first now when i think of the n.s.a. surveillance this year i think of the n.s.a. as more piggybacking off of private sector companies collection of data rather than actually collecting data itself now you call it a public private surveillance partnership there so how much of what the n.s.a. does is about using american companies database for the n.s.a.'s own purposes. the n.s.a. does both they certainly do a lot of collecting of data. through stu subterfuge by tapping undersea cables by going into hostile countries and collecting microwave links but they also get a lot through alliances both the n.s.a. in the us g c h q in the u.k. and partners all through europe are collecting data with the cooperation of telcos of service providers that are provided that are providing that data for people around the world as data moves across the internet there's a lot more use of alliances to get that data and yes there is a very strong partnership between the n.s.a. and companies really around the world now that you've thought of the internet as a surveillance state because we

and we're back with n.s.a. whistleblowers bill benny and kirk wiebe the current want to start with you when obama took office he was briefed on the programs he decided to go forward with them why do you think he did this given the fact that he ran his presidency on a platform of transparency and strict constitutional hearings. i think it's the result of what i call techno speak when i say talks about what it does it tends to put it in somewhat difficult abstract terms it also uses words to to seat so for example being a sale say we're not doing such and such under this program. but what program are they doing so these are correct statements in front of congress but they're meant to mislead. to be deceptive so i'm not sure that that obama ever understood or fathom really what was going on you're never sure that anybody does congress swears that they get briefings all the time but still don't understand what will certainly didn't look like bush. and i find it hard to believe that obama a constitutional lawyer yea

and more has been unveiled about n.s.a. surveillance a new report shows that the n.s.a. intercepted more data from ordinary people than it did from targeted foreigners and more on that later in the show. it's monday july seventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america. we begin tonight with new developments in syria the pentagon says the destruction of chemical weapons from syria began today on the u.s. cargo carrier m.v. cape ray last month syria handed over one thousand three hundred tons of chemical weapons to western powers which it ignored possessing completing the deal reached last fall that would prevent any u.s. military action in the region the u.s. military predicts it will take roughly sixty days to destroy approximately six hundred metric tons of material moving over to the ukraine crisis the cease fire has come to an end and ukrainian president petro poroshenko has ordered troops to end the rebellion by force as troops emerged at the russian border and influx of families fleeing the violence in the town of kramatorsk are spil

and more has been unveiled about n.s.a. surveillance a new report shows that the n.s.a. intercepts data from ordinary people more then they're targeted foreigners more on that later in the show. it's monday july seventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm a military and you're watching r t america. if you thought the long lines at t.s.a. gate screenings weren't slow enough be prepared a new rule will allow t.s.a. officers to force travelers at airports with direct routes to the u.s. to power on their mobile and other electronic devices when going through the screening process travelers who cannot how are on their devices will not be allowed to bring them on board the aircraft this is all in response to intelligence reports that al qaeda operatives in syria and yemen may have developed more sophisticated methods of hiding explosives in mobile phones the t.s.a. has particularly highlighted the apple i phone and the samsung galaxy the t.s.a. has not said however that it plans what they plan to do if a passenger can't turn their cell phones or electronics on or what a traveler mu

database because the n.s.a. and d o d is responsible for communications that's that's an e-mail ok so they're and they're they've got all these nearest devices around the network collecting all this e-mail so they're going into the base they're creating interrogating all of this material to get criminal activity yeah i mean as i read snowden has said repeatedly this is about the potential for retroactive prosecution kind of building this whole that framework that's exactly what they're doing exactly right we're going to take a break now and we'll be back with the two n.s.a. whistleblowers you got to stick around. somebody so the people in kiev's independence square would not terrorists and the people of done boss they all the terrorists also just because we don't agree with what kiev is trying to impose on us and stand by our role the conviction of a civilian component i was. seven years old it's one of the largest ten cities on the east coast of america and it's got about one hundred people here just because of

database because the n.s.a. and the it's responsible for communications that's that's ok so they're and they're they've got all these nearest devices around the network collecting all this e-mail so they're going into the base they're creating interrogating all of this material to get criminal activity you know i mean as i read snowden has said repeatedly this is about the potential for retroactive prosecution kind of building this whole that framework that's exactly what they're doing exactly right we're going to take a break now and we'll be back to n.s.a. whistleblowers you guys stick around. do you want me i want you to. comedy news with some key points of comedy news for the news to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dead. because truth vampire fighting into the necks of the corporate elite billionaire freaks while they're going. out so that's what you get with my new show redacted tonight. this was on the washington well it's a mess that is being suggested add to the list. is a. candidate prophe

the n.s.a. is destroyed and shut down completely bass surveillance is not covered by the fourth amendment of the constitution you have to have a specific warrant against a specific cause. and it does it's just not supported so it's encouraging to see the supreme court holding up the fourth amendment but we need to see a lot more cases come forward before the n.s.a. start to see any real impact on that. it was pretty relevant and very conversational at the big stories of the day talking of which the off the breakdown a bully could say it's not discussing ukraine this crisis with the european commission of knowledge when will depart coming up very shortly. yes it's official the mainstream media must be made up of stereotypical gossipy teenage girls i mean how else can you explain the fact that michelle obama using the term chipped has become a scandal i don't white house summit on working families mrs obama explained that when she was working part time she realized she was getting chipped because

in my opinion the n.s.a. as a grew up the agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already sunk there have been two attempts by the u.s. congress to try and defund the n.s.a. both which of failed my opinion is the u.s. congress is more interested in being paranoid and aggressive than taking care of americans need so i don't have a lot of optimism that much is going to change at all. i say is destroyed and shut down completely bass surveillance is not covered by the fourth amendment of the constitution you have to have a specific warrant against a specific cause. and it does it's just not supported so it's encouraging to see the supreme court holding up the fourth amendment but we need to see a lot more cases come forward before the n.s.a. start to see any real impact on that. series of bomb blasts have gone off in cairo one of them killing at least two people some of the m

the n.s.a. is destroyed and shut down completely bass surveillance is not covered by the fourth amendment of the constitution you have to have a specific warrant against a specific cause. and it does it's just not supported so it's encouraging to see the supreme court holding up the fourth amendment but we need to see a lot more cases come forward before the n.s.a. start to see any real impact on that. a series of bomb blasts in cairo skilled at least two people on the day marking a year now since the military coup that led to some of the worst bloodshed in decades ahead of the anniversary calls for a day of rage from supporters of the former leadership resulted in several arrests egypt's got a long history of military leaders pretty decisive hosni mubarak was named he ruled the country for three decades following the country's arab spring was elected he was a military man but the revolutions hopes of democracy were quickly desh by that military coup and so once again a full chief is in charge t

over the weekend the washington post broke the latest n.s.a. leak by whistleblower edward snowden this time revealing just how many ordinary people are swept up of the dragnet the surveillance corney of these select documents for every one and tended surveillance target nine so-called incidental or inadvertent targets are caught up in the spying net but beyond the overwhelming amount of ordinary americans being targeted for leak contain other startling revelations such as the fact the fires the courts intercepted communications were not beyond snowden's reach as government officials of claim for the last year demonstrating just how and secure these data centers really are and shockingly obama himself was catalogued over a thousand times within the documents along with other high ranking government officials making clear that there are no restrictions on how far the n.s.a. will go well earlier i spoke to kevin the stolen journalist at firedoglake and i first asked him to break down some content i was indiscriminately swept up and archived by the

the n.s.a. surveillance of us about it like in the fallen minister he's about to give a speech in parliament saying that he got some reassurances from the u.s. or something like that there are certain issues because of national security that we may not know. there may be certain instances. that need warrant some type of ever made. gathering but when it comes down to the. breaking of the privacy rules no individual or individuals so innocent individuals that's a whole different story so we need to look at that we need to consider that we need more information from our government that much should know what's going on and they ought to tell the gaming people from a time when we are in a position to make a determination that should be you know like i'm giving people and i say stickers all right give you some just to put on your phone so you know we'll get. the people of the bahamas folk to put color in school to protest fulfill say from a. deputy prime minister philip davis he said we didn't give ou

and in some places angry at the n.s.a. and decided things that the n.s.a. did were unconstitutional. the fisa court said what you're doing is unconstitutional and you need to stop, with regard to the 702 program felt it was mislead in part because the n.s.a. claimed its systems were too complex for even it to understand and fully brief the court on, which is concerning. but i mean from my perspective one of the biggest issues here, and it's been one of the issues for me for a long time, because i was involved in litigation as e.f.f., suing the n.s.a. over some of these programs when they were first revealed, i mentioned earlier the n.s.a. is kit sitting on the key internet exchange points in our own country such that they have technical access to all of those communications and then based on procedures approved by fisa court, doing some sorting to pick out what they want. we have been saying that and that's been front-page news since 2005. and yet that fact was classified until earlier this year. members of congress were never that debate or discuss basic b

n.s.a. for cash now he's currently in prison awaiting trial for that it's understood in reports in the media here that the two on linked that the arrest last week isn't directly linked to what we've seen on wednesday but it's just another example of u.s. spying taking place here in germany. revelations of the u.s. spying on one of its closest allies are now a regular fixture in the german media washington consistently says sorry but as soon caught in exactly the same thing again well earlier i spoke to an im a short on the former m i five agent turned whistleblower and she told me the u.s. wants to bring back its spying dominance during the cold war era teams that on the one hand the usa wants all the allies to work with them on this global war on terror but on. it's where they can spy on other countries and their national sovereignty with impunity they can't have it both ways so take a look at some figures you'll see that a recent poll actually showed that around half of the germans want to

although the n.s.a.has dominated the headlines when it comes to the spying on the world it's a british counterpart if you see h.q. is just as complicit in the illegal surveillance crowd but it's not just the collection and storage of private data it's also the shaping of our online experience when the recently released documents by whistleblower edward snowden and british spies are using supposed to get. tools to manipulate online content through these documents we've learned that the agency can artificially increase traffic to a website for results and even geo locate the i p's with an entire city despite the growing outrage in the u.k. over the extent of collaborative surveillance with the u. west spy agencies the british parliament is rushing through legislation that further expands its surveillance powers nearby in germany the international outrage over the n.s.a. has recently peaked as allegations surfaced implicating two german government employees in a spy operation run by u.s. intelligence in res

america well it's been a full year since former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden began leaking classified documents waking up americans and the rest of the world to the full extent of u.s. surveillance operations as a result of those revelations many people have been thinking about and looking for new ways to protect their privacy and that consumer demand may explain the new found popularity of black phone it's an encrypted smartphone that's designed to keep your conversations private the highly anticipated phone was revealed earlier this year as a joint venture between crypto service firm silent circle and spanish smartphone manufacturer geeks phone and this week the device of fish really began shipping out to customers to talk a little bit about what this phone can do i want to bring in toby we're jones c.e.o.'s. s.g.p. technologies that's the joint venture behind black phone tell me thanks for coming on nice summer nice to see you again nice to see you so we talk about a regular smartphone which is what the majority of the american pub

in my opinion the n.s.a. is a grew up the agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already suck they did have a process that those limits what n.s.a. looks at and can take in and store in its database so that you can take a look at that the storage facilities they're building you get an idea of how much they're taking in like a million square foot storage facility in bluff deal utah and other stories that they've had existing all along at fort meade as well as other facilities around the world the new york times report has revealed that the security contract is once known as blackwater threaten to kill government officials investigating the during the u.s. campaign in iraq what's more the agents could do nothing about it because of the company's power during the war facing investigate is a manager of the guns for hire company said and i quote that he could kill you agents

government in the wake of the leaks made by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden however now the mega corporation is taking its measures of control one step further by hiring police. facebook is now funding the salary of mary ferguson it eight year veteran of the menlo park police force the social network giant is putting up one hundred ninety four thousand dollars for her pay benefits and related costs for the next three years she will focus on at risk youth in the area and help businesses plan for emergencies menlo park police chief bob johnson says facebook pays the bills but that's all. yes facebook now has police on its payroll and hopes by so why are more people outraged over the extent of private sector surveillance and occupying silicon valley earlier i was joined by journalist and host of media rich radio robbie martin and i started by asking him just that. thank you i think the the most prominent reason is that most people still view these silicon valley companies as benign. public utilities really convenient you know service

documents he proved that in the n.s.a. his own words they have a one hundred percent success rate in gaining access to i.o.'s devices remotely which include i pads and i phones and they even have a code name for this called drop out sheep so i think that we just have to be really careful and trusting companies even companies like apple who still seeing you know like this really awesome company that does all these great things and i think in our lives we need to stop looking at them in that way right i mean the i tunes stuff alone is awful the way that they've monopolized music the way that they have you know this patent on a rounded edges and and the app consolidation and all of these things that is really troublesome in the fact that you cannot take your battery out of a i phone and you can hear you're going to have it turned on wherever you are track every hour that's creepy but robbie i have an i phone what do you say to people who say you're hypocritical because you use facebook and you use apple products so you can't

are two former n.s.a.employees prepared to reveal details and testify before a german parliamentary committee about n.s.a. surveillance in the country live now artie's peter all over in berlin for the latest. so peter how should we prepare for more revelations about the n.s.a. spying. well it's a very hot topic in germany we'll be waiting to see what comes out of this this pilot entry committee this poem and she inquired committee that's ongoing at the moment. basically it's emerged from the leaks that came out from edward snowden that germany was one of the most spied on most listened to countries in the world by the n.s.a. was right up there with the likes of afghanistan and iraq. no. calls huge calls for edward snowden to actually appear. at this hearing now he's being dismissed that he would get any kind of asylum he had there is a growing campaign though to get asylum to edward snowden here in germany but it's believed the fact that there's such close ties with the u.s. and german security services an

now cut to how the n.s.a. is able to do it by contrast the marriage of the n.s.a.'s technology to the internet as data hubs now allows the agency's thirty seven thousand employees a similarly close coverage of the entire globe with just one operative for every two hundred thousand people on the planet which brings me back to the interview you did with our encounter house who has a book out to try to raise the cost to try to make it more difficult like the old j. edgar hoover days where they had to send out an agent to collect and tap and follow and do that to raise the cost well exhibitionism is endemic in the united states and the britain you know in britain it's time to have a policy they disagree with they all strip naked and get on bicycles and right around hyde park with their. flapping in the wind and this is the way they affect political change in this country hasn't worked so far but they like the window they're bicycle seats so those images are out there already so there's jeremy clarkson you know top gear i'm sure we've seen as being in the way thousands o

here years ago but two former n.s.a. insiders saw the rise of the surveillance state long before the world knew edward snowden's name bill benny was an n.s.a. technical director from one thousand nine hundred sixty five to two thousand and one we view a senior analyst in the n.s.a. from nine hundred seventy five to two thousand and one and the months following the nine eleven attacks these two men witnessed a complete transformation of the government agency they had worked for decades and were forced to retire to the grave concerns of the illegal and unconstitutional direction of the agency so to discuss their experiences at the n.s.a. as well as what the snowden revelations mean for all of us i'm joined now by building and kirk we thank you so much both of you for coming on though i want to start with you you were one of the creators of the premium eleven data collection survey on the program called the right which actually did have privacy protections instead of american citizens why was this program abandoned and what

in my opinion the n.s.a. is a corrupt agency if i as an individual had undertaken the same actions i would be thrown into prison for thirty years any attempt to reform in my opinion is like bailing out the ship that's already suck they did have a process that those limits what n.s.a. looks at and can take in and store in its database and you can take a look at the the storage facilities they're building you get an idea of how much they're taking in like a million square foot storage facility in bluffdale utah and other stories that they've had existing all along at fort meade as well as other facilities around the world. the fear of growing islamification in austria is seeing campaign is their push to ban the birth right wing is why women should be stopped from wearing full face veils in public r.t. dot com tells you why it also one line is plenty of toxic substances to be found in mexico city but one thing police didn't expect to find was a load of radioactive material online will tell you how it probably go

a recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden claims the n.s.a. has been keeping an eye on five a politically active wants americans surveillance to replace even though there is no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism of course want to know more in a partner has long. a recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden claims the national security agency has been keeping an eye on five politically active muslim americans according to the intercept and investigative news outlet the government surveillance took place even though there was zero evidence that any of the prominent men were connected to terrorism now the five men targeted include an attorney who represents clients in terrorism related cases a professor at rutgers university a former professor at california state university the executive director of care which is the largest muslim civil rights organization in america and lastly a long time republican party operative who actually held a top secret security clearance and served in the department of homeland security during the

and a former n.s.a. employees are back in the spotlight they've been called to testify in germany about a u.s. of surveillance programs we'll tell you all the details coming up. and the american midwest is no stranger to tornadoes now a university businesses is pitching a new way to make the region tornado proof find out how he plans to do it later in the show. it's thursday july third four pm in washington d.c. i mean you're a david and you're watching r t america college students are continually faced with the high costs of getting an education but now we're learning that on top of that financial burden many of them are also facing the challenge of continual hunger now students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the country are joining together so help combat the growing hunger problem artie's honest you're going to has a story. college enter a world of possibilities. well crippling student debt after leaving these doors is one pandemic that's already well established in the u.s. w