because dawn of reporting from aleppo in syria. meanwhile the u.s. state department says it will redirect american stabilisation funding plans for syria to other foreign policy efforts washington insists though this will not affect its humanitarian assistance program it comes as saudi arabia pledges one hundred million dollars to syrian reconstruction efforts however the money will only go to the northeast of syria a region under the control of us back to kurdish forces. and while some programs are cut others remain in place with the u.s. saying it will stay in syria for some time yet to bounce will the last pockets of terrorists we're remaining in syria the focus is the ensuring defeat of isis we still have not launched the final phase two defeats the physical kind of fight this is actually being prepared now and that will come at a time for choosing but it is coming so she will on this head of middle east

studies at the university of oklahoma says america's interests in syria go far beyond elimination of terrorists the united states does not want assad to become too strong there are hoping to keep leverage in order to try to push iran out of the country to get a better deal for the kurds and and of course they're also worried about what's going to happen if there are problems where there are very complex negotiations and and russia is at the heart of that so there are many competing agendas in washington and as long as president trump is not spending a lot of money there i think he's happy to keep a few thousand troops if that increases america's leverage. the u.s. department of defense is planning to spend up to fifteen million dollars and haunting the performance and insurance of its soldiers but as caleb maupin explains

history shows that such programs have to be handled with care. actually did. hollywood science fiction often depicts the soldiers of the future with all the talk of a space force from donald trump and fighting robots across the silver screen our imagination has plenty of places to go. now on this. surface a new grant from the pentagon for an extramural biomedical research and development doesn't sound so bad the object is to create soldiers who can withstand even the harshest circumstances take a listen develop technologies to maximize the physiological performance of s.o.f. operators including enhanced in durance enhanced senses tolerance to environmental extremes and enhanced overall fitness in order to maintain operational posture

ability in high stress scenarios without noticeable augmentation and without hampering personnel mobility additionally the ability to accelerate the effects of sleep through methods requiring less time a vivid picture i know the prototype. now let's give this a little context this won't be the first time that the u.s. military has engaged in this kind of research.

at the time these grotesque experiments using american g.i.'s and civilians essentially as lab rats at the time they were taking place the public knew nothing about it was all classified now the public documents indicate that these new experiments will not. involve human beings only human simulators however anyone who is familiar with the not so well publicized but very well documented history of u.s. military research they'll certainly raise an eyebrow kaleb up and r.t. new york and some more to come off to the shop bike stay with us.

we have no idea what's a fuse doing on the move a condition but she will be back on it in september. there is a conspiracy there there were. drama the bus forget about the back of the bus is limited because we want rush limbaugh i wonder bread. to you.

welcome back maria bettina the gun the activist who's been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent in the u.s. has been transferred to another prison without her lawyers knowledge of russian diplomats had compared his treatment in custody on the media hysteria around the case to the witch trials of the seventeenth century meanwhile the twenty nine year old has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her legal defense on thursday russian diplomats visited in prison and said she's been subjected to cruel treatment they claim she faces inhumane inspections throughout each night and is strip searched after any

visitor maria's also been deprived of proper medical attention it's claimed she was suffering from swelling on her leg but was only given painkillers she's been denied any letters written in russian of affairs they might contain coded messages the russian embassy stressed she's still a suspect not a convict the alleged russian agents was arrested over a month ago she was refused bail after pleading not guilty two weeks ago she's also accused of offering sex in an attempt to get a job in an unnamed special interest group if convicted buton or could face up to fifteen years in prison no date for her trial has yet been set. well we're now joined live by a movie at thirteen is noir let me just the mr driscoll thank you for joining us on r.t. international now we've just received information that your client to reappear to now has been transferred to another prison away from washington can you confirm

that that is correct and if so why has that been done i can confirm that's correct i'm not aware of what the reasoning was i was unaware that she was transferred until last night at around midnight i received a collect call from her at home and the phone was disconnected before we could get through but i knew it was from alexandria jail so i drove down and tried to get in last night and could not but is able to get in this morning and visit her so she is in alexandria detention facility. at least for now for this weekend and but i'm unaware of what the reasons were for the transfer and i'm trying to find that out right now i could be possible that is a different category of prison. it's really not the united states federal government uses local jails to house their pretrial

detainees and so the marshal service has the ability to move people around if they want i would expect to have been notified but it's a it's a smaller facility than the d.c. jail is and it's a you know it's a respected facility but it's it's hard to know why the move was made whether was made for medical or other reasons or in response to complaints about the conditions in d.c. he let's talk about maria's house the house being concerns about her health conditions what kind of conditions has has been facing in prison. well i mean i think her main complaint from my visits with her is that she does have arthritis in one of her legs kind of a history of problems with that leg and i think with the conditions in the prison which are kind of on the cold side because of very strong air conditioning and also humid and damp i think that's exacerbated some swelling and so she sought treatment for that and so far has just received tylenol and nothing else and i think she has

also been a little bit frustrated by policy when people are protective custody they do bed checks every fifteen minutes at night check on detainee safety and i think sometimes depending on who the guard is you know the lights are turned on every time there's a check and so it's very hard to get proper sleep when you're being woken up every fifteen minutes i think that was sporadic in the other jail we had been in communication with the warden about it trying to fix that but again now she's in an entirely new facility is to cross the potomac river in alexandria russian authorities have described this as inhumane in costume race and do you think such conditions off such conditions normal in such a case. well it's hard to know what's normal this is a very unusual case i mean she is in protective custody so she is segregated from the general population of the prison facility which i don't think is necessarily a bad thing on the whole but i think that it it makes things very difficult

bureaucratically she was in when she was in d.c. jail she was in kind of a holding or an intake facility that she had essentially to herself but you know no contact really with outside people besides her lawyers and occasional phone calls and when you're being held. in semi isolation like that it's difficult because every everything she wanted to do is kind of a one off request there isn't a very set schedule and so it was very difficult to make sure she was getting a proper exercise and. trips to the library and things like that because everything she did she had to do by yourself so that was complicated and i think it's very difficult situation to been particularly for someone like her i'm not saying anyone would have an easy time in prison but in this is an accomplished student you know someone who i don't think ever envision spending a day in jail or a life to be in you know it's a pretty tough facility absolutely and we've covered the high physical condition

how he's how we see mentally how what do you know she could be facing up to fifteen years in prison she has no idea what the future holds for what's the psychological impact on that we see ok. i mean i think given the i want to have side the baseline that she's she's in jail and that's never good it's not good for any client i think given that baseline she's she's in very good shape she's helping actively with us to prepare the defense she's confident in her innocence and we're working with her and using her help we're going to providing her with documents to help with translation and things like that so she she is able to function and i think is trying to keep her eyes on working towards the defense with some point maybe try to get her released pretrial again we're just looking through documents trying to find the proper evidence to do that i think we may be able to do that hopefully the next couple of weeks i suppose more about this crowdfunding campaign

you for the only money you are expecting to gain or hopefully a lot more headstones towards this case. well i think both we were lucky enough to have a generous american who had been paying legal fees for her through the senate testimony the other things that were not public but obviously things get a lot more expensive once you're arrested and charged and possibly a trial is going to be you know millions of documents the government will produce that will have to go through no defense. and so i think that there came a need to be more fun so we opened the website in hopes that people could do that but i also hope that there's a number of it and even small donations. to fund will be great because it shows her that people are thinking about her and haven't forgotten about or you know even if people have five dollars or ten dollars that's as important as hopefully some some people of means will donate more but i think that that it helps her to know

that people are concerned for her particularly her home country but everywhere and there's been a lot of support that i've received in phone calls and e-mails from people both in america and abroad that do do feel for her and do believe in her innocence and what would happen if you don't raise enough money. i'm not concerned about that i mean i believe her innocence and i will see this through. kind of regardless but i mean finances do impact your ability to have a defense in terms of hiring experts and making sure all the documents get reviewed and things like that but i mean i'm with her and she's my client and i take my obligations very seriously i'm not going to be. kind of intimidated by by any blowback in america about this case i'm happy to represent her and she's pled not guilty and i'm with her on her. do you think a case like this one needs to be dealt with in a higher court. the way the system works will be dealt with

initially in the in the federal district court this is where where it's going to be resolved i think it's very unusual case of thing presents legal issues that are novel i mean i think factually she's just innocent in that she is not was not functioning as an agent of the russian federation when she was in the u.s. you simply student and someone active kind of operating on her own account so the speak but of even beyond that the statute she's charged under is an enormously broad it does not require any particular conduct at all it just kind of says if you're operating the u.s. as a under the direction or control of a foreign government or foreign official kind of for any reason you can be prosecuted under the statute which is auden that conduct that would otherwise be illegal somehow becomes illegal if you're acting at the direction of a foreign government which is strange because there's no allegation here just of the viewers are clear there's no allegation of espionage there's no allegation of

classified information style geishas she was paying anyone off there's no allegation she was recruiting spies none of the things you would typically see in an espionage case the allegations are fairly vanilla that she attended meetings of various groups that were public that she had dinners with various people and she took a lot of selfies as i think a lot of people are twenty's do with with people she met and posted them on facebook so this is not the kind of a typical this is no comparison to what the allegations were against for example had a chapman or others where there was actual whether they were true or not there are actual allegations about use of sophisticated equipment and payoffs and expiring and things like that there's none of that here. thank you for your time thanks for joining us on our. well to get in touch and share your thoughts on all of our stories by following those on social media at the top of the out is under with the latest headlines.

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our. culture. and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. thank. you i'm just curious if the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are first some reason called foreign agents imagine imagine this headline armed gunman at airports secretly follow around peaceful americans who are not accused or suspected of any crime and who aren't listed on any terrorism watch list i think the proper response if you were to read that headline to seeing that

revelation would be so i'd rather have god on t.v. germany shocked. what instead that headline could have been in our american newspapers this week a new t.s.a. program has been revealed called quiet skies it's existed since twenty ten and in it or to federal air marshals follow ordinary american citizens collecting information about their movements and behavior where like where's the line in the sand when you go oh oh we're inside like one of those dystopian military state horror shows. because for me personally like when i go to a quiet place and i really think about it and i really just take a minute and think about it that line is is when armed gunmen are following around peaceful unaware americans who haven't been accused of crimes like that's a lot like you right over that and you you step over

a year over stares topi in military say oh oh oh oh no. three great here why is guys through simply targets travelers who are not under investigation by any agency and are not on the terrorist screening database. this means you are right this is you i'm talking to you guy at home sitting there go and they don't even know me and maybe i haven't done anything wrong here i'm talking to you that you like wipe the idea of wrong out of your head do you do that any idea how many people who haven't done anything wrong or in our jails our prisons our court systems millions millions here is some of these suspicious activities that the documents show air marshals are looking for when observing someone subject was abnormally aware of their surroundings observing the

boarding gate area from a far excessive fidgeting excessive perspiration rapid eye blinking rubbing ringing of a hand strong body odor sweaty palms using the bathroom a lot. using the bathroom have you seen airplane food all right we're. where all of us using the bathroom walk even in the airport even at the airport if you want to score like a piece of fresh broccoli you have to like me the guy in a dark corner but between a brookstone and mcdonnell's or he opens up his coat or a veil of vegetable of some saw orange and. then once you agree on a price he puts it inside a toblerone box just so the world is just a just so the world doesn't find out that there's a black market leafy greens loose in the airport. to tobler over to the

choc'late no one once in less it's duty for a year. and then it's worth its weight in gold. and excess in fidgeting they literally sell devices at airport kiosks just for fishing. i could therefore. even see airborne. no this is utter horse in late may an air marshal complained to colleagues about having just surveilled a working southwest airlines flight attendant as part of a quiet skies mission subject wearing too much make up she's clearly hiding something all right so subject passing out cans of liquid to passengers could be toxic fluid all right subjects' stayed on flight for multiple trips from back and forth from chicago to new york and i thought suspicious i don't know what is subject seems too concerned about whether people's feet are in feet or in the aisles so you know one could say it borders on obsessive compulsive tendencies

taken down tiger down. these with hundreds who trained how to shoot things in a plane like this this is a real image of the trip it's completely unrealistic this is the fraud that the mannequin would be currently. got who are feet by step down. and secondly you look at that leg room are you kidding ok. well you know. these guys the reserve for the queen of england other because. i mean the u.k. to get your gun out when your knees against your chats and off. anyway these douchebags also find it suspicious when a target has a cold penetrating stay there or wide open staring on i is why the open staring eyes that's interesting because

a few weeks ago and i'm not making this up i happen to be on a flight with congressman adam schiff. now is that guy's not a terrorist i don't know what one is. but don't worry don't worry though nancy pelosi has her eye on it all right. she is monitoring the situation something else these gunmen are looking for is a telltale sign that you're getting ready to blow up fellow human beings exaggerated emotions and exaggerated emotions well i'm sure our mass media hacks and con artists have something to say about that babies and other young children. we are. living in the one nine hundred thirty s. all over again.

folks in a very dramatic development. we're. the cry gets a lot of you all i. get a lot it could. go viral. but i will say this c.n.n. and the other networks did cover this story about quiet skies they did not fail to reveal this insane invasion of privacy during the quick march toward a totalitarian state take a look there is absolutely no intention to surveil ordinary americans instead its purpose is to ensure passengers and flight crew are protected during air travel no different than putting a police officer on have beat or intelligence and information presents a need for increased watch and deterrent no different than putting a police officer on a beat yeah yeah it is cobb's don't follow random people around who aren't

suspected of a crime and see if they're blinking all right. i'm not saying no cop has ever beaten someone for going into my store for using the bathroom too much but they're not tasked with taking notes about bathroom habits d.s.t.v. difference i mean it's tough to overstate this are two men who literally follow us around to make sure we behave ourselves it sure is a free country and this is at the airport i'm free to use the bathroom no more than once. i've read to have body odor if it's the appropriate amount i'm free to be aware of my surroundings to a certain extent. i believe it was founding father patrick henry who said give me liberty within reason and.

the words of washington university law professor john turley this to say there may be indeed constitutional issues here. depending on how restrictive or intrusive these measures are intrusive all right we we've got not so bright guys with guns ready to fire at a moment's notice because i happen to look a bit fidgety yeah maybe i am fidgety alright because maybe i'm going on two hours of sleep and maybe i've already had three cocktails and maybe i was just at airport security all right. i've got to go to the exchange same to the state i mean i don't care if the mother is an intrusive i don't want him following me well despite all my anger about this you may feel differently once you hear how impressively effective the program has been requested by congress to twenty seventeen report noted that the agency which spent eight

hundred million dollars and twenty fifteen has no information on its effectiveness in deterring attacks while. who could argue with those got a result. only eight hundred million dollars for a veritable. no information. could all agree that's a bargain. according to the government's own department of justice standards there is no cause to be conducting these secret missions well at the conclusion of that c.n.n. segment that i just heard after bringing on the former inspector general for the department of transportation who seemed downright excited about the whole thing i'm sure the c.n.n. anchor will point out this is a horrific abuse of law enforcement it makes a mockery of our freedom and it puts us firmly in the category of military surveillance state take us home so you know i will say that any time anyone talks about rapid eye rapid blinking arrival and i feel if i find myself blinking quite

a bit more it's just like it's about love and response mary thank you so much i appreciate it. i'm having a child lovin response right now so stop leaking segments like this which is pretty that's i'm pretty similar to all the mainstream coverage of this new revelation this week or more insidious than they seem it appears as if they're asking the right questions is this an invasion of privacy why weren't we told about this sooner but by acting like this is just a little thing to be discussed it makes average americans believe it's no big deal it's the same as discussing if you want bathrooms on your pizza one person got kind of like the other person not really a fan this is a mushrooms all right. these are the telltale signs of a fascist surveillance state and the only thing. and the only thing

i hate more than a march on pizza ok to sum it up as edward snowden said that these programs were never about terrorism they're about economic spying social control and diplomatic manipulation they're about power how do you want to be. thanked welcome welcome by me candelas take the news from behind lead start with good news palestinian protests head to mimi was finally released after eight months.