you know this for your media project c.e.o. don don carty dot com. breaking news out of egypt where bloody clashes have erupted between security forces and morsy loyalists today alone scores have died bringing the death toll to nearly seven hundred you know president obama has canceled he joins us egypt military exercise the latest from tahrir square is next also defenders of the n.s.a. in its surveillance programs have said that these powers have not been abused but the latest snowden leak shows thousands of rule violations occurred in one year alone more on the expanding surveillance state coming out. and bradley manning faces a potential ninety years in prison for leaking classified documents to wiki leaks today the government gives a rebuttal against the army whistleblowers defense more on today's events from fort meade straight ahead.

it is friday august sixteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching r.t. and we begin with breaking news out of egypt where a nother bloody day of fighting has resulted in more deaths following the gyptian military's brutal crackdown this week on supporters of the muslim brotherhood islamicists in egypt called for a day of rage and again took to the streets now here's a live look at what's going on in egypt right now what you're looking at is the arab contractors building and it's on fire now there are reports of clashes getting worse security officials in egypt say at least seventy people died across the country today in cairo mosques are overfilling with dead bodies also today nearly seven hundred people have been killed in clashes so far artie's belcher reports on

the latest on the violence in egypt. it's another chaotic day here in egypt and this is what the supporters of mohamed morsy called a day of rage in ramses square which is in downtown cairo just off the tree and it's absolutely massive the moment that twenty eight marches converged on the square when they basically intended to set up a sit in by about how close to three pm gunshots could be heard both automatic weapons and why four rounds and i'm not sure exactly how it started it was coming from direction of a police station called as became a police station need to ramses square but there are wildly differing accounts about who attacked first one side they're saying the missing brotherhood supporters have mostly fired on the police and of course the protesters are saying it was the other way round however you could hear these very loud gunshots coming from above from the side from everywhere including tear gas the protesters attempted to get rid of the effects of takeouts by by building bomb fires including the kind of says on them but to no avail people were scattered i saw protesters being ferried of the

scene with very bloody head wounds it's not just the capital which the moment is that is it some more of a war zone there's also been reports of fatalities now to the north in the nile delta and yet that which is the governor as we've also heard at the top of these spending which is near port saif in addition there are clashes in alexandria as well as time to as he was seeing this kind of violence spreading everywhere as supporters of mostly either an altercation is with the with the police all with residents of the area so really what this is coming off the back of is of course wednesday's very bloody crackdown by the security forces on two sittings in cairo it's quite a serious situation here we're not sure how it's going to go particularly as the ministry of interior set the stating that they are going to allow their offices to fire live ammunition on anyone that was attacking them and also state buildings so we could see these conscious escalate further and more fatalities as the day go on . tru reporting from egypt meanwhile the united states struggles to figure out its

role let me quickly deteriorating situation. as one point three billion dollars in aid is handed over to egypt every single year and considering that aid is now going into the hands of the gyptian military which is currently in control of the country's government and carrying out the senseless killing of protesters in the streets calls to cut off u.s. aid to egypt are now growing louder senator rand paul argued the law is very clear when a coup d'etat takes place foreign aid must stop regardless of the circumstances with more than five hundred dead and thousands more injured this week alone chaos only continues to grow in egypt so mr president stop skirting the issue follow the law and cancel all foreign aid to egypt but could that actually do anything i was joined earlier by r.t. arabic correspondent rima one hundred and i asked her just how influential u.s. aid to egypt is anyway. it is and it isn't maybe a year ago the u.s.

aid to egypt had a lot more leverage u.s. had a lot more number written to than it does right now it seems by any account any person you talk to their answer is what does it do to us if they're giving us this aid which basically was given because because egypt signed this treaty with israel if they're the egyptians are saying this money is going to determine what our life should be like we don't want this money and we're seeing that a lot of countries in the gulf are now poor and then money into egypt so maybe it did have some leverage before but now i see as very very very little influence in egypt especially we see now in a lot of people are writing that the egyptians there now whether it's the military or the people do not care anymore and their latest actions show about when this started a few years ago in egypt the u.s.

grudgingly. asked mubarak to step aside they grudgingly accept the results of the election when the muslim brotherhood came to power and they seem to grow jingly except what the military did a few weeks ago as and i mean they haven't been reluctant to call it a coup when they haven't cut off i mean they say what is the united states' role in egypt does it even have a role in egypt should it have a rule egypt asking. well this is a very complicated issue does the u.s. have a role yes of course it does have or all in all the arab countries and everything that's happening in the arab countries the aid that there are support that they are giving to some of these countries the diplomatic support these statements this is support to the existing the regions in the country but is the u.s. telling the military or the muslim brotherhood what to do right now are they asking the muslim brotherhood to go out to the streets and protest are they asking them to be peaceful or not to be peaceful or are they asking the military to crack down on

the protesters they way they are doing right now no and so far yes it does have a role in these countries and no it does not have a role in this country especially in egypt right now given the violence that's that's going on how does it i mean every we crossed a point where it's now impossible that any sort of power sharing deal or any sort of coalition government with the muslim brotherhood could be worked out to find peace or is this just going to is this violence going to continue until we are situation like syria i think only time will tell but what are the options right now on the table for egypt we there are the option of todd there is the option of talks of dialogue of negotiation between the qualities on the ground and there is the option of lebanon like or syria like syria like scenarios and it's up to decide which scenario they want to go other countries have tried to crackdown on dissidents on. opposition whatever you want to call it in this case and

we've seen where that took those countries it's negotiations you diplomatic solutions that usually prevent country from falling into more chaos we have a civil war in syria we had a bombing in lebanon yesterday we have a wave of bombings in iraq recently what is ongoing violence in egypt i mean for the entire region egypt is. in arabic it's called the mother of the wald what happens in egypt a fact what happens are facts what happens in the rest of the arab affects what happens in the region as a whole and a lot of people worry that the instability in egypt will just mean more instability in the region stability in egypt will help stability in the other parts of the arab world should this crackdown that we're seeing the egyptian military which should have skeptical about the military's claims that they still plan on hitting power over civilian authority after democratic elections they've made clear that they do

not want to run the show in egypt they made it clear that they do not want to be part of the political life in egypt what we see now though is that this is part of taken of play in a very big role in the political life in egypt we need to wait and see what the military decides to do afterwards are they going to play a much bigger role in the political life after they're done with their mission if you want to call it what are they going to do really determines what role is the military play and inject many people are skeptical now that the military is going and has been will always be the arbiter and in debt they have done this for the past decades and they will continue to do that and a lot of people say what interest does it how does it help the military at this point to continue to play a big role in egypt if they do accomplish what they want to accomplish or what they said that they will accomplish and this will have to wait and see correspondent

rima thank you so much. and now on to rampant abuse at the n.s.a. the washington post reports on edward snowden's latest leak an internal audit at the national security agency that reveals the spies agency breaking both internal and foreign intelligence surveillance court privacy rules thousands of times every single year the documents cover the first quarter of two thousand and twelve and highlight an increasing number of incidents or what the n.s.a. calls surveillance that in appropriately reaches american citizens incidents are blamed on either operator error or system error now one week ago the president held a press conference on the n.s.a. leaks and he made this claim about the program if you look at the reports even the disclosures that mr snowden's put forward all the stories that have been written what you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs

what you're hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused now part of the reason they're not abuse is because the checks are in place. and those abuses would be against the law and would be against the orders of the the fisc of course this latest revelation showing thousands of abuses each year appears to contradict the president's claims these documented abuses occurred at the n.s.a.'s fort meade headquarters and other washington area facilities government officials said the number of abuses would be much higher if other collection centers were also included not only that other documents reveal that the n.s.a. purposely withheld information of these abuses from oversight staff also the documents uncover a program out of the n.s.a. that collected and stored both u.s. and foreign e-mails together for months before the pfizer court even was made aware of its existence and eventually ruled it to be unconstitutional. one thing that's

still uncertain is just how many americans have been affected by these so-called incidents at the n.s.a. for more on what can be learned from these latest leaks i was joined earlier by the stepparent of it director of epix domestic surveillance project and i started by asking her what type of abuses this audit revealed many of them are human operator error and that includes a wider range of things from typing in the wrong target not having enough information down to basic typos in one instance we saw that an analyst typed in two zero two is the area come rushing to d.c. and sort of to zero the country code for egypt and ended up sucking in all sorts of phone call information for people in the washington d.c. domestic you know united states persons in the washington d.c. area when they were meant to be sucking in god knows how many calls that were taking place in egypt so those of us who live in d.c.

likely as a result of this mistake had our had our communications swept up and analyzed as well again you know think about who lives in d.c. if this leak is going to be more interesting to some of the lawmakers than maybe some of the others it's because they when might that has and probably were affected by it that's an interesting point you know unnamed official in this washington post article tried to defend the n.s.a. against against all these claims of abuse and they said you can look at it as a percentage of our total activity that occurs each day you look at a number in absolute terms that looks big and when you when you look at it in relative terms it looks a little different in other words he's basically saying or she's basically saying we're collecting so much data that a few thousand abuses is a relatively small amount is that supposed to make us feel more comfortable about the program or actually frighten us even more two points actually for this to be made the first is the public version of these reports actually said the number of abuses was a small number not a small percentage it actually is

a very. large number it was a basic math you know number size is not the same as percentage size and you're getting down to the numbers in seven to eight incidents a day which is quite large however if there are many many times they're collecting information a day maybe that number is small and in correlation but that doesn't mean that we should be a share that means that the n.s.a. is collecting all sorts of information and that there's so many chances for abuse to take place in fact they're saying that abuses are going up from year to year not down right it seems to open a lot more doors to questions and this is a little small number compared to all the other stuff we're doing as far as the oversight side chain goes these abuses like the one you mention about washington d.c. inadvertently being swept up. officials were told to basically whitewash these to keep them away from oversight staff the washington post contacted senator dianne feinstein she's the head of the senate intelligence committee in charge of

overseeing these programs and she didn't even wasn't even aware of this audit even existing until the washington post told her about it so how can any of this be considered effective oversight well it's not that's not i mean the basic answer is there is no effective oversight to face a court there's a one party system they only hear one side of the argument congress is not effective oversight they aren't briefed on what's going on if they were they said that they could have had access to this report that they didn't know existed if they went to a specific secure room and didn't bring any staff and didn't bring any attorneys in to bring anything to take notes on and then they could look at the document that they didn't know was there this is this is no way over say it will stay you know this is you we've also been told that oversights existing in the pfizer court which you just just mentioned i want to read a quote here by the pfizer court chief judge his use that u.s. district judge reggie walton this is what he said the fisc the foreign intelligence surveillance court is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is

provided to the court the fisc disney. and have the capacity to investigate issues of noncompliance and in that respect that this is in the same position as any other court when it comes to enforcing government compliance with its orders what is it about the foreign intelligence surveillance court that prevents it from being that necessary oversight well it's interesting that they say they're in the same position as a normal court because they very likely are in the same position but things don't play out the way that they would in a normal court in a court you would issue a surveillance order be it a warrant or some other undocument that allows police law enforcement to go out and conduct surveillance of an individual and eventually that individual will be supposedly brought into court and presented with the evidence against him or her and allowed to challenge the gathering of that evidence under the fourth amendment under legal and statutory standards you never get that chance in the pfizer court you never bring somebody into court there's never a opportunity to challenge the collection of this data so you never take that extra

step to see if the n.s.a. is i don't have a teaser when we hear about reforms to the pfizer court in the president mentions you know perhaps a privacy advocate and senators calling for a privacy advocate doesn't matter for miss the real problem with the far as a court it catches one of the real problems which is that it's a you know courts are supposed to be a two party process is supposed to be adversarial and you have one person going in and presenting an argument there's nobody on the other side now having somebody on the other side isn't going to fix that and less there's an extra piece put into place to make it a meaningful adversary you have public reporting you have some sort of accountability so that person isn't just another green light to let these programs move forward and they can continue to throw up the oversight flag and just last question a few seconds here can we rest assure that these are just operator error screening these abuses or might there be some intentionality here well let's throw me out so they they get to find these as not intentional errors none of these are intentional

but when you think about. you know i've put in an area code instead of a country code where do you cross the line from being a non intentional air to being such gross negligence that you have to be said that you're acting intentionally are very close to it well said that was a missed a part of it is the director of the domestic surveillance project proper program excuse me at epic and it's another day in the sentencing phase of the bradley manning trial we see here is our t.v. video from the trial today is the government rebuts manning's defense this week which included a statement from the convicted leaker himself apologizing for any of the unintended consequences of his disclosure many continues to face the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison or tease liz wall was at the trial here's a report. well the government's rebuttal case in this sentencing phase of the trial went very quiet today the prosecution only presented one witness and that was

special agent david shaffer he wasn't present during this testimony but it was read out loud in court he testified throughout the trial before providing friends a computer analysis and his testimony today discussed a series of e-mails between manning and a friend as a friend by the name of the any lark now the content of these e-mails were not discussed just that there was a record of the communication between the two were manning confided in him about his experience in the military we're not really sure why the government focused on these chats and may have something to do with the testimony we have heard from mental health professionals we heard just a couple days ago that this testimony said that manning was suffering from severe stress he was suffering from severe anxiety and was diagnosed with personality disorders including a gender identity crisis and that he felt alienated while he was stationed in iraq because he had no one to talk to about his issues at the time that he was deployed

in the brief rebuttal from the government today just a couple days after a very emotional day of testimony during the defense phase of the sentencing hearing we heard heartbreaking testimony from manning sister talking about how she was tasked with raising mandy's since both her parents were alcoholics and she talked about her mother's suicide attempt overdosing on value and it was after this testimony that manning took the stand and apologized for his actions and said that he was sorry sorry that he hurt the united states coombs today gave a brief statement after court wrapped up and told spectators that that day was a very rough day but today manning is is in good spirits he said he said that he is likely to see. of his sentence in fort leavenworth kansas court is back in session on monday afternoon when we will hear closing arguments in the sentencing phase of

the case then the judge will immediately go into deliberations we're told the sentence could come either tuesday or wednesday of next week and as we reported faces ninety years in prison it's up to the judge how much of that sentence he is going to serve here and for me and maryland liz wahl team over the last few years we've watched military and police activities transition from manned operations to unmanned operations and the use of drones drones are now an integral part of the global war on terror having just recently carried out a barrage of strikes in yemen and there's also becoming more and more useful as a surveillance tool for police in the united states but really we're just at the cusp of this brave new world of drones or tease megan lopez reports all right i am here at the twenty thirteen a.v.'s i conference which is everything on man that you

could possibly want so all of the hottest technologies that are in the military and in domestic use right now are here in one convention center so let's take a look at some of the most interesting technologies that i was able to find today come on first up this robotics he developed by recon robotics this micro robot weighs one point two pounds and provides an extra pair of eyes and ears for troops in the field it's durable so you can throw it it will stand a thirty foot drop one hundred twenty five zero so soon as we do that. then up as forward and side to side and turn it it's so easy a child could use it but more than that multiple people can simultaneously stream the audio and video it even has infrared to work in total darkness it is really important for our law enforcement and our military operators be able to have the ability to send something and find out what's going on to gather as much intel in

our concepts as they can before they're going in both the military and police departments are taking note this bot has been used by nearly six hundred law enforcement agencies and the military has deployed more than two thousand two hundred of them in combat regions just a little bonsa keep your eye on after all it'll have one on you next a lightweight surveillance unmanned vehicle or you avi known as i start developed by the british startup company bluebird this little guy is made of foam and folds up to fit in a backpack so i mean protection. coming from over there i can crouch down. shake it without even make my pitch a big. just launch it. and then i can sit on the ground and see exactly what's happening around me about making myself almighty target moving down our list of most unique technology at the a.v.s. i conference lockheed martin's transformer still in its conceptual stages this new a.v. is exactly what its title suggests and unmanned flying bot with the ability to become

any type of you avi the military could need or as the company describes it transformers unique design could adapt to multiple missions with interchangeable payloads including cargo pods medical evacuation units a tactical ground vehicle armed scouts and reconnaissance and strike capabilities if you thought the transformer was impressive get ready for this this is mars or the modular advancement arm robotic system but mars is really a full escalation of force robot so what i mean by full escalation of force to provide ju non-lethal less than lethal and lethal force this little guy is essentially the robotic replacement for an infantry man starting with a two way there's also a siren green laser dazzler or m two zero three grenade launcher that into forty machine six camels the marine corps fighting lab has been experimenting with this technology since january the army has also shown interest in deploying this over

seas and a coup one day come to the aid of police departments right here at home it's controlled it looks like a game boy and its maker kinetic north america says this machine will save lives last on our list of most interesting technology what we have here is an atmospheric satellite platform that is able to stay aloft for up to five years using solar cell and battery technologies you heard him right a u a v's satellite that can fly for years titan aerospace is the company behind this bohemia it can fly sixty five thousand feet up in the sky and can be used for everything from monitoring crops to predicting weather patterns. you could even strap a camera to this bad boy so there you have it those are just a few of our favorite technologies future here today all of them very interesting all of them very very high tech but there is so much going on here that we can spend all day showing you the different things that are featured here i mean there are things for the military and defense there are private smaller you avi's that

are featured here there are even an entire helicopter featured all at this conference all proving that this industry isn't just growing it's booming in washington mega lopez r.t. . and finally some people and i'm not included among them believe that when a bird makes a let's call it a deposit on you that it's a good book but check this out then why not just be good luck or may also be healthy and good for your skin still following me here's our tease on a stylish year turco with the story of the bird. youth and beauty don't last forever how far would you go to look good in new york millions of women are always eager to find out the best and latest in beauty services so salons have to tried hard to compete a possible new trend something you would least expect. a skin treatment using bird poop. yes you heard it right bird poop we test

out the geisha facial at a salon that brought this i pop in service to manhattan. master as the titian and celebrity fishel is she zuko bernstein brought the beauty secret from her native japan one day i just remembered what my mother told me when i was in middle school. she told me about the one thousand gale droppings the geisha. you know they use they used to use this one thousand go droppings to cleanse their heavy makeup. facial comes at a price is nice and one hundred eighty bucks gets you a one hour treatment my regular client follows the day they thought that i was seeing wrong and because of my english i said to them like a no no no this is this is the poop then they loved it but bird poop on your face is not all you get the procedure involves cleansing relation with poop extraction

and massage and agreeing to college unmasked every strikes despite probably a popular misconception and doesn't have the smell the food was powdered mixed with rice brand to take the smell out i can bring just like the. thing if it doesn't work so i researched it in the insane x. for just very well in the whining gives you this shine to collect the poop nobody actually chooses around birds or scrapes the waste cars their farms in japan where the special birds are raised this is not from center parcs pigeons who. it's none this is studied in one thousand gail now because it's so rare to get the group but the same species she says the procedures also super popular among men and pregnant women because it's all natural like a chemical peels michael dumb abrasion it works very well but some people don't

want to have chemicals the service in this product this profit for those people. be warned the salon owner does not recommend gathering birds and trying to create this visual experience at home to save a buck if you want good results did i turn into a bird. because they are to new york. but for now for more on the stories we cover go to youtube. america check out our website our team. usa you can follow me on twitter sam sachs see you back here at eight o'clock.

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