gained international notoriety as a result of his leaks and it turns out the more information that comes out about the n.s.a. the more popular edward snowden becomes also out this week the freedom of the press foundation announced that mr snowden will be joining their board of their nonprofit organization it's a group that was started by the man who leaked the pentagon papers daniel ellsberg i spoke with jesselyn radack the national security and human rights director of the government accountability project just a short time ago and i first asked her what snowden will be doing for the freedom of the press foundation well i think. he'll be weighing in first of all it's a huge huge symbolic moment he is participating in civic society in the united states despite the fact that the u.s. has tried so hard to sideline him and freedom of the press foundation is an amazing organization because they are trying to foster safe and free journalism that protects both journalists and sources so i'm sure he has a lot to add to that discussion so does this mean that he will be remaining involves and participating in future

if you own an i phone you may be sharing the use of your device with the n.s.a. more on that in a few minutes. much of your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american culture example months leading social eating out voiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think this american culture has on the rest of the credo. to do two things we is making the world the snake. the food. all the countries worldwide. the financial downturn in europe has given momentum to a trend that could be too difficult and too late to reverse even as the clouds of the crisis are slowly clearing far right groups are still gaining ground with u.k. greece and france among those witnessing a rapid spread of nationalism artie's peter all of our reports. from the d.l. in britain in the north to golden dawn in greece in the south far right groups are making their voices heard in europe. its financial crisis affected everyone and it has allowed the right wing organizations to give people someone to blame for their problems it's those people's fault that is how they recruit greece

senator is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. more just ahead death row for the boston bomber prosecutors in the case against dzhokhar have decided to seek the death penalty a report on the decision ahead. and fighting in syria has created extremists and not just in syria that's all according to a top u.s. intelligence official more on that and an exclusive look at a syrian city captured by islamists later in the show. it's thursday january thirtieth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm your i david and you're watching r.t. america. and we begin tonight with the news that the obama administration has decided on the next head of the national security agency the department of defense has announced that navy vice admiral michael rogers will take the place of general keith alexander last year alexander announced he would retire the spring of twenty four and admiral rogers will command both the n.s.a. and cyber command the new pentagon unit that directs the country's offensive cyber operations rodgers is said to have more experience than his pr

senator is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. more just ahead death row for the boston bomber prosecutors in the case against dzhokhar have decided to seek the death penalty a report on the decision ahead. and fighting in syria has created extremists and not just in syria that's all according to a top u.s. intelligence official more on that and an exclusive look at a syrian city captured by islamists later in the show.

if you own an i phone you may be unwittingly sharing your device with the n.s.a. more on that in a few minutes. car ends and roadside bombs have ripped through commercial areas in iraq's capital baghdad killing at least twenty people meanwhile in the nearby city of fallujah as offshoot in iraq has seized control of government forces and declared a breakaway islamic state during the u.s. led war the city was a major pocket of resistance american forces suffered a third of their total from its holidays there a veteran of that war spoke to me earlier. my time inclusion in two thousand and four there's been able to step back and you know i've been involved you know you know a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help fellow veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like that so i it's it's just it's incredible to see that you know a lot of the projections that those of us who wonder stood with the war was about at least figured out when we got home coming through now because when you understand the nature of war is a racket you want to stand the true motivations

law so what should we make of this man and of this poll that americans want to know more about the n.s.a. want to know more about what they're collecting but also disapprove of the person that brought this information to light i think the question is prosecuted for what . noted mits that he committed a crime glenn greenwald was asked about it last week and he admits that it. broke the law but what should he be charged with should be charged with stealing government property maybe should he be charged with espionage no absolutely not i think the majority of those people polled who say that should be prosecuted wouldn't go and say you should be charged with espionage look there's a streak of civil disobedience here people are willing to break the law pay the consequences of that it kind of makes more powerful that they're doing but operating in this new post chelsea manning world in which when you try and engage in civil to disobedience and spill some secrets that expose wrongdoing by the government you are going to have your life ruined you're not going to go to jail in the way that marti

n.s.a. and by the way he's also a rocket scientist so hopefully he can help us understand these more complex revelations like quantum computing for instance congressman paul thank you so much for joining me good to be with you as a journalist it feel like we are reporting on a new n.s.a. leak each day what have you what are your thoughts on these recent revelations has any of them surprised you well another day another revelation first of all i should say it lest your viewers be confused i am no longer a candidate for the senate but you're right i did make stopping this warrantless spying on americans. a platform of my campaign and i do think that this is a real transgression and these recent revelations that you talk about and you listed several of them. really go go to show how capable the n.s.a. is for many people it's scary how capable they are and what what they can listen in on what they can manipulate so all the more reason that we have to make sure that they operate within bounds that they operate with good firm oversight and that they engender the trust of the american people. and t

marines burning the bodies of iraqi insurgents more on this just ahead and taking on the n.s.a. new jersey congressman rush holt has called for major changes to u.s. surveillance he'll join us to talk about the reforms he thinks are necessary and just a bit. well another day another leak about the national security agency and it's brought up global reach check out this headline that greeted new york times readers this weekend. it is wednesday january fifteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. america will begin tonight with shocking new photos released by t m z which allegedly show u.s. marines burning the bodies of dead iraqi insurgents back in two thousand and four in fallujah iraq t m z reports it of forty one pictures but it does not name the source of those pictures also the web site said it will not release all of the photos because some of them are just too gruesome we're going to put up a couple of those pictures now so please be warned they are graphic and upsetting but we believe they are an important representation of the true ugl

n.s.a. does, and how invasive it is, and they'll need more than a pretty speech. >> the host of "the stream", lisa fletcher is here with us tonight. greenwald is sitting on thousands if not tens of thousands of documents stolen from the n.s.a. government by edward snowden, who is in russia. plenty are calling from clementsy, but america is divided as to whether he's a whisle blower. >> i raised this idea that edward snowden could have held the nation's security in his hands, in the four laptops he allegedly has with him carrying the documents. greenwald's response is if you are going to be mad, be mad at the newspapers that publish the information, not the guy that stole that. >> the people that published it was "the washington post." >> he was in control of the information and handed it to journalists. he is culpable. >> when he handed it over to journalists he said, "i'm providing you with a lot of information much needs to be published, much is what you need to read so you understand how the system works, but not to be published. i'm trusting you as responsible journalists to vet the mate

n.s.a. might be getting your mail before you do plus encrypting your e-mail might become a bit more challenging now that the n.s.a. is racing to stay three steps ahead of you by building quantum of computers that's later in the show. it's friday january third four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. well we begin this hour with a closer look at the u.s. drone program its effect of miss and its future new estimates released by the bureau of investigative journalism the long war journal and the new america foundation are shedding light on just how expansive unmanned aerial vehicle strikes have been since two thousand and two in all or even a total of four hundred sixty one air strikes in pakistan yemen and somalia resulting in some three thousand five hundred twenty deaths of the people killed four hundred fifty seven or eleven percent were civilians meanwhile the defense department released its annual report on the use of unmanned systems the report laid out a road map through twenty thirty eight of how the u.a.e. program will continue to develop take a look at this

more equal and prosperous society. and we start tonight with this this is the n.s.a.'s massive new spy center under construction in bluffdale utah once completed it will serve as a gigantic repository for all that data the n.s.a. is collecting data collection that you may have heard about in recent news reports over the last six months this is a result of edward snowden's leaks we know that the n.s.a. is collecting enormous amounts of data there's the phone metadata virtually every american there's five hundred million data connections in germany every month collected and there's two hundred fifty million online address books collected every single year plus there's a lot more the n.s.a. is just scooping up a ton of stuff and these enormous collection numbers millions and billions of communications are made possible by the new way we all talk to each other online digitally the records of our conversations are not on paper logs or recording tapes they're all just bits of information that can be stored in computers and that's made it possible for the n.s.a. to basically

n.s.a. reforms r t political commentator sam sacks bring this brings us more on what happened on the hill. the senate judiciary committee took on n.s.a. reforms today and they heard from president obama's own independent n.s.a. review panel which recently put out forty six recommendations to reform the spy agency some ideas include adding more transparency to the n.s.a.'s requests for data from private companies changing the n.s.a.'s leadership structure and making changes to the top secret phase of course a lot of these reforms will require congressional action and stays hearing and on friday the president will lay out which reforms he supports but the most significant question today and the rest of the week is what happens to the n.s.a.'s bulk phone metadata collection program which has been ruled likely unconstitutional by one federal court but up held by another federal court the review panel discussed the privacy concerns associated with bulk metadata collection there is quite a bit of content and metadata and when you have the records of the phone calls that a particular individual ma

and this is very again so we all know that the intelligence community would love nothing more than apprehend n.s.a. leaker edward snowden in parade him around in front of the world as an example of what happens to whistleblowers in this country what i didn't know is that some n.s.a. employees want to take it a step further you know to american psycho levels according to buzz feed several pentagon and n.s.a. officials have anonymously expressed their desire to murder snowden a current n.s.a. analyst told the web site that quote in a world where i would not be restricted from killing an american i personally would go and kill him myself a lot of people share the sentiment wait a minute we do live in a world where drones kill american citizens what i waited for another non of us pentagon official told buzz feed that he or she would love to put a bullet in snowden's head and an army official offered a detailed fantasy of how the murder would go down valving injected him with poison you know just so nice to know that jack the ripper and freddy krueger are the ones in charge of responsibility mining all

and more revelations about n.s.a. spying this time on climate negotiators the leaked documents show that the n.s.a. spied on delegates to the two thousand and nine climate conference in copenhagen this comes as one u.s. senator is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. details later in the show. it's there is a january thirtieth for him in washington d.c. and you're a david and you're watching r t america. we begin today with breaking news the justice department has notified a federal judge and intends to seek the death penalty for dzhokhar star nah it now will only be the case if a jury convicts are naive for last april bomb attacks at the boston marathon the attacks which took place nine months ago left three people dead and two hundred sixty wounded talents are naive dzhokhar has a brother who allegedly perpetrated the attack was killed in a confrontation with police in the days following the bombing now let's bring in our marina porn i had to discuss this a little bit more rina how did the just

n.s.a. and in a stunning display of arrogance mark claim to know more about the n.s.a. than someone who worked at the n.s.a. you claim that every time edward snowden opens his mouth he says something completely nuts and how does he back up that claim that stone is a lunatic or because he dared to say that the surveillance programs were quote never about terrorism or rather pro-social control and diplomatic manipulation more argues that they are about terrorism but that they're just simply gone too far unfortunately what maher doesn't seem to realize is that the n.s.a. spying has actually been proven to not be about terrorism as greenwald so clearly points out are the corporate espionage against brazilian oil companies to wiretapping angle of merkel's phone besides spine has been going on for decades terrorism was just the excuse to expand and codified the unconstitutional practice more than prefaces his next question to greenwald by suggesting that it's not that snowden said the government can go back in time and quote scrutinize every decision you've ever made every fr

n.s.a. and in a stunning display of arrogance mark claim to know more about the n.s.a. than someone who worked at the n.s.a. you claim that every time edward snowden opens his mouth he says something completely nuts and how does he back up that claim that stone is a lunatic or because he dared to say that the surveillance programs were quote never about terrorism or rather pro-social control and diplomatic manipulation more argues that they are about terrorism but that they just simply gone too far unfortunately what maher doesn't seem to realize is that the n.s.a. spying has actually been proven to not be about terrorism as greenwald so clearly points out are the corporate espionage against brazilian oil companies to wiretapping angle of merkel's phone the. side spine has been going on for decades terrorism was just the excuse to expand and codified the unconstitutional practice more than prefaces his next question to greenwald by suggesting that it's not snowden said the government can go back in time and quote scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend y

n.s.a. and in a stunning display of arrogance mark claim to know more about the n.s.a. than someone who worked at the n.s.a. you claim that every time edward snowden opens his mouth he says something completely nuts and how does he back up that claim that stone is a lunatic or because he dared to say that the surveillance programs were quote never about terrorism or rather pro-social control and diplomatic manipulation more argues that they are about terrorism but that they're just simply gone too far unfortunately what maher doesn't seem to realize is that the n.s.a. spying has actually been proven to not be about terrorism as greenwald so clearly points out are the corporate espionage against brazilian oil companies to wiretapping angle of merkel's phone besides spine has been going on for decades terrorism was just the excuse to expand and codified in constitutional practice more than prefaces his next question to greenwald by suggesting that it's not that snowden said the government can go back in time and quote scrutinize every decision you've ever made every frien

n.s.a. and in a stunning display of arrogance mark claim to know more about the n.s.a. than someone who worked at the n.s.a. you claim that every time edward snowden opens his mouth he says something completely nuts and how does he back up that claim that stone is a lunatic or because he dared to say that the surveillance programs were quote never about terrorism or rather pro-social control and diplomatic manipulation more argues that they are about terrorism but that they just simply gone too far unfortunately what maher doesn't seem to realize is that the n.s.a. spying has actually been proven to not be about terrorism as greenwald so clearly points out are the corporate espionage against brazilian oil companies to wiretapping angle of merkel's phone besides spine has been going on for decades terrorism was just the excuse to expand and codified in constitutional practice more than prefaces his next question to greenwald by suggesting that it's not that snowden said the government can go back and. time and quote scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend

n.s.a. surveillance strikes more. >> ( translated ): how does the u.s. government intelligence see germany's legitimate interests in protecting the basic rights of its citizens? it's about the very foundation of the house? >> much of the trade was built on u.s. communication and internet firms, former ambassador cornblum has talked to some and are worried about losing business to european competitors. >> if you're considered to be a company whose interests are guided by your country. >> the most profound effect of all seems to be the german public's realization that they've become enmeshed in a system that could invade their privacy more intimately than the ghost of their past could. frederick fisher says the hashtags n.s.a. and snowden have led his site list for months as germans struggle to grasp the dark side of the internet. >> it was such a new and exciting thing and it had this empowering potential, i think we're all like really shocked to see that it had become this like potential control and censorship apparatus. >> reporter: on that frigid hillt

and it's happening far more often than we realize. according to x. n.s.a. analyst william binney american security agencies now have the technology. for their story at all they're collecting it all in storage for the large storage facility that's what that's all about and the point is that they hope by storing it all now that sometime in the future they'll figure out how to go back into it and figure out what's important so they can retroactively analyze it that's why they need five zeta bytes of stories that you talk to store it all. it's for the u.s. government the two years he was responsible for electronic espionage a decade ago when you began to bug u.s. citizens who left the saudis to fight against terrorism seemed to change the rules of engagement. i mean there are virtually is nothing in the network that they can't have a copy of if they start targeting youth so so so what they already have your data i can't find out what they're doing with my data. but i know they have it ok. so i make sure i write in there whatever i whatever i had to say about th

more n.s.a. documents have been leaked. this time involving text messages. the n.s.a. has been collecting millions of messages. collecting and saving data, including locations contact and credit card details. >> a lethal drug combination was used to execute a killer. dennis maguire was convicted of rape and murder. witnesses say he struggled for 17 years. >> a senator in oklahoma said he will not serve out his term. the 66-year-old will leave at the end of the current session. he was diagnosed with cancer but says the decision was not about his health. >> those are the headlines for this hour. "america tonight" is next with joie chen. the latest news on al. i'll see you back for prime trial news tomorrow night. and mr. the best of all of us. >> and fears santa ana winds ignite flames. who officials think may be responsible. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. we begin with look about history what we know and don't know about our communities, our families, even ourselves. what's provoked special interest in the past for us is making big waves toda

n.s.a. surveillance about seven point five percent of the time interesting dynamics there of how it's money what's happening well for more analysis of barack obama's n.s.a. reform we invite you to head to our web site as well r.t. dot com and also online because a fresh leaf feeling that the u.s. and u.k. have been harvesting millions of mobile phone text messages worldwide every day really was talking about how cold it was talking about just now. so be following that story up throughout the night nerve a big piece of news we're following the syrian government says it's ready for a limited ceasefire with rebel fighters as well as a prisoner swap maybe now the foreign minister announced a readiness to cooperate with moderate opposition groups against radical islam is after a meeting with his counterpart here in moscow at the same time sergei lavrov raised the issue of the opposition taking part in next week's peace conference. i believe all those who are backing the syrian national coalition and those who consider it the only legitimate representative of the syrian people which does not correlate to the real political sit

n.s.a. this is done more damage to the financial markets in the united states then anything osama bin laden or whoever did nine eleven could have done right the chance of getting a dime from a terrorist attack in the u.s. is slimmer than the number of people who die from get hit by television sets so based on that proportion that ratio the n.s.a. a government agency decided to destroy the. forty percent of the s. and p. five hundred at least and there's contingencies to that by infecting all their products with a disease that is surveillance technology and so america is blowing its own head off you don't need the crazy people jihadi is when you have their own country is taking a big gun to their own head and pulling the trigger you don't need to arest if you going to kill yourself i guess you're going to preempt a terrorist by killing themselves well that fits in with this whole bitcoin in the top half of the show where we discuss the fact. then all these others had the patent applications for the sim they knew the customer demand was there for this sort of block chain ledger public ledger

and he did a presentation on one of the more recent sort of n.s.a. documents that have come out that shows that the kind of technologies that are used for target access so not just to just sweeping up your g.-mail but really going after your individual laptop there they have a sort of this whole science fiction aspect to them where. directed microwave pointed at laptops today and influence those machines from several miles away for a little new black so so in other words the all as recently as just a few months ago if you write what you just described you would be condemned as part of the tinfoil hats wearing movement called crazy and now we have internal n.s.a. documents that tell us that actually that's what they do and a quite proud of it and they can point at a laptop and just suck everything up yeah you know they can they can manipulate influence a lot of talk or reads data from sometimes you can miles away by directing microwave energy to the laptop or the person operating the laptop all right so. let's continue here so could global surveillanc

n.s.a. will do that soured relations with several countries. phil itner has morelondon on the international rehabilitation. >> reaction in europe to president obama's n.s.a. speech ranged from cautious but mild approval to outright skepticism. on the website of the british paper that broke the edward snowden leaks, the comments were negative, few believing change will come, if it does, it will not apply to europeans, just minister. all along it's been a major issue, that mass surveillance of u.s. citizens and allies shows a double standard. often violates stringent laws on privacy established at the court of human rights. jim kel ot runs an advocacy group saying non-americans are furious at the perceived bias against them. while they say they are american citizen, they have the right to privacy. they don't believe it's true for europeans or people outside there at all. >> despite the leaks being published in the u.k., the debate has been mild, because the british version of the n.s.a., the government communication headquarters works in conjunction with washington.

n.s.a. might be getting your mail before you do plus in purchasing your e-mail might become a bit more challenging now that the n.s.a. is racing to stay three steps ahead of you by building quantum computers that's later in the show.

giving a yes or no answer merely promising to keep lawmakers in the loop on their missions to get more on the n.s.a.'s lack of alien maneuvers that are t.v. dot com. also learn about the catechism including super volcanoes that could erupt at any moment and what scientists discoveries mean for the rest of us. in iraq government forces are preparing to storm the city of fallujah which has been overrun by al qaeda linked militants the prime minister is even urging civilians there to rise up and help drive out the insurgents well earlier extremists forces crossed over from neighboring syria joining up with their allies already finding in iraq the radicals want to set up an islamic state there and their ranks are swelling with thousands of new recruits iraqi leaders have been struggling to control the country in the aftermath of u.s. withdrawal two years ago washington is promising to support baghdad but will not send troops back analysts say iran will gladly weigh in with military back. but we have seen and this town and washington for the past three years been so there's some sort of a disinterest in

giving a yes or no answer merely promising to keep lawmakers in the loop on their missions get more on the n.s.a.'s mcmillian maneuvering at a t.v. dot com. also learn about the cataclysm inducing supervolcano is to actually interrupt at any moment and what scientists discoveries mean for the rest of us. get a small business off the ground you need the backing of a bank but choose carefully because not all seem to have your intrapreneur interests at heart laura smith been to meet one couple in britain who found their lender more predatory then protective and discover they are far from alone chris richardson and bernstein used to own this hotel but not anymore three years ago out of the blue they say their bank took it from them nat west hotel this hotel beyond me because i was always will and it will be coming back if there's justice in this country these goals will be arrested. and we will be giving this october back in two thousand and ten chris and ernie had a loan from the west to do up the coniston hotel and conference center in north kent they were just eleven days from opening when their

martin and this is very sad so we all know that the intelligence community would love nothing more than apprehend n.s.a. leaker edward snowden in pearl raised him around in front of the world as an example of what happens to whistleblowers in this country what i didn't know is that some n.s.a. employees want to take it a step further you know to american psycho levels according to buzz feed several pentagon and n.s.a. officials have anonymously expressed their desire to murder snowden a current n.s.a. analyst told the web site that quote in a world where i would not be restricted from killing an american i personally would go and kill him myself a lot of people share the sentiment when a minute we do live in a world where drones kill american citizens what i waited for another non of us pentagon official told buzz feed that he or she would love to put a bullet in snowden's head and an army official offered a detailed fantasy of how the murder would go down valving injecting him with poison you know it just so nice to know that jack the ripper and freddy krueger are the ones in charge a responsible in m

s are no answer merely promising to keep lawmakers in the loop on their mission to get more on the n.s.a. is the lack of alien maneuvering at r t dot com. also learn about the cataclysm including super volcanoes that could erupt at any moment and what scientists discoveries mean for the rest of us. right from the sea. first rate. and i think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. water is life so they say but rivalry over supplies can lead to better conflicts you can see here that since the mid twentieth century the planet seen nearly one hundred eighty conflicts connected to water resources these include both small the large scale clashes a lot of them in the middle east and africa so it might surprise you to hear that it's water rather than oil that could be what's fought over in the coming years in the region pole sitter reports now from israel. the bible tells us that within a short distance from here jesus turned water into wine two thousand years later the great american might be turning the wine back into water but has been living in the golan heights for o

n.s.a. surveillance capabilities seven point five percent of the time they're telling with what reno was saying it earlier on about the cost effectiveness doesn't it thanks for being with us for more analysis of barack obama's n.s.a. reform we invite you of course to head to our web site. also the details as well the kemah yesterday we got more on it of those leaks revealing that the u.s. and u.k. of been harvesting millions of mobile phone text messages worldwide every day in. the in the. next the syrian government says it's ready for a limited ceasefire with rebel fighters as well as a prisoner swap may be to the foreign minister announced a readiness to cooperate with moderate opposition groups against radical islam is after a meeting with his moscow counterpart at the same time to survey lavrov raise the issue of the opposition taking part in next week's peace conference. i believe all those who are backing the syrian national coalition and those who consider it the only legitimate representative of the syrian people which does not correlate to the real political situations all of them need to consider the role they're playing in preparing the geneva two peace conference. but.