going into the world of workplace injury and corporate malfeasance by doing our jobs and watching the hawks. that's. what they like you know that i got. sick. welcome everybody to watch from the hawks i am tyrrel ventura. and dangerous place to work a lot of that there is watch out and. i mean fave to a worker with. such a big. right is this about socialism is valid but. it is sad when you see

those numbers that let you know you get workers being injured every seven seconds on the job like that that's tragic numbers and i'm sorry when you get when you get a job and you go to work you should expect some safety you know at the end of the day when you go to work and earn a living you should expect that your employee employer has elements set up for your health your own safety on the job so you're not putting yourself or anyone else at risk. i know call me crazy right anyone lineal. that what what's even great do is that i was you know they have this list the list of all charges thirty doesn't the top of the you know this group picked in an amazon spokesperson fired back when asked by a geek wire about being on this list in the spokesperson said quote the dirty dozen press release issued today should be taken with a grain of salt the national council of occupational safety and health is not a government entity kosh is in fact a coalition of union organizations and parties with a busy. because to undermine amazon's reputation through

a clear campaign. it go alleged parties with a business cause to undermine their union. literal cause. they don't profit the union doesn't profit it's. work exactly and to advocate for work exactly. blows my mind when i see stuff like this where you see amazon reacting like oh no no no no don't. say forced conversions or even listen to you. and i think they're trying to bring out the idea that this organization is not a government agency and it's like they're not even listening which is the government agency they're not even listening to them either and all they do is fight to not have to follow these rules so the occupation safety and health

administration called. basically sort of the top federal authority in the united states to preventing workers from. getting. or. kind of. like a pretty good government agency that would step in and look for workers this way i mean but they've they've they're having troubles there are having trouble and it's not coming from. you know it's interesting from two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and seventeen federal ocean force when something's times they look at issues on the workplace where they've been called out you need to take a look at this well from forty two thousand nine hundred forty one thousand eight hundred twenty nine twenty eight continued that trend was only forty one thousand times four hundred seventy eight and four summons in that year where they actually cited the company saying hey you messed up your own worker safety or things like that so you're seeing this decline inspections of workplace hazards including the

top category of work related illness the one illness most people complain of which is like nomics back or something of that nature fell by two thirds inspections and he conditions in climate change have been two years as inspection of your love this dangerous pesticides fell by two thirds wow. what do you get when you don't have enough people i guess. i mean one of the things . yeah i mean one of part of it is that there is a staffing share and there's a lot of these little issues but mostly it just has to be you know we have to we have to actually fund things and. so those most definitely right we have to actually get those structures up to be a little bit. another chapter in the chilean isaan saga was written on wednesday as the founder of wiki

leaks was sentenced to fifty weeks in prison by a judge and britain for breaching his bail conditions and taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy back in two thousand and twelve a sound now awaits an extradition hearing set for thursday which will decide whether his is a whether he is shipped to the united states to face u.s. federal conspiracy charges are to america san cohen has the story. julian assange had requested leniency after being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy for seven years but the judge rejected his plea sentencing him to fifty weeks in jail songe took refuge in the embassy in two thousand and twelve fearing extradition to sweden on rape charges but the woman who accused of songe said she quote did not want to put any charges on ga but the police were keen on getting a grip on him and that she quote did not want to accuse j. a for anything and quote it was the police who made up the charges i was songe said if you also feared extradition to the united states were officials were calling for

his arrest and even assassination but found no sympathy in court and said receiving the maximum sentence possible outside the court we can leaks editor in chief said the sentence was vindictive in nature. to get a sense this is only two weeks short of the maximum sentence is an outrage. it's almost double the sentencing guidelines. and they are point out just in comparison. that the so-called speedboat killer. got six months for not showing up in court to hear his sentencing for manslaughter a songes lawyer encouraged observers to review evidence about why he sought asylum in the first place his case isn't has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states. we've been saying since two thousand and ten that that risk is real and we now have a provisional extradition request from united states. the focus of our energies

will now be on fighting that extradition request and that fight starts to my son just the extradition hearing begins thursday in the united states he's charged with aiding and abetting disclosure of classified information and could even face charges of treason a conviction that carries a possible death penalty in washington dan cohen or t.v. . so the latest chapter in julian the sun is now we're taking a look at this and you know in the him being sentenced and what's going to happen to america and everyone's worried about well what's interesting to have is his in court today he offered an apology julian and apologized and he said he told the court quote i apologize unreservedly that those who consider that i have disrespected them by the way i pursued my case this is not what i wanted or intended he went on to say i did what i thought at the time was the best and perhaps the only thing that could be done i regret the course that this took the

difficulties were instead compounded and impacted upon very many years. what we make of jewelry stores approach or what we would see apologizing for sorry i sat in the ecuadorian embassy to not have to deal with this swedish rape case and also i mean yes i understand yes he would have clearly as they will eventually want to extradite him to the united states and the asli discussed but even the judge brought up this idea of i don't think it sounded that you were going to be swept away to a basement at the pentagon and be tortured with batteries. and rusty needles these two high profile thing like at some point you have to realize that as being innocent you were too high profile to have been in that much danger so i think part of it is. this and this is why i feel this way chelsea chelsea did her time. you know yes she did

a patrol so you know and that's you know like chelsea did her time chelsea's set up and went to court and everything she's even gone there and still standing up for him and so part of me is like look at some point you can apologize and say sorry i made such a big kerfuffle out of everything but at the end of the day yeah answer for yourself that if that is what it is because there is i feel like this is making it worse it's making it harder and his personal issues are his personal way of dealing with this stuff and sort of brushing it aside making everything into a conspiracy theory i feel like that's a little hard on people because it makes it harder for anybody to trust him and then at the end wiki leaks is julian assange and wiki leaks is this things so yeah and you know i think and i agree i think it's one of those things words like no one wants to see whistleblowers get mistreated no most of the journalists get mistreated and i think the right bible is very clear he's not a whistleblower he's

a publisher right exactly you know and i think that i think that between that and i think i think he has right on his side he can stand up and say don't treat me like this i have more than a leg to stand on instead of like you're saying instead of saying like you know again that idea of like you know he could have stood up and face this seven years ago and said hey let's go let's go nose to nose let's do this because i have i have the freedom of the press and i have all this on one side you don't you know when people are coming out of the room and i think you have to make a great great point there i mean you would if i was a lover of privilege then you got to sit for seven years being protected so all right as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the top or to cover the facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up iconic character and director from such films as predator and commando bill duke joins us to discuss the history present and future of black film legend of. working in hollywood physical social and his incredible career stay tuned to watching the hawks.

any head of state is going to believe your photo doesn't. use them. if they are sure to looks funny we also can see the swelling in a wrinkle suit mystic just like he was drinking in that suit so where we will use it even though we mostly focus on the little aspects that our talks are going to discuss subjects i don't like and don't interest to us just a still bring sister just you know therefore we tried to do something flips and play the joker suit.

on the you know on the. underwater. total room. it was not mean we didn't know. oh you ought to go to. see this movie for you. they can come and blow our brains out at any given time we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war and legal. we get away with. all the fire crawls stillbirth all the trouble

here's the fail the point it's hollow play the k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they have the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse all than the people who destroyed the world trade centers of the scroll. during the great depression which old mr remember there was most of the family were unemployed. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively isn't today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attacks. engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles

according to. one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for. that's what happens when you put her into the. sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. there isn't just one particular force that saves the lives of. an artist in the united states whether it's history or politics people of color have been paving the

way for american art all the way back since the release of the one nine hundred fifteen silent film the birth of a nation and which one can witness the worst that racial stereotypes have to offer since then art especially in the form of film has become something much more than entertainment it's become a cultural necessity recently we saw a black panther a superhero movie focused on the importance of family and identity in a community of color make over a billion dollars in a time when hollywood executives are still claiming that films focused on the black experience just don't sell however before black panther such innovators as the recently passed john singleton were setting the bar for representation and expression giving voice to the truly voiceless filmmakers like singleton spike lee and robert townsend helped pioneer a way of storytelling that is as much in the fabric of the a black american experience as our next guest says taking the stage in the seventy's american actor bill duke has appeared in some of the greatest movies ever

made such as the action movie classic predator american gigolo and menace to society and when he hasn't wasn't gracing the screen he was behind the camera directing shows like dallas and sound can cross just to name a few but in the forty years he's been in the business of show bill duke has brought more than just a handsome face to cellular his wisdom and mentorship makes him a cut above joining us now from los angeles is the author of bill duke my forty year career on screen and behind the camera the founder of the duke media foundation which helps young people prepare for the future through media education and one of the stars of the series black lightning about a retired superhero and the netflix film high flying bird that takes on professional sports welcome to the hawk's nest actor mentor and legend bill do. thank you so much for having me much appreciated thank you bill it truly is an

honor to have you on and i want to start by asking you you know over the course of your forty year career what do you feel is been the biggest changes you've seen for artists and filmmakers of color working in hollywood today. well i think there are more opportunities and i hope there are going to be more coming. i hope the ratio of the number of films that are made per year represented in our community and our stories increase in so that's my prayer also the fact that online content can be distributed globally by the particular but i think it's very very important for everybody including filmmakers that is serious about creating content and getting it distributed globally so i'm hopeful that there are some good things that are here and more is coming now hollywood the

entertainment industry has thankfully come a long way since the birth of a nation but that doesn't mean that its problems with equality and representation are no longer at issue as if you know black panther at the things and everything is gone everything's great it's perfect what have you found are still the biggest hurdles for black filmmakers and today's hollywood and what are the things that they need to be done to change that. i think that. one of the biggest hurdles you mentioned so eloquently in your introduction is that there's still a belief to a certain extent that black films don't. translate globally so therefore their earning potential is limited i think black panther proved that to be false but in terms of independent filmmakers i think that many of us still face that stigma. i hope and the future that that can be

a racist but right now that's one of the things we're facing the second thing we're facing i think is. i directed a number of years ago. a film called cemetery club for disney and we went on the national tour with the film and it's about three jewish women that lost their husbands and that they formed a club morning. and transition into their future lives and ellen burstyn will be the carcass and i am mad started and the question i was asked by the press wherever i went is. you know this is a film about three white women. you know why are you directing this and i said well because i can relate to their humanity their loss i had a death in my family's cetera. and so i can understand their you know what pat compassion

what they've gone through. and and i said also steven spielberg just you know directed the color purple. and. and what was amazing was the response when they said that when i talked about steven spielberg and i'm quoting now they said but that's different what wow. that's the part you're not the first to say out loud wow right i mean that's of our it's like the other spoke in reality. do you think that people are much more open. i think now there is some more openness i hope there's a greater openness. because you know. a lot of white directors are allowed to direct black films and i hope that more and more black directors male and female and minorities will be allowed to direct all kinds of films that

transcend the color of their skin we're not limited by. the color of our skin but as dr king said by the content of our character and our skills so that's my prayer for the future brilliant and you know i want to ask you that this prolific career of war many different hats you mentioned the director and actor and i was curious what do you look for in choosing projects today that. was different than you know when you first started in the business some forty years ago . well i've always looked for this i call it edutainment and what i mean by that is it's a definitely important to entertain people. to protect your investor and make sure they've cooked the dollars that they've trusted you with and that's a priority but also. i think that there are things that you can put

in your films and i always want to do this. that make people feel and think so i don't think that there are pursuit things i think you can do both and i think there's a craft to directing in a craft to to writing and i think that it's possible to entertain at the same time give some nuggets of things that make people feel and think. you know your duke media foundation focuses on and with as boteach ing new media arts and and financial literacy as the civility in our city youth in south los angeles california why is it so important for those specific voices and voices like those in smaller less privileged communities why is the sound for it and that we get those kids to learn how to use their voice and become a storyteller. or you can see shamelessly wearing the new york film academy logo on my sweater sorry infirmary because they've been so kind to us they provide

a space computer is teachers a lot of things from my foundation have been doing it for a few years. our community to a certain extent has neglected and i really want to be part of a giving our young people the skills and understanding and consciousness of what they're going to be facing in the future there is a very insightful and frightening things from fifteen to seventeen minutes. video on you tube called humans need not apply and i hope one or two seen it or not but it talks about the future how robotics are going to be taking over a lot of the jobs that we're taking for granted right now one of the first center jobs are going to be driving because they're all automated trucks and cars that can drive across country they don't take naps they don't get sick they don't eat and

they drive back and they drop off things. so that's just one of the things i want our young people to be prepared for in our industry for how the industry is changing what jobs are going to be available and what may not and the jobs that they can create invent whether it's virtual reality augment reality cell phone apps on line content webisodes whatever it is that they can begin to think differently. because like you know isa ray started off with. the dark girls thing on webisodes now she has a deal with h.b.o. and it's always sunny in philadelphia has been on for years and start off as webisodes so instead of waiting to be discovered she start discovering ourselves that's why i tell these kids number two financial literacy. there's a distinction i mean we're taught how to spend a dollar but now how to use a dollar very few minorities know what the stock market is what the federal reserve

the f.b.i. see savings bonds and you know stocks the distinction between those we teach them these things because spending money is one thing but the use of money is something we need to understand so that we can be not only profitable in terms of today but we can begin to look out for the future for our great great great grandchildren i couldn't agree more in a member thank you for doing that and for the good work you're doing i got it we got about a minute left and i want to finish up with a bill i've got to ask you you actually acted with my father just a renter a predator many many years ago. a slower a very straight man one of the funk things i love having a lot of a we only got about a minute left but what are your what's your favorite memories of that film and working with jesse. jesse with my buddy man he was great.

just great great people but he'll tell you our first. two weeks in the air you know we were in the jungles up in port of my out of mexico surround and the food tent was surrounded. with netting but every day we ate there were bugs in the food and so for the first week we say take this garbage back because there are bugs in it but there was no more food to eat but the end of the second week was called protein. man. i made a good movie a friend i mean. i know i got to say thank you so much for coming on today and thank you for such a great career and look forward to what you have in the future and keep up the great work sir. the rest god bless you both and please tell folks to check my book out on amazon and i hope that they like i'm sure that i have a thank you so much will do. all right everybody about is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved and up so i tell

you all i love you i am tired old winter off and on top of the keep on watching all those hawks out there that were great day and i. couldn't. sleep. we had no political agenda here we just kept it because. more to get out than what

you get when you get it out that's called all loss it's a minus sign that's it if you can't figure that out you think there's a political agenda. you're blinded by your by. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of know from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football narvi or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is it that sliding here. is is the follow through

a period of sort of little bit similar to flush blood if. you would you know well the minute you did it wasn't i go to the. losing is it's a feeling supple of a good enough that all you want the solicitor got it would bring on the man i'm interested in said looper still a study in that you'll know paul. enough well it was pretty good way to lose a. little bit of what you still do which could be a home of the only thing going on but i can. hear it to you we're hearing you're learning you don't need to storm the lead here slim i looked up from her during the clue which are coconspirators some are going.

to. be. an empty chair greeted the house judiciary committee instead of the u.s. attorney general on the second tearing into his handling of the reports into alleged russian collusion the session itself was labeled a circus with even brandishing the prop. chicken bar should've shown up today and answered questions yesterday prove you're not terrified to sit for anybody still in the circus continues over to. you in a song his defense team claims the fight for the whistle blows freedom is now in full swing these court holds a first meeting over whether to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the united states. to large anti-government protests rocks the venezuelan capital a day after what appears to have been a failed coup that says opposition leader and his us back is did not.