post and the new york times journalism is currently the subject of a new film called explains that journalistic values can change over time. the washington post and the new york times once established themselves as shining beacons of true journalism a brave group of reporters who would stop at nothing to find out as much as they can in their quest for truth but i'm actually talking about the seventy's back then new york times and poster as risk jail time by publishing classified documents on the vietnam war the new york times begins its explosive series based on the pentagon papers publication of a covert version of the war had recounted to much of the optimistic talk that permeated official statements for years now daniel ellsberg leaks the documents to the washington post you want to learn more go to the movies and check out the oscar nominated film the post seems like the perfect robot alter trump attacks on the media and according to the creators that was actually the intention one thing that both of these areas have in common that really attracted me also to tell this story

is two presidents. declaring war on the news media i really feel that we shall overcome what all of us have been so subjected to over the past sixteen months while spielberg's political message is pretty difficult to miss even in the trailer you probably will be green court next. we don't. we. why don't you going to do this is ok and what are those two newspapers up to these days well they're not exactly true to the idea of exposing the intelligence community the washington post was one of the loudest voices against the release of the nunez memo why because this classified document which alleges misconduct by intelligence services quote in danger's national security and wa po published a number of articles predicting devastating consequences from the memos released and slamming donald trump while they were at it and media who are in favor of the memos released got bashed as well the clip one paid for fake news russian

propaganda dot ca that of course was used by the obama administration to obtain pizer warrants to surveil members of the trauma campaign. and the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago this same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior though i show you again the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily

so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. . a human rights watch report has exposed how drugs are being misused in u.s. nursing homes victims' relatives say strong psychotic medicines are used to control residents with dementia the rights group has released some of their testimonies why are you so sleepy day. when you're assume he was. totally droned to you can even talk to my mother's name is laura has been cooler she's seventy five years old where we went to see her and she wouldn't talk. with you guys she wouldn't do anything she would just sit and stare like she wasn't

even there if you have dementia and somebody in a nursing facility doesn't understand what your needs are you could be given an anti-psychotic drug and you end your life not being yourself not being understood and there is no reason that this should happen. according to the study almost one hundred may two thousand people mostly with dementia are given drugs each week the drugs are often administered without the consent of residents or their relatives patricia mcginnis from the california advocates for nursing home reform told us that the use of ideas i called it drugs poses a real threat to the lives of people with dementia. at least one hundred seventy nine thousand people every week who are treated here and who have dementia who are treated with anti-psychotic drugs. it's easier to drug somebody up it's less expensive than having adequate staff we have very weakened force but system in this country certainly in california it's weak so one of the ways to control people and

control behavior people who have dimensions to give them and i psychotic drugs even the f.d.a. has noted that you're when you give somebody with dementia anti-psychotic drugs you have a two times higher chance of death it can cause people to like you said before to become zombies and i said cutting drugs can cause death and i psychotic drys can cause heart palpitations and heart issues with people we really have to look at what is informed consent and make it national make it at a federal level that this isn't form consent and unless and until you have that from every single person every single resident or their representative you simply cannot prove give anybody one of these kinds of drugs. are six point four magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the taiwanese city of quali and causing severe damage at the hotel to collapse photos of emerged on

social media showing the building leaning precariously to one side according to authorities almost thirty people remain trapped inside to emergency services on the scene some of the other buildings and roads were seriously damaged as well so far as the information about casualties. now the u.s. is accused by turkey's president of undermining their alliance plotting against ankara in syria excuse me laugh those details i just after the break. the u.s. is losing in two ways number one the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of the climate change and why the catastrophes the global you know migrants that are the result of it all these other problems are hurting the u.s. economy on the other side of the trade so you've got to double by.

when all is true seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any new world that you get to shape out these days comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program russia is mourning the death of major robert philip off whose plane was shot down by islamic militants in northern syria on saturday the

pilot avoided capture by taking his own life detonating a hand grenade when he was surrounded by enemy forces on the ground possumus lee awarded the hero of russia medal the country's highest accolade. for a man felipe of was fighting terrorism and died as a hero i came here today to honor him he gave his life so that we can live in peace . with him from in high school he dreamt of

becoming a pilot and the evans green when we were discussing creature was his during class he said without hesitation i want to fly after he entered the military academy you once came back to the high school during his winter break when his military uniform you know him behind others when anyone needed his help he was always there but you never do that to show he was a great guy. as president again has accused the us of plotting against i'm correct in syria it comes amid a fall out between nato allies over turkey's operation again. u.s. backed kurdish militias in the country. why does the us continue to send weapons to northern syria even after i saw has been cleared why are you still here why do these weapons still arrive you must be plotting against turkey iran and perhaps russia. and i encourage began operation olive branch in the afrin region just over three weeks ago now plans to expand into the syrian town of man because that's to

the east of that area here in north of the country now u.s. troops which of course helped kurdish forces fight i saw an area the turkish president demanded washington withdraw its forces from and which threatening to target the u.s. soldiers. as it started the military campaign in the region to defend its own border so after the pentagon else that was training a so-called security border force one run by the kurds and the washington later backtracks on this announcement the move deepened the rift between the two countries the same bakshi from and karisma the least technical university so the crisis of trust between turkey and the us may have catastrophic consequences the moment the turkish government then took his presidency not to be confident towards american policies probably this distrust. problematic understand the into account truth will continue america is in other words the

protector of the kurds this is the problem turkey is getting more and more highly needed and long probably the americans will not video. presence there and will continue to support the kurds and this will be a real conflict between turkey and united states of america. the developments are not good neither for turkey nor for america. and they've been a part of the glamour of formula one for decades but the checkered flag has finally will finally be waved on the iconic griddles. james disapproval with the same question why. are formula one's commercial director announce the decision he said the good girls a lot of fit in with social. loans they said they're now irrelevant inappropriate for motor racing fans across the world the british supermodel naomi campbell is

among those who have stepped up in defense of the group girls saying the job's not remotely offensive and is a good way for women to proudly represent their countries now the good girls themselves so you better offended by the decision after years of service to the sport they say their role is to promote the formula one brands and that it shouldn't be restricted by issues over political correctness i saw my outfit before i agreed to do it i knew i was wearing i knew what was expected of me if you look at any kind of advertisement or branding these days you know you have peaceful glamorous hostesses working for the best alliance in the world you have victoria's secret models who represent the brand so while they model fall and so i don't think you can say that having great go and glamorous promotional models is in keeping with the times i mean isn't shouldn't be a dirty word but obviously it could boil down to that sadly i just feel it's a bit of

a backward step because if we want to say to women you know we want to feel empowered and we can do and be whatever we want to be a i don't see a problem with promotional work tools we'll do it by choice and we're not forced into the was and go supply for the job and all the guys i know absolutely love the job so i don't see that there's any soul problem with it to a lot of people do you come to the sheriff's office and to meet some of the girls as well to get the pictures with the guys that they're parolees and some of my friends who work in the professional work they've met their future husband i don't know why they haven't said anything for it if it's because too many people would objectify and they probably didn't think that this much would happen so i'm not sure why they didn't consult with us. now facial recognition technology is impressing smartphone users all over the world and farmers and keeping with the times i've also found a use for it. but

the real question is whether the call's face id will be able to differentiate between twin towers or correctly identify a cow wearing a silly hat now these rogue terrorists callously have a harder time sneaking through t.s.a. security disguised as peaceful crowds.

life can be tough on the international space station cooped up for months isolated from the rest of the world but the sight astronauts carry on board a found a new way to entertain themselves if taken up badminton of all sports he was able to film a game in three hundred sixty degrees as you can see playing badminton in zero gravity does have its own challenges playing upside down for example you can watch more exclusive three sixty degree videos from space on our t.v. dot com. that's the headlines from the team here at r.t. for this hour to join us at ten pm moscow time for more headlines from around the world.

across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet this is the simple song alone even five hundred elsewhere they invite private companies to take over their utilities anybody tell us the robot was allowed to go. this is. just because they're now looking. for you for the lift hill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right over access to water it's about water but it's also over much more and more it's about the hurt and the redistribution of our worst. day downwards we want to. make this manufactured sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part chilton's. markets continue their curious correction with the dow dropping dramatically over eleven hundred points and that's yet again after friday's six hundred sixty point sell off and today we'll focus on energy with the assistance of ashley banks energy an oil trader david greene bird and solar c.e.o. campanella plus tyson slocum the director of public citizens energy program joins

us were packed tighter that is justin timberlake my. ah shit so let's get to it first with some headlines the federal government is headed for yet another shutdown on friday at twelve o one am with no sign of compromise on the issue of the doctor dreamers or on immigration or anything else there is talk on the hill of yet another short term c.r. a continuing resolution to keep the government open and with regard to the dreamers unless congress takes some action roughly seven hundred eighty thousand dreamers face deportation on march fifth and a related news the government's debt limit will be reached in early march as opposed to late march early april as previously anticipated the debt limit is the amount of money that the government can borrow as opposed to the budget deficit the debt limit will need to be raised beyond the current twenty point five trillion dollar level the debt limit does not restrict what congress can spend it simply allows the treasury department to pay bills already oh do which is why it's such

a huge deal if it was ever not raised. the reason for the earlier expected need to raise the debt limit is due to the one point five trillion dollar tax cuts that will begin costing the government ten to fifteen billion dollars each month due to reduced tax revenues to. chinese e-commerce firm j.d. dot com maybe the biggest company you've never heard of if you're watching in the u.s. and europe that's particularly true the company's founder and c.e.o. has big plans to change that in an interview with the financial times c.e.o. richard lui discussed plans to expand in europe first in france then the u.k. and germany and then the u.s. all this year and yes they can and will compete directly with amazon the world's largest retailer lew says j.d. dot com will spend one billion dollars over the next two years to build up their logistics network in france and the company aims to generate more than half its profits outside china within ten years one major challenge for j.d.

dotcom will be to match the speed of their logistics network in china which the company owns a big difference from amazon. and royal dutch shell and conoco phillips have both reported strong fourth quarter earnings stronger than in the last several years in fact as crude oil prices jumped at the end of last year shows q four profits more than doubled to three point eight billion dollars from one point five billion in the same quarter a year earlier even with that shell said their cash flow has dropped due primarily to a two billion dollars charge related to the cut in u.s. corporate tax rates approved by congress and the president at the end of last year for conoco phillips profits jumped in q four to one point five eight billion dollars compared with thirty five million dollar loss during the same period last year conoco phillips was a beneficiary of the new tax law adding an extra nine hundred million dollars to their balance sheets to. the u.s.

is the second biggest consumer of energy per capita in the world coming in second right after china the world's most populated country the us holds the world's largest coal reserves in the second biggest oil reserves accounting for twenty percent of the world's total oil consumption here's our g. correspondent ashley banks to break it all down for us actually that's right guard according to hydrocarbon technology oil and natural gas accounted for over sixty percent of the united states total energy consumption which means the u.s. accounts for nearly twenty percent of the world's total oil consumption making the us the biggest oil consuming country and the world's second biggest natural gas and coal consumer let's compare that to china which accounts for twenty two percent of the world's total energy consumption over sixty five percent of the country's total energy consumption was due to how much the country consumes coal that makes china the world's biggest coal consumer producer and porter china is also the second

largest oil consumer and one of the top five natural gas consumers in the world let's take a look at franciscan. sumption france is one of the biggest energy consumers in europe it accounts for about two percent of the world's total energy consumption nuclear energy accounted for thirty nine percent of the country's total energy consumption oil comprised of thirty two percent and natural gas comprised of fifteen percent of the primary energy consumed by france let's compare that to south korea or south korea account for about two point one percent of the world's total energy consumption and about forty percent of the country's total primary energy consumption comes from oil the country is also one of the top five all importers and the six biggest oil refining country and the world the country imports over eighty percent of its crude oil from the middle east saying in the same area let's take a look at north korea while south korea and china shining brightly and night here's

a picture of north korea the entire country looks like it's asleep now this photo was taken by a nasa satellite it shows a lack of electricity produced and north korea up north korea supply of electricity is too small to shine through the night want to go back to the u.s. here's a satellite image of south attacks unlike north korea south texas is shining bright but barton what we see here are bright lights from the wells and fracking equipment and eagle ford competing with lights from nearby austin san antonio and corpus christi while research shows fracking has fueled a dramatic boom in america's oil production and has also made the u.s. the biggest oil consuming country in the world bart. actually thank you so much those images are amazing particularly the ones where they have the fracking which is as large and as bright as corpus christi thank you for that great report

appreciate it. and energy markets impact us all in a very fundamental way and here to discuss energy markets and more is energy trader david greenberger the founder of green founder of greenberg capital and former member of the new york mercantile exchange board nymex word the global oil is traded david thank you so much for being here with us before we get to oil i want to ask you about your take on stocks i know you've been in a car but the dow down eleven seventy eight you have a view on that it was really it was wild it reminded me of the silver crash years ago when i said to my father that you know it's selloff happened there in launch and he said it happened in a buy the a sandwich i mean it literally it was down five hundred forty points when i got in the elevator on the ninth floor and was that about fifteen hundred points by the time i hit the first floor while that wild markets but it goes back to as you know

i've been you know talking a lot of dollars trying to train you know over the years and the pros and the cons and this is one con of electronic trading is that when the bottom falls out there's nothing to stop it because there's a lack of liquidity on the depth level and that's something that we should talk about at some point yeah and there really seem to be a herd mentality i mean people knew there was a correction come coming and they talked about five maybe ten percent but we didn't anticipate it that we're going to get it all and on friday and today and who knows what's in store took tomorrow but i'm glad the markets are closed back to energy david oil dropped a little bit today but you know overall they've been higher markets have been higher than than they have for a couple of years what do you make of what's going on you think they're going to stay there. well it's the energy markets really interesting i mean if you look at it as a a long term play ok let's look at crude oil first back in zero eight we were at one hundred forty ok now that we're trading around the sixty three this sixty three

mark so the range over the last ten years in twelve years has been very broad and some people tend to only look at the at the minor range i've been talking for years i think the level you know the proper level for crude is anywhere between sixty five and seventy five or trying to finally feel that you know that space right now but a lot of things are happening to get us there we have opec that's behaving so they're kind of sticking together we've got demand that is somewhat went up which is good but the key thing is that we have speculators that are in the market now at a much higher level on a much broader level and they slowly specially with the electronic training you know market can slowly bring the market up ok the real question is going to be is as we saw in the stock market today and in the bitcoin market all these other markets when speculators are in the market and there's a trading mentality i call it in my class the light switch theory everybody's a buyer guess what until they're not so let's talk about what might happen when

that switch gets turned and it goes from buyers the sellers you could see a nice ten percent correction in this market as well it's not totally. on supply and demand there's so many other factors but right now it's holding nicely but david you've seen these markets over the years and you say you have a longer term term view and and we do see opec and other nations russia namely that have their production one point eight one point eight billion barrels per day that they're holding off the market but the u.s. seems to be making up for that so you do use see the increased u.s. production keeping sort of a governor on prices. absolutely i mean the united states has been i mean let's be realistic they've been knocking the cover off the ball i mean they're at the highest production rate that they've ever been you have regulations that are being pulled back like it or not it is what it is and that's going to enable more and more production to be made so i do believe that will be

a major factor and keeping somewhat of a cap i don't see except for maybe a world event there an issue in the middle east i mean a major issue a major spike in prices and david can you tell us briefly about some of the other contracts and what they call the energy complex nat gas for example how's nat gas doing lately. oh sure let's look at that gas that gas has come off a lot in the past couple days and we're at the two unchanged level but again in two thousand and six we were at fourteen dollars b.t.u. and then in two thousand and fourteen we were at six dollars b.t.u. so inherently it's still very low as well as we're getting to get into the ground cheaper it's becoming you know we're doing more efficient products all around and again so i think that that's also a market that is tradeable but i don't see a big spike in that comment in any way shape or form the last question we got about thirty seconds david do you think that electronic traders call them speculators but

to each his own right you think they've been a good thing or do you harken back to those four trading days when things might have been better. well for me it's because we're always better on the floor it was a great rush and it was a wonderful place to be but i know this is a lot of conversation for another show but i think today really shows the problem when electronic markets come in and the algos kick in there is no way the average person on the trade or ameritrade that's putting their orders and can hit that button and make a decision fast enough to curtail their losses and training is very simple it's all about critelli your losses and riding your winners and that makes it very difficult when markets go down they go down fast when they go up they can go up fast too so it's a double edged sword david greenberg founder and dreamer a catheter executive committee member of the new york mercantile exchange in the path thank you for joining us david. thank you good to see you.