takes a look at monsanto's record. with monsanto protection act let's take a look back at the crooked companies like. last week a very disturbing provision was slipped in the latest senate budget bill the small and conspicuous provision was coined a month santa protection act essentially it deregulated genetically modified foods even more further solidifying monsanto's power of the food supply and our total immunity from prosecution this guy had in my eyes is the revolving door first taylor was a lawyer from santo then he joined the f.d.a. is deputy commissioner for food then he went back to monsanto and became its vice president for public policy yeah i'm sure as f.d.a. position and help open that door don't worry is now back in the f.d.a. in the same cushy position as it was before the rubber stamping pro monsanto legislation. marches against monsanto already underway in some asian african countries but most of the protests in europe of america yet to begin will be keep you updated on as and when the how. people live

taking a look specifically on monsanto's record. talk about the monsanto protection act let's take a look back at the crooked companies lights. last week a very disturbing provision was slipped in the latest senate budget bill the small and conspicuous provision was coined among santa protection act essentially it deregulated genetically modified foods even more further solidifying monsanto's power of the food supply and their total immunity from prosecution this guy he denies is the revolving door first taylor was a lawyer for one santo then he joined the f.d.a. is deputy commissioner for food then he went back to monsanto and became its vice president for public policy yeah i'm sure as that day position helped open that door but don't worry is now back in the f.d.a. in the same cushy position as he was before rubber stamping pro monsanto legislation. we'll be bringing you more on those botched a good small son to throat the coming night. could plug for good online many stories that we hope will interest you including these people

with monsanto protection act let's take a look back at the crooked companies lights. last week a very disturbing provision was slipped in the latest senate budget bill the small and conspicuous provision was coined among santa protection act essentially it deregulated genetically modified foods even more further solidifying monsanto's power of the food supply and their total immunity from prosecution this guy had mises the revolving door first taylor was a lawyer from santos then he joined the f.d.a. is deputy commissioner for food then he went back to monsanto and became its vice president for public policy yeah i'm sure his f.d.a. position help open that door but don't worry is now back in the f.d.a. in the same cushy position as it was before rubber stamping pro monsanto legislation. well the recent credit upgrade to the seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel for the struggling economy so far there's little change for the a ceratin stricken greek people unemployment remains the highest in europe with more than half the country's youth are out of work someone

in the same cushy position as he was before rubber stamping pro monsanto legislation. right i look at some of the stories making headlines is coming your way right after this short break. she good laboratory curbeam was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything james mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com. i. welcome george international and thank you for chiming in with the recent credit upgrade this seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel for the struggling greek economy but so far there's little change for the stricken greek people unemployment remains the highest in europe with more than half the country's use out of work and so on no freeing the cities in search of a better life only to discover things aren't any point to in the countryside as we're in a culture of what reports. they say desperate times call for desperate measures and for many young greeks that was the case when they were forced to return to the count

food giant monsanto. russia looks east and business ties with beijing the latest on the economic priorities being outlined at the annual global forum live in movers and shakers in some. very well welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. international. we did latest world headlines it's a day of pre-election silence in ukraine but not for the violence in the country's east of the breakaway. regions are refusing to hold the presidential vote local militias have blocked over a dozen polling stations in the area where the ukrainian army and paramilitary forces are pressing on with the crackdown now this is the video from the aftermath of one of the latest spikes. violence in the region five people were killed in the fighting reports say a paramilitary squad from the radical right sector group attacked a local militia point and forced them to flee and in fact these are the pictures from the eastern city of slovyansk another flashpoint it's coming under mortar fire from the ukrainian military as you can see c

position as it was before rubber stamping pro monsanto legislation ramona romero a u.s.d.a. counsel was previously on du pont's corporate counsel and the secretary of agriculture tom vilsack was awarded governor of the year by the biotechnology industry organization whose members include monsanto. he worked at crop life america that's the lobbying arm on the other big biotech and chemical and feed companies now he works for the obama administration after of course being a number one obama fundraiser the state of vermont just passed the nation's very first law requiring the labeling of genetically modified organisms or g m o's vermont governor peter shumlin signed the bill into law last thursday and said in a statement we believe we have a right to know what's in the food we buy awareness is key effecting their bottom line is key people voting with their dollars and also we want to transform the food supply we want to make it more of a bottom up approach instead of a pyramid scheme for the food supply bottom line monsanto cannot be trusted it's time that we as consumers becom

agribusiness monsanto all those people the oil timber and mining extractive industries and of course the israel lobby itself these are the powerful interest groups that essentially determine the domestic and foreign economic policy and the two scholars that you named they made the point in a very strongly that. community interest groups and citizens have zero him put it into the formation of policy. this has been confirmed by in other ways down there and recently a test was made to do let us send out to congressional offices and one asked for a meeting with representatives with was with a collection of donors and the other asked for a meeting with a collection of community representatives well the first lot i got the responses they were all willing to meet with donors they were very interested to me where the city at community interest groups from their constituents. how many jobs do you keep arms create if any. i think that's such a dubious argument it's actually offensive p companies routinely cost fire people there's a thin slice of companies not middle there's a thin slice around

takes a look at monsanto record. talking with monsanto protection act let's take a look back at the crooked companies lights. last week a very disturbing provision was slipped in the latest senate budget bill the small and conspicuous provision was coined among santa protection act essentially it deregulated genetically modified foods even more further solidifying monsanto's power of the food supply in their total immunity from prosecution this guy had mises the revolving door first taylor was a lawyer for one santo then he joined the f.d.a. is deputy commissioner for foods then he went back to monsanto and became its vice president for public policy yeah i'm sure as f.d.a. position and help open that door but don't worry is now back in the f.d.a. in the same position as it was before the rubber stamping pro monsanto legislation . now over on our website r.t. dot com we've got a full timeline of the protest with pictures and videos from around the globe. people living in the balkans are still battling the unprecedent

and monsanto at $114.85. shares of berkshire hathaway were down today despite a meeting with warren buffett over the weekend. they were just one of many topics buffett talked about with some 40,000 shareholders who converged on omaha to hear the latest words of wisdom from the billionaire investor. >> warren buffett doesn't appear to be slowing down much. at 83, he's one of the fortune 500's oldest ceos, but that doesn't stop him from outpacing throngs of female reporters. >> no, just healthy eating and lots of exercise. >> with his usual boundless energy he made the rounds at berkshire hathaway's annual meeting sampling his berkshire treats. >> this is like clark kent going into a telephone booth when this happens. >> plague games with his buddy, bill gates. >> okay, bill. my house against your house! oh! >> hanging out with a supermodel doing something he could cheer about. challenging his partner charlie munger to a face-off. $2 for the buffett bottle of ketchup $1.60 for charlie's. >> charlie, one-third a

a billion-dollar investment in monsanto. think about it. we all love to talk about the eating,ce of organic but he said eating organic food will not solve the world hunger problem. one of the reasons he is so positive on man's -- monsanto. >> something else he said, he said headwinds either turn neutral or they turn to tailwinds. what is the forecast tell you? >> the one thing you have to think about, was one of the best-performing sectors last year. humana up 40 to 50% in the last months. be sitting down with him in a few minutes, how much longer? one of the criticisms you hear is how long these managers got into the traits. let's say larry has been aided for the past eight months. if we're being told today, this is the time to get into the trade, we need to find out how far they think they're going to get. that is the question to ask. >> he also -- also mentioned hmo's have weathered the storm. but he said they are the only sector of health care that has not recovered. >> that is why he thinks there is a good opportunity. he thinks there

>> guest: invest in monsanto. no, i will probably use it for each are video projects because a lot of times they involve stock footage which is exposed -- expensive. i will probably put it towards better some sort of other video project in the future. >> host: it sounds like the next topic for the documentary intellectual property rights. >> guest: maybe. >> host: let's look at the video. we the people, genetically modified. >> we warned the fda the time and this is 20 years ago that if they didn't label genetically modified foods they would be a consumer backlash against them as consumers would wonder what they were trying to hide. >> have your heard of the gmo or genetically modified organism? >> no. >> i think i've heard but i'm not really sure exactly. >> it's been a long time since i have been in college. >> it's where they had chemical to the fruit or veggies. >> is a cropper they modify the genes to increase the yield or the taste or something else about the plant. >> there has been a switch in the dna stru

i have to mention monsanto recently about that. this is a company that markets drought tolerant seeds to farmers cannot seem to tolerates aluminum in the soil. how do we deal with the fact that while on one hand it to be moving away from politics that you've identified to have creative programs like that, when you have corporations that have their bottom line adventures, how do we guard against that? i am guessing you are going to say get more information now, how poor people involved. >> host: i think a more information now creates -- this month into is now the world largest insurer for firing, for agriculture, this leads to a market that is right for innovation. it should be pointed out the nets would've mixed feelings monsanto. on one hand i am not terribly freaked out by the idea of creating genetically novel strains of crops that can persist integrations. i am opposed to some of the business practices. a lot of business practices where they lay on farmers for things like copyright infringement comes during beats and stuff like

monsanto is trying to do that. >> genetic modification is more to the point. you cut the gene out of one organizorganism, stick it into r one, they can end up with an end result, crossbreeding takes a lot longer. monsanto is trying to make this go quicker. is. >> the key question is, is it safe? >> absolutely. they are just using gents to beo be more precise which plant with which plant. >> speaking of accurate you have an intriguing accurate piece about spiders. >> yes, absolutely. what do goats and bullet proof vets and a million dollar industry have in common? the answer is spider silk. the biomedicine of the future. it will be night your body, it will be everywhere. they just got to figure out how to make a lot of it. >> phil will tell us more about that on "techknow," sat, 7:30, 430 on the west coast. phil thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> still to come, putting an age old question to rest, new evidence how the.jeentians build the famous picture midst. >> a police department live-tweeting a prostitution ring sting? that's what's set to happen. m

this is just the soap bubbles that monsanto and gum to these g.m.o. giants are putting out to the public into thinking this is something good the point is russia has some of the most precious not destroyed topsoil on the spot and the richness of that topsoil if it's rigorously controlled to be g.m.o. free is marketed on the world market is certified organic russia has a huge export market in germany and in the western europe in the united european union and elsewhere because there's a tremendous lack of anything that stops since puts this genie back in the bottle whole genetic manipulation of plants and organisms used to the good of the future of mankind. the insecticides used for g.m.o. plants seem to be killing off the u.s. honeybee population to find out why some are concerned about the consequences the full story is waiting for you at r.t. dot com. to be in the know. as the e.u. prepares to elect its parliament by the end of may the block's powerhouse germany has just seen a day of anti brussels protests in the capital berlin a rally broke out int

this past weekend hundreds of thousands of people protested as part of the march against monsanto now if you've seen the monsanto ads then you're probably wondering why would people protest a corporation that clearly produces a doll adorable toddlers and dreams. of these protesters anti dreams but you see monsanto is known for more than the toddler factories celebrated in their advertisements they're also responsible for such hits as the agent orange chemicals dropped over vietnam with a genetic modifications that might be killing off all the bumble bees but don't need drastic. monsanto's crowning achievement patenting seeds that they can what so that they can one day own the global food supply you might think owning the world's food supply while i was at sound familiar that's because dr evil came up with it in austin powers. and sure enough monsanto is a list celebrity status has grown in recent years to the point of being voted the most evil corporation in the world several years running seriously so what did the corporate run media have to say about the massive international protes

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of public policy for monsanto that's like putting donald sterling in charge of the n w c. it's like putting lance armstrong in charge of the d.n.a. . tests like what in the westboro baptist church in charge of sensitivity training that's that's according vin diesel in is the lead actor in the canterbury tales performed in the original old english rights because that's like putting a boogie man in charge of under big security you know like putting dick cheney in charge of a children's bake sale to raise money for oh nice with the rest of us live syndrome when they need it the orcas have more legs it's like putting glenn back in as lead funded near at an awkward social gathering clearly is not good with people his best friend is a guy he's never met instead of poorly worded e-mail it's like it's like that's all i got that stats all the things on earth that are as bad as putting the geo mole loving bumblebee killing sea battening gremlin did learn at the top of the. book monsanto is just the tip of the iceberg let's get into the rest coming to you from washington days. save t

this is just the sort bottles that monsanto owns and going to these g.m.o. giants are putting out to the public into thinking this is something good the point is russia has some of them most precious nondestructive topsoil on the spot and the richness of that topsoil if it's rigorously controlled to be g.m.o. free is marketed on the world market us certified organic russia has a huge export market in germany and in the western europe in the united european union and elsewhere because there is a tremendous lack of anything that stops since puts this genie back in the bottle called genetic manipulation of plants and organisms is to the good of the future of mankind. if you had thought to come with find out more about how people across the world are trying to prevent g.m. foods from ending up on bed tables. demarks known as a pretty progressive liberal country but is using cartoon violence to get young people into politics a step too far the country's parliament certainly seems now to regret its latest rather unconventional campaign to get dates to vote in the

and monsanto claims of the high cost as due to burden some government regulations what's your response to that argument. well that's just to try and get everyone on their side to say we need less regulations the regulations around the world have been a disaster in india in particular there was a citizens' titian to the supreme court saying that the approval process was a sham and there should be an immediate moratorium the supreme court asked renowned biologist dr barbara to investigate and be invited member to the approval committee he was for ten months and at the end of which he has submitted his report to the supreme court the prime minister and the health minister he agreed with the petition and said the approval process is a share there is a immediate approval of any application for geophones and any time he or anyone else provides adverse findings to the committee the immediately discredited saying that it is not important and not relevant he said that no g.m. crop in the world has been properly evaluated of the thirty different areas of study that need to be done before g.m. cr

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. >> we're standing outside of the monsanto corporation. they are the developers the pesticide that is devastating our hives and our bees. >> for the church of the honeybees. honehoneybee alleluia. >> reporter: harvard's lead scientist is a former defense agency fellow and received funding for the research. it's provided entirely by the national science foundation. >> this particular research, oh, we could use it for bees. we could use it for, i think, surveillance or military. >> reporter: but at least one firm is interested. defense contractor systems sent a $38 million agreement with the military to develop robotic insects for spying. it's a worrying thought. >> you're creating a robot to replace a magical animal that is dying, and the people who are causing the death of that animal are going to receive the intelligence that you're developing in your laboratory. >> when the choir vowed to speak out one song at a time. al jazeera, cambridge, massachusetts. >> good saturday to you. another soggy day with storms that has flared up on the gu

rally against c m o and against monsanto today they marched from the white house to the monsanto headquarters here in d.c. this building is on march however the people looked it up they came out here and they're here to protest and let them know that they want their g m o's to be labeled to be banned altogether protesters gathered from africa to australia south korea to slovenia fifty two countries in all with four hundred thirty six participating cities right now the food and drug administration does not require companies to label foods with genetically modified ingredients companies argue that g.m. labeling would deter people from buying products that they have been eating for years even though concrete evidence of adverse health effects on humans is lacking this year activists focused on the detrimental effects that we products like roundup ready could potentially have on the bee population many people dressed up like honeybees to speak about the importance that these insects have to balancing the ecosystem to all peoples very round up to kill the weeds but we don't do that because that's

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. >> the monsanto corporation. monsanto is one of the world's developers of neonicitonoid pesticides devastating much of our ecosystem. >> the church of the honey bees. honey beelujah. >> he says these products have been determinedto by the appropriate authorities. harvard lead scientist is a defense agency fellow and received funding from the army for robotic insect research. harv vard said he ex 10 funding is provided by the national science foundation. we can't speak to who may be interested in this line of research. >>> this particular research project, we could use it for bees. we could use it for, you know, surveillance or military. >> at least one firm is interested: defense contractor ba system said a $38 million agreement with the military for spying. it's a worrying thought. >> think about what you are doing. you are making a robot to replace a magical animal that is dying and the people who are causing the death of that animal are going to receive the intelligence that you are developing in your laborato

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on tonight's premiere episode the gang goes after monsanto the n.s.a. and obama's plan to leave not eight hundred troops in afghanistan until two thousand and sixteen tune in tonight for a distance night at eight pm here on our team america. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is talk show host andy kohut here's part of what's to come. yeah she was really going to bring yeah what do you make of this coverage of the airline you know what i don't mind the coverage of the airline because over two hundred people lost their lives you have it and it's a mystery and we all fly today it is no news but you know what there's a lot of other book that's covered at this point when you were at c.n.n. for so long i mean what is news at this point justin bieber getting ivette arrest i mean great detail big elation right now you lazy boy you know is there you know left it's true as well you know but that being said there's so much that is reported that is totally nonsense so what is this replacing nothing so i mean i'm

that is just the amount of money that the food companies that monsanto and a few other chemical companies spent in california to defeat a ballot measure. in washington, it is hundreds of lobbyists, hundreds and hundreds of dollars in campaign contributions, and a lack of political kurds. -- political courage. but we have made this a kitchen table discussion about food. once we have done that, we are now seeing that people are saying what is obvious to most of us. we just want to know what is in our food. we want to be able to take some of the power in our own hands in part because we no longer believe that washington is looking after us. we think washington is looking after these corporations that hold such sway. tavis: so it's possible that the companies you much -- you just mentioned and many more beyond they could win this fight in the court system. i don't think probable. i said to the governor, you are going to sign this bill tomorrow and you are going to be signed the next day -- you will be sued the next day. >> maybe by the end of the same day. tavis: they may be able to prevail i

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. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. urn necessary deaths long waits for treatment, false fied records to cover up mismanagement, serious charges have been brought against the veterans at ministration. we are looking inside the centralling health system for americas veterans and lewis chelsea, you heard larry just a moment ago talk about the unfunded and unintended size of the patient pool now. is that a legitimate answer for why it's been so tough to ramp up to where the system needs to be. >> absolutely not, and the american he john is not saying that the v.a. does haven't a tough job. and there aren't a lot to serve, we have never said that. our complaint is that the v.a. has consistently sat before congress and said hey, we have everything under control. we have this -- and veterans are getting an appointment within 14 days and everything is good. and the congress keeps coming back and saying are y

. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. drunk this week on "talk to al jazeera," the cost and rewards of publishing classified nsa documents. my guest, glenl greenwold. >> what's it like to be called a traitor and a hero? >> if you are going to do journalism and you want to do adversarial journalism, you have to expect you will anger a lot of people. if you are not prepared for that, you probably shouldn't go into journalism. >> you are critical of mainstream journalism in america. what's your biggest beef? >> the idea of why there is a free press is supposed to be that journalits are an adverse earlier force to those who we'lled power and for a variety of reasons over the last several decades, the american immediate qua has become subservient to and hep to those in power rather than adversarial to it and it has neutered journalism. >> you believe in a new form of adversarial journalism. is it -- does it

. >> you this bioag alliance with monsanto. how do you get around resistance, hesitance around manipulation of food products. particularly here in europe where perhaps consumers are a little less keen on their food being tampered with than they are in the united states? >> the technology we provide together with monsanto, we take the natural microorganisms to have soil and breed them and inject them back. you just get an overdose of what is already there and then that will be working in europe. >> biofuels is obviously a big area of interest for you as well. tell me about how shale gas booms in the united states. does it mean people are a little less interested in biofuels at the moment or the reverse it is going into the liquid fuel market for american cars or cars in the emerging markets. politically, it affects because the americans, they are very excited about shale gas and it allows them to reduce the c.o. 2 arena. if it is like competing for the same green space as renewable fuels are. there is a connection, it is like a

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monsanto tells lies all the time this is the reality but first well it's very corrupt to achieve its goals it's corporates with governments which love money and we have to understand that in almost everything to get a twenty one seats a horrifying situation if we get talk since next to villages and schools teachers are forced to hide school children and old victorians because of toxins comment from above. if g.m.o. foods leave a bad taste in your mouth had to argy dot com and have a look what experts have to say about laboratory agriculture. gauging apophatic young people to vote is always tricky so how about a taxpayer funded comedy cartoon like this you can find. me you. and was commissioned by denmark's parliament to encourage turnout for the upcoming elections vote matt is about a couch potato who racked with guilt for failing to vote transforms into a muscled son with a mission to get low first to the ballot box with some groups ex-pro name but a backlash saw the clip are removed from official websites and social networks although the head of the danish parliament a fan it is br

production giant monsanto it wants to build a new factory but local and campaigners say they have evidence of pesticides in children's blood so far the authorities are allowing the protest camp to stay arty want to ask the campaigners whether they stand a chance against it by a tad behemoths. it's all right to facilitate the development of existing factories but is different to build a facility that pollutes local villages we will be the first to suffer as we live close to the site. run center tells lies all the time this is the reality but first to will it's very corrupt to achieve its goals it cooperates with governments which love money and we have to understand that and almost want to do everything to get what it wants seats a horrifying situation if we get talk since next to villages and schools teachers are forced to hide school children and old victorians because of toxins common from above. if g.m.o. foods that leave a bad taste in your mouth had to r.t. dot com and have a look what experts have to say about laboratory agriculture. now at least twenty four people have been killed i

well there you can quite easily first of all they can do what the states california tried it monsanto spent millions of dollars to to block it i think they'll try again the state of washington tried it and the same thing with them all talk to one company spending millions of dollars to create the false lobbying campaigns the state of vermont tried and succeeded in getting little enough products that contain above i think point nine percent of g.m.o. which is similar to the european union so that that is labeled on the on the shelf so when you buy that box of kellogg's corn flakes you make sure to look and see is this the non g.m.o. or in my cornflakes that my child is going to eat or is this this g.m. or garbage that kellogg's or what's all of in the like to get rid of so i think that's one step the other thing is to. people have to become informed what we eat eat locally support local farmers. it's not against technology but organic farming and i've seen this directly in germany and elsewhere in europe organic farming properly done creates greater harvest yields than no no industrial

lawyers can sue monsanto and shut them down -- >> very interesting. anybody has a question related to my book? >> first question is about the impact of -- [inaudible] -- pertaining to the fact that -- i know we do know that and so -- and also studied have been done specific to your book. anything -- >> i interviewed 216 people, and some of those interview were with doctors, and the ngos that did the brokering, but 50 were actually kidney sellers and then dialysis patients as well, but one thing is if you have people who need kidneys who aren't getting them, where would they be? they would be in the dialysis center. or as one iranian doctor told me, they will be in rural areas dying without even being recognized as have kidney disease. iran says they have that problem. the problem that some people aren't identified at all or identified too late in the rural areas. when the doctor and i went from person to person to person in the dialysis center and we asked, why are you here? oh, i'm getting my kidney next month. why are you here? i lost my kidney. i d

three years there was an average reduction yield of fifty three percent but the higher produced by monsanto was so effective in convincing farmers that it was the road to riches by the fourth year the same organization could not find enough now i'm g.m.o. farmers to conduct research because so many have been convinced and i was fortunately that's what's happening they used bollywood actors they used spiritual leaders they used very aggressive t.v. advertising they paid off the most successful farmers in in the area in fact they would put up hollister's claiming huge evils and when people followed him and looked at the names of the people who picture the people who claim to have high yields some of them weren't even farmers others said no actually it was a failure i don't use it anymore so the promotion was deceptive but it was very effective at the same time they removed the availability of knowledge and problem seeds in some cases from an entire state in india forcing the farmers to use the genetically engineer varieties only and of course we know about superbugs super we the result of the

. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >>> a troubled prison system and a number that may help to explain why. there are 10 times as many prisoners with mental illness. more than a quarter of the inmates have been diagnosed with mental illness - raising questions about a connection. how the californian system deals with the inmates. here is al london. >> ready. >> in the california state prison system this is called a forceable extraction. inmate a. as this mementally ilprisoner is called -- mentally ill prisoner is called is refusing medication. he is being doused with pepper spray. this is inmate i. guards say he, too, refused orders to take medication. and this is 35-year-old joie durant, a mentally ill inmate breathing through a dub after a traky ot omy. he was doused with pepper spray for disobeying order. he was nef taken out of his -- never taken out of his cell and washed off. hours later he was

. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >>> the violence in ukraine is intensifying pro-russian separatists have taken over state buildings in numerous cities in ukraine's eastern border region with russia. and today the ukrainian government attempted to take them back with military action. there are unconfirmed reports that the separatists shot down two helicopters killing two people. moscow condemned the attacks and repeated its warning that it reserves its right to intervene to protect pro-russian citizens in the region. at the white house today president obama and german chancellor angela merkel warned russia that they are prepared to increase sanctions russia continues. the two leaders put tensions aside and stood united on ukraine. libby any outcome? >> they wanted to present a unified front and they really were able to. if this meeting would have happened even a few weeks ago there may have been mo