and now a personal rakim filmed by a japanese director which looks at the children of soldiers from the u.s. and vietnam who've been poisoned by agent orange living the silent spring is next here on r.t. . the dow chemical company in midland michigan. seventy two million liters of defoliants sprayed by the u.s. military over south vietnam beginning in one nine hundred sixty one were manufactured and sold by american chemical companies including dow monsanto and diamond shamrock. at the time vietnam was divided into north and south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny cover to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling which. as the war escalated the spraying of deval eons increased dramatically and much of the land in south vietnam was contaminated and left barren. the defoliant known as agent orange was made from the same chemical substances as h

and now a personal rakim filmed by a japanese director which looks at the children of soldiers from the u.s. and vietnam who've been poisoned by agent orange living the silent spring is next here on r.t. .

soundtrack by the way, talk about amazing, there's everybody on here from nwa, run dmc, eric b and rakimeverybody on here. das efx, by the way, who i love, das efx. >> come on man, they know. look at the roots over there, they know. we got the thorough people on there. >> jimmy: yeah. and the fun thing, and gosh we love when you come by, but you brought one for every single person in the audience. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah, i brought one for everybody in the audience. >> jimmy: everyone got a copy. [ cheers and applause ] come on. we love you! we love ice-t! hey, let me ask you, since you put a lot of people on the spot in the film, i was wondering if you'd just give a little taste of something. >> you want me to rap? i've been her 20 times, i never do any music. want me to rap tonight? [ cheers ] >> jimmy: could you please? >> give me a mic, give me a mic, give me a mic! let's go! >> jimmy: you guys, "something for nothing: the art of rap" opens in theaters friday. performing "new jack hustler," give it up for ice-t!. [ cheers and applause ] >> from new jack city. ♪ ♪ hustler word