coming up on r t if you bend there with an airport in canada you may have been spied on new lease documents by edward snowden show that canadian intelligence used for a wife by to turn passengers electronic activity even after they left the airport details of those revelations and a moment what does because i have in common with terrorist and edward snowden james clapper things they are all national security threats either as testimony to the senate of the national intelligence director is only for this guy's big enough for preferred currency of criminals that really the case find out coming up. and in colorado food producers are being denied the option of a way willing their food as g.m.o. free and we'll talk about this and other food fights around the country what

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

news the documents show that the agency collecting metadata on individuals when they log on to the internet and international airport and then use that information to track the people for over two weeks sober security experts in canada said this is certainly unlawful and before this news broke c s e c chief john forrester sounded like he was in agreement. under this legislation to not target canadians anywhere in the world or anyone in canada including visitors to canada. to c.b.c. analysts say these new documents show that airline passengers at a canadian airport are clearly in canada. the c.s.e. issued a statement on response to the report saying that no canadian 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 its own look at its own surveillance agency's defense

secretary chuck hagel announced yesterday that president obama will nominate navy a 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 the head of the n.s.a. the defense secretary also announced that richard ledgett a civilian has been selected to serve as the deputy director of the n.s.a. you might remember allegedly from an energy you that aired on sixty sixty minutes in the summer he was asked if the u.s. should strike a deal with word snowden so my personal view is yes it's worth having a conversation about i would need to surance is that the remainder of the data could be secured and my bar for those assurances would be very hard it would be more than just an assertion on his part these changes came just two weeks after president obama's speech to reform government surveillance programs vice admiral mike rogers will have to undergo a senate confirmation large it will not. now we move on to the peace

talks in geneva between the syrian government and the opposition the first round of discussions brought no substantial breakthroughs but are starting to see initial signs of progress washington has said the syrian government is not keeping as previously established agreement with the u.n. and is holding the regime accountable to its commitment to disarm the country of chemical weapons supply or to correspondent our state anastasia tells us more. the west officials take on again this new vigorous rhetoric against assad's government saying that it's just not moving quickly enough in terms of eliminating the chemical weapons that it's promised to get rid of the crisis torn country most recently we've heard from the u.s. secretary of state john kerry see that the process really needs to pick up the tempo that it's too slow and that if assad's regime doesn't listen something else

would happen take a listen i would remind bugger all that. the agreement that we reached in new york with the security council makes it clear that if there are issues of noncompliance they will be referred to the security council for chapter seven now while all of this is going on it's important to keep in mind that syria's saying that the reasons for any delays are purely reasons of security that transferring these weapons is complicated because the country is torn by a crisis russia has echoed this position a representative of the foreign ministry has said that syria is in fact acting in good faith and that russia is willing to continue and provides more technical support but that moscow cannot in on itself carry out to provide all of the support that syria needs to wilding's rigorousness messages are coming from washington it seems that a much more hopeful approach continues to be a viable option that was r.t.

correspondent on the. when police officers use deadly force they rarely face criminal prosecution and they usually claim that they feared for their safety while police officers job is dangerous the number of cop killed on duty is at historic lows meanwhile the number of people killed by police officers remains steady artie's that ramon going though shows us how this trend is devastating families and 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. for you know. they have no justification for using that type of excessive force and ultimately killing him and since knowing his own words i had no other options but

to be his face to help 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 in 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 it 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 theory for my life i feared for the life of somebody in the public and there exonerated faxon is fighting to keep police officers accountable after the shooting death of her son michael knight the maid father of four was mistaken for a robbery suspect and 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 that they're wearing heavy armor they don't know this is what they think the cops would 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 you are ron thomas is

a former law enforcement officer himself but the good officers men and women in law enforcement must police are on. this particular group of officers responded this way because they've never been held in check their two 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 but in 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 jim facts and iran thomas will continue to fight for transparency and justice in florida and california remember though our t.v.

. this is been a busy week for because of the digital cryptocurrency the much anticipated because i'm hearing what took place in new york earlier this week where the state department of financial services announced its plan to enact a bit license to regulate the clean company but while the two day hearing they declined seemed like a more legitimate form of currency it got an unexpected mention in the 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 it says quote virtual currencies most notably but cohen are fast becoming a medium for criminal financial transfers through online payment companies james clapper testified in front of the senate intelligence committee on wednesday and declined was not mentioned once during the hearing i was joined us earlier by jared khanna the coin entrepreneur and founder of a new multimedia company money attack dot com i asked him if he thinks that going

to really poses a threat to u.s. intelligence i think 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 in general. in sorry in general. when you look at digital currency as you have things like liberty reserve riffle 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 it's actually actively working to launder money and prevent information identity escaping from it whereas bitcoin everything is publicly recorded. right and because it 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 because it actually provides 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 in 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 coin transactions 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 it would be

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 because 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 as that is becoming 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 is which virtual currency which digital currency is going to take off is going to ripple is going to big 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 they 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 what is the u.s. government the wise again debate going now once again as to teach it 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 no 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 graphed who is the c.e.o.'s for a 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 jared that was buried founder of money in tech dot com. colorado lawmakers rejected a voluntary measure on thursday to get 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 state 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 a genetically modified food over the food and drug administration already allows for voluntary labeling i was joined earlier by elizabeth the executive producer of g.m.o. m g a new documentary highlighting these very issues i first asked her what message the film is trying to convey the film is actually

a very very beautiful film the follows the journey of a father who of three children and his family has expiration 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 has 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 who are going to have the right to know what we're eating and that's what i personally advocate now whaling should that be a state or federal issue well that 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 and it's coming to washington d.c. so you know one really balances the other for you know ease of use and for food companies and for you know supermarkets and. things having federal legislation is obviously what is necessary for the entire state of the union now general mills is looking to take this 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 right now planted commercially have been genetically modified in some way now because of decades of cross-breeding engine that a manipulation is even possible to find food that's true we know on g m a l ok there's a difference between breeding and hybridizing is to actually manipulate thing in a lab or a tree and so yet it is absolutely. possible for people to find foods that g.m.o.

of course known for thousands of years people have been evolving plan for to use in a certain way of you know cross pollination and things 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 when the labeling would be on the actual manipulated product so we know that which is taking the genome and really manipulating it in a false environment and there's not much research available on the health of facts of this for you can food if you will one why hasn't there been a comprehensive study done 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 if 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. my husband since the one nine hundred ninety s. introduced legislation in congress calling for more review of this technology looking at the safety aspects of it both environmental and health wise but we still 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 stores 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 issues you know farmers who've 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 no 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 the cross contamination there now u.s.d.a. they propose they put something which is. really the that these things can live side by side that you can have conventional danica 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 into connected and what happens in one field doesn't it does actually through poland drift and also if you're spraying besides all pesticides on to one crop then it can actually blow over on to somebody else's so we need to make

sure that farms 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. sense of freedom industries spilled the chemicals into west virginia's water supply new information has come forward suggesting that the spill is much bigger than first reported and dangerous chemicals including formaldehyde are now being found in the air as residents of west virginia continue to be concerned about the safety of their drinking water democratic senators barbara boxer joe manchin and john rockefeller proposed the chemical safety and drinking water protection act that would require state inspections of above ground chemical storage facilities this bill has not yet been referred to committee for more on this we turn to our to correspondent make a. first west virginia residents were told that their water was unsafe to drink now one expert warns that the air in charleston could also be toxic take a deep breath because this one is

a doozy west virginia environmental quality board member scott simon testified in front of west virginia's joint legislative oversight commission on state water resources that he conducted tests and found trace amounts of cancer causing for the hide in the air simonton believes this talk cicare is linked to the spill of thousands of gallons of for meth the cycle hexane methanol into the elk river earlier this month state officials have blasted the testimony the west virginia american water company called simon tones opinion misleading and irresponsible the west virginia department of health and human resources put out a statement saying quote scott simon tones presentation to the west virginia joint legislative committee today is totally unfounded and does not speak to the health and safety of west virginians they also argue that familial height is only created under extremely high temperatures but simonton is not the only expert speaking out richard denison a toxicologist at the environmental defense fund said he thought the center for

disease control might have called the all clear too early given the fact that the only research ever done on this chemicals health effects were tests on lab rats done back in one nine hundred ninety he also pointed out that only adult rats were exposed to the chemical so it is hard to determine the effects on children now to be fair the c.d.c. never used the word safe to describe the water when it gave the all clear instead they said they would quote not expect any adverse health effects below one part per million meanwhile we are also learning that the amount of c h m spilled into the elk river is bigger than originally estimated it now stands at ten thousand gallons also a second chemical was leaking into the elk river that's known as p h h what's. more of the huffington post reports that freedom industries knew about the second chemical leak for weeks but did not disclose the details about it to the state or federal regulators because it's considered a trade secret that could hurt the company's bottom line financially if the

information is disclosed freedom industries filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy it right after the spill essentially stopping all west virginia residents and businesses from seeking legal action against the company but as a mess in b.c. as chris hayes pointed out in order to file for bankruptcy freedom industries has to find another company to finance it not one but two companies stepped up to the plate money or funding l.l.c. and w. funding however it turns out that mouneer funding l.l.c. was also incorporated the same day that it offered to save freedom industries and guess what the company's officer is one j. clifford forrest the very man who bought freedom industries at the end of last year as for the funding that company is organized by the lawyer who also organized not near funding l.l.c. and the sole listed number of that company is you guessed it now in your funding

l.l.c. critics are now calling this colucci in freedom industries now needs to disclose its financial situation and come up with a reorganization plan that plan could take months or even years to be put into effect so it looks as if the battle for west virginia water supply isn't over yet in washington meghan lopez r.t. . red flags traffic systems the manufacturers and install surveillance cameras across the country and signs million dollar deals with governments to enforce traffic laws tonight's resident takes a book of this company's questionable business practices.

red sox traffic systems is a company in arizona that manufactures some stalls and services stoplights surveillance cameras across the u.s. more and more cities are getting these cameras even though there's debate about whether or not they actually do anything other than promote surveillance and act as a cash cow to local authorities through fining drivers and red flags is one of the big players in the market last year the company was embroiled in a two million dollars bribery scheme in chicago the company was bribing local officials to install the dam or is there red flags as tough national salesman aaron rosenberg was fired in the midst of the scandal now he's involved in a civil defamation case against his ex employer saying he was a scapegoat for red sox's pervasive bribery practices and he just came out and said that bribery was unequivocally par for the course for red clay he said the

company doled out bribes and gifts at dozens of municipalities in thirteen states that the company encourages bribes on a regular basis he's now cooperating in an ongoing federal investigation he submitted e-mails and other evidence to show that the company paid for steak dinners travel expenses. lavish hotel stays gifts and other crap for government officials all over the country encouraging them to vote yes and installing red flags surveillance cameras that could be why so many cities are getting these stupid cameras despite a lot of evidence that shows they do nothing first safety and only serve to find drivers often wrongfully seriously in new orleans the jefferson parish council has voted to reimburse one hundred eighty thousand drivers who paid one hundred ten dollars fines from the red flags cameras that's something they are with the

companies the bribery might also explain why small towns like tonawanda new york are considering installing red flags cameras even though they only have about fifteen thousand people and about one hundred stuff plates total in the whole town so yeah there's a lot of evidence mounting that red flecks traffic systems has been bribing cities everywhere into becoming part of the surveillance state but as rosenberg continues to blow the whistle against them hopefully the reign of surveillance will be quelled and they'll be the ones finally facing fines or hopefully even worse tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the risk that. american porn star and tattoo model christine back caused a lego building frenzy on twitter as she is now and she would give oral sex to

whoever builds the best lego creation she want to display some of the creations in her home lego fanatics went to building mode and she received over one hundred legitimate submissions however there are two work went unrewarded when she tweeted that the v.j. competition is off the due to a boy is not liking my twitter content i think it's because they didn't win the they didn't win the competition or maybe she couldn't swallow the idea of an adult still playing with children's toys. that does it for nell for more on the stories we covered go to our t. dot com slash usa or you can follow me on twitter at perry and d.c. have a great night. and

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