and putin in the unbridled crazy that is russia gate there are actually real problems facing the so the sins of the united states of america you know you do you do still remember them right the good those good folks do you help our corporations fleece those good folks who who ultimately pay all your salaries until you get that prime think tank pundit gig you know the voters well i hope all you intelligence community bootlickers are sitting down because according to the voters your obsession over trump and russia is actually not what is most important to them in fact according to a recent gallup poll the situation with russia accounts for less than point five percent of what americans believe is the most important problem facing the country today what was number one dissatisfaction with government and poor leadership this was followed by the economy unemployment the gap between the rich and the poor immigration and racism and speaking of stories that actually pose

a bigger threat to american lives than hack d.n.c. e-mails and vladimir putin let's take a trip over to los angeles in the neighborhood of watts where journalistic russell in a recent article for what who what why dot com reports that a new residential development is looking down the barrel of some very serious toxic metal and chemical contamination in fact i'm watkins c.e.o. of the nonprofit watts labor community action committee told russell that he believes the lead problem there is worse than the one getting all the attention in flint. so while our great leaders and journalists bask in the paranoia of the new cold war the good people of watts are being poisoned by our neglect and avarice which means it's time to start watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal. as they are

to pull out of it. what they like you know that i got. this. reservoir the watching the hawks am i robot or on top of the. savage the neighborhoods are crumbling people are put in you know the harm of lead them is not being cleaned up good you know you wouldn't know that watching television these days you know i would mean this or anything like that. of course but then look at look at what happened in flint the water crisis started in april of two thousand and fourteen it wasn't national news to the fall of two thousand and fifteen they didn't declare a state of emergency until twenty sixteen and they won't have truly clean water

that they can drink from their taps until twenty twenty so you know when got all the attention but remember what happened in january twenty sixth and what was going to be sixteen that the whole idea of poison children like permanently poisoned boulder and was and is not just in places like watch watch is a good example is yet one of those like you know who prudent look down upon neighbor right it's a poor angeles is a poor neighborhood and so what is that a poor black neighborhood and i mean exactly and it's of course the crime ridden and like every other excuse they have in the book yeah what's interesting is that spy plans for a billion dollar make over the. you know what where a lot of this story kind of sits the reporting that dick russell did centers on jordan downs this housing complex and watch and they're building a new kind of like fancy szymanski housing complex there. toxic levels levels of lead and other deadly chemicals they're making it

a danger to the low income residents but they're hoping that this time this housing complex will eventually help so ok we're going to build a new building by the area but we're not actually going to clean up the mess and just for those of the kind of history buffs out there jordan downs is actually originally built. right right during world war two as temporary housing for steel workers where they're building kind of the military industrial complex of its day and the other thing is in two thousand and nine samples were taken at jordan downs . what they found were high levels of diesel seal. and residue from the steel mill that operate in the same this is that thing of being like getting back to the industrial age and like there's a reason we left the industrial age because it had horrible deadly child labor and it poisoned everything so that's kind of why we got away from it it's one of those things that's like. we don't do that anymore but the worst part is there's places

like this all over in blue collar communities that we're working class communities but when the predominantly white. residents of those moved into the suburbs they became lower income neighborhoods and everybody went well who cares they're just poor their vote doesn't matter they don't contribute to campaigns well and there's carolina why should we give them clean water which is disturbing on so many levels it's completely was like that when you look at like the amount that's been pulled out in recent clean up. two hundred fifty nine thousand thousand tons of dirt that had lead that had arsenic all got hauled away from jordan downs this housing complex and they were told like oh everything's fine it's fine for construction keep going on but you have residents who are complaining of asthma. from inhalation of all of that lead after the cleanup started because they weren't really paying. double the door and thought that'll be enough it's not that's why we

have funds that's why we have super funds to clean up this kind of industrial waste but if we keep going down the path of these dirty dirty industries like steel and coal and you know it's funny because right now you hear about as america america america you know everyone's talking about how important it is to be america you know all the outside threats to america we know there's not going to be much of an america left if we let places like. completely crumble and fall apart all the boys in places like flint or other major cities you know that are part of the fly over i mean here's a country on the coast you think it's not a fly over state let's pay attention to it i care about what america you're going to have left if we're not actually paying attention to the issues at home and then trying to protect and rebuild the cities that people are getting lead poisoning with that. it's absolutely terrible and now. well this week the espy sports awards gave the arthur ashe courage award to the

victims of sexual abuse or larry nasser his crimes were covered up in the victim's silence by the. universities and organizations meant to protect them. stood side by side with one hundred forty other victims of mass around the stage of the ceremony and showed strength in the face of so much pain the nasser case showed just how easy it is for powerful institutions and the people climbing their lauder's to spend years not only ignoring the sexual abuse of young athletes the getting power by not doing anything to protect victims and now ohio state is facing the fact that they and their employees may have a lot of another sexual predator abuse our fleets in fourteen different sports on campus r t correspondent and former watching the hawks producer sarah montessori has more. former student athletes at ohio state university are filing two lawsuits against the school over alleged abuse by team dr richard strauss the first lawsuit was filed in the u.s. district court in columbus ohio and claims that coaches and higher level officials

knew of the abuse but did nothing to stop it the second lawsuit was filed by an unnamed former wrestler claiming he was abused by strauss on twenty occasions in the one nine hundred eighty s. strauss worked at ohio state for over twenty years as medical stuff and retired as a professor in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight soon after his retirement strauss moved to california and committed suicide in two thousand and five the university held a hearing on the complaints in one thousand nine hundred seven but according to the lawsuit they did not take legal or disciplinary action according to the associated press more than one hundred fifty former athletes and witnesses have been interviewed so far ohio state university issued a statement on tuesday saying they have received report of the sexual misconduct by straus for male student athletes in fourteen different sports it stated we are aware of reports that individuals at the university did not respond appropriately during that era they go on to say ohio state remains committed to uncovering what

may have happened and what university you. leaders at the time may have known u.s. representative jim jordan who is a former wrestling coach at the university wasn't mentioned in the lawsuit however the congressman was accused earlier this month of failing to stop the reported abuse after having been informed but x. ohio state wrestler mike to savage had this to say it's going to go crazy when when they put jordan jordan this and he's lying. down. the house the university is is in is in need of a real deep look in the mirror to change the way they do business in an interview with fox news the congressman denied having been informed calling the allegations bogus saying i never saw never heard of never told of any kind of abuse we would have dealt with it if we knew of anything that happened if in fact there are victims they deserve justice this isn't the first time

a university has faced charges michigan state university recently agreed to pay five hundred million dollars to settle lawsuits filed by three hundred thirty two women alleging dr larry nasser sexually abused them ohio state spokesman ben johnson confirm the reports against straus the sexual misconduct dating back from one nine hundred seventy nine to one nine hundred ninety seven the investigation is currently ongoing and the university is encouraging victims and witnesses to come forward with any further information in washington. r.t. boy i really hope more people do stuff or i hope that the reporting of this story gives people the courage to step forward because we do need to see that these people do need to be brought down everybody's pretty young children university students and you know people who look up to them as a position of authority those people have to be brought down i think is really interesting and jim jordan says seriously. long heartfelt. self

inventory yes when you say something. in a second i'm going to tell you some of the facts of this case of what we know and for him to say if there were in fact victims. if if there were in fact just noted that one of the so dr richard strauss. cues that this was the team doctor for a number of years is that in the seventy's to the ninety's this is a man who killed himself in two thousand. it's estimated when you go through these things that strauss had raped and or sexually assaulted at least fifteen hundred to two thousand leads at ohio state between one thousand seventy eight one thousand nine hundred. twenty one place like church level. one dealt with the spotlight of. drugs. and you don't want to you know mess up anything but one player had said that he was abused in about fifty examinations between the late

eighty's and early ninety's and and one of the things that's really interesting about ohio state is they recently closed down something on their campus very abruptly closed its sexual civility and empowerment office. after there was another internal review that had raised concerns about the the quality of service provided to survivors of sexual assault here's the deal this i mean there was a similar situation at one point during my high school years where there was a wrestling coach and it gets quiet because it's men also and people it's a lot harder for guys to come forward and it was one of those things that it was and so it was just it was a level of silence that would put it's put on everybody and that's you know as a woman who's had to sort of deal with this so much more in the public eye there is a lot like we i think we should be out there supporting these victims and

understanding muchly. terry crews and everybody else this is a moment where we all need to stand together with these victims and not let jim jordan go on saying if there turns out to be a victim and there's nothing shameful about being a victim there's nothing you go on up there no wonder you should be ashamed about it exactly exactly all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter see our poll shows at r t v dot com coming up sean stone because of the recent political upheaval in romania and prepare yourselves talk watchers because we are experiencing. drought yes you heard me say that correctly stay tuned to watching the hawks.

u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly said he wants better relations with russia he did finally how his long sought summit with a lot of your buton both presidents called it a success the american political class and corporate media describe the helsinki summit as a failure and probably worse. it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't it was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies croteau had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery ash was a german company develops in the denied a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said is just. minutes a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation then never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge.

wow wow. when the mainstream media picks out a go to merit of the so viewers and on a nightly basis it's often difficult to escape even for the most independent minded

free thinker that holds true for any topic at all the latest out words were the scandal in pop culture entertainment or something as cut and dry as the state of the economy or the military entertainment industrial complex as favorite an opportunity for yet another foreign intervention so it comes as no surprise that most americans likely missed the recent political upheaval in the caucasus mountains what's been labeled as our media's velvet revolution and one possible reason is that unlike most of washington's hand-picked revolutions this one appears to have largely come about outside the usual state department incubate or and the popularity popularly chosen new prime minister's first major policy move wasn't to bend the knee at foggy bottom or rather to focus on rooting out corruption while at the same time meeting with russian president vladimir putin to build closer strategic ties with russia our own sean stone earlier sat down with armenian actor and activist roman. who recently returned from the caucasus. that i've heard that

it wasn't like the. the other color revolutions of georgia and ukraine and other countries in the sense that it it doesn't seem to have been backed by the united states and orchestrated by these n.g.o.s with the smartphones and basically twitter is another sort of absolute technology of communicating and getting these these crowds these flash mobs to show up this was a much more ghana. and we've meant absolutely we have also szell media so what happened is nicole pushing you know was on facebook instagram just telling the wall what's happening because prior government how old the power media so he couldn't really do any anything on media and saying hey guys. how. started walking with ten people all of a sudden they had all their one million people on the streets closing the streets

with trucks it was a mess one of the seven we flew in i mean you had to see every single person in there whether the. my message is this ok whether you armenian american jew whoever you are i want to see freedom that's the message when you see this every single person when when we landed and i was looking at every single person's eyes looks like the whole country go to jail it's like my god what's going on everybody is nice everybody they all love each other all the sudden this you know when you go to armenia people don't they don't live very well you know that they're suffering with someone doesn't have food you know or something or super rich right now everybody's nice everyone is happy why not i want to wish every single country but what's the next step i mean bush administration ians promises and his plan to actually bring me out of poverty us of

today. he's we had ok i'm going to start just comparing one thing about georgia when you mentioned my down so georgia you had saakashvili who came to a power very harsh and he definitely wiped out all the mobs and corruption and he did it overnight when i say overnight it took him probably less than a month georgia was one of the most corrupt countries i've been there i drove through you couldn't drive through if you want to go from armenia to russia you got to go through georgia probably you get stop i don't know fifteen times maybe even you know you end up giving your shoes to that was horrible right now completely different country beautiful country now first to armenia nicol question and came to power he's doing his steps very i wouldn't say slow but he there's

a big movement so i was watching. very much involved seeing what's going on meeting him personally and he's a super smart guy and he's going one by one with all description the figures there's a guy named manuel he was a general all of a sudden they found bunch of illegal money besides money and weapons he has his own zoo heidegger bears can mafia don i mean come on guys give me a break you can't even have a tiger that's illegal there's only five thousand pipers ok you can have a lion can have a tiger this guy's a tiger ok so this is brutal. this is just and also currently we have a political situation would be budget on about. we have

a war at the moment so all these the asper of science food money everything and these generals they're just putting their warehouses and they don't take it through frontline for soldiers that's and of corruption these people they don't need to leave completely. i cannot even see that how could you leave how could you take food from soldier as far as you know the president's agenda is he going to mean you know is it is he to pursue the war against as a by john for example is he going to the house going to reform the overall country in the condition of the people living in poverty what alliances as you know look more towards europe for me or maintain good relations with russia. great question thank you actually i'll start with the war on azerbaijan we started the war with. its ball flies for so there's not going on which they claim to be their land but

styling back then he just signed a contract for twenty five years and that's gone was an armenian land. would say that's a land army or so that's army a lap ok but currently we have army as we leave there for decades. you can go and do the research. but it's an old story of fighting over land and sea ice over and over and so this point the war doesn't stop now what kampusch do at this point i think russia's role it's significant huge in this politics because russia. about two years ago finest which a lot of weapons so he did the same thing for armenians so what is the main keep the pension guys i don't think was ours once war armenians don't want war no one in baku ones were there eighteen years old they go to war and they you know next thing

they're dead so do we want war we want our kids get killed now you've russia is financing both sides what does that mean are they going to solve this problem or not absolutely not so what's going to happen i don't know we'll see we'll see but are we going to give up his land know how always going to do compromising i don't know. and is as pushing express anything as far as how we're going to address this situation of how much is you know leaning towards europe and european at relationships as opposed to russia because obviously russia is a very powerful almost neighboring country but obviously a neighboring country in the sense of regional power you have turkey also exerting pressure and russia is a good kind of balance against turkey so has he expressed where he's going to stand in this relationship i think prior to pushing in we had and i don't think putin really respect i mean i doubt time really you know he just you

know armenia needs russia yes we do but the sense of we're not puppets russian nice to understand. ok we're in you know it's two thousand and eighteen we're not in one thousand nine hundred eighteen anymore the genocide is done it's over it's not going to happen again so my point and message to to anyone if you know i'm a free speaker and i don't care i can say whatever i think it's right for me and for my people people need to understand russia is a great friend of armenia for for ever for a long time but russia cannot put a pressure saying you have to be with us you have nothing to do with you up that doesn't happen because nicole and nicole pushing him just how to great meeting he would european union and they're already science and nice contracts they're going to do some business transaction banks and so on so forth so he's with russia so we have to take keep the civil it's very important to have to understand that so now i

want to russia has more respect towards armenia than prior to the call pushing it absolutely because right after nicole pushing him got it like that by people i'm going to say people in may eight right after one week put in said we need to meet in sochi and they did and everything went well and like i said russia is a good ally for us definitely we are surrounded by turkey and as are budge on and i don't think we have the greatest relationship with turkey i have no problem with people but erdogan is a dictator you know last year he put up to one hundred fifty journalists and everybody else i don't think people love their dogs that's politics. mean just that which is said to have originated in the province of japan is a practical fully faceted martial art a collection of legends and

a skill set that can include espionage witchcraft magic and assassination practitioners of ninjitsu are known as ninjas and even well it's running short on them to brand is that a deep population problem with younger japanese moving out of these rural areas and in an effort to not only create jobs but also celebrate the area's ninja heritage eaters mayer has been pushing egos ninja museum which is full of weapons used by ninjas like sure you can go throwing stars and live ninja shows but see that's why they need more ninjas they need more ninjas to perform so the government is offering upwards of eighty five thousand dollars u.s. dollars a year to train and become a ninja performer according to the international ninja research center the average ninja in medieval times only made about eight to seventeen thousand dollars per year adjusted for inflation so if the job market in your country is let me down maybe you can help eager japan re enter them into wow

wow by saying we own it you're going to go you can go be a ninja then i probably look like an angel you practice the witchcraft already got the part. you gotta get me burned at the stake there said the man that's that's a pretty good law i just like the fact that people are still studying and training to be mentors with men what a great job it is five thousand a year to go and layer a nice beautiful countryside in japan through skill and it's kind of almost a religion to a little bit i mean what they were mercenaries and then they were essentially mercenaries an espionage and they were the spies that you would pay them to find information and they could hide and use certain things they were much more they were more than murder michael dudas of american men about the extent to. my exposure to members of my childhood all right. is going to get me interested and are about as i was over the bay remember everyone in the world we are not told real

love so i tell you all i love i am a rover and out of a lot of. people watching mozart's nova great day by the by. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to access education low it's high education is becoming just another product that can be bored and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you good. luck with this also the kind of couldn't you. want is the place of students in this business model before college i

was born now in an extremely more higher education the new global economic war. just like the comparison to the you came brace and versus the u.s. policies versus global trade so dollar topcoats of the global trading environment with the ability what leverage america's got to leverage in that economy and you can reshape the global economy they evoke a went against the e.u. with no leverage they have a zero leverage against the e.u. therefore they've lost tragically against you and their colleagues being marginalized and isolated as a result of it they completely misstated our misunderstood there at the equation between the u.k. and the e.u. when it comes to business and trade. somewhere there may not be any kind. maybe bacterial life may not be intelligent but i think it's probably the toughest in life there and certainly from now we can we can send

a robot to interact with some other species out there. breaking news these earlier forces launched massive air strikes that have mass targets in gaza or things that we for years after a huge military operation there that resulted in thousands of. summit take to the white house announces donald trump is inviting the russian president to the u.s. in the autumn causing outrage in the u.s. media. but to washington top spy in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house. and three years of hardship under rubble see and for thousands of residents of two syrian towns after they were moved.