headlines. reports. in europe or released this week says china is to blame for numerous cyber attacks but as washington places the blame on beijing we ask should it really come as a shock we also dive into u.s. dependence on chinese producers and manpower. and he's nominated for an oscar this weekend for his documentary of five broken cameras but a palestinian filmmaker runs into trouble when he lands at los angeles international airport we'll speak with him on for not about his ordeal with immigration officials. and they are the people who are supposed to keep us safe when we fly but the t.s.a. faces a backlash for their overreaching pat downs and intrusive body scanners now lawmakers in one state are pushing back we'll tell you what they're planning.

it's thursday february twenty first eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our two. well began with the much hyped cyber threat from china the story exploded after u.s. security firm mandiant released a report that traced a series of cyber attacks against the united states to a chinese military unit and china's defense minister has since said that there is no proof that china is responsible for the attacks but the white house has taken action unveiled a new policy that put sanctions on foreign countries that engage in online spying and the whole ordeal has raised fear over the u.s. as a vulnerability to attacks from china but beyond the cyber world are we directing our attention to the right place well if you look at u.s. imports from china in two thousand and eleven we're talking ninety eight point seven billion dollars in electrical machinery and equipment that's almost in one

percent increase from the year before and we're also talking ninety four point nine billion dollars in power generation and put men and that is up by fourteen point seven per cent so just how technologically dependent is the u.s. on china to discuss i was joined earlier by brian doogan from the new american foundation and i began by asking him how concerned we should be about all the made in china gadgets that we use in the u.s. and what are the chances that they could be bugged. all these devices that we use every single day. any of them could be bugged and you know but that isn't just a fact that is true about devices that comes from that come from china that's true about devices that are manufactured anywhere anywhere in the world and in fact we've had to deal with that in the u.s. in the past with that with our own carriers but the the the thing that allows the characteristics of these devices that allow that type of surveillance and monitoring is there a closed nature is the fact that no one can see into them no one can understand how

they actually work inside their actually black boxes and so that is true of almost every single cell phone that we use no matter where it's manufactured so that is the capability. that any manufacturer has over any device that we use and the reason that we're talking about this today is because politically at this point we're scared of what china could could do with its power over its manufacturing but the thing about these devices in order for them to even if they contain what we call a back door even if they contain a vulnerability or they're full of malware or bugs. they still have to operate on a standardized networks they still have to get on the internet they still have to be able to make cell phone calls and these are known these communication methods are known so the risk is how soon for any given device will a security researcher explore what that device is doing or dig into it

a little bit or how soon will someone try to use it on a corporate network so well yeah and. we have these new fears and let's say this sounds scary to an american it. americans want to stop using chinese product that's easier said than done right it seems like everything is made in china these days how technologically dependent is in the u.s. on china. it's as dependent as. long as you know the devices are manufactured in china and they're cheap enough for us to buy so you threw out some statistics earlier and that indicate that china and the u.s. is very dependent but. keep in mind that these devices still have to obey rules to enter operate and beyond networks and it would be you know it would be extraordinary for. back doors to be or malware to ship and for no one to notice because of the number of eyes that are looking on on any given device. the want to

talk about you know china is a is under the microscope right now are possibly being a cyber threat but they're not the only one involved in online spying are they say no so in order for the for any for any malware or spying to work on any of these on any of these devices right now let's say it came from china and there was a threat on it it would have to contact machines or or people some somewhere else in the somewhere else in the world that would be very you know very very quickly discovered the way that you hide that is by making it official and that's what china attempted to do so in two thousand and six by defining its own life i encryption standard that was not adopted by the rest of the world so the question we have to ask ourselves is you know if if spying is going to feel like trying to serve a lens is going to be par for the course for any state for any corporation what are

the rules that allow that to happen right now china has been able to get any rules on the on the global level in order to enable its spying but there are other stays that certainly have you know so the united states for example we not only have laws and rules that allow us to. to inspect and gain access to citizens' data but since those corporations that control data are based in the united states and many many people throughout the world including chinese use american corporations power over data the united states has through a combination of our surveillance laws has claimed the right not only just to inspect americans data but also data stored by foreign citizens and american on american data if i were a very complicated issue very interesting discussion there appreciate you talking

coming in and talking about it i was brian do in a technologist at new america foundation. there are parts of the chinese military hacking u.s. trade secrets have been covered extensively by the mainstream media take a listen china is officially out of control because don't look now but prove today our sugar daddy is a thief for tonight lifts the veil on a kind of invisible war china unleashing its full spy power let's return to the alleged link between china's military and a prolific hacking group most cyber attacks are being carried out by teams inside the chinese military but there's more to the technological relationship between the united states and china than hacking congressman dana rohrabacher a republican from california explained at r.t. we have built china into a major economic power without demanding any type of political reforms we've

given the most favored nation status one more free trade we permitted them to steal our technology they get away with murder. a later show of china's economic power purchasing bankrupt u.s. business a one two three it's not your car battery maker and you may have heard of the business before when it received a two hundred forty nine million dollar from the stimulus bill to refer this to factories in michigan despite the help from the government the company is ultimately going bankrupt now the taxpayer funded technology company has a new owner china that's right that china based company won the young rup purchased a one two three and the factories will remain in michigan saving around a thousand jobs but the technology pioneered at mit will now belong to the chinese so while the mainstream media may cover china stealing u.s. corporate secrets their mom on the times when china simply buys them well he may

have been nominated for an academy award but he certainly wasn't treated like a star when he arrived on u.s. soil in modern not as a palestinian filmmaker and he was nominated for his documentary five broken cameras here arrived in l.a. on tuesday to attend the academy awards but didn't get very far upon arriving at the los angeles international airport he was held by immigration officials for about ninety minutes filmmaker michael moore tweeted about the ordeal he said he maad his wife and eight year old son were placed in a holding area and told they didn't have the proper invitation on them to attend the oscars and another tweet there apparently the immigration and customs officers couldn't understand how a palestinian could be an oscar nominee texted me for help well filmmaker he madhu much joins us now from los angeles to tell his story great to have you here model so first off what happens. what's happened says what went on when we got here in

the airport in the los angeles you know this isn't my sixth time that i come to united states and the it's was a strange it treatment i was with my family my son jabril and my wife and we just got to arrive after a very long trip we were very the immigration started questions me started on the you know want me to give them more of a groove on the invitations and the why of why i came to united states i told them that i'm on all scott nominees so for them to understand that the palestinian and also our nominees is very was very difficult i gave them the i had a visa and i had the they thought there was a vision of light and i i was trying to show them the e-mails from the academia was the invitation by. the lady in the immigration lady their office and she she didn't pay attention to me what was i saying to her and she told me if

you don't come up with bruv i will more the comments we would send you back to do it your country so when you tell them that you were nominated for an oscar they didn't believe the l. no they didn't pay attention to this that it didn't believe that and they saw i it's was like serious i thought that they will send us becky this was hard for me and my son jabril my son jabril asked me what's going on here i told them they will send us back so he was very upset and i agree because he was very tired and he wants to come here too to sleep and they do too and after that i think they all scar so. yes so it's it's not it's not difficult to sales job to google my name all to get more information by is calling someone so i

started they know i started make this text and they sent e-mails to the michael moore ought to the academia or thought difference friends to tell them that what's happening to me so they could help me why did you reach out to michael moore did you hope that maybe he could help you get out of this predicament yeah it was a very serious problem and i text him i told them that they are holding us here and they they will send us back and so it's serious a problem so might you can help or somebody can headbang to send them some information about us or some comments ok and they finally did decide to let you go out did what made them change their mind. yeah finally we get to two to go out. after we been all four. sometimes in

the room inside the room with my family but in the. last office of immigration he was kindly pass or ninety started to ask questions and to to google my name and to sit and in the end the say this told me that they're ok and ok so you can go ok do you think that your experience is unique or do you think that this happens often to palestinians yeah it's happens often to palestinians to be able who hold policy in a passport and i had this problem this is serious in different countries in europe countries also and we have all those this problem and our place in our home and palestine we go through many checkpoints and many border guards and we wait for a long time in the board laws and it's this is how the life is how this is how is our life in palestine many pressures of mass and it's not easy to live on the local

bishop for a long time so i wanted i'm seeking freedom and peace for my kids to breed and for his generation to change their life and to get to peace and the freedom for them we cannot just live like this we are a human also and we are the only be able on all the world that we live on the local vision and that is a radical vision now can you tell us are you made this journey to ally to attend the academy awards because your documentary was nominated can you tell us about your film. yes this for a number. very long period of filming and the commenting the struggle the nonviolent resistance in my village. daily life my life my parents life and my brothers and my son growing so i when when i started in two thousand and five making this film my son jabril was born and the i was

following him focusing on him and following the change and how they how he reacts to the situation and i was following my friends so i wanted to make it a martyr piercer not fair. about the situation that existed in the village so the film is about. more human a story it's about the daily life in the village sobibor get to know more about the situation in palestine and about our life and the film was very successful and people get to the to be moved and touched by the story because it's more human a story so they feel they are more close to the film and to the story and to the be able the so i was a creating this film for. four seven years and i am very proud because this is the fittest policy in a documentary or two to be in the scott oscar nominee and nominee and if the

film went all scott of so it's would be a historic day for the palestinian people. for but this is important because this will grow big it inch into the press in a situation well not i wish you the best of luck on extend my congratulations to you and really appreciate appreciate you coming on the show telling us all about your story and how it's been a long week for you so i really appreciate it that was a modern not a color director five broken cameras thank you. so air. narrative air the people who are supposed to keep us safe when we fly but the t.s.a. faces a backlash over their overreaching downs and intrusive body scanners now lawmakers in one state are pushing back we'll tell you what they're planning after the break . with the story doesn't make good news.

no poppy food some tough questions. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit starting in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston properly or today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery down the line there's still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. jason it is going to be pretty incredible day there and the record snowfall throughout much of it might still be slightly driving lessons submergence three zero zero exceptions.

let me let me let me ask you a question. on this network is what we're having the debate we are in. this space thing there again. we're being free to talk about surveillance.

let us say has come under fire for invasive pat downs and revealing full body scanners a traumatizing ordeal for a three year old girl heading to disneyland is the latest headline to put a spotlight on the agency and she says it all started when t.s.a. agents asked to pat down lucy who was disabled and to screen her sure to get me she wanted to tape it didn't like that i don't anyone to touch my little daughter without being able to. well she certainly not the only one who thinks the t.s.a. goes too far and now in the state of kansas lawmakers are trying to set some rules on the t.s.a. pat downs a bill sponsored by twenty one house members there would prohibit t.s.a. agents from touching passengers private parts would also prevent agents from searching anyone under the age of eighteen for more of the t.s.a. controversy and what's being done to address the issue i was joined earlier by danny pans alah truth squad t.v.

i began by asking him what authority the state has over the actions of the t.s.a. a federal agency. when the federal government is overstepping its bounds and coming in on state property and imposing its will that is in violation of the constitution the states have a very clear remedy which is notification it's the tenth amendment of the us constitution and these t.s.a. pat downs are certainly a violation of the fourth amendment basically anyone who flies is treated as a criminal until they're proven innocent by either being patted down and it's a very invasive pat down i opt out of the body scanners every time i fly for the health concerns as well as the privacy concerns but then that subjects me to a pat down and it's a very invasive pat down if someone touched me like that on the streets they'd be in jail but the t.s.a. the federal government is allowed to do it and the states certainly have the power to say no and you know did it with one horror story out there another way should we show this latest one three year old girl tried trying to go to disneyland. do you

think that we can expect more states to take action and more public outcry for change well i hope so i hope that other states follow in kansas with steps and i've been an activist in new york to get local politicians to introduce bills like that to stop the t.s.a. and attract the problem is that the states take a lot of money from the federal government especially for counterterrorism efforts efforts and so that causes a stumbling block with these politicians because if they start to push back on the t.s.a. the federal government is going to rein in on the money and a lot of these states are now the pendant on the federal government for this money so it becomes a you know kind of a strings attached approach where well if you don't want the t.s.a. then you're not going to get all this anti-terrorism security money pay and you said that it takes say you in along with others find find a hole or a deal quite invasive are there any existing rules that limit how far the t.s.a.

can go in their searches. well the t.s.a. has policies themselves are constantly evolving every time the public outcry they stop doing something so they recently stopped doing the where they put their hands inside your waistband they allegedly were supposed to stop searching kids which apparently they have not properly disseminated that new policy because apparently in kansas these t.s.a. agents one didn't know that they shouldn't be searching kids and two they didn't know that they it's they're fully within the law to record t.s.a. pat downs of the public that it so these are and this is you can't even claim that these are poorly trained yes agents because it seems to me like these these policies are put into place on paper but they're never actually enacted or at least maybe they're winking and saying you know well you know as long as you can get away with doing it do it and if they you know rebel then you can back off so i think that it's very important for the public to outcry against the t.s.a.

to your federal and local elected officials because there's something that everyone of us can be doing to push back on this now and these think though that the majority of americans say they approve of the job that the t.s.a. is doing or has it just become part of the traveling process. unfortunately i think that a lot of americans do just kind of put up with it because they're afraid of terrorism we've been told that this is what's necessary to keep us safe you know a lot of security experts agree though these measures are really just theater it's to make people feel better that something's being done but it's not actually security there are a lot of israeli security experts that have come across in the last couple years in response to these t.s.a. procedures since the underwear bombing when it was implemented and you know they kind of laugh at it and they say this is just theater and it's really just to make americans feel more secure but it doesn't actually make anyone safer yeah i think that is the big question there is that we are this it's kind of become ingrained in

our whole travel experience does a in fact make us safer there's a lot of argument to that we're going to have to leave it off there danny that was appreciate coming on that was an append all of that truth squad t.v. well new movement is sweeping the country it's a movement away from standardized testing test like the as a tease which most high school students are required to take now some high school students feel the test is unfair and refuse to take them and teachers at garfield high school are now saying they won't administer the latest standardized tests a coast to coast are campaigns against standardized testing some even calling for occupying the department of education to discuss what is behind this j a myerson a contributor to troops out joins us now welcome there j.s. so i know you have written about occupying the department of education some students and teachers want change is occupy the way to go about it. well it's

certainly effective i mean i think maybe in this case as in a lot of cases occupy just becomes a sort of avatar for resisting the excesses of late stage capitalism in sort of. becoming a big financial parasite on you know systems of enormous social work like the education system. you know these high stakes testing companies and then the test prep companies and the sort of guardians of higher education which is of course. you know lots of wealth is extracted from that by the banks in the form of student loans and in the form of. you know all of the construction projects on campuses that are bidding up the cost of education for everyone so this thing that's supposed to create a thinking population capable of exercising democracy and interested in all sorts of interesting ventures is actually now just sort of a cash cow for the global one percent and so if occupy it means resisting that

trajectory then then occupies done its job certainly a lot of grievances when it comes to the education system these days that earlier i spoke to them by the name of leon botstein he is the president of bard college in upstate new york and he's a very outspoken critic of standardized testing here's what he said how will you do it. which means your tree. and the train comes with proof these tests are not really tests of subject knowledge or not to. their extreme really. unhelpful instruments that have been used by institutions to get through the slippery process. so he is one of many educators that are against standardized testing which has become more. regulations like no child left behind and things like that and you had mentioned

the dadt and education debt and all these things a lot of grievances when it comes the education system do you think that the grassroots grassroots is the way that it could change that change could come on this grassroots level well it's the only way that it can change i mean ultimately the different local movements are going to have to sort of coalesce into some sort of major national force you know the force the high stakes testing started before and the resistance started even before no child left behind but obviously no child left behind and now president obama's race to the top have have ramped up this trajectory towards high stakes testing and the privatization essentially in the corporatization of the public education system i went to bard and it's good hearing president whether president there i don't even know that he he and i had some disagreements when i was at school but on this matter he's absolutely right and he's a brilliant thinker about education you know the point of our education system should be to cultivate a really excellent interested thinking populace and instead it's

a way i mean even president obama in his second inaugural address said that our our university system is going to be for the training of our workers and that we should you know except immigrants because they can be you know what if they're bright young engineers and stuff and i think this is a really petty and shallow way of thinking about what should be a really wonderful pride enjoyed of our country that produces great social value for everybody and you know we're seeing and places like that from seattle to new york where mr bartlett's from to portland to new hampshire calls for an end to these tests perhaps maybe they should band together to accomplish change seems like they all share this common goal. yeah and so the different ways that this sort of corporatization of public education is expressing itself around the country diverged slightly and so you have these sort of different local movements the seattle test is not going to be implemented in new york but new york's got testing

that's not going to be implemented in seattle the important point is to make sure that everybody knows that this is a national trajectory and that it's part and parcel of a late stage capitalism in which financial interests and major corporations essentially act as parasites sucking wealth out of all of the institutions and organizations and resources that should be shared in common. appreciate your way again that was j.m. meyerson a contributor to truth that thanks and we are going to leave it there but for more of the stories we cover you can always check out our you tube channel because we post everything online there and you tube dot com slash r t america our newly revamped web site r t v dot com slash usa and you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall for now have a great night.