community is urging caution and we're straight more on the growing tensions up ahead and the waters of california santa barbara coast a secret for years now there have been offshore fracking even though there are no regulations and the coast was once trashed by an oil spill will tell you more coming up. and pay raises and bonuses are usually reserved for rewards for doing good work but that's not the case for many of the nation's top c.e.o.'s especially at a time of growing wealth inequality more on that later in the show.

october keep in mind that these bankruptcy cases can take a really really long time in the case of california which i'm sure you remember i think it was back in two thousand and nine that took a whole entire year to go through bankruptcy court so remains to be seen this is going to and it was much smaller city that we're talking. you had the chance to speak with robert kahn who oversees detroit as the wayne county executive and he's talking about the pensions and how the punters are really going to be feeling the brunt of this economic downturn let's hear about what he had to say. some of these financial institutions only good coming. or yeah it's a momentary hurt for them but they're going to go they're not going to be bankrupt and they're going to move on. if you limit the pensions for these pension years they don't have the same resources as the financial institutions zs just you know you're talking about sixty five seventy year old people you know that aren't going to have the same resources to be able to get back up and perhaps get another job right away or be able to recover right away

instead of barbara california. there are the people who are bailed out booted from their jobs or busted for financial fraud but still c.e.o.'s are among the highest earning people in america despite their job performance that is a new report released by the institute for policy studies discovered that forty percent of the top earning c.e.o.'s in the past twenty years have had serious performance issues the report found that forty percent of all top honors were fired or forced to retire but don't worry about them the average severance package was about forty seven point seven million dollars another twenty two percent of those people ran companies that needed to be eventually bailed out to break down the numbers zoe carpenter is a reporter for the nation and she joins me now zoe let's start off with your article you wrote an article on this very issue and in it you said quote one of the great american delusions is mediocracy the idea that everyone competes on an even playing field and then gets whatever they deserve

the waters of california santa barbara post tightest secret for years now there's been offshore fracking even though there are no regulations and the coast was once trashed by an oil spill we'll tell you more coming up. pay raises and bonuses are usually the rewards for doing good work but that's not the case for many of the nation's top c.e.o.'s especially at a time of growing wealth inequality more on that later in tonight's show. it's friday august thirtieth eight pm in washington d.c. and lopez and you are watching r.t. we begin our newscast tonight in syria president obama and his cabinet are still deliberating on whether or not the u.s. should become militarily involved in syria and if so to what extent earlier today secretary of state john kerry addressed the public reiterating administration rhetoric against president bashar al assad and his military is alleged use of chemical weapons listen to our concern is not just about some far off. oceans away that's not what this is about our concern with the claws of the defenseless people of syria is about choices that will directly affe

surprise state lawmakers have called for a federal investigation the california independent petroleum association claims fracking is being used on shore millions of times and has a strong safety record environmentalist disagree fracking is an inherently dangerous technology and really what we're talking about today is only fifty for the last time to fifteen years so this is an entirely new generation of truly no oil and natural gas extraction oil companies like de corps of a no go set their sights on the senate barbara channel which was also the site of a catastrophic oil spill back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine two hundred thousand gallons of crude spread across the channel and on to the nearby beaches the black mass killed thousands of animals and sparked the modern environmental movement walking down this sandy paradise it's difficult to believe that this used to be covered in black sludge and that this beach was littered with dying and oily birds decades after the infamous santa barbara oil spill this pristine piece of coastline is once again the focus of some controver

your home is mine for the city of richmond california is saying to homeowners an effort to help those with underwater mortgages the city is using eminent domain to seize homes with homeowner consent then sell the home back to them at a lower price but as usual all such well intended at birth have unintended consequences and those consequences are being expressed and escaping life saved by those who ended up owning the. securitized mortgage bonds that would include the pension funds which are now facing losses if the suit fails and several other cities are considering a similar eminent domain scheme so the ultimate risk is banks will be less willing to grant loans that the government simply imposes losses m.v.s. investors will be less likely to buy any and freddie paper and mortgage rates will needlessly write. and apples on a roll after winning a presidential intervention against samsung recently a federal appeals court just ruled and their favor and a dispute with motorola ironically while the samsung sued what have prevented apple from importing at.

images of a massive wildfire that has destroyed more than twenty five homes and a commercial building in california let's get it resolved for plenty of other world events all on our team. right to see. first street. and i think richard. on our reporters with the. instrument. i. see in the little. the new russian law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors has taken the upcoming torture winter olympics hostage there have been protests by gay rights activists throughout europe and in the us renowned author stephen fry suggested most that she's used to being rejected activist and when with the words sort of a boy called man not thinking russian locked up a comment is stepped in saying sports should be available to all in the new no will not of bag those attending the games but as journalist neil clark believe that the reason for criticism lives be on gay rights in nazi germany homosexuals really were discriminated against they were put into concentration camps and killed in large numbers and of course this is not happening in russia today if it was i'd be the first person said we go to russia

deep breath enjoy a little vacation enjoy your family then get leg in the ring we were in san diego california as we really did as we are half italian so it and i just said yes and i think more importantly we just kind of just relax at home like being able to sleep in your bed for two weeks three that for you who miss it all every day every day and it was hard to watch every week as you just did everything going on backstage are just yes well i didn't watch all the time because it makes me miss it too much . you know i would get like really sad because i'd be to be we're big family so i just really started missing everything and. you know what's funny is that there is a sisterhood in our locker room and so you know we laugh together we cry together and we were around each other more than we are on families so i miss them a lot and i started with the twins. so yeah we do have our moments where i want to body slam both of us yes but at the end of the day we are sisters and i did miss you guys a lot we talked so much when we were gone for eleven months i got out and i had our conversations i feel

wildfires in california are spreading further into new so many national park the fire which is now thirty percent contained is threatening san francisco water supply due to ash falling on to a major reservoir the blaze that began two weeks ago has left no casualties behind but has destroyed more than one hundred buildings and campsite. with the damage from the floods in russia's far east reaching almost a billion dollars president putin has been urging local officials to step up their response the disaster has seen many thousands evacuated farmland and homes destroyed and entire towns devastated are caught has more. this man is one of thousands in russia's far east waiting nervously his garden submerged and soon his ground floor could also be taken over by the amel rivers rising levels the consequences of which are unthinkable. after this flood i'll be made homeless what would do if the house is entirely submerged this is the village of lenin square in the jewish autonomous region in russia's far east the other may drive the school bus during term time but for now he's found a scorching r

images of a massive wildfire that has destroyed more than twenty five homes and a commercial building in california plus galleries for plenty of other world events . right on the scene. first for you and i would think that you're. on our reporters would. be in the. hundreds of gay rights activists have staged a protest in belgium in front of the russian consulate there were rallying and continued a wave of demonstrations against a new russian law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors the main focus of the protest is to words the sochi winter olympics which activists hope will be moved elsewhere but some statements have been raising more than a few eyebrows for example renowned actor stephen fry compared president putting to hitler and how he treated minorities the olympic committee stepped in saying sports should be available to all and the new law will not affect those attending the games british journalist neil clark believes the reason for criticism lies beyond gay rights. in nazi germany homosexuals really were discriminated against they were putting to concentration camps and killed

and our website for you right now students at a california high school have been warned to tweet their status in social media only according to the school's rules or phase being stripped of extra curricular activities plus. find out how the likes of mcdonald's and wendy's are said to be pulling all the blood sweat tears and money out of their staff in america and check out what the employees of the fast food giants are doing about it at r t dot com. now with a damage from the floods in russia's far east reaching almost a billion dollars president putin has been urging local officials to step up their response the disaster has seen many thousands of accu waited farmland in homes destroyed and entire towns devastated scott has more this man is one of thousands in russia's far east waiting nervously he's gotten submerged and soon his ground floor could also be taken over by the amel rivers rising levels the consequences of which are unthinkable you know. after this flood i'll be made homeless what would i do with the houses entirely submerged. this is the village of lenin square in the je

they take go to jail ok let's let's let's take your own country where are you from originally from california. ok so i'm trying to. if you come to europe it's very corrupt but it's a wonderful place. at the end of the day if you take european states what has happened i think the whole idea of welfare state which comes with the idea of equality that every citizen has the right or this has the right of the second thing to the third has become a economy huge burden to that quantum human it the whole idea is development if you're quick enough if you change yourself if you're evolution doing big call it capital in social and then you'll survive but this is my view it all you can you can no make growth you could have economic growth you can create dividends you can create profit but you don't always create development ronnie it seems to me it's just another bubble being built again it's really it's going to run here because it seems to me it's putting it off putting it off you know i'm not sure what the it is putting it off i want to go back to a reckoning i think and i think what is new is the pac

wildfires in california are spreading further into yosemite national park of the fire which is now thirty percent contained is threatening san francisco which is the plot to ash falling onto a major reservoir the blaze that began two weeks ago has left no casualties behind but it has destroyed more than one hundred buildings and temp sites. in northern afghanistan police say twelve people including a district chief have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque around twenty others are said to be wounded no groups have so far claimed responsibility but suspicions have fallen on the taliban incident reportedly occurred during the funeral of a tribal leader who died the day before north afghanistan has been the country's least volatile area in recent years but has seen a surge in attacks ahead of the twenty four thousand made to withdraw. with the damage from the floods in russia's far east so reaching almost a billion dollars president putin has been urging local officials to step up their response the disaster has seen many thousands evacuated farmland and homes destroyed and entir

last two weeks we've seen one billionaire in boston by the boston globe and another billionaire from california by the washington post i mean this is craziness when the folks in the top one percent already control our political system and are now literally going to control the information we get the ideas we can debate it's a system that is now automatically worsening the gap between rich and poor reagan is not the only one who brought that about of course not but he was an active participant in this self delusions that this was a royal road to economic well being which we now see it was literally the opposite . yes and despite the fact that wealth inequality is at its highest ever and continues to widen the government always concedes to giving tax breaks to the wealthiest and this seems to never go away why richard we have about a minute left because if you give in the wealth the way we have to the top few they're not stupid those at the top understand better than anyone that their ability to stay there means control politics control information otherwise the mass of people will end our privil

a rapid spreading wildfire has forced thousands of americans to flee their homes in southern california five people have so far been injured and ten homes destroyed officials say another five hundred homes are now at risk thousand firefighters helicopters and tanker planes have been called in to tackle the blaze. israel has authorized eight hundred homes to be built in occupied west bank territory peace talks with the palestinians are supposed to resume on the fourteenth of august after a stalemate of almost three years but it's feared this new development will put a spanner in the works after israeli settlement expansion in two thousand and ten brought the last august to a grinding halt. russia's immigration laws just got tougher with harsher penalties for not only illegal workers themselves but also those businesses who choose to hire them millions of people come to russia without permission a situation in which the authorities are struggling to get control. i mean absolutely they came here thinking it's the road to opportunity but instead in many found themselves on their way back ho

that are sort of industry regulated thing so i think that already exists and we see you know like the california energy example when when deregulation happens on mass there's a significant amount of gaming the system the competition it creates more anarky if you will and create sort of a situation where volatility is introduced in a major way i think ultimately with wall street what we have to do is eliminate the profit motive i mean it's ultimately the profit motive that drives all corporations in capitalism and it drives wall street to pursue more and more and more reckless ways of making profit because that's what competition does competition certainly forces you to put profit above all which moves you into more risky behavior which moves you in the economic crisis bubbles volatility and so i said one quick question about a minute left but how would the market prevent the monopolies from forming if there is no regulation well you have to take a look at what is a monopoly so for example does anybody have a monopoly on all of the oil supplies all over the world and what are the products that pe

in santa monica california. are. while this week marks the anniversary of the atomic catastrophe is on hiroshima and nagasaki japan today japanese attention turns to other nuclear concerns tensions in japan are rising over the radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean from the country's crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of two thousand and eleven joining me now in studio to discuss the radioactive leak is paul gunter director of the reactor oversight project at beyond nuclear dot org thank you for being here probably thank you very much and now i want to start off by asking you can you tell us how long the contaminated water has been how long the contamination has been leaking into the water very likely since the explosions in the middle of the. fukushima daichi in march of two thousand and one. wow that is quite a one hundred times now how much and what sort of radiation is leaking into the pacific i know there's all different types if you can explain

in santa monica california. are. while this week marks the anniversary of the atomic catastrophe as of hiroshima and nagasaki japan today japanese attention turns to other nuclear concerns tensions in japan are rising over the radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean from the country's crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of two thousand and eleven to discuss the current state of affairs at fukushima i was joined earlier by paul gunter director of reactor oversight project at beyond nuclear dot org and i started off by asking him how long the contaminated water had been leaking into the pacific ocean. very likely since the explosions in the meltdown fukushima daiichi in march of two thousand and eleven that is quite a long time now how much and what sort of radiation is leaking into the pacific i know there's all different types of heating explain that one little detail well clearly what we've seen now is the movement of radioactive hydrogen tritium which

a rapid spreading wildfire has falls thousands of americans to flee their homes in southern california five people have so far been injured and ten homes destroyed officials say another five hundred five hundred homes are now at risk thousands of firefighters helicopters and tanker planes have been called in to tackle the blaze. russia's immigration laws just got tough with harsh is harsh penalties for not only illegal workers themselves but also those the businesses who choose to hire them millions of people come to russia without permission a situation which the authorities are struggling to get under control artie's you got these going off reports. i mean absolutely they came here thinking it's the road to opportunity but instead in many found themselves on their way back home we were working and then all of a sudden police rushed in and detained us. over one thousand illegal workers were arrested this week alone so many in fact that a temporary camp had to be set up to house those awaiting deportation several human rights organizations have criticized the conditions the migrants ar

fact is when police are being recorded and when citizens are being recorded there's a new program in california where police have little cameras the number of police incidents and complaints it just drops you know like eighty percent because the citizens are going to be on their best behavior of course police are going to act within according to the law and are able to do their job just fine while remaining within the law now as an average civilian. what can we do to make sure that the police are held accountable to the reports that they do and basically the truthfulness into their interactions with us the most i think technology in this is my camera right here and so imagine if i walk into somewhere there's a police encounter happening maybe i see a traffic in sin or something like that no one record it and putting in my past code very important to have a pass code to protect your phone. number and do have actually when you know when you're in that position you're going to you want to train yourself to do this because you're going to be shaking a little bit i'm hitting my kick it's called cue

a representing wildfire has forced thousands of americans to see their homes in southern california five people have so far been injured and ten homes destroyed officials are say another five hundred homes are now at risk a thousand firefighters helicopters and tank planned planes have now been called in to tackle the blaze. israel has also rise eight hundred homes to be build in occupied west bank terror dream peace talks with the palestinians as opposed to resume on aug fourteenth after a stalemate of almost three years but it's feared that this new development a will put a spanner in the works after israeli settlement expansion in twenty two and brought the last talks to a grinding halt. right up next. seven home and if they end cia chief michael hayden and safety. everyone respects a promise written in stone a promise is written on the internet well they're a bit more flexible and a lot easier to erase obama made a lot of promises as a candidate on his site change dot gov including some about protecting whistleblowers and obama said that we need to empower federal employees as watchd

represents breading wildfire has forced thousands of americans to see their homes in southern california five people have so far been injured and ten homes destroyed official says say another five hundred homes and now at risk a thousand firefighters helicopters and tanker planes have been called in to tackle the blaze. israel has authorized eight hundred homes to be build in occupied west bank territory peace talks with the palestinians are supposed to resume on aug fourteenth after a stalemate of almost three years but it's fear that this new development will put a spanner in the works of the israeli settlement expansion in twenty two and brought the last talks to a grinding halt. use drone strikes in yemen have killed up to fourteen suspected militants according to officials there tax come a day after dorothy's said they had foiled a massive al qaeda terror plot in the region the u.s. and other wars western states closed their diplomatic missions earlier this week amid fears of an islamist attack but some analysts believe america's drone strikes are contributing to militant recruitmen

a massive wildfire in california continues to your cement national park edging closer to a large reservoir that provides a maze of san francisco's water supply the blaze has also damaged two hydroelectric plants are forcing the city to switch to other parts sources more than three hundred five hundred firefighters are battling to control the fire which has been raging for eleven days. the venezuelan government has set it for old and s.s. nation attempt on president maduro earlier this month arresting two presumed hit men in the capital caracas of russians as they they were working on orders of from former venezuelan leader. it's not the first time when israel has said it's too real to an s.s. nation plot against the president the most recent was two months ago reportedly orchestrated from colombia and the united states. next are discovering russia series explores a village frozen in time they're coming right up here on r.t. . sometimes it seems like in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself about what a few individuals with no r

figure of sixteen trillion dollars seemed warningly high but according to a study by the university of california america's debt is actually four times higher at seventy trillion dollars so how much does that sum a quite serious compared to the world's most valuable company apple say we gave them now as you can see this official figure equates to forty apple empires bar professor how much and studies found that the u.s. has over seventy trillion dollars of unaccounted for debts which would make up a total of one hundred sixty five apples but it turns out that even so.

a massive wildfire in california continues to sweep birds through seventeen national park or edging closer to a larger reservoir that provides the most of san francisco's water supply the blaze has also damaged two hydroelectric plants forcing the city to switch to other power sources more than three thousand five hundred firefighters are battling to control the fire which has been raging for eleven days. the venezuelan government has said for all day and as cessation attempt on president jury or this month arresting two presumed hit men in the capital caracas officials say they were working on orders from former venezuelan leader. it's not the first time venezuela has said it's too real in assassination plot against the president the most recent was two months ago reportedly orchestrated from colombia and the united states. stay with us for math cause i think you'll be delving into the murky world of international finance in the kinds of reports coming up next. sometimes it seems like in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself a

a massive wildfire in california continues to sweep birds through the use of my national park edging closer to a large reservoir that provides most of them francisco's water supply the blaze there has also damaged two hydroelectric plants forcing the city to switch to other possible source more than three thousand five hundred firefighters are battling to control the fire which has been raging for eleven days. the virgin soil and government has set its oil to an s.s. nation attempt on president maduro earlier this month the resin to presume to hit men in the capital caracas officials though say they're working on orders from a form of venezuela. it's not the first time venezuelan oil has fed it to do real damage assessments in court against the president the most recent was two months ago reportedly orchestrated from colombia and to the united states. by gumming up it's a breaking of the said with her use every martin here on our team. sometimes it seems like in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself about what a few indiv

and now to california where firefighters are still battling a massive forest fire near the use of the national park nearly seventy eight thousand have terms of woodland have so far been destroyed san francisco's water supply is now under threat as ash is falling into one of the city's major reservoirs a fire has been raging for over a week now and destroyed more than one hundred buildings. it's going to be at least the end of september until conditions improve in russia's far east were intense flooding has wrecked entire towns and devastated areas vital agriculture while thousands of families are sheltering in emergency accommodation others are staying behind to protect what's left of their property both caught reports in a flood ravaged region. this man is one of thousands in russia's far east waiting nervously his garden submerged and soon his ground floor could also be taken over by the amel rivers rising levels the consequences of which are unthinkable you know well after this flood i'll be made homeless what would do if the house is entirely submerged this is the village of lenin

massive wildfire in california continues to stream through. my national park edging closer to a larger reservoir that provides most of san francisco's water supply the blaze has also damaged two hydroelectric plants or so in the city to buy energy from other sources more than three thousand five hundred firefighters are battling to control the blaze that's been raging for eleven days. a political scandal has forced the brazilian foreign minister to resign after he helped a fugitive bolivian senator just leave raja bindo was granted asylum at the brazilian embassy in la paz last year and the minister use his diplomatic immunity to snatch at the opposition politician and get him across the border window is accused of fourteen crimes in believing in corruption but denies the charges. the u.k. government has been spending hundreds of billions of pounds to tackle homelessness no matter how much cash is doled out the situation doesn't seem to be improving in fact there's an increasing share of young people are monkeys sleeping rough archies a surfer

state of california where firefighters have contained a twenty percent of the wildfires which continue to streams through the national park according to reports of the blaze has urged the closer to a larger reservoir that provides most of them francisco's water supply the flames have also damaged two hydroelectric plants are forcing the city to switch to other power sources more than three thousand five hundred firefighters are battling the control of the blaze which has been raging for eleven days now. japan has raised the threat level at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant to serious incident which is a level three out of seven on the international scale the decision was taken after consultation with the u.n. nuclear watchdog the main danger comes from a massive leak of contaminated water three hundred tons some of which may have reach the pacific this is the way of us warning about fukushima since the twenty seven ever quake and tsunami because of the meltdown are three reactors. so with us as we continue a true story of cubans buying any intrigue in miami that's coming up next in

wildfires in california are spreading further into your so many national park are the fire which is now thirty percent contained is threatening san francisco's water supply. falling into onto the major reservoir the blaze of that began two weeks ago has left no casualties behind but has destroyed more than one hundred buildings and campsites. and at least ten people have died or from the degree you fever in pakistan's largest city karachi the fever has now spread to six regions of the country and health officials say over eight hundred cases have been confirmed in the south are in sync province authorities claim the situation is under control and that measures are being swiftly implemented to curb the spread no vaccine exists against a mosquito borne virus which has become the world's fossil spreading tropical disease. in afghanistan a suicide bomber has attacked a mosque in the northern province of killing a district chief and his associates while wounding several others the exact casualty figures are not yet clear and no groups have claimed responsibility the incident reportedly occur

last two weeks we've seen one billionaire in boston by the boston globe and another billionaire from california by the washington post i mean this is craziness when the folks in the top one percent already control our political system and are mad literally going to control the information we get the ideas we can debate it's a system that is now automatically worsening the gap between rich and poor reagan is not the only one who brought that about of course not but he was an active participant in this self delusions that this was a royal road to economic well being which we now see it was literally the opposite . yes and despite the fact that wealth inequality is at its highest ever and continues to widen the government always concedes to giving tax breaks to the wealthiest and this seems to never go away why richard we have about a minute left because if you give in the wealth the way we have to the top few there are not stupid those at the top understand better than anyone that their ability to stay there means control politics control information otherwise the mass of people will end our priv