a doting aspect that i conveyed that stealing is just too new and it makes the network's gotta work on in each seat. tv will continue to share with your friends on facebook and twitter. the top story on the m a c networks. probably not the artsy and i've not seen us intel leaders are called before congress did he answer questions about nsa surveillance worldwide threats and reforming the fine support. we'll have all the details on that just had. my plane gets a green light the us state department says the pipeline would not have a significant effect on climate change for the environment but is that really the case will dig further into this tight battle. and cloaked in secrecy in san francisco group of mysterious barn still has people asking questions. while city

officials are pushing for its removal from the day more on that later shout. a fan. it's tuesday that the report by the washington scene during the bidding or watching rt america. we begin today with breaking news german media outlets are reporting that us intelligence began spying on german meters long before chancellor angela merkel took profits. the report says that the us began spying on chancellor merkel's predecessor gary hart schroeder in two thousand to you because of his opposition to the us led invasion of iraq. this comes of course this months after an essay the syndicated merkel's cell phone had been part of it paul spoke with obama by phone just last july about allegations that the us was conducting surveillance on its european allies and in that call she made it clear that if the information about

the us having monitored her phone were true it would be completely unacceptable. now in response to the revelation chancellor schroeder had this to say. well back then i would never have entertained the idea that the us secret services would be listening in on me but now this comes as no surprise. and now we turn to two different hearings that took place in congress this morning the house intelligence committee heard testimony from the director of national intelligence genes crapper on his annual worldwide threat report. this follows a senate hearing on the same topic that took place last week also won the the house judiciary committee examined recommendations to reform the foreign intelligence surveillance act. our jesus anzacs is on capitol hill and has more. the house intelligence committee said on the issue worldwide threats to u s national security. hearing today. and there was quite a long list of press covered the dl qaeda militants in syria. tehran's

nuclear capabilities and even threats of china. shooting down space satellites. but with the director of national intelligence james clap or augment testified he was the so called threat of edward's head in sadness the disclosures that stole the show. and let the sun here is the comments by members of congress. its chairman michael rogers has repeatedly made claims without evidence that snowden is secretly working with the russians. but at today's hearing the witnesses on and refused to confirm that accusation. do you believe that. hmm there's any indication that the nsa contractors was now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services. chairman i don't have any information to that effect. his name. later in the hearing congressman changing house to house for evidence of it snowed in or russia connection. she was told that that was best discussed in a class by period. also during the hearing chairman roger suggested that journalists

who work here when the snow to documents are breaking the law. though he was unable to get to record the fbi james comey to agree with that assertion. so fine that newspaper reporter for. fill in the blank. and i sell stolen material is that legal because i'm a newspaper reporter. your newspaper reporter in your rocking stolen jewelry it's still a crime. and if i'm hocking stuart classified material and not legally in possession of four of personal gain and profit is not a crime. i think that's a harder question because it involves the news gathering function could have first amend implications that something probably a better answer by the army justice the issue of targeted drone killings came up as well with representative battleship calling for an annual report detailing all drone strike deaths. director stage on brennan called it the worthwhile recommendation but back to the state's history comes a few weeks after pres obama laid out a series of nsa reforms including changing section two fifteen the patriot act

which underpins deanna says domestic phone spying program in nearby in the house judiciary committee. another hearing was underway that specifically honed in on these issues. this year that david medina of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board explained how this sort of surveillance for strips american civil liberties examine the privacy and civil liberties consequences of the program. i'm serious because the program contains highly sensitive information citizens art may be chilled in any effort their association rights in engaging with reporters or religious groups are also organizations. but knowing that the government wanting information about them and finally we also learned from that period that members of congress are having their own phone got swept up into the state's domestic phone spying program as well. but i can hardly as a surprise since we know that virtually all americans phone data is collected by the nsa according to city documents that's the latest coming

from capitol hill. and since ox cart it. and american tech firms have released their most detailed eighty yet another us government's information requests made under the foreign surveillance intelligence and as a controversial law that has governed the national security agency's most secret surveillance programs the tech companies that have released an information include google facebook yahoo microsoft and lead and take a look at this for the six month period between january and june of twenty thirteen moved on from facebook and microsoft all report they received between zero and nine hundred and ninety nine pfizer requests for content e mail message is photos address books and calendar entries rules says those requests and all between nine thousand in nearly ten thousand users or counts the number was actually much worse but three times more not to user accounts affected by the content requests impacted over five thousand

facebook user accounts and over fifteen thousand migrants. the government only allows the companies to disclose data in broad ranges of one thousand or as we did chose to do combine all of their national security requests and reports and ranges of two fifty the social networking company reports receiving between zero and two hundred and forty nine national security related requests affecting that's a number of user accounts he hated disclosures as a result of the legal battle for transparency between tech giants and the justice department and its own results of the revelations brought to light by former government contractor edwards snow then last summer sun and the documents of the past revealing the will of tech companies and secret u s surveillance programs. tech companies were specifically vulnerable and light it disclosures regarding a us intelligence system called chris on showing the government access to users e mails videos and

online chats. regardless of the deal reached with the justice department privacy advocates and civil liberties watchdog say it doesn't go far enough. all global and lead and are already calling for even more transparency. and in other news related to form a government contractor adverts town and we're just learning that sweden and iceland pirate party representatives have jointly nominated snowed in and chelsea manning for twenty fourteen nobel peace prize and a letter published by representatives of both countries it says. we are nominating manning and snowed and snowed in together because the correction manning inspired and snowed in and both of them have inspired thousands of people all over the world to speak truth to power and demand transparency and accountability in their own societies. chelsea many formerly known as bradley was sentenced to thirty five years in military prison last year after making hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistle blowing site within weeks and this state

of harmony has finished up the highly anticipated review of the controversial keystone xl pipeline. the five point four billion dollar oil pipeline has been the thorn and president obama side with supporters encouraging his approval for the sake of job creation and post saying it will produce more greenhouse gases. the report says the pipeline would not have a significant impacts on climate change. but as our team was wall finds out it's not exactly that can dry the us the day of the state department report that outlines the environmental impacts of the keystone xl pipeline is fuelling anger among active this report backs up the findings that this tea. this pipeline fails this time a task. you'll have a huge climate impact on some scientists refer to it is game over on climate change the pipeline would find oil over a thousand miles from canada's tar sands through

the american heartland to the gulf coast. this is the long awaited state department report that assesses how the pipeline which impacts the entire men it's a cold climate changes are in anticipated to occur regardless of any potentially facts from the proposed projects. it finds that the pipeline would not have a significant impact on greenhouse emissions. because the oil would be transported anyway by rail. according to their apartment and while my training is just as harmful to the entire match environmentalists are now questioning the motives of the study while we will get to report it would have to come look at it with this time i o neill has the lone this tree so well for once this report that be the conclusions of the recommendations of aaron's record. i don't really matter. environmental organizations like friends of the current believed the report isn't riddled with conflicts of interest. we get some freedom information act

request to the state department as walls did some checking on the internet and we found that in fact they actually have relationships with the least fi of organizations including the american petroleum institute for advocating for or the construction of the keystone xl pipeline the pipeline is a political conundrum for president obama who has pledged to make progress on climate change he said this about the keystone pipeline last summer our national interest will be served. only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. o'neill bun ministry should head down to climate change at the top of the agenda of protesters here say he can turn those words into action by blocking the keystone xl pipeline president obama has a decision to make. does he want to be a climate champion or what does he want to be remembered as the pipeline president we know what the implications of moving so much fossil fuel from one

part of that continent to another would honk for not only on global climate change and in and coming out that emissions are really for the future king of the planet but with energy independence high and the agenda and labor union saying there's johns on the line. their strong political pressure especially from republicans to get moving on the pipeline. it's unclear how much the state department report will sway the administration's decision in washington as wall art tea. and we are just three days away from the start of the twenty fourteen olympic games taking place in sochi russia. of course our team will have full coverage on this take a look. new news. i

checked. now for a closer look at russian president letting your poses and the preparations for the games here's our t's martin andrews. as an easy ride to the audience to a head of the olympics every bits of sausage on friday in the wonderful statement is complete minutes behind his back from our hostel is taking place at eleven but also those that didn't stop stop what he meant it the kids of the ic one hundred and fifty six the sets instead discuss the status of the national audit office that was it let's hope we all thought

it's because he let his eyes that the group agreed that a society's attitude to his computer and stuff but he went inside. i wanted the cake uses text of the cups. of course the wildlife is important about subjects for the presidency important to the people of songs he said instead that state's elected to become one of the muck stalls all of the winton and pics here. in the sulky regarding the actual delegates they had a great feast and bond with and peaceful. sabi its architectural buildings. they enjoyed live music from that receives additional musicians and also listened to some western music in the form we are the champions of course the famous hit by rain regarding the people who available to the six thousand athletes that making their way to silence the over the next week the rest of the mass appeal and didn't get its but the most about this but it's about security issues and help people in treating disease. i just feel about to speak in such a takeover. ladies attended many of the announcements have been saying that the colts they sold very negative media coverage of the social impact. some are even afraid to come here. one

day prior to the stock and bond read one told them that christ was involved actually did a very impressed by what's going on here. they say as much as household has come for us especially when it comes to security checks content in previous games. as i said that opens on friday it was still waitin for tickets and seventy. we thought that its devotees of dr he consulted the helicopters. iran is as we speak. princess and rides today but also posses but it's the greatest tennis star maria sharapova. but excitement about which takes twenty fourteen. his fitness and i'm very impressed by what i've seen here in sochi i haven't been here for a year and when i arrive yesterday i was amazed when i finally saw all the stadiums continues. i really hope that everyone will enjoy the olympic games here and said she had friends ask them of august. a law forcing us to see upper house of

repetition is the golden state on sunday could be some fireworks lights at eleven o'clock with this stadium that seats forty thousand people that will also be in full swing the hassles on friday the olympic ceremony is set to bring the great indian spectators from around the globe but the subject of many people's lives is not all gay rights and gone in the week i went to some tunes o' the day could lead to speak to the consumer the policy level is regarding how gay life really isn't much to add how the new anti gay bill read the facts that sentiment. thousands of athletes and visitors are expected to arrive this week three billion people rule sets to make it to watch the winter and takes this month. somehow whether the games onto gospel to relax. gay rights on the controversy surrounding last year's legislation that restricts children being given information about known traditional relationships the seminal to the uk section twenty eight thousand for two decades in the late eighties. we head to the city's elite beach front

gate the new mike white house in english. that's been in the city from over thirty years it seems so she was beaming subculture is far more liberal than people think. traditionally a little more color in russian cities will join the soviet era russian smaller the country holiday pm. matt and trey and his partner amanda did a couple five or thirty years to settle but they don't agree with them will remain mostly unaffected by it. well christmas has been described less response has been emptied. the reaction which were approaching full cup of corn. i think it's really bad it negatively affects gay russian people but because society blames them for spoiling me and thanks for the port opening day of the opinions are still divided on sexuality and russia. and this club does give something of an insight into the reality of daily life here. while i'm in the hall meeting people. like

any other day but that i've ever been to the young activists abroad has spoken loudly in great numbers but the reality is that the issue is more complicated. it seems that while some in the lgbt community's am a little more than i am not bringing any way i can linings. and then cold again. and even some water marks. well people to run the streets hand in hand and salty. behind closed doors that such clubs people can be open the affectionate one thing is to show what you have conservative or liberal views. this month is going to be a celebration of sports to remember. awesome entries of sea salt sea. and still ahead here on our team will look mysterious barnes is no longer welcome in san francisco officials want the barn to move from the bay area after complaints were made about its construction one after the break

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the pier at trial and in san francisco bay. the margin rose to fame last year as goebbels floating mystery. of course all this begs the question what is this mysterious structure and we are isn't going to discuss islam of the mark as read earlier by aunties were among the window and a first the sentence he came back to how this structure was discovered in the first place that decision was to start coming out back in oct of twenty thirteen but at that point this massive construction project at irving going on for more than a year now seen as cited in the platoon at lease agreements talking of people there on treasure island and eventually connected the dots linking the project a goofball but even when the report came out to pull stayed pretty quiet about what their intentions were and if no one ever and feel what they intended to use this structure for. well once this story started to take up a little bit more esteemed they were forced to say something and investigative reports there in the bay area

indicated that google intends to use this as a high and display for some of their new projects and an end products but to time. right now there hasn't been any constructions a lot since last summer so into goal remains of a big about what they intend to do with the owner saying that they hope that it becomes some sort of interactive technology center where people can learn about the technology they're working on. very peculiar thing is there any reason to be suspicious that google adsense secret intentions and we don't know about. well this is reportedly part of the dead who will dance which is this secretive research unit of the tech giant's so at the coast guard anne and the park service had boarded the bars but when asked about what's on there that there's think by saying that they can reveal what's on there so this isn't really meant to more mainstream or speculation. there is a bad about what's going on up

there some people. the reason people think that its data centers because google bought a pattern for that. a few years ago some people think that they might be a forty nine and that it was good to be using to avoid taxes or just to keep their servers away from the prying better man i so still lot of speculation and goofball that continues to get a lot of publicity because they have we kept it pretty mysterious and we also remember that they're building a similar barge on these goes overboard in maine in people do love speculating. it's fine i will never get to officially finish the project and now that's come to a halt because the sand francisco bay conservation and development commission has asked the company to know that i knew he had any idea where he could move to you. you know what what's the future of this that mysterious structure. well there i contacted the devil make a mission in cooler here today still waiting to get a response to that however yesterday's state regulators

did say that a contraction has to be stopped because that there are no proper permits to build there however they did indicate that if it did the project is moved to another part of sentences kobe that they may be able to continue the project did they get the proper permits. now the carrot leaves at the location they're out now runs two of the end of the summer but documents obtained by the centers will chronicle show that people had proposed this movie and bars that would be going all around san francisco bay and up and down the ohio west coast intended to get it going on in late twenty thirteen. obviously they pass that deadline so there goes my find out what this truly is might be later this year so tyler money. although apart from you from inside the mysterious structure when it does finally open artsy correspondent michael and i will be an eye on it. and it seems like a full size camera may be gaining some insight into your hole and bury say on the fringe egg

administration has just approved the use of the pill can call and for people who are not able to can complete a standard call a gnostic the hillsides camera which is about one point two five inches long and takes photos of the patients gi tract over the course of ten hours after the patients follows the tiny camera they put on a special device around her waist the device and helps transmit photos of the intestines to a computer where a position can then determine any abnormalities however there are some risks involved including the device getting stuck inside the body choking on a plane trying to ingest it. or possible skin irritation with colon cancer as a third leading cause of cancer related deaths in the us. this might be an easy pill to swallow. and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered the youtube dot com site rt america. check out our website. rti com sites usa follow me on twitter added here and even somebody. going

new wing will too little eye. what sadie with us on this edition of nice line it's a wednesday said the resets and half in comanche and tell camp eagle in china show that the austrian olympic committee at working with the russian authorities to keep a close eye on their athletes. someone has that threatened to kidnap members of the team raise even more concerns about security. days before the start of the winter games in such a name and is soon revealed that threat on tuesday. they say they reported to austria's ministry of internal