good to have you with us you're on our team today on roller sutured. coming up on r t a food bank for hungry students it's all part of a growing trend of american college students having a hard time affording food while getting an education a special report on that just ahead. can former n.s.a. employees are back in the spotlight they've been called to testify in germany about u.s. surveillance programs we'll tell you all the details coming up. and the american midwest is no stranger to tornadoes now a university of businesses is getting a new way to make the region tornado proof find out how he plans to do it later in the shell.

it's thursday july third find him in washington d.c. i mean you're a david and you're watching r t america college students are continually faced with the high cost of getting an education but now we're learning that on top of that financial burden many of them are also facing the challenge of continual hunger now students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the country are joining together to help combat the growing anger problem artie's on the south to church and brings us the story from long island new york. college enter a world of possibilities. well crippling student debt after leaving these stores is one pandemic that's already well established in the u.s. what's not often talked about is another dangerous trend college student hunger. i've often seen students in my classes you know eating chips or something like that

and my first reaction is oh it's a little snack but very often that could be lunch that summer time so most colleges around america are largely deserted but even so in schools like this one preparations are well underway to feed those in need when they come back in september according to the college and university food bank alliance there are about one hundred twenty food pantries at higher education institutions throughout the u.s. dozens more are in the process of being set up like here at nassau community college in new york's long island they're choosing to do something to help themselves and to improve their lot in life by going to school they have to decide where their funds are going to go so some of it's going to textbooks into tuition that leaves less money for people to put food on their tables the food pantry boom is only beginning as prices for education skyrocket having grown by five hundred forty percent since the eighty's according to the u.s. department of labor so people are coming here in the not even way. they can barely

afford the tuition nineteen year old stacy abby is a originally from an upper middle class family in india living below the poverty line since moving to america it's a negative mentality sometimes when people say oh you're coming to our country and you're taking all the lead and all the food stamps we don't use any of that because my family is scared that we're going to get stacey says there are many more students like her most of them she says keep their hunger to themselves it's kind of embarrassing to go and tell that to people when you see that other people have it and you don't. but i've seen a lot of students who are hungry and they eat. a muffin or something and you know. did you what did you have today. is what they tell me i'm only it's an experience that in this community of twenty three thousand people the pantry is not only meant for students but also college staff who are in need the plight of college students as part of a broader struggle in america where food security is

a problem while policies to keep up with those in need often ignore reality when you listen to people in congress talking about yeah well could food stamps by fifteen dollars a month they should try it well they should try to feed their families on food stamps so on. and see what a fifteen dollar cut would do well politicians narrow in on cutting costs rather than seeing the bigger picture it's volunteers like stacey along with two other students and faculty that are trying to help however they can by building and running what is for now a small space you don't have to scare you don't have to be hungry there's someone out there who cares that they hope will make a real difference in. long island new york. well it's a busy travel weekend here in the u.s. though while those of you heading to the airport will likely complain about long lines and additional fees later this month air travel is going to become even more expensive beginning july twenty first the t.s.a. tax called the federal nine eleven security fee will more than double on most trips

fees on a domestic one way ticket will go from two dollars and fifty cents to five dollars and sixty cents and fees on a non stop roundtrip ticket will increase from five dollars to over eleven dollars stop over trips will also become more pricey congress's drop the ten dollars per ticket cap so multi-day city travel will cost more if a trip takes more than four hours these new fees will increase the tax you pay per ticket to about twenty seven percent much of the new tax money will go toward a fund to help reduce the federal deficit while the remainder will go to the transportation security administration the agency in charge of security at u.s. airports and airport security has become a major focus for the u.s. since nine eleven just this week the department of homeland security announced the t.s.a. will boost its security this holiday weekend at certain airports overseas that carry direct flights to the u.s.

while no specific airports or threats have been named concerns include al-qaeda offshoots in yemen and syria developing bombs to attack commercial airliners as well as militants fighting in syria who hold western passports and are looking to threaten the u.s. . well general keith alexander former head of the national security agency has been keeping very busy these days alexander who retired in march from his dual role as head of the n.s.a. and the u.s. cyber command has been meeting with some of the largest banking trade groups why well he's trying to deliver a message to banks about the significant threat from state sponsored attacks and hackers who are interest. in stealing information or money but his consulting services won't come without a price tag the general is reportedly marketing his services for one million dollars a month certainly a lot more than he was likely paid at the helm of the intelligence agency and

turning to another and as a related story today former whistleblowers from the security agency are testifying before a german parliament terry committee as the government investigates america's wiretapping methods for more on that let's go to our tease peter oliver in berlin. well it is quite alarming the people that are using this software this network doing so to avoid being tracked what they're doing online and now what has emerged is that the n.s.a. has the ability to track just who logs on to the servers now this comes after it emerged in a line of code from the the infamous x. keyscore system that's what the n.s.a. use in order to monitor what people are doing online now what this code revealed is that they have essentially a tap into two servers here in germany anybody that goes on there well they get put into a database and are labeled as extremists now it's estimated that tens of thousands

of people will of the hundred selves on that database remember this is a network that was initially created to help. people in in countries where the internet is repressed it was initially funded by the united states government they still provide some of the cash towards it even though they can't see what web pages you're looking at the tour system itself seems to be remaining intact those that log onto it though can now be tracked and they can find out who you are allowed to former senior n.s.a. officers william binney and thomas drake mr binney has just finished his testimony a very long testimony there indeed what he revealed is that yes the n.s.a. gave the technology to the germans that would allow. surveillance c. doesn't know whether the germans implemented that though he said that it would be

impossible for anybody to detect if they were being snooped on online by the n.s.a. he also said that the united states and the n.s.a. needed to create a a moral standard modeled standard and what information they have snooping into and he said that current legislation just doesn't do that so he's give his testimony be waiting to see what more comes out if they say all go in committee hearing to try and find out just the sheer scale and scope of the n.s.a. spying here in germany now is artie's peter oliver. and now to the crisis in ukraine yesterday foreign ministers of ukraine and russia back to new cease fire plan well that agreement to restart peace talks by saturday meanwhile the fighting between and forces and government of thordis continues today at least seven people were killed by army air raids on a village in the eastern part of the country artie's there we have an ocean i has that story. as we can draw. these it's twenty five kilometers from the guns

houses and still. at least five bombs were dropped here destroyed an entire history and killing several people most of. what was it was a bronze quarter year of the. alexander invites us to follow him. he has become a key i feel joe you're going to do a lot of it was it wasn't it wasn't yes i was on. the throughout. the hour. just next door and other human tragedy i should rather of more when muslims get leave the business they would leave gordon out of the role and i want you to give me your money and bugs me is my ship assume that it's going to get you. well quicker and drays family was fortunately not at home at the time of the shelling.

he says it would have killed them. would do i think thank you to crane their force just hours ago the ceasefire ended and key agrees you would cause it's and terrible ration in eastern ukraine and you should use in your book maybe need to do good but it is to get the good news of which the good in the point of course that the new immigrants washing you know those little workers to good nature still to which you would love it whether you be a cubit or she'll go one day with all the prayers or go out of the city a bleed when you'll be aware in the world will do a lot that you would be a good night a good friend as you know you'll know what to do with the issue of religion infest truly tree pilot told us why he thinks the village was targeted to the earth yet they're still there without somebody with. their their look at the variables you know it's funny that one of the family bible would be a circle those are just two of the bosenova is going to be almost over on the way with work always doors in the w.

bush should be nurturing in the floor as possible as it's a good deal if there is night suddenly we hear the sound of shells exploding on my porch or two of us are going to shoot here in our cherry but god knows yes you do so we have to run now that i needed to take out ok can you hear that from. are doing well nothing. they say that i hear my subject as forces base is right to me or to limit as a way to hear hear. for now way back we still buy a local hospital a day before the local power station was heat in another shelling since then there has been no running water and no electricity in addition to. singing upset about children but me to someone to. see.

it which we find alexander's father him and the injured he says he has no point in leaving no one hour that his wife's donald on her all of the thought of the moment a whole lot more in the knowledge they are going to work out. conductor he still knows we'd better hurry up we come back to the guns. is the last great speech for the city and there was solid of a doubt in the romney is the truth. why is that. the so the enemy cannot get through the bridge was a checkpoint. is this cell phone was going to be so obvious i would drive you told us that this is the last checkpoint he will start to kill themselves could be village where the bodies happened and they say they are surprised why those that want to do it was targeted since going to check on the nearest. time to learn his

way it seems that no one has an answer for these question. in eastern ukraine. while it's july and that means we've officially begun hurricane season in fact one is heading up the east coast right now but before hurricane season americans are usually fighting the wrath of a different natural disaster and of course i'm talking about tornadoes take a look at this this is the average number of tornadoes that have hit the u.s. state by state since one thousand nine hundred one in fact a warning to the national climatic data center an average of one thousand two hundred and fifty three tornadoes pummel down on the u.s. each year in fact when it comes to absolute tornado counts the u.s. leads the list when compared to the rest of the world the tornadoes typically wreak havoc on the communities they hit ravaging small towns and often killing many people in their path but one physicist is now saying that this damage could all be

prevented and a paper he recently published in the international journal of modern physics temple university professor wrong towel says building high walls could solve this problem his proposal suggests building three massive walls around the american midwest each wall would be one thousand feet high and one hundred sixty five feet thick earlier i was joined by the physicist himself to break down all of this and i first asked him to explain where exactly these walls would go. well it's the he will be in the american middle west so the area called the tornado area so for those who are starting read the devastating tornado risk areas such a like oklahoma then fell on the west the girls were east and there was we just what you post in law was passed successful them probably put us somewhere else too . now while the grey wall of china would be the first thing that comes to mind when

we say that. you look to china to help influence your solution to america's tornado problem and said you look at the landscape of china's planes how did china's geography really play into this plan though it's the china greater war is the monk think the difference the defense here is a build will. flav claim so if you look at the china china has the tool making playing one is the court in northern china playing another quarter east china playing some kind they've got a young liberal playing ok so do you really it's just a logical location almost saying of the four that'll air their flag and the other here in the us like we are in the corner and was even able to use everybody's scared that's when it always does so much damage to so many people kayla's on the

front in china faces the north where there's a lot all ok except it's a small area i should unicyclist because of being the monk and here isn't the cheating because they have a tornado but the last step for the adults but is a quarter point and one car so you end their lives in a situation why financial phone call is only a small call you every year it's a smaller region moji already playing don't have that because they're used to where's the money on the block or reduce the bile in the clubs beat you know the color winning a war we saw a china was lucky didn't have much when it was similarly in europe the tornado also known as theatres. and the us lost years in the southern tornadoes in whole europe but in us like us. small area like

a oklahoma. lost eight hundred eleven tornado into another eleven even more so fluctuating but these dailies the energy our prayer eleven on a computer was story of the seven big big difference geology good difference made a difference so many thing is that because in us monckton is no school stars basically a month is not a range for two ways like a utopia on the china monkey wrench who waits so you can buy into a lock of the loo duce the wireless cards are in us norman to do that so that's why we need a filter will truth is limited so it's probably ok well i do imagine this would be a very expensive venture of course tornadoes are certainly dangerous but have you done a cost benefit analysis on the project. you know it's not the the the my people

because it's the science paper pusher we charge whether they can do it so based on an allied also based on some cat gratian we would do it but in reality you are right because this would be costly expensive so first that we would do is that the like of like a stubborn place like alcohol for example they also means only like jumping to the city that they missed the plan to like each year so they like a like a job opening city in ms ali tool in tools are the eleven the damage is the abbas rebuilding dollars in cuba about to see hunger people leave but even in the the maybe they need to build a wall post so once the bill will eliminate in the limited major tornadoes last name problem people would like to expand on the area so well it can only go part of the problem we need to study locally eventually gradually extend

otherwise as you said it would you would you project is not a so. now how difficult would the structures be to build and does the u.s. have anything right now that's comparable at all all you did building is not a problem at all ok for example is that the are being in all of the. building contest really it's like a story on your need to hide under the because war is the much you do then build the bigger the ok guy building the second that is the one is that important they realize these are war that is not a tornado showed it do not abide with. the event of a tornado they just need to swing the speed up and i'll solace often on those so again it's a minimize that while in class to eliminate formation on your neighborhood so they are not at all. all right so this is that so there's no problem will be able to

water than that ingenuity no problem at all or they we can do it but at all cost is the when you have select area do the unit test the bose other they gradually extend all right certainly an intriguing idea physics professor wrong just how thanks for joining us thank you. well for years u.s. soccer major league soccer and other organizations have been trying to coax sports fans and of becoming part of the global game and this year's world cup we finally saw that passion take root after years of interest taking up american fans are officially aboard the usa bandwagon artes man well rob lowe has that story was a beautiful goal by the u.s. is julian green and over time the world cup twenty fourteen quarter finals will not be including the united states by far the u.s.

men's soccer fans love saddened after the loss but have sure been paying close attention to the games in fact national viewership for the u.s. belgium match alone was bigger than the entire world series and the u.s. match against germany doing more online streaming in the u.s. than even the super bowl this year's world cup has people feelings bars stadiums and entire city squares to watch the games the biggest watch parties may be in new york and chicago but there's no shortage of fans right here in the nation's capital thank you thank you thank you i think it's time for america to you know jump on the bandwagon and the rest of the world soccer is the biggest sport in the world i think it's a great thing for the sport it's going to change and this world has definitely changed everything on soccer that i think it's inevitable that soccer is going to be won the bigger sports in this country is the second time you know baseball is falling off everybody loves football but soccer is going to a better part of the reason why this world cup is so popular might have something to do with the mazy internet content that americans are just gobbling up sharing

everything from ads for a barber in texas will shave your favorite soccer players face into your head to videos like this one showing just one example of how other countries celebrate their level of. cups wilderness is certainly having its a friend or her was but even though the u.s. is now out of the game americans can still root for other breakthrough stars of the . tournaments that have had a so biting our nails until the last whistle so it seems americans are discovering something the rest of the soccer playing world has always known about record viewership surpassing even the world series i think the us has found itself a new favorite pastime to let up a little artsy washington. i don't want to watch the earth breathe that sounds like a very obscure concept but with the launch of nasa's new it satellite it seems will be able to do just that nasa scientists are hoping that this new satellite the orbiting carbon observatory two also known as the o.c.

zero two will provide key insight into the earth's carbon dioxide levels betsy edwards the o.c. zero two program executive elaborated on the mission of the new satellite she said with the launch of this spacecraft decision makers and scientists will get a much better idea of the role of carbon dioxide in climate change as o.c. zero two measures this rain house gases globally and for vides incredibly new insights into where and how carbon dioxide is moving into and out of the atmosphere scientists have long been hoping to get a better perspective of carbon emissions professor gregg marland of state university said this of the new satellite observatory will use its vantage point from space to capture a picture of where the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide are rather than our cobbling it data together from multiple sources with less frequency reliability and

detail the satellite will measure carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere twenty four times every second all it moves and a polar orbit four hundred thirty eight miles above earth the four hundred and sixty five million dollars mission has a life time of two years but zero c o two team members say the spacecraft has enough fuel to keep operating for much much longer. and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america check out our web site r t v dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at and married at amir a david thanks for watching have a wonderful fourth of july a wonderful weekend. for. washington well it's a mis. use of the media. covering it is actually doesn't do too much to add revenue my culture journey and seventy

six year old american piece to the fallout do you think is going to create the cia do you think this is what's triggering that. is the law but it's also the largest debtor nation is. pretty much that is mostly about turning the status quo maybe you'll see. what the core of the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers in washington to wake up and start talking about the real causes of.

there's a huge ball of crazy in this story let's see if you can figure it out before i say what it is already ok mary galligan used to lead the cyber and special operations team at the f.b.i.'s new york office which is the agency's largest surveillance operation she's now a privacy consultant for the financial but he must delight she knows a thing or two about cyber security and surveillance in other words and she recently told c.n.n. some of her top tips for how to protect your privacy one of the tips she told c.n.n. is to get the wrong contact information at checkout you know when you're just trying to buy some toothpaste and the checkout clerk asks you for your zip code or phone number galligan suggests giving fake information at that point when you do give them that information it gets aggregated so retailers can find out much more about

you like how much money you make your credit card history birthday lots of information can be revealed when it gets aggregated so it makes sense to give out fake information like galligan south. the next tip she told c.n.n. is to not show your driver's license when you're asked for photo i.d. she says the next time your doctor's office asks for identification with a photo of them something else like your work bad that's because driver's licenses show more information including your birthday and address not to mention your driver's license i.d. number so it makes sense to show another form of photo id to protect your information another tip galligan gave c.n.n. is the set. a separate email account that is just for marketing when companies demand you cough up an email address just to buy something she says just give them this dedicated junk email address you've created then any information that is aggregated or parsed in any way shape or form will stay separate from your real

email account and your real identity those are some of her tips which sound like they make sense so did you catch the crazy part if not here it is these tips from a former f.b.i. agent are all designed to protect you from corporations or other institutions they are to protect you from hackers or criminals this former member of our national police is giving us tips to help us to protect our privacy and identity from our companies it should be our government's job to legislate that protection from unscrupulous corporations and institutions but doesn't know what works in the us now we need tips to protect ourselves from our criminal corporations and government too so says the f.b.i. and there is your huge ball.