we use this kind of decisions by the is right don't the current system. should be on the side the military system against the civilians we have this many times and we are now we have concerns about the lives of the more and more so this is the kind of encouragement in green lighted the israeli. shoot the shooting was the civilians not only shooting also killing so this is the time that the international community in order to be on the side of the palestinian civilians against such good violations committed by the israeli. court and israeli military.

there is a grim new assessment of the united states drone mission in afghanistan government auditor say efforts have stalled at best and at worst are feeling with more here's quarter you'd think that after sixteen years the u.s. led mission in afghanistan would finally have something to show for its trouble well here's how the federal authority tasked with overseeing reconstruction sees it between two thousand and one and two thousand and seventeen years government efforts to save the license you cure in contested areas in afghanistan mostly failed the us government greatly overestimated its ability to build and reform government institutions in afghanistan a pretty clear picture from cigar but top brass in washington though wants to assure you they have everything under control now looking at a twenty eighteen as president gandhi said he believes we have turned a corner and i agree. the momentum is now with the afghan security forces and the

taliban cannot win in the face of the pressures that i outlined you think they're talking about two completely different wars but they've been at opposite poles before just last year cigar said the u.s. failed to properly mentor afghan forces let alone give them the momentum to beat the taliban with the enormous personal and financial sacrifices already made by afghans in their international partners the country my have relapsed to control by extremists and terrorists and again us generals are reading from an entirely different script afghanistan special operations forces are becoming the best in the region and the afghan air force is neighboring those ground elements there is more work to be done and it will take time however this remains a very very worthy investment failing or not u.s. military leadership doesn't seem to be that bothered about how much this war is costing either flashback to twenty fourteen cigar reported that afghan

reconstruction had exceeded the true cost of the marshall plan you know the us this project to reconstruct all of western europe after world war two yeah it sounds like a budget busting hefty price tag for american generals though it's a necessary expense to get things just right for a victory we should be seeking to win this war counterinsurgencies take a while i think we have gone a long way to setting the conditions for what generally would usually is the defining factor in winning a counterinsurgency which is to set the conditions for governance so if the conditions for the rule of law set the conditions for economic opportunity go back farther to two thousand and nine and things already weren't looking so good then president obama had committed over thirty eight billion dollars to repair efforts in the region and that money was going to who exactly. our office also initiated preliminary inquiries into twenty three allegations of fraud waste and abuse even

then u.s. military leaders optimistically saw the situation as a great springboard for their military campaign i'm not prepared to say that we have turned the corner but i think we have made significant progress in setting conditions in two thousand and nine and will make a real progress in two thousand and ten it takes a lot to keep that optimism up all these years but one thing the us generals might have lost sight of is that if you plan to keep turning corners you'll end up right where you began donald quarter r.t. drug shellfish on america's west coast we've got the story after this.

story five years ago companies go public as a way to expand their be a viable corporation you have to meet certain criteria for being a viable corporation and then you are allowed to go public now there are no such criteria so if you're essentially burning through cash and going bankrupt you're using the public marketplace to bail out a losing position. quarter

of an hour into the program welcome back billionaire philanthropist george soros is pouring millions of dollars into the campaigns of selected district attorney candidates in california at the same time leaked documents reveal he is also with spending more of millions backing an empty brags that group in the u.k. . looks now at how far the tycoon spear of interest expense. well with all this talk of foreign meddling you would think that the activities of a hungry and billionaire pouring money into american politics might get more mainstream media play george soros is a long time liberal money man and right now he's trying to influence the election of district attorneys across the united states basically he's pouring money into the campaigns of prosecutors he thinks will enforce the law in line with his liberal politics my name is noah phillips and i'm running for district attorney we've got some work and some healing to do to rebuild trust so we can keep

sacramento safe forever. now getting supported by george soros isn't always a plus the man has plenty of detractors what does the out of state billionaire funding know with phillips campaign not telling us know whether to use unethical dangerous wrong for. george soros has been sticking his nose into politics around the world for decades he started out funding anti communist dissidents during the late period of the cold war more recently he's been backing best for britain an anti brags that group in the u.k. george soros is foundations have along with a number of other major donors also made significant contributions to i would indeed through his foundations he's contributed four hundred thousand pounds he's been working to try and repeal the abortion laws in ireland his activities there have actually been deemed illegal with amnesty international being ordered by the authorities to return his donations that hasn't stopped him or even given him pause

in trying to influence the politics of a foreign country that is just another example. also ensures. more you use. ours concern in the ocean surface recently experienced a few setbacks in hungary central european university which is very close to was unaccredited so what did he do to move it over the border into austria. george soros has no problem crossing borders moving money and creating a ruckus in order to further his political agenda the man has actually gone as far as to speak of himself and divined i admit i have always hob with an exaggerated view of myself and putin's to put it bluntly i fancied myself as some kind of good omen economic reform alike or even both to a scientist like einstein with all this talk of washington corruption and big lobbyists don't forget about the big man himself george soros is globally oriented

and he has no problem going to other lands and telling people how to live their lives. r.t. new york let merican aurthur unturned this much blumenthal believes that many western media outlets are only interested in foreign meddling stories when russia is mentioned we get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place with supposed enemy states like russia. cohen is participating in influence peddling he had promised a million dollars to

a qatari rowel for a meeting with the president there was a definite attempt by cohen to shop himself as kind of a liaison for foreign governments a foreign lobbyist a foreign agent if you will all of the attention or most of the attention in the u.s. media however has been on cohen receiving a five hundred thousand dollars payment allegedly from the. from victor of exel berg who is said to be a russian oligarchs and had also donated as much as one hundred thousand dollars to the clinton foundation the media is obscuring what should really be the scandal. one instance where a foreign agent was not registered was michael flynn who is the national security director for donald trump and michael flynn had failed to report allegedly five hundred thousand dollar contract with the government of turkey for which it paid

him to. take down the tulip hoolan who is an exiled cleric and more interestingly than that if you speak to people in the media here in the u.s. about michael flynn they won't even know this detail they think that he had to leave and was taken out as a national security director because of his relationship with russia. collusion between trump and russia has yet to be established but we can clearly see collaboration between trump and all of the gulf states particularly saudi arabia i mean this stuff just doesn't get reported the most activity on foreign agents is probably with the gulf states who are paying half of washington. there are enough opioids in the waters off seattle on the west coast of america that shellfish there have tested positive for the drugs scientists say reflects the

high number of people in the surrounding area who take this substance but what we eat and what we excrete goes into the puget sound telling me that there's a lot of people taking up to code on and you know in the puget sound area it's coming likely from the wastewater treatment plants now clean muscles were put into more than a dozen locations three of the areas were later confirmed to be contaminated waste water management are unable to filter out the opioids the muscles are unable to metabolize drugs but other sea life on may become addicted no this is the first time scientists have discovered the drugs in shellfish their unbelieve it highlights the extent of the nationwide opioid epidemic in the u. s. now there have been more than two hundred thousand prescription overdose deaths in the u.s. since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine between the two year on twenty six overdose deaths have almost could rippled six hundred and fifty thousand opioid

prescriptions are dispensed daily policy researcher under me thinks that overprescription is behind the epidemic. the real problem is not that you can detect oxy code on and shellfish the real problem is that over exposing the united states to this highly addictive drug has led to an epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths in the united states doctors are prescribing opioids for very common problems where opioids should not be prescribed these are good medicines for treating pain at the end of life there are good medicines when used for a couple of days after major surgery but the bulk of the prescribing the bulk of the consumption in the united states is for long term common problems where opioids are much more likely to harm patients than help patients if other countries increased prescribe in the way we did in the united states i'm afraid that they will follow in our footsteps. as just

a news to update you on the press service of the site korean president has announced he has met with the leader of north korea on saturday the meeting took place in the demilitarized zone on the border between the two koreas that is the second into a korean summit in as many months on it comes amid uncertainty over a u.s. north korea peace summit that was supposed to be held in june in singapore is up in the air as it stands it's been reported to the i come of today's meeting between the two leaders we will know more about it on sunday morning all right that is our news for now on our team but if you are on the move don't forget the r.t.i. up will ensure you do not miss that thing done loaded for free no more great programs that right ahead here on our.

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show where americans in america covering america new is called foreign agents foreign tourists congress has finally stood up. to do something about the out of control policing in this country but before i get to that let's take a moment to review with the problem the issue just two days ago a video came out showing milwaukee police tasing and be a player sterling brown for the crime of parking in a handicap spot but he got off easy at the beginning of this month the police in our country have already killed four hundred people so far this year to give you something to compare that to in the years preceding april twenty sixth teen u.k. cobbs discharge their weapons seven times with three people killed seven chives they had only fired their got seven times in a year your average american got discharges their weapons seven dogs just open

their beer can when the when the little metal tab breaks off you know ya gotta get the gun out. and then they fired three more times to celebrate once they get the barrow. yes our cops have killed over four on hundred people so far this year and of the eleven hundred twenty seventeen killings officers were charged with the crime in only thirteen one percent of all killings by police just one percent or even charged with anything it's basically open season on americans by our own police forces well over half of all these killings began with police responding to suspected nonviolent offenses or cases where no crime was reported in a little under half of the killings the victim didn't even have a gun and most of those who were completely unarmed and yet killed anyway were

people of color so you see it's not that cops don't kill white people. they kill tons of white people they kill more white people than wendy's baconator sandwich are right but. no it's that the white people cops kill are more likely to be waving a gun around the black people are often not on average police recruits get eight hours of training on how to deescalate a situation they get fifty eight hours of training on how to shoot things. so it sounds like shooting things is about seven times more important than trying to avoid shooting things. i mean eight hours i got more than eight hours of training on how to put on a condom in sixth grade sex. which i guess could also be called gun safety training. granted that particular gun safety training was from the gym coach

of doubled as our sec said j.j. . i'm not kidding which by the way is one of the boats or riff experiences and the kid can go through life it up boys all right when you're gonna make some whooping and you found a female who wants to make the world be with you you've got to put on an angler ok what you got it is ok to do and then inevitably the first question one of the kids . college how do we get a girl to want to do that with us sergeant if i knew that i would be teaching praise be to prove to her brains all right i'll tell you the right to be a millionaire selling books on how to get laid all right. my dog learned how to play ball quicker than you sorry. thank. you anyway where was i oh yes deescalation if police did not kill people who were not

posing a threat with a gun there would have been six hundred and thirty eight fewer deaths in twenty seventeen a fifty seven percent. and reduction but luckily we are in volved society we have a lack good representative who's stand up for the people the voters right when something like this is happening and sure enough the house of representatives did indeed pass a bill the other day concerning police today and strong support of h. or six ninety eight the protect and serve act of twenty eighteen this important bill enhanced penalties for anyone who intentionally causes harm to our law enforcement officers yes enhanced penalties for anyone who intentionally causes harm to law enforcement officers. up until now it was legal the harm a law enforcement officer i had no idea serious. serious it was

a problem is it sobering were people just punching cops in the face or going ha ha you may not like it but it's well within my rights to be out of a car. that is that really big no not now i'll stake out a problem at all as the intercept said a couple of days ago the bills exemplify the very worst sort of legislation i once unnecessary and pernice shifts in defense of our lawmakers adult that does sound like the mission statement of congress. both are necessary and kurdish yes but the three hundred eighty five congress people who voted for that bill will quickly tell you there is no rash of ambush style attacks on police all rash i tell you sadly we've seen a recent rash increase in violence against officers especially in ambush style

attacks that i am concerned. of the number of ambush stella's shootings that we have seen this year the increasing levels of hostility towards the law enforcement community have given rise to an increase in ambush style attacks lisa officers yes an increase in amber style attacks in two thousand and sixteen there were twenty one deaths of police officers from ambush attacks and then in two thousand and seventeen it skyrocketed to eight attacks. twenty one to eight killed by increase in amber style attacks human a decrease in amber style attacks. but it is true that even a single officer getting killed is too many and therefore thank god thank goodness congress stood up and finally made a murdering police officers illegal you know per for too long of we all accepted that killing or assaulting police officers is five it is just what you just another

tuesday right you go to the market get a ghost on us all the cop who dies in who dies in the protective service sends a uniform message that our country will not tolerate attacks on police which purposefully attempt to undermine the state so chaos in our communities and wrecked the lives of many of our finest citizens and their families so chaos in our communities and wrecked the lives of our finest citizens and families boy that sure sounds like what police do to thousands of families or year. as professor alex vitale said in his book the end of policing felony arrests of any kind are a rarity for uniformed officers with most making no more than one year this is a big deal because it means most of what police do is stand around. to find people

to harass for doing almost nothing wrong they're almost never fighting lex luthor al capone's running down the street with a car full of money from the heist you know that's not really going on that much even when they're dressed up like they're you know get ready to fight darth vader there they're actually getting ready to assault some grannies for peace. or maybe some native americans who had the gall to want clean water or perhaps some black people who had the nerve to be black people. and if one black person calls another black person now they can be convicted of conspiracy to be black people. so if there's thousands of americans killed by police over the past decade about half of them not even holding a gun at the time of their murder and congress has done nothing about that why did

congress just fall all over themselves to make assaulting police even more illegal as the intercept put it in our justice system blew lives are already considered to matter the most which is why police appropriation of the call for black lives to matter is so sickening this would be like thousands of americans were dying each year from stomach parasites so then congress almost unanimously passed a bill is titled parasite lives matter. and everybody is i always parasites were doing fine on their own they don't need more protection we need to heavily decrease and demilitarize our police forces we don't need guys with guns who know they're above the law running around everywhere we strike. we should switch to community empowerment and community policing where unless it's

truly a. hedley situation you don't call the cops you don't invite into your neighborhood armed maniacs with a lazy afternoon of deescalation training under their belt. don't call the cops because your neighbors music is to laugh out or you smell of marijuana or a farm animal wouldn't stop following you hold. yes this is true this week an ohio man who called the police on a literal pig that was following him. he thought the only people who can handle this situation are poorly trained dude with firearms. and yes i'm attentional way of voiding the hacky pigs called on a pig joke alright if you want that job you go do it yourself you go your own closet and you do that so you don't get the joke here. how much you want to bet

that the guy that called the cops on a pig is white because a white guy oh white guy figures cops will help him with that problem. but if a black man calls the cops for a way you word pig there the below probably shoot him all right and then the next day front page of the local paper a violent african american killed by police after stealing pry faragher company from our city state about the basis that you. are. welcome to welcome ugly campanella take the news from behind it as you may know google's long time unofficial motto has been don't be evil. ever since

their early days and although they changed it to do the right thing a couple years ago they kept don't be evil in the employee code of conduct but last week it came out that google have quietly removed don't be evil. from even its code of conduct. and ironically this story hits a week after a dozen google employees quit because of the company's involvement in a military drone project and thousand more or thousands more of their employees signed a petition against it so google is literally involved with killing people and for some reason also no longer wants don't be evil in their employee handbook. this is you know this reminds me of when viacom dropped their unofficial slogan don't intentionally give other employees eyeball herpes. they just didn't stand by it anymore or when nestle stop using their long time motto don't throw your infant

daughter off the rail way bridge. they could not back that slogan any longer or when disney seized the use of their unofficial slogan if you murder someone with a neurotoxin don't dispose of their body in a rusty wood chipper. if i don't know better i would say corporate america is perhaps respecting humanity less than they used to. speaking of that the corporate owned supreme court decided this week that companies can force employees to sign arbitration agreements and this will make it nearly impossible for employees to successfully sue their employers whether it's for wage theft serial sexual harassment condescendingly tiny paper hats whatever it is the point is employees never win in arbitration so this supreme court decision takes away one of the last three.