you know for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. coming up on r t n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden remains hidden in moscow or does he there's some speculation he might be on his way to cuba we'll have the latest on the snowden saga just ahead the defense team for the bradley manning trial has rested its case but this trial is far from over so what's next for manning as things move closer to a conclusion a report just ahead and our tech report is coming up after google glasses used were actually used to report some crime questions now about the privacy of everyday citizens on the streets and could they think use for government surveillance we'll dive into that and more in today's tech report.

if thursday july eleventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching our team well let's start with the latest information coming out about edward snowden's diplomatic standstill the man responsible for the n.s.a. disclosures is believed to still be in the moscow airport but take a look at this today a flight that left from moscow actually took in the new usual route on its course to cuba instead of its normal track flight one fifty headed west over central europe crossing bell roast poland germany and then france here's a look at the route it was supposed to take and has been taking four times a week for years now the reasoning the pilots gave for the weird route was turbulence over greenland but still people are speculating is edward snowden on board as soon as we know you'll know now earlier i sat down with. jesselyn radack

and talked about the situation she's a national security and human rights director at the government accountability project and i started off by asking her about the chances that edward snowden would take a commercial flight since he's had his passport descended. i would think they would be pretty low because i expect that there are reporters on the lookout everywhere in the transit area of the russian airport and on the planes that fly those few routes and in any country even cuba is kind of a question mark about whether it would grant or deny airspace and also i don't know if the administration can survive another and they're seeing the libya moment like they had before and just to remind our viewers that was a moment when president evo morales this plane was actually diverted and landed in austria because there was allegations that he might be on board that plane hiding out somewhere but let's talk about the possibility of other options in order to move him away from moscow what about boats what about land is just he haven't any

other options right now than planes and flying out i'm sure there are many other options that are being looked at and pursued but i think the more important question to ask is why is someone who has been granted political asylum by three different countries. having so much trouble getting to a country of refuge here is someone who has been found to have a valid fear of political persecution and we have the persecuting nation the u.s. leaning on those countries that have offered him asylum that's completely inappropriate and of noxious for the persecutor to be leaning on countries that of offered him refuge to somehow expel him once he arrives or to disrupt his transit there it's just shameful and if he did somehow sneak out of the moscow airport and end up in a country where there is asylum offers it wouldn't be the first time i know there

was a lot of questions circulating around julianna songe on whether or not he was going to try to sneak out of the ecuadorian embassy in london you know through through a trunk of a car or flew baggage or something like that so one of the the first time that something like that has happened. but yes he did i know that a lot of the questions around this case is that obviously the plane is going to have to refuel there are no really direct flights from moscow to any of these countries really so if it did refuel in cuba would snowden be safe in cuba right we don't know that's why i would think the safest route would be a private plane that would have the ability to fly directly to a country of refuge but of course so a cost a lot of money but i'm sure there are other people out there far better at transit myself who are working on this option but again why is there a worldwide manhunt mainly being propelled by the united states after a whistleblower who has revealed so many illegalities we should be doing

a manhunt of the everyone in the n.s.a. and of all the people who have approved these highly illegal programs we should be doing a domestic search for them rather than surveilling our own people here in the u.s. and another really big question is what kind of effect what kind of fallout will just have on whatever country he ends up landing in do you think that there will be some type of geo political fall out with that country or for that instance with cuba if cuba decides to let the plane land refuel and take off again without obtaining snowden in their possession i think any country that is just snowden they're definitely going to get a lot of growl ing and threats from the u.s. but the u.s. is beginning to look really desperate right now and if they keep in gauging in this overkill and pressuring other countries and maybe doing economic sanctions i mean i really do think that's kind of over the top and that people around the world are

starting to rebel as the actions the u.s. has taken so far in trying to catch snowden i mean can you imagine lay would be expended this much taxpayer money and energy going after this guy who revealed highly illegal. programs it just shows they are driven to distraction by leaks which are really whistleblowers or anyone giving information that the u.s. finds embarrassing or that exposes its own illegality very interesting jesselyn radack with the government accountability project thank you so much a few meanwhile here in the u.s. human rights groups are praising the three latin american countries that have offered edward snowden asylum venezuela bolivia and nicaragua this morning the code pink activist group marched to end as these three embassies in order to show their gratitude before heading to the u.s. justice department to protest the n.s.a. surveillance programs as well as the manhunt for the man you see behind me edward snowden now sam sachs was at the code pink rally and he tells us more. today

a coalition of civil libertarians in washington d.c. went on a thank you tour visiting the embassies of those nations that have offered n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden asylum and we're here outside the venezuelan embassy where a group of civil libertarians have gathered to thank them to say officials for offering asylum to edward snowden the screw behind me is gone from the bolivian embassy to the nec wrong for an embassy to now the venezuelan embassy all countries that have offered snowden asylum in all countries that are willing to defy u.s. authority here in the region in the last fifteen years there's been a huge geopolitical shift there and these countries are now much more independent of the united states and europe. for example europe is and that's something that wasn't true you know in most of the last hundred hundred years this is a matter of international human rights you know that is how amnesty international said it very clearly he has a right to asylum that the united states is committing gross violations of his human rights by trying to block his right to asylum and of course he's

a whistleblower he exposed major abuses by the u.s. government and he should be protected but the embassy tour was just the first half of today's action next it was on to the department of justice by what your point was what your call for austerity t.v. executive cried. so we moved from a thank you tour at the embassies offering asylum is to snowden you know a protester at the department of justice civil libertarians behind me are saying the department of justice relentless effort to arrest snowden from taking away his passport to strong arming foreign governments is not only violating his rights as a whistleblower resorts as a human being as well i think it's. a wonderful thing that there are countries that are willing to stand up to the united states strong arming to try to stop them from giving asylum which is an international right to seek asylum but the demonstrators recognize this isn't just about edward snowden's fate it's also about what we've the american people do with his rebel. it took six courts. to carve out

pointed out the fact that there is no transparency into these programs that there's been no checks and balances in these programs that there's been no accountability for the government abuses here suggests to me that what edward snowden did was a very vital public service for our nation to enable finally a long overdue public debate on these very fundamental questions it's no damn self said that what he most feared is that things wouldn't change and that puts a two man disparate in on us and it really is a defining moment and what we want our society to look like whatever happens to snowden in the short term whether he finds asylum or not is still a big question mark also a question of what happens with his leaks fifty five percent of the american people think that snowden is a whistleblower and a plurality of american people think that the government has overstepped its bounds in mass surveillance of americans but with the executive branch the legislative branch and the judiciary branch seemingly on board with these programs the american

people are always going to resort to events like this to have their voice heard in washington sam so far too it was a surprising move even for those who have been following the case closely over the years the defense team for army private first class bradley manning rested its case wednesday after calling only ten of an expected twenty one witnesses to testify the trial will resume next week with the rebuttal by the prosecution in the meantime are to correspondent liz wahl has been in court since day one and she breaks down the latest developments for us. after just three days of testimony that offense and bradley manning's military trial rest its case the prosecution's case went much longer with the court hearing from dozens of witnesses over the span of six weeks that i was most struck by the. by how little evidence the prosecution has brought. some would argue inexhaustible resources the prosecution aim to prove

bradley manning aided the enemy when he sent over seven hundred thousand classified documents to wiki leaks according to the government manning should have known that by doing so al-qaeda would have seen the information they had testimony stating that some of the documents recovered from osama bin laden's compound in pakistan came from wiki leaks the testimony entered into the court also said this man adam gadahn a u.s. citizen turned out ok the operative used information and video obtained from wiki leaks in his propaganda videos but hard evidence was sparse the prosecution presented two tweets believed to be sent by wiki leaks the first asking for someone to leak military addresses the second claiming to have possession of a secret encrypted video of an airstrike in afghanistan also admitted as evidence of wiki leaks most wanted list of two thousand and nine a list that mapped out secret documents the whistle blowing website wanted to get

ahold of the prosecution was trying to prove that manning was conspiring with julian assad to the founder of wiki leaks and an effort to get the documents on the internet but the defense pointed out that there is no proof manning ever saw the tweets or any other requests from wiki leaks. their right. to defense kicked off its case by showing this video the now infamous video collateral murder that manning leaked it shows an apache helicopter. they're firing down on civilians on the ground in iraq all thirty nine minutes were played in court in the defense phase of the trial manning's attorney david coombs try to characterize manning as a whistleblower a young man that was talented with computers and excelled at his job as an intelligence analyst on the third day the defense called their key witness i don't think there's there's been a day that or what the witness is yoko. harvard law school professor renowned for

his work and published articles on internet freedom and how a free press of facts democracy he's done extensive research on the history of wiki leaks when it first emerged he said wiki leaks was respected by traditional media but after manning's leaks he said government rhetoric associated the website with terrorism bangalore testified that the media's tone toward wiki leaks changed specifically citing this claim on fox news this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law of the united states the guy ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the shot of a despite the attacks benker said wiki leaks plays a critical role in the media today supporters at the trial called dangler again changer it's too dangerous to convict someone of just giving documents to a news organization to criminalize that is something akin to treason and so i think

that testimony really covered their central argument that manning did not take the stand in the trial after the defense rested he told the judge it was his decision not to testify the government announced they intend to have a rebuttal case next week the possibility of that will be discussed if not closing arguments may happen early next week ultimately it's up to one person the judge to decide manning's fate in washington liz wall r.t. well it's thursday and that means it's time for our weekly tech report this week we'll take a closer. look at the n.s.a. surveillance program and this. there are. from this video was brought to you by google glasses it's the first time a brawl an arrest was ever continence device the man who filmed that arrest is documentary filmmaker chris paris and he says that this video is proof that google glasses will change citizen journalism for ever here to talk all things tack is the

wonderful producer adriano who said oh thank you so much for joining me. so let's start off with this claim that this is going to change citizen journalism forever is it well let's i mean let's just be clear it's technology the change that is the big game changer here so it's not just necessarily the fact that it's the google glass hardware it's because it is a new technology that's coming in and it has new capabilities same thing happened with the smart smartphone and same thing happened with the printing press so obviously it's a game changer because it's going to be a little bit little bit more difficult to be able to figure out if you're recording not doing something this or that but social media in general technology in general is the big game changer when it comes to you know empowering individuals to be able to i don't know be able to cover things for themselves be able to circulate information more that's the big takeaway here now at the same time we have all of

this really exciting innovations coming out of this google glass as in so many other things but with revelations about the n.s.a. surveillance program the question has to be brought to the table is it possible for the n.s.a. to start collecting these kind of things that information and videos that are collected and distributed by google glasses well that's an interesting question because it's i mean. and obviously this technology has not is not on the market yet so this is all hypothetical so we're speaking of right it's still the testing phase however it's a valid question because if we have to examine the relationship that google and many other you know i a species have with the government right now and if that doesn't change then why would they not be able to gain access to these videos or the information or the met a data if you will that is you can extrapolate from a new device why why would that not be a possibility but obviously you know this is we're not exactly jumping the gun here but it's still we still have to see what's what's going to come now something

really interesting to bring up is that n.p.r. did an article about the man who won i was one of the people that predicted google glasses and they asked him to predict some other things for google glasses in the future so i would say ok ok ok. so augmented reality will likely lead to casualties like car accidents as a result of people being distracted. yes very good so that's a possibility of the possibility yes i mean again look at look at how technology i mean there's a very big difference between being able to do something like there's very difference between i can do something and should i do something that obviously the human element has to be a very important part in how you use technology because you have to use it smartly what if i have to have one hand shakes will become the new deal makers in big ways i'm going to save legal documents are still going to play

a big role but if you had ideologically are you going to go back to fact sure sure i'm i'm sure that will not hold up in court actually i'm not sure i'm not you know what taking that one back i don't i don't know what i'm saying is that will be just that will be a company meant to whatever legal document you need what about this one people won't need wallets anymore people the lots of people with you know well it. you always need someone to put your stuff right like we're not talking about the babies and it well yeah and money like it's not like all of a sudden we're all the be big calling it up so know where you're going to need a wallet definitely put your credit card somewhere and finally what about this one that says that you'll be able to recognize just about anybody i don't know well it's interesting i took a peek at that article and essentially it said that if you want all the users are able to you know to notice themselves or some like that like anyone that's able to have a head to head set or whatever actually has or like name and i mean tag a virtual name tag so that's interesting but i don't i don't know that sideways on

that one makes them sideways all right well let's talk about one more serious matter now the heart of the house bipartisan committee on privacy went ahead and sent a letter to google saying that they wanted more information did anything come of this short answer is short answer is not really i mean the they haven't gotten the full spectrum of the information that they wanted we have we did see keith alexander testify about metadata about all these things we have seen some disclosures but overall the short answer is them and they certainly aren't alone no ten privacy regulators from around the world including canada australia and a european commission also asked google for more information so it's getting international attention and international questions do you think that we're going to have more of this in the future absolutely i mean one of the main things and i think the been widely talked about is the debate that has been created due to all of these disclosures especially when it comes to google when it comes to the way

your information is gathered our information is gathered so it's definitely not going to stop anytime soon. producer thank you so much for weighing in on today's time rock yes absolutely. well what is better than twenty twenty vision one innovator thinks that he may have the answer to that very question with a new pair of goggles the three sixty's specs are and i wear assessed area that bring the digital world to your world taking virtual reality to a whole new dimension to correspondent on a stasia churkin to tells us more about the product that the tech world is all i. welcome to the world of immersive virtual reality you are inside its environment you could do three sixty inside you could look up you will see the sky you could pull down you will seize it and if you. the sixth you will see a picture on a new pair of goggles dubbed three sixty specs bring the allure in the world of

virtual reality a step closer to be where you can try to intervene before there is arcades in this new war or exhibition but the reality pov says this may be about to change. what started on just a piece of paper when just imagine how we could use it brought this veteran virtual reality eventually one step closer to his dream guy. simple looking plastic particles come out of a three d. printer to become one of the product of the royals it's a smartphone will come here in adjustable sizes these specs can do it smart phones i phones or tablets two shots become one three d. image flying. regards but for the first time the inventor says the world of virtual reality can be accessed without wires or prices in the hundreds of dollars oh my. there's creatures attacking

a smartphone simply clicks on to the goggles and a thick lens brings the user literally face to face with a three d. fantasy world. dogs running towards me instead of being observed on a screen at a distance movies photos and games can be enjoyed at the widest viewing angle possible this is. yes. this game is much scarier than the previous one right now ray has several sample games that he uses to show how his goggles work but with the invention just in its first stages he says it has the potential for millions of applications and users. the inventor says the three sixty's specs can appeal to any family because with these goggles anybody can watch whatever they want without fighting over there are no with the additional bonus of no one else be able to tell what game or film is being watched on a plane by. or train a whole new world all to yourselves oh god there's a giant monster graham greene and you know. new york well we've talked about how

the revelations of the n.s.a. surveillance program of american citizens affects their rights to privacy but one thing we haven't discussed yet is the effect of wiretapping on taxpayers' wallets because you better believe that telecommunications companies are not handing over that information for free to correspondent erin aid has more. how much are your private phone conversations worth to you you know those personal interactions with the people you love about the things you hold dear well they're probably priceless but the u.s. government has priced them out at about fifty grand a piece that's how much your private conversations are worth to them and depending on the technology quite a bit more now in the era of intensive government surveillance a murky multimillion dollar market has emerged and it's all being paid for with your tax dollars and with a little public scrutiny surveillance these charged by technology and phone companies can vary widely now for example eighteen to impose

a three hundred twenty five dollars activation fee for each wiretap plus ten additional dollars a day to maintain it smaller carriers like cricket and u.s. cellular they charge only about two hundred fifty per wiretap but snoop on verizon customers that cost the government seven hundred seventy five dollars for the first month and five hundred additional dollars for each month after that so how do we know all this because earlier this week the us federal court system published its annual wiretap report to congress and it details about the day to day business of telecoms handing over data to law enforcement is revealed it includes a breakdown of every major carriers fees and every sort of data request the average cost of a wiretap order last year was fifty thousand four hundred fifty two dollars and of those wiretaps ordered only eighteen percent actually led to a conviction and as of two says it may sound this is how the government prosecutors measure their own success by how many bodies they incarcerate regardless of how

ridiculous the offense may be so using the numbers from this report for every conviction they get from wiretapping the government weighs over two hundred seventy thousand dollars on other wiretaps that produce absolutely nothing and this is based on their own metric for success this is a mind numbing waste of taxpayer dollars on surveillance that literally delivers infected ineffective intelligence now if americans aren't disturbed by cell phone carriers handing over cell phone. users' personal data to law enforcement in mass and in many cases without a warrant we might at least be interested in just how much that service is costing us in tax dollars from washington d.c. i marinate. the interim government in egypt is walking the tight rope of political transition interim president oddly monsoor is continuing to pick members of his new cabinet in the hopes of making a shift a swift transition at the same time though the gyptian military is expanding its splits against the muslim brotherhood leaders accusing them of inciting violence

and while all this is happening reuters is now reporting that the u.s. has decided to follow through on plans to deliver four f. sixteen fighter jets to egypt in august the plan to send these jets to egypt was made before mohamed morsy has had been overthrown and as part of the annual aid package now white house spokesman jay carney says the administration is not willing to make hasty decisions to cut off aid to egypt until it has all of the facts for more from cairo here's our team isabel true supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy remain steadfast they continuing their city in another city in the capital they held a symbolic funeral for the dozens killed in violent clashes on monday morning between security forces and members of the sit in they marched from the mosque where this ongoing protest is happening to the presidential palace where they had a kind of standoff with republican guards this comes at

a time when there's been an arrest warrant issued for the supreme leader of the muslim brotherhood mohamed of the for inciting violence on monday the fee is that this arrest will scupper any plans for the most of brotherhood's participation in this so additional time here in egypt monday the interim president for his part issued a roadmap to egypt in the form of a constitutional declaration it said that the. there would be a new constitution and parliamentary and presidential elections within the six months this was rejected by the mostly brotherhood and its political party the freedom and justice party we had to deal with all the way through wait for the election when it was a load that missed or whatever and then the minister would come back and i needn't say just repeat everything again start the love that was you should've stuck to this what we are trying to say all the time is not all that more serious it was about the values meanwhile the u.s. have responded in

a manner which doesn't necessarily reflect what commentators are saying here which was this is a military coup if this is labelled as a coup this would affect u.s. assistance to egypt we have the latest reports are that the u.s. are sending four f. sixteen fighter jets to egypt in the next few days this is part of a larger package of twenty fighter planes which eight of which were already delivered in january the spokesperson for the white house for his part said that they would it was not in the interests of america to reconsider its package of assistance to egypt although president obama has promised to look into the aides and the plan for american support of egypt in the future that was artie's bell true reporting. well in may we told you about the historic takeoff of the x. forty seven being drawn from a navy aircraft carrier in the atlantic ocean it was the first time a u.a.e. was launched overseas without using a ground base and it could pave the way for

a new age of pilot free missions abroad well yet another mile marker was reached this week that experimental drone successfully landed on the u.s.s. george h.w. bush off the coast of virginia it's the first time that a tail as unmanned drone has landed on a modern aircraft carrier now it performed a maneuver known as the rest of the landing which involved catching a wire on board the ship what they deployed it tailhook bringing the aircraft to a very quick stop where admiral matt winter is calling this historic event worth mentioning in the history books. very interesting and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r c america and check out our website r t dot com slash usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez i always try to get back to you if i can then always send me your story suggestions and don't forget to tune in at the top of the

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