coming up on our t.v. if you've been through an airport in canada you may have been spied on new a week documented by edward snowden so that canadian intelligence used free airport wife eye to track passengers electronic activity even after they left the airport details of jones' revelations and a moment what does big point have in common with terrorist and edward snowden james clapper thinks they're all in national security threats after his testimony to the senate to the national intelligence director is only for this guy but coin as the preferred currency of criminals is that really the case and our coming up in colorado food producers are being denied the option of labeling their foods as g.m.o. free i'll talk about this and other food fights around the country with elizabeth

consented to also talk about her new documentary g m o m g later in the show. it's friday january thirty first five pm in washington d.c. and perry i'm boring you're watching r t america. we begin with a new revelation that has travelers passing through canadian airports considering going offline and documents leaked by edward snowden was just released by c.b.c. news in canada showing that canada's electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary online passengers for a day that after they left the terminal the operation by the communications security establishment canada the f.t.c. was revealed in a power point obtained by c.b.c.

news the documents show that the agency collected metadata on individuals when they log on the internet and international airport and use that information to track the people for over two weeks sober security experts in canada said this is certainly an awful and before this news broke c.f.c. chief john forster so this is like he was in agreement. c. sec under its legislation cannot target canadians anywhere in the world or anyone in canada including visitors to canada yet to c.b.c. analysts say these new documents show that airline passengers at a canadian airports are clearly in canada the c.f.e. issued a statement in response to the report saying that no canadians or foreign travelers were tracked no canadian communications were or are targeted collected or used and as the c.s.c. see faces tough questions the u.s. is beginning to take a look at its own surveillance agency defense secretary chuck hagel announced

yesterday that president obama will nominate navy vice admiral mike rogers as the next director of the national security agency this is contrary to the white house appointed review panel's recommendation to place a civilian as the head of the n.s.a. the defense secretary also announced that richard ledgett who's a civilian has been selected to serve as the deputy director of the n.s.a. you might remember legit from an energy you know that aired on sixty minutes in december he was asked if the u.s. should strike a deal with edward snowden so my personal view is yes it's worth having a conversation about i would need assurances that the remainder of the data could be secured and my bar for those assurances would be very high it would be more than just an assertion on his part these changes come just two weeks after president obama's speech to reform the government surveillance programs vice admiral mike rogers will have to undergo a senate confirmation legit will not. when police officers use deadly

force they rarely rarely face criminal prosecution and they usually claim that they feared for their safety. while a police officer's job is dangerous the number of cops killed on duty is that historic lows meanwhile the number of people killed by police officers remains steady artie's ramon glendower shows us how this trend is devastating families in southern california. modern day police are equipped with high powered firearms state of the art body armor and military style vehicles with so many tools in their arsenal victims of police brutality wonder why officers feel they need to resort to deadly force. they have no justification for using that type of excessive force and alternately killing him and since knowing his own words i have no other options but to be his

face to hell ron thomas is still searching for justice after police officers were acquitted in the killing of his son kelly one of the officers jason cinelli is actually trying to get his job back. the defense in the case they said kelly thomas was was overly that he was he was reacting and a violent way he was a he was a suspect on the street who was who was uncontrollable but when you watch the video it doesn't really add up there's still a memorial here for kelly thomas more than two years after he was beaten by fullerton police officers when law enforcement uses such violent force they usually justify it saying that they feared for their safety but for victims' families that explanation doesn't make any sense there are studies that say that may be safer than ever to be a police officer on the streets today thirty three police officers were killed by gunfire in two thousand and thirteen according to a report by the national law enforcement officers memorial fund that's the lowest

number since eighteen eighty seven in twenty twelve the f.b.i. recorded four hundred ten justifiable homicides by law enforcement that only includes deaths where a felon was involved for some reason or other the police officers always found all they have to do is say i feared for my life or i feared for the life of somebody in the public and their exonerated faxon is fighting to keep police officers accountable after the shooting death of. son michael knight the made father of four was mistaken for a robbery suspect in a downey california police officer shot him in the back with a machine gun people don't know that our cops are carrying machine guns they don't know that these tanks are out here they don't know they're wearing heavy armor they don't know this they think the cops are like they were with with mayberry r.f.d. that's a kind of cop say things are out there and it's not anymore across the u.s. prosecutors are many times reluctant to go after abusive police officers even when there's video evidence. ron thomas is

a former law enforcement officer himself but the good officers men and women in law enforcement must police or on. this particular group officers responded this way because they've never been held in check there too protected by the peace officer bill of rights they are not held accountable they can do whatever they want and kill his case ultimately proves that the law enforcement bill of rights has shielded abusive police from laws they are paid to enforce they are not held to the same standards as the general public they're just not held accountable violent crime rates are down across america life for police officers also seems to be safer. but it's cases of police abuse continue to stay high people like jeanne thanks in iran thomas will continue to fight for transparency and justice in florida and california

protests continue throughout ukraine against the president who backed out of a deal to strengthen relations what the european union in favor of russia the ukrainian opposition has shut down government buildings and businesses throughout cities and over half of the country for more on this we turn to a left. with the latest. ukraine is now in an absolutely unique situation i don't think there's ever been anything compared to what is happening in the country right now half of it is now paralyzed with a regional administration has taken over by the protesters making it completely impossible for this part of the country to be properly governed by the authorities there already been cases we've heard reports that some of the some some of the reasons authorities are actually running their regions online exchanging correspondence through different messaging services was there and mabel to go to their work their regional ministrations have been blocked and there's no chance of a compromise as of now with their opposition and the government are still looking

horns about those administrative buildings and also this concerns a lot of people who are literally cannot work because they are participating in the protests some part of them are here in kiev at the independence square so this is definitely a unique situation and to give you a proper feeling of what it's like in the heart of the protest in the west of ukraine my colleague paulus near did this report. this is the regional administration building in even a song called skin western ukraine where at them till a week ago the regional governor had his office but as you can see just like in kiev's there is now a giant barricade surrounding the building with snow tires and planks of wood radical and and he russian this is the heartland of nationalism where antione called the sentiment runs deep and that's the way natalia and her comrades want to keep it the twenty nine year old entrepreneur has been here since the building was overthrown she says work can wait this is more important moolah which is supposed

to have no president bush's then to have you know call which but what the opposition as fragmented as it is that tully is the first to admit no yanna coverage could well mean an alkie whitney bishop along with the problem is that we don't have any person to replace him and we will need to take someone from their position which won't be easy the sentiments blown across central and western ukraine where regional offices are being picketed and seized by protesters. in the misa a group of right wing radicals some wearing marks stormed the municipal building chanting you have the power they used fire extinguishers and wooden sticks against the i intended demonstrators set up barricades made of vehicle parts and sets of snow they demanded police in the building similar scenes played out in chicago where protesters tried to signify to greenwich or they smashed windows and threw stones at security forces. the anger has moved given for the westwards engine

off ski protests to send ukrainian hymns while ignoring the governor's attempts to disperse them. in a van or from coffs those now laying siege to the municipality building the bridge in any symbols or sentiments of the ruling party they claim it goes against the will of the ukrainian people no one knows why. the head of the administration is there are parts of this building that are still functioning for example the day to day running of the city but on a political level everything is come to a standstill over this process might. lead to door disease of the country of course also result in some arab spring hopes in the long term perspective which is quite dangerous for us in the process which might. not only. disturb us of this in the ways of the dental situation in ukraine but my own.

process in the neighboring towns is like a wall and on the one hand. hungary on the other hand those countries which are now in the european union despite the criticism of. these protesters have nothing better to offer. our teeth even a front costs waste in ukraine this is been quite the week for because the digital cryptocurrency the much anticipated hearings for big quinn watchers took place in new york earlier this week where the state department of financial services and its plans to an act a bit license to regulate the coin companies but while the today hearings may because seem like a more legitimate form of currency and gun i'm expected to mention any u.s. intel document on wednesday director of national intelligence james clapper released the agency's worldwide threat assessment of the u.s. intelligence community is quote a virtual currencies most notably bitcoin are fast becoming a medium for criminal or financial transfers through online payment companies james

clapper testified in front of the senate intelligence committee on wednesday and because it was not mentioned once during the hearing i was joined earlier by jared kenda bekhor an entrepreneur and the founder of new multimedia company money and tech dot com i asked him if he thinks back when really poses a threat to u.s. intelligence. i think thread is a bit of an overstatement i prefer to use the word concern and i think we should also apply it to all digital currency and generate insight in general. when you look at digital currency as you have things like liberty reserve riffel and bitcoin as well and a lot of people just lump them together liberty reserve is essentially anonymous pay-pal and it's centralized and it's one company behind it is actually actively working to launder money and prevent information identities scaping from it whereas bitcoin everything is publicly recorded right and that big coin does have a bit of

a reputation for facilitating illicit behavior however one misconception is that because it is totally anonymous and they take take down the silk road which was the web site where illegal drugs are being bought and sold for because it showed that they can actually provide very poor anonyma nitty and so what do you think that going to is a good place for criminals to flock to if they want to remain totally anonymous i mean we'll have to see how it plays out but so far it sure doesn't look like it when you compare the use of the coin in criminal activity compared to cash it seems like a poor choice with the silk road loss didn't just end there they've been able to trace it to to other dealers and other suppliers and other people to move the money whereas in a conventional drug ring it's probably just what it ended with a warehouse full of cash now from two thousand a level into two thousand and thirteen silk road accounted for only about four percent of all bitcoin transaction and and as we mentioned before because it is completely dwarfed by the banking system it is easy enough to turn back went into

cash for this to be used for any serious serious criminal activity. i mean at this point definitely not it's hard enough to turn that going into cash you know for legitimate purposes you know and then if you're trying to hide your id even more difficult i think what you're going to see is you can see a lot of lot of the focus from the governments is going to be on ensuring proper k.y. see your customer rules don't even have occasion anti money laundering procedures and the banks are going to notice big point transactions more than they would have took the whole transaction so i think it's actually going to be more difficult to use this for criminal activity in the future now on the other hand a topic that was brought up in the hearings in new york this week is that if the equation does catch on and become big enough that national commerce and infrastructure are dependent on it governments might see the benefits of getting into bitcoin mining what advantages could the u.s. government gain by entering this space i mean there's really

a first mover advantage and you know the question isn't whether or not you know bitcoin is going to see the question as you know which virtual currency which digital currency is going to take off is going to ripple is going to point is going to be like winners are going to be something that we haven't even heard of yet and i'm sure the governments are looking at it closely now and definitely if it does pose a threat to the reserve currency then it is not even a question i mean of course they should be getting behind it and china and russia have recently come out as being very hostile towards that coin so it doesn't look like either of these countries will get into bitcoin anytime soon and what if the u.s. government be wise again to bitcoin now it's again a strategic opportunity to dominate this space. oh for sure for sure and i mean obviously they're already looking at it i mean we're having hearings on it you know the government the senate had a hearing a couple months ago that was really positive committees are being formed now they're definitely taking a look at it and i think russia is a really interesting case because you know you say russia is against it but russia

is actually pretty split the russian central bank came out and said that it's illegal under under russian banking laws and then german graf who is the c.e.o. of fare bank which is russia's largest bank and a two time economic minister under vladimir putin he came out strongly supporting it and he said that this is you know a paradigm shift in currency issuance and that we need to not stifle innovation so i would say russia is definitely split on this matter it's not that cut and dry thank you jad that was derek kent founder of money attack dot com. still ahead here on r.t.e. to label or announce a label to that we modified foods food producers and anti g.m.o. advocates are hashing it out with regulators in states like colorado we'll tell you how that fight turned out in just a moment. the chance for success.

in the finish line at the marathon. hearing. we welcome erin made an abby martin to have a terrific ocean on the our t.v. network. it's going to give you a different perspective give you one star never i'll give you the information you make the decision to me both bring you the work it's a revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness and frustrated with the system extremely produce would be described as angry i think in a strong you know under single. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. today where it's not story.

if this guy like me or that guy stead of working for the people most issues the beach or preacher ribozymes vision. for the rest of the world. colorado lawmakers rejected a voluntary measure on thursday to give food producers the option of labeling products that do not include genetically modified ingredients one of the biggest issues lawmakers said in implementing this would be that the states would then have to set up possible fines and other penalties for retailers that mislabeled food several states around the country have taken action or tried to take action to require labels for genetically modified foods however the food and drug administration already allows for voluntary labeling for those of you who are thinking g m o's don't have to be labeled. bad to help answer that question we're

joined by elizabeth christen edge she is the executive producer of g m o m g a new documentary highlighting these very issues i first asked her what message this film is trying to convey. the film is actually a very very beautiful film that follows the journey of a father who of three children and his family his exploration of the food supply and we want to raise awareness of the fact the dmoz exist and what they are and how they are produced and the questions that surround them and give people the opportunity to make their own conclusions now there's been many states most recently in colorado who've been struggling with legislation for labeling g.m.o. foods and very few have been successful in this endeavor why is it so difficult to get g.m.o. labeling on our food well there's a big big companies and organizations like the grocery manufacturers association that are really pushing back to try to keep consumers in the dark and you know

while there is questions around the most and things we as consumers we didn't have the right to know what we're eating and that's what i personally advocate now labeling should that be a state or federal issue well that you know state by state the movement is really building we had more than twenty six states last year to put in legislation and try to push for this and that is really causing a national conversation to develop but it's coming to washington d.c. so you know one really balances the other for you know ease of use of the for food companies and for you know supermarkets and things having the federal legislation is over say what is necessary so the entire state of the union now in general mills is looking to take its labeling as she went to its own hands and they've announced that they're going to remove bioengineered ingredients from cheerios and then label them as g.m.o. free however as the wall street journal pointed out essentially all over i now planted commercially have been genetically modified in some way now because of

decades of cross breeding and genetic manipulation is it even possible to find food that's true we know on g m a l ok there's a difference between breeding and hybridizing if you actually manipulating in a laboratory as yet it. it is absolutely. possible for people to find foods that g.m.o. of course for thousands of years people have been evolving plan for use in a certain way of you know cross pollination and things but with regards to genetic engineering that's just something that's been happening over recent decades and that really is the questionable science that we would like to see really labeled and more but where do you draw the line on labeling well the labeling would be on the actual manipulated product so we know that which is taking the genome and really manipulating it in a in a full some bar. and there's not much research available on the help of facts of this for you can food if you will one why hasn't there been

a comprehensive study and to what do we know about the safety of eating g.m.o. so the area around the labeling of foods if something is proven to be unsafe then it should be taken off the market with labeling with just literally a right to know issue you have the right to know we really need to make sure that the regulators do call for them to toodle studies into some of the effects of these things but i think that labeling really is a first step to make sure that we know as consumers what we are eating and then moving forward of course you know my husband since the nine hundred ninety s. introduced legislation in congress calling full more review of this technology looking at the safety aspects of it both environmental and health wise but we still to see that actually coming into existence and no one issue that the film talk about is the effects of the g.m.o. seed dealers what they're having on small farming business they compared it to

wal-mart on mom and pop store so what is what are these big our culture companies what effects are they having on independent farmers so you know the seed patenting is really an issue to cross pollination is. you know farmers who have grown conventionally organic finding that their fields are actually contaminated with a genetically modified gene that's coming from another pharmacy field they are under threat because in a company such as one sent to a coming in and and claiming rights to to those seeds we need to make sure that our seed sovereignty is there that promise really have the ability to grow their their own crops and to be safe from the pollution of other crops coming in and cross contamination there now u.s.d.a. they propose they support something which is. really the that these things can live side by side you can have conventional gannicus on one field and you can have

genetically modified crops on the other but we need to make sure that people really understand that we live in a biosphere that's interconnected and what happens in one field doesn't it does actually through pollen drift and also if you're spraying herbicides and pesticides on to one crop then it can actually blow over on to somebody else's so we need to make sure that farmers are protected from those kinds of events i think you know this is a little bit concerned that she's the executive producer of g.m.o. energy and an attempt to reorganize the company cnn's president jeff zucker have given pink slips to forty senior journalist c.n.n. is currently at a twenty year well in terms of viewers that will be rolling out a slew of new content including more reality t.v. shows original series and documentaries a former c.n.n. employee thinks the network should turn to a cartoon of caleb a show on cable sponge bob you're watching in the dark which. i mean the kids love it but it's also sponge bob. bob she put twenty

four hours until a big story bridge we break rob and go during hurricane. watch what you could draw . earlier i spoke to r.t. producer rachel courteous and comedienne an author we came up to help us determine whether a sponge wearing pants is the future of c.n.n. and to help us sort through other recent media mishaps i first asked them what c.n.n. done wrong. well if you love documentaries things essential that used to be on v h ones behind the music then you were going to love the new c.n.n. just kind of charting through all of the things that have happened to justin bieber over the past couple of weeks if you want to learn more about the relationship between amy poehler and tina fey don't go to turn right to c.n.n.'s own point of view are they wrong it's just whatever gets ratings or doris' and celebrity crap so you know every every day we turn it on is being afraid of being frightened that

every commercial will be very be turned on this in every commercial it's do you have exactly. yeah now i do because you've just scared the hell out of it well you know it's whatever gets ratings it's all over this is reality t.v. going to fix this problem absolutely if there's a problem i think if they want to make is a bore and they should take they should just show reality t.v. because everybody's watching it anyway and then put the news subliminal truth just underneath you when you have to know you're learning you're just watch and it's road complicated called off and then underneath it would be like oh yeah exxon mobil and your government and then people would know. and you want to know what's news and what's commentary about for you because you know. but i think that if c.n.n. was turning to reality television shows they might not be as well off as if they played something like sponge bob where you would then get the kids watching it have more merchandising opportunities i don't i don't see why they don't turn didn't like the anderson cooper bob. i would buy that anderson cooper bobblehead doll it could like follow me in the car something bad anderson would be nodding i mean

there are a lot of i think new revenue streams that c.n.n. could look into that they have not sounds more entertaining the d.c. housewives is that even possible now turning to other networks at fox according to a public policy polling fox with a vote and the most trusted media above p.b.s. and a.b.c. however in the same poll fox was also voted the least trusted and media. what on earth does this mean that they're very very polarizing and to me what this says is they do a great job at what they're doing which is getting people's attention because whether you think they're trustworthy or whether you think they're just blowing garbage in your face people keep turning back to figure out what are people going to say on this channel next i think it just means that americans have no idea what's going on right this crap task infotainment that sprayed at them they don't know anything i mean there was another study that came out a couple years ago saying people that only watch fox news know less about what's happening in the world than people who watch no news at all which is mind boggling

because no one would keep want to get a sports channel that made them dumber about sports you know those walking around like you. who. don't even watch sports but i'm pretty sure one of those is a basketball team and the others are tied or. they don't know you're going to go in although it is going to turn to comedy i think and comedy convenience and as a comedian i think we should turn everything to comedy and everything funny. get at the real true i think that comedy as a way of getting your truths in a way that sometimes just kind of straightforward you can't get at so we still see great joining us. rachel corrie's the us thanks for joining. merican porn star and tattoo model christine mack cause a lego building frenzy on twitter she announced she would give oral sex to whoever builds the best lego creation she wants to display some of the creations in her home lego fanatics went to a building mode and she received over one hundred lead to different submissions over their hard work what unrewarded when she tweeted that the b.j.

competition was off due to lawyers not liking my twitter content i think it's because they didn't win the competition end quote or maybe she couldn't swallow the idea of an adult still playing with children's toys at the for now and harry and boring. stalled talks accusations traded and endless demands made this sums up the process being played out in geneva with a virtual stalemate on the battlefield outside proxies for left to make the hard decisions and compromises to alleviate and then to finally end a civil war which of these outside powers have the political will.