accountable for what happened for oh yeah you know. like they're saying there was at least ninety cases of legionnaires' occurred and henderson county genesee county including twelve deaths and more than half the people had this common thread that they had spent time at mclaren hospital with what was a water source and that's probably what's going to be argued in this trial you know all right and that's what lions attorney is going to argue with that he didn't mesh a war and that's what we've heard again and again that he dition didn't initially warns that ascends about the possibility because he didn't know for sure and they were a little confused about where the legionnaire status is coming from which i'm sure is they didn't want to say it was from the water and it was related to that here's my problem you have a duty as a public official that when there's legionnaires disease going around you tell people i don't care what what causes it i don't care who is alien from mars it is you still let people know that they might be at risk of contract and we generic and it's kind of the first step in accountability attorneys general spokesman angela by

told the media. we're not looking to as a what are lost are looking at today as the first step in the next up for justice in the mom's kid's dad's flint and that's important because the foot so it still doesn't have clean water and you've got to take that first step of justice and your art as we go to break card watchers don't let us don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered up facebook and twitter and see our poll shows that are t. dot com coming up prisoners across the united states have gone on strike today we talked to prison reform activists up and steal their demand stay tuned to watch.

thanks guys especially as a survival guide. when customers go by you're just a. good elf well read you something. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just dennison the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying is just no way that doesn't mean that we're even many of the families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite what we've been through this

this isn't the way. they say the manufacturing is deadly but then our prisons are alive and well see in the united states more than sixty thousand incarcerated citizens are forced to work for unicorn a government owned manufacturing business that relies almost entirely on force prison labor they make military uniforms license plates mattresses food service linens firearms targets office furniture and even provide data services you know cora pays in may it's between twenty three cents and one dollar and fifty cents per hour for their work at the california department of corrections bragged on twitter in july that they had more than two thousand volunteer inmate firefighters

including fifty eight youth offenders battling wire wildfire flames throughout california and those inmates fighting those fires received one dollar per hour. and if this were any other country would be calling for sanctions but in the us this kind of slave labor is actually protected by our constitution section one of the thirteenth amendment the us constitution which was ratified and adopted in december of eight hundred sixty five states neither slavery nor involuntary servitude servitude except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the united states or any place subjected to their jurisdiction so what's happening here folks is that our constitution sadly allows for people to be treated like slaves as long as they were convicted of a crime any crime and since private prison corporations or their shareholders are profiting on the forced labor of citizens within our correctional facilities well

slavery is alive and well and heavily subsidized by the u.s. government and today prisoners and at least seventeen states across the nation will be refusing to participate in slave labor by joining the national prison strike starting august twenty first we were joined earlier by kevin seale prison reform activists working with the incarcerated workers organizing committee to tell us more about the strike and their demands. the president is from or has twenty four hours to sub some of. those deuces chose a specific lou for. so bruce some of. the post the way he was to go to prison a prison goes all the. time i'm over the sort of version of the article. so we chose to do is could those remembrances of who votes on the prism of you expose to go as long as possible we're going to try to hold it up as all this possible is over the just to get the done of the war.

on the human rights. prison. it looks. to be. through the can for the truth. to be rescinded a little for the prison litigation to be rescinded. those are just a few of them is that put it. to me as those come from local prisons. one of the things they came up and the in this prison strike and looking at the issues is essentially prison labor and the riot when you look at the ryan south carolina was a perfect example of why we need reform in our prisons and it was just the tip of the iceberg but we didn't see that sort of. outcry from the mainstream media outrage over the conditions they were in the prisoners are standing up but it's it is revealing that the really sad truth that chattel slavery never went away in the

united states in in a sense can you explain a little bit about how how did our prison system become a source of cheap labor and why is that being allowed under the constitution. where the prison guards are actually allowed to go or they could've stopped it and they could have started from leaders who. believe this country this country was brutal slavery so when slavery was a so-called. they had the fon definitively to continue this cheap labor to continue to build the nation so they were going to. go into different

segments of the slave in different forms and that they felt this fall with the able to legally keep and keep them cheap labor will continue to grow the country and the masses you have these big corporations such as. various corporations will for cheap labor but there's no there's no out against these big corporations so that's a problem we have in this country and i think it's just i think it's. our president not just. in the power haven't just all the this the slave in this country. and we need we need to make some changes that. allows they've to be in this country and that needs to be. it's easy for them to kind of turn their backs on

our the prisoners of our system because well they committed a crime they're there for a reason we can do whatever we want to them they're a blight on society those are all the kind of excuses that are used and in the process of those excuses you you forget that we're talking about human beings whether guilty or unjustly imprisoned or whatever we're still talking about human beings at the end of the day and they all share basic rights regardless of crimes committed now once a person enters the prison system in the united states they never truly leave that why is it so important for prisoners to retain their right specially the right to vote once they've served their time once they're let free you know why is the right to vote so important that we shouldn't be taking that away just because someone is convicted of a felony. it's not it's not just the gamepad provides when you're free so-called free to actually give these. men or women

rights to vote their purses and then our animals they committed a crime or they made a. they had missed us in a lives so that makes them not human alone that makes them no longer american citizens which does something as where we can see people. inside the prison to not be american citizens no longer when they come home they have to pay to have to do everything outside of actually participate in. the vote which is so with this and this zero point zero we give these. men and women to vote while their president and the was that these displaced they're. probably on a. point to get them divorced because we were in the situation we will have a down from of if we have more the vote will move all. these part of the local

who have these problems we have more people vote there's less there's less voters because. we incarcerate the most people in the world so there's a whole there's millions of people that can vote. so that's a big problem in this culture that's amazing a point i never thought about the you know what just because you go into jail doesn't mean you're suddenly lose your basic rights of being a u.s. citizen that's a great that's a really fun term that's really fantastic point one of the things that we've seen over the years of why it's gotten worse and worse and worse when you think about it should have gotten better things have gotten better was decades of bad policy from the federal government capitol hill and presidents. are prisons are aren't a rehabilitation centers they are not places where someone goes to understand maybe the mistakes they've made make different decisions because we've taken away every single opportunity for people to learn and it's become

a political talking point when it is he's almost a little bit about policies like you mention the prison litigation reform act the sentencing reform act how those things stripped prisoners of basic human rights and why is something like how do they get past this. the policies those placed on prison. litigation reform. this foam. grievance the stuff to give directly to the federal. someone a society the they had to go to defense because they thing your grievance is not. so they will know they don't want to waste the time of the federal to get involved in a new grievance so you had to go to the state you had to go to the facility that you were at different processes just to get to the core system at the time to get that you're already denied. so that's something that's really. sad that we could.

place these policies in place a key slave people as a. human being is that that's the biggest thing about this is to treat them as if the wounds we're treating them. they're less than human and that's something that needs to be addressed but alas it is and the policies need to be changed and in order for the policy of the change it takes us. vote vote. it takes the was as our that can vote to apply pressure to these lawmakers see where they stay there. say listen we're not going to back you if you will make this change so it's takes us out here to put our vote over to put a vote for place to say listen this is what we need we need to go vote you know i

want to have i want to ask you what do you think is the biggest misunderstanding that people have about. prisoners incarcerated for example use a drum roll you were incarcerated a vigil what is that biggest misunderstanding that people view this strike they need to remember when they're seeing these prisoners by and for their rights. the biggest miss the biggest misunderstood thing about. that there are all of. you most who they don't they don't have feel they don't have a heart and that they deserve whatever. for they deserve the toilet it was given they are all. guilty of that they convicted for something i was far from true and their religious not worthy of being of. service and that something needs to be changed there was this article that was put out. to the sixteen this is

a president is the course of a facility they have a. they be hard to be in it was room there was a move you of about of the big sin is opposed to war because the person believed the. argue it was given as well. as of. we. we was given with so with how people think these buggers and they work. with those so this business collection is this collection that we have. once one leaves society and goes into prison full of. specially if they blow. in one thousand nine hundred four and nasa craft clementine deliver data that suggested there was ice in the surface of the

moon at the north and south poles now some twenty four trips around the sun later researchers at the university of hawaii have proof that clementine was correct nasa creation the moon mineralogy mapper travel to and from the moon in two thousand and eight but the data is only now reaping the benefit of the data shows that there is a small patches of ice on our moon surface this means that if ice is on the surface there may be even more. or buried within the soil future test could reveal where the ice originated since the pouch on the south pole is concentrated in craters while the north patches are not suggesting the ice may have rolled along on a meteor some scientists even think will be able to convert lunar ice into rocket fuel meeting in a few decades the move could be home to some of us like to get some of that you know lunar water and my nice cup of coffee right here me now from the inner liner who is excited about it i'll retire on the mound at our car at the hoods or so for

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in the headlines this morning slow witted and baseless russia slams newly enforced u.s. sanctions barring a response to congress is also reviewing even more aggressive measures against moscow that could hit later in the. weekend bring even more economic pain to be here and we will not hesitate to do so if it's contact does not demonstrably and significantly change. while trying to counter perceived threats from russia keeping washington busy we made an american journalist who says the u.s. in fact is using n.g.o.s to interfere in other countries affairs. mikey for documentation to the u.k. that it's promoting gang culture after the release of a controversial item of clothing. might be a reaction is. terrorist means i'm from canada i thought i like think of it as

someone being more insane that appealing to me at all i don't think you'd be allowed in banks and. by their very good morning it's just turned ten am this wednesday the twenty second of august here in moscow when i was kevin owen you live without international from the newsroom thanks for your company first on the first batch of the most recent us sanctions against russia come into force today they focus on exports of american made electronics used in the aircraft and space industries moscow says these measures won't affect ordinary people meantime in november moscow may face a second wave of risk restrictions described by the u.s. state department as potentially much more draconian they're set to include more limits on trade and banking and cuts to diplomatic relations measures under consideration may also ban russia's state airline from entering u.s.

airspace now washington says the new sanctions in response to the poisoning of the russian double agent and his daughter in britain in march this year investigation to that case is still ongoing no hard evidence of russia's involvement has been provided that moscow has slammed the sanctions now as slow witted saying they're based on a false pretext. as usual washington provided no evidence of justification while only throwing out vicious innuendos it seems they are following the principle worse is better we will counter that united states slow witted blinkered and aggressive approach with sober minded orderly work on a constructive agenda. is washington's grip to a sanctions fever these days there's been numerous debates in the u.s. capitol on how best to punish russia over it. on capitol hill it was all about sanctions three high profile events subtle differences but the main thrust in all

of them was punish russia the u.k. foreign secretary even flew into town to make his case those. values need to know there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across the day the united kingdom asks its allies to go further by calling on the european union to ensure its sanctions against russia on a comprehensive and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. to different hearings on capitol hill about russia's supposed mon line actions now the two things named are u.s. alexion meddling and the poisoning in britain of survey and yulia screwball with know that shock now no proof has ever been presented ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the

american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond now all the voices agree that russia has never yielded in the face of sanctions in the past however they say that the answer is more sanctions just because they can the bread and brazenness of russia's malign conduct demands a firm and vigorous response our actions are imposing an unprecedented level of financial pressure on those supporting the kremlin's malign agenda and on he sectors of the russian economy now the second round of sanctions is due to be imposed in november why well everyone knows that russia will meddle in the upcoming midterm elections the same thing. spinning spurious narratives about meddling in the past are now predicting the future when we talk about russian interference it's

not just past elections that we're worried about clearly the russians know that the u.s. is on guard at this point if they were successful to a degree in two thousand and sixteen we think that they're adopting this as they're looking at new ways to divide americans is there any concrete plan in place for addressing the threat that's actually posed by russia and our intelligence agencies stop them from doing it again now some members of congress are calling for paper ballots to make sure the vote is transparent and it's not digitally hacked americans need paper ballots marked by hand until that system is adopted every election goes by is yet another alexion that foreign governments hostile foreign governments including russia can hack but why bother russia could probably hack papers and pencils anyhow caleb mop and r.t. new york the whole thing is quite a conundrum for me why they continue to try to politicize this issue and use

sanctions of some way to help them domestically except that they're trying to cover up their own shortcomings their own short changing of the american people and to try the blame our divisions an article on the crisis in our racial divide here on an on an outside power which is the oldest trick in the book going back to the beginning of civilization if the democrats lose or do not do as well as they hope in the november election having used rusher again as their as their main talking point they may have to readjust and realize that the progressive wing of the party is growing and that the american people don't give a damn about russia and that they have to finally address the real issues here and leave this russia issue alone and get back to normal relations with this country that is that it's imperative for. for world peace essential if well meantime tech giant microsoft now claims it's thought a fresh attack on the u.s. senate and a number of conservative think tanks next as he goes down off reports it seems the usual suspects in the frame to. microsoft is ringing the alarm russians are at it

again attempts by russia to hack u.s. senate and conservative groups for russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence unit apparently how has set up a bunch of websites doppelganger is of those belonging to prominent political groups and the u.s. senate this technique is known as phishing designed to lure unsuspecting users to pages that look just like the real thing and then basically steal their data according to microsoft that they recognize this tactic from a few years back we saw this during the united states general election in twenty sixteen last major in the french presidential election and now in a broadening way as americans are preparing for the november midterm elections midterms are a big deal in the states for those of you unfamiliar that's elections in congress with close to all seats up for grabs this november for russians to mess it up would be the second worst thing after rigging the presidential race except microsoft's

panic post has raised doubts among the i.t. crowd one you don't have to be a hacker let alone a member of any organization to create a fake website or the senate or even the president all they need is an internet connection about thirty minutes of spare time and about fifty bucks job done to microsoft insists it's the new turi as hacker group known as fancy bears behind the websites mimicking but those fifty bucks should have concealed the domain owner's identity so it's still not entirely clear how microsoft is pinning the blame here still even if it is fancy but let's just say their connection to the kremlin is still subject to debate it's not a hard fact three and probably the most important microsoft has written in black and white that they have no evidence the websites were actually used for any attacks moreover they couldn't pinpoint good. or targets for any planned attacks

to summarize microsoft was driven by a gut feeling that something bad's going to happen like when you see someone buying a knife and assuming they're going to use it as a weapon but microsoft insists the threat is there and oh how convenient already has a solution on stand by microsoft account god will be provided for free to come pains and candidates it will alert them of potential threats and educate how to keep the network secure so a threat or no threat microsoft has nothing to lose but this new product of theirs won't market itself as footnote to this rush has reacted to the accusation saying that the issue is being created for publicity and no concrete evidence has been provided. who has the specter of alleged russian meddling looms over the us and one american journalist has published a new investigation exposing washington's efforts to interfere with the internal affairs of countries around the world and undermine rival governments like split

with oil went to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit n.g.o.s that was founded in one thousand nine hundred three and is supported by both the democratic and republican parties currently it operates in more than ninety countries the national endowment for democracy says its work is to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places or blumenthal couldn't help notice some parallels but i covered the ceremony because these organizations are doing exactly what congress accuses russia funded media outlets control farms of doing in the united states to interfere in other country's politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly and in the name of spreading freedom. r.t. spoke to the journalist behind the report most blumenfeld tell us more about the findings so once again. i'd like to express our so.