military helicopters a scene about tahrir square in cairo and heavy armor moves into the city as conscious start to break out between supporters and opponents of the ousted president mostly now under investigation for talks on the army. protecting people's freedoms or time trying to sway voters germany's motives are questioned as the demands tougher privacy regulations worldwide that's after being caught red handed helping washington gather private data. on u.s. lawmakers threatened sanctions to any state that would shout to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden u.s. president daniel ortega the leader one potential save haven told r.t. that america's the seat of the whistleblower is in state. because the syrian

national coalition plans an official summit with the e.u. are security council on bringing peace to the country after bargaining for weapons with the u.s. and reports say they might actually get. this isn't he going to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. more than thirty injuries have been reported in fights between supporters and opponents of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsy rival demonstrators have clashed in alexandria on the capital cairo where a bridge has been set on fire the egyptian military and riot police are moving into cairo's tahrir square with armored vehicles supported by helicopters the hand that morsy is now under investigation over allegedly siding with hamas to target egypt's

military facilities during the twenty eleven revolution the army has given the muslim brotherhood a sunday ultimatum to sit down for talks the defense minister also called for his supporters to go out and demonstrate true reports now from cairo. what these charges stem from is from when maman morsi was in detention in wanting a tree prison during the eighteen they are pricing in two thousand and eleven he was why you say you're not going to be a political prisoner because the missing brother had very much against mubarak he pretty free from precincts during these months of prison breaks and what the charges here are saying is that he collaborated with amice to actually break out the prison to kill police officers and also you so much as competing possibly kidnapping as offices as when it's possibly burning down prisons and these are very heavy charges inconceivable face a considerable chunk of time many people here are saying some people here are saying this could be a political action from the military to basically ensure that mohamed morsy never

comes back into office who is going to happen however is that this kind of accusation levelled against owsley to the nothing to stop the tense atmosphere here in really just why off to his supporters now that me this is saying they must come on the streets rights if and mostly i mean he's going to have president he must be reinstated with these new knees of the kind you know mostly we expect tensions to be extremely high the military have given the muslim brotherhood forty eight hours to get them both the political right not they didn't outline what would happen off that forty hours which is due to finish on saturday many fear that we will see the violence that we've already had you know here in the capital one fifty one people were killed inside this very most recent you know a few weeks ago so really what we're feeling right now is a lot of very long tense atmosphere here as even a war even these rival protest groups may crash or the security forces might crack down on the use in support of mohammed morsi. and the muslim brotherhood

spokesperson mourner our concerns told us he was saying as the military isn't out that a different order. i personally do not want any violence they are my family my friends everyone i love them i care out for they are out there exercising benedictum a tried to freedom of expression and they should be protected the military should not be on the streets the military should be back in the about it's the minister should not be interfering in politics the military this is not that all journalists easy with all due respect to him he is an appointed minister of defense the people did not choose him and now he thinks he has given them some super constitutional powers to be able to decide what the one of the people as well as the whole world knows what the one of the people is through the institution of democracy the process what we're seeing now is a hard job of the people's will and the people do not want any form of violence people just want peaceful peaceful protests people want to peacefully protest peacefully demand the lloyd's. trade or the arab spring is restless once again

a second day of anger across to me as it follows decimation of a prominent opposition politician was businesses shut down and the national airline grounded on that coming out of. germany wants to tighten the screws on the yuan data protection regulations it comes after an avalanche of criticism and anger a lot some see as the government's failure to deal with a scandal which revealed ballons role in massive you ask led surveillance but many interim many view the move as a simpler times to win back political points ahead of september's general election and she's been on of our ports now from there. so two of germany's most senior cabinet members have written to the e.u. counterparts to try and get them to push the united nations to change their current privacy legislation that all seems well and good especially when you consider that the current privacy legislation was written way back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six long before things like mobile phones facebook the internet all of those

things that the n.s.a. happy apparently looking into now this could be a genuine effort by the by the german ministers to try and help the privacy of the people of the european union or it could be something of a smokescreen and a bit of damage limitation you have to consider that germany was one of the major helpers for the national security agency when they were spying on people around the world in fact the b. and d. the german secret service operated one of the major parts of prism this was called the x. keyscore program that basically looked into what people were searching for online and five hundred million data connections here in germany were checked all were available to be checked by the n.s.a. now this all comes after a week in which we've seen angela merkel originally claim that she only heard about

n.s.a. spying through the media at then turned out that in fact germany was one of these major partners now the germans have an election coming up a big general election coming up here at the end of september and the german people are understandably upset by the amount of information of theirs that was being looked at whether edward snowden knew that he could be a big influence in the german elections when he decided to leak these things will never know but what's the certain is he definitely and the information he's brought forward will definitely be used in the upcoming weeks and months before that vote considering the involvement of germany and other e.u. countries in the n.s.a. spying program it begs the question whether this is a legitimate attempt to improve the previously of the citizens of the you or just politicians attempting to cover up the fact that they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. and john actually does have expressed a special thank you to adam snowden the man who revealed america's widespread

spying the former n.s.a. contractor was awarded whistleblower price and earlier i spoke to dr kristin humble and executive director of the german branch of the anti corruption group transparency international the company was wildly co-sponsors of the price. we would of course very much hope and would welcome him if he could take the prize here in berlin on thursday as of august personally we have always encouraged the german government to invite edward snowden on the witness protection program because the information is given have indications that there might have been violations of german laws and it should be the job of the german prosecutor to look into these and one of the key witnesses would be a personal and to morrow several groups have called for a demonstration in german cities there will be demonstrations in about thirty cities another headline stop watching us so i think we see that he attempted

nervously or something people feel very strong about in germany and we will see where this will lead further and while germany's engaged when it comes to surveillance some u.s. friendly states are doing exactly the opposite big brother is getting big a new zealand as the country's leadership. bomb in the name of national security check out the star at out of. moscow sounds of russia's security agencies and talks with the f.b.i. over the fate of whistleblower edward snowden but a crime and spokesman has once again reiterated that the n.s.a. contractor will not be extradited to the u.s. snowden is seeking asylum in russia and waiting for the paperwork to allow him to leave the transit of a moscow airport has been stranded there for more than a month the government of washington which is battling for his extradition says the leaker won't be tortured or given the death penalty it handed over to the u.s.

where he faces a spanish charges that lawmakers there are pushing for a trade or other sanctions to be imposed against any country that grant him asylum russian authorities haven't decided also as request yet but three latin american countries already said they would shelter him make around here is among them and its president explicitly told r.t. why snowden would be welcome that. i think the threats coming from the us work against them it's ridiculous a power like the united states threatening and young man who's had enough courage to tell the truth about something but went against his principles a man who realized at a certain point but who could cross the line of what is called intelligence work he understood were intelligence and lawlessness begin in that listeners was nothing to do with secret operations were and were protecting state interests or with the search for scientific information a point when he sort of this is sheer madness because it isn't normal it's not like the us are forcing the europeans hand in this is just of they have something in common common positions

a common strategy and the same desire for global domination they want to impose democratic principles on the world they want to judge all nations. this is all sand later in the program all season best to gates where they were it's of las americas and to us sentiment could lay upon the people living in the region are rated to be friends with washington but only if it stops exploiting that country's and tools and as tools rather on treating them like seven it's own that still to come. on record unemployment and francaise younger generations feel it and feel the pain scrambling for a walk in a country that's confident noise that. wealthy british soil. has no time to write. it's not about the. markets so why not.

find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on r g. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more.

this is our chief going to live from moscow let's move on now the cia could already be preparing for a campaign to see when rebels as it's already started to sneak in weapons into neighboring jordan that's according to anonymous u.s. diplomats the reports started to come in after these c. were a national coalition met with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry new york with weapons shipments leading that gender and informal session with the u.n. security council is also still to come on is more important i has more now on that . a delegation representing the syrian opposition is in new york city for a three day visit that kicked off thursday afternoon during a bi lateral meeting between the group and us secretary of state john kerry prior to the closed door discussions kerry said that there could not be any military solution to the syrian crisis only

a political solution not political solution is expected to be ironed out at the upcoming geneva two conference co-sponsored by russia and the u.s. however it is no secret that the syrian opposition would like to receive the weapons and military aid that the obama administration recently promised to deliver to the rebels that are currently fighting against syrian president bashar al assad that topic was likely addressed when kerry met behind closed doors with the visiting delegation which is being led by the president of the syrian national coalition ahmed jarba what some experts are questioning at the moment is the overall legitimacy of the syrian national coalition critics say the group has no official power and lacks support and recognition inside of syria now the syrian national coalition was founded in doha and is based in is stamboul some see this group as outsiders lobbying for more arms to import into syria's already bloody civil war during the meeting secretary kerry conveyed washington's commitment to

helping strengthen the syrian opposition however several u.s. lawmakers have publicly opposed providing weapons to rebels arguing that the arms can fall into the hands of terrorists and members of al qaeda who are fighting alongside anti assad groups now according to the un's latest figures more than one hundred thousand syrians have died in the nearly two and a half year civil war and with more weapons and ammunition expected to arrive in the country from washington ending the violence may be calm even harder reporting from new york marine up or niam are to. washington's plans to stop sending. weapons to syrian rebels at all but i love among some u.s. lawmakers senator rand paul's that it's the same as directly arming terrorists able to have to say as i see it are. in france the number of people out of work has reached a record high with almost five million unemployed it comes to shadow over present

on loans optimism the country's being pulled from its economic model that france has now seen its jobless level increase steadily for more than two years as maria for an ocean explains now the crisis is forcing talented young french people to try their luck elsewhere. the grass is not always greener on the other side even for those eurozone countries that are in dire straits even the block's biggest economies are feeling the pinch france is now officially in crisis at least in a job crisis recent data from french labor ministry paints a disturbing picture june saw another rise in unemployment with almost fifteen thousand more people now out of work that's five hundred new jobless every day. there are more than the percent of the provision in the board yes but worked herself forty of them but almost ten percent of the division is bottom board but for that bias that the reason behind the gloom is statistics

according to the labor minister is expired the short term contracts that are never in you'd as cautious companies can no longer afford to keep people sitting pretty small intrapreneur as have no opportunity to develop tuxes or very high bureaucracy is terrible hiring people is a big problem and it's even worse to fire them the result businesses close and people are put on the streets. and like in other crisis hit countries young people are some of the worst heat the youth unemployment in france is about twenty six per cent more than double the national average. b. of a business c.n.n. to the negative trend every year he says over six hundred thousand students graduate just to realize they're not one to. be for decades france was a rich country and our old people had money there is a curious situation today where by grandparents pay for their grandchildren's

education but when these people's resources dried out what will we do some young people think they have the answer and that is to leave the country seven million tourists counted my evil tower in paris every year that's around twenty. thousand people every day france is among the most visited nations on earth but for its own citizens its charms fading. this film producer from france moved to london for career reasons at home he says he didn't have a future he sings even before the crisis franz did little enough to provide the yuan and dishes with proper employment now after the economic meltdown those opportunities have shrunk to zero. is the whole system of the country moping and it's all stuck in this very if you're disabled you need to have this position and you need to study from this university so they're not really open to ambitious people oregon says he's unlikely to ever come back and it seems he'll soon be

joined by many others these two french students who just began their studies their plans to leave france on the first train after their graduation likely houston this is that is a necessary sacrifice we can't realize or dreams here but there nor particular. friend adds it's a political message to the government that something's going wrong. when all of there is no direction we're going down the state has no precise line because of something ugly and disgusting we're not going anywhere if the future is bleak the authorities try to remain optimistic president alone pledges to bring unemployment down by the end of these here skeptics say that is only feasible if most of job seekers say or who are to france. from paris. to nea's interior minister house names the suspected killer of secular opposition

politician mohamed brahmi whose death sparked massive protests across the country the main suspect is said to be a hardline salafist already wanted for alleged weapons smuggling from libya under devolvement in a similar assassination in february tinnies is now facing a second day of protests over the killing with businesses across the country closed down the national air carrier counseling all flights the country's general labor union has called for a national strike to express their anger clashed with police on saturday after mohamed brahmi it was shot dead in front of his home by to a node one local reporter far somebody has more now from tunis. and there were hundreds and hundreds of submissions outside of the main have you enough time to notice the police used tear gas squares the crowds multiple times as small group of the jesu's were gathered in front of the ministry of interior slow and police used tear gas water to disperse the crowd and there were different crowds in

different places in every gesture to get outside the hospital where he is by the was there where protesters outside the headquarters of brahmins party the government has been telling people that there is progress that we've made in seeing here concrete results. the constitution is not ready and it's been. two years since the national institutes certainly started with the mom in. the elections the next elections there is no specific date set cetera so people have been already frustrated and as mentioned the economy and foreign minister. rami was a member and former leader of the secular people's movement party it was also on the board drafting a new constitution for the country and a middle east a risk strategist and a board told us his dad will significantly bank that. i think it's quite

a serious impact for the draft in the constitution primarily because i'm not is actually given quite a few concessions to the secularists and i think the secularists now will be pushing for even more concessions from but the trouble is that i think the killing is likely to polarize both sides. the more that secularists blame enough the more that the right wing of the nutter is likely to take a defensive position. try to accuse the secularists of trying to undermine them i mean after all they were democratically elected so it makes it more difficult for the moderates on both sides to really come to compromises on the constitution there are still some outstanding issues on that people are accusing enough to of having made revisions to the draft constitution that haven't been approved by the other parties involved. so i think it will polarize things more in terms of drafting of the constitution and delay things quite a lot. exactly sixty years ago cuba saw the beginning of

a nationwide who that ousted you as a box dictator. these so these seeds of anti-american is not only are they liberated island but all across latin america she's gained metric can found out what the u.s. did to step such sentiment. do not until monday when you are latin american leaders do fine speeches against the us are a regular occurrence these days but what is fueling their indignation when we want the united states to be or foreigners like russia is or party like brasil like india like all other countries you know emerging powers are friends of us not our bosses the history of how washington eliminated itself the neighbors is best illustrated by the events that led to the cuban revolution sixty years ago back then the us supported the autocratic and corrupt regime of president bush who ruled the island for the benefit of very few people there the us ambassador to cuba at

the time url to shred of. said iran cuba from the sixth floor of the us embassy the cuban jobbers should grow sugar and shut up some historians argue that the revolution and the subsequent alienation of the island state might have been avoided had the us been more considerate of the cuban people think we were rushing to when all was. in its convenient use of a rich elite class to rule account of their bastard rashed aspirations are pure lation it never really bormann or healthcare ate it or live with the markers just four years ago the us supported the coup that deposed hundred doors since democratically elected president since then the country has been descending deeper into an abyss of human rights abuses and instability the united states does not want

a series of or more elect this is the reason they didn't like chavez goes out of sugar as they got morales and they got that's libya got it and they got the guy in ecuador. and so if they get another one an under-aged. all. gov track this is nationalization of the country's oil industry as well as his subsidized oil shipments to cuba that irritate washington for years in two thousand and two the bush administration supported the coup against the late president chavez mass protests brought his back to power and set the stage for worsening relations with the u.s. he's not just or fair to the signs policies just in the benefit of your corporation and to destroy those countries or people in order to integrate their economies and to be less dependent on the us politically and economically south american nations

have joined in a union called kuna sore. what you have is a desire on the part of the region to have rich own foreign policy and its own economic policy they don't want to be manipulated and they want to be respected by having looked at latin america as its backyard to which it can dictate policies washington has alienated the people in a host of both countries people who would otherwise have nothing against the u.s. in washington i'm going to check out and coming out of the n.s.a. surveillance condo and they shake your prospects for us to the age of the masses breaking the set.

boy oh boy there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there for a mysterious extra planet strip killian creatures living among us but there also may conspiracy theories that are very plausible and some that are well actually true one that i've heard for a long time is that they are specifically trying to fill the police with dimwits to abuse the american people which is silly right writes well according to a.b.c. news a discrimination lawsuit revealed that robert jordan was denied the chance to become a new london police officer because he was too smart and sentence exam score was a thirty three which is an i.q. of one hundred twenty five and it was just too high to allow him to defend the public good that police department only accepts candidates who have scores from twenty to twenty seven the logic is that people who are too smart get bored as

policemen and they're more likely to quit after years of costly training. yeah this is proof of a conspiracy theory well the lowest score they accept is still around an average i.q. so that doesn't mean they're specifically trying to fill the place with sub par people but it does seem really weird to fear people with high i.q.'s entering the police force this case that the confirms nor denies the conspiracy theory but is definitely food for thought and does a kind of not make sense to discriminate against anyone ever for having a high i.q. i don't know but that's just my opinion.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how badly when. i was. i'm still really messed up. in the old story so. it's. worse for the lips a little lighter for the. radio guy. what . if you've never seen anything like that i'm still. alive and happy martin wasn't breaking the set well the house has voted on an amendment passed by congress and would have limited the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of phone records to just those who are being investigated and last night the debate on the amendment highlighted just how divided lawmakers really are. we're here today

for a very simple reason to defend the fourth amendment have twelve years gone by and our memories baited so badly we forgot what happened on september eleventh there is more information contained in the phone book that sits at home on your kitchen counter about each one of us then the information that is in the national security database that we're talking about today i rise in strong support of the amendment and i do so as the person who is the principal author of the patriot act in two thousand was. it in the author of the patriot act stood up against n.s.a. is warrantless spying after all the arguing the amendment finally made it to a vote in a narrow margin of two hundred five to seventeen it was voted down representatives gomer ellison and cummings are just a few the people who voted in favor boehner bachmann and why are are just

a few of those who oppose the amendment i vote for the full vote count on breaking the sets facebook page to be sure to check it out to see if your representatives voted for or against protecting your privacy and look even though i'm. this amendment didn't pass i'm amazed at how close it was to beseen there's only a twelve vote margin rejecting a bill to fund a major n.s.a. surveillance program that's huge and it means that more lawmakers are finally listening to their constituents because they know just like fifty six percent of americans do that the u.s. government overstepping its bounds when it comes to spying so let's keep the pressure up the conversation going let's break the set. let's look at where. ever seen anything like that. i mean. it's been less than a month since egypt's military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsy the overthrow came on the heels of demonstrations consisting

of a third of the country's population demanding morsi to step down and since then clashes between muslim brotherhood supporters and security forces of the dozens dead and countless more injured but the tension is only mounted mounted excuse me in recent days today the brotherhood defiantly called for a stand against the toppling of the government and urged supporters to rally this weekend but they call it legitimate who in response the military chief has called for a rival rally to crack down on what he says is terrorism and violence from morsy supporters egyptian police are planning large scale reinforcements and fear that it will turn into a violent head to head between the two opposing sides so here to give us some insight on what this unrest signals for the country's future and how this could all affect the shaky relationship between egypt and the west i'm joined now by so hard to see is so see a professor at texas a west island school of law and in my home and egyptian activist thank you get so much both for joining me on the panel. thank you for so hard start with you i know that you were in egypt at the time of the uprising

against morsi what are your thoughts about how it all went down well i must admit that i did not anticipate that it would turn into a military deposing the first presidential first democrat. elected president i knew that there was a very strong disfavor against morsi his popularity rankings had plummeted and that there was change coming but i did not anticipate it would be this extreme and i would venture to say that at least as a legal matter by definition it was a military coup now the question is was it a popularly mandated or was it something that was inspired super imposed by the military and that's where i think the debate lies now meant that you find the military opposing the president problematic yes it is really because the action the military talk now will create chaos as we see since. july the third and we see this. many people get killed we have

a massacre of fifty something fifty seven people. have been. on eight. july then it is a problem and then there was a call in for people to go to morrow is really surprised me because you never expected the chief military to ask to be able to go out he have the mandate to secure the country from outside or inside with the police here calling the police and the military to have a bit of a mission from the people and asking people to go out there could be the violence will create some of the thugs that will lose control came back after what had been and they will create more chaos more killing. or will be minimal or none at all i mean what should have them what should the military have done when

a third of the country is on the streets demanding morsi to step down should they have sided with the establishment or with the people first of all are you thinking the have their plan is not something came surprise in in forty eight hours. they gave. give me forty eight hours to decide the should we finished of old and then they should all of the british then or even if the for the same to have the election. to put in the boat. that's really cool everything and b. will be. there now now we have photos of the bridge and he's aboard. the diminished. how there is a video nobody like to know who she is so far and. everybody is stick with their point we don't know what would happen if you don't hear it did seem very rushed i mean pretty good our kind of referendum to man stepping down and now he's gone i

mean people are even saying where is morsi i mean his family members saying we can't access him i mean it is a scary situation is our i know a lot of egyptians had problems with the so-called democracy i'm a lot of problems with the constitution drafting can you talk about some of these grievances that egyptians had about the process well morsi certainly made a lot of mistakes and i would venture to say that the most egregious one particularly as a matter of legal implications was in november two thousand and twelve when he unilaterally issued a presidential constitutional declaration that authorized him to serve as the executive the legislative and the judicial branch and all of his future decisions of just review and that is really where the tipping point occurred particularly these are the civil society and these are the the judiciary which were to stakeholders that i think he could have won over had he not behave in that way and then that essentially led to the illegitimacy of the constitution itself because you ram through the constitutional referendum and yes it was passed all the voter

turnout there were some numbers indicating that only thirty percent of eligible voters had turned out and that many of the opposition parties and their constituents had boycotted. so you had a constitution that was that lacked legitimacy and from there on after he made a lot of very foolish moves from assad pointing governors and certain governorates that were known for having terrorist ties such as the one in luxor very controversial such as appointing governors without asking the constituents themselves who would they like to be their governor so he was doing what mubarak was doing with an islamist face and that i think was the fatal mistake for him. and i'm going to go to you do you agree that. morsi was kind of excluding a lot of minority voices and kind of overstepping the bounds there ruling the country he really made a lot of mistakes. but he would have been lending that before

before the second round of the election even the ask him to step down and would somebody say mr huhne been so but he insisted the him all that give a bad feeling for him and then the start of. any action he took even the. careful control which is the military leadership which he controlled the country before morsi also issued. because liberation before he took office and almost from everything they can solve the problem and through the kind of courts and so on there's a give him a hard time and he's a mistake what. in that he was trying to defend himself and then he. changed in that but really he had no time to get himself together

he have better choice of the around game he didn't choose a. prime minister in my opinion he stick with him and they stick with the. attorney general. of the country also was not necessary to stick with that but it's become hard headed from both sides and the opposition really didn't do anything to help the always put stuff in front of him to make him feel and that's that's part of the failure but he should have listened when he saw that people came out and accept their friend them to vote on his to accept him or not or election i really thought he made a mistake on their. let's talk about the u.s. egypt and relations because obviously egypt is a very important country for. for the u.s. it's been very careful not to call it a coup get it's delayed the shipment of sixteen fighter jets the country what you

think the strategy is here why is the u.s. being so wishy washy and not taking a stand well i think that the u.s. has taken a stand by not calling it a coup that is taking a stand and i think it's a prelude into what i think will inevitably be the decision either from congress or from the executive branch that is not qualify for a coup for purposes of providing military aid or at least if it does qualify as a coup legally there will be a special waiver that will likely be issued by congress as was the case for example of pakistan and also with algeria in order to recruit them as allies on the global war on terror so this is not an unprecedented situation in the end obama i think is going to weigh the benefits of keeping the military as an ally in a very very tumultuous area right now where there's a lot of instability versus disenfranchising in this affecting the egyptian military which the egyptian which the american military in egypt american government need is an ally so in my opinion it's it's a done deal it's just

a matter of going through the legal gymnastics and trying to persuade the american public that obama is taking this very seriously when in fact i think geostrategic. factors are going to dominate. thank you so much both of you for joining me for this important panel the very important subject we'll be following the professor and activist ahmed rashid it. very very still to come tonight there are ten corporations that own just about everything you can through tell you they are out of the break. into the future. this woman points an eligible dates and you try to transmission makes for a smoother ride bush and scientists conjure up could crystals the e.u. says he's laser sight some took on one of the take giants comes to town come to see

a day here on. leave the country. nobody chooses to be holes no one chooses to me and now sorrow. is the road for the show to. get in the six pm get out six feet six. day war. against. me the class people. there's no word against. it's tough to think about all of them comes to. an end to know that many may not have only been the last to choose won't should never be but they're also due to for closure that never should happen.

that judges assess on son. killed on the streets. that women are kidnapped and converted to islam by force will there be another layer of moses for the coakley christians of egypt to the cross touches muslims future victims. the way of the cross. accorded the. to guns own estimates the u.s. military has nine hundred bases rolling across one hundred fifty three countries now the government claims it only spends about twenty two billion dollars to maintain these bases and troop presence worldwide however according to many in

depth investigations taxpayers realistically pay about two trillion dollars for the pentagon to occupy the planet but the ebb and flow of u.s. wars that began and it's important to realize that hardly ever do u.s. bases actually shut down and close for business ever anywhere think about it when is the u.s. really ever left a country it's invaded other than iraq literally kicking out american troops and forcing its bases to shut down the u.s. military still is expansive outposts in korea germany and japan you know it's easy to talk about the military industrial complex in the abstract by discussing numbers of spending troop levels or even subsequent deaths for military operations but rarely do we ever hear about what a fact is bases have on the local communities they're stationed in so today i want to zero in on one small island which you probably know very little about one that's been greatly destroyed by the u.s. military over the course of the last sixty years okinawa japan it's the largest of the okinawa.