welcome to al jazerra america. a am stephanie sy here are the top stories with we are following at this hour. more u.s. spying secrets come to light. the guardian newspaper in london revealed new information from former nsa analyst edward snowden. the report says the nsa tapped the phones of 35 international leaders. germany's chancellor says the u.s. has breached europe's trust. a house committee has begun hearings to investigate the problems with the government's health care website. on thursday the gop led panel asked the developers if the government should have delayed the roll out. the contractors said the timing was not their decision and that problems are being fixed daily. a chinese court has rejected ann

appeal by senior politician bo. he had been one of the top 25 leaders in the community party. he was found guilty of bribery, immaterial pressal. and us boof power. abuse of power. an unusual sight. special lighting to honor breast cancer awareness month. more than two authority thousand women been diagnosed with the disease this year. the entrance of the navel observatory was glowing pink to bring more awareness for the need to research. that's it. "america tonight" is up next. you can always get the latest at al jazerra.com. >> on america tonight, inside of the dark net where you can speak your mind or commit a crime in the most anonymous corners of the digital world. >> there are plenty of people who are just fooling around, and

experimenting with either their paranoid fantasies, libertarian dream of living in a world without government's spying eyes. >> also tonight, who is the victim? a big payout to the california officer fired for abuse, and fashion forward, the new effort to buy a home and do better in the world. even when that seems hard to do. >> you cannot really buy clothes these days, all fabrics are produced there. >> good evening, i'm joie chen. and thank you for become us. it was one of the world's

biggest online marketplaces for goods and services until the fbi cracked down on the silk road. underground website was hidden in a part of the internet called the dark net. we are shown how to access this secret online world and explains how some are using it to break the law. >> reporter: a hidden site hidden deep inside of the worldwide web. one of the sophisticated marketplaces. silk road before the fbi shut it down this month. the $1 billion black market attracted buyers and sellers from all over the globe, including a washington d.c. 17-year-old who had drugs shipped right to his doorstep >> describe what happened when you got the package? what did it look like? >> it was a birthday card, not too suspicious, average

interview envelope and iopened it up and t molly, lsd, shrooms, and that's about crazy. >> the high school senior said he and his ex-girlfriend used coins to purchase highly illegal substances from a completely anonymous seller. he describes the process as convenient, sort of like using amazon.com. search for the drugs you want, and even read online reviews about the seller, and that made him feel secure. >> why do you say that it's not safe to go on the street. >> you never know what you're getting. and you could be getting a chemical that could kill you, but when you buy online, you're that. >> silk road is among thousands of underground websites hidden on the dark net.

we discovered sites selling guns and pornography and weapons >> how would you describe the dark net >> it's made up of people who want to be unanimous online. >> cole is a media strategist and a writer who studies privacy and anonymity on the dark net >> >>: so this could be a political activist, or someone offering their services as a hitman. there are met of people -- plenty of people fooling around with their political fantasies or anarchy libertarian dream with a government without prying eyes. so i downloaded it. and i click it, and it's going to signal. literally, in just 30 seconds, and i'm good to go. >> he showed us how to access the dark net. we used a special free software

called tower, and browsers are virtually undetectable as they navigate the underworl underwor. >> how does it work? >> it gets your information across a series of nodes, and a node would be a user of tor, who allows his computer to relay messages across the network. >> like with pinball, the messages is going over here and here? >> this is happening all over the world, so my message is pinging over to siberia if there's a tor user out there. >> this allows them without any websites for their identity not being revealed >> it's a creation of the u.s. government through and through. it was originally developed to allow military agents to communicate safely. the more people using the network, the stronger social security, which is why the u.s. government opened it up to the public. and now we have millions of

users on the tor network. >> it's not only used for sinister purposes. there is a bright side to the dark net >> say i'm a teenager in alabama, and i don't want my family to know about it, there are many reasons to want to escape your internet behavior that don't involve activities like buying drugs, and to say this is only for the drug users, and the child porn addicts and the creeps and the criminals, i think it's a tremendously narrow minded and myopic way to look at it. >> >>: so there you've seen a way that the dark net can be used for dark transitions online. and now we want to show you how this program can be used for good, like helping civilians communicate in the middle of a serious war. we pick up on this side of the story.

>> in a country like syria, remaining anonymous online is a fundamental part of surviving >> people get killed because of their activities online. >> he was a political activist for syria's kurdish population before the syria civil war. >> >> when the war started, they wanted syria to secretly community without being monitored or censored by the government. >> we weren't allowed to find people, but communications allowed us to bring thousands of people together to talk. when the chemical master happened in the damascus

countryside, the images sicked us. there would be no communication. >> off han feared for his own life, when a british filmmaker accidentally revealed his identity in syria. >> they got a footage of me, talking about what they were doing. and that could put me in jail. maybe that would be a reason for them to find me. so we had to smuggle me out of the country, and that's what happened. so i went out of the country. >> reporter: hoffman fled the country and developed his own security operating system. similar to the tor software, his creation allows users to avoid government detection. had allowed us to conversation with his friend in syria, a

friend that already spent time in jail. >> if you were having the same conversation right now without using this software, what could happen to him? >> [ inaudible ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> he is in the conflict area, so they would go through. >> what are the message that's are the most important that he has delivered out of the dark net? [ speaking foreign language ] >> people are showing videos, and showing the world what's going on. after the mastery that happened, people starred to get the news about the massacre. and there was no security or dark net tools, they would just be in jail.

and there would be nothing outside. >> reporter: before signing off, hoffman's friend had a final message. >> it's important for the international community to put more into supporting the dark net because it saves the lives of a lot of people. and a lot of people, they actually got arrested because they were not using these tools. >> reporter: hoffman said that he has no plans to return to syria, but continues to help anyone he can access the secure dark net, whether they support his political ideals or not. >> i don't agree with a lot of people in syria, but i should about. it's important. >> laura jane reports, and we're going to talk more about the dark net and it's future. rick jones from san francisco, just one quick thing here. dark net, deep web, and which

one, does it matter? it's all the same, right? >> yeah, it all means the same thing. deep web is the most commonly used term online at this point. >> so when we talk about the deep web, let's talk first about the neverarious uses of it. it's not just silk road, but other devices as well in >> no, there were wednesdays selling these things online before silk road. and since silk road has shut down, a number of other competitors have come online. it's just that silk road really had the best marketing campaign. they were able to use the media to grow their user base. >> that was specifically for drugs, but there were other things, weapons and child porn out there, right? >> yes, it can be nasty, anything that you can imagine on a black market.

recreational drugs, weapons, hit pornography. >> what do you mean by hit services? >> you could find people who would do sass nag assassinationn demand, and even people who were raising money in order to perform assassinations >> it's remarkable. >> but at the same time, there were also some of the vendors on these online marketplaces are also selling things like chemotherapy drugs, and hiv drugs too. so it's a really vast array of services and products that you can buy anonymously because of using these nervouses >> let's go back for a second here, the feds have moved in on silk road and shut that down, but is there any liability to people who were using it? they were anonymous, and is there any way to track them now?

>> yeah, absolutely. what really brought silk road down was a lack of operational security, and classic detective work, and i think the investigators, the fbi in this case, are going to use all of the leverage that they can from these initial arrests, and continuing to hunt down the vendors. so those who weren't practicing good operational security should be concerned. and that being said, some of the most popular vendors from silk road are on some of the competitive sites that have popped up, so business is still booming >> also on the dark web are those folks, as lori jane referred to in her second report, maybe negative or maybe they have other reasons to want to be concealed in it >> yes, absolutely.

at this point, how connected our society is, with the revelations about the amount of surveillance, i think it's justified that some people are concerned about how they present their identities online. and we should really recognize at this point that anonymity is a fundamental part to the right to free expression. >> but one last thought here. if you could say that there was a way for experts to track down people who used silk road, wouldn't there be a way for people with more positive intentions. say for example, the syrian activists, shouldn't they also be concerned that they could be tracked? >> yes, they should be. no technology will do everything. and encryptions are broken overtime. and the largest threat to the tor is the u.s. government. to produce malware that's specifically designed to attack

the tor browser bundle which you mentioned earlier. when they compromised the online web host freedom posting months ago, and then used the malware to reveal the identity of the tor users. >> it's quite complex, and we appreciate your insight, internet security expert, rich jones. thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much. >> here on america tonight, take your child to work attacks on a new and dangerous meaning. >> every sunday night al jazeera america presents... gripping films from the worlds top documentary directors this sunday, a sherrif who implements the law... >> we investigated, arrested and detained 33,000 illegal aliens... >> the young girl who sufferes from it... >> i never thought this would happen to my parents...

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>> now a snapshot of stories making headlines on america tonight. new details in the death of a danvers teacher. she was stabbed with a box cutter, he pled not guilty.

a tragedy for a california family after a northern california police officer shot and killed a teenager after they thought it was an assault rifle. he was on his way to his friend's house with a pellet gun in his hand. ugly accusations of racial profiling against a powerhouse. barney's new york, two black shoppers in one week are accusing them of unlawful detainment after they made purchases in the store. one that's filed against nypd and barney's. a former california police officer has reached a settlement after his use of pepper spray on student occupied protesters. they fought them in november of 2011. and it went viral online. the former officer said that he

suffered depression and anxiety after his and his family received death threats following protests. he was fired after eight months of paid leave. 21 of the demonstrators were paid about $30,000 apiece. ian lee was one of the pepper sprayed protesters, and i don't know if you saw that video, but i'm sure that you saw it plenty before, and you were in the group. and what were you doing at the time? >> i was part of the uc davis encampment. we had set up camp, and the day after we saw a bunch of riot cops that came in, and we sat down in peaceful protest, and they all pepper sprayed us much >> you all seem to be sitting at the time you were being sprayed. and how bad was it? >> it was very horrible. it felt like my face was on

fire, and my eyes were on fire, and i ended up at the uc davis medical center. and it hurt like hell >> in the aftermath of all of this, the officer was fired. and the investigators found that he was using a spray that wasn't approved by the uc davis police i guess, and he had no cause. what did you think would happen as a result of all of this? >> i'm glad that he was fired. and i think it was a good first step. reason we were protesting in the first place is because the university had posed a more than 0% tuition hike. and the militarization of campus police, we're woog forward to fighting for continuing education and making sure that it doesn't happen again >> so has all of this had an affect on you? >> a couple of months after the pepper spray incident i was having panic attacks that were pretty severe. but a long time has passed and

i'm glad that that part of my life is done. >> the officer said that he suffered anxiety and depression as well. and that's how he received this workers' comp pay out and what do you think of that? >> i can't speak for his experiences, but people, hurting and injury students is absolutely wrong >> i want to read a statement from your chancellor. like any other employer, uc davis is required to follow the workers' comp cases, and did the chancellor have any choice but to make sure that the payment was made in accordance with those laws? >> i would say that the state law and the chancellor in this case are just and wrong. i don't see that we can be awarding people like pike for injuring students for something that we can do. >> but it was just the law, and it's just following what the

educational system decided. >> you know, i think that it's wrong to be rewarding people like pike for hurting students. he's being paid more, for example, than the people that he hurt and that doesn't make sense to me. >> what is the message to the other students going forward? >> i think that the demilitarization of the campus police and the tuition are directly linked. it's because of the protesting that the tuition hike happened. and i think that community and students need to fight so that this never happens again >> but do you think that some students will be dewaded and won't want to come out? and say that's not a risk that i want to take? >> officer pike definitely silenced my freedom of speech

for months following the pepper spray incident. i was scared to go out and protest and be engaged in activism and i think it has had a chilling effect on the freedom of speech and expression at uc davis. >> uc davis student and activity, liam lee, and thank you for being with us. >> more fallout now over allegations that the listened in on cellphone calls of some of its closest allies. today, german chancellor, angela merkel spoke out about a conversation that she had with president obama. she made it clear to reports that she told the president, spying on your friends is not an option. that must be rebuilt. and now complaining about this, white house spokesman, jay carney, said that the president had assured merkel that the

united states is not monitoring her communications but he didn't specifically say that they had not in the past. and in dublin, the prime minister said that if the allegations are true, it would be appalling >> i happen to be in a small country, and i think it's an appalling situation if that happened to be true. and i operate on the basis that the [ inaudible ] >> aljazeera contributor, lindsay moran, a clandestine officer for the cia, blowing my cover as a spy, she's in the studio tonight. and are there other occasions where the united states might have cause to spy on its friends? >> well, absolutely. i mean, the nsa and the cia, their mandate is to collect information globally, and sometimes this includes collecting information on our allies, and everybody kind of

those that. s this in fallacy in the past decade that all that the nsa and the cia do are protect us from terrorist attacks, and in fact, there's a lot more they do. they're looking out for u.s. interests. and sometimes those include u.s. economic interests or political interests, so we do spy on our allies, and i don't think this is coming as a huge shock to european leaders >> so when they say this is a palling, they sort of know in the background. why on personal communications would the u.s. have any interest in spying on anyone like the german chancellor? >> well, we want to know what she's planning. though germany is an ally of ours, we want to know what their plans are, and anything that's not being conveyed through diplomatic channels, we want to find out. and that being said, i this i

that the nsa has crossed a line, and it's embarrassing to the european leaders and it's embarrassing to angela merkel that it's disclosed that we're collecting information from her cellphone. it's angering. nobody wants to be spied upon. but is it appalling? is it shocking? i don't think so, this has been going on for ages. >> i think that we need to reassess. the intelligence community needs to reassess. are we really getting valuable intelligence? and is it worse alienating people that we cooperate with on counter terrorism efforts? is it really worth ta? it's not a problem as long as nobody knows about it, and now they all know about it, and

should we allocate our resources differently so we don't damage these resources that we really do need in order to protect americans? >> but is there some value to understanding the personal life of a foreign leader, to know, maybe somebody is having an affair, and that might reduce the stability of the government. and that's not something that's going to be communicated through diplomatic channels but maybe there's value to looking into the lives of other leaders >> i think that it's hard to justify that, and hard to know that the value of that is worth the damage and the distrust that we're creating, of the but you -- but you know, nowadays when nobody has privacy, i'm reminded of a quote by obs car wild, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. what do we have to gain from

gathering information on the perm lives of leaders. i don't think there's enough there to gain to protect american interests, in terms of counter terrorism efforts, when we risk really pissing everybody off. >> what is the long-term impact? as you say, there's acknowledgment that you were doing something like that. what is the long-term impact on this? >> i think there's a lot of hoopla that's for show, for political show worl worldwide ai don't think this will do long-term damage to our relationships with our allies. and i don't think it will do any long-term damage between our relationships with our spy services. we cooperate very closely with the germans and the british. we have to, because we have common enemies and common interests.

so at the end of the day, all of this kind of public outrage, to me smacks a little bit of political showmanship. >> but when you look at europe, it's different than other governments, for example, brazil, very irritated by u.s. spying, so it's kind of a different deal. >> i think its damaging, and i think probably we have to apologize and say we'll never do it again, but who's to say we won't? again, the problem arises when people find out about it. but i think we're having a debate in this country, and now it's expanding globally about where we draw the line in terms of security and collecting information, and then civil liberties, so that affects us as americans, and now we're seeing that worldwide, america does not stand for civil liberties, they're spying on everyone. >> lindsay moran is the author

of blowing my cover, my life as a spy. in the studio tonight, and we appreciate you being with us here. coming up, trekking tb infections. millions of cases going unreported. the challenge that the world health organization has coming >> how old are you? >> nine. >> how old were you when you first started working out here? >> seven. >> fault lines how children are hired by us agriculture to help put food on america's tables. >> in any other industry kids need to be 16 years old to be able to work. you don't see any of that in agriculture. >> they don't ask, "is she 12?". they just want their job done. >> how many of you get up before 5 o'clock in the morning?

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fallen, still 3 million people have the tuberculosis and don't know it. in dallas this week, 80 people and staff were tested after a student came down with it, and as a result, at least one more case has been positively concerned. it doesn't mean that the person has the disease, but only that they have been exposed to tb at this point. john hopkins center, sanjay james joins us, and doctor, talk to us about tuberculosis, and we think about it from a long time ago, but how is it spread today and who is getting it in >> it's a global menace right now, and it's spread through the air, so people talk, sneeze or talk, and if they have active tb, they can spread it to somebody else. >> but 3 million people are out there with it, and how could they not know? >> there are a lot of people

with tb. every year, 8 to 9 million people have new cases of active tb. and active means that they have the diseaseful they have the couple of and they could spread it to other people, and what's even more staggering is, the who estimates that one-third of the population, one-third of the world's population has the infection. that's a huge burden. so tb essentially, north america and the parts of western europe are the pleases where the rates are low, but it's essentially affecting all parts of the world >> and in a fully developed country, the united states where we have concord so many other diseases could it be that there's tuberculosis around us and we're not aware of how common it is in >> that's a good question. tb is difficult to diagnose, and as it's less common in the united states, we as doctors

don't always think of that. >> so people present with causes, and you don't notice that it might be that? >> i think because we don't see it very often, we don't think of it. and if we don't think of it, we don't diagnose it. so i think that the u.s. has done a great job of controlling tb, but there are active cases of tb every year in the united states. >> should there been more action taken and more screening for tb? i understand that it's difficult to screen for tb >> yes, and the basic problem is actually a bunch of different things. so one is that tb is difficult to diagnose, and two is that we don't think about it. and three, which is the most interesting thing, we think we're conquering it, and we're not putting in enough resources. for example, the rates have come

down, and the funding for public health measures has come down because we think we're controlling it. so the point is well taken, we need to be vigilant and put resources into this, and look for it more active leaf >> where would you look? the children, the elderly, who is most likely? >> in the u.s., we have a very good health system. and the health departments do a great job. i think that in the united states specifically, there are high-risk populations. people whose immune systems aren't work, hiv, for example, and there are definitely populations, for example, immigrants, who have the highest -- most of the cases in the united states are immigrants, and the toplations, people wh toplation -- populations, people

who are incarcerated and drug users. one is screening for infection, and the other is to look for active tb. and those are two different things. we don't have the best tests to look for a lot of those. >> and certainly, other places in the world as well. >> absolutely. thank you very much for being with us. an infectious disease specialist at john hopkins. coming up here, a high price for fashion >> as long as brands and retailers insist on prices so low that the only way they can meet the prices is to ignore worker safety, we don't make progress.

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>> finally tonight, it could be a new season for the fashion industry.

they are working hard to improve safety starts for workers in bangladesh six months after a factory collapses there. but are the changes for real or just window dressing? from brooklyn, new york, the ethical fashion trend. >> reporter: in this trendy brooklyn boutique, where and how the clothes are made are just as important as how they fit. they produce ethic al designs. >> we try to hit all of these categories in some way. >> she launched the boutique a year ago. and designer, emily porter, is a student at fashion technology. >> i don't know if the store would have been able to survive even ten years ago or five years ago, but we have a lot of people who wanted to have conversations about what's happening in bangladesh.

and they are grateful that we provide a selection of goods that come with a lot of thinking and great philosophy of social responsibility. >> reporter: a series of fashion disasters in been la desh, including the collapse, have called attention to poor working conditions there. more than 1200 workers died. and it has also put the spotlight on american clothing companies, who purchase 25% of bangladeshi exports. they joined the bang are a desh safety workers with higher safety standards, and $110 million in loans for building improve the, but critics say that european efforts have gone much farther. the american initiative allows brands and retailers to retain control, and walk away from the

agreement with only minor penalties. >> unimportantly, the wal-mart gap initiative lacks in finding enforceable components. >> reporter: aljazeera reached out to all 23 retailers and the management of the alliance itself. not one would answer our questions on camera. but the alliance said in a statement, it's agreement was meant to ensure that the funds and the members are addressed efficiently to address the problems of bang are a derby work -- bangladeshi workers, and the government. >> if the bangladeshi factory workers cannot improve the situation for the retailers producing there, the western retailers are willing it support that process by paying moderately higher prices. as long as they can only pay so

low, we won't see demand. >> the low prices have driven out of new york's famous garment district. at its peak, 105,000 workers made clothes here, and now it's just over 7,000. but the tide may be turning due to efforts to promote locally made clothing and preserve the industry. this factory received an order recently from a company which overseas. >> we're seeing a change. the dynamics of our shipping. a lot more companies are interested in producing domestically a sustainable paragraph. because something happened really bad overseas, and they're trying to save face, and they want to say that they're also making it in the united states. >> but there are those like andrew, who have made a commitment to have their full line paid in new york.

they say it's better for the environment and better for the economy. these american garment workers make more in one day than what the bangladeshi workers make in one month. after since the united states suffered it's own factory disaster in 1911. a fair killed 146 workers. most of them young, immigrant women. public outrage led to improved safety standards, the groat of unions, and hefty fines for blocked fire escapes. in bangladesh, dozens have died in fires due to locked exists to prevent workers from stealing. and though the problems may be growing, they're not known to consumers >> do you ever think about where your clothes come are and how they're made? >> no, not really. >> i don't want them to come from china. >> what about from bangladesh?

a lot of their stuff comes from language la desh, and a lot of unsafe factories. >> that is more as well, but i know more about the issues in china. >> and low cost solutions are hard to come by. >> you buy clothes, and i think all fabrics are produced there. >> this is a brand that we're really happen to have. >> reporter: buki's owner says that that's not true, and the problems could be fixed if u.s. retailers were willing to cut into their profits. >> a lot of people say it's going to be passed onto the consumers, but the kind of improvements that have to take expensive. >> reporter: the more popular ethical fashion becomes, the more big retailers are likely to change to be fashionable. >> that's it for us here on

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