coming up on r t a new rules for the t.s.a. is sure to irritate some some passengers the screening at certain airports may require passengers to turn on their cell phones while another musician is hassled by the t.s.a. more on that just ahead. and clashes between the ukraine military and type here of separatists are driving families from their homes many are fleeing over the border into russia one that coming up. and more has been unveiled about n.s.a. surveillance a new report shows that the n.s.a. intercepts data from ordinary people more then they're targeted foreigners more on

that later in the show. it's monday july seventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm a military and you're watching r t america. if you thought the long lines at t.s.a. gate screenings weren't slow enough be prepared a new rule will allow t.s.a. officers to force travelers at airports with direct routes to the u.s. to power on their mobile and other electronic devices when going through the screening process travelers who cannot how are on their devices will not be allowed to bring them on board the aircraft this is all in response to intelligence reports that al qaeda operatives in syria and yemen may have developed more sophisticated methods of hiding explosives in mobile phones the t.s.a. has particularly highlighted the apple i phone and the samsung galaxy the t.s.a.

has not said however that it plans what they plan to do if a passenger can't turn their cell phones or electronics on or what a traveler must do to reclaim any confiscated items and this is not the first time though in recent weeks that the question of what passengers can do dealing with the t.s.a. confiscating their belongings in the name of security has come up renowned jazz musician christian mcbride was traveling to saskatoon canada for a gig when the carbon fiber boat to his stand up bass was confiscated by the t.s.a. currently on tour in europe mr mcbride joined me earlier today where i asked him about this incident take a listen. well there's been a in a new thing going on with the t.s.a. where they're cracking down on exotic woods and ivory being transported internationally so i flew from newark new jersey to saskatoon saskatchewan in canada and when i arrived in canada my boat was missing from mike chase now

always trying to be a glass half full kind of guy and giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. i assume that t.s.a. did check my luggage and remove the contents to check as they usually do when they leave a note but i couldn't understand why i haven't gotten any response from anyone i mean it happened on june twenty second so that's been over two weeks now i have not gotten one return phone call from anybody i called the eight the eight hundred number and i spoke to one woman and i kind of got the run around where you got a call newark airport lost and found a call lost and found the cell was a willful to check bag you got to call customer service call customer service they say call often found so i can't get a definitive answers from anyone that's been the most frustrating part so really i was just going to ask you know what response did the t.s.a.

have when you discovered that i was missing but basically they're treating this as as anybody else's missing stuff right not that it's a vital piece of how you make your living. i was in newark airport as a couple of days ago and i you know it's a shame i had to actually be at the airport again to finally get to someone and i asked to speak to a supervisor and right away the big guy was a little nervous so why do you need a supervisor outside i just need to talk to survive out of incident that happened a couple of weeks ago so i never did get a supervisor but the person i spoke to actually was very helpful and. officer told me well i don't believe they confiscated your boat because had they confiscated it you would have been pulled off the flight or you've been you would have been caught at the gate. i said ok well what happened to it so well we don't know.

this is been i've been running around in circles for two weeks and it's been really frustrating well so if it wasn't confiscated then what this just be a simple case of that they just steal your stuff. i can't imagine why they would steal of and not one of them. i mean the boat was it was not exotic would there was no ivory on the boat so i can't imagine it would i can't imagine a t.s.a. agent being that hip to steal a boat you know now. like i've told a gentleman on an interview not them on go if it was in case. you know taken by a t s a agent who was a bass player and actually needed a boat really badly i actually wouldn't mind so bad but. not having any definitive answers that's been the most frustrating part of all and now what's

happened since you took this incident public and posted it on your facebook page which i believe you have something close to about one hundred thousand followers. yeah i want to tell you what the response of fall from that one particular post has been something that i was never ever expecting. i've done more interviews about this both for the last two weeks than i've done probably about all my and c.d.'s combined. isn't that ironic when you know now as it's obviously there's implication other implications involved because it's not just your ball you know this is. a growing trend it seems with musicians because earlier this was the budapest festival orchestra had seven of its lows season out of j.f.k. airport over concerns concerns that that they may contain elephant i bring out do you think there are and last musical instruments that have the use of i read today now that it would necessitate the t.s.a.

to target musicians. when this whole campaign was started by believers the fish and wildlife of the of foundational or whatever the group is i don't think they really have musicians in mind i have a hard time thinking that this particular organization came came together to crack down on exotic wood and ivory and said let's get every musician that we know with bones i mean would you go into it was with piano companies that are shipping piano lines back and forth i mean you know what are you going to recall every piano made in germany oh italy is ridiculous so. i think they this whole thing needs to be revisited because there was also an incident where a musician from brazil came through j.f.k. and they confiscated all of his flutes and he had been playing these flutes for thirty five or forty years. and they had never had a problem coming into the united states with his with his flute and they've

confiscated and made him pay a fine and he had to go back home so he never played his performance in new york so the whole thing against musicians of this really i'm glad i'm talking about it so much because the. musicians have had a very hard time even having a hard time for a long time long before this t.s.a. crackdown started happening so hopefully it will shed some light to the to the non-musician. about how important it is for our instruments to be able to you know how important they are to for out for our for our livelihoods. and that was grammy winning jazz artist christian mcbride from his european tour and now to breaking news the pentagon says the destruction of syrian chemical weapons began today on the u.s. cargo vessel and v.k. prey last month syria handed over one thousand three hundred tons of chemical weapons to western powers it acknowledged possessing which completed the deal

reached last fall to prevent any u.s. military action in the region u.s. military predicts it will take roughly sixty days to destroy approximately six hundred metric tons of material and new documents from edward snowden has thrown the national security agency narrative into a tailspin over its surveillance programs we now know that the number of people whose personal communications have been intercepted by the n.s.a. far outnumber the foreigners that the agency has legally targeted a new report in the washington post looks at top secret documents that no one knew snowden had acquired we knew we had reports about and it's a surveillance but it turns out the former n.s.a. contractor also accessed twenty two thousand surveillance reports on intercepted conversations collected by the n.s.a. between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve the posts for months and vesta geishas into the reports found that the agency had documented instant

messages online videos e-mails and more on over eleven thousand four hundred unique accounts but just eleven percent of those account holders were actual n.s.a. targets the rest were incidentally just caught up in the net many of them were americans in fact nearly half of the surveillance files had names or e-mail addresses belonging to americans and inside were some of their personal communications medical records resumes baby photos risque pictures so how does this augment. what we have learned in the past year or so about the n.s.a. surveillance programs to discuss the revelations i was joined earlier by kevin colyer senior politics reporter for the daily dot daniel stuckey a journalist at motherboard and kathleen mcclellan she's the national security and human rights deputy director for the government accountability project i first

asked kathleen what all of this means for the privacy of average citizens well it's has tremendous implications for privacy and it's really illustrative of a disturbing trend of deception on the part of the national security agency the n.s.a. is a proven history of underestimating and misleading the public about the scope of surveillance and the latest revelations from the whistleblower edward snowden just demonstrate how invasive the n.s.a. can be even if you're not a target. feel free to chime in what are your thoughts on this. you know i see a lot of the same elements of the n.s.a. is narrative on the question of phone bill that is the reporting of. people that receive documents from stone but you know we look at the council robbery and he's at peace corp saying the same thing that they were last year the people of the pacific the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. kind of generating

a. probable cause. a reasonable belief and what they were saying was fear was there going on you know gut instincts reasonable belief that's what probable cause is what we're looking at you know a target in states right this is what this is what we're using at this day and age we're going with gut instinct now what's surprising i think is that that there hasn't been a huge public backlash to these revelations i mean what do you think is happening with the american populace that wired how can people are not upset about invasion of privacy well i mean i think the american public is upset and getting more upset you know and i think that this revel in these latest revelations just broke the american public is still learning the implications of them you know we're all recovering from our fourth of july barbecue and you know figuring out what this means and i think that the more the american public learns about exactly what n.s.a. is doing the the more outrage they will be i mean it's one thing to have a private company collecting your information but it's a totally different to have the government doing it and you know to the it's just

metadata crowd which is the defense the of the original revelations about n.s.a. collecting on hundreds of millions of americans they said no it's the same your phone calls it's just metadata well this is not just metadata this is content this is this is content of your communications and of communications of people who you may or may not know are targets for maybe or maybe not legitimate reasons there's not really any oversight right now kevin let's bring kevin into into the fray here and. say agents have revealed that pretty much all of what they're seeing are these private actual messages between lovers photos of moms kissing babies things of that nature and since they began doing this they've really only arrested i believe two people in connection with bomb making in this is in overseas and in pakistan so we've heard of casting this wide net but when is this net too wide well that's a really striking thing about this report is that there are you know it's

a nine to one ratio of people collected versus people who are even targeted to begin with you know target doesn't mean necessarily even a terrorist it's a person of interest a new washington post story goes really deep with its you know mothers with babies it's e-mails between lovers it's all these really personal things and then similarly the justification for looking at some of these people are for example. you. just patient for a ruling someone else would look at that you know they might not be an american or you know a target has that person on a buddy list so maybe they're not american or that a target is e-mailing in a language other than english so they're probably not american a lot of americans e-mail might be. and well in this wide net right they're capturing tons of incidental data non-suspect like you mentioned and what what do they do with this data once it's collected. a lot of it is is masked so

and the n.s.a. has been very upfront that yeah we do sometimes sweep american good american data in with the sweeps but we mask most of it we mark it as you know we're not allowed to look at it then delete it obviously because stone was able to access it. according to the post reporter some sixty five thousand. massed entries and at least nine hundred that they found there were unmasked but pretty clearly were american references to americans e-mails so this this information just kind of floating around in the ether i mean that that's kind of scary right in that i can read your e-mails my e-mails i mean also we see you know conflicting communications coming from after these reports you know what we know we filter out what we don't need but you know we look at the original report in the washington post and you know we see them talking about well. there could be something that looks or all of them but since we have this information we're going to hold on to it and see if it becomes relevant oid or you know when you're looking through thousands and

thousands of pages of chats so this is just kind of becoming speculative that they're just going to hold on to people's e-mails and private photos and just have in their massive files that's it's incredibly disturbing when you think of it that way and it's interesting too you know i'm glad that we brought up how much is actually being collected because the n.s.a. and the director of national intelligence have maintained to the american public and to congress that they couldn't count how many americans were being swept up in this program yet somehow the washington post managed to do a pretty good estimate based on documents from the whistleblower so i think it really demonstrates the need for aggressive investigative journalism and whistleblowers because without them we would still be being fed this line of. you know that well yeah that too but this line of we can't tell you how many americans are being swept up here when in fact it seems that you can at least do an estimate i mean the washington post an estimate based on a representative sample. it's a quantum quantitative number that you can arrive at when it comes to minimisation

the n.s.a. and senior officials and surveillance state apologists have really relied on these minimisation procedures to protect the country but you know that's not the way the law is going and it's not the way the supreme court is going in another context just as robert said founders did not fight a revolution to gain the right to government agency post as that's not what the fourth amendment requires and so to the extent the minimisation is the basis for all of this information being collected that's pretty that's pretty dubious especially considering that they don't really ever it here to the ministry or they don't they rarely and here to the administration procedure let's just be real here without people that have there's going to be tons of this information piled up somewhere in a bunch of servers somewhere and you taught some point right so could you foresee this as possibly grounds for a lawsuit because this is inevitably people's private information is going to leak out we are just in that day and age where people just share we over share right so this information is bound to leak could this potentially be grounds for

a lawsuit against the n.s.a. right well i mean that's one of the most troubling things to consider when we see that all this information that's being gathered in collected it will come back to hurt the n.s.a. eventually when say there's a case made that someone wants to find out why were they collecting this information about me and you know that opens up vulnerabilities on an intelligence community like you know america's intelligence community saying you know that gives precedent to other people that want to have access to this information that's been collected and you know to scrutinize them and to sue there could be civil actions of you know massive scale is going result time is going to tell on that now let's turn to a slightly different angle in more recent findings it's been revealed that facebook was participating in the emotion manipulation study right. and we can compare that to like the jim carrey movie that the truman show i think

a lot of people have done that daniel stuckey let's start with you what are the implications of facebook directly affecting people's emotions without and manipulating their users without kind of any any warning to. i think it's totally fine this is really good i mean this is a different angle as you say this is a private company this is you know facebook this is where we volunteer you know everything about ourselves or we don't or we're going to use that as a way to watch our friends talk about their diet and their babies and things like that this is a private company and it's free to use you know it's a shame to you know see them design it in a way that people don't like or whatever but at the end of the day it's something much different than. tax pain dollars different than n.s.a. kevin what what do you say about that. definitely a different animal i don't think anyone who follows privacy would disagree with me

when i say that if you do care about your privacy in a very general sense you should not use facebook at all it's a company in that regard. that said yeah it's kind of apples and oranges personally i'm pretty creeped out by the facebook thing but again the worst facebook can do is manipulate your emotions or you know mine your data. it's not quite the same thing as a government agency directly tracking you ok now real quick i only have about a minute left there were rumors that were later debunked that there was military funding behind the facebook emotion study because cornell stepped forward and issued a definitive retraction of that rumor and in anybody here anybody's experience is there a real concern for potential collaboration between the department of defense and private corporations such as facebook to manipulate the populace emotion i think

that there is in general a concern with the department of finance partnering up with some private corporation i don't think in this case you know as you said it was the boat they've funded studies in the past and it is a study at the end of the. between you know cornell and facebook but yeah this is i think it's something pretty typical. of the phones that are bringing in a study it sounds like we're just all guinea pigs if we are going to be using facebook so that's all the time that we have there that was kevin colyer senior politics reporter for the daily dot daniel stuckey journalist for motherboard and kathleen mcclellan national security and human rights deputy director for the government accountability project thank you so much for your time everybody. now moving over to the ukraine crisis the cease fire has come to an end and ukrainian president petro poroshenko has ordered troops to end the rebellion by force as troops emerged at the russian border an influx of families fleeing the violence in

the town of kramatorsk are spilling into russia for safety artie's marie if an ocean has the latest in ukraine they have packed only the basics mostly sticking to the. climatologist. we're. talking times. it wasn't an easy decision. about. when you post this video because they know if you did just a few good you would just sit glued. to the pentagon you get to do just what it would. involve both fifty best in the business as well as field work it's hard to say how many people had fled kramatorsk the city that's been the target of kiev's miniature gratian for months even when the honor raised the crane

in flag over the town the refugees kept coming up is. that. this is where the fog of war looks. but i thought here then you know. but it. was a. local that is why do. you want to come back. the many of those who have fled we're forced to move their relatives behind. menaces husband is still in climatologist with the sewage but also. the dutch was

russian is the closest safe haven for many ukrainian refugees the u.n. says a hundred thousand have crossed the border into russia to figure the country's federal migration says could be full times higher as crossing the border could be dangerous fighting for numerous checkpoints as fears and there are reports of civilians being cool to in the crossfire or even targeted themselves here a car drives up to a border post is forced to turn around on a heavy fire. the family we spoke to had to change their plans after seeing just how hard it was even to get close to the checkpoint they decided to try their luck at another crossing asked us not to join them worried with a draft unnecessary attention. to continue the journey alone it used to be a crane and checkpoint but as you can see now it's abandoned there is absolutely

nobody here because crawls freely as you can see the ukrainian border guards left the russian side of the checkpoint seventy or no more than at the ukrainian russian border people here crossed day and night as you can see there many of them running from. bolland see their motherland this is one of the few places along they sprung to where there are no clashes but people are jittery fighting could break out here is well at any moment but within the book but much of what. you would hear. the most abortion for. the border and the safety beyond it is now just steps away with just one or even if these people will be able to go home is far from clear. brief notion in eastern ukraine and that does it for now for more on the stories that we just cover go to you tube dot com forward slash r t america and check out

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a story about second chances which a lot of people seem to get in our society today the first thing getting a second chance and this story is a man named steve gallon the third gallon was hired in two thousand and eight to be superintendent of schools in plainfield new jersey says that he had high hopes for him so much so that they gave him a salary of one hundred ninety eight thousand dollars a year which is higher than governor christie that very shortly after being hired gallon hired two women angela camp and lake cali to work for him at pretty fat salary when kelly was fired for being unqualified gallant just made up another job for her the school board started to wonder about their new superintendent and by two thousand and ten the honeymoon was over under an investigation it came out they cally camp and galland had falsified documents stating the women lived at gallons

home so that their kids could go to schools where they wanted them to in may of two thousand and ten gallon camp and cali were all of red. for theft of educational services conspiring to commit theft by deception and false swearing the three agreed to serve probation and to never ever work in the new jersey school system again as a way to get charges dropped and now here's the second chance part because five months after the scandal gallant was working again in school districts this time for charter schools in florida and guess who he hired to work for him there yet camp and cali the same women who were banned from schools in new jersey along with a gallon himself and now a brand new investigation into the three is being conducted in florida because two of the three charter schools gallon was hired to oversee the failed so hard that

they had to shut down it's also come out of that gallon has been making payroll decisions without authorization he hired by another woman that fall fully listed gallons home as their own and he tried to start a business with this had to shut down as a conflict of interest so i shady guy and his cronies were given a second chance and they are once again up to shady dealings this story isn't shocking obviously we give our cheaters and liars second chances all the time and the more powerful the cheater liar the more spectacular the second chance we seem to give them. there's an old adage that george bush famously slaughtered for me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me since our establishment constantly gives the same cheaters and liars second chances that end with the same fanjul results i think it's safe to say that the people running the show are definitely.