with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the reports. coming up president obama held a news conference this afternoon before heading to martha's vineyard for a week a large part of that press conference dealt with concerns over n.s.a. surveillance and edward snowden's leaks are political commentator was out the white house and brings us the latest. this week marks the sixty eighth anniversary of the atomic bombs being dropped in hiroshima and nagasaki japan but activists now fear that americans are forgetting the horrific lessons that these bombings taught us that story up ahead. and relations between the u.s. and russia remain cold over edward snowden's asylum and now today in d.c. there with bilateral talks between top u.s. and russian officials so what's the focus of those meetings find out later on tonight show.

dave noon it's friday august ninth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm marinate and you're watching our two. before heading to mother venue for the weekend president obama held a news conference at the white house this was the first formal press conference since april thirtieth and he spoke on a wide range of topics including everything from government surveillance to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden to us russian relations our political commentator sam sachs was at the white house for the press conference and joined me earlier to discuss president obama's speech i started by asking him about the timing of this press conference where you see each week the guardian comes out with a new week the president wants to get out ahead of these now he wants to start talking about them also congress there's a lot of action just a few weeks ago that there musher amendment nearly passed which would have put a huge hamper on the n.s.a.'s ability to run these programs so i think the

president six sort of start trying to get out in front of these these issues before they keep snowballing and that makes sense now let's talk about some of the reform the president is open to and what he had to say about that well he first address the section two fifteen of the patriot act section two fifteen is what allows the government to go to businesses like horizon and collect massive amounts of data from their users in this is metadata this is the phone numbers and you know who you are who you're talking to and when you're talking to them and he said that he's open to to making public a lot of the legal justifications for that i think we have a clip here of him talking about it. my direction the department of justice will make public the legal rationale for the government's collection activities under section two fifteen of the patriot act the n.s.a. is taking steps to put in place a full time civil liberties and privacy officer and released information the details its mission authorities and oversight. so is this section two fifteen here

like i said they a mushroom i mean almost completely defunded it now the president they did release this white paper the department of justice released this white paper showing legal justification a lot of this stuff is classified information so it was left out of it but in it they basically say yes this program is very broad i mean we were told that millions of customers arise and customers were brought into it yes it's very broad but they say that it's relevant because of all these records they could be useful some time into the future they justify that they're using three hops which means if you find a target that you want to conduct surveillance on not only can you conduct on them but you can take a jump hop from them and see who they're communicating from up from there so you they're communicating communicating with them in a hop and there are three hops and they said that ultimately because the supreme court has ruled that you don't have an expectation of privacy over your phone numbers when you're talking over the phone that this program is completely constitutional a sweep up millions of metadata belonging to americans who use for example horizon

right now let's move on to the face the courts did the president say anything about making any changes there yes he hinted that he's open to some pfizer court reforms that's going to play the clip here of him him talking about the court one of the concerns that people raise is that a judge reviewing a request from the government to conduct programatic surveillance only hears one side of the story may tilt it too far in favor of security may not pay enough attention to liberty and while i've got confidence in the court and i think they've done a fine job i think we can provide greater assurances that the court is looking at these issues from both perspectives. so this is been a big concern because a lot of people are saying that the secret files the court is just a rubber stamp for the government after all the government doesn't have any opposition in the court basically the n.s.a. goes to the court the d.o.j. or goes to the court and says hey we want to conduct surveillance on this person in the judge's ok what for example senator blumenthal has done is propose

legislation that would put a special privacy advocate on the court who could argue against the government's claims to do surveillance and try and look out for civil liberties so we'll see if maybe the white house and senator blumenthal can come to an agreement and install some sort of opposition on to the pi's accord it's interesting now did the president have anything to say about edward snowden all his lakes and all this noise around him now and the fact that he has asylum in russia yes he was directly asked you know given the fact that this whole debate wouldn't be happening given that these reforms you're introducing wouldn't have been possible without edward snowden has your opinion of edward snowden changed and here's what the president said. no i don't think mr snowden was a patriot as i said in my opening remarks i called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before mr snowden made these leaks the president's echoing a sentiment that a lot of members of congress are having even though they're using edward snowden's leaks to write and try and pass legislation to rein in the n.s.a.

bring transparency to the prize court nobody really wants to give edward snowden any credit for it and the president says that look we were talking about these issues before snowden came even even came into the picture. that's a bit debatable i mean where on the president's agenda was the n.s.a. we've heard a lot about immigration we've heard a lot about jobs you know all this stuff i highly doubt that anywhere on top of the president's agenda was reforming the n.s.a. at some point in the next three or four years of his presidency now what does present say about the general oversight of all of these programs the surveillance program he said he was pleased with the oversight he said he believes there's enough oversight he thinks that these these leaks have led the media to. kind of mischaracterize what these programs are doing but he said he's open to reforms to try and restore public faith in these programs which you know doesn't seem to make much sense here we know for a fact based on one fison court opinion that the n.s.a.

did overstepped its bounds and has committed unconstitutional spying we know that senator ron wyden has said that this that this is happening we know that today the latest leak coming out today shows that there's a backdoor loophole that allows collected data on american citizens to be accessed by the n.s.a. without any sort of warrant so if the president's trying to make an argument that there's a anough oversight all these leaks are seemingly allowing that point now there's been criticism that's been leveled at the president for appearing on the tonight show with jay leno and he denied the existence of these domestic spying programs can an animal not alone writing and basically said we don't have a domestic surveillance program the kind of reminds you of james clapper telling ron wyden no we're not collecting data on american citizens boom yes yes they are doing it. again all a lot of these revelations seem to suggest that there is a domestic spying program americans communications that leave the country are being monitored collected and search for identifiers that might pin and pin them to some

foreign target you have this program x. keyscore that allows analysts to specifically narrow searches on on american citizens if they want to so we're talking semantics here really and if he says no. domestic spying program right now another issue on yemen there were three strikes in one day now this is in response to you know the allegedly data interceptions can you speak about that what the president had to say and this year the president was asked about directly asked about if he has anything to say about the recent uptick in drone strikes in yemen as you said there's been there was three drone strikes yesterday the president said he's not going to talk about it he's not going to talk about yemen which is pretty interesting we're bombing a foreign country you would think the president's going to say something about him to the cia that's. just talk with colonel morris davis the cia is a civilian agency that has about as much authority as he said to kill as the national park service so you know the back of the president isn't open to talking about bombing a foreign country shows that not only have times changed considerably but. that's

pretty much when you started the times have changed rather you have that was a political commentator sam sachs thank you sam. the father of a chechen man fatally shot by an f.b.i. agent during questioning about his relationship with boston bombing suspect terrell antar son have said he is now suing the agency twenty seven year old abraham todashev was shot and killed by an f.b.i. agent who visited his florida home in may r.t. corner correspondent on a stasia check enough with the latest. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second. which barely containing his grief. of takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to seek answers for his son

a brother games tragic death this is the entrance into the condo where twenty seven year old greg lived minutes away from disney world it was here that on may twenty second after reportedly being questioned by officials for hours he was shot and killed by the f.b.i. under circumstances most of which remain murky. from reminiscing about ibrahim as a child who was very much into sports here he is at a school holiday party with his little brother open. to looking through graphic images that a parent should never get to see images that will haunt him for the rest of his life. four or five shots right into the heart i've never seen things like this even in the movies not in the u.s. not in russia you know where. such violence from law enforcement nowhere have i seen anything like this i mean. the morning father's on a mission to uncover the truth behind the f.b.i.'s killing of his son he's even willing to debate this but i want justice honestly because an unprecedented

intentional murder of my son took place. ibrahim came to the u.s. in two thousand and eight to study english and ended up staying to pursue a career in martial arts this spring he was questioned in connection with a triple homicide in massachusetts as well as the boston marathon bombings as officials believe the chechen young man had been friends with the deceased suspect . the father says the only connection his son had to the tsar knives was a chechen background that had once prompted them to exchange phone numbers. they said he was connected to the events in boston with this and that they can't connect any dots now if they wanted the truth they would have killed him they would have questioned him appropriately even if we were talking about a criminal in this case they took the law into their own hands it were given received multiple fatal gunshots to the heart and head during the night of the

questioning the f.b.i. claimed a violent confrontation took place but has been blocking autopsy results from going public some reports suggested breggin was armed with a knife others a broomstick but there are also claims that he was not armed at all scored meanwhile a deal by key to dosh of says his son had just had serious knee surgery and could barely move without crutches demands from the american civil liberties union and the council on american islamic relations for florida authorities to hold an investigation were declined while the f.b.i. claims to be conducting an inquiry of its own as we know they would never be able to prove his guilt in anything but because they killed him if they kept him alive tried him that would be a whole different story. showing us the postcards from american sending condolences to his family abdul by key hopes those behind his son's killing would show some heart as well mostly it was a good maybe the f.b.i. will have some kind of guilt resurface and admit that they committed this fatal

mistake for several years prior to his death ibrahim was not able to leave us while waiting to be granted a green card he eventually received permanent resident status and had plans to visit home on may twenty fourth but he died two days earlier. i'll never get tired i'll do what i can i'm just not able to leave this. deal while the father still has hope for justice he will never be able to bring his son back or meant his own broken heart and r.t. orlando florida. now to fort meade maryland where this afternoon the government called its final witness in the sentencing phase of army private bradley manning's trial on thursday u.s. military expert on militant islamism ideology took to the stand as a witness for the prosecution a navy commander testified that al qaeda could have used the classified information disclosed by manning through wiki leaks to plan attacks on u.s.

forces but went on to say that there's no solid evidence that they did the defense objected to the vast majority of testimony saying it was cumulative and or speculative making it not relevant and rather than stop the testimony military judge denise dillon decided to hear and rule on friday or next week if it was admissible bradley manning's defense will begin its sentencing case on monday morning. this week marks the sixty eighth anniversary since the u.s. dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki japan the blossom cigarette in men women and children killing more than two hundred thousand people and tens of thousands more in the following months and years the us is the only nation to have dropped such a weapon of mass destruction on a population that many other countries possess nuclear weapons today now peace activists are worried that americans are forgetting the horrific lessons of the bombing ortiz remember lindo house the story.

with songs of peace activists in santa monica california remember the victims of the hiroshima and nagasaki attack the first time troops dropped bombs i'm japan killing hundreds of thousands of. taping the structure of human booms. are on august sixth one thousand nine hundred five an atomic bomb named little boy fell on hiroshima the death toll is estimated at one hundred forty thousand it was a mass incineration of civilians at the end of a brutal world war. three days later the fatman bomb leveled nagasaki killing another seventy thousand the scene was so devastating that the u.s. government banned showing film footage of the carnage we must put an end to nuclear madness one of the rare public reminders of america's nuclear past is the chain

reaction sculpture designed bipolar to winning cartoonist paul conrad the huge chains wraparound they create a mushroom cloud conrad sun explains its significance and he doesn't want the world to annihilate itself with a chain reaction of atomic bombs flying between countries chain reaction would wipe out all mankind sometimes known as mutually assured destruction conrad sentiments are inscribed at the base this is a statement of peace may never become an epitaph but the peace memorial is in peril the city could get rid of the iconic sculpture if citizens can't come up with four hundred thousand dollars for renovation the chain reaction sculpture behind me is a stark warning about the dangers of nuclear war the political piece of art is in danger of being torn down and some worry that the memory of america's nuclear terror. well also go with it the reminder remains relevant in today's turbulent

times young kids don't know what a nuclear blast look like we are just as close to nuclear destruction as we were twenty years ago when this is put up. in japan tens of thousands commemorated the victims of hiroshima and nagasaki in the u.s. the memorials are much smaller as a nation fails to remember its atomic corps. in santa monica california. are. while this week marks the anniversary of the atomic catastrophe as of hiroshima and nagasaki japan today japanese attention turns to other nuclear concerns tensions in japan are rising over the radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean from the country's

crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of two thousand and eleven to discuss the current state of affairs at fukushima i was joined earlier by paul gunter director of reactor oversight project at beyond nuclear dot org and i started off by asking him how long the contaminated water had been leaking into the pacific ocean. very likely since the explosions in the meltdown fukushima daiichi in march of two thousand and eleven that is quite a long time now how much and what sort of radiation is leaking into the pacific i know there's all different types of heating explain that one little detail well clearly what we've seen now is the movement of radioactive hydrogen tritium which is a mobile radioactive isotope but clearly. some radioactive cesium one thirty four one thirty seven strontium ninety we're seeing a full range of radioactive contaminants now moving which indicate that the damaged

cores of these reactors the meltdowns themselves have are now contributing to the contamination of the septic ocean and groundwater that's moving abroad a rate of about three hundred to four hundred gal. metric tons per day so but these numbers are really only approximations and will vary but clearly a lot of radioactivity is moving through groundwater into the ocean now why is the plant continuing to leak you'd think they would have or maybe they already have taken steps to contaminate some of this leakage well. they had you know tepco tokyo electric power company put up a temporary wall between the reactor wreckage and the the ocean but this is it really acted in nothing more than just like a dam so that the water is building up behind the dam and now it's breached the dam it's spilling over and the radioactive contamination is moving into the pacific but

it's. a right now we're seeing that the japanese government is in chaos this the fact that the revelation of this extensive contamination is coming now more than two years after the accident occurred indicates that it's can. clearly out of control and command and control is in chaos in japan right now and really the big question is why aren't they calling international aid to address the radioactive contamination of the pacific ocean why do you suspect that kind international. problems are i think clearly there's there's no transparency and the government and the industry as documented by the japanese diet their congress is that there's been a collusion all along and so what we're seeing is a veil being drawn over the accident to promote agenda for continue

the restart of these reactors in japan and to try to contain the bad news rather than the radiation that's very concerning because the radiation is much worse than just the news itself now what can be done beyond these dams that you mentioned before in terms of contaminating the leakage well. you know in order to contain the leaks we have to isolate the radioactive waste but indications are right now that the reactor structures themselves have been breached it's very likely that. some of the radioactive material of the melted cores have moved into the earth and. so containing that it's beyond containment right now i think that's the tragedy that we see unfolding as fukushima's radioactive water crisis is only beginning. that was paul gunter director of the reactor oversaw the project for

beyond nuclear dot org. now despite a recent diplomatic altercations russia's foreign and defense ministers arrived in washington d.c. friday to meet with their american counterparts secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel artie's guy and she began tells us the latest on how these high level meetings have gone remember the meeting between russian and u.s. officials at the state department comes days after president obama canceled the bilateral summit with the russian president in september more and more often we hear about a new cold war between moscow and washington so everyone was listening very closely to what officials on both sides were saying then we heard two different messages coming from president obama and for minister lavrov you remember the rewards you saw when we were saying goodbye you said will i believe that we can make a difference in the rest of their convictions let's. as adults.

and that's what we're trying to do because if you for. small incidents. become an impediment through every single. i think it would be it would be very good it's the room this president obama in the meantime did the opposite he has basically hyped up the cold war talk when president putin who was prime minister aware that it was president came back into power i think we saw more rhetoric on the russian side that was anti-american that . played into some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the united states and russia and i've encouraged mr putin. think forward as opposed to back on those issues with mixed success president obama also said in light of all the disagreements with russia mentioning syria and snowden

it's time to make appalls and to recalibrate the tone of the talks at the state department at least the opening part that we have seen since it was different there was an agreement on both sides that they should not lead disagreements and standards completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries can actually make one area where the two countries can make a difference is the crisis in syria both state the objective the same objective that they want to political solution that they want to bring all sides of the syrian conflict together in geneva to try and make. such a political solution the syrian opposition says they are not going to sit down a one paper with those who have blood on their hands moscow says in order to stop the bloodshed all hands need to come to the negotiating table and foreign minister lavrov this friday he said that secretary kerry assured him that the opposition will be there at that and go shading paypal so there were some very serious issues on the agenda like syria like missile defense in europe where russia and the u.s.

obviously don't see eye to eye but making progress on any of those topics becomes that much harder when the relations are defined by scandals and today we heard foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war talk but president obama's remarks seem to have exacerbated the tension. that was artie's guy and she can reporting. with websites like amazon it seems that you can buy pretty much anything without ever having to leave your home from d.v.d.'s to groceries there's almost nothing you can purchase on line but is this a good thing for more on not the residents laurie harford asked.

americans are rethinking it with nation of a gore of public shot in. we've got lots of reason to never leave our homes anymore and that could serve up some pretty heavy consequences for us as a nation here the fact global workplace analytics recently conducted a study which found that the number of people who work for mostly those nearly two point four million in two thousand and eleven and fourth reported last year that self employment has been a fourteen for twenty feet since two thousand and one so we're working out of our homes more and more. we're also shopping from home a lot more to one forecast as i made that online sales are on track to almost double what they are now to the tune of a whopping four hundred and thirty four billion dollars annually by twenty seventeen and we're also buying our necessities on line and having them delivered

to fresh direct delivers groceries and a cheap twenty five thousand orders a week in new york city alone while the hub and seamless delivery from restaurants and they see a combined total of over three point six million users every month. not only not leaving our own homes we aren't even leaving our parents' oems anymore a record twenty one point six million millennialism home with their parents and not even bothering to find their own homes to shut themselves into. now as that's the fact that fifty seven million americans suffer from anxiety disorders. three point two million have been specifically diagnosed with the core of phobia the fear of open spaces and going outside the time and treatment for that is an anti-depressant and in two thousand and eleven that c.d.c. reported that anti-depressant use in the u.s. has increased by nearly four hundred percent in the last two decades we're going

out of our homes less we're taking more and more and i just pressed. no wonder our birth rate has steadily declined by about nine percent over the last few years no wonder our population is set to shriek not grow at this rate no wonder our marriage rate is at the lowest it's been in over a century. we're bombarded with news about the growing surveillance state we're told to live in fear of terrorism economy is in shambles and technology enables us to never ever have to leave our house anymore so why should we is the future of america going to be a nation of a score of phobic shot and if so we just might be shutting out our potential for the future tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident

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