then during it's just a little like a measure of feeley stitch and break into their story good luck to the narrator does is right green is a name for other people for centuries like rush are all countries like this straight. back where the america does is right because america does a. welcome break on the set i'm happy martin well it's been over a year since n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden's massive leak made international headlines in the revelations haven't stopped not only have we become privy to the vast spying on american citizens and heads of state but we've also learned about the extent of cooperation between u.s. spy agencies and foreign governments just this week yet another bombshell story

broke on the intercept reported details of the u.s. government's official terror database turns out that nearly half of those listed on the watch list of known or suspected terrorists are not affiliated with any organized group but if you read the fine print on the article snowden's name is nowhere to be found instead the source is quote an identified u.s. officials furthermore the article cites documents dated august two thousand and thirteen which is after snowden leaked his trove and got trapped in russia this isn't the first time there's been speculation of a second leaker acting from within the government journalist jacob app obama had written reports about the n.s.a. and german publication der spiegel sourcing documents by anonymous officials other than snowden to it's absolutely amazing that someone else will step up to the plate to inform the public about the criminal activity being done under our noses and in our names so thank you to whoever you are for risking your life to tell the truth.

the outages right courage really is contagious and it's great to set. a. very hard to take a. longer. life that he ever had sex with her but there are no. laws vegas may be known for glitz opulence and other debauchery but there's also an

underground counterculture that's been rooted in sin city for the last seventeen years she has gather annually in a conference called def con and along with its offshoot black hat the event has grown into a one of a kind convention appealing to people from the private sector the government even the most off the radar tech junkies while this year artie's own aaron ate a host of boom bust this summer in the nevada desert to fill us in with details she joined me earlier and i first asked her to give us a background on the conference in the focus of this year's convention. this is the conference that's been going on for seventeen years and it's really morphed over that time you know seventeen years ago apparently we spoke to someone who's been coming for fifteen years we have yet to find a seventeen year veteran but you know they say that now to talk so much more big names it's kind of more bender focused and big players in the security world where before is a little more counterculture like much of hacking on the internet seventeen years ago was but now those people are kind of going to different conferences and it's not like the bad guys are the. guys you know i describe it kind of as

a batman thing these attackers can use their skills for good and for evil it's their choice but death attracts a little more counterculture where where black where we are today attracts a little more corporate culture a few a little more formal nature. yeah and some of the main stories dominate in the conference this year include the russian gang hacking over one billion user names passwords around the world britain the latest on the story and what some of the implications you think it may have but what a lot of the panelists say here is that it depends on how they did it if they actually did this hacking organically they found all this it is amazing how it got over a billion passwords that's pretty impressive but if they kind of sourced passwords that were already out there were easily set up to bowl to to this type of security threat and pull from here pull from here and smash them all together apparently that's easier i mean it all sounds like magic to me that but it's pretty interesting to see how they discuss it and they're excited about it strangely enough enough not excited in a malicious way but i guess any sort of breakthrough in this world is exciting yeah

i'm sure that they're excited to make some money while also you know doing dealing with the how you deal in the financial side of these sorts of stories of what is the financial impact that a hacker this size could have billion people. a billion people it's truly amazing. which companies were hacked exactly that could come out later today full of securities gets a lot of pushback and the people really want to hear it but you know a lot of people still talk about target surprisingly enough who are who were hacked and that's a good example of the difficult implications you know for your quarterly reports they're going to go down if this happens but what's interesting about target is that they say they had a friend they were friends and apparently the you know the best actually these attacks didn't come out of left field they were there was warning and target didn't heed those warnings and as a result they this went up and for this that it was probably a false positive which i guess you get a lot when you're working with cybersecurity but you should listen to those false

positives particularly if you're a massive corporation because look at the outcome such as target your stock price is going to fall and bad things are going to happen to your bottom line people could say it's also a retail point by people more focused on the wal-mart seven and dollar stores than they used to be but there is definitely an adverse effect to being breached your security breach particularly at retail. right there people who don't really understand how to take the necessary privacy precautions may be more hesitant to be dealing and transaction transacting online it seems like every other month there and there's another cyber security bill being resurrected in washington and i just wanted to see if you've gained any insight from people there on the ground about how we can possibly maintain secure networks but stevan governments all over the world constant push for cyber legislation. have events a fantastic question and it's actually really really want to one of the focuses here today to talk about the n.s.a. and they talk about public private surveillance partnerships it's a big catch for

a hearing and actually bruce schneier who was on boom bust last week he is here as well also speaking we're going to work with him at this conference but he's the one who warned of this and he basically says you know we as citizens of the world right now a lot of us are less willing to give up to create the comfort the creature comforts of knowing where you are via your little google google maps super helpful and even the sick. the security experts use that as well so it is a threat there are bills coming through but know what as the legislation comes through they'll find new ways to break it there's always going to be good they're always going to be evil on every side of this argument and it's almost impossible sadly from what we're hearing today almost impossible to not be hacked if you're going to be hacked it's going to happen and i think hackers kind of always have a leg up on i'm kind of the old dude in the hole so hopefully we can kind of find this perfect balance and what else can we expect from the conference this year and talk about the burner phone and a lot of other things that they told you to take measures for to attend yeah it's

pretty funny i mean i'm not a security expert and i would even consider myself that techie so there's that anyone who's an on security expert to take the proper precautions actually have it here i have a burner phone there is no smartphones anywhere nearby carry a low balance credit card with you in a protective wallet i don't own any of these things so forget all the burners it's like going back to the stone age a pen and paper it's amazing i almost got it right but it's kind of funny kind of interesting and yes do i think that i might be active i bring a computer absolutely. oh thank you so much stay cold out there stay warm in the desert. those that are do boom bust in las vegas thanks so much. if you're lucky enough to be a middle to upper class member of global society chances are you rarely experience what it's like to go hungry instead if you're like me you're most likely guilty of

the sin that few of us ever think about wasting food the amount of food americans collectively throw out is truly mind blowing in your report earlier this year by the u.s. department of agriculture in the u.s. thirty one percent or one hundred thirty three billion of the four hundred thirty billion pounds the available food supply at the. retail and consumer levels in two thousand and ten. and that number might even be a conservative estimate according to the natural resources defense council that organization has found that one of the primary reasons mass food waste is such a pressing issue is the ever increasing portion sizes both at restaurants and both grocery stores accordingly and our d.c. between one nine hundred sixty and two thousand and seven the surface area of the average american dinner plate expanded by a stunning thirty six percent and more food means much much more food in the garbage now if you think this is merely a hunger issue you'd only be partially right because while it's true that reducing

food waste by just fifteen percent could feed more than twenty five million americans every year that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problems caused by squandering food see according to an argue sees numbers getting food from farm to fork takes up nearly ten percent of the entire u.s. energy budget fifty percent of the u.s. land and get this eighty eighty percent of all consumed fresh water furthermore the economic impact of the waste is palpable according to u.s.d.a. every year americans waste forty eight billion dollars in meat poultry and fish thirty vegetables and twenty seven billion in dairy products but it doesn't have to be this way with the rising awareness of the harm that our food habits are causing some restaurants are taking it upon themselves to address the problem head on rather than rely on the consumer take for instance the amazing story of chicago restaurant called sandwich me in this restaurant hasn't taken out the trash in

nearly two years thanks to practices like using fresh local produce handing out reasonable portion sizes and running unsustainable and jean the restaurant even repurpose as a reuse is everything from food scraps to frying oil the result has been nothing short of remarkable the entire. amount of waste that's produced since opening a business is equivalent to the amount of waste a similar size restaurant will produce an hour but it's not just restaurants getting in on the action it's a mass supermarket chains as well take a look at what one grocery chain is doing in france as the earth in union made two thousand and fourteen the european year against food waste and the third largest supermarket chain in france decided to rehabilitate the nine calibrated and on perfect fruits and vegetables so we launched. the in glory is fruits and vegetables starring the grotesque apple the ridiculous potato the hideous

orange and now you can eat five inglorious fruits and vegetables a day as good but thirty percent cheaper. and even use these unwanted and weird looking fruits to create a whole new line of juices and soups which have been wildly popular with customers serving as a revolutionary produce model for grocery stores worldwide but even entire countries are getting in on the fight against waste see according to swedish waste management just four percent of sweden's household waste ends up in landfills the rest is recycled or used as fuel in the country's waste to energy power plants the program has been so successful that sweden can't even produce enough waste to keep up prompting the country to actually import hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash from other european countries. america's waste problem is hardly going away overnight but there are realistic models we can turn to right now for solutions because waste not want not just a cure we are taught as children it's

a lifestyle we simply have to embrace. coming up i'll talk about what you're not hearing about this week's u.s. africa summit stay tuned. lisa tried to. pull it out of. your life threatening to sure everybody. not. only know what. it's like but. let's say. it. sometimes feels like. this and.

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power via this technology fad is very tempting. to keep. the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the sea pushing through in the play your part of the musical. pushes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only of are today. the heads of state of almost every african country are in washington d.c. this week for the two thousand and fourteen africa summit for the white house it's an opportunity to build new business relationships after all seven of the world's

ten fastest growing economies are on the african continent for world's super powers like china and the u.s. that means that tens of billions of investment dollars are at stake obama is also seizing on the moment to polish up his presidential legacy when it comes to africa but it couldn't come at a worse time for the some it's already been marred by the news of the recent bull outbreak issues of human rights and growing insecurity by way of international terrorism so to discuss the backlash against the summit i was drawn earlier by come by i am most of the national spokesperson for friends of the congo who had just taken part in demonstration i first ask why he was protests in the event. the governor say human rights issues on that continent. want as a young african he said first thing to see that actually there is a spotlight on africa by the problem i have with these deals will they be invited to washington most of the leader as well been invited have records of human rights

abuse and will govern this most of them of say few of them are trying to change the course of the countries to run forever in the case of uganda brazil uganda has been in power since one thousand nine hundred six. over two decades so far really is also changing of course it's a shift in the case of the congo the current president is also changing the course of the show so i can name all these different countries so a week before the summits obama called when young africans in washington in these so-called young african leadership initiative it week later is bring again do i. a strong man so he's sending mixed messages to african youth saying we want you to have good leadership on the other hand i will invite african dictators to done we've me so that's very confusing message for young africans may look at it as a positive thing for the united states to do but for me it's really a u.s. interest the u.s. trying to counter china with african continent china had enough with the summits in

the early two thousand so it's a way to have africa as a mini of say we get out of africa instead of supporting the will of the people the consummate yemen the talk specifically about some of these leaders that he was dining with african leaders equitorial guinea rwanda uganda i mean all of these people been involved in horrific human rights violations considering how bad leaders have been used as actual pretext to invade entire countries are you surprised that kind of their willingness to sit down with these people i was shocked simply because of what the obama did in two thousand and i know obama wants a gun and he had a speech where he spoke about good governance and spoke about the need. and the strong man but it's very confusing that the cement of one thousand african consonant symbols beautiful words that now. strongman to washington to discuss how we can get access to resources how to have. bilateral.

trade with africa that is not something that i would have expected and i would stay as obama's legacy to the consummate their vision of libra the support of stray strong men on the consulate and the betterment of the will of the african people right it's kind of saying saying one thing and doing another as you just mentioned this quote we need we don't need strong men we need strong institutions was there anything in the summit that actually pointed toward building up and actually you know point out now john kerry the secretary of state met president kabila. what if you months ago in may was in congo and he spoke about the need for democracy and the need for the coalition government to not to change the constitution just this week on monday he had a press conference with the president of the congo where you was congratulating him for all the adversity is done in democracy and i sent a tweet to him. what as president could be done to advance democracy in congo we

haven't yet seen that so that's confusion is very clear but what i'm clear as a young african is the solution will not be in washington it's disheartening to see african leaders flocking into washington to think that washington was so african issues i want to see one day that african leaders are going all the consonants to discuss we africans all the constant needs rather than them coming to washington to try to figure out what it can get out of us taxpayers money yeah well said and i think a lot of this funding with also emboldening with military aid is given to the worst human rights offenders across africa and you know captain rick chief of the u.s. africa command center recently told a roomful of military contractors hey the u.s. has been at war with africa for the last eighteen months how does the military industrial complex plan of the u.s. desire to kind of get more involved in the continent seeing evil we will something

new book. american drones flying over the edge or even over the congo this has been a plan that's been actually written way early in the two thousand by the heritage foundation discussing the need of having a u.s. military presence of a consonant africa needs many things but the last thing they need is american soldiers. providing security africa does not need that what we need is actually for it but fortunately because the leaders of african countries do not represent the people we seeing little by little african leaders allowing us military there just get it done by the way. when josh was president he tried to travel to africa to have african leaders accept the african commands fourteen nations publicly came out saying no but now this is the context we have the so-called son of africa in barack obama and people are forgetting that he steeled the president of one of the most powerful imperial power in the war and the allowing him to bring american soldiers

there you know when you look at. the djibouti in uganda for example libya was being lashed from airports in the congo they call it military force when one speaks of the locals you see that the so-called military post is growing into a military base and is growing and growing but clear is to counter china's presence there china has been we've been bringing development and infrastructure development on the continents there may be discussion about what is chinese actually doing but what one thing as a young african i know china is supporting strongman where they're bringing their weapons of the military to train these dictators who are killing african people so that's the difference between those two that i mean this is an incredible point and i was just going to ask you how did this happen how do we get to this point where there is more than one military operation happening across the entire continent with the exception of just two countries according to africa arms own numbers i'm

shocked i mean really when i hear people saying i mean we've been at war with africa that we're conducting military operations so widespread how do we get here is it just the transition going into a bomb i mean it seems like this is been in place for a long long time behind the scenes and there's been africa policy u.s. africa policy as being access to resources and would the us know how to do even with the know how to do well these military in the course in this election around the world is very all fortunate to always see the military as an agent for economy prosperity for the united states that needs to be challenged but of course. just america are american taxpayers american citizen that i meet on a daily basis know what they are doing on the african continent will they be ok it's not that draws the military quip and the being provided to africa is killing children under the age of five like in the case of a coma they say half of the deaths in congo have been children five talking about over three million young people of the five who have died so the question is not

the american government will the american citizen actually exercise a civic duty to hold the government accountable for their operations on african continent well i certainly don't know and i think of a lot of people did they wouldn't agree with that at all but what is your responsibility say that obama needs to work with these leaders to bring economic development who kind of can't see outside of that military about you know africa is not poor that i think people usually forget it the reason why do you have with africa because they know the potential of africa consummate africa is the last place they want the need for the resources africa is in doubt a so many strategic minerals so when with speaking even a trade i don't see the relationship of the united states and the way being the same way as the united states and congo for example because whenever they dealing with a european counterparts that's not how they deal with i'm not saying the united states training french soldiers no no we germans are european nations why are they doing

so on african consonants. africa is a continent is not that's be recall a nice but in this context or so the people in these countries we are no waiting for washington to change people in all these countries are organizing a book enough so we had a movement overview of what the king it's the street even in sudan in khartoum there is a you mobilizing the you have to have a say in the democratic process in the congo to think so do you for all of africa they are mobilizing the challenge of the face that the people will represent them being backed by washington and they have arsenal of weapons. that they are using to oppress the population it's actually suppressing that grassroots growth and the support for the people on the ground who really need to be heard the most and your organization focuses on the ongoing genocide in the congo this is another issue that's just completely off the radar if you ask someone on the street what's going on in the genocide in congo they'd say what are you talking about here i mean talk

about what's going on in the streets and why there's almost been a complete media silence on this issue this is actually a scroll to the human cost i mean nowhere in the word. six million human beings. since one thousand nine hundred six to present that continue to suffer on one hand you have in the east two of the staunchest allies one the uganda with invented the congo twice we document. yet no accountability can you imagine the writing we have all the security council of the united nations run where while the united nations publishing reports showing how rand paul the rebel groups in the congo and you know what happened to speak to prison oranda and the first lady over and they were right in washington battling with president barack obama that's a complete contradiction at the expense of the millions who have died this issues not just even in the congo because while we have lost many lives. also in iran that run scandal you would have

a voice they have killed activists watch the government even as journalist survivors who have challenged the government or even run brugge have been assassinated we have documentation and they recently kind of billets for that and what i called many of actually dubbed it is that run this is becoming the israel of africa no matter what they do on the african continent they do not hold them accountable for the crimes that. african continent incredible we have about thirty seconds left but what can we do because i feel so helpless hairiness and of course our establishment is just embolden these leaders that are criminal and engaging in horrendous human rights abuses and suppressing the peace. that we need to be hearing the most kamali what can we do to help heal things while on the whole the in the u.s. government accountable not just busted we have below public law one out four five six which was written by barack obama as a senator calls for sanctions for any mission operations in the go to go incidents yes he wrote the law is now the president so we have to remind him hey this is what

you actually did so the engagement will actually help i'm not saying it just as to this action we've done this before the american people stood up with that regime when the mobilized people in this country to hold us president of the most of the reagan. presidency we saw action that's what we need to do call the movement today is a vote on us to suffer for what was yesterday and it's all connected thank you so much for breaking it down incredible combat most of really spoke first of the friends of the congo really appreciate cannot thank you much. thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at abby martin will be back tomorrow break the set all over again with. the strategy of china and afghans to build stuff and the strategy of america in

africa is to bomb stuff and so i think the africans are thinking and i think we go with the belt stuff rather than the bomb stuff and the u.s. is running out of bombs. in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international pass a dance in costs of the coming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the west is that what you're doing is illegitimate but what we have been doing is to live by the merger if you break into their still good luck america does does rather removes. made for other people for centuries like russia or countries like australia. but whatever america does is right because america doesn't. just want to keep building allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions

and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they have them addresses where current we have a hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these which is encouraging complete non integration within the society. but if you will come and watch these policies i think you know.

a pleasure to have you with us here on r t today i'm sure. as an entire family is wiped out in a bombing in eastern ukraine here with international we look at the methods used by the army in its crackdown on anti-government resistance. a growing number of ukrainian troops revolt against the way the government is handling the crisis. we speak to someone. seeking refuge in russia. holds into its final day and. raising fears of renewed bloodshed on the channel we report on those struggling to get medical help in the.