reading to a.b.c. news the parks and recreation is the partment in the city of philadelphia has since 2014 installed a device called the mosquito and parks around the city and that the device goes off from 10 pm to 6 am blaring a high pitched sound that anyone over the age of 25 should not be able to hear it's currently installed at 31 city run locations in philadelphia the devices are meant to prevent vandalism and loitering by teens and young people at these public parks naturally this is led to some pushback from the community with philadelphia city council member helen jim telling the news media quote i don't think that this project is going to is going to go any further until it meets with the full scrutiny to the public and that we have some serious attention paid whether this is the best use of our money you know my friends i think it's time we to ask ourselves just what are the values of a society that decides to treat its young people like pests at

a barbecue rather than well i don't know human beings now let's start watching the hawks. to. get the sense. that it's really. good for the city to see. what they like you know that i got. with. this this is. it's this is a. welcome everybody to lot to. have a talent in writing and that is that it could they might have. and. my goodness the kids have gone crazy we need to blast them with sound energy no. i think the un had a thing about the movie they're bad for people. i believe you're looking at these

numbers so it's produced by the vancouver based moving sound technologies and it's this little the as you were talking about the machine called the mosquito and it emits this what they call violently just comforting sound that is in a range of 17 and a half to 18 and a half killer hertz which is supposedly older people because we have apparently listen to too much rock music too loudly in our ears we can't hear this because of damage but anyone around you know in and around 25 years of age can still hear this and it's right because the sound is then supposed to be so bad that it would disperse young people a 130 feet around but causes no damage to their ears or anybody else a few odd to you. john you know what's really if this is true it's like you know

adults can hear this and then what happens to like let's say a mother who's like pushing her toddler through a park and this thing's on and you know the toddler goes nuts and she can't even hear it so she has no idea. why why her child. is being attacked by this sound and i mean this is absolutely not that we would actually do this in a like this kind of like let's say harm or discomfort on kids for hanging out in a park after 10 pm goodness gracious because kids are also they can do graffiti or have crimes it's only teenagers as we've learned from movies like monger games and battle royale he majors are the enemy teenagers in russia there's pretty much a. apparently apparently in cities across the country and but you know it's an old story parents are always afraid of the young why because the young will eventually become them and then the old people eventually die right but.

right philadelphia councilman helen gen-y. mentioned earlier she described the device is literally the college women sonic weapons and told the morning edition well about the in this city that is trying to address gun violence and safe spaces for young people how dare we come up with ideas that are funded by taxpayer dollars to turn young people away from the very places that were created for them. brings up on the credibly great point to ask what message are we sending our youth what it's like hey if you hang out in the park after 10 we're going to blast you with a sound weapon for being there right and what does it say to you know obviously they have not thought about those teenagers who may live in and around the park that could still be affected by these sounds they're not thinking about teens who are homeless who may be homeless to to you know anything from domestic violence to drug abuse at home they can't even go to a park at night to feel safe because they would have this 17 year old west philly

resident lamar reed actually told one of the papers that while they must really hate teenagers it does feel a little discriminatory against teenagers and makes us feel like animals so back in 2010 interesting enough the council of europe a human rights monitoring organization that oversees all of the european court of human rights declared the mosquito this exact device violated international law and they banned it because they considered an inhumane and degrading treatment so maybe we'll never hear. i mean look we all know because we all were teenagers we all know the teenagers are borderline sociopaths we get it. but i guess you know what ted i guess we shouldn't be surprised because when we have governor when we when we're dealing with the u.s. government the bills fine with putting families in cages along the border i guess you know hey what's with shooting the sonic sound weapon at kids after dark i guess

that's ok in the new united states that we live in today of course i mean that's the strange thing is that you know we're always sort of it's always us like we're trying to keep graffiti away we're trying to you know lower gun violence and all they can think of to get rid of violence as a weapon are violent things i don't know i think it's i think it's a little silly we got to live about 30 seconds left what do you do any last thoughts or well you know i just think that we need to really i mean it's kind of goofy and it's funny but let's remember at the end of the day these are kids that we're doing this too and we're saying we're sorry as a government as a city government we're saying sorry kids rather than ask your parents to be good parents and keep in the house after 10 or no where you are no we're going to unleash weapons on you and make you uncomfortable and discomforted because hey we can you know that that's the message this is sending and i think it's

a very dangerous precedent at the end of the day that we're willing to fire sonic weapons at our children just because they're out after dark when really parents should be parenting we should allow the government to do anything like this to us in the 1st place you're absolutely right thank you so much for joining me today from minnesota can't wait to have you back here in the studio tyrrel ventura coast watching. you. weapons seem to be one of the only recession proof industries these days multi-billion dollar arms deals around the world are in the works this week sparking fears that could signal increased tensions between world powers like china russia and the united states it's also putting strain on those the u.s. considers allies has control of the arms industry slips away from the good ole usa our team error to america's rachel blevins has the story. china has sharply criticized a proposed $2200000000.00 deal between the u.s. and taiwan and has called for it to be cancelled immediately beijing has also

claimed that it sees this deal as a direct national security threat from the u.s. now the location here is notable because taiwan is a small island nation around 1300 miles off the coast of china but china considers taiwan to be one of its territories the controversy over whether taiwan is part of china has been ongoing following the country's split into the people's republic of china in 1989 while the us recognizes taiwan as an independent nation china still claims ownership and it is now claiming the us is intentionally interfering by proposing the latest arms deal with taiwan the united states is the main arms supplier to child one and it has a history of working with the island nation but in terms of arms sells with the us taiwan falls behind countries like saudi arabia australia the u.a.e. and south korea meanwhile the united states issued its own warning to india following news that the country plans to purchase russia's s $400.00 air defense

system and it is arguing that if india moves forward with the deal it could have serious consequences but instead of backing down the latest reports claim russia is offering india even more cutting edge technology which includes advanced submarines and the latest generation of fighter jets that would be produced locally in india as part of the deal the u.s. . has previously offered to sell india weaponized drones and there is speculation that the u.s. could offer access to its latest generation of fighter jets if india refrained from working with russia now russia has announced that it is now in the process of delivering its as 400 air defense system to charity this has occurred despite continued protests from the u.s. claiming there russia's system poses a direct risk to nato and a state department official was quoted as saying we underscore that turkey will face very real and negative consequences if it completes a us $400.00 delivery now it's not clear exactly what those consequences will be

but it could have a major impact if the u.s. decides to retaliate against its nato ally in washington rachel blevins r t. as we get a break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook you tube the twitter and make sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you list the podcast see our poll shows that r.t. dot com coming up are the new stations like cuba any different than a blockade of the past and a new test for cancer shows for all stay tuned to one. you

try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put it in the compartment in the eyes it's in your brain and so you can forget about it but little by little. these little whispers come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wife's glass of gin and tonic and the saw it and the sound of that ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we can all do school in bali which was with bags of supermarkets our ice.

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sweat and blood of. what are you going to have for dinner. thank you our last you remind me that the civil war in south africa is even if it's . 106 months wars are going to be in the polls you're going to get. on june 4th of this year the u.s. department of foreign assets control announce the elimination of group of people to people educational travel to cuba by u.s. citizens in addition they ended license x. exceptions for passenger vessels such as cruise ships this is all of course

a reactionary measure to the failed coup in venice way which is being blamed in part on cuban involvement according to the u.s. department of foreign assets control these actions those putting on more sanctions will help to keep u.s. dollars out of the hands of cuban military intelligence and security services the hope by interventionists hawks like u.s. national security adviser john bolton was that by crippling cuba's tourist industry they would force yet another coup in the island nation which despite u.s. government media is best efforts to paint cuba as a broken economic disaster and its people as begging the u.s. for freedom from socialism it isn't quite that simple or accurate in june of this year the director of foreign investments for the cuban foreign trade ministry deborah reverse of address told the washington post that the us wants to attack the cuban government and destroy the revolution and make socialism fall but the ones being affected are those business people that the united states supposedly wants to

see benefit so as cuba failing or we're only getting half the picture joining me now to. day to discuss sanctions in our world world a factor 2 people who have recently traveled to cuba has spoken to actual cubans and are here to help us learn more watching the social media producer davened springer and co coordinator for the black alliance for peace thank you both for joining me today thank you for having me. so last week we had all of these you know they've added state run oil company to keep oil union to the sanctions less trying to sort of drive this wedge between venezuela and because according to them you know the cuban military is so smart and all of venezuela and all of the u.s. military. what we have to rope what devon you were just in cuba how can you sleep kind of the restrictions of travel and how that works yes so i was there for about 2 weeks as a trip as i've made many over the years and what this new is things specifically

1st on their oil company is they're attempting to stop venezuela from sending oil to cuba flatow this is an attempt to make the island a dark island cut off from the rest of the world by oil is what you need to run a country essentially nowadays right on top of that there as you said trying to drive a wedge between venezuela and cuba you know the 2 countries have a longstanding material solidarity where they doctors medicine internet infrastructure back and forth so this is another sort of longer in that long list of actions there and coupled with the things in the restrictions on travel to new restrictions on travel that you mentioned a little bit especially group people to people travel is the way that most people. went to cuba to engage in tourism under the guise of it being people to people which is a sort of relatively vague term right thing that 1st and foremost it puts out the

perceptions of american citizens that they can't go to cuba and then for people who do a little bit more research they say oh i see. still can go to cuba is a lot more difficult now so it stops an immediate cash flow into the tourism industry and sector which is really a huge part of the cuban economy and that's just to understand it's us that a sense traveling there so if someone has you know has set a cinch up more than one country obviously if you're not a u.s. citizen and canadians are still traveling there or there's a chinese market or people who are traveling there and that's nothing new right that's always been yes so what now for probably tell you as well as you know it's americans who pretend they don't know anything about cuba at all the rest of the world travels there on holiday on vacations during the summer. and so this isn't more so it's a rollback of just a few years of easing of tensions and so they're trying to sort of make us not know anything about the island again because if they do you keep people from going out and they don't know the true. what is there how are you how are cubans how to

commence react to that. new sanctions and these things keep going on it seems that they sort of be used to it but yeah i mean i think it's the sanctions and also what we refer to as the multifaceted and protracted war against a country is 60 years old and so most of the the cubans have had to withstand this for a long time so it actually only fortifies their resolve they've gone through at the end of the eighty's into the ninety's what they call it referred to as a special period because of the dissolute the dissolving of the still the union and the tightening of the blockade under the helms of burden act and torricelli act and so they've gone through hardships and also the cubans are very politically most people around the world are very politically astute and understand what it really means to capitulate things they won't get better just because you give in to the united states. designs for head to money but nothing came up going to interesting

talking to you when you came back and just looking into this story is this idea that there seems to still be this idea that they don't have social media at that. or is no fighting back this idea that we have to go in there and save their democracy and their freedom that they don't have social media or social media campaigns that they don't have the internet that they don't have these things and that they don't communicate to their government and it doesn't affect any change is that true this is on its face all right you know you'll hear you'll often hear stories that i read a headline earlier today that compared the cuban government to the chinese government during internet which in both cases while in a layer of propaganda the truth is they have internet they have 3 g. they even have 4 g. in a lot of areas there on social media just this past month there was a sort of campaign launched to engage a dialogue with local government authorities about getting faster speeds rather than having direct communication with their local elected officials and authorities are campaigning for change and they're getting it are going to communication and

they're going to more than we get here do you think that if i misread it at your local congressman that you would get a response and i don't think i would. probably not. so the changes to these policies a lot of these policies were changed when there was that attack sonic attack that turned out to be one of 2 things either kirkus or u.s. where interacting with other electronics there been no proof of the sonic in fact it was sort of used as a precursor of saying oh they're going after our people and closing these embassies how does that affect travel both for us citizens coming in but more importantly for cuban citizens trying to travel out how does. was made it very difficult in fact a lot of the cubans trying to go out and to come here they have to go through a 3rd country and also incurs extra costs for them to do so to get a visa so with 3rd country to come here and then also has to be approved by

somebody in the united states and so they're very a lot of scrutiny in order to be able to come into the united. these 4 things that are really innocent reasons and also which affect people here we have to realize that we live in the world depends on cooperation and global in the interactions and so while the powers that be may benefit from some sort of controlling of the country particularly in this case being cuba we don't benefit we don't get the opportunity for scientific exchange in exploration which actually cuba has done a lot of breakthroughs when it comes to medicine and vaccines and those kind of things the science is here and medical technicians here and professionals actually talk about how this is how they've been able to learn a lot in these kind of exchanges cultural exchanges educational pedagogy and developing those kind of things so while there's a lot of expertise at least and in cuba dealing with things under the most

hardships of things things that we have problems with in the united states education and health care and other things that we actually have problems with we could learn a lot regular people if those exchanges are lifted and i want people to really understand the details of that right leg if you're a foreigner who wants to come to the job they get a visa from us embassy and if there's no embassy in your country. because of cricket attacking u.s. workers around you have to go and pay lots of money to go to a 3rd country and get a hotel and now because of the new hostility towards cuba the acceptance rates are visas have been dropping and dropping and dropping so people are paying all that money and then getting denied because they're cuban spies allegedly. the news here is that now everybody oh it's the anti love it like the cuban spies has been one that i think we should all look out for because that's going to be the narrative. is an old narrative that's being brought back and right. exactly which is you know

we're even seeing that being made fun of in a way in our in our in our creative content like stranger things or. making fun on it slipping on its head this eighty's cold where scary propaganda about russia inventing their wolverine in cuba is coming together like putting on its head and kind of rolling their eyes out it was a really big thing that's how you can tell how how palpable it is and how people actually know now i want to ask you real quick this is to me a forum to a lot of people a form of warfare you're taking food away from people and you know there's iran cuba north korea they're in the sanctions crosshairs in the of trying to mexico and canada and everybody else under these terrorists do you think if it was any i'll start with you know if you think it was any other country that could get away with telling foreign governments what they could do where they can do and how they can spend their money could any other country besides united get away with no i mean the united states is the strongest country in the world and come terms of

leveraging that kind of political power internationally they dominate. the security council of the united nations in a lot of ways the international financial institutions which allow them to leverage their power in terms of sanctions is that it's a completely and i think people really need to understand that sanctions are really another form of warfare without guns and the fact that countries like the united states or you know the superpowers of the western superpowers can leverage them and not be subject to them and also under the guise of which they live or them against other countries is really a more i think is really part of a hello mars time was to have you on again research money is so much since they get so much demonstrator watching the social media piece producer and their great men thank you so much for walking us through this today i think you think. early detection is the key to the treatment of breast cancer but creating technology that can do that has been a challenge until now r.t. americans that tasha sleep has the story. researchers at mit are using artificial

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the health of white and black women according to the study black women were 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer reasons included detection and also access to health care researchers say they want to make this part of routine care and instead of getting mammograms at a particular age they want to vary those standards according to individual needs and los angeles and how to sweets are to. us astronaut stuart resist art out as a smoke jumper fighting fires with the forest service which is why when he went into space on the apollo 14 mission in 1971 he brought something special in his personal kit sade's that's right in a joint program with nasa in the u.s. forest service earth and brought seeds to spaced out on only raise awareness for the protection of our forest but to see what would happen to see it in a gravity free environment now we're 40 years later nasa scientist dave williams has tracked down and mapped all of the moon tree that were grown from those very seeds some 450 seedlings to be exact which grew into at least 70 full sized trees

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