Tonight:
ISIS's Human collateral.
The anti-vaxxer outbreak.
And…
What "Minority Report" got right about the future:
— "This is not science fiction, this is future reality."
— The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia's "gay propaganda" laws,
which ban so-called promotion of homosexuality,
reinforce prejudice and encourage homophobia.
The court ordered Russia to pay $48,000 in damages to three gay activists
who were arrested after staging protests.
Russia's Justice Ministry says it'll appeal the ruling.
Homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1993,
but activists say the laws are used as a shield for abuse and violence.
Israel has started work on new settlement in the occupied West Bank for the first time in 20 years,
challenging international law.
The buildings will house about 40 families who were forcibly evicted from the Amona settlement in February,
after Israel's Supreme Court determined the homes were built illegally on private Palestinian land.
The groundbreaking comes as Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner
travels to the region to work on peace talks.
— This is an obstacle to the efforts of President Trump to resume the peace process.
— The Philippine government has started a new push to drive ISIS-linked militants out of Marawi.
The military hopes to recapture the city by this weekend,
worried that militant reinforcement could arrive after Ramadan ends.
Nearly 350 people have been killed, 26 of them civilians.
Minnesota authorities released the dashcam footage
of officer Jeronimo Yanez killing Philando Castile last year,
as Castile sat in his car.
His girlfriend streamed the aftermath on Facebook Live.
Yanez was acquitted of the shooting last Friday.
In the video,
Castile can be heard calmly telling the officer that he has a gun,
about 30 seconds after they started speaking:
— Eight months into the campaign to retake Mosul,
Iraqi forces now have ISIS surrounded in the Old City.
But the battle's hardly over:
the fighters still have women and children—
and the United Nations says they're using them as human shields.
But in the Libyan port city of Sirte—
which was the Islamic State's main stronghold outside of Iraq and Syria—
a generation of widows and orphans speak to the brutality to come.
Seb Walker reports.
— These women are among dozens of so-called "ISIS brides,"
held captive by the terror group during their final days inside Sirte.
— They're under investigation by Libyan authorities,
and are being held inside an air force base on the outskirts of Misrata.
— They all hail from different countries,
and tell different stories about how they ended up there.
Some of the women claim they simply followed their husbands to Libya,
with no knowledge they would end up joining ISIS.
— But others, like 18-year-old Ala'a um Omair,
appear to have more deliberate ties to ISIS.
— Ala'a left Egypt to live under a stricter form of Islam with her aunt in Sirte,
and there she was married to an ISIS fighter.
She says she tried to leave, but ISIS shot at her:
— Whatever their reasons for being in Sirte,
these women that when ISIS started to lose its grip on the city,
they were used as collateral to slow down Libyan forces.
— I mean, what do you tell your children about their fathers?
— Nuseiba um Yaqeen's children now live with her in-laws in Tripoli.
But some women's children live in the prison with them.
Across town, there's a group of children with no parents at all—
all of them fathered by ISIS fighters, some as young as 6-months-old.
— Hello, Mariam!
— Libya's Red Crescent wasn't set up to take charge of these children,
but they converted their headquarters into a makeshift orphanage
after these girls and boys were rescued from Sirte.
— What happened to her foot?
— Is it painful for you?
— Medical staff her say when these 32 children arrived,
many of them suffered from disease or dehydration, broken bones or burns.
But it's their mental health that's the biggest concern.
— Abdessalam?
And your brother?
— Bilal.
Can you remember what happened?
— How long have you been in this place?
— Abdessalam and Bilal were rescued from the collapsed house
during the operation to retake Sirte,
along with 5-year-old Mohammed,
who lost his arm after it was crushed in the collapse.
When Mohammed arrived,
he needed 24-hour care and psychological treatment.
He wouldn't speak for weeks, and still barely utters a word.
But his bond with Abdessalam is clear.
The boys take care of each other—
a new family to replace the ones they lost.
— Do you remember your father? Do you miss him?
— When is the last time that you saw your parents?
How do people here feel about them?
I mean, are these children stigmatized because they are children of ISIS?
— What does the future hold for them?
— These children have no documents or identification—
a stateless generation founded under the caliphate.
Now, with nowhere to go.
— Senate Republicans will release their version of health care reform publicly
sometime in the next two days—
after working on it in secret for weeks.
There are still major points of conflict within the GOP over the details,
and there's no guarantee it will pass—
but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is still insisting on bringing it to the floor next week.
— I expect to have a discussion draft on Thursday,
and we will go to the bill, obviously,
once we get a CBO score.
— McConnell is barrelling ahead toward a vote, because he has to:
for the Republicans dealing with the messy politics of Obamacare replacement,
there's no way out but through.
— The President has reportedly criticized his own party's first attempt at healthcare reform as "mean,"
which doesn't really set the GOP up for success
if Senate Republicans vote on their version next week, as planned.
But whether it passes or fails may not actually matter to Mitch McConnell.
To understand why, I spoke with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee.
He's a Republican, a doctor and a critic of the House GOP's health care bill.
He pointed out that Republicans are on a time crunch.
They want to do both healthcare and tax reform
through a specific legislative maneuver called reconciliation,
which lowers the threshold for passage to 51 votes.
That means they have to finish healthcare reform first.
— In a little over a month, Congress leaves for August recess.
When they get back, they have to pass a bill to fund the government.
Then they'll take more time off through the fall and winter for the holidays and,
when 2018 rolls around, not much will get done,
because they'll all be focused on reelection.
And Frist said that because the GOP efforts at reform are so unpopular,
the best thing for the whole party might just be to move on to reforms Americans like more.
— That's right:
The party that ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years,
that promised to do so quickly and completely once Trump was elected,
could largely give up on the effort because it's too hard.
If the Senate bill doesn't go anywhere,
Frist still thinks the GOP will pass smaller bills to fix or eliminate parts of Obamacare,
and the Secretary of Health and Human Services will do what he can administratively to dismantle it.
But he's convinced that failure wouldn't affect Republicans in the long run.
— Minneapolis is home to the largest Somali community in America,
and the area known as Little Mogadishu has become ground zero for a major outbreak of measles.
The 78 cases reported in Minnesota so far
are more than what the entire country experienced in all of 2016.
The vaccination rate for measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR,
has plummeted among Somali-Americans there over the last 10 years...
— Do listen to a doctor.
Don't listen to anybody.
Listen to your rights.
— ...partly because anti-vaxxers have been targeting the community
with messaging that falsely links the MMR vaccine to autism.
— Wait! How tall are you?
— Abdinasir Fidow has seven kids.
His eldest son, Abdullahi,
was diagnosed with autism a couple of years after he had the MMR shot.
Fidow didn't vaccinate any of his other children after that.
— So tell tell me about your son Abdullahi.
— Sure thing! Yeah, you can stop.
— No.
— Science says there is no link between MMR and autism.
What would you say to some parents who might not understand
where you're coming from by not wanting to vaccinate your other children?
— Would you consider vaccinating your other children with MMR now,
because there's this measles outbreak?
— Somali kids here are twice as likely as the rest of the country's to be diagnosed with autism,
and 100 percent of Somali kids with autism in Minneapolis also have intellectual disabilities—
a stat three times higher than non-Somalis—
and public health officials still don't know why.
That's partly how antivaxxer messaging has been so effective.
— The Somali community it's very tight-knit here.
So fear and misconception can spread really quickly because we're so tight-knit,
we're also very… an almost a closed community.
— Huda Ahmed knows that what counts as "evidence" in her community is up for debate,
with science coming up against anecdote.
She's a Somali-American mom of three
who works in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
— How old is your son? — He's 22 months.
— Has he already had all his vaccines?
— He's had all of his vaccinations,
and he's due when he's 2 for his second dose of MMR.
When the Somali community sounded out the alarm,
trying to figure out why their kids were more likely to develop autism than other kids,
the anti-vaccine community listened.
The public health community, the scientific community, did not.
— One of the people who's reached out to the Somali community is Wayne Rohde,
a prominent vaccine skeptic in Minneapolis
who's been speaking out about mandatory vaccines like the MMR for nearly two decades:
— Now, the Minnesota Department of Health and CDC's saying there's no connection.
Well, how many times do we need to see kids having severe reactions?
And the autism in the Somali community is not the moderate or the high-functioning.
We're seeing kids that are just severely—no language.
Can you take this down to Nick?
— One of Wayne's twins was diagnosed with autism when he was a preschooler,
a diagnosis that Wayne attributes to complications with the MMR.
But he says he doesn't identify with the label "anti-vaxxer."
— It wasn't until the last couple of years that the Minnesota Department of Health decided,
"Okay, we're gonna do outreach."
Well, here's what's funny about that outreach,
is that most of the Somali community refuses to accept them
because they felt that the people that got hired by the Minnesota Department of Health
are just trying to infiltrate their group.
— Isn't that what the groups like yourself are doing, though,
infiltrating a community?
— We're not infiltrating, we're not doing anything.
All we're doing is we're answering questions that the Somali parents are asking—
"What's my legal rights?"
— What would you say to people who think you're irresponsible and endangering children?
— If people want to vaccinate, let them vaccinate.
I don't have a problem with that.
That's their decision.
— But part of the reason mandatory vaccines are important is because of "herd immunity,"
basically safety in numbers.
The more people that are vaccinated,
the less likely it is for an infectious disease to spread,
even within a community where some people can't get an injection—
like pregnant women, young children, or people who are immunocompromised.
It's a message the Department of Health is hoping to get across.
It's hired Somali consultants like Asli Ashkir...
— ...to talk to local health care workers at informal meetings like this one,
about how they can better reach out to the Somali community.
— The Department of Health plans to drastically increase their Somali outreach...
— ...but nothing has been as educational for parents as this measles outbreak—
there's been a 16-fold increase in MMR vaccinations among Somali kids since the epidemic started.
— Usually, when Hollywood imagines the future,
it ventures to galaxies far, far away—
creating worlds that are fun to look at,
but more fiction than science.
The movie "Minority Report," released 15 years ago this week,
was different.
Set in 2054, in Washington D.C.,
the film took place in a world that director Steven Spielberg wanted audiences to feel was believable,
so he and the film's production designer
gathered a team of America's best futurists
to figure out what the world might look like in 50 years.
They ended up getting a lot right.
— We called it, I think, 2088 to begin with.
But it was sort of, you know, 50 years in the future in round terms.
The most important thing Steven said was,
"This is not science fiction, this is future reality."
— Their future was one in which detectives can see previsions of murders
to stop them before they happen:
— Send it to DCPD blue and white…
set up a perimeter and tell them we're en route.
— The movie needed to be able to show a futuristic user interface
that would let these super talented cops do this thing,
find a needle in a haystack.
I went back to my own work with the MIT Media Lab,
where I was very hand-obsessed,
and trying to figure out what hands can do that's better than a hand grasping a plastic mouse,
which is basically everything.
I found this the other morning—
I'd completely forgotten that I'd written it—
and it's my initial thoughts about how gestural interface language could be adapted
for use in the film.
And a lot of the stuff that started here went into the training manual.
This is the dictionary of gestures the actors used.
— It really was another language being developed,
in how an interface could be developed to work in three-dimensional space.
So you need to pull something forward, spread it apart,
you know, make it smaller, make it bigger…
— We now make those on our phones and we're tracked as we do it—
as Minority Report predicted, not by the state, but by advertisers:
— Welcome back to the GAP.
How'd those assorted tank tops work out for you?
— Bit by bit, we were filling in the blanks,
and every time we sort-of turn a page and find another blank,
then we would go out to another set of experts to start asking them for information.
— We went through the entire script,
and we looked for products and services that would be needed in this future world.
— A road diverges in the desert...
— And then we started talking about what brands would survive.
Remember, 15 years ago,
Amazon was just starting to make product recommendations
based on how you shopped on their site or what you'd bought before.
— We'd become more and more assaulted,
in the sense that we engage as consumers,
and the result is that we become inundated by our own desires.
— John Anderton—you could use a Guinness right about now.
— And there was a big division between
people who thought that was cool
and people who thought their privacy was being invaded.
— Hey, John Anderton… forget your troubles...
— The futurists thought the intersection of commerce and technology would extend further,
reshaping everything, including cars and the places we live.
— We were like, "Well, where would you park?"
And then that turned into, "Why not make it a piece of furniture in the home?"
If you own it and it lives in your home,
why not use it as furniture?
And then those kind-of combinations of elements turned into a very pure piece of design.
— In many ways,
I think that is the epitome of a vehicle for the future.
We have created a capsule just for the people inside.
— Your car becomes an office,
your car becomes an entertainment center,
your car becomes possibly the most important opportunity you have for family time.
— If companies like Uber and Tesla get their way,
the age of driver-less and owner-less cars will soon be here.
That means that the kind of world these futurists predicted is closer than ever.
— You can't run, John!
— Everybody runs.
— I don't think that my daughter will ever have to drive a car herself.
I think that might be a skill that is lost.
— This is the beauty of what makes Minority Report, as a film, special—
is that it projects this vision of the future that totally makes sense and feels right.
— It made a lot of people perk-up and it certainly
inspired a lot of people to take some of those technologies more seriously.
— The film predicted that there would be nowhere to hide.
The reality moved faster, and more subtly, than any of them imagined.
— We're already bathed in data.
All the stuff that we're carrying around in our cell phone,
tracking our behaviors, are being monitored all the time.
I think if anybody doesn't think that they're being recorded at any given moment,
then they're not paying attention.
— We have a technology-saturated world.
We also ought to have technology-saturated, critical dialogue
about whether this stuff is good—
about what is and isn't okay to build, what is and isn't okay to deploy.
— It's fire!
Oh, shit!
That was sick!
— Is this The Weeknd?
Oh, it's a girl.
The music's grungy, but then her voice is so…
not grungy.
So I like how they…
mix well together.
— Haim.
— Wow, that's Haim, huh?
That's awesome.
— A DJ/producer made this song, 100 percent.
I can already tell, like, the arrangement,
how they made this song.
I love her voice, though.
I really love her voice.
It's kinda like that "Don't Let Me Down" sound…
I have no idea what this is, but this is definitely something I could hear in the clubs.
— The lyrics are what's needed right now in the state that we're in—
it's exactly what I wanna hear right now.
DJ Shadow—
okay, I knew it was some cool-ass producer on this beat.
It's got that DJ Shadow vibe.
Yeah, this is definitely my jam.
I'm feeling this.
— I love that synth…
I could be wrong, but this is… girls that are inspired by Lil Uzi Vert.
— Rico Nasty.
— Rico Nasty?
I've heard the name, but I've never heard the…
the songs.
I like it, though.
— Oh, this is—this is a vibe.
Summer vibes for sure, summer vibes on this one.
Road trip vibes, road trip vibes…
Oh, wow, yeah, this is Calvin Harris!
This is definitely the best follow-up for "Slide."
I love Calvin's new productions, too.
— That's VICE News Tonight for Tuesday, June 20th.
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