at university. tells them the unemployment the causes wages is too high and the reason that front door influence on france is because the rigidity of the life of a system so if your liberal laws it inverted commas you end up with a low wages and therefore high employment and everything is ok it is total nonsense it's applying a marker economic perspectives to a macro economic issue and if you cut wages for everybody there expenditure folds and if the expenditure fulls g.d.p. falls piper saucily is much. so it's it's a recipe for disaster and it's identifying the wrong factor as the cause of the process in france and you have talked about the france personal debt crisis and the usa in two thousand and seven a jump in both countries you can address this effectively one percent up to nearly ten percent we're saying in that country. yeah no we come because here is the

europe the only way you that this can be addressed is by national government or saudi to use the central central banks capability to create money to put that money into people's personal and what have you managed to do with corporate bank accounts and use that you reduce profit dead basically an accounting operation. converting what is currently credit bias money into see it bag by its money but of course concede that france does not have a central bank that comp be dumb so he's on a hiding to nothing to make the french economy worse. and then to weigh the consequences ok will be you and the euro. feeding feeding into france and france feeding into that it's the third largest economy there are people in the e.u. who seem happy about a possible invigoration by these words how strong is this wave there.

because he i mean he is the shining hope of the european union unity ticket and of course if you look at what's being done by follows charismatic characters like junk i pod mispronounces and i'm probably. the somebody who. wants to bring about a you know a united states of europe with a central treasury in brussels run by the european union bureaucrats and you know he said no matter what that's what he wants to achieve similar surely surely he wants to discipline all the other members as he is that literally he's on wood and you'll find in yanis varoufakis is in the room just supply the other countries in the same way that germany is disciplined by the school rigidity. that's nobody is happy about that and that mcallen comes along as a charismatic young man saw it's a whole new political party wins in a landslide and he's now the guys actually got power to do something about that the

need to join can all. have and they hope that he can lead they can lead them to the promised land of a lot of sights of europe it's not going to happen well let's talk about the youth which has plenty of charisma what do you think about john luke mellish head of the left wing france the party as of late april running for president he was showing ninety percent of the vote in the french presidential election campaign he's calling for a september twenty third march because micron's changes social qubits ha parties members number in over half a million mostly young kid he effectively mobilized this and possibly cause a change. i mean i don't know enough about him but comparisons i could draw comparisons to grill are in italy and rely on has managed to. build a popular movement but also get three of the four opposition parties they do agree

to the concept of bringing in a parallel currency if they become the government now i don't know how much this is gone was about the economics and what the result of those sorts of andi's. certainly he was going to be the main beneficiary of the anger that people are feeling towards mccrone which is only going to ross. well let's talk about the employers the unions they're pushing for this they pushed for this for quite some time for years in fact. maybe some surprise on their part strongest unions are pushing hard for this how strong is their voice in france right now. the employers always push for this sort of thing this is what's being done in the west. meaning by the west the anglo-saxon countries they've basically crushed the unions there is no union consulted no no no union power to the man for wise roces will work as rots in any of the major you and countries and in that situation

the work that you have the employers have won so to speak but what they've done is they've managed to reduce the power the amount of money and power they give to the workers and it's being match more than matched by an increase in the power of the bankers over them and of course now they're trying to cause inflation in those countries and the inflation because of this workers are getting wage rises that exceed by reproductivity and now they despairing. draws employment in america so i climb. frenzel end up in the same trap and it's ending up in the same trap without its own currency which is even worse. professor steve keen economist and author of can we avoid another financial crisis thank you for your time. usually when we say flush with cash we mean someone has a lot of extra money well in geneva it's taken on a whole new meaning it started a few months ago when the european central bank announced plans to stop printing five hundred euro notes shortly there after massive amounts of five hundred euro notes were found stuffed in toilets days later more

a five hundred euro bank notes were found softer more toilets ironically costing thousands of swiss francs to fix so what prompted this sudden desire to literally pour money down the drain well no one really knows for sure however it's important to note that the e.c.b. has reason to quit printing five hundred was a combat crime thanks for watching. world war w one the idea that dropping bombs brings to the trigger or forcing you to fight the battle. you socks for the so you get the beach gossip the public. advertising telling me you are not cool enough to buy their product. or that we all. want.

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a very big moment at the u.n. general assembly especially for president donald trump he took his turn on the world stage for the very first time he spoke a little over forty minutes and while the theme of his speech was patriotism and national sovereignty he uses opportunity to send a very powerful message to north korea and its leader kim jong own who he calls rocket man the united states has great strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or salads we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be necessary that's what the united nations is all about. that's what the united nations is

for let's see how they do trump who was previously warned of qualifier in peoria pyongyang does not back down claim that quote no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people than that appraiser's gene in north korea he said it is time for north korea to realize that the nuclearization is the only acceptable future he also think china and russia for joining the vote to impose new sanctions on north korea another big moment was when trump said iranian government is quote and even on a clean depleted rogue state whose chief export is violent the iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are vile bloodshed and chaos the longest

suffering victims of iran's leaders are in fact its own people trump said the world can't allow quote the murderous regime to continue with the stabilizing activities and that its government quote must stop supporting terrorists begin serving its own people and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors at one point he also not the twenty fifty nuclear deal with iran by calling it and then barracks and meanwhile trump also used this time to call out other countries including venezuela the venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing the democratic institutions are being destroyed this situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch as a responsible neighbor and friend we and all of us have a go. that goal is to help them regain their freedom recover their

country and re store their democracy the president added that the u.s. is also prepared to take further action if the government of venezuela persists reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. and for more on the president's speech at the u.n. general assembly this morning let's turn now to dan code valid professor at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia so dan president trump was tough on north korea this morning in his speech but he's not the only one others within the u.n. are also seeing kim jong un's actions as a threat to the entire world how do you see it professor. well i don't see it is a threat to the world. i think folks have to look at what north korea is doing from their own perspective first of all i think americans forget that we have told the annihilated north korea in the past during the korean war in fact the us stopped bombing because there was nothing left to bomb. the north koreans are

painfully aware of this and they remember this and i think they see it's big through recent history that the only way to prevent the us from invading and possibly destroying your country would as the us did deliberately in so many other countries is nuclear weapons and i think they're flexing their muscles to show that they can defend themselves. and again for trump the then go to the u.n. and threaten north korea again with total annihilation is just completely irresponsible and repulsive frankly and brian hook of the state department said that the u.n. could be used as a force multiplier to bring a global approach to global threats so he says that president is working well with the u.n. security council being able to leverage it in a war prevention what are your thoughts. well look the the u.n. was founded after world war two in order to prevent war article two for the un

charter forbids the use and the threat of force of all for preventing war the problem is that is that it's the united states that is the biggest threat to world peace that engages in the most wars in so i'd like to see a u.n. that could hold the u.s. accountable for aggressive war and actually prevent the u.s. from engaging in aggressive war and i'm not sure that's what they're talking about . with your reference and interestingly president did not name russia or president putin during his speech do you think. i have plans to work with russia when it comes to dealing with north korea. i do i think he must i mean i think he's got to work with russia and china to deal with north korea and i think the only way to deal with north korea is through diplomacy and china and russia are the keys to that and i do sincerely hope and believe that he will do that and now defense

secretary jim mattis confirm monday that the u.s. and south korea have discussed employing tactical nuclear weapons as an option to defend against north korea's nuclear weapons program so what are your thoughts about south korea having the option to fight back since they are neighboring to north korea well i would just oppose any further proliferation of nuclear weapons in the korean peninsula or anywhere i don't think north korea is a threat to south korea i don't think well certainly south korea many times has said that they don't believe north korea is a threat again we have to remember north korea has an attacked anyone. since since the end of the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three a war which by the way you know while it ceased there's no official and to those hostilities in any case so i don't think that's the way to go i think north korea frankly has to be convinced that it will not be

a target of invasion and then i think it will be willing to relent. in terms of its own nuclear aspirations and all there are talks of getting rid of the iran nuclear deal as you know we heard this morning do you think an agreement like this would have ever worked with north korea. i'm not sure i think it would have a long time ago in a noam chomsky points out that north korea offered both obama and trump to negotiate over their nuclear weapons and that they were that overture was rejected both by obama and trump i do think that there is a possibility that this could have worked whether it can work now i'm not certain but yes i do think they have a lot of needs and i think in return for having some of those needs met that they might be willing to give up the nuclear weapons but again i think the u.s. has to make it clear to the world that it's not going to invade countries like

north korea that well we really appreciate your time thank you so much that's dan preval a professor at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia. thank you. north korea and nuclear war is also discussed in today's politicking with larry king experts on asian affairs according tang larry looks at the possibility of a third world war in this day and age here's a preview but we're not going to go and why about north korea and the beautiful thing they'd be insane enough to drop a bomb on us around south korea and that's world war three that is world war three but you know kim jong un what he's confident about is arsenal is going to probably try to blackmail the united states to ending our treaty with south korea getting our twenty eight thousand five hundred troops off the peninsula so that he can then go to work on seoul and during that whole process with these threats you know we

have seen what's happened in the past when countries have tried to do these things and so that's why i'm concerned not that you know either kim or trump wants a war i don't think that they do of course but they do want things which are incompatible at least from the other side's point of view and so things could get very difficult we know that the kim family has used violence to upset status quos that it's found to be unacceptable the north koreans don't respect the united states so therefore there's a whole lot of room here for miscalculation. coming up on our team protest in georgia turned violent after the shooting death of a student at george attack will have brianna in just a moment they went. on all the world's a stage you know the news companies nearly players but what kind of parties are

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following the death of a twenty one year old georgia tech student who was killed by campus police officers over the weekend officers shot and killed at scott schultz after they say he refused to follow orders and dropped the knife will hold his family says he had a history of mental illness don't believe he would have posed a threat to officers some are saying officers use excessive force in this case and they're looking for answers here's our correspondent ashley banks with more many people were attending a visual for shelter monday night fifty of them decided to march to the campus police department things turned violent when protesters sort of police car a blaze and during two police officers as a result the re were arrested and were charged with inciting a riot and battery of an officer family put out a statement following the protest saying quote answering violence with violence is not the answer is to work diligently to make positive change georgia tech in an effort to ensure

a safer campus for all students and georgia tech officials urge students to remain indoors to avoid the violent protests on campus served as the president of georgia tech's pride alliance and didn't i didn't have a female or male that's changing his name from scott to scout and only wanting to be referred to as a or them and a statement the pride alliance colt him it's the driving force behind the group for the past two years saying quote scout always reminded us to think critically about the intersection of identities and how a multitude of factors play into one's experience one tech campus and beyond here's what some students had georgia tech had to say before so i immediately asked why are all of this why did all this happen what it's going good on. and then. next question was what question for this. there are a lot of questions to come out of this whether it's about mental health.

representation or it's about police brutality. many are in disbelief and would like answers as to why scholtz was killed according to the georgia bureau of investigation scholtz left behind three suicide notes found in his dorm room the family says she suffered from exile he and depression and attended a lot of counseling after attempting suicide two years back however they are questioning the shooting that was caught on tape and the video you can see schol to walk towards the officers and stopped twice with his hands at a side the officers repeatedly asked schultz to drop the knife charles tells the officers to quote shoot me after stroll through walls to ward the officers for a third time he has been shot by one of them piercing him directly in the heart the officers say scholtz was wielding a knife and didn't listen to orders resulting and his death however the shells family attorney said the knife remained and its holder and shoulder arms were at his side during the ordeal adding quote it's tragic that as scott was battling

mental health issues that pushed them to the edge of desperation their life was taken with a bullet rather than saved with non lethal force from angry. angry that the cops don't have non-lethal ways to deal with things like they could have taser guns and like these known they've been talking for a long time about how they're thinking about adding tasers to their arsenal the family attorney said quote that's baffling to me that on the college campus you rather give the officers the most a deadly weapons and not equip them with less lethal weapons she was shot and killed during a time and which the us is facing a major crisis with law enforcement and the communities they have to warn to serve as it pertains to choke to death that leaves many wondering if police are trained to deal with the mentally ill people and if not why not and washington actually banks r.t. . authorities in louisiana say

a white man from baton rouge has been arrested and charged in the fatal shootings of two black men early this morning detectives would be or p.d. were able to arrest can it's james gleason twenty three year old white male for the brutal murders of bruce schofield and donald smart last week he will be charged. with two counts of first degree murder and illegal use of a weapon police and has also been linked to a third shooting in an incident where he reportedly opened fire to the house of an african-american family and there were no resulting injuries however the police chief says that he's confident the man would quotes have killed again given the opportunity this is a potential death penalty case if he just take the allegations it appears to be cold calculated planned. by people who are the norm and defenseless. officials added that they have not ruled out race as

a motivating factor or this all comes after a copy of a speech by it off hitler was reportedly found in gleason's home and more protests are expected this evening in st louis missouri four days after a judge acquitted a former officer jason stokley in the twenty eleven shooting death of twenty four year old anthony lamar smith roughly one thousand protesters met at the city jail monday night standing against what they claim is continued incarceration of about fifty protesters from sunday and for more let's bring in alex talley associate professor of sociology at brooklyn college and author of the and of how we say thanks so much for joining us today so what's your initial reaction to the protest in st louis this past weekend in georgia tech last night do you think there was a great disrespect for police officers as well at the demonstrations and if so why . well i think we want to avoid embracing this kind of war on top cops mentality

that any criticism of the police even if it takes a very contentious form is somehow out of bounds and unacceptable i think there is a real crisis of legitimacy in policing today in a broad number of communities we could see that in the reports that we've just listened to and i think that the police the way they've reacted to these protests is just inflaming that crisis and now there were arrests past weekend while the majority of protesters were peaceful as you can imagine there were some who broke windows and even threw chemicals on police officers so do you agree with the people standing outside of the jail do you think they were wrongfully incarcerated well we don't have any clear knowledge that there's a connection between the people who've been arrested and the people who may have committed acts of property destruction in fact there are pretty credible news reports that those swept up in mass arrests many of them were walking home from

work some of them were working journalists others were legal observers that we know were not involved in that kind of property destruction so the idea that the police are going to try to restore legitimacy in the face of what's happened in st louis by gauging in an awful mass arrests and the use of force against these demonstrators is a sign of just how far apart the two sides are in this conversation about the direction of policing in the united states but clearly those who were committing crimes should in fact be arrested you do agree with that. well i think that we don't want to condone those activities but the problem is we don't have clear evidence that those are the people that have been arrested and in your book you talk about this not being an overnight thing that the state of today's policing tactics have been forty years in the making so explain to us your understanding of what has been happening in the last four decades. well look at the place the piece

earlier about virginia tech why were armed police officers the primary mechanism for responding to someone who's clearly having a mental health crisis why weren't we sending trained mental health professionals to deal with that and also the case in st louis we have engaged in a ever expanding war on drugs in the united states over this forty year period and drugs are cheaper easier to get and more widely available than they have ever been it's a total failure and police should have nothing to do with it and if we reduce the role of armed police and a lot of these social problems then we would have a reduction in police violence and so i mean you're saying bring in mental health professionals at that time but during that instance don't you think you know police officers don't always have a lot of time to respond and if they felt threatened by the individual that they

unfortunately use lethal force and then you know somebody lives oh my my point is my point is that they should not have been sent in the first place or that they should have played strictly a backup role a trained mental health professional would have been more attuned to the fact that this young person was having a crisis and that there were other kinds of appropriate interventions what's interesting here is that in the u.k. where they're more likely not to send armed police they do not have the phenomena of suicide by cop because people know that the people who show up for a crisis call are not going to kill them but in the us the police are too often happy to oblige someone who wants them to kill them and this is a big problem and it could be changed if we quit sending armed police on the vast majority of these calls and certainly don't always have an easy job but now you talk about alternatives to policing like regulating drugs as you mentioned why do

you think this would have an impact on the relationship between police and residents of a community. because so many of the problematic interactions that we've seen over the last several years that have given rise to the black lives matter movement have been because of interactions that the police should not have been involved with take the case of eric garner who was killed here in new york because he was alleged to be selling untaxed cigarettes this should not be a policing problem it should be dealt with civil solomon says and tax and forstmann not armed police we really appreciate your insight alex vitale brooklyn college professor and author thank you so much. and you deadly storm is charging through the eastern caribbean threatening islands already racked by erma at least one person is dead after a category five hurricane maria slammed into dominica overnight tearing roofs off homes and leaving behind a trail of destruction officials said the storm killed one person on guadalupe

a french territory where the storm has yet to make landfall the national hurricane center says maria is expected to remain extremely dangerous category four or five forecasters say it will approach the virgin islands tonight before slamming directly into puerto rico on wednesday as the more we go live now to our tease marina port in miami so we're in the let's begin with america the prime minister of the caribbean island nation says that hurricane maria inflicted mind boggling damage so what exactly does that mean well maria is the first category five hurricane to make landfall on dominica it hit the island with maximum sustained winds of nearly one hundred sixty miles per hour ripping roofs off buildings and homes including the official residence of dominica as prime minister roosevelt skerritt in a series of dire facebook post prime minister skerritt called marias winds and merciless noting he personally needed to be rescued from the hurricane jimena because pm all said almost every person he spoke to or made contact with lost

a roof the prime minister is pleading for helicopter support from. other countries to help in rescuing people trapped underneath the rubble now seventy three thousand people live in the former french and british colony as of this morning phone and internet signals appear to be down beating the island virtually isolated this as the island's airports and seaports remain in operable dominik is economy is heavily dependent on tourism and agriculture two industries reportedly left in ruins by maria unfortunately she's not done yet hurricane warnings have been posted for the u.s. and british virgin islands and puerto rico where maria is expected to make landfall as a category five as soon as tomorrow so according to most forecast model of the eye of the hurricane maria will make landfall in puerto rico tomorrow as you mentioned so the islands governor warns it may be the biggest and potentially most

catastrophic storm to hit the island in a century and meanwhile seventy thousand are still without power because of hurricane irma so how are residents preparing for their second major hurricane in only two weeks yeah this this could be unprecedented where residents are recovering and preparing at the same time most are just hoping for the best and bracing for the worst puerto ricans have been stocking up on gas water fuel and wood boards to protect their homes puerto rico's governor record over selo said the storm will be violent a lot of infrastructure will be lost and communications will likely be affected the three and a half million residents on the island have been advised to prepare to hunker down for up to ninety hours nine zero forecasters say twenty five inches of rain could fall those living in flood prone mudslide prone or coastal areas have been urged to evacuate to one of the hundreds of shelters that have opened meanwhile many people displaced by hurricane irma are still sleeping in shelters the san juan airport is

closing at seven pm this evening and once winds reach fifty miles per hour first risk. bonders won't be able to respond to calls for help some puerto rican residents seem to be on edge monday as maria inched closer. we already filled up the six hundred gallon tank of gas we've had this since or thank god we never used it we're looking for panels to cover up the last stores that remain unprotected. it's going to put a problem in puerto rico the electricity and water go out the power system is precarious let's face the problems and try to solve them with the things that it currently have. come up with but what worries me most is having already gone through one another comes just after. according to the national hurricane center's five pm advisory maria remains a category five packing sustained winds of one hundred sixty five miles per hour president trump declared a state of emergency for puerto rico which authorizes the department of homeland

security and fema to coordinate all disaster relief efforts now three people died when when hurricane earl passed a bottle of puerto rico two weeks ago this hurricane maria is expected to pass directly through the u.s. territory so obviously a lot of people you know hoping for the best bracing for the worst certainly am reporting from our miami studio thank you thank you. and coming up on our sleeve the senate approved seven hundred billion dollars in funding for the pentagon so where does the money go on the details after a short break. there's a real irony going to. be shown to you don't let them think that i'm responsible in the ways and the people and there's always something that's what the it's always been an extreme example of the things you do when you see a little bit of the ordinary you know wholesale surveillance you feel you have already and while as you mentioned in the president's trump has used the social

media site online always on the story goes it's garbage in real life and you see. what holds and you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected . so when you're the first. you simply want to be rich. which is going to be the person that's what the three of them all to begin to. understand always at the water's edge. there should. think the average viewer just after watching a couple segments understands that we're telling stories there are critics can't

tell me you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental goodness ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every we can you know want their work in. the senate past eight months or fence bill that goes beyond even what the trumpet ministration had requested while the senate's version of the twenty eighteen at

national defense authorization act totals about seven hundred billion dollars r t so never breaks down the vote the numbers and what's next the senate seven hundred billion dollars defense policy bill is far beyond what president donald trump had sought and it sets the tone for america's military might in the next fiscal year now the twelve hundred page bill sets aside about six hundred forty billion dollars for basic pentagon operations which is thirty seven billion more than trump requested it also adds another sixty billion for a special war account for overseas operations in places like iraq syria and afghanistan and the mammoth spending bill got mammoth bipartisan support in the senate eighty nine senators voted yea while only eight voted nay it needed just. simple majority to pass now getting into the nitty gritty of the proposed national defense authorization act one hundred forty one billion is set aside for military personnel costs including a two point one per cent troop pay raise eight half billion is for the u.s.

missile defense agency to defend against north korea while seven hundred five million is for the israeli cooperative missile defense programs well more than what the trumpet ministration requested another five hundred million will provide security assistance including weapons to ukraine and one hundred million to help balkan nations to quote deter russian aggression now in addition to spending allocation senators proposed hundreds of amendments they hoped to be attached to the n.d.a. most were left off but new hampshire democrat jeanne shaheen amendment to ban the use of russian based software across the federal government was attached and passed this comes a week after the trumpet ministration directed federal agencies to remove the software saying the risk is too great to ignore that the russian government could use the private company software as a backdoor into the u.s. government and more controversial amendments were left off the n.d.a. to promote its passing that this will not be the final version it must be

reconciled with the house version before heading to the president's desk the house passed its own plan in july and the to do have differences but while congress seems to agree on very little these days the national defense authorization act is seen as a must pass legislation and has been passed fifty five straight years where it will run into trouble is with finances the house and senate versions both defy seaquest ration caps set in two thousand and eleven democrats are not against blowing the cap but they also want to see caps on defense spending and a pledge to block major increases in military spending without similar boosts to domestic programs meanwhile trumper has made clear he aims to support increase military spending by slashing non-defense spending congress will begin hammering it out. any house senate conference committee expected to last several months in washington simo dollars r e o r t the syrian army liberating the deir ez-zor region from terrorists is facing strong resistance and massive fire from areas where armed

opposition groups and u.s. forces are stationed according to the russian defense ministry there was a close call this past saturday syrian troops battling the islamic state cross the eastern bank of the euphrates river injuring several in the last fighters with an air strike the pentagon is now working on additional measures measures to ensure the u.s. and russian battlefield commanders are able to directly communicate with one another and for more i spoke to former pentagon official michael maloof about the communication channels between the pentagon and the kremlin they've existed for some time through the pentagon directly put it down at the local commander level is something else but it wouldn't made any difference because the u.s. has an ulterior motive to. rush into that area take over take over the access to what is basically oil fields but that's the rich oil fields all of syria they can control that on the road to it it cuts off even iran so it. tactically it's really

important for them and even strategically that they intend to use to try and hamper your run from there by having access have and have a road basically from tehran to beirut and so it's it but when you heard john a dumb for the chairman of joint chiefs of staff talk about about better communication they did not want to express what their real operational imperative is and i think that this is something that you're not going to hear from them sane but this is what's going on behind the scenes interstate and so what about the d confliction zones difficulty that you're fraser well again there was a u.s. imposed idea of using a river as a complection a boundary if you will. russian and the and the and this is still within syria. russia and syria didn't agree to it they were in the even there was not an

agreement among them all to do that too to recognize that as a boundary and and in fact the russians and the iranians actually built pontoons to cross the whole idea was get on over there into that region east of the euphrates to block those access this before the us backed forces the syrian democratic forces could occupy and take over and thereby give them access to those oil fields u.s. has designs of actually bring in an outside companies to manage those oil if oil fields but syria they belong to syria syria has and president assad of syria is they said look we put all of syria back and that's what iran and russia are pushing for well if syria and russia never agreed to these the complection zones do you think it's a surprise to the us of the airstrike that happened well if they well they didn't agree so you know it's not a surprise it should not have been there may be there was some talk some chatter

back and forth of forces me in one location or the other i think the russians actually informed the united states that they were going to be doing this. but again it's it's it's goes beyond what the us had described as the de confliction zone boundary and but it but it was for getting that in control of that very critical area and adjust and our major road that takes into takes that would have given the s.d.f. the access to the to the. those oil fields as well as open up that road for four terror on to come on in from iraq say and specifically talking you said that russia might have actually warned the us about this so it seems as though there was actually more talk but. when the two countries do you see more collaboration and can anything more be done between the two countries in regard to fighting isis i think there's going to have to be better communication there is

certainly communication at the command level at the top level but there's got to be better. communication at the field level and i think that general dunford said that that's got something that's got to be done you know get done and you alluded to the reason why president bashar al assad wanted to retake that city and the physically why it's so important for his military to be there well it's represents one of the last bastions if you will of. isis concentrations i mean they were really fighting hard to retain and it's also that a very strategic location in terms of access it's a main road and also it gives them. it would it would if it would have by having the syrians take it over it stop the. isis from actually continuing to bring in people from iraq and it's a major it's a major crossroads if you will and it was it was really strategically important to

take that back and bring it back under syrian control which where it's war where it belongs and and united states as i said has their own designs they want to they want to build ultimately a base and that's why they use in the kurdish forces they came in they came in from the from the. east and and of course the syrians came in from the west question and now syrian troops are occupying and there is a war but. there was a race on to and i think that what this is going to mean for the united states is the they needed that in order to maintain leverage over the russians and the iranians and the syrians for future negotiation and i don't think they're going to get it just i don't really appreciate your insight as always thank you so much but that's not them alone former pentagon official. federal prosecutors say they plan to indict the former chairman of donald trump's presidential campaign paul man

a fort in the russian meddling probe last according to a report released by the new york times this comes after both c.n.n. and c.b.s. news independently verified metaphor to have been wiretapped under the foreign intelligence warrant surveillance act well they say the united states government listened in on metaphors conversations during the presidential race and after he was ousted from trump's campaign back in august while anonymous sources say the former campaign advisor first came under the scrutiny of the f.b.i. back in two thousand and fourteen c.n.n. reports two out of the three sources cited by the news organization caution evidence is far from conclusive while another anonymous source claims surveillance was temporarily discontinued due to a lack of evidence. secretary of state rex tillerson is having his second sit down in the span of three days with his russian counterparts in new york as we speak on sunday and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov talked cooperation in syria and

north korea's missile program but the state department's lips were sealed on the topic of the duo's meeting scheduled for five pm today when asked if the recent metaphor to wiretap in store would be on the agenda for today's talk department official told r.t. america we don't want to get ahead of the meeting all this side summit has been on the books for some time now as part of tillerson schedule during the week long special u.s. envoy to the united nations general assembly. and coming up on our new device can diagnose cancer in just ten seconds i'll talk to one of the researchers behind this technology after a short break. a lot. to get to. so a little bit so. much. to what.

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now an update to some breaking news a magnitude seven point zero earthquake shook central mexico today killing at least forty four people well the quick and poorly struck about seventy five miles southeast of mexico city leveling buildings and sending plumes of dust throughout the streets thousands of people or seeing a plane office building and densely populated regions in mexico city and nearby where nava meanwhile mexico city's international airport was evacuated and flights to the airport are being diverted or put on hold and this all comes less than two weeks after another earthquake left ninety dead in southern regions of the country i was on this same day thirty two years ago a massive eight point zero magnitude earthquake struck near mexico city killing thousands of people. well scientists have developed a pen which can diagnose cancer in ten seconds which is reportedly one hundred fifty times faster than existing technology and a new study researchers from the university of texas report that their new handheld

device uses tiny droplets of water to analyze human tissue samples for cancer with ninety six percent accuracy joining me now is the author of this study fessor of biomedical engineering at the university of texas at austin dr tom miller thank you so much for joining us dr so how does this pain of work and how can you diagnose a specific type of cancer with only ten seconds. while the thank you for having me on the show so the pen works by as you said place in a small drop of water logged as first the pen is designed to be hand held by a cancer surgeon and the surgeon places the pen up against the tissue or is designed to place against the tissue to a small drop of water is placed on the tissue in under the pen and bio molecules on the tissue then move into that small drop of water the drop of

water that is then just a few seconds translated or transported up into instrument called a mass spectrometer and mass spectrometer essentially characterizes all those bio molecules mostly live. that has moved from the tissue into the little drop of water and they sort of leave a signature and some machine learning software then sort of looks at the signature and makes a determination that the tissue is cancer not passe and does it have to be at a certain stage of cancer. well. i think there's. the answer to that is that some cancers that may be earlier are not going to show as many of the ball kills they're indicative of cancer these

were tissues were all obtained from a tissue bank so. i think some of that is yet to be determined at what stage china say and so i know it's relatively new and it's reported that it's ninety percent accurate have you seen this with your own eyes. yes. yes so the accuracy is actually determined by the sensitivity and specificity so. if the cancer is there sensitivity tells you the chance that it will detect it and specificity is if the cancer is not there that it will give you a reading that it's not so accuracy combines those two two measures and tell us the benefits of identifying cancer at such a fast rate and how exactly is the pen better than other machines that doctors are using right now so the way the procedure works now in cancer surgery if the surgeon wants to make a determination determination the tissues cancerous or not actually have to take

a little biopsy send that over to the pathologist and the pathologist then slices the tissue. and makes a determination based on their own expertise just looking at the tissue sections and that entire process takes about thirty minutes so this is much faster. and would allow the surgeons still to biopsy if they need to but you know gives a much faster read on whether the tissues cancer or not credible and when will this pen be available for use and how expensive will it be to get diagnosed with this ten. well the for the first question is we're going to be starting some clinical studies where we're actually using the pen in the in the o.r. in the operating room the pen itself will be quite cheap it will be a disposable element the more expensive part of the operation of the pen is the

mass spectrometer. there are good advances being made in developing lower cost devices that should be able to function well so. when it's going to be available will determine. be determined by the investment would have to get regulatory approval those questions are harder to predict but i don't think there's any major technological hurdles that are going to limit how fast and actually can be made available for patient use and to you what is this pen mean for the future of medicine. i think it's to me it's you know one step many many of us are working on different medical imaging and surgical technologies that are moving medicine into kind of an intuitive practice into a precipitation what we call position medicine and i think you know the pen is one

example of the device that's good. you know empower that transition where surgeries can be done with much higher chances of success and predictability and i think that's what you know many of us are working towards ma it's incredibly fascinating thank you so much that's thomas miller professor of biomedical engineering and u.t. austin cockrell school of engineering thank you so much sure thank you very much and watching the hawks is coming up next right here on r t terror of attorney joins us for a preview hype around the low on tonight's new watch in the rocks we discover just what may have been inspired all that militaristic bluster and president trumps u.n. speech and and then we wonder if facebook you know actually has any standards whatsoever and then finally we welcome dubbed waxman progress or political science international affairs in israel studies at northeastern university do scotus the ever evolving relationship between israel and the united states all right thank you

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our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that lurk fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most believe society on politics as a species of list and needless little computer politicians have morphed into celebrity are two ruling parties are in reality one party corporate. those who attempt to hold this. breathless universe of fake designed to push through the t.v. and they're exploiting taste for the little or are forced so far to the margins of society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold it sold for corporate money that we might as well devise squeaky against an avalanche of squee loss.

i am so sick of people saying it's the end of the world or acting like everything is horrible and the planet is getting flushed down the toilet which is why i'm very glad that business insider recently bother to publish an article it's untitled there's a psychological reason the world seems like it's ending right now and it should give people hope and it's all about something called mean more old syndrome a phrase coined by a hungry and professor named george gervin or he came up with it in the one nine hundred seventy s. when television was just starting to grab on to people mean world syndrome according to gardner the first american inaccurate belief that the world is getting more dangerous despite statistics showing and continuing to show otherwise. gov

came up with a cultivation theory which states that people who watch t.v. are more susceptible to believing that that stuff is real even though t.v. involves someone pointing a camera at something from a particular angle that they want to show you and it's edited to make a story that they want to tell it is not real the t.v. not at all but the more you watch it the more you think it's reality and the more violence and mean stuff you watch the more you think the world is mean horrible awful you just think it's a terrible place because you're watching all those television hence the mean world's interim main conclusion of cultivation theory which is where we're at today today everyone seems to think the world is ending with round the clock coverage of violence and danger this comes despite the gates foundation recently issuing a report that shows immense progress being made around the globe making the world a better not ending it childhood mortality has gone way down over the past twenty

five years hiv has seen a remarkable decline so has world poverty from thirty five percent of the world living in poverty in one nine hundred ninety to just a mere nine per cent in two thousand and sixteen that's astounding think about that people are also smoking less world sanitation has gotten way better more poor people have access to more necessary services the news is nothing but good when you take a closer look beyond what c.n.n. is telling you but since the media has such a grip on everyone they think the world is a rotten awful place a mean world that's only getting worse not better and the only reason the media tries so hard to make you believe this drivel is to get you to watch their stupid shows so that they can collect money and control you that is that and that is all they're doing with their scare tactics and because of that to me it's pretty obvious who the mean ones really are.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money

corporate interests got a lot of voice that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it still fun r.t. america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded if you'll get the straight talk and the straight news. questionable. he just. told us the things he said just on its own time that it was a can all that i think and it's us. that moved in the time but he's a hapless little his acknowledged its fountain gently guilt says have behaved in a sinister sickly sweet psionics down town but if you don't know any money

but people should mind. just a minute or so they can as he sees them and. brings them salyut a ship was the great experiment of voting donald trump into the presidency is paying off in spades for those hoping to unleash the inner is good of the united states on the rest of the world the brand name in chief conducted his first speech at the united nations tuesday morning and delivered to the world audience some vintage trump bravado and saber rattling while metaphorically wrapping himself in his custom edition liker and views made in china u.s. play.