well many americans enjoyed some fourth of july fireworks and barbecue many others took to the streets to highlight the freedoms they say are under siege by the u.s. government details on that demonstration coming up. meantime present privacy rights groups aren't convinced the n.s.a. spy programs are designed to protect americans from terrorists in fact some are willing willing to legally challenge the u.s. government plus egypt remains in a state of crisis after president obama dorsey was forced out of office today morsi supporters and the muslim brotherhood find themselves at odds with not only opposition protesters but also troops. it's friday july fifth five pm in washington d.c.

i'm margaret how well you're watching r.t. . we begin with a global protest in response to the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance programs revealed by former cia employee edward snowden the rallies dubbed restore the fourth took place yesterday on independence day a day when americans celebrate the birth of their country and newfound freedoms the release took place across major u.s. cities and other countries and protesters took to the streets to voice their anger and distrust of the u.s. government surveillance activities nearly a month ago snowden revealed that the n.s.a. has been tracking cell phone calls monitoring e-mail and internet traffic of every american and since that bombshell leak many americans have been outraged by the government spy programs are very important i was at the restore the fourth protest in new york and she brings us that story. on the birthday of america's independence hundreds are taking to the streets in new york city and throughout the country to take part in the restore the force rally this is

a campaign that watched last month in the aftermath of edward snowden's revelations about america's spying program up on a plan that has shocked those living in the united states and those around the world now the restore the fourth game to watch restore the fourth fill up rights this protects us citizens from on the search and seizure is the purpose of this rally organizers say is to spread awareness and spur political action against unconstitutional spying by the u.s. government press freedom advocates that we spoke with say that these protests are crucial because mainstream media is not adequately covering the n.s.a. leaks and their importance to everyday citizens i believe the fourth amendment is being breached by only the government but by the police with search and seizure with the n.s.a. leaks and everything is becoming out even though they say that there's laws that

make everything they do legal it seems like legal gymnastics to me i voted for obama twice i donated twice but i'm tired of the expansion of these programs that seem to violate our rights everly frighten me that the director of national intelligence lied to congress and i haven't really been any repercussions we're living in the midst of the of the largest. you know unreasonable search and seizure system we've ever seen in the history of mankind is completely suspicion less search and seizure of our information and that people should be infuriated that this crowd has marched more than a law majoris down manhattan. here at federal hall first congress passed the bill of rights in addition to this event more than five hundred thousand people have signed an online petition stop watching dr demanding full disclosure of all. and i say programs now although this rally may be over those participating in it say that their campaign is just beginning from new york marina forty nine. nearly

two weeks after snowden's revealing weeks president obama publicly said that the n.s.a. spy programs were in fact transparent and were created to protect americans from potential terrorist attacks but the question on the minds of some privacy rights groups is this kemah government legally do this i was joined earlier by heidi to discuss this very topic she's the author of the book spying on democracy government surveillance and corporate power and public resistance she's also the executive director of the national lawyers guild i first asked her what she thought of yesterday's protest and if the representative of how americans perceive the n.s.a. surveillance programs. i think the more revelations that come out every day of the more upset americans are going to be at the violations of our fourth amendment and the chilling effect really that this vast information gathering program has on how people communicate with each other how members of the press communicate with their

anonymous sources and how really we operate as a democracy. well how do you know you're an attorney tell me is there a legal argument that would stand against the u.s. or reeling its own citizens and if so what is it. it's definitely the fourth amendment it's a provision as you mentioned against unreasonable searches and seizures we have checks and balances in place to go before a magistrate or a neutral judge to get a warrant that's what this country was founded on our colonists rebelled against the notion that the british could come into houses and search really with impunity looking for something without any show that something wrong had happened so what we're seeing now really is blanket searches and tracking of information regardless of whether the government is listening into the contents they can

definitely track relationships associations in violation of our privacy without any suspicion that something unlawful has occurred and that in and of itself is a breach of our constitution. why do you think that americans are ok with arguably what is an assault on their first and fourth amendment rights by their own government. i think that the government is saying that a lot of these programs must be conducted in secrecy one of the problems is that about seventy percent of our intelligence gathering is actually conducted not by the government buy buy buy buy private corporations our elected leaders. have no idea really of how these programs operate that means they're not accountable and private contractors for example can act with impunity probably going beyond the letter of the law because they're not being monitored by our elected officials that

is a serious problem obama is operating in great secrecy classifying millions of documents and even two years ago signing in the executive order calling on government employees to turn each other in if they engage in what he calls suspicious behavior that creates a climate in which people do not feel free to talk openly and i think it also is dangerous to our security because it means that. people working government aren't free to explore thinking outside of the box to solve problems so we're operating essentially in a climate of fear. well heidi i'm sure that you saw it as most americans did national intelligence director james clapper first denied any government surveillance was going on and even later apologized for making an erroneous statement did he lie before congressional leaders and if so when is he going to be held accountable. i think that all of our elected officials including president

obama need to be held accountable i'm hoping that this surge of public protest is just sparking the beginning really of raising the national consciousness that our leaders have in fact misrepresented the truth or outright lied and they do so exploiting fears of terrorism. calling even our allies in the european union prospective terrorist and really of using that to justify this mass surveillance apparatus so with public outrage hopefully the public the elected officials will start to tell the truth. the french newspaper le monde report. did this week that france is employing an n.s.a. program look similar to ours here in the united states what do you make of that. well i think that it would be naive to think that other countries aren't conducting this kind of surveillance given the rapid developments in technology and the use

of sharing information and monitoring individuals to look for potential threats the problem i think with the u.s. program is that it's so massive in scope that it is we're now aware surveilling other countries including our allies and that really with our. sensible intelligence analyst who are accountable to the government to look at the information in a way that i don't think they can do now given the scope of how much they were massing i think that we have to really take a look at how intelligence is gathered who does it and the role of corporations in that ok heidi we're running out of time i want to get to these next quickly americans have since learned that at least nine internet companies submitted to government surveillance servers including google microsoft yahoo facebook you tube skype a.o.l. and apple is there any way for these businesses to fight back against these request

. well that i think highlights the problem that corporations are accountable really to their shareholders so the bottom line is what drives them the government is supposed to be accountable to the public welfare we've long known that corporations have worked for the n.s.a. over the last couple of decades in developing the programs they now use to data mine i think that again public outrage is critical if people say i'm taking my business elsewhere we want you to change your policies businesses should respond ok heidi i have one final question for you why do you think that the narrative specifically of our national media is so focused on the whistleblower himself outward snowden rather than the bombshell information. concerning the u.s. government has spied on its own citizens why do you why do you think they care about him and not necessarily what the n.s.a. is doing it's a distraction because most of the media in this country unfortunately is run by a few large corporate conglomerates that's why it's so important to have

independent journalists and. public accountability in journalism and again it's in the hands of a very few powerful companies that's a problem heidi really appreciate you weighing in and we have to leave it there that was heidelberg ocean executive director of the national lawyers guild. bolivian president evo morales said that he's weighing the possibility of closing the u.s. embassy in bolivia after his plane was grounded earlier this week upon suspicions n.s.a. leaker edward snowden was on board take a listen we will clearly examine and if it's necessary we will close the u.s. embassy in bolivia we do not need the american embassy we don't need their cooperation or diplomatic relations with them while they conspire against us from within our country and from the outside my hand won't shake to close the u.s. embassy we've got dignity we've got sovereignty without the us we're better politically and democratically without the i.m.f.

and world bank we're better economically so we do not need them. but american leaders from argentina ecuador through europe way and venezuela met with morales in bolivia yesterday to discuss this issue the president has demanded an apology from france italy portugal and spain for refusing the bolivian leader of the right to fly in their airspace on tuesday until it was confirmed snowden was not aboard his plane moralist spent nearly thirteen hours in the austrian airport waiting for clearance to fly to the libyan president blame washington saying the u.s. force the european countries to deny his airspace request meanwhile michael moore took to twitter and had some advice for president morales suggesting that he quote fly back to moscow now pick up snowden and take him out of there and dare europe to stop him no word yet if the bolivian president has seen more as tweet. today marks the one hundred fiftieth day of the hunger strike underway which one hundred six of

the one hundred sixty six detainees at the guantanamo detention facility here in r t we've been following the hunger strike since it began in february prisoners are accusing their guards of worsening treatment and abusive tactics amid calls to close the facility president obama if you rick. paul promised to close the detention facility before assuming office and a special envoy for closing the prison began his position on monday however little is changed with more on how the continuing hunger strike is affecting those detainees here's r.t.s. guy in chicken who's reporting. the you want costly us to stop force feeding guantanamo hunger strikers that practice is against international law and is seen by many as a form of torture and here is one first the guards strap the detainee down to a chair like this one then they put a mask over his face so that the detainee can't move bite or spit then the nurse snakes the feeding tube into

a nasal cavity the feeding tube which is roughly the size of a pens incorporates or this all this is not an actual feeding tube but it gives you an idea and this area is very rich in nerve endings and patients report extreme pain during the procedure and the nurse pushes the tube further down the throat creating a tightness that makes breathing difficult at that point patients typically feel pressure on their chest and long some say it feels like they were drowning then the staff taped the troop to the detainees nose so that they can bite or swallow it and then two cans of nutritional substances are being funneled through the tube now we rode to guantanamo and asked whether they use an anesthetic for this seemingly painful procedure here's the response typically not however it is available if the detainees request that most detainees prefer to use standard all of or all to lubricate that to us of us are trying to make it sound like it's

not as bad but here is how one of the detainees a yemeni man somewhere nadji all house on the bell describes what force feeding actually feels like i will never forget the first time they passed a feeding tube up my nose i can't describe how painful it is to be force fed this way as it was thrust it made me feel like throwing up i want to vomit but i couldn't there was good in my chest throat and stomach i had never experienced such pain before and would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone we also asked the kuantan officials how many detainees resist the procedure and how many give their consent to it and he went by. saying the majority of the detainees report compliantly and do not resist detainees are given a choice to eat a hot meal drink the liquid new trend or be fed the detainee see the choice differently take a listen. when they come to force me into the chair if i refuse to be tied up they call the team so i have no choice either i can exercise my right to protest my

detention and be beaten up or i can submit to painful force feeding for most people these detainees are out of sight out of mind as sudden as it is they see physical suffering as the only way to draw the world's attention to their plight we can't hear their voices but here's what they write i'm doing this because i want to know my destiny i cannot abide not knowing anymore i just hope that because of the pain we are suffering the eyes of the world will once again look to guantanamo before it is too but indefinite detention is the worst form of torture respect us or kill us but your choice the u.s. must take off its mess and kill us the obama administration doesn't want one hundred inmates to die but neither is it in a rush to give the detainees their lives back in washington i'm going to check on the homefront police department in california has received thousands of threats from around the globe after one of its officers was caught on camera shooting

a dog the video that's been viewed over one million times as angered animal lovers and activist alike but it's the animal shooting or is it the indicator that that's a larger problem of the disregard for a life by the department or his or mogul lindo has been following the story he brings us more. this is horrible and only traumatized samantha at the end it was holding her dog neemo with a newfound appreciation she was one of several people who witnessed hawthorne police shoot and kill a two year old rottweiler. side running as i ran right in the bathroom and i was like crying and screaming police department says they shot the animal because of fear the dog would bite an officer the dog's owner a young rosie was videotaping us what operation at the time he claims his intention was to make sure no one civil rights were being violated but after not responding to police requests to turn down because of coming from his car he was arrested for interview with police is during the arrest the dog jumped out of rode his car and

came at the officers rosie feels police overreacted he was and this is the love and . in the us police shootings of dogs aren't uncommon with kato u.t.v. in houston found the city's department shot one hundred eighty seven dogs since two thousand and ten houston police ruled all the shootings were justified here at the scene of the shooting there still blood on the ground they use the police force has come under major scrutiny following the videotaped incident the phone the death of a rottweiler named max many observers say that this incident just part of a larger trend of over aggressive policing because of questions of a con the police conduct and how they handle situations that could be handled completely peacefully but instead they really overstep their boundaries and take life with a human or animal just before the dog was shot officers say they were under intense stress and they were in a swat situation in another recent high profile shooting officers also cited

intense stress when they mistakenly shot an unarmed civilians journal manhunt for christopher dorner the man who allegedly went on a killing rampage after being terminated from the l.a.p.d. in california has a long history of police brutality and you know on the other side of the coin you have a resistance to it. i think it has been nearly a year since the city of anaheim you rubbed it in protests following a series of police shootings. as police arsenals become more military like the videotaped shooting shows cameras will be a key tool in preventing future abuse whether it's human or animal in hawthorne california. party. still ahead here on our team will take you to egypt for the latest on the country's political crisis and those ongoing clashes also how the u.s. state department is getting a big thumbs down for the amount of money it spent on increasing the agency facebook likes how much of their social media advertising campaign costs we'll tell

you after the short break. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my fellow larry king now right here on

our key question more. here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that the americans call. i'm sorry i mean the guy who cares about. you sir. you know what that is my tears. want to feature stories on the on the liberal democrats. secure the support of the. you know for you to distract us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage because that breaking news i'm having martin and we're

going to break the set. up. now to egypt for a crackdown on the muslim brotherhood movement has turned violent after the military ousted president mohamed morsi on wednesday tonight more than a dozen have been killed reportedly in the streets of cairo supporters for morsi took to the streets to reject the military overthrow of the islamic president and his replacement by a talk judge meantime the egyptian military is accused of staging

a coup to oust morsi as millions took to the streets calling for his removal all the monsoor chairman of the supreme constitutional court was sworn in as interim and president yesterday he promised new elections and courage the revolutionaries who helped topple morsi. control protest there's artists wholesaler in jobs who are coolest. well egypt's state television is supposed met today alone so far seventeen people have been killed and more than two hundred injured the focal point of these clashes between pro and anti morsi demonstrators was at the october sixth bridge a short distance from where i'm standing where we saw both sides literally picking up chunks of pavement and hurling them at each other they were throwing rocks they were throwing stones they were throwing molotov cocktails a number of fires on that bridge all of this going on for some three hours now during that time military helicopters

a wolf hovering above but the army chose to get involved only three hours later and when it did it got him involved in a rather strange fashion it literally picked up some of the anti morsy demonstrators on the back of their vehicles and drove them to the am a side of the bridge at that at that stage the pro morsi protesters moved backwards and the protests basically came to an end so a lot of questions being asked in egypt tonight a monster ball of the military and its so-called impartiality in want is happening there were claims earlier in the day fabiani that they did not use live ammunition against pro morsy demonstrators who were trying to make a way to the revolutionary guard headquarters building where it is believed that morsi is being detained but despite the army claims three people were killed by the military in those demonstrations not went down in the egyptian capital there are two mass demonstrations taking place the one behind me here in tough here square

where you have the anti morsy demonstrators and one a short distance from here in nasa city where his supporters are rallying being the country is in a state of high alert there's a lot of concern that in the coming hours these clashes will resume those artist posts where. we all went. people like us fright apparently the u.s. state department is no exception they care about the department's online image so much that they ponied up over six hundred thirty thousand dollars of u.s. taxpayer money to garner likes on their facebook page for more on that here's our teeth. well if you are one of the one billion active facebook users you know how much of a role social media plays in expanding and promoting your friendships even if you don't necessarily know the person today a person who lives in singapore or spain can become your friend with the simple click of a button your personal influence can reach every corner of the earth in a matter of seconds but since last year facebook has found

a way to stack the deck in your favor if you're willing to pay that is it's called promoted posts and basically what it does is reconfigure the algorithm on users newsfeeds to move certain stories to the top depending on how much you pay and it's as easy as this simply write your post load it on your facebook page and then click promote and put in your credit card details the more you pay the more likely it is that your story will gain traction with this type of geo targeting economists call this artificial scarcity and that's not the only influence that money can buy in order to gain traction on facebook and fact this week the washington examiner discovered that the u.s. state department spent some six hundred thirty thousand dollars in order to buy likes on its page between two thousand and eleven and march of this year an investigation by the office of inspector general of the bureau of international information programs discovered that the bureau paid to increase the english

language facebook page likes from one hundred thousand to more than two million and to four hundred fifty thousand on facebook's foreign language pages but buying fans isn't a guarantee that those people are actually reading what you have to say in fact according to facebook's own help a. certain web sites promise to provide large numbers of likes for your page if you sign up and get the money these websites typically use deceptive practices are are scams people who like your page this way will be less valuable to your page because they won't necessarily have a genuine interest in what your page is about if facebook spam systems detect that your page is connected with this type of activity will place limits on your page to prevent further violations of our statement of rights and responsibilities now whether or not the state department's facebook page will be flagged as a result of this report is still yet to be determined but even the office of the inspector general doubts whether or not this will have any positive effect in fact

just over two percent of the fans on the state department's facebook page actually engage in this page by liking sharing or commenting on it according to the report but supporters of the campaign say that this type of advertising is necessary because it's difficult to fund the state department's facebook page using the web site's general search tool and even the office of the inspector general isn't ready to completely sign off on the facebook digital diplomacy instead they recommend that the state department reduce spending and focus on public diplomacy goals rather than trying to raise the number of facebook likes but keep in mind that various bureaus within the state department alone have more than one hundred fifty social media accounts accounts that the inspector general describes as uncoordinated and overlapping so is this money well spent well you be the judge determine whether or not you like how the state department is spending all that money in washington meghan lopez r.t. . well how much is

a good squeeze worth three years i guess it depends on how you define the word good at any rate porn stars in tokyo offered their boobs and all for a good cause it's a story that artie's own tom hartman reported on last year in september and since then i colorful video has reached over ten million views take a look how do you raise money for fighting aids well if your purchase t.v. and adult film channel in japan you hold what has to be the world's first ever erotica will save the world churchill of an event which took place in tokyo featured a variety of adult only activities intended to raise awareness and money for aids awareness research most popular activity proved to be the breast fundraiser for adults over eighteen years old and over paid money to squeeze the breast of japanese porn stars. well as benevolent men stepped up to help a charity to fight aids no word yet on the total number of squeezes though i have

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