artsy all morning about some graphic photos released today by the website tmz. they show what looks like u s marines and burning of bonnie's of iraqi insurgents. more on this just ahead. and although many west virginians residents have been given permission to drink the water some are silly ari eighteen law says that surfacing and the company responsible for the week. more on that later in the south. i am. yet when

zane january fifteen find him in washington d c i'm the president your watching rt america. only be in this afternoon with shocking if i don't really site tmz which allegedly showed u s marines from reading the bodies of dead iraqi insurgents. back in falluja in two thousand for tmz reports obtained forty one pictures but it did not name the source of those photos. also the magazine said it will not release all the photos because some of them are just too close up we are going to put up a couple of those pictures so please be warned these pictures are extremely graphic and upsetting. we shared our team believe they are unimportant representation of the true ugliness of war. two of the photos appear to show a marine pouring gas on what seems to be two iraqis insurgents. two other pictures they showed the bodies on fire. another shows the marines closing with a dead body is. others

show the body is covered in lines and bean in docs. tmz reports that its current pictures over to the pentagon last week. rt reach down to the pentagon for comment today. here's part of the statements they send back the actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect our service members nor do they represent the honorable and professional service of the more than two point five million americans when served in iraq and afghanistan the marine corps is currently investigating the veracity of these photos circumstances involved and if possible. the identities of the service members involved again these pictures have not yet been confirmed for accuracy. however if they are this could be yet another explosive revelation of bounce house on troops conducting themselves oversee its another discovery in january two thousand files showed us alters the infuriating on the bodies of dead insurgents. since this is horrifying images i spoke with jake deal of

airtel is a political researcher at the university of birmingham. he first asked him what his initial impressions are. initially what a way that in the pros i began making some phone calls investigating a little bit more on my personal view was i thought obviously a good day. they work they were gross. they are. they also demonstrate the need for the final of the brutality of accomplishment i didn't find it here is a forgotten about it but i think as i investigated the more i think what became clear to me always to do things is that one. after all. in the past there has been as tuition were soldiers. in order for other humanitarian purposes due to burn the bodies for your cleanliness is the best not to cut its jewish and that you can see all the photos like this is the clear demonstrations me

up on the various actions cover up or scandal to some degree and the pentagon statement is odd is that it needed the pentagon knew that so we're doing this because of some sort but as they were right way to work for you why sector but that didn't come up so we don't they know that there is a hater. there's some sort of criminality are gone for a body of the reason for shoveling and i think that it did photos are very telling of the palms for all the fatality. i don't think that people's mental state of being and also thanks to wrap the gentleman of any iraqi who sees the alps. former soldier yourself or was this aggression this type of anger against iraqi insurgents or other insurgents part of the clothes are. to me abt it and when you are out of revenge actions and you have any particular going on when viewed against it. this is kind of thinking about the sauna in the state's

years ago with the soldiers being on the front of you are the taliban and also to the situation will bring some isolated not normal but this is a problem that occurs in common to see all your seat is the street so you know washington dc where you're obviously. so aren't they. it is probable war. it's not a problem that always happen to us and i think that is. it should make everyone saw the girl and she made this on the ward. to tell their staff are murmuring that is now at the same time u s troops for the next banking pollution in two thousand or so is this just the true cost of war the true face of war that people are finally starting to see here well you know for sure the longer we're all who were separated from the conflict were able to see more more on that. i think that this particular highlights that particular to the four years of under bush

in two thousand forty member on the door. i see things the whole back into their faces they were kind of i didn't have any real strategy real political vision businesses largely because of rumsfeld was trying to get us out of iraq as soon as possible and so on without a clear vision without a clear issue. however sometimes soldiers and marines to the left events that led to their own demise which i think is the situation. they have a mission to work with iraqis to rebuild it. you do to you when cds tapes and also. if you're wanting somebody you don't go far but after what is clearly a sign up on lack of discipline in all black commissioner had our fall redemption and and a shorter brutality that comes out of you that kind of burns it's no good. jane sorry to interrupt you there but meanwhile while all this is

going on and there has been misused ups for violence within iraq with youthful lucia and is that these photos coincidently effort from felicia sixty two were left dead in just today as a result of some of these attacks. so it adds a former marine yourself. i know what they feel about knowing that this kind of violence in spring up again. do you feel like your mission was a failure. i've said over and over again. is it the rest of my life that the decision made by the bush administration to invade iraq was an unbelievable mistake cost americans thousands of lives cost trillions of dollars that it certainly caught on iraq is a whole lot more of these. now it's going to order and you know what's what they would clap when we had it before well not much though. it was in the wizard was armed with our vision of

billion. i think we strategically absolute. thank you so much for sharing ej tells her to clinical research at the university of birmingham. well another day another leak about the national security agency and its broader global reach to the headline that read in new york times readers this weekend. it turns out the nsa has implanted software and nearly one hundred thousand computers around the world that allows the agency to spying and also to create a digital highway to launch cyber attacks. this comes in the wake of the recent revelation about the agency building a quantum computer and another revelation that the nsa could we not nailed to the office is so they can't use of malware is a computer components and forward those parts to their own recently intended destinations. this is known as digital dj. while this complicated nsa spying twenty some rattling the congress is working on ways to rein in the agency's broad powers congressman rush holt of new jersey. even if one of its platforms. rush. as a teacher

and we students would stop checking your e mail last leisure center on the piano is a stock checking your e mails behind your back legs and warrantless wiretapping we can do that. several months ago congressman paul announced a bill called the surveillance tape repeal act which offers a massive relief for us. congressman paul joins me now to top all things an essay entitled why he's also a rocket scientist so hopefully he can help us understand these more complex revelations like quantum computing for instance causes the thank you so much for joining me now that you do if you do as a journalist and feel like we are reporting on a new nsa leak each day. what are you what your thoughts on these recent revelations that many of them surprise you well another day another revelation. first of all i should say unless you're the viewer's be confused. i am no longer a candidate for the senate. but you're right i need it make to stopping

this warrantless spying on americans they have a platform of my campaign i do think that this is a real transgression in these recent revelations that you talk about. he listed several of them. um really do go to show how capable the nsa it's a four are many people it's scary how capable they are and oh what the what they can listen in on what they can manipulate. so all the more reason that we have to make sure that they operate within bounds that they operate with a good firm oversight and that they engender the trust of the american people. um and to some extent people around the world. i mean i'm sure the nsa will say look we don't. we we don't. older the better you know we are no protection of civil liberties to other people around the world. although i would

hope that the united states sets a good example everywhere around the world and that day a week in the united states. all actions of all government agencies are bound by our constitution. i spoke to you a few months ago about the nsa and more specifically about the bill that you had introduced any updates on that hill. well a few more co sponsors. i wouldn't say it's close to becoming law. i wish it would be. it does several things. it grants whistleblower protection to members the intelligence community as things currently stand of most federal employees have protection against retribution if they expose waste fraud abuse of power of the not so with members of the intelligence community. my legislation would fix that. it would prevent the nsa or any similar agency from installing back doors and hardware or software in other

words to um to prevent them from undermining the encryption of that banks and ordinary e mail services and others use it you would prevent the nsa from undermining those that encryption in ways that they know about but other people might not know about tom. it turns out that people do know about him and so an essay has to. really heard a number of us companies. the iaea of undermining that they really the quality of their products of the deal was off. repeal the if i say a man attacked and looted. remove the justification that the nsa has invoked for seizing the mega data of of virtually everyone is saying that well will treat it with care and we wanted to use

people's civil liberties unless we suspect that. well that's a kind of a backward way of of of it. enforcing the law or detecting of the evildoers. i am in fact the last time we spoke you said that you believe that us citizens are now being treated as suspects first hand its citizens the seconds until i understand that right you believe the white house's panel recommendations on an essay form as well and felt that competes with yours that's known as usa freedom acts don't go far enough in reining in the nsa. first the focus on the downfalls that you believe come when the usa freedom. if you can walk us are a couple times will there be the legislation. that is the meeting legislation in congress but it may not actually go anywhere. um is known as the leahy sensenbrenner conyers bill of and it would modify

the patriot act and the fire center of the foreign intelligence surveillance court. legislation. so that of ollie way down. we'll provide some improvements but a whimper by whistleblower protection or would really stop this. a back door either the backdoor compromising the nsa has undertaken. it would not. i think of. if you really stop the this massive collection of of the mega data. the two from the information who sent what to do and plan of. in short it does not. of you does not invoke the probable cause standard in all our fourth amendment to the constitution says there shall be no search and seizure of person old

property or information without the enforcement or surveillance agency going before an independent judge proving that they know what they're doing. proving that they're not on a wild goose chase for operating on an empty hunch. i ended up with very specific accounting of who they are looking for and what they are looking for now meanwhile we also have this white house appointed can all make the audi long list of forty six recommendations designed to increase transparency that very day that that when he was wrongly science and town of one of its authors cast the sun seemed to be claims that he had complete access to conduct the report and i asked if he found anything surprising during his investigation. i wanna take a look at his response and i will get yours now be interested. we didn't discover any shocking practice so. our goal is to think about principles that are going to be helpful for the future and one thing we do is honor and respect

the hard work of the intelligence community which is helping to keep our nation safe and helping helping to keep our allies say and support to keep in mind that some of the work is helping to prevent human rights abuses and atrocities pronto. we want to create sturdy foundations that are respectful of privacy and liberty and not accuse anybody of anything. so i was surprised. one evening about that. i'm surprised he didn't find anything surprising. um i i do believe that the committee had a very good access. in some cases they went back to basics. they approach this stuff more or less like the law professors that they are. um and in life i think all of this in approaching these things again going back to basics have to remember that there there are bad actors there are terrorists there are people who would do harm to

americans and the government and the intelligence agencies have a responsibility to detect and deter. as such and such people so that's the starting point but it's not a trade off. i don't believe between safety and civil liberties. in fact if you adopt a probable cause standard so that the those who are survey all foreign forces have to prove to a court that they know what they're doing. you will get better surveillance of fewer wild goose chases or or or or people operating on their hunches or you'll have fewer in cases where a bureaucrat the fairway gs thirteen in the government will decide who the bad guys are. we don't want those who are doing a surveillance to be the very same ones who decide who the bad guys are that's

the that's that's a prescription for. abuse and a real violation of human rights. congressman rush holt from new jersey. well our conference and the nsa try to figure out what to do to address the concerns other constituents when it comes to spelling. yes the man behind the leak seven snowden is growing in popularity among average americans take a look at this poll from quinnipiac university. fifty seven percent of those polled think edward snowden is a whistleblower while thirty four percent see him as a prayer. he has gained international notoriety as a result of his weeks. turns out the more information that comes out about the nsa the more popular and worsening bekah it's all throughout this week the freedom of the press foundation announced that mr snowden will be joining their board of their non profit organization. the group that was started by the man who leaked the pentagon papers

daniel tells bart. i spoke with just one race at the national security and human rights director of the government accountability project thus the start time ago. he first asked her what's known and will be doing for the freedom of the price foundation. well i tink it that day you'll be waiting and oppressive i like to hear each time a hitch as a symbolic moment that he is anticipating and subject to finally be in the united states despite the fact that the us has tried so hard to sideline him and freedom and a price foundation is an amazing organization because they are trying to foster heat and free journalism that protects both journalists and sources so i'm sure he had a lot to add to that discussion so does this mean that you will be remaining in balls and participating in future a whistle blowing at accounts and weeks. i mean in terms of future weeks. no wonder possesses any of

the information all the information he had was given to journalists and it is really up to them to decide what would be newsworthy and in the interest to put out on. but it's certainly working with freedom of the crash you just really be hoping to get a more secure in dire need here in the us for both journalists and solutions. do you think that it's not his involvement with this organization this foundation what hurt his chances of a green clemency in the us in the future. don't think it'll have in fact one way or the other ensure that the detractors will try to find some reason to fault him for being on the board at this fine organization that i don't really know what to get lonely or the other. thus as the weeks continue to come out. americans are growing increasingly supportive of our first snow day. what you think that hands. i think it's a number of factors

we've had an avalanche of wonderful supportive news including as you know an opinion by a federal judge had found the main program likely unconstitutional including tech giants casting doubt on the white house and fittingly he should be pardoned including the editorial boards of the new york times and guardian saying that he should receive a and b at nst or parted and i think i love that guy in shape opinion in each kind of way and all along this case has been about one percent. we go and ninety nine percent political town and unfortunately the government has been and the phone and mr students can this not the new america foundation and just watched another study as well is simple to use i get on that shows again that the information revealed really did during the thinking toward a plot and its likely illegal the sun as you say it is

the congress members and politicians that have megaphone. however with polls like this with endorsements like in york times. do you think that it makes the idea of clemency to a more realistic option in the future. well i think it dies and they certainly opinion. influence is the one person you can grant an amnesty or pardoned time which would be the president in terms of amnesty justice department grant a pardon i'm thinking it will influence congress people who are beholden to constituencies that are getting increasingly suspect of what you're learning about the nsa in congress is more likely to enact reforms that would bolster on their displeasure semester student made and that would be seen where politically by your constituents. as someone deserving of the clemency of some sort. now in art the man against man in being able to be interred the us as a free

man is that it doesn't offer enough deterrence and it will lead to more weeks when we make of that argument. well that's the beauty of the amnesty. it neither forgiveness nor condones any of the conduct at issue. it simply overlook santana friday amnesty would be particularly appropriate in this kind of in this kind of case and moreover i don't think most people are willing to give up their entire lake and there is a plan to do what mr sneddon good he has been . i'm punished quite visibly by publicly on more than enough and that it added that if he did what he did come from somewhere else is because bradley manning and tom bake until danny were already a deterrent enough that he cannot go into the channel. slowly just under an acting is so much for coming in and lang and on every sentence that growing popularity here in the landscaping cute. the u s senate committee on commerce science and transportation

held a hearing today isn't that the use of domestic unmanned aerial vehicles under the microscope the committee debated potential economic benefits of the ladies as well as ways to update the federal aviation administration's regulations to accommodate these vehicles. we must be on the news and analysis or make crops at the hearing sen feinstein said she was concerned about surveillance issues and particularly safety. really we should not allow armed drones in the united states period. it should be a crime for a private individual in the united states to arm the drum. the faa should use its certification and licensing authorities to prohibit armed drones and no government state or federal she used an armed drone on american soil. i recently flying around american airspace. in fact federal and

local law enforcement agencies are borrowing border patrol grounds more frequently to use during their domestic surveillance operations the customs and border protection agency has the largest roman fleet outside of the deal would see and don't know it flew nearly seven hundred surveillance missions on behalf of other agencies between two thousand and ten two thousand. well according to documents released by the freedom of information lawsuit filed by the electronic frontier foundation. and it was two years border patrol drones were also increasingly supporting undisclosed local and state law enforcement operations as well. but if not this night you should keep your eye is on the spot one of these unmanned vehicles that is. the us navy just announced a contract worth nearly two hundred four million dollars for the tech company at twenty nine and then post about an underwater drone that uses the energy from under the ocean in our home right now the hope is

that this thing will be able to control american coasts for five years as high. a lot of that will be doing research and observation that is just another told the navy will have an extensive stockpile of technology. well it's been nearly a week since a little known chemical company called freedom industries accidently spilled seventy five hundred gallons of the chemical used in coal production into the elk river poisoning the water supply of three hundred thousand residents the latter band has been lifted on a few more neighborhoods in charleston west virginia today. places and blue ish own water is flowing again the area in red is where the band is still in effect. authorities say that the water will still sell like licorice for few days what it is safe to drink converts to the minute that we really don't know all that much about this chemical and its long term effects. now the situation is starting to calm down a number of investigations are on top that opens it was happening

the first place. u s chemical safety board to play the team to investigate and two other probes are also half the day in a state environmental protection officials report that inspectors had already found it funny but my relations at a second freedom industry sites the company moved its coal cleaning chemicals to that site. after thursday's spill but investigators found that the new site also lacked appropriate secondary containment. but what virginia him and the only state dealing with water problems are to correspondent kerri and boring investigates in the pipeline being built right next to the only water source for hundreds of thousands of americans. all over the country different municipalities and states are fighting over drinking water sometimes against one another and sometimes against the company is immobile alabama the city's water supply company as battling asset prime contractor over the low key center of an oil pipeline that is ari in construction. immobile area water and sewer system our

minds is concern that it will come too close to the community's water supply the contract to replace our path has been hired by step trying to build a forty one mile pipeline that will carry crude oil from ten mile terminal and the feel of a dam up to the chevron refinery and to lead mississippi. the construction process projects has an estimated cost of forty five million dollars. and once completed the pipeline will be capable of carrying a hundred fifty thousand barrels of oil per day the concern is that the proposed route runs through four miles of water sad. at its closest point as less than one mile from big creek lake which is the only source of drinking water for the two hundred fifty thousand people that live in the area. according to a month. testimony at the league were to occur in this kind. the consequences would be catastrophic if there's no backup water supply hospitals and fire departments businesses would all be without water and thousands of people would have to add that he waits

additionally the cleanup process could take months or even near its namesake of oil pipelines events eventually rapture of the risk is too great and this is a closer view of big creek lake powell lane about four miles of water sad that the pipeline will have to travel through you can also see the pipeline will go to about two miles of property that's owned by wives which has been buying up the surrounding land of the reservoir in order to preserve and protect dates to make the project even more controversial. a circuit judge ruled that trains south cap have legal authority to build on the month only and together with many utilize the project is in the interest. cleans out cap has also successfully acquired land from other private owner is via eminent domain. once an authority only given to the government's imminent domain idea building to take the wailing and in the interest has been granted to corporations in different states and face a backlash in the court systems. mas is appealing the case and was

the pipeline to be located is expected to go all the way to alabama supreme court washington carrion boring for tea. that does it for now my mega mile pads. old and welcome to be a sign that sensei generate sixteen i'm casting comanche and telltale syrians have spent years looking around corners running through the streets of fearing for their lives donors from around the world are trying to help a place dumbest two and a half billion dollars to ease the suffering in this struggling through the civil war. that is and isn't that a sixty countries gathered for a fundraising conference in kuwait