car dealers and manufacturers will limit their sharing of your information with government and law enforcement into the future is bright and while we don't quite have flying cars is yet they are becoming more like computers with wheels and as those computers grow to provide us with every connected need and want will there be a tradeoff between privacy. and convenience and that jab at the wall is the million dollar question that i think we've already traded off when it comes to our own personal computers and our cell phones i think very easily we said oh give me a pop up ads give me this i don't care i want all the convenience or i want to. just dump it all over and you know we don't get nearly as outraged as we should be when you have telecommunication companies sharing our information with governments and things of that they have right. so i think i hope it doesn't happen with cars but i have a feeling given the fact that as of right now i've seen the modern culture is kind

of prefers convenience over their own personal identity and security and things like that that i don't know i think people just kind of sign it away well i think there's two sides to this and there's money to be made from both sides of the privacy file which is fairly so but you know from a capitalist sam point you have money that could be made not only in selling that information but in not selling that information so when you're deciding i mean one of the privacy things people at home to think about if you do want a more connected car you will need a data plan for that so stick with a cell phone company that protects your data that has good policies about privacy because of the the at the end of the day that not the card company is going to be the thing that keeps from government intrusion or something like that so you know your provider know who you're buying a car from and know their policies as well and we have to you know approach it that the you know the the cars are no longer going to be cars in the very near future

i've driven. it's not a car it's a computer with wheels and i'm not saying that to be funny it really is a component of what happens to have wheels and that's the future of cars and whether you're driving it or just simply riding it which i think is where it's going to really go yeah you know we've got to be prepared for that. all right as we go to break called watchers don't forget to let us know what topics. what do you think of the topics with facebook and twitter. dot com coming up sean stone joins us to preview with his look at the historical present day connections between the two in washington d.c. the movie business with his new special hollywood the sea state to watch.

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hollywood's award season is upon us and all eyes will be on the academy awards kodak theater this weekend without so much as a second thought americans of all ages eagerly digest the latest blockbusters whether at home or on the screen in families and college students alike engage in the regular netflix binge of the latest seasons of homeland and other t.v. drama fodder the addicting pursuit of riveting fantasy worlds more dramatic and engaging than our own has long been the draw of television and film but who is funding and directing this escapism is a question we have largely allowed to go unanswered that is until now there are very own sean stone tackling the issue.

so there is an intensification of arse to roll down the walk of fame later this week we were joined earlier by sean stone himself to give us a preview of this much watch must watch exposé. so sean it appears that the backroom power brokers on capitol hill with their hollywood allies cronies were we'd like to have cause for a little concern this year as the academy awards are just a few days away i got to ask you sean stone what do you have in store what do you have in the works to come out right in time for the academy awards as we go. absolutely it's a new special documentary special called hollywood d.c. because it's not washington d.c. it's hollywood d.c. and that means that we're looking into the history not all of it but you know a good deal of history relating to the relationship between hollywood and the

washington powerbrokers and what goes back really to the beginning of the birth of the war bonds you know using hollywood celebrities to sell war bonds for the first world war it's like the world war all the way through the blacklist as we know the story is blacklisting of hollywood screenwriters and then up to the present day two movies like american sniper lone survivor zero dark thirty and just trying to coalesce and understand what is this relationship basically between media film and and politics what's really interesting and we talk about it here on other levels is that all too often our mainstream media our you know all of this likes to smear anyone who dares connect publicly proven daughter to be in conspiracy theorists we've seen this with the me too movement before that in sexual harassment in child sex abuse and hollywood if you dare say anything it's own dare you like pushback

against this perfect industry that never does anything wrong obviously as we all know. one of the worse it's like if you are trolling or you're a medal or whatever do you think these sort of long tested smear smear tactics help suppress some of the pretty stunning revelations that you bring up in your documentary. i'm not sure i'm in terms of the types of actors themselves i think there's a long history let's say of just how propaganda has worked in general and we get into it to a degree in the documentary it's again it's a much bigger issue but we mentioned people like edward bernays the beginning the father of spin and you know basically the forefather of propaganda and public relations basis at public relations is a better way of saying propaganda right so how can we use media as a way you know as a way of using fourteen technology to sell people on things you know using sexuality using garrity and other you know things that are sort of part of our part

of our base desires to sell people and goods so we know psychological warfare because a lot of the guys that came out of the world war two o.s.'s the secret service and up becoming the heads of like the c.b.s. news and the time life and all these different media enterprises so many of those guys came out of the intelligence services and so they basically had been trained in psychological warfare and so now they're taking that training and that knowledge and they're applying it to what to journalism to media and to fill in one of the things i think is really interesting that we've seen over the last you know with the mitsu movement thing is we've watched how quickly even the infrastructure of hollywood media how quickly it will move to protect itself or change the narrative if they don't like it and i think it's really i'm looking forward to your documentary for that is seeing how it connects to showing people how much it's still happening today and they're still like you said i mean i worked in hollywood marketing for ten years so believe me it's

a dark dark place but it was one of the things that really struck me most about your work in this movie in hollywood d.c. which will air over the next two days. coming up right in time for the kind of award. is those connections to hollywood or the connections to washington d.c. go a lot deeper you know most mainstream media local. talk about oh you know this person is a big donor to hillary clinton they're like that kind of thing in order you know the stars are all limousine liberals but those connections you know when you start getting into the you know the contemporary when you start getting into the cia's and the military's control of what we see on the screen i thought that was some of the most really interesting parts of the documentary that you explored. yeah in fact i mean look at this new movie red sparrow coming out which is going to be the big jennifer lawrence you know she's basically playing a russian agent who realizes the russians are bad it's yes they go against her you know against the new k.g.b. essentially but that's written that that that screenplay was written by

a former cia agent right but they don't tell you that when they're making these movies it's just it's put out there as though this is just this is just hollywood but no there's a cia angle and we know homeland has a cia advisers but what's interesting is not the alfred's work and you know we've interviewed alford before on watching the hawks and it's you know he's basically saying look we're talking about thousands of films that have had pentagon and cia and f.b.i. and other advisers coming in and we really and we see in the one story in particular gary divorce a fascinating case that we get into in this documentary because gary was it was called the writer with no hands because he was the guy who basically had those cia contacts who was a mainstream established writer who was kind of started delve into the panama connections and the dirty dirty side of the overthrow of noriega and what happens to him he disappears and his wife tells about how the cia basically was showing up combing through and looking at all these things and he you know he appears a year later as bodies found it's a skeleton basically with no hands and it's

a very mysterious disappearance to this man who obviously was in on the inside track of certain awareness of what he's trying to basically teach us and that movie everything never got made because he he had he died you know with hollywood's much publicized kind of resistance to trump released you know outwardly you know in the in the movie stars and all the back and forth scandals as tom mentioned of led me to. and the hyped up dramatics now surrounding the academy awards what are what are the some of the underappreciated takeaways you think you'd like hawk watchers should keep in mind as they watch hollywood d.c.m. you know head into kind of hollywood's big weekend like one of the little things that we always got to remember when we're getting fed all this. it's always about the money. yeah i mean i think at the end the day this documentary is not a be all end all but it's just meant to be a primer i think a prime educational tool that i hope people can share and watch understand that it's not always what's on the surface it's really what is

a subliminal messaging that's going into it are there studies that have been done we know by the tavistock institute in england or various agencies in the u.s. to study how shock and trauma affects the human psyche and how we're basically more susceptible the buy by shock trauma and glamour and glitz and the sparkly lights the bright lights right that puts us into a state that they can more easily readily influence ours are unconscious mind and i think that's the point is we have to be more away aware and conscious who are watching these things to realize that it really is it's been it really is glitz and glamour that's really meant to take the money out of your pocket and mesmerize you as the old you know terminology you basically have the ties you into being seduced by these these events you know whether it's award shows or the you know the theatrical the films themselves and the propaganda that is really within the very nature of the language layered within the dialogue itself layered within the relationships the social interactions the things that are you know not just evident

if you look at it but sometimes we're just so engrossed with the actors and the performances and the story that we're not even realizing the subliminal messaging of what they're trying to tell us and it's interesting that you bring out that up because i think that that's one of the big issues that we're kind of having to look at now when you look at all of the shootings the you know where the school shootings and things like that is there was people talk about well should we ban these guns were things. you know never really i'm sure they'll get to always violent movies or violent video games and i don't think that you need to ban anything or anything like that but i think we do need to have that honest look and say you know how how does watching acts of violence paraded as glory desensitize us to the fact that there are acts of terrible violence committed on people but just because you know this person is a villain or a group of people who are considered a villain well then it's ok you know that kind of mentality that like rambo mentality and i think that i think one of the great things about your documentary is you know you do kind of cover that you cover all these different bases and i

think it's about time it's good to put hollywood and d.c. into the spotlight and look at those ties sean thank you so much today for for coming out and talking to us about this and looking forward to the hollywood b.c. . that's the thing. seed banks are not new since eight hundred ninety eight the royal botanical garden has been studying seed saving and scientists once start rather than eat the seeds out a russian seed bank during a scene just by the axis powers during the second world war the bags have the ability to regenerate entire species and they are crucial to survival in the future when seventeen hundred seed banks around the world protect collections of of seeds for food crops but sadly many of them become vulnerable to budget cuts and weather but norway's small barred global seed vault sometimes called the doomsday vault in the arctic circle now holds one million fifty nine thousand six hundred forty six unique crop varieties from around the world and with the planet facing agricultural challenges like none we've ever seen before the norwegian government plans to spend

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good evening to you my name is neil. harvey this is r.t. international. president putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing with them his vision of the country's future and during our speech the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing missile defenses of the senior correspondent has more if you aren't russian in the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean. russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us

so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush putin unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before. the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with a nuclear payload it can reportedly lurk underwater for months and months silent

undetectible next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely fast rockets that can actively dog and the vaid anti missile defenses. it is. heading for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these are serious weapons designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it too sure what you mean when i see russia's growing military might is not meant to threaten anybody we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive when it rushes in harms military power is simply

a guarantee for peace on our planet preserves to restore parity in the world sure that there is no point in engaging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a sentry. i can speak now to philip ingram he's a former senior military intelligence and security officer very good evening to you philip this new weaponry that it's astounded a few people maybe not surprising for people in the know though what was your reaction when you heard this. my reaction was twofold one loves i was expecting that we've got the russian president presidential elections coming up very soon and mr putin is appealing oh to the domestic audience to show how strong russia is only global defense field but we put this into context and you're russian minister defense spending what forty six billion dollars a year on defense the u.k.

spending about sixty billion the u.s. is spending about seven hundred billion so you know it's nothing that people should be overly concerned about so will they so will if not have an effect upon how other countries are approaching their national defense and their missile systems. it will present very very clever indeed you know he's not only reaching out to domestic audience to try and show host strong russia is a lot is increasingly strong in the global defense world and with its global power projection capability nobody's also using musk rothacker to transtemporal president trump who is having a few problems with his russian connections and he knows the effect that this will have domestically in the united states so put in said this isn't an offensive move it's more of a reactionary defensive one let's just hear what limited in actually had to say but you see pretty soon and despite all our protests u.s.

machine started working the conveyor belt started rolling there are missile defense systems in alaska and california as a result of natives eastward expansion they've set up missile systems into new european locations one has already been deployed in romania and another will be set up in poland soon even now they're working at full speed all so one of the things you mentioned there the missile defense shield being set up anything europe does that sound like a plausible explanation. well it's something you know the russians are above paranoid about us expansionism and they're paranoid about the threats or so it will a bit of stimulating factor but we're seeing a modernization of all of the russian military hardware and this. today is the surprising part from the domestic audience piece if you look at a couple weeks ago they announced the launch of the principle of the mir one of the new. missile carrying submarines that in the press release talked about it carrying

the hypersonic warheads that he's talking about today it is a natural reaction and it's something that a maternity services in the west would have expected but the timing is good domestically and it's also good to stir up problems a sense before and with president trump. really appreciate your time and your opinions philip ingram is my guest thank you former senior military intelligence and security officer well reactions of weapons claims being coming in from around the world the pentagon said it wasn't surprised that has actually been expecting the announcement as for u.k. reaction well let's find out from marty's correspondent in london ali boykin joins me on the line what's been said over there well look this is an annual speech it doesn't normally get many column inches here but of course talk of new nuclear warheads piqued the interest of the world media the headlines chose to focus on descriptions of

a hawkish putin boasting about his doomsday nuclear weapon there was of course talk of an arms race and predictably when there's talk of an arms race there are mentions of the cold war take a look at what there is in the media had to say about it. we told americans not to leave the and him as we told them not to abandon. we told them that we will catch up we have caught up so these are missiles that have been particularly designed to counter what russia sees as the threat posed by the u.s. missile defense shield which has been deployed and it's near and can reach almost any charges around the world so scary stuff this morning. when the speech was trending on twitter in the u.s. at some point which suggests that it garnered quite a bit of interest stateside either that or that infamous troll farm in russia was excelling itself this morning and nevertheless here is what those in the twisters

fair had to say about set the of been a bit of time to make peace with scientists soon to achieve nuclear dominance with just ten percent of the u.s. military budget for the forseeable future it looks like the u.s. russia gender we're limited to just one item war prevention good luck to us all when trouble watch this a fox news he will say that he wants this through. now during that speech vladimir putin also said that some of russia's new weapons are so new that they don't even have names yet so he launched a competition to name a new cruise missile and also an unmanned underwater drone that drew quite a bit of attention from twitter users especially here in the u.k. plenty of them suggested new team new face for a name which for those of you who don't remember is a reminder of the time the british government asked the british public to name

a new research vessel and the name that drew the most votes was boat boat face the other name that i rather liked was meek skywalker that was suggested online as well in the wake of the speech i have a feeling that vladimir putin is going to be waiting for some rather more serious submissions though many thanks police there in london bring is right up to date. in other news four civilians are being killed by militants in the series eastern groups or it happened while the lotus humanitarian pause was in place which was reconciliations understood the deaths came during demonstrations in the district as a result no one has yet left the besieged. thanks. situation in the damascus suburbs complicated by the front lines on.