do. today in order to russian president vladimir putin signs a bill banning americans from adopting russian orphans his reasons and what critics of the new bill are saying next one day we'll be able to actually have a choice we could just live forever and not have children. a trans human future might not be science fiction from artificial eyes to chips in our brains it seems man is not too far off from meeting his match we'll show you what the future could hold when it comes to machines. and this is in a scene out of the head one nine hundred eighty s.

movie robo cop it's an l.a. police exit bishan showing what the us police force could look like in the next decade and how do you need to know about the possibility of manned police cars. it's friday december twenty eighth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well today russian president vladimir putin signed a law banning american parents from adopting russian children it could affect hundreds of americans american families seeking to adopt the u.s. state department is saying the ban is politically motivated but it comes after cases of american adoptive parents abusing their children mirror rebin is the author of the book the stork market america's multi-billion dollar unregulated adoption industry and she spoke to r.t.

about the issue. a lot of the cases have gotten very very light sentences for the caretakers whether forster or adoptive of russian children here in the united states but we certainly have no idea how many children are enduring abuses surviving abuses of all kinds the children that died at the hands of their adoptive parents were tortured in some horrendous ways they were sexually abused they were burnt they were starved they were cage to ever any conceivable kind of torture one human being could inflict on another was done to these children so these were the parents that were caught and prosecuted nineteen how many more there's there's absolutely no way of knowing the united states has no system of follow up on adoptions once an adoption is finalized the child is considered as if born

to that family. that was married been author of the stork market america's multi-billion dollar unregulated adoption industry. switching gears now technology is advancing exponentially before our very eyes our computers phones and other gadgets are getting faster smaller more powerful now machines are being used to improve the human body but where do we draw the line between man and machine a scientific community believes the two will become one in just a few decades our takes a look now at what a transhumanist world would look like. it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. we can rebuild. we have the technology. we have the capability to make the world first by mixing man and machine to enhance the human body but it was for the better stronger but

a scientific community believes it will become a reality in the coming decades beatrice ray kurzweil predicts the year twenty forty five will be the technological tipping point he's an award winning scientist and engineer a millionaire several times over because of his invention kurz wells theory is chronicled in film director barry potomac as transcendent man something radical is going to happen because our technology is speeding up we think that this is going to stop we're going to hit a wall somewhere well technology is advancing at an exponential rate for example just a few decades ago the fire power in this iphone once took up entire rooms but with technology rapidly getting faster and smaller it's believe that the hardware and this phone will be able to fit into our blood cells the vast supercomputers of the future only twenty years from now will actually be in our bloodstream will be in our brains of every internet connection transhumanist enthusiastic believe it will transform life as we know a. disease down. to illness and providing material.

that's not very imagine that's the beginning and there's proof it's already happening we're putting computers in our brains if you're parkinson's patient. even a cochlear implant is a form of computer inside our bodies or emerging and all these different ways from artificial eye is to prosthetic limbs to electronic skin tattoos that monitor patients some are quick to point out how the technology will be used to help mankind will start to create new medicines that will reprogram our while g. away from diseases in them away from aging process is that means not only finding the fountain of youth but it cheating immortality it gives people like matthew deutsch that fear death some hope one day will be able to actually have a choice or we could just live forever and not have children if he dies he says he plans to have his body preserved until science can revive him and allow him to live

forever but others warn of the risk the technology could fall into the hands of mad men joel garo calls it the hell scenario in that scenario what happens is that you create. viruses in diseases that could wipe up the human race another scary scene the technology used to track and control people the minute that happens then there were never going to have much control over a future again but despite these scary a possibility is trans human it's believe or say the merging of man and machine is going to happen soon whether we want it to are not in washington liz wall r t. let's talk more about this blurring of the lines between man and machine i'm joined now in the d.c. studio by our to read producer andrew blake and really nice to see you so i was well you spent a lot of time you know on computers as i recall the guy either say what about it i mean there are some areas inside of our bodies that's

a little terrifying hollow terrifying but i mean we just saw those people out here a little package there they're talking about you know having their heads we generally froze and preserved till the end of time to make sure that they can get through the regular i think this is a fountain of youth i mean we can actually advance our bodies so that we don't even one day we won't even get sick and the best in science fiction for centuries so people are actually saying it's about to happen you know maybe it's just my own. refusal to take my own more mortality seriously i've always kind of penance for all by the idea of being able to live forever but i reckon right now i feel like humans have been fascinated with that yet so i'm not the only ones who are not i was the weirdo. but growing up i was always you know i'd never read that much science fiction i was always into that idea of being able to create this biopic android or cyborg or whatever that would be able to to to get past the shortcomings that there are bodies have. forced us to develop and even this conversation town ludicrous

that we just saw you know that means ray kurzweil he's very a renowned future and inventor and he's saying you know we're actually not too far off from this being a reality just go back to last couple of decades look at the investments in prosthetic limbs and eyes and what we've been able to see you know the medical community and the engineering community come together and actually make it so that people who have lost body parts can just surpass these boundaries these obstacles that you know a few decades ago would have been unimaginable talking about you know actually entering bloodstream and actually automating breathing now through three machines so it's absolutely looks like is going to be something that is going to be more and more mainstream as time progresses but obviously this is going to be technology that is going to have to be absolutely perfected before we actually rely on machines to do the living for us right now we just saw in that story there people

kind of how do you mean then if it's saying that this could really be used to improve mankind on the other hand we had the that author and professor there saying that you know this could get scary i mean you you know you report a lot about. machines being able to get hacked. kind of this kind of doomsday of of it turning around being able to control your aids i mean we already have like the websites for you know the country's top intelligence companies possibly being under attack by teenage hackers and they were told. take them down and just you know with a couple clicks of a mouse and those are the top intelligence companies in the united states right now imagine if you actually put literally your life in the hands of robots how do you see it going to be to take that down you know it's going to be more than just a virus or disease it's going to be or i guess it would be a computer virus to salute and you know we are seeing and part of that that gentleman theory is that we are seeing it before our eyes acknowledging it

vance ing exponentially i mean we see these smartphones today what they can do i mean you know ten years ago twenty years ago you can even imagine this small gadget being able to have this much memory and fire power and capabilities and you know you can only imagine how far this is going to go i guess it brings up this next question i mean how much is a can there be too much technology where do you draw the line i mean especially when you're talking about merging it with the human body i mean i think that is going to have to be a moral to debate that someone way more qualified than either you or me is going to be able to write code to handle but look let's look at drones for example let's look at these automated room remote controlled killing machines that can be sent thousands of miles across the world and be used by people right here in the united states to gun down suspected insurgents and actually kill people without ever seeing them face to face the being in the same country or continent as them so we're already through we're already able to extend ourselves outward by using

machines in order to do things as take away lives it shouldn't be that farfetched that we're going to be able to create lives by using machines i could only imagine what with the unabomber or kaczynski with think of all this you know it's only been twenty years since they caught him in a little shack in the woods you know trying to run away from technology confused already terrified of the way things were advancing that we didn't have smartphones we didn't really have cell phones at the time not that i'm really thinking about the unabomber that much but it's amazing to think of. just in our generation just going back to the light you see what we see happening in terms of both medicine engineering and it really should be looked as as part of this new technology there is always new questions i mean since it's a new technology about apical questions and news and privacy quite you know all these all these new concerns and are we don't want you to stick around for this next story we're going to turn now to a field of work that may be replaced at least in part by machines rescue drones and

unmanned motorcycles are just some of the tools u.s. police may soon have in their arsenal in fact some car makers hope to replace cop cars with drones by the year two thousand and twenty five are teaser moglen doe shows us how driverless cop cars could change the roads of tomorrow. from paul electric sports cars to onboard computers the future and automobiles was on full display at the two thousand and twelve l.a. auto show the most advanced concepts give a glimpse of how the traditional police cruiser could transform this concept is an unmanned drone which can operate in the air and on land at a time of tight budgets this futuristic cop car could be too much leaner police forces. as part of the auto shows design challenge some the world's largest automakers offer design concepts for a new form of highway patrol in the year two thousand and twenty five

a majority of the designs involve drone technology which some find controversial i mean you want to look at nine hundred eighty four i think that's a really unique valid question privacy and safety concerns remain as more law enforcement agencies request permission for drones the b.m.w. concept is equipped with up to three drones and you get law enforcement agencies you know more tools to pass without really thinking cations you can run problems but designers ultimately believe that unmanned technology could lead to better and more efficient policing there's a potential these could actually be safer for high speed pursuits because the years or so up potentially smaller vehicles. squad cars themselves can sit back or you know fall back a little bit. young man police vehicles may even be able to rescue people at sea like in many industries mechanization has the potential to reduce the number of actual police officers

needed however some industry experts believe it will be a while before cops need to worry about their jobs i do think it's you know it's a factor. but i would say probably you know at the minimum twenty five years or you see a lot of means. on the road actually policing other parts designers at subaru are more optimistic pointing out that a lot of the technology in their concepts already exists. when you see the proliferation of u.a.b. internationally and. you see the beginning of use of it. in america such as the google cars you see that it's going to converge you know ten years many local and state governments across the u.s. are already looking into unmanned aerial vehicles make it more likely these futuristic concepts will become reality in the coming years in los angeles.

and we've still got our two web producer andrew blanc here to talk about what this all means so andrew you know we talk a lot about these drones that are kind of there's more uses being there's all different uses. you know every day not exactly and not just international but right here at home here is another one in the works it's essentially a driverless cop car but it's a form of a drone so i mean how does this differ from from surveillance. technology that we already see on our streets not all that much and it's just going to be more and more prevailing like we're already expecting thirty thousand drones in the skies by the year twenty twenty. five hundred and we actually wrote about you know just like ramon was talking about we were about that archie dot com a few weeks ago and how at the l.a. auto show when they asked these big auto manufacturers you know what what do you envision for the police patrol car of the future it seems like so many of them when just like defaulted to saying it's going to be drone technology it's going to be

unmanned aerial vehicles that are going to be able to be dispatched you know either by hand or shot off of another police car and that's going to be able to be deployed to be able to track down anyone anywhere so it's the same kind of technology we're seeing right now where you're able to put a device into the sky in this can be able to let the police or whoever can control it are going to happen even. to look down and see whatever they want and there's tons of fourth amendment questions that are being raised by that but it seems like the manufacturer. and the law enforcement agencies who are curious about these types of devices aren't really all that concerned of the time being they're saying well we're seeing an increase in crime how are we going to curb it we're just going to have to do what's necessary by all means necessary so it's the same kind of technology that we're seeing now but it's only going to get more and more and stay as time goes on like we just talked about a minute ago we've seen how the technology in the terms of you know making humans biopic has just mounted so greatly during the last few years so

it's kind of scary if you ask me but absolutely not that likely you had mentioned the fourth amendment right concerns can you talk more about that privacy concerns associate with having things like a. man police cars say that we just saw in that studio privacy concerns about having these things patrol our our street sure i mean fact just earlier this month the supreme court here in washington weighed in and two particular cases involving the use of police dogs in order to carry out a search of a suspect's home and the supreme court looked at two different cases and had to consider well when does bringing a dog up to someone's house constitute a search when when does that you know we start sniffing is that when the police can actually start asking questions or is it a search unto itself so we're already being stuck with these really hard questions you know regarding a two hundred year old bill of rights putting into perspective but with dogs and if

we have those kind of questions when we're worried about dogs can only imagine it's going to be another two hundred years or so they'll be asking ourselves questions about you know what kind of issues we have with giant robots flying around in the sky there are going to be really serious questions because you know drones can shoot up thousands of feet in the sky they can look down they can zoom in and read the data off of a milk carton from thousands of feet above the air drug transport that to some sort of information center on the other side of the world process and send commands to someone else to either go in and arrest that person or fire a missile like we see overseas right now so there's all sorts of concerns about. maybe having too much technology there too much technology that's interesting you know you had mentioned the tens of thousands of drones projected to be and our skies this is a kind of drone that is on land and you know with drones being more prevalent it makes you wonder if people are just going to get used to having this technology

around and they're going to be like hey you know. and unmanned police car they're just kind of. the idea i've already seen that are you know that's a time yeah you know i've already seen the argument come up in the in the news very recently because in places like alameda county california in seattle and in texas law enforcement agencies are asking time time again for drones they want them in order for law enforcement purposes would you were getting through place electronic frontier foundation the american civil liberties union to stand up and say look let's think about this once or twice before you go ahead and just give these police departments access to these remote control spy machines but at the same time it seems like it really is just going to be inevitable i mean today i know this is completely different different target or tangent but today we saw the for intelligence surveillance act renewed for another five years and that's something that it seems every privacy advocate in america was concerned about and they were all just urging congress to go the other way and despite you know years and years

of criticism congress went ahead and renewed it anyway so and we're not really hearing too much about it but we are going to get to that later on in the show andrea thanks so much for weighing and that was our huge lead producer and her blake. also out here on r.g.p. despite the last ditch effort from several u.s. senators the warrantless wiretapping bill known as fights has been extended what this means for your privacy next. let me let me you're going to let me ask you

a point. here on this board is what we have in the bank we have our knives out. because this was the best thing there again hearing the story would be i didn't even talk about the army let me. a controversial bill with major implications for your privacy passed the senate today the foreign intelligence surveillance act allows the government to wiretap american citizens living abroad without a warrant here's a few things that you should know about this piece of legislation it was first signed into law back in nineteen seventy eight a two thousand and eight amendment allows the n.s.a. to wiretap conversations on u.s. citizens phone without a warrant it was set to expire on new year's eve passed the senate today but they

with bipartisan support and a seventy three to twenty three vote meaning it will be extended for another four or five years excuse me senate opponents include rand paul ron wyden mark udall japp merkley and mike lee here's part of senator wyden speech from last night he argued that we simply don't know enough about what the n.s.a. and other government organizations are doing with the information they collect the fines amendments that states that acquisitions made under section seven zero two may not quote intentionally target specific american and may not quote intentionally acquire communications that are known at the time of acquisition to be whole domestic mr president the problem with that is it still leaves a lot of room for circumstances under which american song calls and e-mails including purely domestic phone calls and e-mails could be swept up

and reviewed without a warrant. this by senator wyden and vocal criticism of fife but now goes to president obama for his signature critics of the law like the electronic frontier foundation say it violates americans fourth amendment rights they say the government can get ahold of e-mails and phone calls without a warrant and without the person knowing about it now that none of the amendments proposed by senators to increase the bill transparency passed with much of the media fixated on the fiscal cliff the controversial bill is likely to be renewed with little attention. to hook elementary school two weeks ago today there's been a huge push for more gun control gun lovers of notice there's been a significant increase in gun purchases these past two weeks are the corresponding guy n.h. you can take a look at this phenomenon about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here

. they are four rows or rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with possible back everything everyone is letting in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales. just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no a ar fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the roof have been going for a thousand fifteen hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars

even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to feed ministrations ben talk as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america the manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles report that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa you have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days. although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type he may have wanted or someone they say is against were. doing

a great job for us so. maybe they should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers high book gone apocalypse scenario so the family was. ready to start the. start of this regime but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any time soon after all any significant gun control measures and up in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. ancient illiberal judea and then his chicken. and now to los angeles where authorities got more than they bargained for at a gun buyback the city offered grocery store gift cards in exchange for guns with no questions asked some of the weapons and in the exchange of work quite well a questionable in addition to the more run of the mill firearms the l.a.p.d.

got to what military grade rocket launchers during the exchange the weapons are designed to launch grenades though no such grenades were turned in during the gun buyback it's unclear how someone ended up with these rocket launchers in the first place police believe that the weapon may be family heirlooms or collectibles based on their age but the gun buyback ultimately put two thousand and thirty seven firearms in the hands of authorities including seventy five assault weapons at times people waited in line for two hours to give back their guns the city even briefly ran out of gift cards well what will happen to the weapons collection all of them will be melted down including the huge rocket launchers that's according to the mayor of los and. yes perhaps the most bizarre part of the story though that authorities said this wasn't the first time they ended up with a rocket launcher out of buyback makes you wonder just how many people have rocket launchers lying around their homes and we are going to leave it off their budget

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