to make sure. you. didn't. drop. coming up on r t it's revealed that the n.s.a. chief knew of the u.k. government's plan to destroy files leaked by edward snowden it stands in stark contrast to white house claims it wasn't informant more on that ahead. and military strikes rage on between israel and gaza the death toll continues to climb with health workers struggling to help the wounded the latest from this middle east conflict coming up. and are we too dependent on tech gadgets from watches that tracked our children to medical devices have we gone overboard with electronic gadgets a look at these tech developments later in the show. hello

there it's friday july eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america. well the obama administration has some answering to do after newly classified documents show that it knew the british government pressured and newspaper to destroy edward snowden's hard drives last summer before it even occurred and it also celebrated the fact remember this. that's the u.k.'s guardian newspaper editors destroying snowden's electronic files in the basement of the guardian's london offices last year under the watchful eye of intelligence agents they took their dramatic steps after facing increased legal threats from the cabinet office and the british intelligence community well according to e-mails obtained by the associated press through a freedom of information act request former n.s.a. chief general keith alexander and president obama's director of national

intelligence james clapper were informed that the u.k.'s guardian newspaper was destroying leaked files an e-mail to keith alexander from richard legit now the director deputy director rather of the n.s.a. has the subject line guardian data being destroyed and is dated july nineteenth two thousand and thirteen most of it is redacted but the part we can see is good news on at least this front the next day hours after the destruction of the files the white house director of national intelligence james clapper was given an update and assessment of the damage the only unredacted line is we know that a small number of documents have been leaked to the press now the majority of these e-mails are redacted as you saw there including the subject lines and some e-mail addresses so it's unclear who from the british side briefed these people or how much power u.s. officials had in pressuring a publication to destruct journalistic material and of course it flies in the face of the white house's comments about these events right after the news broke last

year here's what they had to say when questioned whether the obama administration whatever do such a thing. believe knowledge what i do that we're not going to an american media company and destroy hard drives even if he'd been trying to protect national security you don't think that's very difficult to imagine a scenario in which that would be appropriate it's unclear from the documents if the n.s.a. had any role in demanding the destruction of the drives of the white house tells a.p. that the british government acted on its own yet the guardian for its part expressed a lot of concern over the conversations that we now know were taking place between the governments. israel has had over a thousand targets in gaza since its aerial assault began several days ago it's also had ground troops on standby along the gaza border and as journalist harry fear reports local health workers are under serious pressure to find resources enough to treat the wounded. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mass for she was injured

in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet. the girl went to visit her sister with her parents but on the road they came under missile fire when she tried to wade once she was hit by a second her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition this is the day today and the girl is still in the group care no one knows if she's going to make it. doctors tell me they've been dealing with the biting shortage of medical supplies in gaza for the last three weeks as a result of the ongoing siege but even civilians that survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in a war zone our bed lives in a neighborhood of shaikh road one that was targeted last night. we were sitting by the entrance when the first missile hit the house and the second one soon followed and we carried the sleeping children out and run away the children began screaming

through fear. it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of high newness in the south of the gaza strip to during its operation israel says that it's going after hamas militants those alleges are hamas militants however it's willing to go as far as targeting their homes and in this case israel killed six children and two adults when it struck this family home the family didn't have time to heed the warning drone missile which arrived four minutes before the main strike. we were shocked when a missile hit my brother's house after we hurried out our house was hit by the house was a children's playground where most of the heat again israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operations so long as hamas rocket fired. continues it's a recipe for assad a conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza's civilian population carry fia see

gaza. and say government forces are blowing up bridges to prevent the ukrainian army from advancing on their own homes they can't post is reporting that ukrainian president petro poroshenko has held a meeting with military law enforcement officials in which he stated for every take in life of our servicemen we will pay with tens and hundreds of there's not a single terrorist while scape responsibility everyone will get what they deserve this about his own people residential areas in rebel held on nets and the ganske endured more air raids over night parties where if a national met some of the victims and you day brings most to the city of the guns . this goes mother has just been killed when a shell landed on her fourth floor balcony it was up to the daughter to tell her

father. the. this young man was lucky he was through to the hospital with a gunshot wound and thought unlikely to survive he regained consciousness just minutes before we arrived he's got a gruesome scene here which he understood seemed to be getting the. distance until. my son took up with the only visible. luke it isn't. well now we are out of the hospital we need him dre who just dropped his want here. this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here not in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal part and drays still in shock and conned believe his wife survived the silmarillion i was in the shop and i heard

someone scream lay down on the ground but i yelled that my wife was in the car so i looked out of the window and saw that she wasn't there and heard her knocking on the shop door but that's not enough to stitch it so that it will it has just moved with his family from the suburbs of guns into the city itself to skate fighting between anti government forces and the ukrainian army post and get the slow i don't know what to say why are they doing this to us civilians we asked the operation commanders in kiev what they're trying to achieve the main goal now is to act carefully so civilians won't get hurt we don't have any definite numbers of civilian casualties we only have the numbers of dead and injured fighters of the anti terror operation the same day ukraine's deputy health minister reported four hundred seventy eight civilians have died since the beginning of the operation in one pro including seven children but just hours later the ministry denied his

statistics without giving any turn to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent republic of the guns. at the aircraft siren song before we even osco first question. we have to continue the interview no basement. perhaps an iranian yet i can't give any definite numbers concerning civilian casualties because many people died while we couldn't get to them so i don't have the statistics of ukrainian media doesn't say anything about those casualties so they are not allowed to show that or they believe that only terrorists are dying here i ask whether they tell kiev about the civilian casualties no one requested this information no one is interested in doing that i even have statistics on the ukrainian soldiers but they have their own numbers so you know one asks us about our statistics and when the lugansk oaky of

know exactly how many men and women and to join have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely to rise. in eastern ukraine russia's president vladimir putin is in cuba's capital starting a weeklong tour of latin america our correspondent artie's alexy ourselves is following the president see what south america and russia are working on. the sun faded buildings have on a may make a good source picture but they're all part of a sad reality time seems to be standing still here fifty years of sanctions against cuba is having a huge toll on the country's economy cubans want to move forward but in order to do that they need a strong partner and moscow has made no secret it is willing to become one that's why the first stop. longest ever foreign trip to latin american countries starts here. because that will rubber stamp an unprecedented agreement was writing off ninety percent of cuba's debts to the u.s.s.r. that's thirty two billion dollars astronomical money for

a poor country like cuba the remaining ten percent will be reinvested in the social infrastructure projects on the intrigue is what come on the offer in return speculation takes in everything from major oil deals he will potentially has a lot of it but has no money to extract to rebuilding soviet military bases on the island and that's less than one hundred miles from the coast of the united states the next stop is where the scientists president putin has been very supportive of moscow in its standoff with the west and regrets that trade with russia has not been better the two leaders will aim to increase the annual one point eight billion dollar turnover but its energy deals were both hope to gain a lot of power is provided using russian technology and the new nuclear power plant which will be built by russia a multibillion deal will certainly increase that last but certainly not least is brazil not only will be lucky enough to witness the world cup final from the stands and go through a symbolic handover from brazil to russia he has a lot to discuss with brazil is russia's key trading partner latin america and the two leaders share a common view on u.s.

wiretapping scandals president rousseff was one of the world leaders whose phone was hacked by the n.s.a. so a joint information security project will be on the agenda here putin will also meet a dozen latin american presidents in hopes of striking new partnerships in a tool called an eight with a brick summit where the final bricks of a joint bank will be late the new financial body will have one hundred billion dollar budget and could represent a solid attempt by developing economies to become less dependent on the u.s. dollar. r.t. reporting from havana cuba. well guantanamo bay has a new kid on the block a change of command ceremony has officially appointed navy rear admiral kyle cause add as the new commander responsible for the one hundred forty nine detainee's and about twenty two hundred staff at the base in southeast cuba because that replaces rear admiral richard rhett butler who was in charge during a period of massive public controversy at the prison cap including a blackout on the disclosure of figures in a long running hunger strike and systematic censorship of photography show and present camp guards and detainee features. well after

a recent spate of botched and delayed executions in our nation's prison system doctors are now stepping forward to answer for their absence at the execution chamber artie's manila chandler ports. the state of florida has just executed at the wayne davis for the one nine hundred ninety four kidnapping rape and murder of an eleven year old girl making him the sixth execution in the state this year alone tying florida with texas he's also the third person executed since that botched oklahoma lethal injection of clayton lockett just two months ago that raised many concerns by human rights groups and called into question why no doctors were on hand to supervise the process the public was outraged the answer to that is simply this the hippocratic oath that's the oath that all physicians are sworn to that states they will do no harm it underscores their commitment to preserving life not taking part in ending it the american medical association or a.m.a.

is arguably the nation's most respected health organization for physicians they've recently reiterated their thirty four year stance that no physician within their association shall participate in executions in any way with particular emphasis on lethal injection. and shit not. recommend drugs should not mix drugs should not ensured i should not etc etc should i do anything dr robert sayed is a veteran surgeon at the medical university of south carolina and former a.m.a. chairperson on the council of ethical and judicial affairs here under scores the stringent policies put forth by the a.m.a. for their members in terms of executions but stated that there are no actual laws prohibiting physicians from choosing to take part in this is where things get muddy the hippocratic oath of do no harm versus overseeing an execution. and so that it's

done humanely while many human rights groups and people in the public consider execution by lethal injection to be a medical procedure it's unclear whether or not the people involved have any medical background whatsoever that's according to richard dieter director of the death penalty information center he says the process is so secretive that even his organization cannot confirm who administers the drugs and the people who are or doing the administration we don't know what their training is do they have medical training or you know where they just. you know in a clinic and learn from somebody how to find a vein who's inserting these things and how could things go so wrong that an execution was not even carried out in oklahoma in april but rather that the man died from a heart attack that's. malpractise i mean if a doctor or hospital operated that way they would be sued as the medical community

begins to speak out against lethal injections more and more questions are raised about the medical ethics of the procedure davis is inmate number twenty four executed so far this here in the united states. from washington an election than r t. what seems new technologies every day are heading the headlines as products are developed and marketed to make your life more enjoyable your job easier your children safer your body healthier of your brain smarter well two new products fall into a few of these categories. child tracking wristband that can keep your little ones from wandering off and mit with help from the gates foundation is promoting the first drug delivery in microchip form providing up to sixteen years of continued contraception for women a remote through a remote control that activates the chip which then administers the drug i was joined earlier by shiv lani editor at med gadget and co-founder of quantified care

i first asked him if he could see this becoming popular in the u.s. since markets right now for it are starting in south korea. yeah i definitely do i think among the quantified self movement you know the tracking of things like fish certain misfit wearables i think the market for putting wearables on children and elderly will be pretty strong just because they're dependent oftentimes dependent on people who buy these technologies and who wouldn't want to have something where they could easily pull up their trials location or their or their parent's location in case you're prepared with dementia or something like that well absolutely you know in chat forums all over the internet right now regarding this product people are talking about the use of these devices for as you said tracking you know dementia patients the elderly even autistic children who sometimes wander off as oh it's not just about abduction why do you think that it might be more successfully marketed for cases where the person has a higher risk of maybe wandering off than just for your average kid or even teen id

so i think that's how a lot of these technologies become mainstream they start with very specific niche use cases and then people started becoming more accustomed to seeing them around and then they start using them more broadly ok well i've got to ask this does beg the question what happens when these kids who may you know who have some pretty vigilant parents who are you know have their kids strapped with one of these bracelets as children what happens when these kids turn into a teeny bopper they ditch the band what happens and you think the idea that they were always being tracked in their youth and now they're not could affect how they interact with society later on yeah talk about big brother you know i mean so you know trust issues between an individual and within their family cover bought that tracking device that i'm sure at least i'll make it very the parents would make it very clear what it's for and why it's for the benefit of the child or that or the parent in some cases. but i think there's also the problem of obviously hacking into these devices and the government obviously can hack into

a lot of things so zones there's a german is very mad at us for this reason too so there could be not only issues between children and people. children and parents but also between individuals and society and governments and retract them as well well in another another point a lot of people are making on the forums that regarding this product as you know wake up people you've got a smartphone you're being tracked anyway so if you want to track a toddler i guess it's not so bad i mean we do microchip our pets in many cases so if you've got a toddler running around i can certainly see why that might be a good idea so another product. that's out there right now that's a hot topic is this chip that administers at this point anyway a birth control their remote for about sixteen years it's obviously a real help for women who can access new pills every thirty days what about the abuse of a product like this what if you're sad here some sara town and your kid can't behave here some ritalin headache tylenol is there a danger here i think it's really important that those chips especially when

they're implanted because they are ones that go through the skin as well don't have complete. approval by the person who has to wear them right you can imagine that someone could be forced to take a drug regimens and this is the start of side fire right now but we just want to be very rare so that it doesn't become the truth yeah but there was a lot of talk recently about this new technology that allows diabetes patients to administer their drugs and it if there was it was proven that this gadget could actually be hacked and could then be used to effectively kill a patient by over administering what they need do you think that can also become something of a problem or a fear people might have when approaching this type of technology and depending on it i think it's a fear people have but in do specific areas of implantable microchips when i when i read up about it they have a special frequency that only works within a few inches it's called and i say yes and siri somebody would have to get pretty

close to you to be able to program that so it's not as you're going to it's not the stuff of sipho right now in that people do. elop in these technologies are extremely aware that if one case happened this technology would be dead nobody would want to use it. so i think with the support of the gates foundation and obviously the mit engineers i think they're pretty cognizant and hopefully we'll look at safeguards in there yeah and also just in the bigger picture do you think there's a danger that we could become so dependent on gadgets like this from tracking our children to administering medicine that it could take some of the commonsense out of their life we already depend so much on it how do you see the market going and how how people are looking at these sort of technologies you know i often say technologies of convenience often become technologies of dependence and there's definitely a surge economic gap to on who can that even access these technologies in the first place so certainly i mean a lot of technologies improve our life sounds great you can't imagine living in

a suburb without a car where you are using a calculator scotia for example and we've become fairly dependent on these technologies for medicine it's a little more dangerous obviously to become dependent on something that could either be hacked or taken away from you at any given moment so it's something we just have to continue being aware of but i think overall the pros will without a great arms that was shaved editor of med gadget and co-founder of quantified care . to the names k i c one two four five four six one three b. or c o r o t dash twenty four c bring about two you didn't think so they're the name of exoplanets and all one thousand eight hundred ten planets that have astronomers that astronomers have spotted in other star systems are known by these boring forgettable scientific names now there is a rhyme and reason to this current naming system each planet is named after its star which is named after the telescope that found it it makes sense for us high

interest trying to keep track of these new planets but it's boring so in the interest of making exoplanets more relatable to the average person the international asked. nominal union announced that it will soon allow astronomy clubs and other organizations to suggest names for exoplanets with a public vote deciding which names went now there are requirements submissions for a vote must be one more shorter than sixteen characters pronounceable and not offensive it cannot be the name of a living person a pet or anything trademarked or anything commercial political military or religious so even though that pretty much eliminates anything fun starting march two thousand and fifteen you can go online and vote for any planets that have received multiple proposals good luck stephen colbert. boom bust is coming up next here on r t aaron ade joins us now for a quick preview erin what you got for us thanks lindsey coming up on boom bust social media company you think technology is apparently an organization with only

one employee and zero profits it somehow has managed a four point five billion dollars valuation we'll look into how when and why coming right up and redacted tonight's saxes on the show this afternoon sam is sitting down with me to discuss amazon dot com profiting off of your kids in app purchases some shady stuff but it's all coming up sounds interesting thanks a lot aaron thank you and that does it for now everybody i'm lindsey frantz stay tuned like the lady said boom bust is coming up next. the financial world. series developments i mean i'm. only taking a. life.

we live in a society where money reigns supreme and as a result our society does some really weird crap like lobby for more toxins in our drinking water that's very weird to do and yet it's happening because we live on planet money so arsenic is found in the earth's crust right and it gets into our drinking water so we have to filter it out because it's toxic to us it's been found to cause cancer nervous system damage and diabetes it's also a gene a toxic chemical which means it damages d.n.a. molecules and that is stuff we pass on to generation so it's one of the toxins we're exposed to that can actually sprue up our future generations so arsenic is bad for us and in some places on the planet there are higher concentrations of it

in the earth's crust i do know is one of those places that since we know arsenic is toxic you may figure that our government officials would make sure the towns they represent have proper water filtration so that their constituents don't worry about passing on be tainted genes but you'd be wrong because we don't live on planet make sense we live on planet money and that's why congressman mike simpson has been fighting hard to allow more arsenic in the drinking water of idaho the state he represents in two thousand and four he co-sponsored a bill that would have exempted small communities from national drinking water regulations in two thousand and five he co-sponsored a bill that would have made the e.p.a. allow higher levels of arsenic in small town drinking water for two years. in two thousand and ten he reintroduced his two thousand and four bill none of these bills passed and then just recently since then worked hard to actually stall a scientific review of ours and at the e.p.a.

according to a new report by the center for public integrity so congressman since then has been working very hard to allow more arsenic unknown dangerous toxin in the drinking water of his constituents can you guess why it's not because he's necessarily an evil villain it's because it's expensive to build water filtration facilities he'll trade places a big financial burden on small towns with lots of arsenic it's a budget nightmare for them to meet these standards so in says ma and he's helping his constituents by fighting to allow them to drink more arsenic and that is the kind of weird logic that is a direct result of the fact that we live on planet money that's what we get for worshipping money and if we keep putting money above everything else it won't be known until our government figures out that the cheapest constituent to care for is a dead constituent i wouldn't be surprised if they already have tonight let's talk

about that by following me on twitter at the resident. in the crosshairs as israel appears to be preparing for still another assault on the gaza strip on this edition of calls talk we got to this point in what israel hopes to achieve. a. very. it's going to legs again a little longer there's a plug in that sack with the perfect their legs let's listen. a little.

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