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 meanwhile president obama has canceled a joint u.s. egypt military exercise all the latest from tahrir square is next and defenders of the n.s.a. and 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 and 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 gave a rebuttal against the army whistleblowers defense more on today's events from for me to straight ahead.

it's friday august sixteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sachs and you're watching our team and we begin with breaking news out of egypt where another bloody day of fighting has resulted in more deaths following the gyptian military's brutal crackdown this week on supporters of the muslim brotherhood as long as called for a day of rage today and again took to the streets 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 overflowing with dead bodies today nearly seven hundred people have been killed in clashes so far artie's bell true 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 call the day of rage in ramses square

which is in downtown cairo just off the area 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 half past two three pm gunshots could be heard both automatic weapons and why four rounds i'm not sure exactly how it started it was coming from direction 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 and supporters have mostly fired on the police and of course the protesters are saying it was the other way around 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 and getting the kind of says on them but to no avail people were scattered i saw protesters being ferried at 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 a governor as we've also heard at the time it is expanding which is naples to eat in addition they're conscious in alexandria as well as tom says who is 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 inquiry it's quite a serious situation here we're not sure how it's going to go particularly as the ministry of interior has set the stage they're 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. that was artie's bell true reporting from egypt meanwhile the united states struggles to figure out its role in this 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 egyptian military which is

currently in control of the country's government in carrying out the senseless killing of protesters in the streets calls to cut off u.s. aid to egypt are 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 and i was joined earlier by r t arabic correspondent rima. 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 elaborate and to them 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 there are 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 do not 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. 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

accept 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 to say what is the united states' role in egypt doesn't even have a role in egypt should it ever or egypt is going. well this is a very complicated issue does the u.s. have a role yes of course it does have all in all the arab countries and everything that's happening in the arab countries that aid that there are support they are giving to some of these countries the diplomatic support these statements this is support to the existing the regimes 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. or are they asking the military to crack down on the protesters they way they're doing right now you know 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 end i mean have 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 enter a 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 tod 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 crack down on this advance on. opposition whatever you want to call. and we've seen where that took those countries it's negotiations 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 does ongoing violence in egypt mean for the entire region egypt is even in arabic it's called the mother of the world what happens in egypt the facts 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 regions the ability in egypt will help stability in the other parts of the arab world should this crackdown that we're seeing in the egyptian military which should have because skeptical about the military's claims that they still plan on heading power over to 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 take and. play and 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 playing it into 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 yes we'll have to wait and see arabic 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 they were bill's the spy agency breaking both internal and point 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 inappropriately reaches american citizens and these 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 defending the program if you look at the reports even 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 your hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused now part of the reason they're not abuse is because these checks are in place. and

those abuses would be against the law and would be against the orders of the fisc. well 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 included not only that other documents reveal that the n.s.a. purposely withheld information of these abuses from the oversight staff and 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. well for more on what can be learned from these latest leaks i was joined earlier by amy stepanovich 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 yeah and 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 might it has and probably were affected by it

and that's an interesting point you know moved official in this washington post article tried to defend the n.s.a. against or 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 we 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. 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 the percentage size and you're getting down to the numbers that seven to eight incidents a day which is quite large however if there are many many times they're collecting

information today maybe that number is small and in correlation but that doesn't mean that we should be as. sure 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 of the code or 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 stuff 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 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 this is no way over say it will stay on this issue 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 fiskars not 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. you 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 fight as a 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 it is something 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 the reformists the real problem with the fires accord 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 but 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 that's so they they want 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. that was a missed

a part of it is the director of the domestic surveillance program program excuse me at epic. and it's another day in the sentencing phase of the bradley manning trial this is our t.v. video from the trial today see manning being let out of the courtroom the government is rebutting manning's defense this week which included a statement from the convicted leaker himself apologizing for any of the unintended consequences of his disclosures many continues to face the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison artie's liz wahl was at the trial here's her 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 of his

a friend by the name of the any large 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 are not really sure why the government focused on these chats and may have something to do with the testimony we've 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 what his issues at the time that this boy and the brief rebuttal from the government today comes 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 man to send both her parents were alcoholics as 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 that 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 i mediately go and see deliberations we're told sentence could come either tuesday or wednesday 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 sara here in for me of maryland liz wahl r t moving on there are one hundred seven nuclear facilities in the united states and get this not a single one of them is properly secured against a terrorist threat or the effort of bomb grade nuclear materials yet that's the conclusion of a report released thursday by the nuclear proliferation prevention project the report was commissioned by the department of defense to examine the security gaps in our nation's nuclear facilities more than ten years after nine eleven and it found that some of the most vulnerable reactors are in california florida and new york and one in virginia that's within twenty five miles of the white house and u.s. capitol according to the nine eleven commission report mohamed auto had scouted out the indian point nuclear facility just out just outside new york city as a potential target the report calls for more funding from the federal government to

fill security holes and enact a new uniform set of security standards at all facilities. over the last few years we've watched military and police activities transition from manned operations to on manned operations and the use of drones drones are now an interval part of the global war on terror having just recently carried out a barrage of strikes in yemen and they're 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 teasmade lopez reports all right i am here at the twenty thirteen a.v.'s i conference which is everything on manned 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 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 into a stand a thirty foot drop one hundred twenty five zero percent as we do that then. up as forward and side to side will 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 our military apparatus be able to have the ability to send something and find out what's going on to gather as much intel in our constants 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 startup company blue bear this little guy is made of foam and folds into a backpack so i'm in protection. coming from over there i can crouch down. shake it all about even make my picture bigger just launch it. and then i can sit on the ground and say exactly what was happening around me about making myself almighty. moving down our list of most unique technology at the conference lockheed martin's transformer still in its conceptual stages this new avi is exactly what its title suggests an 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 it provides you 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 in two or three grenade launcher that into forty machine gun 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

saddle a 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.b. satellite that can fly for years titan aerospace is the company behind this behemoth 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 is 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 is 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.c. 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 good luck but check this out and why not just be good luck there may also be healthy and good for your skin still following me here's our teaser on to start your turkey with the story of the birds. 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 try hard to keep 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 popping service to manhattan. master as the titian and celebrity fishel is she zucker 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. make up. the show comes at a price is nice and one hundred eighty bucks gets you a one hour treatment my regular client was the day they thought that i was saying wrong because of my english i said to them like a normal no this is this is the one who they loved it but bird poop on your face is not all you get the procedure involves cleansing relation with poop extraction a massage and a green tea college unmasked right despite probably a popular misconception a dozen times the food was powdered mixed with rice brand to take the smell out i can membrane just like that. thing if it doesn't work so i researched

it. explored just very well in the lining gives you this shine to collect the poop nobody actually chooses around birds or scrapes the waste cars there are farms in japan where the special birds are raised this is not from center parcs pigeons it's a. it's none this is a good one thousand gail now because it's so rare to get the group but it's 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 dunn of religion it works very well but some people don't want to have chemicals the service in this product is 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 don't turn into

a bird. just as you are to new york. but i'll do it i'm sorry i'm so oxford i'll take it easy. technology innovation all the developments around. the future covered. good afternoon and a welcome to prime interests i'm terry and boring and i'm bob bush and let's get to today's headlines. well hedge funds are coming to a four one k. near you what the so-called alternative investment space has been more and is something that unsophisticated investors.