coming up on r t the bradley manning trial nears the end today the army whistleblowers defense team presented their closing arguments updates on this case from fort meade just ahead. and another new source has found itself under government surveillance antiwar dot com is suing the f.b.i. for the release of records believed to be kept about the organization more on that coming up. and while the mainstream media has issued an odd over the royal birth a detail was missed it turns out that the royal birth cost less than the average american birth why is it so much more expensive in the states we'll look into that later on in the show. low there it's friday july twenty sixth five pm in washington d.c.

i'm marinate and you're watching our two. we start our newscast today in forty's maryland where the defense team in the bradley manning trial delivered closing arguments today archies liz wahl has been in fort meade covering the trial from the beginning and filled us in earlier with what bradley manning's defense team presented during their closing arguments hi erin yes today the defense presented their closing arguments and they started off by attacking the prosecution's case and their theory the way that they portrayed bradley manning the defense blamed them for cherry picking pieces of pieces of evidence without putting them into context and without giving really a full picture of really what bradley manning has been trying to say one of the first things that they said it was quote their story has the logic of a child pointing out includes his view that their theory doesn't have much sophistication to it cooms today also played the apache video in court that video

dubbed collateral murder that manning's leaked to the anti secrecy website wiki leaks he played some of the most graphic parts of this video and he said how would you how would a twenty one year old think when he sees this and he asked this question you have to. he stated you have to look at this through the eyes of a young man that cares about human life so very contrary to what the prosecution said yesterday saying that bradley manning and their words does not care about any human but himself the defense also disputed how the government portrays wiki leaks the organization that manning leaked the information to the government said that this is a legitimate journalistic organization that's just trying to do you good investigative journalism and that that they're not tied to terrorism and terrorist organizations like the government had said no he said that he had this organization basically is just trying to do investigative journalism hold the government accountable and to

tell the public the truth basic. lee is what he said is really what wiki leaks is all about now today he also said that the forensics prove that manning had a positive motive that he was not a traitor and that he was a whistleblower that was just trying to expose government doing that he was well meaning and that he wanted to start air in this national debate so that is what we're hearing today from the defense and closing argument no listen we understand that as of yesterday security was ramped up considerably this is all during the closing arguments was that the case today as well. yeah yesterday security was ramped up several notches and it really concerned a lot of reporters there we saw there were actually it was unprecedented there were armed guards military police in uniform kind of going through the aisles scanning some reporters' computers and there was

a lot of some people use the word creepy yesterday we did notice today that they took it down several notches so. we're not really sure sure why it varies day to day we were told it was a response to. reporters violating some of the rules today though we notice that they did take it down a notch though not as bad today when it is lit it is also heard reports that clark stokely the artist has been drawn in court sketches of the trial who was kicked out of the hearing what if you've been seen there. this this sketch artist his name is clark's stokely and he's he's a very colorful figure he's out this trial every day he drives this big van the wiki leaks trust is what it's called it has very very bright release bradley manning on it and we noticed today by his stuff his computer and his belongings were removed from the media room that we weren't sure at the time he later tweeted

that he was barred from the manning trial we later issued a statement from the the public relations officer here and it says quote a member of the media has been barred from the court martial by order of the military judge for posting threatening messages regarding some of the court martial participants we're not sure erin what exactly these messages are referring to now ms you said that the defense team day they had some interesting closing arguments but it seems like what you were saying before it's quite different from the way the prosecution pro-trade manning yesterday as well can you expand on that a little bit. yeah if you if you heard the way it seems like they're talking about two completely different people today. the defense portrayed manning as a humanist somebody doubt that really was just trying to do what was right a very well meaning and cared a lot about human life yesterday though the prosecution presented manning as

somebody that was self-absorbed somebody that was seeking notoriety in favor at the time that he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the antecedent secrecy website wiki leaks and dad and that he when he did that he had full knowledge that he was aiding the enemy he knew that when he was leaking those documents he was putting it on the internet the world wide web for everybody to see everybody including the enemy and in the prosecution's view he did he knew very well the consequences of his actions he knew exactly what he was doing as an intelligence analyst working with classified information on a daily basis that he knew what he was doing so the government says he's a traitor today the defense says he's a whistleblower it's going to be up to the judge erin to decide it's going to be up to her the verdict is all is all on her so there you have it that was our two correspondent liz wall. and while bradley manning awaits

a verdict in his case fellow whistleblower edward snowden is trying to figure out his next steps after disclosing classified information about the n.s.a. authorities here in the u.s. charged under the espionage act for revealing details on government's massive surveillance system he remains in a moscow airport terminal while russia weighs his asylum request u.s. attorney general eric holder sent a letter to the russian government on friday assuring that snowden didn't qualify for asylum because of the leakers claims that he would face torture and the death penalty if he returned holder says those claims are untrue holder said quote first the united states would not seek the death penalty for mr snowden should he be returned to the united states second mr snowden will not be tortured torture is unlawful in the united states but are snowden's concerned so unfounded holder's promise notwithstanding the united nations characterize the u.s. government's treatment of first class private bradley manning as cruel inhumane and degrading during his profile detainment that treatment included locky manning up

alone for twenty three hours a day and forcing him to strip naked at night eric holder isn't the only one taking action taking action to bring snowden stateside in the senate on thursday evening u.s. sanctions against any country offering asylum snowden passed unanimously in committee the sanctions introduced by south carolina senator lindsey graham demand that the state department deceive me department courtenay with lawmakers on setting penalties against nations that seek to help snowden avoid extradition tonight and states countries that could face these sanctions include russia along with bolivia than us well and nicaragua meanwhile these n.s.a. leaks have struck a chord worldwide was named to the managing director of transparency international in germany explain the effects of the disclosures in his country which led the organization to award the two thousand and thirteen whistleblower prize to snowden . it would of course very much hope and would welcome him if he could take the

prize here in berlin on thirty years of august personally we have always encouraged the german government to invite edward snowden on the witness protection program because the information has given have indications that there might have been the 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 persona 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 attempt the nerf there or something pete people feel very strong about in germany and we will see where this will lead further whether this prize will help snowden we have the airport terminal he has called home for so long now that we do not know. the obama administration has come under scrutiny this summer following revelations that it has been spying on journalists and thanks to the exposure by edward snowden the

american public now knows the government has tremendous access to everything from our facebook accounts to our phone records however there is one media organization that isn't taking the government's antics line down that antiwar dot com in may the web site announced that it is suing the f.b.i. for spying on them even though the f.b.i. acknowledged that it doesn't stack the web site of any crimes antiwar dot com demanded for the release of records that the editors believe the agency has been keeping on founder and managing editor eric harris and editorial editor justin raimondo for a firsthand perspective of what it is like for a news organization to go head to head with the government i was joined earlier by angela keaton the director of operations for antiwar dot com and i started off by asking her now how the editors at antiwar dot com first found out they were being spied on. well it's a great story back in the late summer. of two thousand and eleven our webmaster and

founder eric harris received information from a reader who'd been casually looking at the website called script where large publicly shared documents are uploaded and found an unrelated freedom information act request on insulin an issues that were ancillary to the events of nine eleven that mentioned quite a bit about antiwar dot com particularly asked a lot of kind of curiously basic inane questions about her editorial director justin rimando but it grew quite sinister from there there were implications about investigating readers and donors into anti-war antiwar dot com as well as find they indicated that information had been found through the foreign intelligence surveillance act which of course leaves a question right open an open about exactly what kind of snooping on antiwar dot com specifically in just a rimando an eric harris and what did they find so after that it happened eric garrus immediately started looking through the file and investigating and talking

and ask you know making freedom information act requests about you know what else to what else does the f.b.i. have on antiwar dot com well you know you have the the f.b.i. had been given a year and a half of course to answer all kinds of questions they denied having any records that in one such things existed and then they still you of course decided after enough nonsense back in may they would file a case and the case is being filed under of course a freedom information act request and the one nine hundred seventy four privacy request which of course guarantees that the first you know first amendment protected available journalism is not supposed to be under the surveilling of that kind of scrutiny and of course and this is part of the larger case of it's not just that these sorts of behaviors you know chill ordinary americans or make them fearful but it puts the whole issue of sure of is journalism. a threat to national security and that of course you know that hits at the very whole pretense of course of democracy itself so it's really it's really quite it's really quite damning now

for us specifically as a very small organization which acquired relies entirely on an independent donations donors became scared people were frightened people pulled away from the site understandably so it's frightening to normal people and it's absolutely had an effect you know not just on our donors but you know the bit of the psyches of the staff right now how detrimental has this fine been and subsequent lawsuit has just mental has it been for anti-war bottom line. oh i mean terms of our donation we've lost a significant amount of money and with that donors in one case had a donor specifically say that it made her to say that he couldn't it just if he was made uncomfortable and nervous by this and it's understandable i mean that's how normal people are going to react when you hear they are under the investigation of the united states government i mean socially when they're ordinary innocent citizens who have an absolute right to read websites and express them and express themselves through contributing money to nonprofit organizations now. basically why

do you think other news organizations we know that fox news new york times both of which had high profile cases regarding spine and their journalists why do you think they haven't pursued legal action like your organization and antiwar dot com i couldn't possibly speculate on the why i mean those are mainstream news organizations they really toil in different fields than we do and of course to understand it's absolutely unconscionable that the obama administration is you know wiretapping journalists of any political stripe or from any kind of news outlet understand that but we're smaller independent news news gathering organization so for us this is apps i mean if we don't make a stand on this i mean we're not we're not only you know not you know we're also perish but we're not standing by the very very basic principles we think we're representing by exposing the brutality of the u.s. empire now aside from professionally how has the spine affected you personally.

well i just i would say that you know what was a very poignant essay by our editorial director just for a mando is he wrote a great deal about what it immediately felt like when eric harris told him of this the existence of this file and just how of course it changes you know one's interactions with you know your family members you know you're having you know we're all human beings and we interact with families and we have our projects and hobbies we're communicating with people and the fact that someone is spying on your most intimate family relationships your roma everything that i mean it of course it creates a sense of fear in my case personally just a phone one funny anecdote is a family member of mine who's very very sympathetic toward cause said could you not write me from your work e-mail any longer and i thought ok so i mean it does affect things but i understand this i mean be really clear the war the anti-war movement has been hundred fifty cation since world war one anti-war activists of all stripes and all ideologies know they're being they're being spied upon this is nothing new

antiwar dot com is just forcing the issue publicly thank you and that was angela keaton the director of operations at antiwar dot com. in egypt's former president mohamed morsy was officially charged with espionage in order to be detained for fifteen days news of the arrest comes as tension throughout the country continue as rival political camps take to the streets in protest once again r.t. correspondent bell trouper in just the latest from egypt. so we have had clashes today in the capital in an area called strip for a piece of heat the moment the square from where i'm standing here i was happened was weisel marches accidently crossed and angry citizens and it up during the city so that people had to notify list outside the capital of the nile just open up down the s.s. we saw again why protest the fighting and it's issues that come to city on a country where they support his opponent all found to be to mohamed morsi who is

in the main rallying point you see the very heavy deployment of first the military and the police where i'm standing here in the area there are few times to the story securing the scratch with of course people here it's one thing for the military the police the actually seeing police officers mingling with the crowd i mean walk across the capital in sit in the very few largely members of the missing brotherhood the posting of the ousted leader we have also seen ahmed vehicles and here being accepted this in that the several weeks now in case all clashes with this is really fueling the fire here this announcement this morning that mousavi is being detained over charges of allegedly can firing with fatah sinitta organization hamas to spy on the country he's also being charged with that being responsible for the deaths also to prison guards when he broke out avoiding a tree in prison during the eighteen day uprising some people here are saying it was a political decision to put him up for this particular charge because amid motherhood

he is under attack from its mother had for that part of maintaining that morsy is innocent and then he is an adjustment president where people here are very much in my space the process is to say. he is getting the most you can get you connected to terrorism and he's trying to talk right so we're seeing a mass to be divided country i would like to buy it's already in for the bloody clashes express is on the horizon. those are two is bill true reporting. now the former police officer who pepper sprayed students during an occupy protest at the university of california davis is appealing for workers' compensation claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the two thousand and eleven incident and i'm sure you remember this video. john pike was fired in july two thousand and twelve eight months after a task force investigation found that his actions were unwarranted but that didn't stop the former cop from seeking financial compensation for his quote emotional

injuries now he says he suffered psychiatric injuries after videos of him and another officer dousing demonstrators with pepper spray went viral and sparked outrage john pike has a settlement conference set for august thirteenth in sacramento. now when other news in this past week ian you have if this past week you happened to be watching any mainstream media outlets probably looked a lot like this. the editor that he would have been a laborer now for over fourteen hours. they already had the baby come now. he's a big boy he's going to be. he would it was too. much his lawyer to great britain now where we are learning the official name of england's newest heir to the throne prince george alexander louis george alexander louis george. is about to go

get it right three names george alexander louis. and all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the birth of the latest british royal and some of what great britain does best they do do some other things pretty well too like the cost of having a baby the royal birth in the fanciest maternity ward that great britain has to offer cost fifteen thousand dollars the average american birth is the that thirty thousand dollars earlier i was joined by tina cass the author of birth the surprising history of how we are born and i asked her why it's the case that having a baby in the u.s. costs so much more than even the royal birth. absolutely first and foremost the u.k. has nationalized medicine so most women when they go to the hospital to have a baby are attended by him and white i will also say that there is a large number number of women in the who have at home assisted midwives earth so their health their whole approach to maternity care is quite different from the

u.s. separately and the reason for the high cost of having a baby in the u.s. has a lot to do with the fact that we have lots of tests and technology that we apply to the birth and we use midwives much less frequently here and they have been proven around the world to drive down the cost of a birth and provide much safer outcomes now you said that in the u.s. we have more of an authority on the subject are those tests necessary for the mother's health. not always often they're done because we have them and mothers may insist upon them because they think that by having the test they may be able to prevent something bad from happening but it is much less discussed the fact that by having a test it can introduce a problem to a pregnancy or a birth one very simple example of this is the electronic fetal monitor which

almost all women have when they have a baby in the hospital just monitoring the baby's heartbeat and so forth but the net result of being a hooked up to that monitor means the mom can't move around during birth very much and that can have the negative side effect of prolonging labor and also producing false positives where they think there's a problem with the baby but there actually isn't not quite common so that would lead just could lead to something like an emergency c. section that may not be necessary as well which is a much more expensive interesting now you mention midwives before being much more popular in the u.k. why do you think they're not as popular here in the us well mid-market in the us have come and gone out of fashion many times they are on the upswing again many more women now are using them and requesting them but we have a really sort of history when it comes to midwife or a in america the. doctor groups about one hundred years ago real he conspired

against them and drove them out of practice to the point where there were virtually no midwives in america and it forced many women to enter the hospital system to give birth and it's been a slow climb back for midwives over the last so many decades. now again the cost of having a royal baby in the u.k. fifteen thousand dollars and they don't do as many tests here in the u.s. that's why it costs less do you know or have a list of the tests conducted in the u.k. and if i'm to have a baby here in the u.s. can i just ask for half the tests. sure you don't you don't you could certainly decline test to there are going to probably be many doctors who will say oh we'll do. a scan you know once every other month or so especially in the last two trimesters and that is definitely something moms can decline if there is no sign of

a problem at all you don't necessarily even need one scan and that is certainly something that will drive up the costs there are many and give me different tests that that the u.s. has in contrast with with the u.k. i would say that they have fewer but their whole approach to childbirth is a little bit more of the natural occurrence and you know they don't necessarily all get epidurals which are quite common in the u.s. they use something called gas in air. and you know which is a very different approach all around which which approach would you side with if you were forced to pick one. well i've had a spare and i've had a home birth and i guess they would say let's enter vention as is always better for mom and baby well there you have it that was tina cassidy author of birth this uprising has how we're born by now it's not surprising to call a phone smart after all you can have access to the world's information with the

mere swipe of a finger but what other objects are getting artificial intelligence are to correspondent margaret how takes a look. the world is rapidly changing and smart now refers to inanimate objects just as much as it does to brains and all of these technologies are emerging on every industrial front we wanted to show you some of the wildest things that inventors are giving artificial intelligence to remember when a surgeon's knife looked like this well now in our digital age scientists have created an intelligent surgical. that can detect in a matter of seconds cancerous tissue and avoid cutting healthy tissue well this intelligent knife promises accurate and more effective surgeries the i know it takes a mere three seconds to identify the tissue it's cutting by cross referencing its readings to a medical library other weird improvements that technology has brought to us this high tech gun it has the ability to turn anyone into an instant sniper with built

in wife i this gun allows the shooter to transmit live video of their shots to an i pad or instantly upload a shot to you to the technology on the weapon gives its user the ability to hit a target at a thousand yards a skill only for the sharpest of shooters possessed take a look at this pen german inventor has created this digital pen with its own version of spell check it vibrates when it attacks sloppy penmanship and spelling mistakes i didn't think your urine was good for much will scientist are turning that plentiful and inexpensive waste byproduct into a means to charge your phone take a look at this microbial fuel cell type of energy converter that is able to turn your organic matter directly into energy bristol laboratory scientist dr. explains. in other words you turn a waste into something really really useful and. the microbial fuel cell technology

is something that is exactly that takes. the waste we try to produce and it converts to directly into the trees next up sick of reading your kids that bedtime story will invest in these pajamas and they will do it for you smart pj's like these are interactive pajamas that will sing a lullaby or read a bedtime story to your kids by scanning one of the patterns on the pj's with your smartphone and different child's bedtime story or song is revealed in this high tech world for some programming your t.v. remote seems like a difficult task with all the new emerging technologies constantly evolving our world one question for you is all of this tack really relieving stress in our lives or just creating more of it in washington. we're following a developing story this afternoon from guantanamo bay the department of defense says it plans to send to get mowed detainees back to their homes algeria the obama

administration made the decision today and inform congress of these plans so is this the sign of the white house is serious about closing gitmo only time will tell but the recent hunger strike there could be behind today's move and archie is playing expanded coverage of the guantanamo bay hunger strikes six month anniversary to air on august sixth. the guantanamo bay detention facility is now over eleven years old the broken presidential promises the congressional sabotaging the never ending war on terror all forces that have conspired together to keep this prison open it will be but at will hunger strike there is the tear it all down because this hunger strike there six months or two takes a closer look at the prison that just came to close and. you won't want to mess it that does it for now for more on the stories we cover to go

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