well that's what you get with my new project of the night. coming up on our t.v. it's revealed that the n.s.a. chief knew of the u.k. government's plan to destroy files we've by edward snowden it stands in stark contrast to the white house claims that they weren't informed more on that ahead. on 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 track our children to new medical devices have we gone overboard with electronic gadgets a look at these tech developments later in the show. good

evening it's friday july eleventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america. the obama administration has some answering to do after newly declassified documents show that it knew about the british government. destroy edward snowden's hard drives last summer before it had even occurred and it celebrated the fact remember this. is a ukase guardian newspaper editors destroying sturgeon's electronic files in the basement of the guardian's london offices last year under the watchful eye of intelligence agents they took the dramatic steps after facing increased legal threats from the cabinet office and 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 and email to keith alexander from richard legit now the

deputy director of the n.s.a. has the subject line guardian data being destroyed and is dated the day before it happened july nineteenth two thousand and thirteen most of the message is redacted but the part we can see is good news at least on this front well the next day hours after the destruction of the files the white house's director of national intelligence james clapper was given an update and an assessment of the damage the only unredacted line we know that a small number of documents have been leaked to the press now the majority of these e-mails are redacted 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 obstruct 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 it had to say when questioned whether the obama administration would ever do such a thing. complete knowledge of what how to do that we're not going to an american

media company and destroy hard drives even if they'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 and the white house tells the a.p. that the british government acted on its own yet the guardian for its part expressed concern over the conversations that we now know were taking place between the two governments. israel has hit 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 this journalist harry fear reports local health workers are under serious pressure to find resources to treat the wounded. on a visit to garza's main hospital we met four year old shame. she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike when i have the. girl went to visit her sister with her parents

on the road they came under missile fire when she tried to avoid one she was hit by a second little bit her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition this is the day today and they go if they are in the good care no one knows if she's going to make it they've had. 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. 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 ran 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 home 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 how mass rocket fire. continues it's a recipe for further conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza civilian population carry fear gaza the anti-government forces are blowing up bridges to prevent the

ukrainian army from advancing on their homes they can't post is reporting that ukrainian president petro poroshenko has held a meeting with military and law enforcement officials in which he stated that every taken a life of our servicemen they will they will that for every take a life of our service and they will pay with tens and hundreds of there's not a single terrorist will escape responsibility everyone will get what they deserve while residential areas in rebel held on nets and lugansk and dirty more air raids from the military overnight parties maria met some of the victims and you day brings most summerlee 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. would. go to.

this young man who's 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 going to succeed even if you were hit and miss it seemed to be getting the. distance into. the sun because for the only disability. do you believe it isn't. well now we are out of the hospital we need to drain who just brought his wife here. this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal part and drays still in shock and conned believe his wife survived the whole my view 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 first and get the slow i don't know what to say why are they doing this to us civilians we ask 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 ask our first question. we have to continue the interview new basement. perhaps an iranian then yeah 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 them 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 just that i even have statistics on the ukrainian soldiers but they have their own numbers no one asks us about our statistics and when the lygon skokie of know exactly how many men women and children have been killed the civilian toll is

high and it's likely to rise. in eastern ukraine russia's president vladimir putin is in kiev us capital starting a weeklong tour of latin america correspondent artie's alexey ourselves is following the president to say what south america and russia are working on. the sun faded buildings have ana may make a good jurisdiction 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 moscow is 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 have 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 president bush who 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 dollars turnover but it's energy deals where 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 the hope of striking new partnerships the tool culminate 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. kuantan obey has a new kid on the block a change of command ceremony has officially appointed navy rear admiral kyle cohen's ad as the new commander responsible for the one hundred forty nine detainees and about two army 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 public controversy at the prison camp including a blackout on the disclosure of figures in a long running hunger strike and systematic censorship of photography showing prison 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 milledge manila chan reports. the state of florida has just executed eddie wayne davis for the nine thousand nine hundred for kidnap rape and murder of an eleven year old girl making him the seventh execution in the state this year alone tying florida with texas he's also the fourth person executed sense 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 you 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 the fuel injection they can ship not. recommend drugs should not mix drugs should not insured ivy's should not etc etc should i do anything dr robert sayed as a veteran surgeon at the medical university of south carolina and former a.m.a. chairperson on the council of ethical and judicial affairs he underscores 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 this is where things get muddy the hippocratic oath of do no harm versus overseeing an execution 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 a hospital operated that way they would be sued as the medical community begins to speak out against lethal injection is 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 manila chan r t. it seems every day new technologies hit the headlines as products are developed and marketed to make your life more enjoyable your job easier your children safer your body healthier and your brain smarter too new products fall into a few of those categories l.g. has debuted a child tracking wristband that can keep your little ones from wandering off and m.i.t. with help from the gates foundation is promoting the first drug delivery in microchip form providing sixteen years of continued contraception for a woman with a remote control that activates the chip which then administers the drug i was drawn to earlier by shiv god lani editor at med gadget and co-founder of quantified care i first asked him if he could see this becoming popular in u.s. markets after its launch in south korea. yeah i definitely do i think i'm on the

quantified self movement you know the tracking of things like fish than 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 could 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 i think 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 ditched 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 of me still 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. 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 of 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 wants 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 wary for it 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 that 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 m i c yes and siri somebody would have to get pretty close to you to be able to program that so it's not as if you're going to it's not the stuff of sight if i right now in the people there. elop in these technologies are

extremely aware that you know 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 will put 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 administer in medicine that it takes 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 the i often say technologies of convenience and become technologies of dependence and there's definitely a surjection on the gap too on who can even access these technologies in the first place so certainly i mean a lot of technologies improve our lifestyles right you can imagine living in a suburb without a car or using a calculator or spell check 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 well will great arms. that was shift the golani editor at med gadget and co-founder of quantified care. will do the name's kay i see one two four five four six one three b. or c o r o t dash twenty four c. ring a bell didn't think so they're the name of exoplanets all one thousand eight hundred ten planets that astronomers have spotted in other star systems are known by these boring forgettable scientific names well now there there is actually already it 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 scientists trying to keep track of these new planets but it's so boring so in the interest of making exoplanets more relatable to the average person the international astronomical union has announced it will soon allow astronomy clubs and other

organizations to suggest names for exoplanets where the public vote deciding which names win now there are requirements submissions for a vote must be one word shorter than sixteen characters pronounceable and not offensive it cannot be the name of a living person pets or anything trademarked or 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 so good luck steven kull bear. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is the rock musician and producer linda perry here's a part of what's to come. of course did you two were going to say yeah that misunderstood album was there a feud between the two you beef is that oh no right all right now you know i got a little cocky you know like yeah i did and i got

a little cocky with things because you know i went from my foreign on blondes and i you know we had one hit we were huge sold seven million records off a song but i needed to do something else that wasn't my thing so i went off and i ventured and made a couple albums to explore and then i decided you know i can write for other people and then i meet this girl that is calling me on my phone in and we make this great album she sells twelve million records you know i got cocky i got a little ahead of myself and then what i think that i started feeling like maybe i got controlling with alicia and maybe felt that she should be doing things that you know like she came out with some albums in after the misunderstood record and i'm like what are you doing like you should still follow i got controlling so. tonight at nine pm tonight right here are to america. that does it for me and for the show right now for more on stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america

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teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer to the east india fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a great america is the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly it all turned to the status quo but one night the real alternative points to working toward the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real cause of the problem.

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 generations so it's one of the toxins we're exposed to that can actually screw 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 though 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 mutated 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 twenty to and he reintroduced his two thousand and four bill none of these bills passed and then just recently simpson worked hard to actually stall a scientific review of arsenic 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 and guess why it's not because he's necessarily an evil villain it's because it's expensive to build water filtration facilities hill tray ssion places a big financial burden on small towns with lots of arsenic it's a budget nightmare for them to meet the standards so in says most 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.