have you with us your thoughts for you today on roller sutured. coming up on our t.v. clashes between the ukraine military and anti kids separatists are driving families from their homes many are fleeing over the border into russia more on that just ahead. and a new t.s.a. rule is sure to irritate travelers the screening process at certain airports may require passengers to turn on their electronic devices while another musician is hassled by the t.s.a. more on that coming up. and more has been unveiled about n.s.a. surveillance a new report shows that the n.s.a. intercepted more data from ordinary people than it did from targeted foreigners and more on that later in the show.

it's monday july seventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america. we begin tonight with new developments in syria the pentagon says the destruction of chemical weapons from syria began today on the u.s. cargo carrier m.v. cape ray last month syria handed over one thousand three hundred tons of chemical weapons to western powers which it ignored possessing completing the deal reached last fall that would prevent any u.s. military action in the region the u.s. military predicts it will take roughly sixty days to destroy approximately six hundred metric tons of material 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 and influx of

families fleeing the violence in the town of kramatorsk are spilling over into russia for safety r.t. is maria for notion that has the latest from the ukraine. they have packed only the basics not just the one close to keep the children but you were forced to leave their home town of goma towards him. and in time. it was an uneasy. about. the new book in the studio if you don't use it for good you were just too big and. stupid to believe this is just to look at it would. you propose it to basically because it's so it's you know it's hard to say how many people had not come out towards the city that's been the target of jubilation for months even when the army

raised the ukrainian flag over the town the refugees kept coming. that. this is really for the war looks good. but i thought they're going to finish it. but it. was a. this. is a why do. you want to come back. the many of those who have fled where forced to move their relatives behind. many cases husband is still in climatologist with the sewage but also. the president was in

russia is the closest safe haven for many ukrainians 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 but 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 was forced to run 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 but enough to join them worried with attract 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 freedom is you can see the ukrainian border guards left the russian side of the checkpoint seventy or no older and at the ukrainian russian border people here crossed day and night as you can see there many of them running strong ballance with 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 so quickly but the public really but. the minute you leave the most abortion. 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. relief notion in eastern ukraine and for more on the crisis in eastern ukraine and the states the state department's reaction to the violence there we have our team

is guy in a chick and brings us the details. you know we see all these horrible shots from villages towns that were shelled by the ukrainian air force and you hear the state department defend the strike saying all those killings are the russian separatists fault basically the shots that we saw from the village of conventual collapse we could leave one speechless twelve civilians were killed including a five year old this however did not generate any strong feelings at the u.s. state department. these are just that's the reason why are these pictures these are shots of civilians blown to pieces in their homes in their backyards in the village in eastern ukraine last week well what does the u.s. do to stop you from doing it and they're going to make sure to leave them to be clear on the ground the reports that we've seen and the vast majority of people who are reporting from the ground report that the russian backed separatists are the ones who are not only in gauged in in violence and

efforts to take over buildings and attack people and innocent civilians and they have no place doing that in a country that's a sovereign country like ukraine all the ukrainian security service itself says the shelling of congo could have been a pilot's mistake but the u.s. state department is staunchly defending kiev no matter what mistakes the government if ukraine is defending the country if ukraine and i think they have every right to do that as does the international community and these people have the right to live . well i think the people of ukraine have the right to live in peace and security without russian backed separatists attacking their homes and going into buildings and i think that's where the root cause of this is and we shouldn't we shouldn't forget that fact last week another state department spokesperson doubted the sources of a u.n. report that talks about a sharp increase in the number of people fleeing ukraine into russia

a spokesperson suggested maybe they're going to russia to visit. grandmothers even though there are so many reports about the horrors that people are you said about why they really flee from you see ukraine i ask about this today jen psaki treaded more cautiously on this than her colleague last week with the general impression is that the u.s. department is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine. that was artie's guy nature can. and if you thought the long lines at t.s.a. screening gates 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 power 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 devices the t.s.a. has particularly highlighted the apple i phone and samsung galaxy now the t.s.a. has not said however what it plans to do if a passenger cannot power on their electronic devices or what a traveler must do to reclaim those confiscated items in this isn't the first time in recent weeks though that the t.s.a. confiscating personal 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 from by the t.s.a. from his instrument case which he actually checked in currently on tour in europe mr mcbride actually joined me earlier today where i asked him about this incident. 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 i free being transported

internationally so i flew from newark new jersey to saskatoon saskatchewan canada and when i arrived in canada my bow was missing from my case now always trying to be a glass half full kind of guy and you know giving everyone the benefit of the doubt . i assume that t.s.a. did check my luggage and removed 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 and 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 runaround when you got a call newark airport lost and found i called lost and found a cell or well it was a checked bag you got to call customer service call customer service they say call

austin 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 it was missing but basically they're treating this as as anybody else's you know missing stuff right yeah right not that it's a vital piece of of how you make your living here i was in newark airport just 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 guy was a little nervous is that well why do you need a supervisor so i just need to talk to supervise about an 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 said 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 but the so i have 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 let's just be a simple case of theft and they just steal your stuff. i can't imagine why it was still of go and not one of them you know i mean the boat was it was not exotic would there was no i read on the boat so i can imagine it would you know i can't imagine a t.s.a. agent being there to steal a bow you know now if if if like i told a gentleman on an interview not him on go if it was in case of. you know taken by a t s a agent who was a bass player and actually needed a bowl really badly i actually wouldn't mind so bad you know but. if you're 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 closer about one hundred thousand followers . there i want to tell you what the responses from that one particular poster has been something that i was never ever expecting. i have done more interviews about this both for the last two weeks and i've done probably about oh my to see these combined. isn't that ironic when you know now as it's obviously there's implications other implications involved because of it's not just your mo you know this is. a growing trend it seems with musicians because earlier this month 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 ivory now do you think there are enough musical instruments that you have the use of ivory today now

that it would necessitate the t.s.a. to target musicians you know when this whole campaign was started by believe was the fish and wildlife foundation or whatever the group is i don't think they really have musicians in mind i have a hard time thinking that this particular working as they should came came together to crack their own exotic wood and ivory and said let's get every musician that we know what. i mean what are you going to do with was with piano companies that are shipping. you know what i'm going to recall every piano made in germany or italy so 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'd been playing these flutes for you

know thirty five or forty years and had never had a problem coming into the united states with his with his flute and they they confiscated and made him pay a fine and he had to go back home so he never cleaned his performance in new york so there's this this whole thing against musicians of this really i'm glad i'm talking about it so much because. musicians have had a very hard time we've been 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 us for our for our why livelihoods. and that was grammy winning jazz artist christian mcbride from his european tour. and new documents from edward snowden has thrown the national security agency narrative into another tailspin over its surveillance programs we now know that the number of

people whose personal communications have been intercepted by the n.s.a. so far way outnumber the foreigners that the agency has legally targeted a new report in the washington post looked at top secret documents that no one knew snowden had acquired we knew that he had reports about n.s.a. surveillance but as 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 while pose four month investigation 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 accounts were n.s.a. targets the rest were incidentally just caught up in the net many of them were

actually americans and in fact nearly half of the surveillance files had names or e-mail addresses belonging to american citizens inside those e-mails were some very personal communications including medical records resumes baby pictures risque photos the list goes on so how does this change what we have learned over the past year or so about the n.s.a. surveillance program to discuss the revelations i was joined earlier by 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 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. see a lot of the same elements of the narrative on the question of phone bill that is the reporting of. people that receive documents from snowden but you know we look at the council and club saying the same thing that they were last year that people of the sort of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. kind of generating a probable cause. reasonable belief and what they were saying last year was they're going on instance reasonable belief that's what probable cause is when we're looking at a target in states right this is what this is what we're using of this day and age

right 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 and why or how can people are not upset about invasion of privacy well i mean i think the american public is upset and getting more upset and i think that this revel in the 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 more outraged 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 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 know it's a senior phone calls it's just metadata well this is not just metadata this is content 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 the n.s.a. 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 and this is in overseas and in pakistan so we've heard of casting this wide net but when is this net too wide well it'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 from these people are for example. just station four or ruling someone else going to look at you know they might not be an american are a target has that person on a buddy list maybe 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 not. and in this wide net right there 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 this is masked so 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 snowden was able to access it. according to the post reporter some sixty five thousand massed entries and at least

nine hundred that they found unmasked but pretty clearly were american references to americans e-mails so this is this information just kind of floating around in the ether that that's kind of scary right and that's it could be your e-mails my e-mails. also we see conflicting communications coming from say after these reports. we filter out what we don't need but we look at the original report in the washington post and we see them talking about well. there could be something that looks since we have this information we're going to hold onto it and see if it becomes relevant later when you're looking through thousands and thousands of pages of chatter this is just kind of becoming speculative that they're just going to hold on to people's e-mails and private photos and having 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 and 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 of the washington post an estimate based on a representative sample. quanah quantitative number you can write that 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 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 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 adhere to the ministry or they don't they rarely adhered to the administration 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 server somewhere in utah at 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 own our share right so this information is found 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 are they collecting this information about when you know that opens up vulnerabilities on intelligence. community like you know america's top teligent community saying you know that gives president 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 massive scale i think and result of the 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 carey movie 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 manipulating their users without kind of any any warning. i think it's totally fine this is. 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 you know use that as a way to watch our friends talk about their dieting 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 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. you know taxpaying dollars there's an essay for us kevin what what do you say about that i agree it's 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 it's careful 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 that was kevin cole your senior political 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. and there's an old expression for overcoming less than desirable situations mind over matter and for twenty three year old quadriplegic and burkhardt that's exactly what had to be done burkhardt became paralyzed after a twenty ten diving accident but now ohio state university wexner medical center has just had a breakthrough discovery that may help many quadriplegics across the globe they were able to get in burkhardt to move his hand with the power of thought doctors

neuroscientists and engineers from battell were able to implement cutting edge technology by installing a chip directly into ian's brain dr allie resume and stalled the chip in the area of the brain that controls the movement of the hand engineers at patel develop software algorithms and a sleeve which transmits thoughts and neurons from the brain directly into the arm in less than a tenth of a second the signals are then taken from the chip and bypass the injury in the spinal cord linking the signals directly to the muscles in the arm other technologies used in the past have been robotics exoskeletons or computers to move muscles but this is the first using just the power of thought pretty cool and that does it for now for more on the stories we just cover go to you tube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our web site r t dot com forward slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at manila chan thanks for watching have

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