national says it's very concerned about how police in north dakota have treated protesters it says the use of force by police violates protesters rights to a peaceful protest i watched people shot with rubber bullets i watched peaceful prayerful water protectors get mason pepper sprayed and none of them fighting back one time we had better and all around the world. to stand with over four thousand veterans that ten thousand people and that's what happened here there was an awakening because there was an awakening tribes now know that this is a turning point for us to try to make our lives better and come away from. what the federal government has left who supported a bulwark that was outdated they're not able people are wondering if they're going to and not not tomorrow. right here where the upcoming approaches that's where the pipeline crossing actually is michiru coming up here on the right and you could

turn marriage turn around. we could see a well bred there were to land this guard. dog but on the goes over to deal. now on . the new. policy. so this is this is our community cannonball these are white house thing and urban development sure they're lower income housing and the rent depends on the salaries that you make so the incentive not to work because if you don't have income you don't have to pay for the house there's not enough. mana people who live here right so we get little things like this this is a fee much trailer during katrina they need a temporary hall before they got and and after housing was a needed they immigrated them and they shipped them up here for. all the problem

with these trailers is they are very low efficient so cost a hundred bucks a month. in the wintertime eight hundred bucks a month to cool in the summertime. so it's just a bad design that's a bad bit i mean it's one the solution and all that and i'll be ready for this climate but it's it's better than nothing what we got here this is the kind of school so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well they anticipated that you're comin in this area and being that you can't be within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people seeing stuff that was leaked or

biological and chemical products said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from exposure from the burn pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay a. call for help and get the middle finger to be used to model is. delayed and i hope he does. i think terry's indeed to have potential. to come out of this impasse of

implementing the minsk everyman's by recreating the un peace operation this is very sensitive politically was contributing countries to believe and show the offer troops it's off to decide to. be half so confidence and to come to ask not. to move. pretty. quickly. right now what we've got here this is the kind of school so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well. anticipated come in this area. within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. to

turn left. and stephen does his best to get further than fifty feet away from the school. which is one hundred feet of earth. what we're going to do is drive straight up here and we will just. turn left here back in there to go out to see what a street. i'm going to be. a big test being. creative and just put a cherry on top and say hey dave i've driven these suckers a whole bunch and. it's it's it's your lamp but it's my arm actually it belongs to the good people that outdoorsy ok. i was just going to help you. steven and dave head inside so stephen can get a little more person. you

stars because you're a little rambunctious humor but you have your knowledge is extensive like you almost talk like a lawyer but you don't have a lot of gray so i'm just wondering how would you have shifted all this knowledge. here where did you find the time to go to law school i went to law school i got an honorary degree from vermont. they asked me to come to give a particular i went and i was on it is. there are. very very rigorous you heard of trying to discuss. these law school and it's a dr of law what makes it even better so i got a doctorate degree we could be that quick from there where you from did you play ball which i was raised on the pine ridge reservation all the way up to sixth grade my dad was a coach he was the head coach for basketball he was the head coach for cross-country

and in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine his team won. country states by the time i reached sixth grade he became the director slash basketball coach for united types technical college so he brought us up to bismarck north dakota after high school. she actually snag me if you remember nicole was dave's wife from the last episode. became my high school we ended up going to bismarck state college so who talked to first so i'll tell you what happened. that's what i want to know we were we were. good friends her dad worked with my dad but she didn't know. i had a major crush on her she was like the most beautiful tree in the world and then when i was a senior and i was playing basketball. i said if i score thirty

points today and i get a kiss this is ok so what the cold doesn't know is that i can score anytime i want but i don't i try to get the team i'm a team player i want everybody to skip school. so. we play tennis court thirty points. so then that i get a kiss and it's like wired into this place buzzing usually you know there's an old saying. when you're dating someone you want to score some points you literally took as the literal idea and then order to score some points you had to score some points you can ask her if that's true. and she'll confirm that i think we'll even then she was hopeful that i would score so we both went to school we want to go to state university and you know there's there's something about both

the call and i that song usual both books chose to come back standing up and raise our kids here now the grass always seems greener off the reservation but we were both raised on his base and we turned out ok so what's wrong with this picture here does something wrong what has to change are the codes one how do you change the codes you have to become the government you have to become the code maker you have to be on a tribal council to get into politics and i get on tribal council first and if they've got a chance i just say i'm going to run and so i put my name in the hat and nail. salon launchable council and i come in my mother and this far apart after four years my mother touch it because i think it's i'm one of seventeen and i can't change it i can't reform the government my two years go by and the chairman succumbed. so when i came in ninety left in two thousand and thirteen. and in order

for us to accomplish economic development business the woman order first to accomplish government reform in order for us to get the workforce and the skill set that answer lies within education and lies with investing in our youth so as a chairman. there was a focus on. what we can do for the kids how can we empower our kids. it's a back outside problem or. dave take stephen outside to show him the view and also help him understand the problems brewing in his backyard well dave this is the view from your backyard here this is it and you know this beautiful body of water. right here where we're looking was once where the cannonball community was and this is a result of the flood control act if you look at the river it's not a liver anymore it's a lake so what the federal government that in one thousand nine hundred forty pass

a pix lonna and in fifty it actually flooded. because of the flood it killed all the cottonwood trees it killed all the plants and killed all the natural habitat and we were forced to relocate on the hilltops so that's why our community is up here today so i understand before this what looks like a lake there is a thriving part of your career in. industry or businesses coming out of it or yeah there was it was easy access to the side of the river so we had our tribal members they were able to cross the river and they were able to help the farmers and ranchers on that side if you go further south along the river they have a hotel they have. a bank and they have a railroad system where your reasons for this had to be in the forty's so there was a thriving economy that was. a result of the river but when the federal government flooded the land those industries those businesses died but this is just

an example you have three infrastructure projects that have a significant impact on our people and when i say significant impact i mean literally changing the way we live if you can see where the towers that is where the pipeline goes there's a high chair. that can break and if it gets into water the spill response plan the company has pushed everything on to this side of the river not the site that's off the reservation sort of pushed everything this is right below my house and they're saying this is where we're going to clean it up when we say what impact is it going to have unless they say oh it's there's no impact you have nothing to worry about but we know it is because we were told the same thing over and over in the past and i say what why do you need this infrastructure project what's the reason for crossing the river with this pipeline. this point and they said well we need it for three reasons we need it for economic development we need it for energy

independence for this nation and we need it for national security so i said. we already pay for. energy independence with this dam you create hydro power we're already paying for it we already pay for national security you take in the gold on the black hills to back your currency we're already paying for economic development you took our land those three things our people have been paying for we continue to pay for it we pay the cost now who benefits we live in a state of dependency we have high rates of poverty we have. all the symptoms that's the cost that we pay for this nation and our ancestors suffered the most so it's our responsibility to remember that you know the messaging today either in the culture or in the media or whatever is like you know of the problems with native american indians today that's all stuff to talk about when i. know anybody what do you think about that they'll say well that was an us we were not

the ones who took your land that was our ancestors so get over it they don't really understand that that behavior that was done in the one thousand nine hundred seventy eight hundred is happening today and it's the two thousand that's happening right now and that i play is a perfect example of it it's twenty seven. the technology that we still have these squabbles and whatever it's funny because there are so many times when you're talking and i'm listening and i'm risk on or when i say something but the problem has been listening that's why he's been so quiet the step is and the lack of understanding. across the country with with all the issues i think it's just more it's mostly people wanting to be heard and having a willingness to listen to tell me what in all of who you are and all of which is said what's america to you to me personally absolute straight up. america represents this is my

perspective and i don't want to offend anybody but it represents somebody who is a perpetrator who. raped somebody early on. did it again. did it again. and everybody thinks it's ok and awakening that she here is the first nations the first people of these lands the first of these lands saying that that's not right and listen for once like we don't have to be the victim anymore so in order for you to not be the victim you have to learn how to forgive not forget but let's learn how to forgive and let's find a way so that our children and their children and their children have a better than we have today i'm no longer going to be the chairman. it was honor and a privilege for me but i'm focusing on now what can i do to continue

to move on to need to. make change. inspired not just new things are standing right but where for all sounds pretty good sir thank you again we should think of. this part of the pilgrimage has come to an end as our hero says goodbye to dave he's bequeaths with the kids. with the sacred tribal seal for date this is a pretty big deal for steve in his game further insight into the problems facing the ancestors of the original americans. now our hero sets his sights on the midwest where he will hopefully find macs and continue on its great hearing.

next time on the great american pilgrimage he's got a good gig for the next eight years now. i was told by your crew. then that i would get credits in production. for feeding them yeah they were all three of them working there and then the end and we can do that i have the power to do that all of us old enough that all the know we get a wife who just knew had more than. one so the. i think there is indeed a potential to come out of this impasse of implementing the means grievance by cream on the un peace operation this is very sensitive politically

contributing countries to be eventually offer troops it's off to decide it's good to. be house confidence and to have small. to me. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with we korea colonies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline to almost a decade how good are the results to solo fifteen usually peaceful by the people gathered in which to watch it all get people to see what do i do. to treat it beautiful blue she was i mean to for legal. challenge nothing more than this she

did not was always think it's the standard thing and not getting paid while the same mission is still in place to one of the consequences to weaken bluebirds food dispute who will first root. the truth. is this is. quite acceptable to the decision makers.

the week's top stories from julian assange has given ecuadorian citizenship but nonetheless he remains holed up in the country's london embassy as britain says he'll face arrest if he steps out. of pentagon plans to develop software to automatically post messages responses on social media. oval office outburst in the week this global clash over the u.s. president's alleged crude remarks about immigrants from africa in central america.

sunday afternoon here in moscow welcome you know when he was alive with the weekly roundup of the big stories of the last seven days and first on thursday ecuador announced to the ground to wiki leaks founder julian assange citizenship he's been holed up of course in the country's london embassy for over five years now off to seeking political asylum there but he's still unable to leave as the u.k. refuses to grant him diplomatic immunity and says he must surrender first and face justice laura smyth recaps the weeks to butt out. billion us on this photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesn't do things unless they mean something and then we saw reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a national identity number so he's been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of this follows a statement earlier this week from the foreign minister of ecuador saying that the

situation of our son's living here in the embassy is unsustainable and asking for the first time for a third party mediator either another country or another person to see if they could help to resolve this issue with a person can't live in those conditions. we're considering the option of mediation . don't have said that could be done virus didn't country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations and it's no wonder that she wants a resolution because of course it's been five and a half years since our son's first went into the embassy behind me cause there have been developments in his case along the line most notably possibly last year we didn't drop the investigation into sex allegations against him but the u.k. authorities still say that if he sets foot outside this embassy they will arrest him because he of course jumped bail when he went into the embassy and wiki leaks still fears and onward extradition to the united states so what we're seeing at

which you are making moves quite concerted moves to try and resolve the situation but the u.k. government still remains intractable on the issue even after all this time it's very unclear when and what will be the ending of this saga now or smith well u.s. officials have refused to comment on the matter but there is still speculation that if her sons does step out of the embassy is arrested the u.s. may request his extradition we are some people in ecuador if they supported the government's action. the medical system of war. in most vital to continue negotiating the situation is difficult being incarcerated for several years is dangerous to health we all know that the objective behind the trials has nothing to do with the son's or wiki leaks there's a real possibility of extradition to the us. your. opinion i think it sounds was treated inhumanely during the entire trial process a prisoner without

a fixed sentence and with rights to defense i mean violated. although some random thoughts on it we got the opinion too to activists on what could happen next to julian the signs now that in this saga 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 have now been dropped. maybe there will be an extradition attempt and various kind of international bodies have found when they've looked into it the chance of getting a free and fair trial in the u.s. of minimal i think that this is really a continuation of a very dangerous and wrongheaded policy to target whistleblowers julian is one of the biggest international whistleblowers and i think that they really want his head on a platter it's the worst kept secret in washington that julian is like least leave it to begin working his way through the u.s.

judicial process if you ever leave the embassy side to this despite being holed up in that embassy for five years now it may have found a new way to entertain himself apparently those cryptic tweets seem to be a new favorite pastime.

mr song. reading the chessboard i think. the black pieces are the bad guys. let's just say the bad guys. progress. thursday that the u.s. army plans to step up its activities on social media.

post different languages and potentially sway public opinion is the idea of more details. the classic bozza been out there for ages and we know what they're usually used for that is sending out spam messages in some cases performing hacking attacks but it seems that uncle sam is after something much more sophisticated here if you go online and check out the us federal business opportunities website you will come across a pentagon request from earlier this week and this was something that really caught our attention with the us army wants right now is a software system that will be able to translate between languages most notably russian korean farsi in arabic and we all know which countries these languages are spoken in the tool is meant to understand and know how to use correctly dialects slag and even that mode plus must be a tool that is capable of analysis all these millions of posts comments and replies

and we all that these things can be really dodgy are to be at a loss for emotion and sentiment key question is again it's probably overused but what's it going to be used for potentially they want the software to be able to communicate with users online maybe not one hundred percent like a human being but somewhat close to that just take this requirement that i have printed out right here it is the ability to generate at least three or up to ten unique statements derived from the original social media statement while retaining the meaning and the tone of the original again the software monitor and adeline as its own impact from the messages that it sends then adjust plus it also needs to be self taught in a way that it can learn from its own mistakes and then improve an upgrade which provides potentially unprecedented opportunities for influencing opinion on life in

a company you're going to notice the irony of this big plan is that it's on the heels of the us leaders complaining of all the. fuss about online interference from other parties other countries really kevin in the case when russian troll farms and bots they're all over the media news about that some experts have already told us that it's part of a u.s. campaign could be to expand their online influence in capabilities something that they have been up to for years but really the sophistication of this new project machines being able to analyze the emotions and the sentiment of comments online that is something alarming. especially more to me then we come to the pentagon for clarification they did get back saying that the tool would be helpful to them given the huge amount of data on the internet and we also talked to the n.s.a. whistleblower william binney to inform him of five agent only marshawn about the

push to develop this kind of advanced bot they outlined seven implications as they saw it but they really want to do is be able to monitor royce communications or any kind of communications text and be able to assess it and. check it for other threats or things like that or even. from some of the manipulation programs even respond. and try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean all intelligence agencies have this is one of their objectives white papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know 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 phone influencing elections across the west and it's interesting to see that the language is that they're advertising

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