in this for. there must be near certain be no civilians will be killed we're. coming up on our ts concerns grow over digital privacy there's also a consumer demand a new phone is on the market that's designed to protect your privacy from snooping government agencies more on that just ahead. on the latest send us a leaks a new document shows that a federal court allowed the n.s.a. to gather information on a hundred and ninety three world governments all the details on that plan coming up . and eastern ukraine government forces clash with anti kept separatists ukraine's president decided to end a ceasefire as the violence returns more on the conflict later in the show.

it's tuesday july first four pm in washington d.c. i'm your i david and you're watching r.t. america well it's been a full year since former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden began leaking classified documents waking up americans and the rest of the world to the full extent of u.s. surveillance operations as a result of those revelations many people have been thinking about and looking for new ways to protect their privacy and that consumer demand may explain the new found popularity of black phone it's an encrypted smartphone that's designed to keep your conversations private the highly anticipated phone was revealed earlier this year as a joint venture between crypto service firm silent circle and spanish smartphone manufacturer geeks phone and this week the device of fish really began shipping out to customers to talk a little bit about what this phone can do i want to bring in toby we're jones c.e.o.'s. s.g.p.

technologies that's the joint venture behind black phone tell me thanks for coming on nice summer nice to see you again nice to see you so we talk about a regular smartphone which is what the majority of the american public has what is it about the device that makes it so vulnerable to having its its privacy really compromised well the main thing is that the device is built by folks who are interested in using the information about what you do to generate additional commercial benefit for them and so our whole goal was to stop that cut it off at the knees and give ownership of that information back to the owner of the of the telephone i want to be clear about something because a lot of people organize so see this new phone the black phone. with something that gives you complete shielding from the government is this phone one hundred percent n.s.a. proof no it's not and if we want to make sure people understand that if you're on the wrong watch list and folks want to pay attention to you and they get a high enough authority to do it chances are they're going to be able to whether or not you buy a black phone or any other privacy device but what we do get what we do provide is

an ability for those folks to not leak all the normal information that they otherwise generate when they visit websites or they say they browse the web they send e-mail they make phone calls we give them different tools that look and feel just like the tools they're used to using but in fact work totally differently under the skin and don't leave all those digital bread crumbs behind now of course in you mention as you know the phone was not only designed for you know to protect against government snooping but also for protection from corporations corporations data mining targeted advertising etc can you talk about that aspect in particular and how pervasive that's become for cellphone users absolutely that's that's one of the biggest things that's been swept up in all of these books are valence activities we've been hearing about and that's very expensive for corporations or their employees so the idea is the corporations want to ensure that only the people they want to see sensitive data actually have access to it and that. the devices

they're using when they're out and about in the world aren't inadvertently leaking information about whatever they're doing at a corporate level and revealing it to either casual passers by or more malicious attackers and say you brought the phone with you today this is the official black phone and just just shipped out yesterday mike rupp this is actually this is the first retail unit in the country the one that you're on the one that i rewind on is the very first ones that we brought up for you to the home where we feel special ok can you tell us about its capabilities the apps that shows that people can deal. the headline applications are that you can make and receive phone calls you can send and receive text messages you can have video chats you can send files back and forth all completely privately we don't leak any sensitive information about what you're doing and the first review that was published confirm they did some testing on the phone it was ours technica they did a exhaustive test looking at information that the phone generates as it does its thing and they confirm their conclusion was it's pretty damn secure they couldn't

find any of the normal typical indicators that other phones produce when you connect to a website or you send an e-mail you place a phone call the phone simply didn't leak that information out so it works the way we expected it to now as i understand it this is an unlocked so a user could take this and connect it to any carrier eighteen teens arise and that means that you know those are the companies that people most know natori asli for storing our data and for you know millions of government requests to and we should permission about their users are those companies still able to do that with this phone they are if you use it like a traditional phone so it's true you can connect it to any carrier and if you make and receive traditional style phone calls they still wrote over those carriers networks on the carrier still switch and connect those calls and they have all the records that any other phone will generate however our routes the silent phone the silent tax the other critical. i've a psy-ops on the phone they don't connect like

a traditional phone call or send a message like a traditional text even though as a user as far as the user is concerned that's exactly what it feels like but again the technology underneath is where i we have all of our encryption all of our security controls to ensure that we're not generating the same sort of trail of breadcrumbs so that was really the main design focus was to allow somebody who already knows how to use a phone to use all the same skills they already have but get all the benefit of modern privacy and encryption technology a lot of people became familiar with silent circle which is one of the companies of course behind this phone after it shuttered its e-mail service last year with the whole you know right after edward snowden we found out about bad and lava bit cetera you know and you guys had to shut down the service completely is there any concern that that could happen again and then you know users of black phone would have to worry about their their information being compromised in any way we don't believe so the difference was that with the e-mail service e-mail by its very

nature generates a lot of trackable data generates passwords it generates records about the messages you send and the situation with love a bit which was what provoked so i will circle to shut down it's a mail service was that the government issued subpoenas looking for all of this data which the e-mail operator by definition has to have and so silent circle said you know what we're exposed to that same risk so we're going to shutter the service before receive a subpoena so that we're not potentially in breach but the way the the tools on the phone work there aren't any of those centralized repositories so even if the government were to present requests for information through the swiss courts which is what they would have to do there's simply nothing to hand over so we're not exposed in the same way and as i understand it you're not even storing the addresses of the people that you ship the phones to that yeah that's right i mean we need the shipping address obviously to fulfill the order but after that we don't need it any time so it's gone right unfortunately ran out of time but tell me where john c.e.o. of s.g.p. technology thanks for coming on thanks american there. and with privacy on the

minds of many americans new national security agency revelation shows that that spy the spy agency has a wider reach them once thought according to documents released by edward snowden obtained by the washington post a federal court permitted the n.s.a. to collect information about governments and one hundred ninety three countries as well as on foreign institutions like the world bank artie's mega lopez has the details. less than six months after president obama spoke about reforms to the national security agency newly released documents from the washington post have a result on the map in terms of the reach of american surveillance heritable stems from top secret documents dating back to two thousand and ten that were leaked by edward snowden turns out the n.s.a. has been given clearance from the foreign intelligence surveillance court to spy on some one hundred ninety three country many of the countries have never posed a direct or indirect threat to american interests they include countries like

believes that denmark reese st kitts and fiji only four countries in the world have escaped the surveillance prowess of the n.s.a. those are australia canada great britain and new zealand together with the united states these countries make up about five i look at one of these countries that does not necessarily mean that you are in the clear and april two thousand and thirteen n.s.a. bulletin allows for the surveillance of these countries twenty eight sovereign territories simply because it filtering the amount could slow it down at the system now one interesting point to note is that in the ruling the court allows for the surveillance not just of the communications from these overseas targets but any communications about the targets as wow well the documents do not prove that the us has been spying on each of these one hundred ninety three countries they show how far the farce the court has gone to allow the n.s.a. to conduct surveillance globally the revelation comes out in interesting time mid

january speech highlighting some key reforms to the national security agency president obama spoke about the need to practice responsible surveillance just as we balance security and privacy at home our global leadership demands that we balance our security requirements against our need to maintain the trust and cooperation among people and leaders around the world however in that same speech president obama did offer some legal justification as to why this type of surveillance is allowed and necessary the legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against u.s. persons without a war do not apply to foreign persons overseas. this is not unique to america few if any spy agencies around the world. constrain their activities beyond their own borders now a former senior defense official who spoke with the washington post on the condition of anonymity offered another possible justification for this type of sweeping surveillance saying quote. it's not impossible to imagine

a humanitarian crisis in a country that's friendly to the united states where the military might be expected on a moment's notice to go in and evacuate all americans he went on to say that if certification did not list the country the n.s.a. could not gather intelligence under the law privacy advocates say there are too many holes and exceptions to believe that the government won't spy on ordinary citizens if it wants to there's also a new criticism of the fire support being a rubber stamp rather than working in the best interest of the people as of surveilling ninety eight percent of the world wasn't enough the documents revealed that the n.s.a. was also permitted to gather information on the world thank the international monetary fund the european union and the international atomic energy agency all in cities that the u.s. has close a business to i used to sell it looks as if no one can escape the watchful eye of

the n.s.a. abroad and many americans right here at home have cause for concern if they communicate with people living outside of the country reporting in front of the white house meghan lopez r t and now to ukraine where the standoff between anti-government forces and kiev authorities exploded and heavy fighting today the violence has been marked by a ground assault air bombardments and heavy artillery shelling around the rebel controlled city of slovyansk the fighting broke out shortly after president petro poroshenko declared an end to the ten day cease fire that was in place the fighting has injured two more russian journalists caught up in the violence one of the journalists spoke with r t about coming under fire take a listen. after we filmed an interview there was a sudden explosion i don't know where it came from we were thrown to the side like doles me the cameraman and the horse self-defense fighters that were with us there

was howling in my ears i've never heard anything like it we were quickly given first aid and sent to the hospital. ever since the fighting in ukraine began there have been five journalists killed covering the conflict four of them were russian several more were injured for more on the fighting that's resumed in ukraine let's go to our maria the notion of. the large scale military operation the king of calls anti terror operation is now officially resumed in eastern ukraine the most dramatic picture we see in the town of kind of a tourist gain donetsk region it used to be one of the two major if the centuries of operation and we spoke to a foreign journalist currently on the ground and this is how he describes the situation there right now. and we're. all.

really. slim down screaming another target can't tell you to leave craning army for months these town in the next creighton show severe attacks by the ukrainian military and fierce clashes between the army and to government forces left and resulted in fatalities including him on civilian population and now again we start receiving alarming messages from these town as well there are the words you. don't want to see when you were there well of which who. was for the most with you all done. this all of you guessed that was the course that you're. going to. grow. the world with with. the the news of the almost. wish you would put the.

i'm not in the city of lugansk and from what she can see and hear you may think that it is calm here but overnight and early in the morning we heard that and these were the songs that work people up to die there very exhausted very very tired of the situation and baby had help said the ceasefire will be extended and that will help bring peace to this part of the country but now these hopes are fading. i was already correspondent maria of the notion of all right joining me to discuss the situation in ukraine along with a host of other foreign and domestic policy issues the former governor of new mexico in two thousand presidential candidate gary johnson governor johnson thanks for joining me we haven't seen a lot of coverage over the journalists who've been killed in the conflict in fact crain crisis has largely left us headlines as of late i think they're busy with

iraq and and so on do you think the issue has been receiving anough coverage in the u.s. well. one of the problems with coverage is is that it gets everybody worked up over picking a winner or loser in always picking a winner in the united states winners when we pick those winners they always seem to come back and bite us so we should not be involved in this conflict and regretfully journalists have been killed and of course let's just make sure that u.s. men and service women don't join those same ranks the cease fire in ukraine of course ended today the u.s. and the e.u. are considering new sanctions against those in russia and ukraine that they believe could be involved in inciting the violence in the country are sanctions the answer how do you think the international community should get involved in this crisis. i

think politically we always look at sanctions as opposed to free trade look. are we going to become involved militarily against china when there's such a huge trading partner i don't think so and it's about free trade it's about trade it's not about sanctions you start talking about sanctions you know that's you know that's throwing rocks and rocks escalate to bullets and. nobody ever seems to talk about the cooperation that starts with free trade as opposed to sanctions are why i want to shift the talking about some domestic issues making headlines the u.s. has been struggling to handle a flood of child immigrants to the u.s. fifty two thousand have been apprehended since last october you were governor of new mexico a border state of course always dealing with immigration issues would you have recommended handling the situation any differently than the administration has. you

know based on what i'm seeing i think the administration is in fact acting because of a lack of action by congress and i've always said look let's just make it as easy as possible for somebody that wants to come into this country and work to get a work visa i'm not talking about a green card or citizenship but the notion of immigrants coming into the united states and working is a really good thing now i realize we're talking about refugees here that are seeking safe asylum aren't these refugees ultimately going to become hardworking potentially u.s. citizens i think they are and that we could be treating that situation as such look give them give them a visitor's permit something that doesn't currently exist to deal with this situation we got sort of president obama blamed republican action on immigration reform for as collating problems at the border including the child immigrant influx in response he said that he would move forward on immigration reform without

congress do you think that's a fair move considering republicans don't really want to touch the issue. i do i applaud the president for his actions because what we're going to have is we're going to have a heated debate and discussion in this country and maybe we will emerge with with the notion that we do need reform and i'll just reiterate it it starts with immigration being a really good thing let's make it as easy as possible for somebody that wants to come into this country and work to get a work visa i also advocate tax reform abolishing the i.r.s. income tax and corporate tax look we're going to need as many workers as we possibly can given in an environment of no corporate tax are going to be tens of millions of jobs created in this country that we're going to have a huge demand for people to be able to meet that demand so also say president obama spoke about another pressing issue the united states is crumbling infrastructure he

warned congress that it has to act or states will begin receiving fewer federal funds to keep up the roads and bridges let's take a listen to part of his speech we are not spending enough on the things that help our economy grow the things that help businesses move products the thing that help workers get to the job the things that help families get home to see their loved ones at night we spend significantly less as a portion of our economy than china does than germany does than just about every other advanced country they know something that i guess we don't which is that's the path to growth that's the path to competitiveness the president was really pushing republicans to act on a plan to close tax loopholes and use the money on infrastructure projects what do you think is the way forward when it comes to infrastructure. well leave it to the states you know federal government we were generating money best tax of all i think is is the gas tax as long as all that gas tax money is actually applied to

infrastructure now when it comes to the federal government talking about infrastructure and individual states i think certainly interstates come under that umbrella and there are a lot of bridges and a lot of asphalt and concrete associated with interstates but when it comes to state's infrastructure look at the states the money and let states deal with this and i absolutely believe that infrastructure is important. to growth in this country without infrastructure you can't grow i'm not a hypocrite here as governor of new mexico you know i i was i oversaw the paving of five hundred miles of new four lane highway didn't raise any taxes to accomplish that i don't think taxes are the issue it's just applying the taxes that we raise directly to the infrastructure that it's supposed to go to all right i do want to get your thoughts on the latest in the debate on guns you know today the safe carry

protection act went into effect in the state of georgia that means a residence with gun permits will have many more places to take their weapons including bars churches and unsecured government buildings which i guess includes libraries and city halls of course a lot of people say this measure goes way too far what do you make of that argument . well bravo georgia look you know here we have shootings at fort bragg let's just take that as an example military personnel in fort bragg were not allowed to carry arms so all these all these mass shootings come to an end when somebody with a weapon finally shows up. what's happening in georgia look these incidents do happen don't you want somebody around don't you want a good guy around with a gun once in a while to me this is going to create a situation where they're going to a lot more good guys are going to have guns to bring to an end situations that

currently are brought to an end because we restrict. the good guys from carrying guns and lastly a let's take a look at how americans view their freedom in the land of the free a new gallup poll is out that says americans are growing increasingly dissatisfied with their freedom to choose what they do with their lives since two thousand and six that dissatisfaction has jumped twelve points how do you think americans define freedom and what do you think is really contributing to that decline. well good for americans that they're recognizing what is happening we're mad as hell we don't want to take it anymore. edward snowden thank you ed to edward snowden the rise and they monitor one hundred ten million rise in users a year excuse me users every single day stop this is and this is growing in court encroachment by the government we've got militarization of our

police forces stop this needs to end. a police recruitment video. commercial running in southern new mexico that has swat a tired law enforcement officers next to armored vehicles breaking down doors this is what law enforcement has come to in this country stop we need to be mad as hell we don't want to take it anymore and this survey is reflecting that good good stop . former new mexico and new mexico governor gary johnson thanks for weighing in on all those issues appreciate it appreciate it. and i you know animas decision the federal appeals court has ruled that defense contractors ca c.i. premier technology incorporated can be held accountable in u.s. courts for torture committed at abu ghraib prison during the iraq war the powerful new ruling overturns u.s. district judge gerald bruce lee's twenty thirteen decision to throw out

a civil suit brought by four abu ghraib detainees against employees who they claim conspired with u.s. military personnel to abuse and torture them while being held in the controversial prison in two thousand and three two thousand and four judge levy had originally ruled that he lacked drizzt diction on the case because the abuse occurred in a foreign country now by her as me the legal director for the center for constitutional rights said the following of the decision quote today's court ruling affirms that u.s. corporations are not entitled to impunity for torture and war crimes and that holding us entities accountable for human rights violations strengthens this country's relationship to the international community and basic human rights principles see i can still appeal the panel's ruling all the way up to the supreme court but no word yet on if that case or the plaintiffs will finally see its court . video of a professor in arizona being arrested has gone viral

a woman was stopped by police for jaywalking and then quickly became irate that's when the officer decided to take down the professor after. he won the. you want you to. believe you were before you did you like. the entire thing with your life. was. after the woman gets up from the ground with the officers how she kicks him her attorney says the officer was reaching for her private area that was exposed because she had a dress on as arrests happened last month on the campus of arizona state in phoenix professor ursula or says the cop pulled alongside her as she was crossing the street and asked her if she knew the difference between a road and

a sidewalk the university says at this time they believe the officer acted appropriately that means the professor will be in court later this week to face numerous charges including assault and resisting arrest boom bust is coming up next year on our air annoyed aaron a joins us for a quick preview yron thank you know coming up on boom bust general motors had surprisingly robust auto sales in june despite a record breaking recalls now we're looking into why and how in today's headline stories and in the big deal today edward harrison and i are looking at the annual b.i.l.'s report and what it says about our current pro-state crisis monetary policy experiment it's all coming up to stay tuned all right sounds good as it's thanks aaron. why does it for now for more on the stories to be covered go to youtube dot com for its last r.t. america check out our website r t dot com for its i should say the follow me on twitter adam you're a david make sure to let me know what you think we should cover and stay tuned on

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