until every weekend you know what they're working. on. coming up on r t it's state of emergency in california as a wildfire is burning throughout the state to leaving at least twenty people dead we bring you the latest from los angeles. and the fate of the iran nuclear deal will look at what happened the trouble to certify is the agreement. then critical drugs in short supply how effective the damage from hurricane maria and puerto rico are rippling across the nation. it's wednesday october eleventh five pm here and washington d.c.

i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america we begin today in california where more than seven hundred fires are raging across both the northern and southern part of the state governor jerry brown has a clear to state of emergency and nine counties and president trump has issued a major disaster declaration this enables the federal emergency management agency to now provide federal assistance to the golden state parties in touch as we is and months angeles with the latest natasha. yeah that's right actually we have a tween these seventeen fires more than one hundred fifteen inquiries have burned since sunday and seventeen or twenty one people now have died and six hundred seventy people are unaccounted for in northern california near the famous wine country and a whopping three thousand structures have burned and according to fire officials some of these blazes are still nowhere near under control but tops fire has burned twenty eight thousand acres with no containment level slided in napa and solano

county fire is listed at twenty six thousand acres with three percent containment and in yuba county the cascade fire is that eleven thousand six hundred eighty five acres at only twenty percent contained a while two of nappies wineries have been destroyed a kenwood residents came home from his miniature vineyard after a quick evacuation. sunday night. we had no word. just minutes to actually get out of. the house with her kids we called our neighbor. with her. which is the man we were. as of tuesday evening as some seventy five thousand customers were without power and in some cases lines were cut to prevent them from endangering first responders are fully three thousand two hundred evacuees are staying in twenty eight shelters

across napa governor jerry brown has declared an emergency in one counties and while some of the biggest fires are burning up north some four hundred miles away an emergency has also been declared in orange county the canyon two fire is now eight thousand acres at forty five percent containment at least thirty six structures have been damaged or destroyed and the happiest place on earth a disneyland's was covered in hazy plumes of smoke as well as neighborhoods near the pacific coast and many residents were face to face with the flames before evacuating the got to a point where the flames were pretty tall they were fifty forty fifty sixty feet then we could feel the heat that's when we decided to leave i was trying to spray the backyard as much as i wrote in minutes i saw the fire coming up over the hill there like i did out here. but getting out alive was the goal fire officials stress to residents who fought leaving their homes and crews from all parts of california and nevada are helping to provide relief efforts flames came up we came down here

and you could even see your hand from your face fire was coming up over the homes probably a hundred foot flames over your spotting on both sides of the story damage assessment in all of the impacted areas is ongoing throughout the day to day we currently have fourteen helicopter resources in six fixed wing aircraft resources available for the incident eleven hundred firefighters on scene with more on their way the fire was fairly inactive last night on the western edge but was still active on the eastern edge of the fire that's the main area of concern right now as we have open area that leads into the cleveland national forest. and back up north in sonoma county a hotline was established for families looking for their loved ones again six hundred seventy people still unaccounted for actually natasha this is obviously devastating news for many but as you mentioned the containment percentages have gone up with some of the fires thank you so much sweet reporting and los angeles. to washington

where canadian prime minister justin trudeau met with president trump as concerns grow about trump's actions with a he's both at home and abroad trudeau is in washington in hopes of finding common ground between the neighboring countries and he has brought what some say is his most powerful tool charm archy's alex knowledge has the story from toronto trudeau as you mentioned brought his charm some are calling this the charm offensive and if you saw the photo op at the very beginning you might be seeing it right now with the president the prime minister and their respective spouses it was all hugs and kisses there and everything seemed to be lovely and then they went to meet inside the white house and from what we hear the meeting went well everybody's calling each other buddies and friends in the countries love each other that's all fantastic but was dark smoke covering a bubble that would be the nasty stuff that they didn't talk too much about starting off with the north american free trade agreement article came out in forbes magazine where president trump said i happen to think nafta will be have to

be terminated and one talks like that and with many within the u.s. government and in canada as well supporting the now after agreement of course this is probably on the top of the genda of what needs to be discussed between the two world leaders now now there right now the most contentious point with canada is the fact that the u.s. is asking for fifty percent of all parts in our vehicles built in north america to be american made when you have three countries that are joined in the building of our cars will be mexico canada and the states that point itself would not only destroy the make up of what they have right now where these parts are made but also the supply chain and redoing the supply chain will be a very costly effort indeed some say next to impossible and that really wouldn't be worth it in the end the other contentious issue is the bombard boeing debate two aerospace companies one in the states one in canada the trumpet ministration has put a thirty three hundred percent tariff. all are on bombard new products in particular

one airplane that was supposed to be sold to an american airline this again is a point that says going back and forth of the u.s. is saying that. seems plenty of subsidies and this is not the fair way to be doing business a bar bargee disputes that we've even heard from the brits saying that boeing has seen its shares of the gifts of money come from outside the company as well so another issue on the table third lumber i mean this has been going on between canada and the states forever so i'm that that discussion is something that has been pretty now after during nafta and i'm sure will continue into the future one interesting thing about the prime minister he didn't only meet with president trump he met with a committee as well earlier in the day and that would be with the u.s. house of representatives committee to talk nafta with them he he's not only in washington to meet with president trump he's to meet you there to meet with some allies and supporters of nafta itself one of the biggest arguments that prime

minister trudeau has come in with is saying that canada is a bigger export company our country for the u.s. than china japan and the united kingdom all combined so as you can imagine this is a big deal for canada and that's what's being addressed today in washington alex now this meeting between trudeau and trumpets taking place on the heels of canada's foreign minister stressing that the world at the last stable place today and many are taking that as a less stable because of president what if you have to say well you know it's a christopher canada's foreign affairs minister just yesterday and here we have a couple of quotes from her but basically sum it up this is after a bob corker made his remark about the world war three and the president. is a has basically tied it at the quotes are there are a lot of things that are concerning concerning in the world right now i think this is probably the most uncertain moment in international relations since the end of the second world war and another coach he went on to say. the post-war order has

really worked with time it has embraced more and more people in a peaceful prosperous world it's been great and that order is starting to fracture as a result we're seeing tension in a lot of different places she also mentioned north korea as a part of all this discussion so obviously canada is very concerned in the way things are going right now we see a lot of concern within the u.s. administration as well and we even heard from one high level u.s. military person you talk to the canadian press he basically said if you see john kelly or defense secretary matters or national security adviser or mcmaster if they leave the government well then you should start panicking so this panic that we're seeing in the states obviously crosses borders and from our foreign affairs minister here in canada she obviously sees the situation in the world as a very worrying state but as we all know donald trump likes to play things like he played his business he likes to throw things out there and he likes to keep people on his toes so the bottom line might be even with his nafta quote that it was his

quotes about the situation of the world it's donald trump people so how seriously can you take it well some people are taking it seriously and when you're talking about wars i guess it's something that you should take seriously and rhetoric should not just be tossed out there to enjoy what it could actually lead to some dire consequences that you alex in the holiday reporting in toronto thank you so much and take you. over to syria where three suicide bombers detonated their explosives near the police had quarters in damascus on wednesday the blast killed two policemen and entered at least six civilians some of them are in critical condition two of the suicide bomber set off their explosives right in front of the building when confronted by police the third attacker was cornered by forces near a local market where he then detonated his explosives then a massive police chief says the quote investigations are ongoing to find out where they came from and how the issue has been controlled meanwhile the syrian observatory for human rights says over three thousand civilians and fighters were

killed in the country's civil war during september the highest monthly total this year. saying in syria the syrian army is now advancing on isis positions to the north or west following the liberation of how but before that artie's murat ghazi of follow the troops as they moved into the village they traveled across the areas only bridge over the euphrates river from where he sent us this report under a bright blue sky through devastated country across the euphrates the only bridge in the entire province we came to the village of had less than a day ago this was part of the caliphate but no longer from what we were told the syrian army's division did the heavy lifting here much of had has already been swept and cleared but. it isn't like the movies do is rarely open at the

first peek. then came the first warning my english hundred. go to me no no no. i've told you. he was right it wasn't one of the. isis back up had arrived we had forced the jihad just felt confident enough to take a flight and we weren't in a good place to syria and responded quickly but there was some confusion at first. but. then about a. five

hundred meters from hadleigh village isis is making it still. doesn't it dug in. the hideout houses. for the. truck to be harassing syrian troops what they're doing is they're driving around in circles using speed and distance as their protection taking. the other things hiding behind houses driving out far in the critical bit and hiding back before syria. with heavier weapons it isn't going to get the game the very much but it's a harassing to keeping everyone today during the firefight one of the pickup trucks still. is one of the jihad ists briefly showing himself while spraying the way on full auto with the clear targets out came the heavy of weapons .

it was a nice try again. the scrap isis lost but everything you just school was short within the span of a single hour in one village with a small unit these scenes being repeated. across the front hundreds of kilometers wide or i guess do you see from hard luck syria. coming up on r t truncate decertify the iran deal within days so what does it mean for relations between washington and tehran a former diplomat away then after this break. i made a professional is powerpoint to show you how artsy america fits into the greater media landscape is not laughter all right we are

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welcome back president donald trump has hinted at plans to certify the iran nuclear deal the move would make the u.s. the only country to pull. out of the mall tiny agreement and response the anti-war group code pink had held visuals in washington d.c. today at the embassies of britain france germany russia china and iran to think those countries for upholding the iran code pink co-founder may day of benjamin call the u.s. decision to pull out a big mistake right now the middle east is an incredible crisis and their worst going on all over the place where the u.s. is involved in iran is involved there has to be an end to the war in yemen in syria in iraq in libya and the only way to do that is to have a good relationship with iran the concerns that the trumpet ministration has about what they call iran meddling in the region well first of all they are the region it's the us that is not the region and we are meddling in the region but besides

that there has to be negotiations on all of these issues and the only way to stop the iranian interference as the u.s. calls it is to sit down to keep this nuclear deal intact and to move on to talk about the other issues to further discuss u.s. policy towards iran and the current status of the iran nuclear deal i spoke to retired u.s. army colonel and a former u.s. diplomat and writes i asked her why are we hearing more and more allegations from some members of congress that iran is supporting extremism and threatening israel the u.s. executive and congress always has something to throw at iran and they know for sure that iran is in compliance i mean this is the seventh quarter or seventh six month period that iran has been in compliance by the international atomic energy

association. has certified again that iran is in compliance they destroyed two thirds of the. nine hundred centrifuges all of their rainy i'm they've done everything that the international community has asked them to do and yet that's not good enough for the trumpet ministrations so here you have all of these other things that will be coming up about terrorism extremism and all of that . now it's feared that a president trompe to certify i did certify the iran deal and think sions iran it could lead to iran to pursue nuclear weapons which could in turn increase the chances of nuclear war i therefore in your view will who is a bigger threat to global security well indeed what the us has been doing i mean when the united states is bombing seven countries right now that's pretty destabilizing. the united states the certification does not mean that that treaty is over for the other five countries that are

a part of it and indeed as we went to all of the embassies that you mentioned before i mean all of the leaders of those countries have been very very firm in saying we're sticking with this it is so important that we we have a deal that iran can count on that would be lay their their nuclear program by at least ten years and so those countries are not going to be giving up on this treaty at all and we certainly hope that iran will not that iran will say we signed this we're going to stick with it and iran can say as the other countries america is kind of going off it's rockers right now the american administration but they are going to stick with that deal we hope now you're in south korea not too long and go we mentioned you mentioned earlier that if the u.s. does back out of this iran deal it could harm their credibility when it comes to let's say north korea and their nuclear program but how do you think north korea

will react to that as well and of course north korea has been calling for a peace treaty with south korea the united states all the signatories to the armistice that happened fifty years ago and if the united states now undercuts its own treaty that that was signed by the through the obama administration if it's undercut by the trump ministration why should the north koreans believe anything that the united states ever signs. so it's very dangerous what president trump is contemplating doing and we urge his advisors to please tell president trump it's in the safety and security of the world that this treaty go ahead and that he certify that indeed iran has complied with the conditions of the treaty what do you think the outcome is going to be do you think that iran will move forward with this certifying the iran deal well i'm always hopeful but if not he's going to get an earful from all of the constituents and the members of congress who have sixty days

after that to determine whether or not a decertification should stand i'll tell you what they're going to be millions and millions of americans that are going to be calling their congress people to say do not do not agree with that the certification because it is a horrible danger to the world all right thank you so much for an hour right now was retired u.s. army colonel and former u.s. diplomat and right thanks so much. fifteen years ago today the united states senate voted seventy seven to twenty three to invade iraq the vote launched a war in iraq between the u.s. and saddam hussein ending in hussein's trial and execution and a total restructuring of the iraqi government according to a two thousand and thirteen survey published implodes medical journal and conducted throughout the rocky households nearly five hundred thousand iraqi civilians died from war related causes there are america's invasion and occupation according to a study from brown university an upward of six thousand to eight thousand american

service members and contractors died from military action in iraq since the invasion. and the middle east a string of agreement seemed to signal a wind of change in the geo political chessboard of influence and power among the often nations last week russia and saudi arabia signed a memorandum of understanding for riyadh's purchase of the advance as four hundred air defense system this after the u.s. state department approve the sale of the fattah anti-missile system for an estimated cost of fifteen billion dollars how will this impact the u.s. stance in the region joining me now to discuss this further is former pentagon official michael maloof michael thank you so much for joining us first let's talk about the agreement by russia to sell the s four hundred events system to saudi arabia what can you tell us about that well it's an air defense system and i think it for the saudis it was a way a sweetener if you will to reopen negotiations and relations basically between

saudi arabia and russia they've been very tenuous for years it's been very very rocky relationship for quite some time this also implies that the saudis are undertaking more of an independent foreign policy of their own they're no longer looking upon the united states percent a as being the the guarantor of their security any longer and that's why they're now they're they're also looking not only toward the russians they basically agreed well looks like assad is going to be staying in syria so let's let's start working with the russians and maybe even with the iranians using the russians as a go between to sort of. smooth over their very very rough relationship and that seems to be a very recent turn question then is what does this mean for u.s. policy in the in the region basically it's in shambles we don't have a policy and that's what this is very. problematic and it's

a very worrisome because we're only. reacting the thing with the thad it's a different system than the than the s four hundred s. four hundred is more for aircraft the thing that is more for incoming missiles this was part of a two year ongoing negotiation between that states and and saudi arabia and of course they decided to go ahead and notify congress we're going to go ahead and approve it and it's part of that one hundred ten billion dollars deal. basically the saudis bought off the united states and what they are but when you look at their body language what are they doing diplomatically they're looking more toward the russians they're looking more and even deputy foreign minister but don off russian foreign minister. down off has offered to try and bridge the differences between saudi arabia and iran bring in turkey now turkey and u.s.

relationships are falling apart as a result of recent activities with stuff stopping visas and turkey is moving more toward russia and iran and and this you saw this recently over the whole. experience with qatar or the crisis in qatar and it took the russians to basically to get everybody in that in that sort of calm down i think you're going to see more activity by the members of the what we call the shanghai cooperation organization of which all of the players in the middle east have some association with it and you bring in the chinese on this chinese are showing a greater presence in in the mediterranean. there they're looking more toward investing they're going to probably in the vanguard of any reconstruction in syria when when that begins and you see russia also bringing in more of its fleet into

the eastern mediterranean in tartus actually shooting missiles against isis from the eastern med now so their position is becoming more and more concrete in the in the middle east and in the united states is is is in syria it wasn't even invited by by this said earlier if saudi arabia is to move for what the deal with russia that's going to be bad news for america i want to switch gears here a bit and talk about the around. well as we know trump is looking to you to certify the iran deal with the e.u. and the house said that iran has complied completely with the deal so in your opinion why is trump looking to you to certify the deal well he claimed that he didn't like it in the first place it was the worst deal it ever seen but ria in reality it's the best thing that has come along. including from other members of the united nations security council who also are signatories to that he can do

certify but he then he has then he has decided if he does certifies he then has an obligation under the. under the iranian. act of two thousand and fifteen passed by congress to meet certain criteria but it also has a waiver in there and he's what looking at congress basically to give him a thirty another thirty day window i think he can be persuaded not to completely drop out but what he's trying to do is leverage. iran and the allies particularly the allies to tighten up in concerns that they all have as well in terms of their banking in terms of humanitarian concerns that everyone has expressed in the past toward iran so it's a leveraging on his part i don't think it's going to kill the agreement by any means and i think it's probably going to continue on basically we're going to leave it right there thank you so much for your and say that is former pentagon official

michael maloof thank you so much and you. coming up on r t hospitals across the country are facing drug shortages in the wake of hurricane maria this story after a short break we'll be right back. martin when you said it's easier to pull people than to them. that could be why america is so divided because people have been faked a new need for. corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tales well here's a story for you it's called big and it's full of bad fiction. what politicians do such as you. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you were in the news for us and she. wanted us.

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that we're here today just are gather our community and also get the support of members of congress and the local community to just pressure congress to give puerto rico a larger relief aid package having to go at this time i mean it is providing the problem is the logistics how do they get. out of the port to get in the right people by hand exactly that's the main problem right now actually we still got more than one thousand containers in it in the poorest and one so it is not about the cheap cheap providers and not a right the problem is we don't have enough hands and drugs to get this stuff out of there this is the first time ever we've got food communication with him before here that happens before him and after him same thing with maria and they send those forty million dollars. for construction of highways and roads is one point

six billion dollars that has been already been sent to the island in different kind of programs food water before and during the year again and right now that's going to be approved a new package that is going fast tomorrow so i think congress is the acting as you know congress usually is slow in doing with this issue but this is the first time you had republicans and democrats in the same side. the ongoing crisis in puerto rico is igniting fears of nationwide drug shortages pharmaceuticals and medical services are the island's leading exports officials say the damage caused by hurricane maria has already disrupted production of a widely used intravenous solutions for more details across live to our teas brewarrina porton i and my amie several prominent hospitals across the country are reportedly scrambling to avert a same lean shortage following the disaster in puerto rico what do you know about that. well baxter international of

a company manufacturing sailing bags in puerto rico says multiple production days were lost in the wake of hurricane maria production of the bags are crucial for medical treatment because the solutions they contain are used to rehydrate patients and to dilute medications from antibiotics and painkillers to cancer drugs according to reports several prominent hospitals across across the country are scrambling to find alternative supplies change the way they minister drugs and devise backup plans to make the fluids themselves now baxter's spokesman says limited production of i.v. fluids is occurring at its puerto rico facilities in the meantime the company's working to leverage its global manufacturing footprint to support alternative production until operations are restored on the u.s. territory now according to reports puerto rico has become one of the world's biggest centers for pharmaceutical manufacturing more than four dozen f.d.a. approved drug making facilities are on the u.s. territory including ones owned by pfizer merrick eli lilly johnson and johnson

among many others the plants produce treatments for cancer and hiv as well as immunosuppressants for patients with organ transplants the blood thinner. and the cholesterol drug lipitor are reportedly among the top selling medications manufactured in puerto rico. could the failing shortage be a preview of further drug shortages resulting from the extensive damage to puerto rico's former pseudo coal manufacturing sector. well several manufacturers recently said they didn't anticipate product shortages because their facilities were heavily affected by the hurricane however many locals on the island who work at the plant say it's been a challenge to commute to the facilities and to get products in and out let's remember electricity remains scarse on the island according to the department of defense or only sixteen percent of puerto rico's residents have electricity nearly half of the island's operating hospitals are running on generators the commissioner

of the food and drug administration released a statement acknowledging even facilities with only minor damage are working at just partial capacity and warned new drug shortages could result from these disruptions and shortages that existed before the storms could potentially be extended in the meantime several hospital officials are calling on the f.d.a. and drug makers operating proto rico to release more information about what other products may be soon in short supply speaking of short supply of the trump administration is not extending its jones act waiver for puerto rico it expires sunday night so what does that mean or how does that leave three point four million americans in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. well that essentially means that the u.s. territory decimated by hurricane maria will go back to paying double the shipping costs for food and supplies why because the jones act requires that goods shipped between u.s. ports be carried by ships built and operated by americans the department of

homeland security said extending the initial ten day waiver is necessary to support the humanitarian relief efforts on the island has faced widespread pressure from lawmakers including senator john mccain to waive the act in order to speed up the shipment of aid to puerto rico now according to a political morning called poll only thirty two percent of americans believe the federal government has done enough for puerto rico meanwhile nearly fifty percent of americans think the troubled ministration responded well to texas lose louisiana and florida after those states were hit by hurricanes as of this morning forty five deaths have been reported. in puerto rico attributed to hurricane maria meanwhile reports of lepto spring a bacterial disease are beginning to emerge on the island the devastation wrought by hurricane maria is threatening to exacerbate puerto rico's financial crisis prompted by its seventy four billion dollar debt so how long before the territory

receives federal eight. well house lawmakers unveiled a bill tuesday night that would provide thirty six and a half billion dollars in emergency funding for hurricane and wild fire relief requested by the trump administration the bill also includes a provision that would give puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands access to four point nine billion dollars in low interest treasury loans so the island doesn't run out of cash as it recovers now that funding is needed to help puerto rico pay government salaries and other expenses after oct thirty first which would help avert a shutdown the u.s. territory has been operating in bankruptcy since may which makes it nearly impossible for the government to borrow on its own so hopefully as this bill makes it's the floor of the house and then eventually to the senate the emergency funding will be approved and puerto rico will be able to at least pay salaries because this island has a long road to recovery ahead of it officials are still estimating it may be six

months before the u.s. territory gets all of its electricity back arena thank you so much for an update on puerto rico that was marina porn i am reporting and the miami things now to baltimore were two police officers have agreed to face disciplinary action for their roles in the arrest and subsequent death of twenty five year old freddie gray the attorney for the case would not disclose exactly what actions are being taken to hold officers garrett miller and weren't nero accountable for their actions this comes out of a third police officer pleaded guilty for robbing an illegally detaining residence while billing the city for overtime worse thirty seven year old jim mellor jambo is one of eight officers on in the lead gun squad indicted for racketeering forcing the prosecutors to drop more than one hundred cases involving the officers. the u.s. supreme court denied

a petition by private prison corporations that were seeking to block the release of government documents about their immigration detention practices the center for constitutional rights and detention and watch network filed a lawsuit that argued that the government must release the details of its contracts with private prison corporations the country's two largest private prison corporations geo group and corrections corporation of america recently were branded as a core civic eventually petition the supreme court for a full review of the case the supreme court's decision rejected the private prisons attempt to uphold government secrecy to discuss this further we are now joined by paul wright director of the human rights defense center and editor of prison legal news thank you so much for joining us paul now the attorney get a schwartz who followed the lawsuit said quote this outcome is a decisive victory for government transparency and a reminder that private companies do not have the right to try to overturn

government decisions regarding the release of information to the public so how will this a ruling affect the power and influence of private prisons. well i think it's an important ruling because i think the big thinking that what the private prison companies tried to do here is after the government had agreed to disclose the records that had been that a loss had been filed over to disclose they sought to intervene to basically keep the records secret over the government's objections i mean this is really almost a case of the of the tail wagging the dog here where the contractor is going to decide what the government can and can't disclose about its operations so the or ruling is pretty significant. in that sense but as far as. the overall i should say the cult of secrecy almost surrounds the private prison industry in this country especially with federal prison contractors is still on addressed and is still wrote

probably one of the things that the human rights defense center has been trying to get congress to change is this loophole in the federal freedom of information act law that it does not apply to government contractors so their words in this case that the power of homeland security could be ordered to disclose its records relating to their relationship with these private prison companies it is not possible to directly suit a private prison companies and get the records that they hold with regards to how they operate. federal immigration prisons or federal our criminal prisons for the bureau of prisons so there's still so i want to salute good ruling there's still actually a huge gap in terms of what can actually be stopped from private prison companies operating or the federal government poll corrections corporation of america it's been around for about thirty years and has a long record of prisoner abuses and doubt said in poor pay and benefits to

employees prison riots and lawsuits so it raises the question is privatizing prisons a good idea and what about accountability and public oversight. well there has to there really is no public oversight of private prisons and that's one of the things be human rights defense center as opposed to not just prison pride as a ship of the privatization of the rest of our criminal justice system as well on a couple of different graduates of the site i think the only people that really benefit from prison privatization trouble just as privatization are the owners of the companies that. get these contracts but those far as taxpayers go the general public are incarcerated citizens they definitely do not that if it. so and i think the long history of corrections corporation of america who apparently tired of being associated with the riots the deaths and the rapes that occur in their company rebranded themselves than in course to pick. the lack of transparency in

the secrecy of these companies to operate in is a really critical component of basically their whole m.o. and how they get these contracts and how they perpetuate their their operations and that's one of things that i think that. the public in general and i think the news media in particular really needs to be. aware of this and i think oppose it because it's not the government run prisons are that much better or any better than privately run prisons and they're generally not any more transparent but the difference is that as a general rule we have a means to state and federal public records laws because out of court and seek the records that we want to seek the information about how these facilities are operating when it comes to the private prison companies that mechanism is not there as a general rules are set at the federal at the federal level there is no. federal

freedom of information act that compels them to provide documents and so i think that's one of the big loopholes that currently exists is that. there are. uncertain able to get a degree of secrecy by contracting these operations out to private companies that they would not have if they're performing these functions themselves and i think that's so this is totally unacceptable paul were a little short on time i doubt many civil rights in groups the may have been arguing that the profit motive provide an incentive to keep incarceration rates high would you agree with that if after that oh i am to a degree i agree with but i think that prison privatization is a symptom of mass incarceration is not the cause of it i think that one of things that's made it harder to change mass incarceration policies is it's now a lot of stakeholders that profit immensely from the status quo of mass incarceration so we've just added another. group of special interests the benefits

of feeding at the government trough in the form of privatized incarceration but there's plenty of other players that are not privatized everyone from guards unions to district attorneys to sheriffs police chiefs of plenty of other people that are not privatized or on the payroll and they're benefiting immensely from mass incarceration or high rates of incarceration and as a result they have little that sort of change that power going to have to leave it there thank you so much for your and say that was paul right director of the human rights depend center and editor of prison legal news. coming up on our teeth spain's prime minister tells catalonian leaders respect spanish a wall will have the latest from barcelona in just a moment stay with us. mark twain said it's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled that could be why america is

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all come back to spain now where spain's prime minister mariano rajoy has called on catalonia as a leadership to respect spanish law addressing the country's parliament he added that there was no possible mediation between democratic law and disobedience r.t. then a stasi a churkin now has more. it's impossible to start a dialogue on something prohibited by the constitution and this is something that those numerous mediators who offered to help broker a solution for this crisis or most of them with the best intentions should take into account i have to thank them for their involvement and interest but mediation is not possible between a democratic law and disobedience and a lawful us. the spanish prime minister mariano reported in the latest statements that he's made said he wants a clarification he said this earlier today to the press he said this at the

congress and he wants marcello to really clarify whether or not they have actually declared independence now in the speech or hoyt said that he hinted that article one hundred fifty five of the spanish constitution is still not completely out of the picture now this particular article is quite crucial because it would be unprecedented for it to be used it would be something that would freeze basically the autonomy of catalonia now this is not happened yet but for it to be able to even be considered madrid does need to hear from barcelona whether or not independence has actually been declared let's take a listen to the cabinet as a rule to seek a formal. from the government minister whether or not it's declared independence which got the warning letter to computer mis recliners is necessarily going to actually read that article one hundred fifty five of the constitution that all the measures. will love these statements come following the events of tuesday night which was supposed to be a huge historic key night

a years in the making where the catalan leader was expected by many to declare independence for catalonia following the referendum of october first but will wait have seen instead is cast lead leader karla's which demands can all age the independence but he said it would be suspended for several weeks of negotiations to potentially take place with madrid and obviously now we have a situation where madrid remains confused and catalonia today we haven't heard anything from put him on and that regard quite yet now it has to be said that his the non-secular ration of independence very straightforwardly was seen by somebody as something that raised eyebrows because of course the referendum created so much noise and concern and left nobody in difference including with the violence that had problems on the day of the referendum that people really expected him to go ahead and the fact that he did and was seen by some as a betrayal. we will not return to any parliamentary activity until steps towards the implementation of republic. well this is

a statement from the c u p which is a crucial party in the castle and regional parliament which does along with juice policy which is together for yes block a group of pieces that do support the issue of independence and so they are quite crucial in terms of being able to coordinate obviously with the council on leader moving forward and at this point it looks like at least here in barcelona carlos pushed him on needs to decide whether or not he's going to try to continue to sit on many chairs at once because he is now in a situation where madrid is unhappy the people who came out and voted in the referendum some of them of course are. not understanding why the ration of independence didn't quite take place as soon as expected because if we remember he said it would come within forty eight hours of announcing official results so really a lot at stake here right now obviously including we've heard from the spanish prime minister a rough voice himself acknowledge that this is the biggest crisis the country has

seen in decades so how this is going to be unraveled is anybody's guess but dialogue right now is not quite taking place watching the hawks is coming up next year on our t.v. to have a bill wallace joins us for a quick preview hi there to have high well on tonight's me watching the hawks we're going to ask a very important question of how far should we allow law enforcement to go in order to catch the worst of the worst then we discover how far the f.b.i. is willing to go in order to protect factory farms and finally sean stone talks to the future of puerto rico in the aftermath of hurricane trump all right we look forward to seeing your show thanks so much you all that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america also check out our website our team for slash america you can also follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t and don't forget to question for.

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this piece of dedicated to a very funny man named jim bill kimball that's what wendy the slow adult calls her friend jimmy kimmel when he is a member of howard stern's wack pack which is a bunch of people stirring regularly features on the show they're all pretty crazy like they have funny voices and many of them have either physical or mental disability and they're all great and jimbo kimball had gone on to join a bunch of times and had fun with them so jim bill kimball was on stern just a few weeks ago and when he was on it too and they talk about how she poops her diaper and whether or not she's having sex with a helping hand worker at wal-mart symbol actually asked wendy who is literally a special needs woman if she knows how babies are made and they use the words they trump gotten so much trouble for the p.

word over and over again and jimbo kimble is laughing hysterically but whole time then later in the show it gets even more un-p.c. they start talking with ronnie the limo driver another stern regular about is that they talk about rings for gentleman to wear and their sex organs and how they're great for punching her with your deep and then jimbo actually talks about his own wife's private parts calling it over and over again molly the c. word except he doesn't think the word he says the actual word in thought and keeps cracking up over it like he's practically crying with laughter say his wife's work and then not even a month later he just sent don trump jr a link to his father saying the p word to remind him of what his father is like and i guess his father supposed to be bad because he used this word even though he just . to use the p. word over and over again with

a special needs woman he even used this the word about his own wife now i'm a thing jimbo interview when stern wasn't funny i'm saying it was. but him getting all self righteous after and being so vulgar himself that is not so funny the biggest irony there is that also in the interview jim bill says he's not going to get political i was so happy when he said that but then not even a month later he's out there not only getting political but blatantly shilling for one side immediately alienating so many people and dividing the country which is exactly what we don't need if you want to talk health care jim will have bernie sanders am rand paul on your show to represent both sides or how about you just take a bunch of your millions open up a clinic in compton and you can tell anyone whatever you do jimbo i beg you don't get bought off by a political party like this and remember who you are you are jimbo kimball

a very funny man and that's what this country needs from you right now not more divisive partisan politics. would you have for breakfast why would you put the fantasies your wife. should do or like to name and what your biggest fear are little bit on the right wing so let's talk a little old to see if you have that since the first quarter but. it's boring topic so simple. now i do do do to push through more.

i need to know more of the. total. not even the. oh you ought to go to. sleep.

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