was very poor. i talked, i was doing my best to get back to school, which still will have the strongest appeal. the russian rhythmic gymnastics team plays that there's been an injustice to the gold goes to israel, despite the roughly dropping her ribbon during the performance. and then use a job hacker to expose the abusive conditions that the prison is being held in the united telephone access to his lewis. his wife runs to move in to vengeance bureau presence lawyer, that she can only let him speak to them if they have upcoming court deadline, whereas she's not applying that requirement to any of the other. and this is the same right now in the french capital, which have been wrong by protest for

a full consecutive we hundreds of prisons of fencing that around get a meeting cobit health passes to access more public places to just bog and plus privacy activists. think it by tenants of apple over the tech john's controversial plans to sell scanning the files of uses, the child sex abuse content. we discuss the issue with a panel of experts. how is it going to be able to determine what is and isn't appropriate effectively creates a back door to, to up to, to apples devices. where are they going to draw a line in this? i have that great. have you with this is our to international now, the tokyo lympics may be coming to the conclusion this weekend,

the still lots of action making plenty of headlines for the 1st time since 1996. a russian athlete has been pitt to the gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics, the highest award going this time to israel, the spot there athlete dropping her ribbon during the performance with the details . it's jessica taylor, be 2020 took your games have not been short on trauma. that's for sure, and one of the biggest upsets has come on the pin ultimate date and the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. now heading into the final and say, already seen asking to, you know, very not was the heavy favorite to when she has oft rule. got 13 wild titles under her belt. what's more historic, the russians have absolutely dominated this sport, winning gold at the last 5 straight olympics, but took her 2020 has stopped that rain. a baron has gone home with the sofa, and now there are questions being raised as to whether she was in fact robbed. so what's the drama here? well, the thing is, is that the gymnast who beat her to gold is 22 rolled is raining, enjoy

a shrum. during her ribbon routine, she dropped her ribbon. you can actually see and the video that although she keep smiling like the performer that she absolutely, as she knows down that this is a fault, but will most likely dash her chances are not gold medal, but no, apparently the judge has decided otherwise. because despite that serious hours she went on to claim fast paced by margin of not point $15.00 points, leaving a foreigner who performed a total clean performance about a single mistake with 2nd place. and by the way, making out from the only jim, nothing the history of the olympic games to win a gold despite dropping a piece of her parameters. and it's all of this combined that's lead the r a c team to cry foul. dina hasn't lost. she has one, but unfortunately the reservation was a blatant injustice dinner very that performed clean while lenore shrum unfortunately made a glaring mistake, which usually the judges would take off points for performance,

technique and art. this isn't the fast qualm, the receipt team has had about fairness and it earlier raised concerns about unfair scoring. and previous performance is to protest how to box being lodged both what rejected and of course the wider atmosphere has to be taken into account here. the tokyo games have not been the easiest to bride for russian athletes. they have seen open hostility, unintuitive skepticism all the time that they have been that they seen the media around them even and tearing, to compete. they've had fellow sportsmen make pretty politicize jives about doping up despite the fact that r a c, i think it's all one of the most heavily tested contingents at tokyo sat me in light with this. one has to hope that politics has not sealed a barrenness olympic fate, but really when you look at it with such a small point margin, with also such a serious arrow, people are such and wondering whether the judge has made the right who have to

support the columbus alan moore says a recent change to the rules is downgraded the importance of a perfect performance back in 2000. and 16, what we have to understand is that the gymnastic, gymnastic organization, they change the way of scoring. so now we're not 6, you get more points, there's no ceiling on points. so the more amazing at rages or moves you make, you get more points. now money, people would say that it has been reduced to kind of like a circus. it is like kind of surface only, but in your lympics. so the more difficulty you show, you perform, sorry, say tricks, but it's like the moves that you make. you get more points or does even with object dropped in suit or you know, it still means you could to get ahead of the unit like clean the ones that you perform telling the kid us continue now with our in depth coverage of the

story of martin gods felt he's currently serving a prison sentence in america, a hacking a hospital. he says he did that to draw attention to a custody battle between the facility and the parents of a child being kept without the consent. mister got so recently turn to us after he was denied telephone access to his lawyers. me. this ticket sales wife says communication with his law was cut off shortly after he wrote an article that was published on our team website in that p. c. describe cases of mistreatment of the prison where is being held. the authorities say lack of calls was simply down to changes in that coven policy. we discussed the case with barret brown, a journalist, an activist who was himself imprisoned in connection with the data leak. and also we spoke with dana got stopped, they read all his mail. so they had a heads up on what was coming. they shouldn't, it's legal privilege mail,

but i guess i guess they were aware he has multiple attorneys who are trying to get in touch with him for meetings about strategic matters. he answered an appeal and they're like just and other stuff in court and they just can't reach him. they're telling him that they, catherine fear, vault is that bureau of prisons lawyer. and it's telling them that she can only let him speak to them if they have upcoming court deadlines. where she's not applying that requirement to any of the other. it's laurie himself over throughout the entire he was imprisonment, has been retaliated against 4 other articles. he's written or lawsuits. he has filed against the system against the visual wardens and so forth. nothing done for years. and the feds myself, the prison, the u. s. for my activism and having written, calling from prison, i've been in prison where there was no wall over. i've been in prisons where,

you know, i was, i was pulled off the phone. what was going to interview the interview and put in the show for doing that interview and then release after investigation here, 2 weeks later, i was re arrested on the field. these orders in 2017 forgetting interview advice after i got out of prison. no one has been involved in activism should be tried in the u. s. nor gosh, where there is. it just did that. the record of the us saw it on this is just a mentally vile 7 years ago martin got felt hack. the computer serve as a boston children's hospital. he said his actions were aimed at exposing a month's long custody battle between the facility and the parents of 15 year old justina paulette here to students mother and father ben disputing her diagnosis by doctors who changed it from a red blood disorder to a mental condition and forcibly separated the teenage girl from her family. justina was eventually reunited, where the parents after a public outcry, but mr. goats felt was arrested. he's now serving a 10 year term at

a so named community management unit. those units were created as part of the war on terror. they would by the meters, a little guantanamo most all communications, the outside world monitored, unrestricted, typically nights include terrorists, those link to piracy, a mafia members, martin got felt why claims his placement there is staggering. the excessive and highlighted issues her husband had with the judge, hearing the case. i think that's what really set him off. was it marty? expose his conflicts of interest in the case. judge. nathaniel gordon donate to the adoption agency that often partners and has received donations from boston childrens hospital. it's likely the agency that they would have used to get just adopted into another family. remember, they took the custody away from justina. parents made her aware of the state, and then the next step is to get her adopted into another family. the government

wanted to use the we're, we're a terrorist in the judge said, no, we did try to nathaniel gordon who hates marty. said you can't use that word, that's not what this was. but after trial, they put him in a unit for terrorists. it makes no sense even the previous prison correctional officers recognize that this is a political case. i think that's why he's in the c. m. u, we have contacted both the judge on the adoption center for comment. we also asked leading rights organizations both in the us and will live there, take on the case the european court of human rights and human rights watch. so as they can comment on the issue, the cases raise public concerns about the proportionality of us side below is not for the 1st time with all that his art is daniel hawkins. goss fells wasn't on the 1st case headlines, so the computer fraud and abuse act came into 4th out on the schwartz, the activist and harvard research fellow was charged under the cna with numerous

violations at 1st facing up to 35 years in jail for downloading and releasing academic journals to make them available to all the case, drove him to suicide journalists, matthew keys spent 2 years in prison for providing login detail us to a news website that resulted in the crime of a headline being altered, go through actions also had consequences, though his intentions may have been good and the resulting damage arguably minimal . this crime, he was jailed alongside the very worst and the penal system among them both convicted of involvement with terrorism, piracy, and matthew membership. his unit is commonly called guantanamo north, which gives you some idea of life inside. the communications management unit is established to house inmates who due to their current defense of conviction, fence conduct or other verified information, require increased monitoring of communications with persons in the community to

protect the safety, security, and orderly operation of bureau facilities and protect the public golf felt as complained of being placed in solitary confinement just for voice and concerns about the treatment of inmates among those failings in the hands of code cases, which have led to prison a death. he also accuses prison, staff of punitive measures blocking his communication with lawyers and media. i was a journalist in prison for, for 13 years, for many years in washington state. i was routinely retaliated against and punished for being critical of prison officials on some respect. i think that probably goes with the territory and is the norm. i think, in general, bureaucrats was pretty much total unchecked. power. tend to not view favorably, those who question the power and any abuses of that power. so i would say it was

certainly would surprise me if he weren't needing retaliated by prison officials, gospel case will continue to draw attention and discussion. do ends justify means should activists acting on good intentions and altruism be treated equally with korea criminals? how many broken lives? does it take the reform obsolete laws? and how much difference can the actions of one person on a mission really make the harm? should be proportionate to the sentence, not the potential harm. and increasingly, what we see, certainly in the us justice system, is this kind of trend of symbolic convictions and symbolic sentences, whereby the politicization of the justice system and the what used to be due process is become increasingly clear sized. and i think we can see that in so many different cases, especially with the area of cyber crime or hacking,

it seems that i think maybe this just really speaks to the ability of hackers or hacked of ists to threaten the power structure which has become increasingly dependent on digital networks, we only have to look really at the julian hassan case as, as the sort of top level. sort of case in this area. he is absolutely a political prisoner, and it's not so much about what he did. it's about what he represents and the ability of an organization to get around the powers of the state. huge privacy concerns abound over our pulse plans to start scanning us. i phones for child abuse. pictures that follows use of pressure from success of american governments demanding increased surveillance of encrypted data. additionally, new safety protection tools will warn children and parents when

a sexually explicit photographs are sent or received. apple will automatically scan for child abuse related material even before it's uploaded to the cloud storage service. and if case to confirm the uses account will be deactivated. and the national center for missing and exploited children will be notified. whistleblower edward snowden way didn't on the issue condemning the tech. john's new policy. unbelievable apple now circulating a propaganda letter describing the internet white opposition to the decision. to start checking the private files on every iphone against a secret government blacklist as the screeching voices of the minority. this has become a scandal. to say that we are disappointed by apples plans is an understatement. apples compromise on end to end encryption, may piece government agencies in the u. s. and broad. but as a shocking about face for users who rely on the company's leadership and privacy and security. we discussed the she on is why the ramifications with our guests.

what kind of algorithm are they going to use? that is able to scan billions of images and then segregated something that is not let's say a bare skin rug photo or some form of except i don't know what except the nudity is . but something that is innocent, something that is not in any way nefarious. how is it going to be able to determine what is and isn't appropriate? they'll be looking for, according to reports, i've seen no already classified and abuse images and which is like and that database and how those algorithms are used for searching computers. this season, like apple is refused to open the front back door to the encryption following cases of, of terrorism, thus murder rapes, kidnapping. what happened suddenly with this particular cause?

yes, it is a good causing and important cause that makes a pull, you know, just go completely the other way in a think the answer is, is they are police probably exploiting the subject of child exploitation in order to enroll something that it's phil. this is the only way page to sugar coated. few think you will have some kind of privacy interest in this. if you think that this photo and your cloud belongs to you, and you can tell the company that you've contract it, either through their hardware or whatever that to, to back off it stay out of your business. i mean, are we, are we serious? do we really think this even remotely as possible for us to tell big tech to back off, leave us alone, stay out of fairs, it's already done. it's are the fact that they're even saying that they, they don't even have to tell us they're doing this. we know it,

there are billions of users around the world. the vast majority have not got any child sexual abuse imagery, and so they don't need to worry about that. old damage is going to be scan. where are they going to go next? well they don't to look for. ready the trigger was the things or the images of all the things. where are they going to draw a line in this pole is becoming a defacto agency of the government. even though they say we're not going to hand over information to the police. the 1st the will, but in any event they will be sharing the information with other government agencies. so, so then now becoming an agent of the state. so it's a come tell you about what's happening in the french capital y 4 consecutive weeks of protest venting their anger. funds do require covey health passes for access to more public places will bring you that plenty more.

i so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk this is your media a reflection of reality? the in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? tyson lation community. are you going the right way or are you being

direct? what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted. you need to this end. ah. so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows ah, in the welcome back. take a look at the screen, then you can see demonstrations his surprise in paris and they are against the plans this time to require cove. it help passes more public places, including bars, restaurants, and long distance transportation. numerous trade unions including medical groups, rallying their members against the may. because for some trade union groups, it's going to be compulsory vaccinations. earlier in the week, the average joe was out on the streets of the friends capital voicing anger. after

the country's constitutional council ruled, the government's movies were legal. let's get more on this now from all correspondence to securely in paris for his pizza. oliver. the constitutional counsel on thursday ruled that the changes to the rules that the french fall lamented pushed through last month were within the realm of the french constitution . what that means is that a health path, a passive, basically operates as a q r code that shows if you've been vaccinated against cobra, 1900, which vaccination you've had. it also logs any time. you have 4 covert 19 that must be shown. if you in any restaurant cafe, we're looking at things like long distance trains even some medical fences as well . all ready before that ruling on thursday. you have to show you how to view. we're going to go into a cinema or a theater abuse. any cultural venue that held more than 50 people, but the french government, expanding the use of those health passes and not,

and get a group of people. it is worth mentioning, that over half of the french population actually support the use of the health profit. but the great behind me, you can see streaming, so your central powers right now, this is one of 3 protests going on on saturday for people who are not happy about this in the light. that in fact, the manual, my quote has been accused of setting up a, a health dictatorship by some have gone as far as to say things like, not about them, it's worth while pointing out that there's a, quite a few 1000 people behind me. it has all being very peaceful slave for a brief moment. the confusion of the police insisted that the march that's going from one of the wealthiest areas in paris to the center of town if they had to get off the main road and force them down the small street. you can see it just behind me that really funneling everybody into a muscle that can causing as you would imagine at a few put bit of pushing and shoving, but nothing like the, the type of violence we have seen in the past, from some of these demonstrations this is the 4th week of people being out on the

streets of france, upset about the health i'll be keeping an eye on all of those bringing you any development throughout the year. on off the the parents of brain damage 2 year old toddler lost their appeal to the open code of human rights and trying to stop at the hospital withdrawing life support treatment for the little girl. the lawyer spoke to us. they parents would want to be in this position and they competed by their family, that community and they are keeping this parish office as best they can a bit. it is obviously a very tricky situation. her condition has been stable for 2 years. now. we know that taking her by a transport will not be a detriment to her what we have peace at the hospital will agree that little to

can be transferred to, to israel, to a hospital all for hi repeat to a willing to look after the parents of our to fix, let, who are sitting, jews say, withdrawing her life support goes against their religious faith. they want to take care of this israel or the united states for assessment and possible treatment. you can hospital though, says she has no chance of recovery, and such a journey would only bring her further pain. the family's lawyer again outlined his thoughts about the judge's ruling. when you take the case to the european court, you're actively taking the case against the government because you are saying that the processes that we used were wrong and should have been should have been better. they weren't properly applied. and so the position in a case like this is one where very often cases to the european court of human

rights successful. so it was one where you're asking the court to look at processes and procedures. and it's, it's easier in a way for the european court of human rights to say, well, actually we don't, we don't crime. this is a problem than actually getting into the many of the case and investigation into the conduct of new york govern andrew cuomo is throwing to a close. he's accused of sexual harassment and the miss handling of the cove christ is in nursing homes. has been given an august 13th deadline to provide any additional material in his defense after which the investigative committee will decide if he's to be impeached. his other democrats, even president barton himself, of course for his resignation, governor andrew cuomo, sexually harass multiple women, and in doing so violated federal and state law. i never touched any one

inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. most important thing right now is for the governor to resign. he should resign the people of new york. is there a better leadership in the governor's office? we continue to believe that the governor should resign. on tuesday, the new york state attorney general public details alleging coma had committed assaults against 11 women, including cases of wanted touching, kissing, inappropriate comments. the actions are considered a violation of both state and federal law. this currently no criminal investigation plant. giacomo denies all allegations. early this year the attorney general found the coma administration had quotes, attempted to hide the covert mortality, right in nursing homes. thousands of deaths have been under reported. it led to public outcry, but again, there's been no legal consequences for the governor. so far we'll discuss issue

with the daughter of a man who died in a nursing home at the heis because the prices and she's calling for lawmakers to hold quiver responsible. 15000 people died and everybody just cares about governor cuomo, due process. governor cuomo didn't afford my father and 15000 innocent people do processed when he signed their death warrants and sentenced them to death in nursing homes. governor cuomo shows a deprived indifference for life. it doesn't matter if it's a young girl that works in his office, or if it's an elderly person and we need to hold him accountable for all of his crimes. i put that out there to our lawmakers, to please mention over 15000 people who have no voice. somebody needs to stand up for them and be their voice. and i do believe we're going to see that in is, is his impeachment trial. ok,

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