despite the protests the tulsa county sheriff's office did not cancel the class they said it was not related to the shooting itself but rather to the potential consequences arising from a similar incident here's why officer shelby thinks the course is necessary i faced many challenges that i was unprepared for such as friends to my life my activist groups to loss of pay my classes to help others by sharing some of the skill set used to cope with the stress of my critical incident of police in oklahoma i have attracted negative headlines before the statistics show that african-americans are in some cases almost five times more likely to be the victims of the state's police force on any other ethnic minority claims that the police deny mark lewis founder of the activist platform we the people oklahoma says police racially profile african-americans this is a smack in the face of the african-american community here in tulsa why is it that they are parading a person around the state and saying that she is their hero this is what they're doing wow we have to deal with the aftermath of her killing an african-american

male there is a huge outcry because she had no regard for his life and not only did she do shoot to kill him she also did not in that instance minister care but also she looked upon him and someone within the helicopter had also had implicit bias and said he looks like a bad dude they had already had implicit buy it's already towards terence crutcher terence correct it did not stand a chance against also police department that day. the so-called russia gate scandal rumbles on in the united states lawyers for a former advisor claimed then presidential candidate donald trump nodded with approval at the suggestion of a meeting with russian president vladimir putin has done a quarter. just when it might have scenes that robert muller's hunts for collusion was running out of steam out of the woodwork comes a juicy new clue

a nod of approval from donald trump to a potential meeting with russian president vladimir putin back in two thousand and sixteen that's according to the lawyers a former campaign aide to george papadopoulos one of mahler's main targets. while some in the room rebuffed george's offer mr trump nodded with approval the document came as a hopeful defense for papadopoulos who admitted to lying to the f.b.i. during the meddling investigation the picture papadopoulos his lawyers are painting though describes anything but a criminal with them saying that his motives were not sinister as the government suggests they say he was just trying to show loyalty to his master the lengthy document aside though trump's nod might help to revive the investigation which some say has become frustrating as hell i'm sure there will be people at the end of this who feel that we came to a conclusion that they vehemently disagree with i know the trauma committed to

standpoint we've got to prove what would find and if you can't prove that then we can't make the claim oh that might be frustrating especially when just days ago other hopes for reviving the investigation were to railed at the probe into trump's lawyer michael cohen rages on cohen's attorney promised a bombshell of information baiting the mainstream media he told c.n.n. that cohen had information about d.n.c. hacking and don junior's infamous meeting with the russians sources with knowledge to myself and call that michael cohen claims then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june twenty sixth meeting in trump tower crucially these sources tell us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel wabbit mohler the reporting of this story got mixed up so michael cohen does not have information that president trump knew about the from terror meeting with the

russians beforehand or you know there's not but suddenly he backtracked on the in sydney or he claim expressing regret and saying he should have been more clear i should have been more clear including with you that i could not independently confirm what happened i regret my ira and sure the investigation was able to get cohen to admit to some crimes of tax and bank fraud but then again that doesn't have much to do with russia does it here's a nod. american political cartoonist and columnist ted roll thinks that it's an example of this man. this is what we call in u.s. politics a smear it's guilt by association you you say it was used a lot during the mccarthy era hey you attended a communist meeting so you know what's with that i mean you know attending a communist meeting doesn't make you a communist talking to vladimir putin doesn't mean that you're the servant of lot

of your putin and want to warm relations with russia doesn't make you a traitor but the implication is that perhaps it does obviously the effort here as it is here and as it has been from the very beginning to try to imply that president trump received or was interested in receiving help from president putin and russian intelligence to hack the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign and so on in order to provide campaign intelligence to the to the trump campaign and that's been the effort. in syria is looking to welcome visitors next year with large scale reconstruction underway known for its ancient roman era buildings sustained extensive damage while in the islamic state control it's not the only syrian city which suffered greatly during the war that's being really constructed right now aleppo is also seeing major rebuilding would.

summer nights girls going out to meet their friends in the center of the christian town of mad about. almost twenty. since two thousand and sixteen i've been to syria every year two thousand and sixteen i was able to go. to the first of the ration. in two thousand and seventeen i was able to get three months off to the ration and this year i i returned and i went with it all over the country it was time on the two hour train ride from tarsus to attack in this lovely syrian woman asked me where i was from and then wanted to photograph but soon i hope to use to no longer be such a rarity to this wonderful country i prefer peace in this land. people

who would just stop in the streets. come up to me. shake my hand embrace me and offer me because. they would say to me thank you for coming because you know they haven't seen any strangers for you know seven eight years and they really miss it and they were really happy to see a foreigner even a foreigner from a supposedly hostile power it really doesn't make any difference just to see someone who's interested in. the situation in the country i'm interested in their. wow the welcome that i had was just incredible incredible . as long as people aren't expecting you know five

star hotels willing to really get to know the people in the last i'd say very very soon i think tourism could start yes but i mean of course there are ruins everywhere you know it's so. it's difficult you know it's it is suffering from the aftermath of war. two hundred years of historical research of thought to have been lost after brazil's most renowned museum is destroyed by fire the details on that when we come back. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instant of public wealth. when the

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logan u.s. senator john mccain who died of cancer at the age of eighty one was laid to rest on sunday the veteran republican senator and former presidential candidates death has seen a massive outpouring of praise across the mainstream media although it's being suggested that some may have overdone that coverage. senator mccain was foremost an independent thinker a round peg in the world capital of square holes his final words john mccain choice was honorable it was about service to others it was about reconciliation peacemaker and he was one of the the leaders in the united states again who brought our countries back together in this particular case remember this senator not only coordinated his future role and preserve which he is certainly able to do he has a right to do that but excluded the president excluded sarah pailin excluded a number of people. we even had

a donna brazil ask who was the the head of the democratic party said how dare president trump refused when ten they didn't even know that he excluded people from us from celebrating are honoring him i mean this this was in many respects and there's no way to avoid it i'm sorry i don't want to be disrespectful but this was also a statement against president. this is why so many people all of a sudden found this new comic to many people were his fans or fans of. senator mccain and that's fine but others found a. new found connection with him by rick you of his antipathy and his and his his rancor against the president. brazil's historic and national museum has been gutted by a massive fire the two hundred year old scientific institution contains priceless

artifacts including archaeological finds and historical collections the museum it closed on sunday when the fire broke out and there are no reports of any injuries but the flames spread rapidly and it's feared that all of the museum's extensive archive has been destroyed the cause of the fire is not yet known. china's foreign investments have grown by forty percent since the beginning of the year that's despite escalating trade tensions with the u.s. as washington increases its restrictions on beijing investors in june washington imposed a twenty five percent tariff on chinese goods china was quick to retaliate though with its own punitive measures while complaining to the world trade organization about the united states move washington then threaten two hundred billion dollars more in additional tariffs. on the trans also threatening to pull the u.s. out of the w t o he says the organization is not playing fair with america from sow the seeds of that threat months ago. w t o it's created the united states very badly and i hope they change their ways they have been treating us very badly for

many many years and that's why we were at a big disadvantage with the w.t. you know and. we're not planning anything now but if they don't treat us properly we will be doing something jeffrey from the foundation for economic education things that trump one listen to any of the w.t.f. decisions relating to china. china certainly needs. any any world power needs a w t o at this at this point in an ideal world it would need to exist but actually done b.t.o. is made immense contributions to advancing free trade since not talk possible to talk about u.s. trade policy today without talking about donald trump because u.s. trade policy isn't terra connected to the polish and of the chief executive who is donald trump downchild does not consider himself personally bound by the deputy he thinks that he's the c.e.o. of a corporation called the united states of america and the c.e.o.

doesn't have to obey any other company at all so this agreement means nothing to them whatsoever so any kind of judgment by the debates you know will have no compelling effect on the brain of donald trump whatsoever. that's a new threat for this how thanks very much for watching all of that you again after sophie and co his about the risks of raising the alarm over abuses in the u.s. military. join me everything on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or

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to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze in this saying in the military this woman never thought she'd be in danger from her fellow soldiers grapes assaulted and harassed she was forced into a struggle that ended her career to victims of rape have a fair chance of justice in the u.s. military air force veteran and military rape crisis center worker jennifer norris is with me today to share the story of her back home. american women are reaching the highest ranks in the modern day military but away from the front lines they find themselves defenseless against a threat much closer to home why is sexual assault so rampant in the u.s.

military what happens to victims who dared to speak out this is the pentagon willing to concede its own soldiers face. jennifer norris retired u.s. air force veteran activist in the military rape center who herself had firsthand experience of sexual assault. in the military saying to you for joining us in this program. i want to start right away now the first time this happened you were drugged by your recruiter did he trick you into having sex with him do you have any recollection of how the incident happened when i look back on the incident i realize that i was actually tricked by this man to even go to the party to begin with he had told me that it was a new recruit party for other recruits and i was excited to go meet them because they would understand exactly how i felt so he had ill intentions from the get go

because when i got there there were no new recruits i was the only one how many times were you subjected to sexual assault or abuse or is it just that one case it started with that one case and i thought that maybe it would be over after that that i was just on lucky at the wrong place at the wrong time so i pushed forward but unfortunately as i entered into the military service it happened again and again and again within the first two years of service so tell me this why didn't you report straight away after that happened the first time i didn't report the first time because i hadn't even gone to basic training and i didn't really know what to say to i don't even know where to go if i was supposed to go to a commander in the military if i was supposed supposed to go to the police department i was completely clueless as to what sexual assault and rape in harassment were at that time so i just tried to soldier on and move forward with

a career that i was looking forward to doing for at least twenty years so what happens at that moment when you know you're assaulted sexually what what do you feel what do you go through is it guilt is a shame is it what uncertainty. it used to be shame because i used to feel like i was an eighty it for going to this person's party but after years of counseling and working with rape victim advocates i learned that predators operate in much the same way they're very manipulative and they will set you up for an attack or they will take advantage of an opportunity and so now i realize it was a calculated crime but it took me years to realize that so far those. who hasn't been faced with this kind of ordeal but you know what danger is always there tell

us how do this manipulators actually trick their victims into it how do they lure you in. i think they do what you would call grooming so they make you believe that they're trustworthy and that they're going to take care of you and it almost seems like it's too good to be true and so when you're naive you don't necessarily realize that not everybody is speaking at face value so as an eighteen year old or even a twenty four year old it's easy to fall prey to the niceties because you don't know that there's evil lurking behind it and i think that's the real danger of these these kind of people and how they operate is that it's they're able to get to us based on a trust that has been established in the military we depend in we are dependent on each other in every way especially in trust so how old were you like eighteen when

that happened no i was actually twenty four i had already graduated from college as a social worker i worked in the field for a couple years i worked with as a case manager i worked on a suicide crisis hotline and then i decided i wanted to go and get my master's degree and. the military offered a g.i. bill that could help me accomplish those goals so that's the number one reason that i joined aside from being patriotic and wanting to give back in being involved in something that was bigger than myself ok so i was completely clueless as to what was in store ok you know one woman who went through a similar ordeal air force sergeant marti riviera she said that the military has a way of making females believe they brought this upon themselves do you feel that as well. yes did you blame yourself for what happened i did for the longest time because especially with the recruiters incident i it's like as says if i knew that

as soon as i walked through that door that there was danger but it was too late to turn back and that particular incident taught me a lot about how to take care of myself in the future unfortunately if you're working for someone that's assaulting you you can't escape them so no i don't have shame or blame or any of that stuff anymore as far as what i did all i did was go to work in uniform and these people took advantage of their power an opportunity and that's what we're trying to change is that. it's taken more seriously if someone does in fact abuse their power in that kind of a sad but i'm trying to figure out the psychological aspect of it how exactly does the holes military structure make you feel guilty for what has happened and not the other way around i understand so. given the way that you are poor currently in the military it's not you don't go to a police office to report

a crime you're supposed to report it to your commander in my particular case and in a lot of soldiers cases that the commander is also has a relationship with the perpetrator and he may or may not have known the perpetrator way longer than he knows you and so what it does is it creates an atmosphere of intimidation that if you see your commander hanging out with the same guy who assaulted you then you feel like oh wow he's not going to take me seriously that looks like they're both really good friends and then when you do go ahead and report the first thing that the defense attorneys start looking into is whether or not you are this year that you know how do you conduct yourself you know they immediately go into well you shouldn't have been at this place and if you hadn't you know that wouldn't happen well they could've done that to me too but it's not our fault that i know we thought we were attending what was supposed to be but i'm

thinking jennifer i'm thinking there are also other women working in the military i mean they you know they're they're compassionate creatures you could have shared your story with them they certainly would have understand what you once through especially if this happens all the time maybe there are other women alongside you who are actually subjected to the same sexual assaults did you share your story with any of your female peers what i learned is that first of all i was one of very few women in my squadron there may have. ben if we were lucky three of them and one of them is in and ministration our personnel and then maybe there's another one in another shop but i was the only female that was working for satellite communications in combat communications so no i didn't have other females that i could turn to and say you know hey this happen to me as a matter of fact i didn't want anyone to know that this had happened to me because

i didn't want to be judged unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator they think that you're going to be hypersensitive to if they swear or if they say something in offense you know offensive when in fact it's not going to be that way at all so there's a culture of fear built up in the military and i think that's why they want to automatically blame it on the woman because if she goes away the problem goes away and they can get back to work as normal human rights watch reports very dire picture of what happens to victims of sexual assault and they say i quote. that these people are being spat on deprived of food assailed with obscenity threatened with friendly fire during deployment discharged for misconduct is it true is it really that dangerous to come forward it is in some cases it just depends on your

situation if you're isolated you're in way more danger than say other people would be on some big base that has security forces in a in a jag office but if you're in someplace like the eighty's or is or you know in some other random location across the world in all you have is the people that are with you then yes you could be in grave danger if in fact someone harms you and threatens you and says that if you say anything that they they will kill you it happens i research it we have had non-combat deaths occur overseas that include homicide and unsolved cases that nobody is talking about and that's what we're trying to tell people is. did you get threats where you threatened. yes not only was i threatened but i was physically beat after i reported by one of

the perpetrators friends the entire squadron turned on me i was automatically the liar even though they didn't know the circumstances and even though we did have proof and we were able to move forward with two of the four cases the other people in the squadron did not know what had happened so they believed the perpetrator who was able to tell them the story while i was at some other squadron waiting for the case to go through but see for me it's just mind boggling that you're saying you just like standing there harassed assaulted in the open with other people just standing by and not interfering how come no one interfered why didn't troops come forward for a fellow soldier. well i did have a couple people that had my back along the way but it felt more like it was a culture of fear like nobody dared stand up to those that were higher ranking if they were the ones that were doing the the harm because they were afraid that it

would have backlash on their career to me now. i don't have respect for those people that didn't stand by and take a stand and support the ones that were actually being harmed but along the way there were some silent people that came up to me and said that this person had done that to them that this person had done this to them and so people opened up along the way but they wouldn't take it as far as i did in actually report although i must say it was because of a senior master sergeant that i finally confided in he's the one that finally convinced me to report the four individuals to the commander jennifer we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking with jennifer norris u.s. air force veteran talking about the epidemic of rape in the u.s. military and what happens to those who dare to speak out against the will.