good to have you with us here on our t.v. today i will research are. coming up on r t a new n.s.a. leaker a new document shows that a federal court allows the n.s.a. to gather information on a hundred and ninety three world governments all the details on that just ahead. as 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 agency has more on that coming up. and in eastern ukraine government forces clash with anti-theist 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 five pm in washington d.c. i'm your i dated and you're watching r.t. america. with privacy on the minds of many americans a new national security agency leaks shows the spy agency has a wider reach than once thought according to documents released by edward snowden and obtained the by the washington post a sudden rule court permitted the n.s.a. to collect information about governments and one hundred ninety three different countries as well as on foreign institutions like the world bank artie's megalopolis as the details less than six months after president obama spoke about reforms to the national security agency newly released documents on the washington post have a result on the map in terms of the reach of american surveillance. 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 just fine 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 new zealand together with the united states these countries make up about five eyes to look at one of these countries that does not necessarily mean that you're 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 of filtering the amount could slow it down at the system now one interesting point to note is that in the ruling the court allowed for the surveillance not just of the communications around these overseas targets but any communications about the targets as wow well the documents do not prove that the

u.s. 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 a surveillance flow. italy revelation comes at an interesting time the 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 famous speech president obama did offer some legal justification as to why this type of surveillance is allowed and necessary but legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against u.s. persons without a warrant do not apply to foreign forces overseas. this is not unique to america few if any spy agencies around the world. constrain narratively is beyond

their own borders so a former senior defense official who spoke with the washington post on the condition of anonymity offered another possible justification for this type of thing of 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 and if they 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 fight the court being a rubber stamp court rather than working in the best interests of the people as a surrounding 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 bank the international

monetary fund the european union and the international atomic energy agency all entities that the u.s. has close business ties to sow looked as if no one can escape the watchful eye of the n.s.a. abroad and many americans are right here at home have consul for concern if they communicate with people living outside of the country reporting in front of the white house meghan lopez r c. spent a full years and former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden began leaking classified documents waking up americans and the rest of the world so 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 banks claim a new found popularity of black phone it's an encrypted smart phone that's designed to keep your conversations private highly a. dissipative gone was revealed earlier this year as

a joint venture between crypto service firm silent circle and spanish smartphone manufacturer dick's phone and this week the device officially began shipping out to customers to talk a little bit about what this fall of can do i was joined earlier by toby we are jones the c.e.o. of s.g.p. technology that's the joint venture behind blackstone i first asked him why it's so hard to protect the privacy of regular smartphones well the main thing is that the devices is built by folks who are interested in and using the information about what you do to generate additional commercial benefit for them and so our whole goal is to stop that cut it off at the knees and give ownership of that information back to the owner of the of the telephone ok i want to be clear about something because a lot of people are going to associate this news on the black phone. with something that that gives you complete shielding from the government is this known one hundred percent and as a proof no it's not and it we want to make sure people understand that if if you're

on the wrong watchlist 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 they 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 broad crumbs behind now of course any mention of the 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 and 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 for corporations

other 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 are 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 so you brought the phone with you today this is the official black phone it just it just shipped out yesterday microsoft this is actually this is the first retail unit in the country the one that you're on the one that i'm very aware i was on is the very first one so we brought it for you today how we feel special ok can you tell us about its capabilities that the apps that people can deal on shore so the headline applications are that you can make and receive phone calls you can send receive text messages you can have video chats you can send files back and forth all completely privately we don't weak 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 now as i understand it this is an unlocked phones you know so the user could take this and that it connected to any carrier eighteen thousand right then that means said you know those are the companies that people most know and you tory asleep are for storing our data and for you know millions of government requests to unleash information about their users are those companies still able to do that with this sound they are if you use it like a traditional phone so it's true you can connect it to any g s m carrier and if you make and receive produce. style phone calls they still wrote over those carriers

networks and the carriers still switch and connect those calls and they have all the records that any other phone will generate however our ups the silent phone the silent tax the other critical privacy absolute 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 users 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 i was hoping for john c.e.o. of as g.p. technologies. and now to ukraine where the standoff between anti-government forces and you have authorities exploded in heavy fighting today the violence has been marked by ground assaults arab i'm barred mazin heavy artillery shelling around the rebel controlled city of slovyansk dividing broke out shortly after president petro

poroshenko declared an end to a ten day cease fire 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 little break. 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 doors 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. since the fighting in ukraine began there have been five journalists killed covering the conflict four of them russian sub or more were injured for more on the fighting that's resumed in ukraine let's go to our tease maria finish. the large scale military operation the case of calls anti terror operation is now officially resumed in eastern ukraine the most dramatic picture we see in the town of kut i'm

a tourist in the nets region it used to be one of the two major if the centuries of kiev's operation and we spoke to a point journalist currently on the ground and this is how he describes the situation there right now. jeff. i mean. really. slimmed down screaming is another target k.-tel you to leave crane in on me for months these town in the next crate and so severe attacks by the ukrainian military and fierce clashes between the army and to government forces left and resulted in fatalities including in months even in population and now again we start receiving alarming messages from these town as well within the realm of the what you will say

in what is the on the scene where you want us that well of which who. was for the. shool done. this all of us that was the issue or so yes. but i'm here with. the world. at the bottom yes of. your group which. 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 and these were the songs that work people up today they're very exhausted very very tired of the situation and they had hopes that the ceasefire will be extended and that will help bring peace to these parts of the country but now these hopes are fading. i was already correspondent in rehab 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 and twelve 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 the korean 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. always picking a winner in the united states winners and 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 rinks the cease fire in ukraine of course ended today the u.s. and the you 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. that's you know that's throwing rocks. rocks escalate to bullets. 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 of 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 no 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 look give

them give them a visitor's permit something that doesn't currently exist to deal with this situation we had 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 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're 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 in 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. paving a 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 that residents with gun permits will have many more places to take their weapons including bars churches and unsecured government buildings which i guess includes the 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 these shootings at fort bragg let's just take that as an example military personnel in fort bragg we're 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 elicit 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 add to edward snowden varieties and they monitor one hundred ten million rise in users a year excuse me users every single day stop this isn't good 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 no new mexico governor gary johnson thanks for weighing in on

all those issues appreciate it. well today is july first a day in which hundreds of new laws are going into effect across the country some of them are more serious and some of them are downright ridiculous there's a little bit of everything in there to help me break down just a couple of the more interesting new laws on the books i want to bring in redacted tonight correspondent john donald john always good to have you on the show all right so let's begin with this one in florida we love florida all right do in cern's companies will be prohibited from denying coverage or increasing rates based on a customer's gun ownership kind of shocking that this was even permissible in the first place what do you think yeah this whole war in this whole situation is makes me feel weird because on the one hand i don't want to be an apologist for soul sucking insurance companies but then on the other hand i don't want to be an apologist for

some guy who owns so many guns that he's constantly putting his life in eminent danger of death occurring to the point where insurance companies feel like they need to jack up his rates but i actually think is it just shows how strong the gun lobby is in this country that they can get an exemption from something like this while insurance companies can still discriminate with people in all sorts of ways but yeah it seems like it's weird it seems like it's a ridiculous thing to have in the first place yeah but then it also seems like it's a ridiculous thing not to have at the same time a kind of the whole situation of just people that want to fill up an entire car with guns and then anyone associated with insurance companies both sides of it make me feel i guess gun ownership is or was i should say a preexisting condition no longer at all right and now let's go to north carolina it says if you get placed on house arrest you have to pay the ninety dollars fee for the electronic monitoring device that you have to wear your pace this is in

itself what is behind the whoever is i guess if you got a job. flip the bill but what i keep thinking is you know what if you can't afford . the ninety dollars then do you get fined for not paying it then you have to keep the electronic device on longer and then you have to pay for that fee as well and if you can't pay that you just end up keeping it on for your entire life yes sure you have to stay inside but then when you check out at least you kind of slip the bill and i think the ninety dollars is probably the least of their concerns when they're on house arrest and yeah. yeah it's just it's so funny these things go through the court and these are actual a very bizarre it will this is not where you're going to be talking about on redacted tonight by you all you do have a host of where anything is needed i want you to run down i'll what you will be covering this thirst absolutely yeah we try to dig a bit deeper in our own redacted ok so the plan is for lee's opening rant to be about this is a really interesting scientific model of that. that was made showing that basically

unless there's some sort of revolt we're just completely screwed as any. and basically we need an independence from corporate rule or rulership we're going to talk about that and then in addition we're also covering all the earthquakes defragging that have increased a lot of stuff about this facebook mood control stuff which is very strange this is very very rich a self described point zero one percent or came out saying the trickle down economics is not working at the middle class is what will you know increase and grow our economy and yeah and not in a law is passed and that we're going to go on thursday not friday because of the holiday yachts everyone has to make less than eight pm so much john after donald we're out of time thank you. all right now does it for now i mean you're a day that. i'm abby martin

the stories we cover here you're not going to hear anyway seven starts after that same time there's a reason they don't want you to now you never want to know reset you should be completely outraged now let's break the set. hospitals are now starting to use consumer data to create profiles on patients to identify people who might get sick so they can intervene before that happens the carolinas health care system the biggest hospital chain in the carolinas is plugging data first two million people into algorithms to identify high risk

patients and in pennsylvania the biggest health care system is already plugging in household and demographic data so hospitals are now incorporating into their systems information like did their patients buy cigarettes this week how many candy bars did they buy did they cancel their gym membership all of the little stuff we do that can be traced by our credit card transactions online information or public records are now starting to be fed into algorithms used by the house care industry to track aspects of our health and the doctors see that we're gaining too much weight or smoking too much from all the data they're collecting they can start calling us up to try to get us to adopt healthier behaviors if they see you want to take a vacation someplace where the pollen count is too high and you have asthma they might call you want to discourage you from traveling if that sounds too outlandish to ever happen make no mistake it's already happening in an interview with bloomberg one diabetes patients says she already gets calls from her insurance

company who tries to discuss her daily habits with her it's a practice that is bound to become more prevalent as our society becomes more and more data addicted as chief clinical officer for angela. carolina's health care system michael dylan put it dave is already being used to get people to buy crap they don't need that isn't good for them or for others gary applications like identifying dissent so at least hospitals are looking to apply data collection for something good keeping people healthy right but here's the thing under obamacare hospitals are already starting to get by and for having too many patients readmitted it saves hospitals money to keep people out of their emergency rooms in the ridiculous sprawling bureaucracy that is the american health care system data collection is about money not about patient.