n.s.a. revelations claim among other countries america has been spying on israel its closest ally but unlike some other time get such as germany which has been explicit in its outrage israel opted to sweep this kind of under the rug because policy and now reports. the prime minister's office the defense ministry and the foreign ministry have yet to officially comment however one senior israeli government source has said that israel will not allow this announcement to pass without any kind of comment and that an understanding has to be reached it that these things one doesn't do among friends having said that though there is no visible operates from the israeli side and this of course is because israel presumably is well aware that the u.s. is spying on other countries and so the assumption is there that israelis know that they too are being watched israel is quiet because it once its relationship with the united states to continue particularly in terms of intelligence sharing and in terms of the very large amounts of money that israel receives from the united states if you remember a few mon

n.s.a. revelations a leak yesterday from german magazine der spiegel artie's perry and boring has the details. their job is to get the un gettable a unit of mostly young hackers are helping the n.s.a. break into computers around the world to access some of the toughest targets german news magazine der spiegel published a report over the weekend revealing the tailored access operations or the team with the national security agency's top hacking unit spiegel did not disclose how they obtained the n.s.a. documents but has a history of publishing reports using edward snowden leaked material the n.s.a. is t.a.o.'s housing unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret laffin it began in one nine hundred ninety seven when the internet was in its infancy now it's one of the fastest growing units of the n.s.a. this is one of its central offices in san antonio texas the unit moved into this former sony chip factory in two thousand and five and is expected to have two hundred seventy specialists by two thousand and fifteen as operations include counterterrorism cyber attacks and as the i

n.s.a. revelations teach you anything it should be that. >> that's ridiculous if the world of warcraft isn't real why have i been spending eight hours a day every day for the past 12 -- oh, my god! >> jon: aasif, are you all right? >> what have i done with my life, jon. >> jon: sorry it's better to learn this now, right? >> right. i did bank 720 gold pieces to help me start a new life in the real world. [ laughter ] >> jon: really? >> yeah, so i didn't waste my time at all, right. >> jon: you've done very well gray ab$v$v>l applause]d >> jon: welcome back. now, with the recent passing of nelson mandela came an outpouring of praise from political leaders, some from the expected qualiter. secretary of state john kerry and british prime minister david cameron playing tribute. >> hillary clinton called mandela a champion for justice. harry reid writes in a way man dell yafs both the george washington and abraham lincoln of his country. >> jon: we have to make him into a white guy somehow? is that it? how would people understand the references? he's like george george except not at all. the forme

n.s.a. revelations part he was there covering it all special roundtable on new year's greatest news heads just ahead. the capital of lebanon his rock by a massive explosion target of the car bombing was the former lebanese ambassador to the u.s. one of the numerous attacks that have hit the nation the latest on that coming up. in new york a federal judge rules that there this is bulk collection of phone records is legal this really runs counter to last week's ruling by a federal judge in d.c. who found the program to be likely unconstitutional the latest update on that and more later in the show.

n.s.a. revelations you know i can easily just for see a future now with you know it's the snowden revelations are just coming almost every week i can forsee a future now where people will be. so concerned about their privacy that we'll be able to pack up. all sorts of data e-mail traffic trading. we're right now cork seems to me to be the best inside these security algorithms and trade them back and forth and so there's crypto currencies might really be the only thing we've got going against this type of invasive technology all right below i want to think up of things here first of all you mentioned the crypto currencies of course based on encrypted technology and this is happening at the same time as the n.s.a. spying scandals and the edward snowden reveal about how these agencies around the world are going around laws and spying on everyone so you see a real connection it's not by accident that you have the edward snowden scandals and the crypto currency is happening at the same time in the case of bitcoin it came to being after the two thousand and eight crisis and the original founders a

n.s.a. revelations we've had for the snowden files i think it's hasn't really come as a surprise to anybody like the fact that you know the n.s.a. is already monitoring social networks now so the saying that games are also on the list hasn't really surprised anybody and it doesn't seem to be you know putting anybody off. exports magazine live from london thanks for joining us. the u.s. defense secretary has met with leaders in islamabad and despite the handshakes for the camera tensions remain over the deadly drone attacks carried out on pakistani soil that story coming up very shortly. first a year's worth of quakes have hit texas in just one month in large part thanks to the practice of fracking the so say experts the state is at the forefront of the show gas revolution and oil firms are generating billions in taxes result he's got a church can find out entire communities crack and crumble the support of politicians for the drilling remains i'm shaken. the columns have shaken so hard it's actually pulled the tram if you look around here rebecca williams is showing me the cracks in her home

n.s.a. revelations without an international relations mess this one coming from c.b.c. news in canada where new snowden document exposes canadian spies doing work on behalf of the n.s.a. to spy on approximately twenty trading partners classified as high priority countries and i say appears to be using canada to exploit relationships that the united states can no longer keep unclear what sort of diplomatic fall out the canadians makes perience as a result of this latest leak so that's the latest all of it coming just as the chief of the n.s.a. faces off with senators today for an oversight hearing i was joined earlier by shah had bhutto our executive director at the bill of rights defense committee here in d.c. and steve anderson executive director of open media in vancouver and i started out by asking shah had now that this information has come out will this bring more attention to the type of spying corporations have been doing on us for years. it very well might and there's a great documentary out that's just making the rounds now called terms and conditions may apply

n.s.a. revelations from the snow files i think it's hasn't really come as a surprise to anybody like the fact that you know the n.s.a. is already monitoring social networks and i also see many more stories for you one line right now would include unexpected discovery u.s. astronomers are left more than a little dazed and confused over the appearance of a recently discovered planet but it's in entirely the wrong part of space. the n.s.a. spy scandal reaches russian officials as the country's lawmakers consider a ban on the use of foreign smartphones and we can tell you what could replace i phones and other android device. right. and i would think. the. the hour's top headlines live from moscow is r.t. international when japan was hit by a giant tsunami and twenty eleven hundreds of thousands forced to flee literally saw their lives washed away promises were made that it would only be a matter of time before their homes were rebuilt. found out those people are still waiting for this woman can only fit me and my cameraman into her new home she apologizes but there's simply no room for the whole

n.s.a. has interest in online games is unusual the revelations surprised anyone all that much there are huge number of players and they did and people do spend a lot of time in these games they form kind of lost doing. a range of people as a rich history of people getting married having met in the world of warcraft and that kind of thing. i must confess to being in flux as to how you would actually track down terrorists and then it's made it's not doesn't really seem like the sort of environment where you could do it we could do that easily the only thing that you could say that they would learn from it would just be to kind of build you know as i said lost in relationships of people seem to think it's all just. people just playing games at work but i think following the you know the scale of the n.s.a. revelations we've had for the snowden files i think it hasn't really come as a surprise to anybody like the fact that you know the n.s.a. is already monitoring social networks and outsourcing that games are also on the list hasn't really surprised anybody and it doesn't seem to be you know pu

n.s.a. revelations and that handles black covered and they looked at an n.s.a. management presentation from two thousand and twelve and among other morsels the presentation bragged about computer network exploitation see any perpetrated by the agency special shop the tailored access operations were over one thousand hackers are trying to wiggle up the bureaucratic ladder and get noticed and promoted by hacking more deeply and into more systems than the next guy they must be having a blast by mid twenty twelve the n.s.a. have penetrated fifty thousand networks worldwide including telecom networks the implants they installed active sleeper cells so here we have sleeper cells operating around the internet on behalf of the n.s.a. on behalf of the corporations whoever the n.s.a. is working for so one of the questions was this is like which are the sleeper cells in the middle east and why is that not even discussed the why are the drones killing so many children in yemen why are the drones killing so many in pakistan and afghanistan what are the strategic reasons ther

n.s.a. revelations without an international relations mess this one coming from c.b.c. news in canada where a new snowden document exposes canadian spies doing work on behalf of the n.s.a. to spy on approximately twenty trading partners classified as high priority countries you know say appears to be using canada to exploit relationships that the united states can no longer keep unclear what sort of diplomatic fallout the canadians makes perience as a result of this latest leak so that's the latest of all everything coming out with the n.s.a. just as the chief of the n.s.a. faces off with senators today for an oversight hearing for more on this i'm joined by shot head batar executive director at the bill of rights defense committee here in d.c. shahad welcome to the show again thanks for having me on so this latest revelation about there is a piggybacking on google cookies to pinpoint certain targets and then using application data to get a better a more precise location of certain people they're looking for. commercial advertising which is this is where this comes down

n.s.a. revelations artie's sam sachs has more. how do you can it he served in three presidential administrations he ran for president three times and he's no stranger to controversy i sat down with him to talk about the world as it is today we started with how the office of the presidency has changed in recent years one of the things that bother me most is the fact that the congress has abdicated its war powers and that's why one of the best things that happened this summer was when the american people rose up and in effect said we don't want this war on syria and president obama realized that and went to the congress and the people will influence the congress to deny him the authority to take us to war but i agree with that point i mean when the president states says all options are on the table with regard to iran he means a military option an option to attack iran where did the president united states get the authority to take us to war with iran if iran does not attack us were does not threaten us he doesn't have it with this

n.s.a. revelations r.t. was there covering it all special roundtable in the greatest news hits just ahead. a new york federal judge rules that timothy's ball collection of phone records is legal this really runs counter to last week's really by a federal judge in d.c. who found the program to be likely unconstitutional the latest update on that more later in the show. and it's the false positive no one wants to see generally but it turns out that on the web people are buying and selling used pregnancy tests will take an in-depth look at what drives this industry. it's friday december twenty seventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching r.t. and we begin tonight with a look back at twenty thirteen winds down we close the book on a year with some really big news stories because they are whistleblowers and n.s.a. secrets and he was how washington post reporter barton gellman who was in the possession of snowden documents describe the impact of this story on whistleblowers this year. i've seldom if ever seen a story that has taken hold. so far and so broadly and so deeply

n.s.a. revelations part he was there covering it all special roundtable on the year's greatest news hits just ahead. the capital of lebanon is rock by a massive explosion the target of the car bombing was the former lebanese ambassador to the u.s. one of numerous attacks that have hit the nation the latest on that coming up. a new york federal judge rules abuses bulk collection of phone records is legal it's really runs counter to last week's ruling by a federal judge in d.c. who found the program to be likely unconstitutional the latest update on that and more later in the show. it's friday december twenty seventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our t.v. and we begin today with a look back twenty thirteen winds down we close the book on the year with some really big news stories it was the year of whistleblowers and essay secrets there is how washington post reporter barton gellman who was in possession of the snowden documents described the impact of the story on whistleblowers this year. i've seldom if ever seen a story that has taken hold. you know so far and so

n.s.a. revelations to talk about rachel levinson wildman counsel for the brennan center of liberty and national security program thank you for coming on the show the c.b.s. news magazine program sixty minutes is under fire for the second time in as many months for a reporting scandal this time to reprogram is being criticized for a recent two part series that looks into the n.s.a. director keith alexander called sixty minutes to invite them into the agency for an unprecedented inside look at what the n.s.a. does and what its officials think about the leaks from former contractor edward snowden media critics argue that not a single dissenting voice was feature of throughout the reporting and no tough questions were alternately asked artie's political commentators sam sachs analyzes the report as well as the blowback. sunday night a sixty minutes report which touted unprecedented access to the n.s.a. didn't start off so well full disclosure i once worked in the office of the director of national intelligence seriously seriously they couldn't have chosen a different reporter someone who say i didn

n.s.a. surveillance and revelations. what has been the most surprising thing that has been revealed in his treasure trove of data? >> i think that you go back to the very beginning. i think in my mind the most extraordinary document is really the first one that "the guardian" published which the court order ordering both collection of cell phone records of americans. i think that even after months and months of revelations about tapping the internet, about gaming, of all sorts of things you go back to this because it is extraordinary the reach of the order which allows the n.s.a. to gather data about pretty much every single phone call of americans, and i think that really is even to this day extraordinary. >> it unfolded almost like a weekly serial novel. your most recent article was about online gaming, an infiltration there. what is the n.s.a. and the c.i.a. looking for? >> they are trying to just build up massive amounts of data, collect massive amounts of information in order to then go back and run searches in orde

n.s.a. revelations, snow know says his mission is accomplished. government's secret collection of american's internet and phone records says everything he was trying to do was validated. >> a family is hoping to wake up and find the stolen gnome that means so much to them. thieves took them from the garden last month and the value goes beyond what anyone could imagine. they were made by their daughter who was killed by a drunk driver. >> six, no escaping the poor air quality today. all of us could be covered by it throughout the day. that is going to be six. but it is the 17th "spare the air" day this season. >> seven, the bay bridge toll plaza shows light conditions for the holiday cross the area. if you rely on mass transit, tomorrow a lot of transit agencies are going to be running on a holiday schedule. eric? >> thank you. three skiers in utah are lucky to be alive after being partly buried by an avalanche as they were try inbound. all three were dug out. they were not injured. a spokesman says that the slide was accidently triggered by a skie

fresh revelations claim the n.s.a. intercepts computers purchased on line in bugs them with special software and spying gadgets before they reach their owners. had a look back at the top scandals and breakthroughs that shape the global news events of two thousand and thirteen. one pm in moscow très a very good to have you with us our top story this hour the first funerals are being held in volgograd after the city was devastated by two bomb attacks in less than twenty four hours at least thirty four people killed scores more wounded artie's margaret how well reports from a city in mourning is tense it's also very somber traffic seems to be moving more slowly than i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard one of two people who will be having a funeral today and here is their story it's been one more an uneasy night for the residents of russia's southern city of the loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks held vigils hospitals others min

n.s.a. has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. now head for you a look back at the stories and revelations which shaped twenty. how the n.s.a. had the world on what it cost that would snowden to expose it as well as winds of change in iran nuclear breakthrough dale and the story resolution on syria plus plenty more we've got that coming up after a quick break. it was the year these whack jobs introduced the belt is to buy debt debt and lord debt the never ending list of fines for crimes to which j.p. morgan will never have to admit obamacare that corporate espionage surveillance state the bedroom tax the housing bubble. this is a media legal so we leave the. law the same motions to the. other your party there's an. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. are today. we in the new year in this edition of crossfire we ask what is in store as we start two thousand and fourteen and what will make this year different even better from the you that is past who should we keep borrowing and what stories should we be following. hello again i was twenty thirte

careful what you do on your laptop because the latest revelations of n.s.a. spying suggest american spies may be logging every keystroke you make and no school in the german dish to go magazine claims the agency installs a rigged cables allowing him to see everything displayed on the p.c. monitor is plugged into multiple disguised bugging devices also allegedly send and receive data using radio waves journalist david seaman believes these revelations world bank file global tech companies. my understanding of it is that this is extremely widespread but is not so much the companies cooperating with the n.s.a. as it is the n.s.a. pouring tremendous amounts of money and talent into developing these hacks we're talking about complete orwellian control of innocent people's phones and innocent people's computers and laptops and i think that it undermines basic faith and confidence in american tech companies this is going to lead to a massive loss of revenue technology has the power to lift all of us up to provide more innovation and transparency than ever before in

revelations claimed the n.s.a. intercepts computers bought online and bugs them with special software and spying gadgets before they reach their owners. and a look back at the scandals and breakthroughs that shape the global news events of two thousand and thirteen. nine am in moscow i'm good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour the first funerals are to be held in volgograd after the city was devastated by two bomb attacks in the space of less than twenty four hours at least thirty three people killed scores more wounded archies margaret howell met some of those in mourning. it's been one more of an easy night for the residents of russia's southern city of welcome the loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks held vigils in hospitals others mourned. he was a good man a good father a good son a good grandson there are not so many of such good ones around the good ones die first they say. with barely contain tears a lot of near nelly vico clutches the memory of his son who was the first vict

fresh revelations claimed the n.s.a. intercepts computers bought on line and bugs them with special software and spyware before they reach their owners. we take a look back at the scandals and breakthroughs that shaped twenty. ten am in moscow i'm at a very good to have you with us our top story this hour volgograd in mourning after the city was devastated by two bomb attacks in less than twenty four hours at least thirty three people killed and scores more wounded artie's margaret howell has been there covering this from the start she joins me live now with the latest so what's the mood in the city today it's probably fairly tense there yes. not it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to be moving more slowly there seems to be something in the air that is that is very somber here as you mentioned thirty two died among these two terrorist attacks it's now thirty three there was another victim who died just hours ago in the middle of the night in the hospital succumbing to their injuries i was able to catch up

rush revelations claimed the n.s.a. intercepts computers bought online and bungs them with special software and spine gadgets before they reach their owners. underscores what top scandals on breakthroughs that shape the global news about this over the hour gallwey yet. they want international coming to life from moscow whining is you hello and welcome to the program the first fuels are to be held in a grant after the city was devastated by two bomb attacks in less than twenty four hours at least thirty four people were killed and many more wounded and as our cheesemonger at howell reports say she is a warning. it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to be moving more slowly than i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard one of two people who will be having a funeral today and here is their story it's been one more of an easy night for the residents of russia's southern city of welcome and loved ones of the injured in two terror atta

fresh revelations claimed the n.s.a. intercepts computers girls online and banks then with special software and spying gotchas before they reach their own. back a big top scandals and great stories that shape big global news about and so be outgoing again. this is all seen to national coming to you live from moscow hello and a very well welcome to the ground before us funerals are to be held in volgograd after the city was devastated by two bomb attacks in less than twenty four hours at least especially four people were killed and many more wounded and as howell reports this issue here is an warning. it is tense it's also very somber the traffic seems to be moving more slowly than i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard one of two people who will be having a funeral today and here is their story it's been one more of an easy night for the residents of russia's southern city of mosul and loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks held vigi

n.s.a. has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. and ahead for you on all seem to national of the stories and revelations it was shapes twenty seven seen how the n.s.a. honks the wild and what it cost edward snowden to expose it as well as a winds of change in iraq and iran of other a nuclear breakthrough deal and a historic resolution on syria and much more right after the break. the beginning of the long politic night moxon the fades from island life. isn't that enough temptation. the dog was lost for six months. more polar bears than people. and it was easy to hire a rifle as a scooter. because the island is so inexplicable there are no indigenous people but there are all those who do choose this frozen life. this era could be right about. the future. sigrid laboratories here mukherjee was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and we're going to see this is why you should care only on the dog. while combining this is our seem to national a strange association come

n.s.a. has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. and i had for you a leg bank of the stories and revelations at which. the n.s.a. hunks the walls of edward snowden to expose it as well as winds of change in iran and nuclear breaks for deal and a historic resolution on syria and of course and much more right after the break. on their way to antarctica the crew of the i can to make sure that a face many challenges. here you have to look out for yourself crashing on to rocks trapped in pack ice in extreme conditions and i think can happen and dark to go always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because there's always something going wrong the ship carries huge reserves of water food fuel as well as helicopters and people able to survive extreme conditions they're ready for anything even an apocalypse she's really an incredible ship calling all antarctica stations this is going to make it feel that of radio check please respond. welcome back to aussie international let's move on now as twenty says hayden comes to an end when the bank that's what history will remember from th

n.s.a. surveillance and revelations. what has been the most surprising thing that has been revealed in his treasure trove of data? >> i think that you go back to the very beginning. i think in my mind the most extraordinary document is really the first one that "the guardian" published which the court order ordering both collection of cell phone records of americans. i think that even after months and months of revelations about tapping the internet, about gaming, of all sorts of things you go back to this because it is extraordinary the reach of the order which allows the n.s.a. to gather data about pretty much every single phone call of americans, and i think that really is even to this day extraordinary. >> it unfolded almost like a weekly serial novel. your most recent article was about online gaming, an infiltration there. what is the n.s.a. and the .i.a. looking for? >> they are trying to just build up massive amounts of data, collect massive amounts of information in order to then go back and run searches in order

n.s.a. has destroyed a lot of that it's undermined basic faith in the internet. had for you and all seem to national league come to stories and revelations of what shapes went if that's how the n.s.a. honks they want to coast edward snowden to expose it as well as winds of change in iran and you can't break through do you and a historic resolution on syria and of course much more variety after the break. so choose more of the county fourteen olympics what's this place like. this is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be the city's present and future ludlow sochi will bring you this is the moment they repose you from a very cold snowy windy mountainous tough beyond the olympics but . tomorrow on our team. it was the year these whack jobs introduced the belt is to buy debt debt and more debt the never ending list of fines for crimes to which j.p. morgan will never have to admit obamacare or that corporate espionage surveillance state the bedroom tax the housing bubble. the ocean nancy international is great to have you with us let's move on now and as twentieth said comes to an end we'll lo

n.s.a. revelations perhaps a little alcohol diplomacy or alcohol therapy is much needed. and that's going to do it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america you can check out our website r t v dot com slash usa and you can go on twitter and you can follow me at sam sachs we'll see you right back here at eight pm thanks for watching. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years people came here twenty some years ago to reestablish and last a life on the silent. and people feel the love of christ all working. people say you can catch up but something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only on antti. one of. the. pleasure to have you with us here today. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered. ukraine deeply divided decision to walk away from an association agreement with brussels has resulted in an explosion of street protests and violence and some western pundits have even

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n.s.a. revelations r.t. was there covering it all special roundtable in the greatest news hits just ahead. a new york federal judge rules of davis' ball collection of phone records is legal this really runs counter to last week's ruling by a federal judge in d.c. who found the program to be likely unconstitutional the latest update on that more later in the show. and it's the false positive no one wants to see generally but it turns out that on the web people are buying and selling used pregnancy tests will take an in-depth look at what drives this audit industry.

n.s.a. surveillance and revelations.hat has been the most surprising thing that has been revealed in his treasure trove of data? >> i think that you go back to the very beginning. i think in my mind the most extraordinary document is really the first one that "the guardian" published which the court order ordering both collection of cell phone records of americans. i think that even after months and months of revelations about tapping the internet, about gaming, of all sorts of things you go back to this because it is extraordinary the reach of the order which allows the n.s.a. to gather data about pretty much every single phone call of americans, and i think that really is even to this day extraordinary. >> it unfolded almost like a weekly serial novel. your most recent article was about online gaming, an infiltration there. what is the n.s.a. and the c.i.a. looking for? >> they are trying to just build up massive amounts of data, collect massive amounts of information in order to then go back and run searches in order