another part which is college students they don't like the idea they always make it really difficult for college students to vote obviously because they live in one place it's not that complicated but if you live in one place and you have to do this one of the things you should know about that though is the federal education administration what they had said is that fifty five percent of college students at this point are women and that number is rising incrementally so automatically more women will be impacted by voting single women single and the idea is all while they're in college they must be liberal. but that's that's how you will you know that they want to keep liberal single women from voting or women in general because you that's where the name thing comes in about your married names who yeah that's a good point plus a little bit what is the most to grow as to exactly so here's the one that i was think it's strange that gets left off the list is that victims of domestic violence violence it's not as if their abuser is sitting at home going do you have your idea did you make sure you guys voter registration chances are this woman is probably

not allowed to go where she wants to go and she is ultimately being kept from voting because she's in an abusive relationship when you take into account things like disability and the financial issues and everything else that is required even though there are laws saying you have to be able to go be allowed to vote that doesn't happen and women are often the ones who take on the burden of child care of everything and they do so accurately pointed out in the beginning you know when you set the story that's what he sees such a gender disparity of congress that's also why you see such a racial disparity of exactly don't want the minorities where they were you know what it meant all or or women have a voice and they were trouble trouble trouble as we go to break called watchers don't forget to let us know what you think about proper discover the facebook and twitter so you have full shows that are too dot com coming up we discover the devastating impacts of last fall's hurricane season is still being felt today in one of the most important sectors of industries in the new. no i did state. the

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young teenagers here but rather a chain of tragic coincidences that now threatens to bring about the truly terrifying public health crisis you see as the mainstream media was debating the president's attitude and technique as he tossed out paper towel rolls to aid workers in puerto rico what nobody on television was talking about was the fact that americans caribbean colony is also home to many of the nation's ivy's salient fluid plans or that the recovery effort has moved at such a glacial pace that approximately half of the island still remains without power and finally at this year's the looming flu season is predicted to be the worst in history so hot watchers to help us understand just how grave this crisis may be getting we're joined today by dr abe malcolm a practicing physician entrepreneur and medical director of an end home i.v. hydration service welcome. i already do i want to start dr asking you in light of this current flu outbreak the you know we're talking about in california new york you know that they're facing is any of the current issues of you know

affecting i.v. fluid supply lines and production stemming from the devastation hurricane maria and others caused to puerto rico and other medical suppliers in the caribbean last fall they're getting affected by this. certainly you know there's a top three production companies one of them being baxter has most of their production capacity based out of puerto rico they represent about sixty percent of the total fluid market and they've been pretty much wiped out or drastically reduced in terms of their production to get capacity. due to that hospitals across the country are facing a shortage of i.v. fluids and being forced to use other methods of providing fluids to patients whether being smaller bags of fluids or perhaps even other types of fluids other than normal sailing which would typically not be used. on the highway the headlines on this are focusing mostly on the flu obviously we have a really bad flu season this year but how is this affected patients with long term

illnesses you know there's people you know who are going through cancer treatment or going through other treatment where they have immune system problems and need those i.v. fluids on a regular basis they may not only need i.v. is that they need certain types of infusions and because of the f.x. that have been recognized as a problem haven't i guess the question is what did we recognize this is a problem for months did we see it coming and how do we. thanks that. is really the quest and i gotta share so to just your first part of the question unfortunately hostiles where you're seeing is you know nurses being forced to push medicines to patients you know whether it's antibiotics or other types of medicines i would normally be infused with along with i.v. fluids over a you know a longer duration of time thirty minutes or an hour or so now they're having to be pushed with less fluids which can sometimes be detrimental to patients not an ideal situation so it certainly is affecting patient care in terms of other question whether we could have seen this problem coming this is actually been

a problem for several years now unfortunately both due to production capacity limitations on the part of the manufacturers but also on part of the what's called group purchasing organizations that actually distribute the fluids to the hospitals there's been chronic shortages and this just exacerbated an already difficult situation what you know i want to ask you this is what kind of other other alternatives out there to kind of help offset the shortage and are they you know are the worthwhile and the valid can we rely on you know part of the kind of what you know what we're kind of scrambling to do right now. yeah good question so you know the f.d.a. is actually fast tracking companies that are looking to produce i.v. fluids fast tracking their applications trying to get them into the market as quickly as possible they've also been looking at getting companies overseas to allow them to provide i.v. fluids to the to the u.s. market so you know it difficult for a company to start from scratch build

a facility and produce the food it takes approximately thirty steps in the production process and. up to a month to actually get the production up and running so it's better for them to focus on getting supplies elsewhere rather be overseas or fast tracking applications from smaller companies. one of two questions one i guess out of that is is this something that we have a problem producing here in the united states or is it simply down there for. for cost like most things it's made yeah it's mainly done there for cost but it again is a stress it's it's very labor intensive to produce a sterile bag of sailin you know there's multiple steps they have to go through to ensure quality make sure there's no bacteria or other infections in it when they create the bag so you know it has to be done to very close monitoring and it's a time in labor intensive process which again is most things are done outside the us because labor is cheaper there. well let me ask you this are there other areas in the medical industry besides these i.v.

bags that are being affected by the essentially this weather events last year the hurricanes and things like that is there anything else beyond worrying about you know across the board all medical supplies are. pretty much produced outside the u.s. and in puerto rico specifically you know sterile gloves catheters tubing and equipment that are used in the hospital on an everyday basis you know hospitals have been forced to to resort to other methods to use other types of materials that they wouldn't otherwise be used so i think across the board you know you'll see hospitals becoming creative about how to provide services to patients without their normal supplies that they would have on hand what does this say about the current status of the us you know health care industry if you know not that there's were these storms were like you know aggressive and kind of out of nowhere i mean they're not out of nowhere but you know we saw them coming and all that but the fact that these three hurricanes are so damaging our health care industry what it what does that say about where our industry stands today. yeah i mean it's

certainly you know dominated by a couple of big players you know baxter being one of them as hospira being another one you know so you're certainly certainly seeing some large players at the top of the market that pretty much dominate the health care organ in the market and then below that you're seeing intermediaries or middlemen called group purchasing organizations that pretty much dictate who gets the supplies from those large organizations so there's some degree. a conflict there in terms of how the you know the products are being manufactured and how they're being distributed to the hospitals and clinics that are in dire need of them i think that certainly needs to be evaluated and actually there has been some movement over the past few years to work on this but again whenever it comes to dealing with large organizations you know they have a strong lobby it's very difficult to change the current practices. around the how long do you think this will take before we start seeing the middle east and primary

caregivers or primary situations that they will be getting their supplies do you think how long do you think that'll take. you know the f.d.a. is sort of under the gun right now to get the supplies to the patients so there so as i mentioned they're trying multiple efforts to get supplies to the hospital clinic as quickly as possible they've estimated that within the next four to six weeks we should see a dramatic improvement in the supply and then over the next four to six months likely we'll see increased production capacity which will which will hit the market in several months is there anything that you would recommend to the. average john q citizen jane q citizen because look these natural disasters are not going to go away anytime soon there are probably only going to get worse if you follow climate change things like that what can the medical industry do better to prepare and handle for situations like these and what can average citizens do to also be prepared and better prepared versus georgians like those yes certainly i mean the hospitals do

a fairly good job of being ready for flu season and in the over over staff providers they try to get supplies on hand but you know even doubling down on those efforts could certainly be helpful on the hospital or clinic side for individuals you know really getting yourself ready for flu season by getting your vaccine making sure you're doing things to maintain your health and sleeping staying hydrated using vitamins you know there are private companies that will do i.v. hydration you can visit those in get yourself and you do so you're not at risk for getting the flu and once you do if you do have the flu you know make sure you see your doctor make sure you're not trying to just work through it but you see a medical professional make sure getting the care you need i'll ask a doctor one. as a practitioner as somebody who's out there in the field what is one of the one thing that you would want to change if you could if you had that magic wand what's the one thing you'd like to change most about about the industry today. i mean access to care is always an issue so what happens is people you know have

a small issue don't end up seeing a provider whether because they aren't insured they don't have access your provider there's a limited number. voters out there and then that small problem becomes a bigger problem becomes a much more costly problem the system so i think if we hadn't you know the community of the country could focus on prevention more than treating disease once the the present that would end up helping the system quote it's brilliant well thank you so much good for coming out of the doctor welcome pleasure to have you. feel phobia is a fancy term for an unnatural fear of snakes though for people who may require the service of the clodomiro he could oh instituting coast rica there is probably nothing on natural about fearing snakes or any animals for that matter for the rest of their allies the institute or as its employees all lovingly refer to it the serpent area is home to over five hundred of the world's deadliest and rarest venomous snakes drawing its ranks from perhaps some of the world's bravest souls

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their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. ecuador grant citizenship key to wiki leaks a chief julian a son who has been unable to leave the country's embassy in london for more than five years. and. undercover report suggests twitter prevents users from seeing certain kinds of political content through a technique known as shadow banning. president putin says that the north korean leader kim jong un has won the latest round in the ongoing nuclear standoff with western powers i.

broadcast in live directionless to these moscow this is our john thomas surely glad to have you with us. julian assange has been granted citizenship by ecuador a country that has been hosting him at its embassy in london since two thousand and twelve after he requested political asylum and he's honest as he explains what the move could mean for the weekend leaks chief unfortunately for julian assange continues to be quite complicated as this long winded saga continues if you remember the rumors were spread last night following him tweeting a picture of himself wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors stirring lots and lots of rumors online and in the press about the possibility of him potentially having received ecuadorian citizenship now and tonight we have got a confirmation of this here is what the ecuadorian foreign minister had to say. this naturalization was granted on the twelfth of december twenty seventeen the

ecuadorian government is empowered to crohn's nationality status to the protected person the big question remains what happens in terms of the british officials reaction's who have been clear over and over again that if he does walk out of the embassy they would still arrest him because of him having breached his bail conditions at the time of when he initially went into the embassy obviously the biggest fear for julian assange continues to be a possible extradition to the u.s. where of course he is wanted for all the work that we can leaks have been doing in terms of exposing the actions of the american government we do know that ecuadorian officials have. did that britain allow for julian assange to have diplomatic immunity or diplomatic status and this has been a big no from the u.k. who said they're not going to go ahead with this kind of plan we did hear from the officials of ecuador that they're going to continue and have been negotiating with britain still to try to find a solution as we know also the foreign minister has said that the situation with julian assange has become unsustainable and it's time to move his case along now we

here at r t have spoken to the people in ecuador about what they think of his case let's take a look from within the political he does need human rights support and i think that's what the government will give him there is also a health issue because we know he's enclosed in a very small space there are many things that cross my mind is he healthy enough to stay there. the muzzle of a will to use a refugee policy and support him in this way. all of this of course despite the fact that the initial case carried out by sweden and followed by sweden in terms of sexual allegations made against him has been dropped so the reaction there would be that that would potentially open the gate for him to have more freedom ability in this whole case but that hasn't happened obviously of course we saw what is such as the united nations see that has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london could be seen as arbitrary detention so certainly it's a very complicated case of course that has been going on for years and years but it

seems that this is a step forward so we're going to have to wait and see whether this particular latest step ends up leading anywhere we discussed of the options for a songe with george barda a political activist and social justice campaigner he thinks the political stakes for the u.k. will outweigh legal concerns the basis on which the the u.k. authorities would arrest him apparently is for breaking bad conditions so the charges in terms of the case in sweden has now been dropped. maybe there will. an extradition attempt and as various kind of international bodies have found when they've looked into it the chance of getting a free and fair trial in the us. minimal with the robert miller investigation and the allegations about collusion between the trunk campaign and wiki leaks there's obviously. a sort of politicize ation element potentially around this case

with bricks it looming in the u.k. obviously wants a positive treatment from the u.s. as it leaves europe and in terms of potential trade deal you know so there are concerns of this will this will be treated politically rather than legally. if nobody is retreating you on twitter that could be because the social network is censoring you by imposing a so-called shadow ban the move has come to light in the latest undercover investigation by project veritas one. that. shattered the excuse that from want to. thank you for the show she know what she should. think that no one. will you know. the group behind the revelations has a make stripy taishan it has been accused of getting information and infiltrating organizations under false pretenses project very tough has also been criticized for

heavily editing material to deliver its point the group's founder james o'keefe is a conservative political activist and as some say he has a strong political agenda to smear con has more. both the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks controversial users and another employee says twitter is trying to ban a certain way of talking online so they're going to go their way the simply the user the things that. we've seen and you know. it's good to see them in the mindset of the way it's called the twitter can also apparently dig into its users profiles and conversation history to figure out their political leanings and then determine whether or not they should be banned and another issue that came up was julian

assange just twitter account and the fact that it was deleted without explanation a couple weeks ago but an employee was asked about it and he did hint at one possible reason. but you. know. what we can't verify if these are real twitter employees are not and if they are they definitely could be lying but we've requested twitter's comments on all of this but we haven't heard from them as yet but regardless the whole issue is definitely something to investigate further the executive director of project very tonsil russell verney spoke to our t. about these twitter revelations. is twitter overstepping it well if they're sharing information with the federal government voluntarily i think i would think they would be overstepping however whenever you're ready as goes onto a website they agreed to the policies of that website and if you look through the per proxy policies of twitter it gives them the right to every bit of information

you have opposed you deleted and they have the right to sell that information given away so we're giving away an awful lot to these companies when they come out and publicly say they want to be the public forum for free speech yet they're censoring free speech and they're slanting what free speech can or can't be heard and then there's a problem. u.s. army is looking for help to access and respond to foreign social media platforms with a system so sophisticated it can even understand and use slang the ad was posted on a site for federal contractors are to skim up and has more. now the ad was posted on the website of government opportunities and it calls for people to work at the request of the u.s. army intelligence and security command and the task they're asking for would be the creation of software that can read social media posts and determine and distinguish

the positive from the negative now they're looking for the software to go from there and create replies in the same tone as the original now the software actually is requested to include a number of languages among them farsi korean and russian now this is quite interesting in light of the fact that all throughout media allegations have been made that in russia there are troll farms or armies of bots being deployed to influence the united states of these social media but this advertisement talking about hiring someone on behalf of at the request of intelligence in the united states it essentially calls and it appears as if the u.s. army is looking to do the same thing the very same thing that russia is accused of doing now we have actually reached out to the pentagon for information about this and clarification about what activities this potential software would be deployed for what kinds of operations and such we have not received

a reply former m i five officer any much shaun told my colleague nicky aron that she's not surprised that the us is seeking to develop such software that the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about so-called russian troll phones influencing elections across the west and it's interesting to see that the language is that thing for the anguish of iran and of course north korea and russia so that would be a bit of a sort of give away about which countries they want to be targeting having said that though the timing to me is interesting because for sure the west has been running. against the other countries as well for a long time and so they just trying to expand their operations by developing this new software or they trying to disingenuously suggest to people that actually have done it before any of the big bad russians.