coming up on r t the planned seventy two hour ceasefire didn't hold the fighting between israel and hamas has resumed with many innocent people in gaza caught in the crossfire an update on the conflict just ahead. b.-ball outbreak in west africa grow infected patients are brought to the u.s. for treatment as the centers for disease control prepared to send specialists to the region and update coming up. and snooping on congress after months of denial the cia comes clean and says it did spy on lawmakers will look at the potential fallout from the revelations later in the show.

it's friday august first i am in washington d.c. i'm losing friends you're watching our team america. a seventy two hour humanitarian ceasefire disintegrated today just hours after the deal was struck the low in fighting collapsed in an early morning exchange of fire that left at least five israeli soldiers and forty gaza residents dead the israeli military believes one of the one of its soldiers was captured and two others killed in an attack hamas has denied responsibility israel and hamas both blame one another for the unraveling the deal brokered by u.s. secretary of state john kerry and u.n. secretary general ban ki moon was meant as a chance to find a solution to the crisis as well as were approved for civilians to seek medical treatment bury their dead and return to their homes it marks at least the fourth humanitarian ceasefire to have collapsed within hours of its announcement more than one thousand four hundred fifty palestinians mostly civilians and sixty three

israelis mostly military have been killed since fighting began july eighth after the breakdown of the truce israel and israeli launched strikes killed up to thirty palestinians in the first few hours archies bell true came under fire she contacted us to describe what happened and the humanitarian crisis unfolding in gaza warning though some of the images may be disturbing. my drive down south. community called closer but as we arrived they had already started there was a heavy bombardment of china and fire coming from israel into gaza in that area meanwhile families had been trying to access times to pull out corpses that have been rotting bad for several days the stench is unbearable there are also rotten animals that have been laid just on the roads which could cause a problem in the future in terms of disease the situation here is become almost ahmedabad meanwhile we have a crisis here fuel crisis which is affecting electricity delivery of water and

sewage and that's really the next drama on the horizon here people in gaza because the hospitals are going to be running out of electricity in the next four to five days and meanwhile as you said the sewage problem is going to become a humanitarian disaster with disease spreading through these very crowded communities so really not only are the gazan people on the attack at the moment but at the same time they are facing possible disease also. troubles in the future going to hospitals to treat them. that was r.t.l. true also artist reporter on the ground in gaza has been expelled harry fear has been in the region covering the conflict since it began last month he was reportedly told to leave gaza after he tweeted a possible location of how much rockets were being fired into israel obviously hamas didn't react to kindly to this information and expelled him. numerous humanitarian ceasefire deals have been attempted and failed since this crisis started the beginning of july finding

a solution to the conflict between palestine and israel has never been a simple task for diplomats and leaders given the amount of bloodshed and suffering the world has witnessed taking place there this summer and in light of the two sides failing to stem the blood flow it begs the question is a cease fire ever going to be possible in the region joining us to talk more about this is r.t. arabic correspondent rima. say your name right darling i am actually your last name anyway let's start with the latest ceasefire problem what in your opinion went wrong with this cease fire many people would tell you different things each side would like to blame the other side for what's going on and this is exactly what's happening the palestinians are saying it's the israelis a few minutes after actually about a half hour after the cease fires started. are the ones who broke the cease fire deal truce whatever you want to call it and the israelis will tell you the same thing as to what happened actually on the ground no one knows but we do know who has more power who has more weapons and who can actually call the shots into gaza

or in gaza well that's that's very true tell us about who is at the table you know during these discussions is there any chair that should have been polled who do you feel is. dragging their feet the most in coming to the table for an equal negotiation it's interesting lee enough today feltman. the u.n. secretary general assistant was asked if iran should be at the table negotiating over the truce in gaza and a lot of people would tell you the same thing everybody should be at the table in order for a cease fire to be lasting to be durable and to be fair for all the parties on the ground we know what's happening in gaza right now we have regional powers who are trying to pull strings in their directions leaving gaza basically alone and that's affecting the people of gaza why they're not able to bring everybody to the table that's also regional powers decisions not the gazans decision but that's basically

one of the problems that they are not being able they're not able to. reach a durable cease fire and yet you're not getting all of the parties in the region there at the table that what's the point of constructively go in core because we've seen you know troops after a truce fail in the past weeks and the longer the conflict goes on does it not seem that it's even more difficult to reach a cease fire no matter how long or short are people wary of the war are people wary of seeing blood chad just everywhere around them i guess yes but i think the longer this conflict goes on the harder it gets or the harder it becomes to reach a deal to reach a ceasefire to reach basically any deal between the palestinians and israelis that will be accepted by the both by both parties on the palestinian side different parties on the israeli side you know it's not a lot of people just say it's a one side one voice in israel that is not true there is a lot of different voices in this role who are not basically represented by now or

by lieberman or by ben and but behind the scenes i think they have a lot of say and what's going on well as president obama had mentioned today there's been a lot of nitpicking on john kerry over his negotiating efforts do you think this is fair i mean how much power does. as the u.s. wheeled in negotiating efforts of a cease fire for both sides a lot of people would say right now just because of the role the u.s. has played in the region just because of the role the u.s. has played ever since the conflict or ever since they became the brokers of the negotiations between the palestinians and israel is a lot of people do not see kerry in good faith on the palestinian side not on the israeli side we see or reso and we read comments coming from israelis who are criticizing kerry for the efforts that he has a lot of people see him as not the honest broker that they would like to see in the region in order to reach a cease fire a lot of i would say a lot of the criticism would come from the palestinian side as well in regards to.

well speaking of you know what people view the u.s. side to be you know the u.s. senate has just approved the two hundred twenty five million dollars for israel's iron dome anti-missile system this is largely save the country from civilian casualties it's expected to go through today what sort of message does this type of funding send when the u.s. is trying to go through a negotiation process with both sides if it so heavily funded one it's exactly another reason why the. a lot of people at least on the palestinian side on the arab side would think what about the palestinian casualties who are falling because of this conflict why not an ira maybe for the palestinians to protect themselves and if it's an equal if it's an equal war between two equal parties why not provide civilians on both parties on both sides of the equation the same protection that sense a really negative message that the palestinians that the only. the only party the

americans are concerned about are the israeli the israeli side and it's interesting that when there is any provocation on the palestinian side the u.s. just goes on and say we condemn the palestinian actions but when it's hundreds and thousands of palestinians are being killed and injured the u.s. only expresses concern it's good that at least there's people out there keeping track of this rhetoric and making sure that both sides are represented all right thank you very much r.t. arabic correspondent rima day thank you. america set to see its first cases of ebola hit u.s. soil the center for disease control is preparing to transport two american aid workers stricken with the disease back to the states for treatment artie's manila chan has the update and details on this outbreak. the highly contagious ebola virus is sweeping west africa and it just seems to be getting worse according to the world health organization there are over thirteen hundred confirmed suspected cases of ebola in guinea liberia and sierra leone now those numbers are expected to climb

along with a rising death toll to date there are over seven hundred confirmed deaths one american patrick sawyer has died and two other american aid workers are diagnosed with ebola despite some concern here in the u.s. the center for disease control is now planning to bring those two to atlanta for treatment this will be the first time the c.d.c. will treat a bully here in the u.s. dr kent brantly was in liberia's capital city of monrovia working with samaritan's purse which is a christian aid organization treating victims of this violent disease where he fell ill himself despite the utmost preventative caution the other an american woman named nancy rifle was there doing other aid work when she contracted the disease both americans are undergoing experimental treatment there and are in grave condition health officials say they will spare no caution to protect all parties

during the transfer to the u.s. they're deploying plastic tent enclosures as you see there on your screen to keep them isolated on the plane during transport so how did we get here while in the case of patrick sawyer he really was within one plane right away from potentially putting other americans at risk mr sawyer was en route back to minnesota after a business trip in west africa at some point he contrasted. and felt ill just five days later he took a plane ride to nigeria where he died very shortly after he got off the plane nigeria was meant to be his last meeting location before coming home to his wife and three little girls all under the age of six from mr sawyer he experienced probably one of the most aggressive cases of ebola because the time between can. traction and his death was only five days typically the incubation period is around eight to ten days before symptoms even begin to show and it usually takes weeks for victims to die now ebola symptoms are often mistaken for the flu which could be why

many people go on diagnosed and unwittingly spread this disease the symptoms are virtually identical to the flu fever chills headache sore throat and later vomiting and diarrhea now when the vomiting and diarrhea kicks in that's when the victim is most contagious basically all of their bodily fluids are infected and any contact with those fluids can cause the contagion even even sweat nobody really knows exactly how or where ebola began except that it was first documented in humans back in one nine hundred seventy six it's believed that it began with fruit bats in africa but that's still not one hundred percent confirmed now within humans a bowl of victims begin to hemorrhage blood in their vomit in their store all in their urine they even begin to breathe under the skin but that's not actually what kills you it's when the blood vessels deep in the body begin to leak fluid that

causes a severe drop in blood pressure which then causes your heart your kidneys your liver and other vital organs to begin to fail and that's ultimately what killed now the c.d.c. has issued a level three travel warning which is the highest alert level asking people not to travel to guinea liberia or sierra leone for now there is no cure only caution from washington manila chan r.t. . an internal cia investigation has revealed that five cia employees two lawyers and three i.t. specialist improperly accessed or caused access to a database that only staff members of the senate intelligence committee were permitted to use the report compiled of a cia's office of the inspector general. asserts that agency personnel improperly intruded into the press protected database installed in two thousand and nine to help the committee compile a report on the cia's rendition detention and interrogation activities this is what

cia director john brennan said about those allegations back in march as far as the allegations in the cia. and some computers nothing that we know it's prompted calls for him to apologize and even to resign or have asked for an apology and a recognition that this cia search of computers used by its oversight committee was in appropriate besides the constitutional implication the cia's search may also have violated before commending the computer fraud and abuse act as well as an executive order to triple three. i was joined by former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower coleen rowley i first asked her how important it is for this admission to be public that the cia had spied on the senate intelligence committee well it's pretty important if you had heard john brennan deny that any of

his staffers had access to senate information and even then i've cuse the senate of having spied on and here are the cia so i mean this is quite. quite a revelation and unfortunately it remains to be seen what congress is going to do about it. let's look at the reasons why the cia was so interested in what the senate intel committee was investigating what do you think the cia was so afraid of that they breached the trust of congress. well for starters the cia was afraid of this report it seems like they've done more than foot dragging since the investigation began and they've actually tried authority this report from getting out it's six thousand pages and i think it cost forty million dollars of taxpayers' money to actually investigate they didn't want the american public to know what they had done in terms of the black sites and the authorizing waterboarding etc

that's obvious because they destroyed the tapes from before i mean there's been all kinds of cover ups on this but it might be worse than that there may actually be things that we don't even know about yet to this day there may be orders from that involved john brennan himself there may be other things in this report i mean this is what everyone's waiting for and we'll just have to wait and see what's in there but obviously the only accountability thus far for having ordered and conducted torture were these very low level people like lynndie england there's only been a couple of those they call them bad apples so anything that connects the higher levels to the conducting of torture and some of the people tortured were actually killed so i think that's there's plenty of reason for john brennan to not want this to see the light of day and how do you feel this will impact the future dealings between the cia and congress and can call dress legitimately practice oversight

over the cia when they're being spied on by the very agency they're charged with keeping in line. you know and that is the number one question congress this isn't unfortunately the first time a government official has lied to congress and unfortunately because they've let it go they let it go with clapper when he told them that the united states or that the n.s.a. was not collecting medicaid dad and hundreds of millions of people he said no we're not doing that they've let a lot of line go even john brennan himself has lied before about the drone bombing he said that there had been no collateral are killings when he knew that there were waiting parties and many many innocent people that have been killed in the drone bombing so he's so there is unfortunately it's going to be kind of a tolerance of the executive branch lying to congress and all of our democratic system will will be hurt because of this you've got to have three separate. three

separate branches of government that can check and balance in oversee each other if congress cannot oversee this well we were looking at a really different form of government than what we call ourselves a democracy ok well speaking of check and balance what do you feel is the next step here should congress demand the resignation of assyria director brennan. i think a couple of senators you doll and white in have almost done that but certainly feinstein the head of the intelligence committee who actually gave the speech initially that said this is like a constitutional crisis i think she called it a constitutional crisis she is the one who should now take the ball and demand that john brennan be fired now this is only a mere starting place because it like i said there have been prior instances of wind and there certainly has been a lack of accountability for the commission of torture and other wrongdoing so this

would just be i first step but it would be a good first step to fire john brennan well let's talk about follow up steps i mean as someone who worked in the government in your case the f.b.i. you spoke out to try to change the culture of that place do you feel it's possible to change the cia. you know if you you can do it a systemic way you have to create institutions lisp let's look at the good side here and the inspector general for the cia did actually conduct some truth finding here so i mean that's actually a positive step the inspector general himself was not you know coerced to go along with something wrong so that's the type of institution you need you need actual oversight over the cia because if everything they do is mostly in secret and so there has got to be some decent oversight and you've got to allow whistleblowers i should just note that one of the things that the that john brennan and his people

were doing was spying on the whistleblower disclosures to the senate intelligence committee now that's important it means that the whistleblowers need to be protected and there has to be secure methods of whistleblowers being able to contact the congress during the n.s.a. disclosure is what we what we've constantly heard is or why didn't get rid snowden go to congress instead of going. to glenn greenwald into the journalists well there's the answer to that question because even in going to congress you have groups like the cia and the n.s.a. spying on the whistleblower disclosures that have to see there has to be ways of whistleblowers getting their information out what dianne feinstein and other senators now coming forward and voicing their strong displeasure at being spied on do you think now that they're in the crosshairs of the intelligence community we will finally see congress taking reform seriously. this has always been the danger

in this massive dragnet spine i've said this many times but if you go back even to during the vietnam war these cointelpro and minaret in chaos programs of the cia the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. they were spine not only on dissidents in an antiwar groups in civil rights leaders they were actually spying and frank church himself senators baker and church were targeted by the n.s.a. and people say oh well that was in the past there is not in the past this dragnet spine in collecting of information enables this kind of blackmail if you want to call it that that j. edgar hoover was a master of instead of j. edgar hoover now we have these agencies that are doing the exact same thing they're collecting information and you know everybody has their secrets and there's all kinds of ways of using power and leverage in washington d.c. blackmail should not be one of them i wish you'd get back of course the way to

reform this is to only collect were relevant information crimes in terrorism except not conduct a massive dragnet non-relevant that includes non-relevant info on innocent people because that is allowing this terrible system to occur calling raly former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower thank you very much for joining me thank you the n.s.a. and its former director general keith alexander are back on to the public spotlight for dealing in secret to get artist marina porter nial shed some light on less. the agency that eroded the meaning of privacy and indiscriminately peered into the lives of millions of citizens around the world is suddenly subscribing to protecting personal information but only if that person happens to be the former director of the national security agency keith alexander the n.s.a. work uses to release the financial disclosures of the four star general who

according to reports is currently raking in some a one million dollars a month for his cyber security consulting services this has released ethical questions and concerns that the former spy chief may be selling high level security secrets and classified information for a lucrative paycheck misusing classified information for profit is a federal felony critics say the only thing alexander has to offer potential clients is the state secrets he knows investigative journalist jason leopold is now suing the spy agency for the release of alexander's documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs

remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. and nasa news the space agency has announced the objectives for the next phase of its plans to explore mars the next mars rover mission is scheduled to launch in two thousand and twenty and while we're at the human colonization stage yet maybe getting closer to at least a human presence with the production of oxygen on the red planet the one point nine billion dollar rover will be equipped with seven different instruments where one of which will be named moxie it's meant to turn carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. into oxygen at the rate of about three quarters of an ounce per hour now says associate administrator of science john grunsfeld said the twenty twenty rover will lead to getting humans to mars in the future the oxygen can be used for astronauts to breathe but also as a component for rocket fuel the added weight of shipping rocket fuel to mars for an astronaut's return trip to earth would be costly so being able to manufacture some

of it on the planet would help the prospects of a manned mission after testing mox a device nasa will then send another device one hundred times larger to mars to speed up the process the first manned mission is slated for sometime in the twenty thirty's currently takes between six and nine months to travel the one hundred forty million miles on average between here and there time before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is comedian craig ferguson here's a snippet of what's to come to your all time favorite comedian i think billy i think billy connolly billy connolly or stan laurel billy connolly is there are these amazing and see billy to me is kind of like he's kind of like jackie robinson you know i mean before billy there was nothin sort of guys like me there was new guys there was nobody sounded like me no one there was no that's right you know maybe it just wasn't the same and billy changed the game he's number forty two you

know and stan laurel i stand or was as i mean even well odds of find. i mean i think stan laurel died in the seventy's when he was workin in the toy and he really is he twenty's and thirty's so all those you know it's only ninety years ago or you could look at those thousand still made or i mean that's amazing tune in at nine pm tonight here on our team america. that does it for now have a good night. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any race or back story after that while some tough there's a reason they don't want you to now an airport to tell phrase that you should be completely outraged now let's break the set.

whether you're a tree hugging liberal or a drill baby drill conservative or you know one of the fading rational people out there who don't buy into the two party crap this story is three years out west mainly in wyoming and montana the us has a ton of coal buried in public land under a program by the bureau of land management the government leases that land to private companies so they can mine all that coal right out of it and that practice sucks no matter which side of the energy fence you're on first let's address the sides as concerned about the environment and humanity's habit of throwing it royally this coal leasing program flies in the face of president obama's very public feel good promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions greenpeace has asked

me to that so far the obama administration has leased about two point two billion tons of coal which when burned will release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the entire european union combined emitted last year also the obama administration has something they call the social cost of carbon which is a factor they consider under the new carbon cutting goals according to their calculations every tons of carbon dioxide emitted causes thirty seven dollars in damage but for some reason the interior department doesn't factor that cost into the coal even program if it did it would mean billions of dollars in climate damage that is just unaccounted for in obama's climate fleecing plant. ok back and let's address the side of the fence that's concerned about energy independence and profit look kohli's are supposed to be auctioned off competitively but according to the

center for american progress since ninety ninety ninety six of the one hundred and seventy kohli's failed it has only had one vendor and since they only have one better they get the cold for super cheap for as little as about seventy four cents per million b. to use as opposed to coal from other areas not in the program that can sell for more than two and i have dollars for a million these two years according to the institute for energy economics and financial analysis the us has missed out on about twenty nine billion dollars from getting below market value on the coal mines under this program now let's address the side that doesn't pick a side the side that's just common sense look coal easing program out west is up a perfect example of how politicians make promises that bear no reflection on reality whatsoever they've pick and choose the numbers and facts to include in their spiel that back of their agenda while omitting crucial information in this case.