coming up on r t the german government orders a top u.s. intelligence official out of the country as another sign of strained relations between the two allies over u.s. spying the latest just ahead. and new developments in the crisis in iraq isis militants have obtained you raney on the from my university so put it be repurposed for terrorism we'll take a look at that coming up. and you've likely heard the phrase you are what you eat but a recent study says junk food can do all hold want more than just make you gain weight it may be able to harm your d.n.a. and that of your children find out the details later in the show.

it's thursday july tenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm your i david and you're watching our team america we begin today with germany where the government has ordered a top u.s. intelligence official in the u.s. embassy in berlin to leave the country it is a mystery germany's growing concern over american espionage activities artie's peter all over is in berlin with more. this is as a direct result of two recent spy scandals came after an emergency session of the parliamentary committee for control of intelligence and well they said it was down to the refusal of u.s. intelligence services to work with the german counterparts of the back of these two investigations that we've seen this is clearly designed to represent a strong statement to washington not something that there has been accusations here

in germany that the german government haven't being doing that they haven't been doing enough to show strength in the face of spy scandals that have really been and although solidly since the first leaks from edward snowden over a year ago but in a statement a government spokesman said the german government would continue to work with its partners but continued working relationship relied a lot on trust and that there had been trust lost here. i just want to see that if you look at it using common sense in my opinion spine and allies and friends is a waste of energy. this of course follows these two scandals that we've seen what involving a officer of the federal intelligence service remains in custody awaiting trial who was arrested last week and just this week we saw the searching of a the home and office of an employee of the defense ministry there's no arrest being made there but that inquiry continues so that's the decision that's being

made by the germans they've told the representative of the u.s. security services yes the packets bags and leave the country now as artie's peter oliver all right to discuss the implications of all of this on us german relations i want to bring in william binney former and as a whistleblower bill thank you so much for joining me at this point germany has seen everything from an essay spying to two now to alleged double agents do you think this diplomat being expelled is a proportional response considering the recent events. well i think that's pretty pretty standard procedure i mean we've had like israelis recruiting people inside the u.s. government to spy for them so i mean this goes on with the spy agencies around the world they attempt to recruit people in the standard practice is to. throw them out of the country after you catch them now to be clear this intelligence

representative is the cia chief of station he is responsible for coordinating secret service activities and germany i mean how big of a loss would this representative be to to u.s. intelligence efforts in the country i wouldn't think it would be too much of an impact simply because there is that administrator is not a someone who's doing the work so whatever work is being done is still being done by people who are there. and certainly the guy at the head of the operation can be replaced without losing any capability well chancellor merkel has reacted to all of this she called this american espionage activity a waste of energy what do you make of her response i think that's pretty much true i mean i've been arguing against this book acquisition of information that everybody in the planet. because it is the exactly that

a waste of energy i mean in fact it is detrimental to the effort of what it does is that it buries your people in so much information that they have a hard time getting through it and therefore have a hard time succeeding at what they're supposed to be doing which is preventing terrorist attacks and and in international crime and things like that well before all of this took place i mean how would you describe the way u.s. and german intelligence agencies work together or did they work very closely. i think they have a longstanding fairly close relationship it appears to me anyway to be getting closer as time progresses so i think they have a fairly fairly close relationship and dependency and cooperative effort and they probably want to get past this rough part of the road here so i think they'll drive to to smooth things out over time we're following at the leaks of the n.s.a. surveillance program chancellor merkel said the two countries have very different

approaches to the role of intel. to create characterize that difference. i'm not so sure that is too much difference at all except in terms of the approach that n.s.a. has taken in book acquisition of information i'm not sure that the the german counterpart is doing that but i don't know for sure i mean they'll have to find out in their investigation if they're in fact doing that also if they aren't then and certainly that would be a big difference well we know that and that germany has been trying to find out more about the extent of u.s. surveillance in germany you were actually called to testify in front of the german parliament this month about that very issue what were you asked. just basically you know what what i perceived the entire intelligence objective

with this book acquisition of information was i mean it was it was basically a total information awareness effort to find out every information on everybody in the planet and to me that was a not just a waste of time energy and money and effort but also is counterproductive and that's basically what i told them that this kind of acquisition of information buries their analysts makes them dysfunctional the german the n.s.a. inquiry committee is looking into whether german intelligence services had worked with the n.s.a. to help them retrieve this information is it clear that there had been some kind of collaboration going on well from some of the material i've read that been published from the snowden data it appears that they've been cooperating on some level what that level is i'm still not sure it's not clear to me that how much

they've been cooperating or to what extent they've been participating in the book acquisition of information. now even without the incidents that happened in the last week chancellor merkel has getting a lot of. resistance from german citizens a lot of pressure from media and from opposition politicians that say that she should be taking a tougher stance that she should take a tougher line with the u.s. why do you think that she's also mentally chosen not to do that. well first of all i think the german people have a living memory of a tele tarion state and that's the stuff the east german stasi and the stasi state and how they monitored and collected information on virtually everybody they could so they have a living memory of that now we here in the united states don't i mean we'd have to go back almost two hundred forty years before we'd have somebody who was more like a dictator george the third in england in charge of us at the time so we don't have

any living memory of attala tarion state or the process of these that the taliban are in states implement and that's part of the problem here in the states over there they have a they have a living memory of it so they're obviously it's understandable why chancellor merkel would say things like the acquisition of her phone and information like that and trailing her and things like that is like the stasi because it's just like the stuff that's the whole point of it that's all that to tell a tearing process but in the long run i think what she wants to do is resolve the issues and smooth out the relationship and get through this rough road well i have to see indeed if these real relations can be smoothed over it seems like if it's getting worse and worse and how bill delaney former n.s.a. whistleblower thanks for joining us. all right well we're just learning that chinese hackers apparently broke into the system for the federal office of personnel management this happened back in march targeting tens of thousands of

employees who applied for top security clearance according to the new york times senior american officials have said the breach was tracked back to china but not necessarily the chinese government is not clear how the hackers breached the system but what they've likely been able to retrieve is details on security clearance applicants that includes their foreign contacts previous jobs and personal information like past drug use the latest revelation comes just as secretary kerry needs with china's president and beijing about how develop better economic and security cooperation the move seems to be an effort to salvage relations after a tough year that included president obama dodging china during his tour of asia this spring china quickly dismissed the allegations of packing today in a spokes person for the government said some u.s. media and u.s. cyber security always smear china and create the theory that china is a cyber threat but they can't provide sufficient evidence of that we feel strongly

that these kinds of reports and comments are irresponsible and not worth a comment or refuting hacking has been a major point of contention for the u.s. and china in march of this year it was revealed that the n.s.a. had secretly been tapping into the networks of chinese telecom and internet giant qual way and just two months later in may the u.s. made public an indictment accusing chinese military officials of hacking into several large u.s. companies including westinghouse and u.s. steel. and now we turn to the latest in iraq in an appeal for help the country has revealed in a letter to the united nations that the extremist group isis has made off with dangerous materials used to create chemical weapons artie's megan lopez attended the state department press briefing this afternoon and ask folks woman jen psaki about the revelations take a look. it's just recently said that it has acquired a chemical weapons facility in twenty five hundred degraded weapons does the state

department have a comment on that and what is the potential fallout over acquiring the weapons and this chemical facility well first let me note that there was a copy of a letter and i know you're aware of this but just so everybody is aware of a letter that the iraqi permanent representative to the united nations sent to u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon which was circulated yesterday to members of the security council which outlined this the purpose of the letter was to notify the international community of the seizure of university of mosul facilities containing nuclear materials in june and to request international assistance in typical fashion these requests are sent just directly to the i.a.e.a. and they look into them and that is of course the natural process this point i would point you to the comments in the statement made by the eye today that they believe the material involved to be low grade and not presenting a significant safety security or nuclear proliferation risk of course they're the appropriate entity to make any decision to turn but it doesn't seem that is the

case at this point in time and for more on the latest developments here is our team from the france. in the letter from iraq's u.n. ambassador mohammed ali al hakim to the united nations he wrote that the forty kilos or eighty eight pounds of uranium compounds kept for research at a facility northwest of baghdad are now in the hands of the insurgent group islamic state formally known as isis which is attempting to overrun the country the u.n. international atomic energy agency responded saying that it believes the low grade of the material does not pose a significant security risk however al hakim stated that materials obtained can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction with the required expertise and importantly warned they could be smuggled out of iraq given the country's current instability now this sunni muslim group known as the law islamic state is now kind offshoot is spearheading the takeover of large areas of iraq and neighboring syria

the group captured the facility in early june two bunkers inside of it are believed to contain two thousand five hundred degraded rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin and mustard gas u.s. officials have downplayed the risk claiming the materials are too old to be useful but regardless of what the a or the united states government says now the fear remains that with the required expertise these could be developed into something dangerous and smuggled across the border and here's why these long stay group is currently using weapons it recently seized in iraq to intensify its offensive in iraq and syria according to many media reports with crises carrying out across both those countries and libya and gaza the fact remains that these militants have a growing interest in chemical weapons they've seized materials and are potentially on the road to any of these hot spots that's why statements of the materials age isn't doing much to iraq's concern and those of many other nations concerned some

seem willing to ignore now as artie's will be found. and now to the latest in ukraine kiev authorities say that so far four hundred eighty seven civilians including children have been killed in the midst of the violence additionally the military has said that more than two hundred government troops have been killed in the conflict which has already spanned several months of course and tension continues to rise in the region despite repeated attempts to find a solution artie's an area for notional reports on the violence from eastern ukraine today again we woke up from very loud songs all of a tillery we are in the city center and the shelling was so close that we were able to hear the launch of the shells and we were also hearing how they were lending the government forces continue to shell the ukrainian army's positions in the outskirts of the city with the country's military firing back it happens very often that shells land in quite unexpected places in the city center and many residents have

already fled the city and people continue to leave people were terrified by promises from key of to surround the city of donetsk and lugansk and fears were rising that it could become useless beyond skinned kind of a tourist to the centers of the operation for months where clashes were very fierce and very deadly but lugansk is a very big city with a population of more than four hundred thousand people while dinette gets home to one million people and concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and. now is r.t. correspondent maria the notion. the death toll in the gaza strip rose sharply today as israel escalated its air and sea assault on the coastal enclave twenty six more gazans have reportedly been killed bringing up the death toll to eighty one meanwhile palestinian militants continue to launch rockets at tel aviv and other israeli cities for more on the latest let's go to our tease harry fear. local

palestinian human rights groups say twenty children have been killed and ten women now among the civilian population at large hundreds of palestinian homes have been destroyed down from the north to the south of the gaza strip that has been an aerial naval bombardment since the operation began additionally of significance israel basically attacked a cafe along the beach area in the gaza strip and the local media here reports that this was specifically affecting a group of civilians watching to see through the walls call that a thoughtful analysis time there are seven deaths reported in this incident as well and this of course is in stark contrast to the image here to out to these on is rather large the moments no israelis have been reported killed as a result of these hundreds of posts in the book it's been fired from this post on today's people in gaza fearful of an escalation of the key question is whether or

not there's likely to be a ground escalation of these right the minute she officials have alluded to the possibility of this whether or not this is just a preparedness or actual strategy in the other coming days is yet to be seen in the in this part as seen in gaza on sundays how the syrians remember the two thousand and eight two thousand and nine operation which saw or a ground that. i was artie's harry fear. well the next time you decide to scarf down a supersized pizza big mac or ice cream sundae you may want to think twice about it because you couldn't do more harm you could do a lot more than just adding on wanted pounds new research suggests that bingeing on junk food on a regular basis can scar a person's d.n.a. and be passed down from generation to generation is all laid out in a new study published by the nutrition journal that finds eating fast food can lead offspring to have greater risk of cancer inflammation and. actions and allergic

reactions to break all of this down earlier i was joined by the lead author of the study lieutenant commander dr ian miles also a physician researcher with the national institute of health and i first asked him to explain the process by which we digest food. so there's millions of bacteria that line the entirety of your stomach and your small intestines in your guts and so forth and what you eat may eat and they live off of that and so you can push back you know just alone the different nutrients you put in there can cause some bacteria to become more predominant or go away and there are other things that happen to you when you eat. it when it's junk food your body can miss perceive that as a bacterial invader kind of create this low level inflammation and that can shift the bacteria in your gut as well so unhealthy food can definitely make that process more difficult in people who eat unhealthy food are going to have got bacteria that

reflect an unhealthy state right i want to focus on women first you know we've long heard that pregnant women what they he can affect a child's flavor preferences you know if they eat vegetables and their child is going to come out you know loving vegetables by sources they eat desserts the child's going to love sweet sweet foods and such. you know most people think about that pretty innocuously but how serious that i mean is that being more dangerous than we think. from there's evidence now that what you eat can actually affect the gut bacteria in the in the fetus growing in the womb so it's far more complex than we appreciate right now is far more complicated but yeah it's definitely a major issue and you know what women eat while pregnant and feed to their children when they're young definitely affects their immune system down the line now as i understand it when they can transfer this through breast feeding my correct they matter partly it's through the do they get micro biome right and that you could

fight some of the charts i saw that were laid out on the study suggested that caregiving also plays a role of one of the things i saw was. kissing and touching can you go into that a little bit more it just seems hard to imagine that that something sort of more superficial on the outside could could have an effect do skin is covered with back . period as well and when you are healthy bacteria can be more likely to be healthy on your skin and so kissing and caregiving and all that is a way that you can transfer good bacteria or harmful bacteria to your child through the skin and a lot of people always you know think it's the woman's responsibility to be the healthy eater especially when she's pregnant but as i understand you know the father plays a really big role as well can you talk about about that i mean is it their role equally important important not equally as not equally as you can imagine in a lot of reason a lot of ways but the fathers what they eat getting coded into the way the d.n.a. is packaged so the dads are making news sperm every second and what they're eating

gets encoded into the way that d.n.a. is packaged in the sperm and then when they're when they have a child or when the woman gets pregnant during those initial stages that's what the kid is going to have the packaging that reflects what their dad was eating or how they would be a viewing if they're smoking if they're drinking if they're not exercising all of these things can get passed on from the father so on healthy eating gene can be passed on just like the color of the hair no. it's slightly different it's not a it's not a gene is the way the genes are packaged so their genes are set the color of your hair is going to get passed down to the child personally the way it was written it's just the packaging could be a little different genes get turned up or genes get turned down and you could give your kid a kind of a bad starting hand so to speak and what you found actually support the notion that this this could stretch across multiple generations is there a way to break the cycle from our research which again was limited to mice but at

least for the immune system it looked like if you know if the child starts eating healthy and then you know that offspring gets pregnant then the subsequent kid is protected so basically you know it's not that your grandfather ate is really going to harm you if your parents broke the cycle so whenever you start eating healthy then that's how you can break the cycle for the generations that come after. and you certainly tell people to try to eliminate as much sugar and fat from their diet as possible but in the study you also mentioned gluten and this is something a lot of people are trying to avoid these days myself included. is a lot of people like to dismiss it as just a fad i was wondering what your research has told you about the kind of effect this has on your body do you think the people that are dismissing it are rightfully pointing out that there's a big gap between how much attention gluten gets in terms of avoiding and how much actual hard science there is to argue against gluten but there is some evidence that says that gluten can again get misperceived as

a bacterial invader in the body and that could lead to low level inflammation that's in mice it's a limited study we have a long way to go to prove it but there's maybe something more there you can't be as dismissive as some people have been right ok good glad to know that as justification for me anyways we run out of time but dr and miles of the national institute of health think you so much for coming on thank you again. before we go don't forget to tune in for politicking with larry king tonight that's the of episode features the h.b.o. talk show host bill maher here's a part of what's to come when the if they. want to use longer than that it's good to see legalization of tears are going to radical. obama said the other day that no one is no more dangerous than alcohol but he quickly stressed that he does see he says a bad but it's you know it's a politician who's got it that it's never medically. well of course for medical use i mean to talk to anybody who's used it for medical reasons

and they will tell you that very often provides a solace that nothing else they tried says coming everywhere but there's what we have to use that excuse anymore it doesn't have to we don't have to have the fig leaf of oh i'm using it because i have this whatever it is i told them i had how about just because we want to because of all the drugs of all the mood altering agents you could get your hands on this is the one that's that's least harmful and also again a freedom issue how about that for the republicans where's the tea party in this district to be the people love freedom so much what could be more cause for freedom that we're at and what happens in your own head how you treat what goes on in your own mind the mood you want to put yourself in so ten and nine pm tonight here on our team america now does it for now for more on the stories we covered for you tube dot com slash r t america check out our web site r t dot com slash usa and

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you. do you the best. to be. here in the us instead of facing issues like adults we face them like sports fair we put on our liberal or conservative jerseys and start screaming at each other it happens over and over and we never learn from any of it as is the case of cold rolling so basically if you've got a diesel powered pickup truck you can spend a few hundred bucks to trick it out with a smoke stack that you can blow bursts of black smoke at a rolling coal isn't new it started from trucks modifications people made for truck poles what is new is rolling coal as a way to inflame a culture war people with these tricked out trucks are largely conservatives as a way to protest obama's green initiatives and progressives ramming human caused

climate change down their throats these coal rollers have been filming themselves driving their tricked out trucks on the highway and rolling up the prius's blasting the tiny cars with black smoke laughing their asses off at it and then posting the videos to you tube now before you blue team fans close your ears. there's just please stay with me here for a second you might be outraged by these cold rollers blatant disregard for clean air but you also have to admit that prisoners can be really i don't mind with their sound right just missed as specially when you consider that prius is has been marketed as the hybrid car that will save the planet when meanwhile the car's nickel metal hydride batteries is an eco nightmare seriously the nickels mind and dirtily smelted in ontario shipped in refined in wales sent to china to be made into foam sent to japan to be made in batteries and then shipped to the u.s. or europe to be put into cars then no one knows how to safely dispose about or ease

so yet eco car my ass so i can empathize with the coal rollers wanting to protest these cars that are nothing but marketing ploy and i can empathize with progressive wanting people to just stop being wasteful slobs on the planet what i can't empathize with is everyone putting on their blue or red jerseys and yelling at each other like morons with nothing more to lose than a football game which is exactly what happens when people heard about the cold rowing trend there's more at stake than a trophy here people it shouldn't be the pickup trucks vs the prius's it should be all of us vs the limousines the team owners who are laughing all the way to their banks and until we realize that this stupid in-fighting is by design to distract us from the really bad crimes being committed by the powers that be.