roxana saberi has that story. >> john, the justices pointed out that smartphones like this can hold vast quantities of personal information and searching them would violate people's right to privacy without a a want. civil rights organizations are praising this decision, but the justice department ints pos out that police -- points out that police organizations needs to search. >> now the supreme court says there's one thing they can't search: your cell phone because they hold much more personal information. justice john roberts wrote in a unanimous ruling, modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. with all they contain and reveal they hold for many americans the privacy of life. what police must do searching a cell phone is accordingly simple. get a warrant. many privacy advocates are applauding the decision. >> technology is becoming so much more advanced. if a police officer getz ahold of your phone and they find out what's in there, that is -- they can access so much of your personal life that has nothing to do with the possible criminal case. >> the ruling h

roxana saberi, al jazeera, new york. >> tonight'sible image of the day comes up next.lus, sky-high. an iconic skyscraper sets a record price for an apartment. apartment. >> severe weather has been a problem in the upper midwest. today we didn't get nearly as many storm reports as we did on our sunday evening. we can see that funnel clouds and tornadoes are mostly in north dakota in the evening hours of our sunday but on morn mostly the storm system that was moving through brought in heavy rain brief flash flood but the main impact here has been wind. wisconsin has reported a number of trees down and we've had some damage due to strong wind gusts due to the storm system moving through. even in the evening hours, we goth wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour, we expect them to gradually ease. we'll loss the intensity of those storms after the sunsets. places in oklahoma and also into kansas city. as we get into our tuesday this is going to be a more significant day when it comes to severe weather. expect strong storms to break out again in the midwest and we're going to see

roxana saberi is on the case. roxana. >> some of the images are disturbing. >> this video potatoesed on social media appears to be a woman naked with blood over parts of her body. tens of thousands of egyptians celebrate the inauguration of their new president. the video has created a stir. it hose reporting from tahrir square. she tells an anchor woman, we must also report that there are some isolated cases of sexual harassment. the anchor then laughs and saying so what? they're having fun. all the people are having fun. the anchor then wrote on her facebook page, i was commenting on people's joy not the harassment. it expresses its solidarity with all the organizations that challenge the sexual harassment phenomenon in egyptian society. for all accounts, sexual harassment is a foj in egypt. >> they think it's an asnomly, an unusual case but, in fact the numbers are showing it's becoming more and more prevalent. >> site of rallies during the arab spring and today. >> people out on the streets, publicly celebrating

roxana saberi with us. coming up on al jazeera america, you don't see it too often, a politician taking on wall street and oil. and facebook going to court. we'll be back in a moment. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. >> actual street ended the trading week on a positive note. the dow gained just over 5 points, 6 points on the day. the nasdaq and s&p 500 were also higher. facebook and the government is in demand over the use of data. it turned over data on 400 users connected with a benefit fraud. a judge ordered facebook to hand over the data without informing users first. >>> now opening fire on the most wealthy corporation.

roxana saberi has more. >> the obama administration said al aki was a al qaeda leader. >> we have chosen the path of war in order to defend ourselves from your repression. >> alaki was a u.s. citizen born this new mexico. justice department memo written the year before his death argues we do not believe alaki's citizenship would preclude lethal action by the u.s. military or cia. the memo says lethal force is acceptable when high level government officials have determined a capture operation overseas is infeasible and the targeted person is engaged in activities that pose a continued imminent threat to u.s. persons and interest. the government's drone program distorts the law. >> the u.s. program presents novel tests, to limit killing authority. >> they also say u.s. drones have killed thousands of people including bystanders and the american government needs to know who was being killed and why. >> that is information the government could and should disclose and we will continue fighting for it. >> the justice department official who wrote the opinion is david baron. he was just confirm

roxana saberi joins us with more on this particular ruling. >> reporter: tony, the justices pointed out that smart phones like this can hold had a they call vast amounts of information. searching them would violate's people rights to privacy without a search warrant. activists are praising the decision but the justices sa the that they check cellphones because they will contain criminal activities. >> reporter: now the supreme court said there is one thing they can't search, area cell phone, because they hold much more personal information. in the ruling, modern cellphones are not just a convenience. they hold the privacies of life. in answer of what police should do, it's accordingly simple, get a warrant. many privacy advocates are applauding the decision. >> if a police officers gets ahold of your phone and they find out what is in there, that's is--they can access so much of your personal life that has nothing to do with the possible criminal case. >> reporter: the ruling has implications forever journalists. 14 news organizations including "the washington times," melt it was signif

as roxana saberi reports, shaky video of the assault has gone viral. >> reporter: this video posted onial media appears to show a woman naked with blood covering parts of her body. police struggle to escort her out of the square. as 10s of thousands of egyptians celebrate the inauguration of their new president. the video has created a stir. along with this clip posted on social media sites. it shows a correspondent for a private egyptian tv network reported from the square. she tells an ankle woman, we must also report that there are isolated cases of sexual harassment. as she speaks the anchor is heard loving saying so what, the people are having fun. the anger later wrote on her facebook page, i was commenting on people's joy, not the harass think. the network also apologize odd facebook. saying it expresses its solidarity with all the organizations that challenged the sexual harassment phenomenon in egyptian society. bite numbers, sexual harassment is a phenomenon in egypt. >> i think many egyptians just don't want to accept that this is a very pervasive problem. and they think tha

roxana saberi sat down with a veteran who was featured prominently in that film. >> he described theadrenaline high of combat and the low that hit him once he left afghanistan. >> all right, we're getting engaged again. >> reporter: in afghanistan's deadliest valley fighting the taliban was just the start of a long conflict for brendan. >> for a while there i started thinking that god hates me because i did sin. >> reporter: brendan spent 14 months in afghanistan with nearly 40 other men, he defended base camp that was named for the company's medic and seen with his close friend juan killed in action. brendan left afghanistan and the army in 2008. he was 25 and lucky. over a five years in korengal valley, 50 soldiers died. >> there was one time i thought in my entire time of afghanistan what are we doing here? those are young boys trying to kill me, and i'm a young boy trying to kill them. that's a dangerous thought. you start thinking like that, "u" start to humanize the enemy, and then you start having hesitations, and you start to realize that maybe this is all pointless. the mora

and as roxana saberi reports, what life can be like after the battle. >> david, brendan o'byrne describedthe adrenalin of combat. and how he felt coming home from afghanistan. >> okay. >> fighting the taliban was just the start of a long conflict for brendan o'byrne. >> for a while there i started really thinking that god hates me. because i did sense, you know, send -- >> brendan spent 14 months in afghanistan. he descented base camp named for the company's medic. seen here before he was killed in action. brendan was 25 in 2008 and lucky. after five years in the valley 50 soldiers died. >> there was one time i thought in my entire time in afghanistan, what are we doing here? there are young boys on the side of that hill trying to kill me and i'm a young boy trying to kill them. what are we doing here? that's a dangerous thought inside combat. you start to think like that, humanize the enemy, you start to have hesitations and think maybe all of this is pointless. the moral dilemmas and the thoughts come afterwards. >> the first five years at home, brendan thought about that and drank. he

roxana saberi joins us with the story. >> he has been held without charge for more than 300 days, three other al jazeera journalists remain behind bars. for ten months abdullah al-shami said he had been nothing wrong. he had been working as anen a journalist in al jazeera arabic. he wept on a hunger strike. are he lost more than one-third of his body weight. this video smugd out in may. >> knowing this i have been detained for 266 days without any charged, and without committing any crime. >> just days after the leaked video was broadcast, al-shami said he had been they want to dent my resolve, my hunger strike is their deep pain. when a court extended his detention last week his family again warned that his health was declining but al shami said he would not stop his protest until he was freed. three others are behind bars, peter greste, baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy have been in jail for six months. the egyptian prosecution is asking for the maximum terms, seven years for greste and 14 years for mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed. they said there are 16 journalists in jail and egypt is

roxana saberi spoke with 11 of victims. >> reporter: with the click of the mouse the doctor's plasticme under attack. >> we were panicking. >> reporter: a staffer opened an e-mail from what she thought was a store and downloaded an attach: hours later he was contacted and said he would lose the files of 30,000 patients unless he paid a ran some of more than $500. >> waall we knew was that these blackmailers were going to keep our fights, he. >> reporter: he paid and they moved on. >> a ran some scheme has shutout hundreds of thousands of use presser their own computers and data. and demanded that victims get paid to get access back to their own machines and their own information. >> reporter: the government it s the sire gang used malicious software called came over zus, that steals banking information and sends it to hackers oversees overseas. it infected up to 1 million computers, including 250,000 in the u.s. >> the individual fraudulent wire transfers conducted through game over zeus, commonly ex-seat $1 million, at least one fraudulent wire tractio taxes ad to $6 billion. >> repo

roxana saberi sat down with a veteran who was in that film, and joins us now with more. >> reporter: tony, tony told me that he struggled a lot whe. >> we're going to be engaged again. >> in afghanistan's deadliest valley fighting the taliban was just the start of a long conflict for brendan. >> for a while there i started thinking that god hates me because i didn't sense i sinned. >> reporter: he spent 14 months in afghanistan. with 40 other men he defended a base camp, name after his close friend juan seen here before being killed in action. brendon left in 2008. he was 25 then and lucky. over five years, 50 soldiers died. >> there was one time i thought in my entire time in afghanistan what are we doing here. there are young boys on the other side of that hill trying to kill me. i'm a young boy trying to kill them. what am i doing here. that's a dangerous thought. you start thinking like that and humanize the enemy, then you start having hesitations, and you start to realize maybe all of this is pointless. the moral dilemma dilemma is the thoughts that come afterwards. >> for the

roxana saberi has the report. >> this video appears to show a woman naked with blood covering parts of her body. thousands of egyptians celebrate the inauguration of their new president. this clip posted on social media sites, it shows a correspondent reporting from tahrir square, she tells an anchor woman, there are isolated cases of sexual harassment. she is reported saying, so what they're having fun, everyone is having fun. she later are announced, i was commenting on the joy, not the harassment. challenging sexual harassment phenomenon. in egyptian society. by nuns, sexual harassment is a phenomenon in egypt. >> people don't band to accept -- want to accept, this is a very pervasive problem. the nurms showing it's becoming -- numbers are showing it's becoming more and more prevalent. >> rallies during arab spring and today. >> publicly participating in celebrations, like this weekend where former field marshal sif i are was elected. >> volunteers with the imprint movement roam the streets to stop sexual harassment. >> whatever happens in those assaults, it harms the society as a w

roxana saberi is here with it about. >> if that pern is plotting to target americans. the aclu filed lawsuits. >> killed anwar al alaki, said to be an al qaeda leader. >> we have chosen the path of war in order to defend ourselves from your oppression. >> alaki was a u.s. citizen born in new mexico. critics claimed his rights were violated. but, the composition, constitutional limits that would preclude, lethal force is acceptable when high level government officials have determined that a capture operation overseas is infeasible and that the targeted person is engaged in activities that pose a continued and imminent threat to u.s. persons and interests. human rights advocates say the government's drone program distorts law. >> the administration is applying novel controversial tests and largely setting aside the tests that exist under international law to limit killing authority. >> they also say u.s. drones have killed thousands of people including bystanders and the american public wor public needw more about who is being killed and why. >> we will continue fighting

roxana saberi joins us. roxanne. he has been held without charge for more than 300 days. three other al jazeera journalists remain behind bars. for ten months he says he has done nothing wrong. he had been working as a journalist for al jazeera arabic whether he was detained, on january he went on a hunger strike. within four months he lost almost a third of his body weight. evidence in this video, smuggled out in may. >> despite the authorities knowing this, i have been detained for 266 days without any charge and without committing any crime. >> just days after the leaked video was broadcast al shami said he had been placed in solitary confinement. in a letter smuggled out of jail, he said he hassed out after vomiting blood. his family again warned his health was declining. but alshami said he would not stop his protest until freed. three others are behind bars, correspondent peter greste and producers mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed. held six months, accused of supporting muslim brotherhood, a charge they strongly deny. >> the defendant is innocent until proven guilty.

roxana saberi is here with more. >> reporter: tony, the collection including interviews with high profilesya angelou, and others about their hopes and accomplishments. >> history makers an archive of 5,000 african-americans who made a difference. >> capturing the legacy of african-americans is the idea of driving the history makers project. >> there were hard times. >> it features interviews with prominent african-americans like the late musician and actor isaac hayes opening up about his childhood. >> which moved a lot of places. one time i was homeless. we would sleep in parked cars in a garage. >> juliana richardson founded her project at her kitchen table in 1999. >> for the african-american it's critically important that they and the larger community know the real story, and that we're not just limited to rosa parks and martin luther king and malcolm x. >> since then the election has exploded and has 9,000 hours of interviews with african-americans averaging three to six hours long. almost a third of the subjects like maya angelou have passed away since they were interviewed. >> well,

roxana saberi is leer. >> it could have been even worse for public employee unions. this was a case about home health care workers in illinois and whether they had to journey unions and pay dues. both unions and organized labor were looking for sweeping victory but neither side got exactly what it wanted. >>> for some pamela harris was asking for a free ride. but ask her. >> they are overstepping. you don't belong in a louse, a home, intruding in a family and you don't belong in interfering in the care of an individual with significant disabilities. >> reporter: the supreme court now says harris was right and people like her can't be forced to pay union dues. harris takes care of her developmentally disabledson josh at home. writing for the majorities justice samuel alito said, they don't have to pay dues. harris praised the decision saying in a statement, families in illinois can relax knowing their homes are safe from being a union workplace and there will be no third party intruding into the care we provide our sons and daughters. the five-four decision was bad fo

roxana saberi has more. >> reporter: a drone strike like this, killed this man in 2011.bama administration said he was an al-qaeda leader planning attacks against the u.s. >> we have chosen the path of war. >> reporter: the targeted killing sparked controversy, because he was a u.s. citizen. critics say his rights were violated, but the justice department argues . . . human rights advocates say the memo show the government's drone program distorts the law. >> the administration is applying novel tests, and largely setting aside the tests that control international law. >> reporter: they say the drones have killed thousands of people including bystanders, and the american public needs to know more about who is being killed and why. >> that is information that the government could and should disclose, and we will continue fighting for it. >> reporter: david barron was just approved as a federal appeals court judge in boston. >>> the u.s. supreme court delivered a complex but significant ruling on the powers of the environmental protection agency. the court decided that the

. >> roxana saberi, interesting story. >>> now to iraq as world leaders discuss what to do about the secretary tyrian violence and bloodshed in that country. there is new information about the conflict's toll, june 5th, less than three weeks ago, 1300 people in iraq have been killed. the number includes 220,000 people who fled the civil war tha from neighboring syria. today in belgium, a visit to iraq. u.s. secretary of state john kerry made another call for unity government. >> succeeding in this fight will iraqi iraqis to come together. form an inclusive government. every meeting with leaders of each of iraq's main community, i urge the urgency of doing just that. >> libby, secretary kerry stressed the urgency in dealing with these fighters and urging other countries to stay out. >> reporter: what is happening in iraq is extraordinary security and political challenges. he said it's not just of concern of iraqi people but a broader concern to the global community. he said this could have implications and could lead to situations around the globe. >> the united states is also working

roxana saberi joins us with more. >> reporter: sexual harassment is getting worse in egypt.s time a video showed up on youtu youtube. a warning, some of the images are disturbing. this video posted on social media, appears to show a woman naked with blood covering parts of her body. tens of thousands of egyptians celebrate the inauguration of their new president. the video has created a stir. along with this clip posted on social media sites. it shows a correspondent reporting from the square. she tells an anchor woman we must also report there are isolated cases of sexual harassment. as she speaks the anchor is laughing, and saying so what they are having fun. all of the people are having fun. the anchor later wrote on her facebook page, i was commenting on people's joy not the harassment. the network said . . . but the numbers sexual harassment is a phenomenon in egypt. >> many egyptians don't want to accept this is a pervasive problem. in fact the numbers are showing that it is becoming more and more prevalent. >> reporter: many incidents have taken place at the cite of r

roxana saberi. >> reporter: this has data from 2001 to 2011. during that time the reports of sex crimes rose 50%. >> we have a big problem, and we need your help. it's happening on college campuses, bars, parties. >> reporter: videos like this one released by the white house are trying to raise awareness about sexual assaults. activists say students are getting the message, and that helps explain the number of sex crimes reported each year in colleges is rising. the department of education says that number has grown from 2200 in 2001 to more than 3300. >> i think sexual assault is just being reported more. i think an increase in report could an good thing. it means that people feel supported in reporting. >> reporter: annie clark reported an assault when she was a student at university of north carolina chapel hill. >> the first person i told blamed me for my experience and gave me an extended analogy of how rape was like a football game, and i was the quarterback. i was in charge, and asked me what i would have done differently. >> reporter: s

roxana is bare a, a saberi, al w york. >>> one year ago this week edward snowden leaked the first-class identified nsa. there is a campaign auld reset the net. >> reporter: ithis sparked a gll debate over national security versus privacy. on this anniversary several tech companies battling the nsa have an interesting way of upping the ante. the leaks were about far more than collection of people's phone records. the reports revealed broad attempts by the government to enlist tech companies in its surveillance work. those revelations led to secure e-mail pro surprisers to close down, one phone company went to the secret surveillance court to challenge the nsa's mass collection of phone records. the nsa has reported by been intercepting u.s. made computer products and inserting surveillance tools in them before they are exported. this week, some tech companies are launching a new public