three. three. three. three. three blown video for your media drug screen real gun charge each time. there are no better preps. united states and australia and a friend in need is a friend indeed or so the saying goes it seems the us has intentions though other than friendship in mind with a proposed spy base near australia so who is the intended target some answers straight ahead. your walking down the street of the camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial hair is able to compare it to your driver's license for a little or so model for. who is watching your every move probably u.s. government of course so what does your digital footprint tell you about you and

does this mean privacy is dead will explore. and back at home barack obama has more than a republican rivals to worry about a group of authors journalists politicians and professors is suing the president's administration all other times to stop the new national defense authorization act in its tracks i'll show you what's at stake and how this lawsuit can affect you. good evening it is friday march thirtieth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm christine for you watching our team of course and it appears there are major plans for the united states to expand its military presence for the southern hemisphere and this includes a larger cousins in australia and also in the long run a new air base on the cocos and healing island is there at. territory of us troy

located in the indian ocean kind of halfway between australia and sri lanka there's talk of the islands would replace the u.s. as current indian ocean based on diego garcia which is currently leased to the u.s. by britain at least runs out in port years and while the subs specifics of the new base remain under wraps an in-depth report by the washington post found the location to be quote ideal for manned surveillance aircraft as well as unmanned drones also in an official review conducted inside australia there's been a whole a really big push to expand the naval base in perth these are just a few of the details coming after an agreement announced back in november by the president and the australian prime minister here's the president speaking during that visit there are no better friends there the united states and australia and some very darkest moments when our countries have been put where we needed a friend accountable we've always been there for each other was book about this

with ivan eland the senior fellow at the independent institute a little while ago and i asked him if this expansion is aimed at china here's his take. it's one more step in containing china. that's really why there's still probably why all these alliances are being expanded for bases more training etc and in that area there's been a lot of criticism from both sides and people in australia are not happy about this and people in the us as well and i want to put it on screen recently the former national security advisor zbigniew that for presidents he did an article interview with us late and i want to put up what he said first he said a little bit sarcastically he said i was not aware that australia was about to be invaded by papa new guinea or by indonesia and he went on to talk about china and saying to define our engagement in the east in terms of china is a mistake we have to focus on asia but not in

a manner that plays on everyone's exam anxieties becomes very easy to demonize china and they will then given eyes us in return is that what they want. i mean do you agree that this is something that perhaps should have been considered a little more. brzezinski was always a cold war during the during the soviet period and so i think he's not a friend of any sort of communist system so this is very smart advice i think he has realized that the cold war is now over and that we need to engage china and what's really interesting about u.s. policy in the far east is china is loaning us money so that we can help our allies there who are all rich countries defend themselves against who china interesting it is going to strain sister how those dots are connected you were talking about you know the cold war era certainly some of the major bases that were crucial back then military bases a large military presence in japan in south korea there's talk that that's going to

sort of be shuffled around a lot of the people the resources that were at those bases will be shuffled into australia we think the impact of that would be well i think it's you know it's clearly ended. china in the south china sea which is a major. shipping lane and also china has been acting more assertive in that area so i think you're still going to have cayman is just kind of shifting the balls in the air a little bit but you're still juggling the containment policy and when you still have those alliances with japan south korea there's also previously been some shuffling around in south korea but it really doesn't amount to a change in the policy it just if anything it's beefing up the presence there as president obama said that he's going to do in relation to china but the united states just can't afford this anymore and we can't afford a base in the cocoa islands and we need to we have you know a fifteen million or fifteen trillion dollar national debt and some of these overseas beijing should be contract and sort of expanding absolutely and that

meeting with president obama and prime minister julia gillard back in november. something or somewhat surprised by these announcements this announcement of a bigger military partnership there was also an interesting reaction by china they basically said that this is a bad decision on the part of the u.s. and that australia could actually be caught in the crossfire talking about what australia has to gain from sort of playing host to the u.s. well i think. the only populated country and it's very wealthy by world standards but it's. by china's potential power because china has a lot of people their economy is growing rapidly and that sort of thing and so i think australia is like south korea japan taiwan the philippines thailand even communist vietnam. they're all trying to get shelter under the u.s. wayne because they fear a rising china when actually i think the united states should be the only the

balancer of last resort and let these countries do more but of course they're not going to do more for their own defense of the united states keeps doing it for them so you know you don't pay your rent of somebody's paying for. you know that's where amounts to an hour according to the washington post report some of the things that would potentially be built and you know the u.s. government is trying to make it very clear that this is not something that's going to happen in the next few years even the next few decades. we don't know if that's true but what they're saying is that it's an ideal location for both manned surveillance plan planes and unmanned drones what do you foresee that this will look like if this is indeed the next sort of future garcia well i think it could be done in stages you don't use one of the runways for drones and that sort of thing you do for if you were to put people into heavy bombers like we have see or other bombers that we have there and so i think you know this could be ramped up over

time they. seem to think were so thoroughly discussed they were kind of caught unawares by this but certainly at the lower levels this is being discussed and it could be a plan for the future if any part of this simply the u.s. government or the pentagon trying to send a message or is this actually just the next tragedy in terms of knowledge military defense well i think they're trying to send a message to china and they may have been trying to send a message to the australians that we're ready to do this and we want to talk about it now all right it should be interesting to keep our eyes on a very interesting report i think cattle out of people by surprise all those details ivan eland thing a fellow at the end of two now we've been telling you a lot about the new digital data center being built in utah for the national security agency a whole lot of data is expected to be housed there including perhaps some information about you digital tracking of americans is expected to be connected to the center and in case you haven't noticed a lot of these new technologies to track people are already in place are to

correspondent marina gives us an up close and personal look. ten years ago biometrics robotic spies and state surveillance grew the makings of a sky high cliff starring tom cruise some from the room today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report arguably and they know it can we ality with life ominously imitating art you're walking down the street at the camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial mapping is able to compare it to your driver's license for no other photo. maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty. three o'clock last night in addition to facial recognition new york city's police department is just one of many law enforcement agencies that also require citizens

to undergo an iris scan before being released from police custody. in the past six months iris scans have been taken from hundreds of occupy wall street activists placed under arrest by christina gonzales they really don't so you i just say it's another form of identification and it's really creepy to have someone holding up a machine to your phrase that you have no idea not only the health of the fact that it but what there are clearly use it with their larger purposes you think it is or i risk and are like a high tech english friend but much faster officials can quickly identify anyone who is unique scanned is on the database the technology is becoming increasingly useful as a tracking tool in the u.s. in the virtual world of tweets. facebook posts and search engines every internet user is defined by a data footprint if you think anonymous comments and blogs are protected think

again through the use of what's called forensic linguistics you. u.s. investigators can now uncover. behind every single keystroke if i have gotten a large enough sample of your writing in your post that i can tell you and compare it i can input it into a database and the database. using that information finding every other post you ever did the digital data trail of every american will soon be connected to a massive building in utah a two billion dollar data center is reportedly being constructed for the us national security agency the complex will allegedly be able to collect analyze and store all forms of personal communication including online purchases cell calls google searches and yes private messages but they're actually looking at di encrypting all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g.-mail your

all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you this service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. is center is designed around building systems that will d. encrypt that data and remove any protection a chip can put onto it earlier this month cia director david petraeus painted a picture of america's dystopian freefall when describing the emergence of the internet of things the freezer for an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all home alectryon ics are wired to a network of u.s. intelligence officials estimate that by twenty twenty two one hundred billion ordinary devices such as refrigerators and dishwashers could be wired up to the internet just the way p.c.'s and cell phones are now that i don't list of data could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia

director says the very idea of secrecy will change forever. archie we are. all right so call it spying big brother or an extended reality so we're all part of these technologies are here to stay and they're only getting more intricate more developed so we want to talk about what this means on a broader scale and earlier i had charlie with the founder of light awake news dot com on the show i asked him how far reaching some of these technologies really are persons take. extreme we've been reaching i mean you know there are stories coming out all the time if we have the law enforcement is trying to use predator drones for surveillance i mean what we're doing is we're turning the nation into a battlefield we're taking a look acknowledge you bringing it here you know the minority reporters referred to in the in the warm up to this to this interview and that's exactly right the way they already reported eight hundred eighty four we're turning the guns in where

we've seen the security industrial complex blossom so it's now a little bit since the patriot act and now is starting to be turned inward to where everything you do will come under surveillance i mean you're right it's our welly and on one hand i know their hands it's hella surprising i mean i go to the gym i use my fingerprint to sign and whenever i post pictures on facebook facebook knows where their pictures are they say oh is this so insolent they're right almost all the time do you think we're already sort of too used to this to even notice what's going on here. well yeah we probably are too used to this to notice what's going on thankfully there's like r t and alternative media that is screaming from the rooftops when we see the government trying to encroach into our privacy you know that's why people were defeated because of public outrage you know you start to control the information of all the free change of information between people on the internet then you really start limiting the ability for people to get information other than propagate propaganda mainstream media or government information there

are a lot of people who kind of look at what's going on and let's look at it first from sort of a retail standpoint i know that if i log on and i'm interested maybe buying a new pair of shoes or a new outfit the next several days no matter what website i'm on somehow those shoes i will come up and i'll let you know for example if i go on sale so a lot of people say i have no it's a good thing i want to know when the shoes i want go on sale but what is the downside here. i don't say it is you you know you the idea that you have an expectation of privacy is out the window the downside is that we're turning from the united states of america once great republic into a star as the police state where you truly do not know when you are being surveilled and you know if we see some of this technology go through that will be absolutely anytime you walk out your door and in a lot of cases when you're sitting in your own hole leave your computer is surveilling you the notion that we're trying to make this collaboration between

corporations and the a this is terrifying i don't understand how the mainstream media isn't just you know screaming from the rooftops saying look we're we're not a battlefield in this country the people of the people the citizens of this nation are not the enemy why do we have to surveil every single person in this country why do we have to have this kind of technology and we should under the people of this country especially when we have to borrow forty cents of every dollar that the government spends and i think when you talk about it these kinds of technology i mean you call it a stasi police state but a lot of people say you know what you know they argue if you're not doing anything wrong you should not to worry that is you know of course the most common argument you hear and i guess that's what your case against that argument but ok that's simple you know if you're not doing anything wrong then you can have the government in your bank account in your bedroom in your home in your life every degree as long as you're not doing anything wrong you know when she when franklin told us if we are willing to give up liberty in order to have

a little bit of security we will get and deserve neither of those were the hundreds of years old but they're just as true today as we need it in their. you know and it's interesting there's a lot of different ways to look at what's going on here concerning these technologies certainly retailers are using them to their advantage either is that story a little while ago about target knowing based on what one of its customers was buying knowing that she was pregnant. so certainly you can understand sort of the business perspective what we're talking. the government what do you think is the reasoning behind a lot of this i mean a lot of people say you know the chinese have been doing this for years but there are less concerned for example with what lawmakers are talking about behind closed doors that they're more concerned about what's going on at all you know it's all business they want to know about the financial gain here what do you think the government has here. well you kind of look up there so i think i got a question you know big government is in bed with corporate special interests now

one good example of this is. the department of homeland security that he's representing companies like rabbits and he's had a lucrative second career in the private sector security industry now we have shown him really the top cyber car over at the f.b.i. . leaving after two decades of course before he leaves he comes out and talks about the grave threat in cyberspace and as he's jumping ship from the f.b.i. going to a private security firm launching his very lucrative career this collaboration between private and government eventually it always turns out to be put on the burden of the citizens of the nation and there is no good reason why we need to turn this nation into a police state when we're supposed to be spending all this money on depend so much security to fight enemies terrorist enemies of this country but we're turning inward i mean it seems to be it's just more corporate the collusion between washington and wall street more crony capitalism and legal based capitalism that ends up soaking the taxpayer of the country while enriching a very select few and all that all done on the back of fear and charlie i want to

point out a really interesting example of this of course think into the campaign season for the november election public i just came out with a really interesting article after an investigation they were looking into the database kept by the obama administration and there's a lot that you know we'll never know about it but they found that for example if you log onto barack obama dot com using facebook that automatically gives the campaign permission to access your name your pictures your gender networks your list of friends they are other information that you've made public the obama campaign at and you know they on one hand you can understand why they've hired a corporate data mining expert said to crunch the numbers to connect the dots on every single person in that database let me just read you a short part of the article they say the campaign has the right to gather far more information about how you. use the campaign web site such as what you click on and which pages you view now according to the privacy policy the campaign reserves the right to share the personal information it collects quote with candidates

organizations group or causes that we believe have similar political viewpoints principles and objectives so basically the campaign gets to decide who gets your information i mean is this a legal you know the legality of it is a good question i just don't know but you know it goes along with i was talking about a shopper who are going to target and then i understand if the person making the purchase is maybe pregnant or whatever special circumstance may be that it is certainly a case of you have to be where you know if you take responsibility for what you're signing up to on the internet you know if you're if you are going to school kevin you better make sure that they can grab hold your probation and then use it this summer maybe even against you but you know it's ours the legality of it goes i can it hard to say but it sure is going on telegraph founder of why do we. well a group of high profile journalists and activists made their first round of statements yesterday at a u.s. district court in new york city against the national defense authorization act also

known as an da to follow lawsuit against the obama administration determined to overturn n.d.a. or at least parts of it provisions in the bill give the united states military the power to legally detain suspects indefinitely and without charge or trial and that could include american citizens as long as are suspected in some way shape or form being associated with terrorists plaintiffs include pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg writer and linguist noam chomsky and journalist chris hedges the lawsuit is named hedges v obama now i spoke with chris hedges earlier this month about his lawsuit i thought it was important removes due process for anybody who is deemed not much use to terrorist but to have contact with these associated forces that's not a term that's to find it's nebulous it's quite a frightening piece of legislation a whole lot of stuff in that legislation but nothing in there they gives exceptions

to journalists and since chris hedges has done several interviews with groups it deems to be terrorists he thinks this could encourage him and others like him who simply are doing their drop their job trying to get a deeper understanding of people whose perspective well perhaps the u.s. government doesn't want out there raw of all is an attorney with a law and security program and human rights first and he stopped by our studios earlier today to talk about some of the legal implications of the bill and the lawsuit against it here's his take. well i think your introduction to this segment really kind of got at the core issues in this case basically what the law says is that if you are determined to be a member or a substantial supporter of the taliban or a quote unquote associated force the military can hold you indefinitely without charge of trial with this lawsuit is seeking to challenge is the notion that individuals who may just have a very tenuous connection to terrorist organizations journalists in this case are

activists. seeking to challenge the law to ensure that it cannot be applied in an overbroad way certainly part of the before of these people have is the language i've read through this action action ten twenty one in ten minutes here and you know there's words and phrases like associated forces well you know i could be associated with anyone and not even know about it or do it but not for the same purpose as. you know how do you get around this or why was this language do you think included in the first part well i think there's a sense that you know something needs to be done about terrorism ten years after nine eleven and so congress came through and passed what i certainly think is an overbroad bill it's unfortunate that the president signed it into law and into law by the way on new year's eve december thirty first of twenty eleven so i think a lot of people weren't really aware that it was even going on certainly weren't aware when he actually signed a bill and made it into law that's right and so you know we're faced now with these

defined terms that are but there are very broad the government says that these are only individuals who are fighting alongside al qaeda well it's unclear quite frankly how broad or how narrow this this bill is i think you know the responsible thing for congress to do would have been to to not of the business of indefinite detention when we have a court system that works very well at separating you know those who've actually committed crimes from those who were innocent. so yes it's troubling and i think that's why you're seeing all this. you know post a activity out there trying to really challenge these overbroad claims and it's one of the. in this last obama how does the obama. how does it work i mean they issue their statement that the court yesterday was going to take to actually get sort of a full fledged trial here well it's going to be an uphill battle for this case one of the problems is that none of these individuals have actually been detained by

the military so there's what's called a standing issue where these plaintiffs are going to have to show that there is some kind of concrete risk that the government is actually going to come forward and and detain them so that is going to be i think the hardest. hurdle that these paper plaintiffs are going to have to overcome in showing that this law is in fact overbroad but i think that that process is ongoing we're going to see you know additional legal filings where the government and the plaintiffs will basically spar over what this what this law means and we'll have to go from there and it's really interesting because we're starting to hear even though a lot of people voted for this that we are starting to hear just in the last few days last week even a lot of republicans on capitol hill are held here in washington are starting this they hey you know maybe we should look at some of these provisions. what's going on in congress i mean how is this happening after the bill was already signed well i think we saw some of that during the debate over the bill i agree it's

a growing opposition and i think part of it is that folks are actually sitting down and thinking about this issue and the real threats to individual liberty that this bill could could pose and you're right there are the republicans on the hill there are democrats on the hill that are proposing legislation right now and we didn't see before and i should mention before the bill why it was i'm marking it all came forward with proposed legislation to sort of rework and it was called the you doll and that meant. to try to take some of the more controversial things out that's correct and you don't have republican co-sponsors on his bill in the house you're seeing and i for ranking member smith who who is the democrat on the house armed services committee who's trying to roll back some of these provisions you know has a companion bill in the senate so i do think we're going to see some challenges legislative challenges to these provisions as we move forward and just real quick i yesterday after the the court period at the court hearing there was a press conference outside a lot of people talking about the severity of m.t.a.

i want to play something really quick that jennifer bowen said she's one of the plaintiffs and executive director of revolution truth. or so we. actually feel we are in. so if you think that's going to be difficult to prove that they are in fact in danger it's unclear like i had said before it's an uphill battle certainly the more that the plaintiffs can show that the military doesn't tend to detain them in some way shape or form the better their odds of success in this lawsuit but i think that you know this lawsuit aside there are broader legislative proposals out there to really kind of challenge the n.b.a. and its detention provisions and we should watch those as well certainly good to know at least that more people are talking about this both in the general public's here and now even those lawmakers haven't forgotten about it. because the council for human rights first thank you. and on this friday evening that's going to do it

for the news but be sure to tune in next week r t we've got a whole new lineup in store for you we've watched as republican presidential candidates have moved from state to state trying to scoop up enough delegates to win the party nomination and the chance to take on president obama well our battle is coming here to washington d.c. and maryland next week and our two you will be following the developments over mitt romney sweep the polls or can one of the other candidates make a big enough comeback to take it all lots at stake and we'll be following it all plus there's been a lot of coverage over the past couple of weeks about the trayvon martin case he is the seventeen year old african-american that was gunned down by a community watch member in sanford florida the shooter walks free with his gun under the stand your ground law a piece of legislation that permits civilians to use deadly force in what they perceive to be life threatening situations no matter if you're at home or out on the streets twenty one states have this law does this give americans the protection

they need or is it a license to kill well explore and finally it's no secret that the prison industry in the us is a thriving industry in fact the u.s. locks up seven times more prisoners each year than our international counterparts and some of our prisoners are children kids under the age of eighteen these kids they can drink drive or vote caught in the u.s. justice system they're tried and convicted though as adults so why is this american courts are so willing to lock up children and in many cases throw away the key instead of trying to help them become productive productive members of society we hear will question more. these are just of the few of the stories that we have on tap for you along with much more news and in-depth interviews so you should keep it tuned right here to r.t. now if you missed anything tonight or any.