ah, ah ah, the cia whistleblowers convicted of the biggest leak of classified information in history, shutting lights on the agencies international smartphone hacking software. also coming up on the program, i shall anchors president, resigned from his post following huge public pressure that says, the country declared a state of emergency with a nationwide curfew in place. much to the continued anger of protesters in the done yet group public a kindergarten thinks a direct hit from ukrainian shelling while another missiles strike kills 2

civilians and jo biden's trips. israel kicks off with the gulf with the u. s. president mistakenly honoring the holocaust. we see if his visits will help a late tensions in the region with moscow to the world. this is our t international. my name is peter scott with the top stories early this thursday morning. welcome to the program. former cia program. a joshua schultz was found guilty in what's claim to be the biggest leak of classified ca, documents in history. that's after he disclosed information about agencies. software used to have smartphones on spinal people worldwide. when schulty began to harbor resentment toward the c, i. a he covers collected those tools and provided them to wiki leaks, making some of our most critical intelligence tools known to the public and

therefore our adversaries. schulty has been convicted for one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in american history. as cos live, now to our correspondence, caleb, more pin with the latest on the case. caleb, what details can you share with us about this course? decision? sure. so we have joshua sholtes, i and he was tried in federal court and this was a re trial. the 1st time he face these a charges of making this information available, etc. he was only convicted on 2 charges, and the jury remain hung over the remaining 6. that was 6 months ago. this was his re trial and add his re trial. joshua y'all has been convicted on all count, buying to the f. b, i leaking classified information, it's cetera. so he's been convicted on all counts. the jury came back. he is found completely guilty. and at this point he's awaiting sentencing. he'll be sentenced

by a judge after this conviction. essentially, he's charged with releasing wiki leaks, bolts 7, which was the biggest intelligence leak in history. the most information ever made public from the u. s. c. i a made public as a result of leakers. now, he told the jury in his closing argument that he was a scape goat. that the c i a and f b. i was actually scapegoating him. he was not the one responsible for these leaks . that was his argument. the jury did not buy it and they convicted him. now this is important to put in the context of doing a staunch doing this on has been greenlighted for extra addition to the united states, where he leaves us who published both 7 so that we looked at 2 wiki leaks, join assad. and in addition to that, it's important to know that he's not the 1st person you have been convicted on charges like this. you know, chelsea manning spent 7 years in prison for leaking classified information before ultimately getting present, commuted by brock obama. now it's not too shocking now that he was convicted

because the conviction rate in us federal courts is roughly 95 percent 95 percent of those who go to trial and us federal courts are convicted. however, most cases before us, federal courts don't go to trial, most take a plea, bargain, etc. so the fact there is a 95 present conviction, right? of those who go to federal court trial in the united states indicates today's verdict isn't particularly shocking. will be waiting to see what his status is. he's been convicted of lying to the f. b. i leaking classified information. he is charged and convicted of being the leaker of with you leaks, volts, and sounds like you might be facing quite a hefty sentence. ortiz correspondence kellum open, thanks for being the latest. on the conviction of joshua schultz. well, to discuss the issue, we can also go live now to independent journalist joe loria. joe, welcome to the program that says, what was your reaction to shields being convicted on? all counts, we're expecting

a different results. unfortunately not as your correspond is pointed out, there's a high conviction specially on an espionage case like this. now show was in fact one of a group of former c i a officials i had access to these materials that's according to wiki leeks. and in fact the materials according to sheldon, who represent himself, these materials were out and about for a year before the shy even knew that they were that they were loose, that they didn't loss control of them. and we have to also point out that even those convicted for revealing classified information best majority of this material was unclassified. because the ca does not allow their agents to put classified materials onto the internet which is required to do in this case, whatever. whoever is guilty i'm the jury said he is, he says he's not. he's a hero because he revealed crimes committed by the united states by the cia and that is, or by elation of the 4th amendment because they turned to samsung telephone televisions,

for example, into microphones. with a fake off the system where the user will bring their tv off and it's actually on and they can listen in on conversations. they got to backdoors. i phones, android phones. in fact, this led to most of the big tech companies making changes to their software to close these back doors when they would not have known about that went out this week . so that the user of these phones at least initially were more secure because of the revelations of this information. it also led palm, peo, in my opinion as the head of the cia to really want revenge on julian sanchez, simply published has nothing to do with their release. and fact, julian was not charged because of this. he's only charged releases in 2010, and dennison and iraq. however, she discussed actually killing him, poisoning him, kidnapping him from the equity embassy in london. i think in response very much,

it was 70. she was absolutely furious, but they themselves had lost control of this material. premier biggest revelation and this also is marble framework, a system whereby essentially see i can train someone else for a hacker or a cyber attack. like changing the language on the metadata to 5 languages. including farsi, arabic and russian. funny enough so that they could blame hackers from those countries even if it was somebody else who did it. so it was an enormously important release and demanded a service, and he's being punished and you believe that the leak this information outweighs the possible risk to the country's security caused by that leak? absolutely, because we can, it's made very carefully a capital decision not to release any of the codes involved in this. so they didn't put the tools out there. so by reading this material on rekey leaks is released of

all 7. you can use this software to rack somebody, so they protected all the information. what they did was the public interest to let the public know that she was doing these kinds of things. so there was no national security risk whatsoever. not just hogwash from the government. typical, were you surprised by the swing? the new original trial was deadlocked on the counts pertaining to the staffed and transmission of the secret documents. how is that your domestic shift possible from been deadlocked to being convicted on old towns? but no jury was a new trial, maybe the government all to this. and i can't say that i followed this case day to day. so i don't know what the government strategy is, but they argued that he was acting out of revenge big because the he felt disrespected by the c. i a and he had left the agency and that he was trying to just hurt the agency. and apparently that was convincing, and he represented himself, even though the trial judge commended him for such

a good that he did and said that you may have a future as a lawyer even i was going to be in jail. i maybe better for you actually had real lawyers representing him. that might be one reason why he lost and he does is very unusual. a favor got to leave it. the independent journalist, jo laura, thank you very much for taking the conviction of joshua. quite welcome. thank you. now to the latest from the don bass, russian air defense systems have reportedly shot down a number of aerial targets launched by the ukranian army of the look guns and here on visions. now these are the latest pictures captured by eye witnesses in lou ganske. no damage was reported after the incident. while in the hassan region, 5 ukrainian rockets were reportedly shot down with some debris falling on the local factory. this comes 2 days after a ukrainian strike that caused a huge explosion, leaving 7 people dead. meanwhile, on wednesday, the city of god lapka in the done yes,

republic was also shelled by ukraine. according to local authorities. a kindergarten took a direct hit. officials say around 20 strikes from multiple rocket launchers were launched at the city. 2 civilians were killed while a number of residential buildings were partly destroyed, and a local and local infrastructure damaged ortiz roman costa reports. 35 people have been killed and 179 had been wounded here in coral of guys since the end of february. one of the latest tragic events took place are right here. this is a residential area. this is a grad rocket or what? what remains of it is pretty heavy. 122 millimeter rocket landed right here, right next to those shops. there is it is pretty heavy. all around me are residential buildings. there is a local community center right here. you can see kids are all around us. on

the 12th of july, one man died right here just outside of the shop, and several people had been wounded. now one of those wounded people who works near his name is aladdin. mir. and i visited him at the hospital here in goal of co. and this is what he told me about what happened there as a whole person was unions. i just stopped by at the store to buy a pizza. and then the showing began a. so if we hit in the store and were after 15 minutes, the shelling stopped and we went out to the street, he's under them and then immediately there was an explosion. look, there wasn't any sound before it happened. usually there is a whistle because i was with a colleague, he was in front of me to line he died immediately. looks like he covered me, receiving my life. this house or what remains. all that belongs to luke milan and constantino she is currently in the hospital with

a very heavy injuries had resulted from shelling by the cranium military. this is her. this used to be her bedroom. she told me that sir. it was about 8 o'clock in the morning when he crating a rocket hit her house and completely destroyed it. now you'd, mila is an elderly lady. and she was meant to spend her golden years taken care of her garden and meeting with her family and grandchildren. now she lives in the hospital and she has absolutely nowhere to get back to her. but i know what to believe. just yet the shelling was like cluster munitions. everything was torn apart. the shell flew and burst into fragments. well, now i'm here. thank you for the help i get medicine and care that before that they were shelling a lot. a lot of houses were damaged near my home,

and my house was completely destroyed. while we were filming the houses of the victims that were injured by ukrainian shelling artillery thrice began, yet again here in goal of course. so we have to leave this area as soon as possible and move deeper into the next people's republic territory from on call for a party girl of the nest people's republic shall anchors. the president has officially stepped down, though that doesn't seem to have stopped the must unrest in the country despite the nationwide curfew. earlier, protest is angered at worsening economic and social conditions broke into the prime minister's office. he was appointed as acting president on tuesday, but demonstrates his are demanding that he's done down as well. o elise used water cannon and say a gus against the processes boats were unable to stop them taking over renella we

chrome isinga's office. at least 30 people were injured in the cautious a local journalist center. this report the situation and sri lanka is going from bad to worse to think of who does a complete sense of chaos and anarchy. tens of thousands of people are out and about on the streets of colombo, despite a state of emergency being declared. and a go few imposed after president goes by roger baksha fled prime minister donald wickham, a cindy, has been made the acting president. but that has not helped matters. she lincolns want both the prime minister as what does the president do resign immediately? security forces use tear gas and water cannons at the protest us earlier, but that did not stop them from breaking through the gates on flooding. the prime minister's office, taking all the prime minister's office to be honest,

malec act all filling the gap between the select reach. i don't want to list everybody else in the county. strangely, door does a sense of order in this disorder. men, women, children, all take turns to see a quick look at the prime in the sales office from the inside. these 2 have emotional undertones of anger, betrayal, but old. so if you look at the history on the appreciated from all, what did you believe is there actually to mom we have 225 employees that do not represent that me modest people. so the go to protest, or john authority on the people's movement has just gotten to this point because a representatives have fail to sand failed to do right by the people live in the state of a people that are taking mca meeting and stop. because we, we need. c jesse,

we don't stop. 7 this is not only for and said it's for the next generation who is coming up and you can see how, how long we are suffering, feel, and gas, and they know all deleted everything is down our age. so even some people are losing their job income. but within the company, i think it's lucky enough hate everything is going high, the price is a solution. the clock is ticking while we are with the feet of the current government and the future direction of the entire country. through engine shy, my reporting for artie in colombo, the island nation's parliament. speakers confirmed the president's got to by roger pasco, who's fled to the mold eaves has now officially resigned. while arching president's wick, remiss singer has announced the creation of a special committee to restore law and order in the country. and that includes military and police commanders. a local journalist followed protesters in the outset leaders, abandon residents. i'm here in front of the president's house in columbus for

a lanka, as you can see behind me tense and thousands of people are still eagerly awaiting to walk into the presidential palace and to see what is the inside and what sort of a bill and that was captured by the british does on the 9th of july. and this particular human lane is currently managed by the members of the organizations that carried out the huge mass rally. the protest that was unveiled on the 9th of july, but still received the presence of the security personnel as well providing the necessary security. and this was the official residents of the president bought our bed, our departure, who volved to step down from his position as the president. there was a meeting among the members of the representative bodies that organized the early on the 9th of july. and the particular fog li does at the apartment complex, which was organized by the speaker. so the protest, the organizers have refused to take part in that particular meeting,

saying that david have their own action plan for the future road map yet in sri lanka. so this is to push on mos reported to you in front of the presidential palace in colombo, st lanka. joe biden has arrived in israel at the start of the 4 dates full of the middle east, but the us presence trip however, didn't get off to the best of stars. i will once more return a holla, round of yod shavanne, the gem doner 6000000 jewish lives were stolen to the genocide and continue which we must through every every day continue to bear witness to keep alive the truth. and. * honor of the holocaust hardball holler, god honor, those were laws will make a mistake of joe biden has been picked up yet. ivy is way him palestinian crace of co side and has made mistakes in the past. he once mixed up sweden and switzerland

. if you remember before that it was south korea and once he got syria and libya confused. so that is something that has the social commentators talking about here tonight. at the same time, biden is going to receive a rather reluctant, and i would go as far as to say, a rather angry response on the palestinian st. they've all been as in pack cause and have been placed particularly in cities like bethlehem. way he will be meeting with the palestinian president of math. what about in the coming days and those play called say, mr. president, this is a parties. it is in line with the recent publication by a palestinian christian organization who conducted an investigation and reached the conclusion. that is wally actions can be classified as a poll taste at the same time. many people here are waiting for a potentially different response from washington. regarding the recent killing of a high profile, al jazeera journalists, sharina apple case doki,

her family ones on says and palestinian officials and palestinian civilians themselves have said that the u. s. is response and that the soldiers actions were to quote unintentional, is simply white washing the crimes conducted by israel. as for these rainy side, we have heard from the temporary israeli prime minister, yet yellow pit. and he has said that you is the number one topic on the agenda. there has been criticism against this with many people saying that joe biden is in the region to store up some kind of alliance against he ran. and that, that is his primary focus of this put than sofi. the iranian president has commented on it. if the goal of the u. s. officials trip to the region is to consolidate the security of israel and normalized israel's relations with regional countries. we are declaring vigorously that their actions would not bring security for israel, and by no means are they peace providers for israel. now biting in the past has

also said that he is looking towards some kind of middle east and nato. this has not gone down well here, particularly with many people pointing fingers as how be common to nato has contributed to the conflict in ukraine. so anger and frustration on the palestinian speak. we are placing ourselves for demonstrations. they have in the coming days. and i would say here in telephone, where i am, although these radio officials will signal to my things and they all speak line with american lady flag talking his way these days, almost a kind of lack luster moved amongst people here. no one really believes that this visit by joe biden, the 1st that he's making as president of the united states, is going to yield anything. us treasury department has approved a new humanitarian aid package with $1700000000.00 for ukraine, which aims to support the countries essential services. however,

recently the defense department who spoke to general released a paper defining the main areas of concerning the agencies framework of sending atf . we identified multiple areas of concern that if not adequately addressed, could reduce the traceability of ukraine. supplemental funds. and the transparency in the dogs reporting as the dod continues to provide support to ukraine, particularly with the $20.00. $1000000000.00 the dod will receive of the $40000000000.00 provided, addressing these areas of concern will be critical for improve transparency in reporting the use of appropriated funds of the you announced a new $1000000000.00 euro aid package for key of the total amount of support from the block now exceeds $2000000000.00 euros. according to statistics though, the united states is the world leader in all types of assistance, including lethal aid to ukraine. sons of billions in financial aid was approved by the us congress in may. we had psalms, have raised a wave of concern from politicians in the country who are calling for better

oversights of the aid america sending to ukraine. we cannot save ukraine by dooming the u. s. economy. americans are feeling the pain. and congress seems intent only on adding to that pain by shoveling more money out the door as fast as they can. president biden has to stop playing politics. president lansky has to stop playing politics and theater. congress has to establish proper oversight of critical infrastructure and delivery of weapons and aid. congress must also fulfill its role as a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars, which this bill seeks to ensure. american taxpayers deserve to know that their money is helping ukraine be back. russia effectively and congress needs to guarantee that oversight over western humanitarian aids, ukraine does not always appear to reach as goals. cases of the legal cells on line are becoming more frequent in the country and local media sites, corruption and ineffective control over how 80 spends is one of the main reasons behind it. the following footage show searches during which police officers exposed

another instance of the sale of western humanitarian aid. the suspects sold food that was intended as a for the worst effects ukrainian people. as a result of such cases, ukrainian volunteers continued to collect money from ordinary citizens for the basic needs of the ukranian army, and that despite western multi $1000000000.00 assistance to discuss this issue, let's cross live now to foremost ca, analyst, and theo of burg. associated larry johnson. larry, welcome to the program. hi peter. hi. is this not just the nature of war? you send lethal aid monitor in a to a country and it's impossible to keep track of every and lord java, lin, whatever you want to call it. well, when, when you said the aid, whether it's military or economic, there's the underlying assumption that you have an organization at the other end that is both competent and capable of managing that. and on both of those fronts,

both on the economic and the military. ukraine is incompetent. there's a reason they call organized crime organized, and ukraine has a very strong organized criminal element. they've been operating for years, and there are certainly taking advantage of this right now. so this is going to play out against the backdrop. but me today the united states announced no almost a 10 percent rate of inflation. and that's going to get worse here. and so as the economic part, problems here, pile law, the willingness of the american people to continue to shell out this money to the ukrainians is basically going down a black hole. there is no accountability. and the, in fact, somebody, when you look at the weapon systems, the weapon systems were sending, they don't have the soldiers to actually use them. so they're, we're really,

and we're throwing good money after bad. and i think at some point, that reality will awaken here, amongst the american people and dad, flo will be cut off. so what do you recommend timeline for that could possibly be, i mean, how sustainable is this for the u. s. and it's allies to keep pumping in this age ukraine. other they can probably keep it up for another couple of months. i think by the end of, by the middle to end of september, it will become very apparent that ukraine is incompetent to handle this aid. and yet ukraine absolutely must have money flowing in from europe and from the united states just can conduct daily operations. there. the economy is in shambles. and part because of the war with respect to the weapon systems coming in . you know, you have not seen in the 5 months since february 24th, the ukrainians,

mount and effective off fence attack against russian positions push russians out of those positions and then hold those positions. just the opposite. you've seen a continued retreat of ukrainians now were told at the outset, ukraine had 600000 troops, russia only 200000. that's just the opposite of what conventional military wisdom recommends that the attacking force should have a 3 to one advantage. so all of a sudden what we're seeing is that this david army going up against the, the david army in the russians going up against the goliath of the ukrainians. it's the david's, the key to hit them in the head with a rock and knocking them over. so they pulled out all this. and now it looks like the, the russian troops have hit the edge of diversity. and so all of this adds up that ukraine, despite all of this aid, is not making effective use of it. and it's certainly not changing the course of

the war either economically or militarily. given the deep economic crisis is looming large across the world. and as you say, the debatable of this aid in ukraine, do you think we'd like to see a shift in policy towards this war? obviously refers the most sanctioned country in the world. now those sanctions also having to debate total effect. do you think these countries are going to shift their policy towards or double down and keep going the way they're going? i don't think they can continue to double down. so just for example, here in the united states, the housing market has done a dramatic turn around companies that make loans to people that want mortgages. they're laying off people. i think the number i last saw was approaching 50000 people have been laid off. that's not just occurring in the united states that's occurring in canada that's occurring in europe. you can look at the, you know, the piece you did on sri lanka. let's call that preview of coming attractions in

europe. and possibly the united states. because when the economic situation turns south and turns south in a very dramatic way, the people's willingness to put up with sending money overseas for a war that they really have no vested interest and will rapidly dry up. i think we'll have to wait to see how long that lisa laid is pumped into ukraine for on the the out for the fall out of its former analyst theo of burg associates. laurie johnson, thanks very much for inside today. thank you. peter was the late this well news. hello. nazi. my name is peter scott. and i'll be back again at the top of the hour . but feel free to head over to our social media pages on web site for more news and videos in the meantime. the

aah! ukraine, a big and rich country that always be hand in hand with russia. until recently. 2014, a qu divides ukraine and leads to fratricidal war and on a war that continues to visit on the edge of a large field near lo, ganske, the mass grave. local say that the people buried here are mostly civilians who are allegedly killed by ukrainian param.