coming up on r t the debate over u.s. military intervention in syria rages on while congress appears ready to vote down any airstrike the international community looks for alternatives the latest developments up ahead. another newly cavallo to the surveillance state here in the u.s. turns out that smartphones that are permanently attached to your hands are also a smart way for the n.s.a. to follow your every communication more on that coming up. and there's an old saying that money can't buy everything but if you have can you can sure get an upgrade at the seal beach jail in california more on paying for a five star cell later in tonight's show.

it's monday september ninth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm mega lopez and you are watching r t let's get straight to syria where violence continues to plague the streets forcing the international community to consider action in the u.s. lawmakers are once again convening on capitol hill to sort through the evidence of the use of sarin gas by the assad regime but new today russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has announced that he will push for syrian president all side to surrender control of his chemical stockpiles to the international community by the end of this week after wrapping up talks with his syrian counterpart walid all wall on the lavrov said quote we are calling on the syrian leadership to not only agree on placing chemical weapons storage sites under international control but also on its subsequent destruction and fully joining the treaty on prohibition of chemical weapons so. possibly a ray of hope to prevent more violence in the country it's

a movie un secretary-general ban ki moon has come out in support of and it's one that syria appears to be open to however this announcement comes on the same day that c.b.s. released part of an exclusive interview was offside where the syrian president threatened to retaliate if the u.s. strikes listen american people want to know you know if there's an attack you know what might be the repercussions and who might be engaged in those repercussions before the september in my discussion with some of their own congressman i used to . playing games is different story you're going to pay the price if you're not what is the deal of the total sum nobody explained was going to be a typical. stricken way of dealing with terrorism but nobody expected it until september so you cannot expect it is difficult for anyone to tell you what

is going to happen. everything is on the brink of explosion expect of a. national security adviser susan rice former secretary of state hillary clinton former president bill clinton and deputy national security adviser tony blinken held conferences today making their faces for action in the country and just a short time ago president obama sat down with correspondents from six news stations to speak about syria take a look. these chemical weapons pose a significant threat to all nations and to the united states in particular that's why ninety eight percent of humanity has said we don't use these that protects our troops and it protects children like the ones that we saw in those videos inside of syria so it is a potentially positive development i have to say that it's unlikely that we would have arrived at that point where there were even public statements like that without

a credible military threat to deal with the chemical weapons use inside of syria the president went on to say that the u.s. will not seek military action of assad gree agrees to russia's terms and that a political suit with solution could be within sight but now critics say the president is flip flopping and has no backbone when it comes to foreign policy the same people mind you who are wary of the war as a result of today's developments senate majority leader harry reid announced this evening that he will be delaying the senate vote on authorizing u.s. military strikes against syria which was originally planned for this wednesday and so the conversation continues it's a high stakes game of poker to see who will show their cards first only this time they're gambling with lives. as congress debates the need for intervention public opinion is split about military action in syria the latest polls indicate that the public still is overwhelmingly disapproving of the notion. that.

the number of protests were held over the weekend in opposition to military action including large demonstrations right here in d.c. artie's arena stand quist was there and tells us why so many are so against u.s. action in syria. syria as congress prepares to consider military action in syria. protesters turned out saturday in new york city and in front of the white house they demonstrated what public opinion polls are showing repeatedly that the american public doesn't want to get involved. but disregard for public opinion in such matters is hardly new two thirds of americans say it's not worth fighting. so near about you don't care what they read no i think you cannot be. blown off course by the.

fluctuations in the public opinion polls fast forward to a different time country and administration but the disconnect between a president and a people remains a c.n.n. poll released monday found that seven in ten americans think airstrikes wouldn't achieve significant goals or be in america's national interest why would you put down the regime and hand. or a terrorist group a rule of the country president obama acknowledged however that the government could move forward without the american public on board ultimately you know listen your constituents but you've also got to make some decisions about what you believe . is right for america. and that's the same. for me is present united states there are a whole bunch of decisions that i make that are unpopular as you well know in congress men don't listen to their people so that seals mean then there is no democracy anywhere president obama claims that an intervention is necessary to

quote maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons but only thirty three percent of americans recently polled agree that such an intervention would be an effective deterrent that's ridiculous when you want to send a message by killing more people another talking point has been that american credibility would suffer if we do not intervene but once again the american public just doesn't see it that way seventy four percent of americans recently polled claim that to the contrary they believe it likely that. will suffer significant blowback with an intervention in syria and all it will do is further drive hatred towards the united states reacting so arbitrarily around the world which can only create blowback that's dangerous to the american people. here and americans also came out to plead with congress and the president i have my entire family and my mom and my sisters my brothers my cousins everybody that they love and i and i'm so passionate to see once again this war of store that it's going to take hold this out of my heart and protesters questioned the evidence of chemical attacks being

presented there's a lot of reports that it's the rebels that are doing the chemical warfare there was an accident did they job some weapons you knows what really happened these baltimore residents were hoping their representative elijah cummings would listen to voters like them we send a message is that we'll never forgive him if he does if you vote for the war in a radio interview cummings recently admitted but i tell you something when you've got ninety seven percent of your constituents saying no it's kind of hard to say yes meanwhile senator dianne feinstein of california head of the senate intelligence committee doesn't share coming struggle about the phone calls her office gets it what's coming in is overwhelmingly negative there's no question about that but you see then they don't know what i know they haven't heard what i heard it can't be very democratic votes if you're keeping secrets from the american people and if you vote against what you know your constituents don't want the large chunk of congress reportedly remains undecided on the resolution outside of

congress constituents have been clear everybody saying chemical weapons is bad everybody knows that but it's not america's business what's going on we're not the world's police that we have brains we can use our brains and do something peaceful . for washington d.c. when it's done quist party. meanwhile the historic christian city of the listeria has become the latest scene of clashes between government and rebel forces as of this afternoon islamised all nusra forces have taken control of the city christians their fear that they could be murdered simply for their religious beliefs are seen as marina for notion i was there and she brings us this report. we entered my lawyer through its ancient gauge burnt and damaged in recent attacks shortly after the syrian army announces that most of the militants were pushed back signs of the recent battle and destruction a reverie where we were told to move fast and to follow the military's vehicles

without stopping or even slowing down there are some parts of the road where we have to speed up officers still fear they could be snipers around we hear them shouting go go fast on one turn we suddenly stop. it's hard to understand exactly what happened we only hear a loud boom and feel the earth shake. we get out of the car to take a look around then outside. christian community all over the world now on the battlefield look at this. and then we realized we have landed in the heart of this battle as some new bullets start flying around us we've ended model of village with the army but just just a few minutes later they told us to get back the militants launch an attack fire in

and throw in explosives from the safety of high ground so this is what we're doing right now we're coming back to you to the entrance this is where. a car bomb exploded on wednesday morning and this is how it all started after a suicide attack method turns mostly from the last group stormed in and since then the question is have been continued for three days and as you can see they are considered now soldiers firing shots back but they can't even see enemy fighters who are cooped up in the hiding places. the row militants and that my little now an hour and a sufi hotel this is the mountain top to tell which one my. brother was. but.

also from behind the mountains surrounding the. village and that's is where the danger lies because the raw many snipers and the raw rocket grenades and the raw warms mortar bombs was even to the situation on the ground it's very hard you can see that the army is rick rubin right now but this. that tomorrow on monday the situation changes dramatically because. when american congress. debates syria where the. country and all you know it's a decision made thousands of kilometers away from the special factors set up at the smith theater but exactly how it is not easy to predict. from my look in syria. in chile a march to honor the victims of general pinochet as

a brutal dictatorship turned violent when a group of rowdy protesters began inciting violence the march was meant to remember the roughly forty thousand people who were killed imprisoned or tortured by the dictatorship of agosto pinochet after he overthrew socialist president i again day on september eleventh one nine hundred seventy three after hours of peaceful demonstrations a group of one hundred young protesters began to throw rocks at the police and burning barricades in response chillun to lay in police forces used water cannons and launched tear gas canisters in an attempt to break up the crowd demonstrators were arrested and at least one officer was injured during the clashes now our sister station or to spanish has been covering the protests correspondent ignacio huguely and producer james resteal were both injured while covering the event we wish our best to both of them. from across contractor edward snowden

promised that he had a treasure trove of information to release about n.s.a. surveillance programs once again he is making good on that work on that promise that is the german newspaper der spiegel reports that internal in the say documents from snowden's previous leaks detail how the agency has been focusing on tapping into all types of smartphones the newspaper explains quote according to the documents it set up task forces to. for the leading smartphone manufacturers and operating systems specialized teams began intensively studying apple's i phone and its i o. s. operating system as well as google's android mobile operating system another team worked on ways to attack black berry which has been seen as an impregnable fortress until then so is anything a safe anymore to discuss this in more depth so i was joined earlier by christopher wolf he is the director of hogan lovells privacy and information management practice group and i first asked him to help me break down all of these

developments. the important thing to note about the der spiegel article is that it said that there was no indication of widespread spying using the abilities that were described in the article with respect to the smartphones and i think one would expect that the n.s.a. would develop the skills and the ability to access probably the leading tools for communications these day these days and presumably to use those tools consistent with the law and how do we know that they are being consistent with the law so as we've discovered there were some lapses with respect to what the n.s.a. has done and we know the pfizer court reprimanded the n.s.a. for at least some of those we also know that we have in the united states a framework that requires pfizer court approval of any surveillance

under the act as well as legislative oversight now obviously the snowden revelations put a lot of focus on that structure and there is serious question right now whether or not it is enough so president obama has appointed a white house senior group to analyze the issue we also have the privacy and civil liberties oversight board that is looking at this and in the wake of the snowden revelations we've see a court declassified some of its opinions as well as the n.s.a. produce more public material at the same time we have some of the online services litigating their right to disclose more information so we are going to see more information there is going to be more oversight and one would hope they would be more controls and more protection of privacy but i think this story from der spiegel is not terribly astonishing it's not terribly sashing and as i say there

are and they are trying to build that oversight however right. you need to point out that that group that president obama assembled there a lot of questions as to whether they would be a rubber stamp court just like the fight allegedly is a rubber stamp court but knowing some of the people in that group knowing them personally i doubt very seriously they're going to be a rubber stamp group you doubt it even though they have a serious ties with the obama administration you this wire is one of the members of that group and in fact prior to his appointment he was quite critical about the n.s.a. and quite concerned about privacy issues and i don't think he's going to change its stripes now that he's been appointed to that group very interesting so we have a guest on last hour to talk about these latest revelations as he was he got he got he got to me he is the founder of s s p blue and he said that these leaks aren't surprising to the n.s.a. they're not new let's take a listen to him. i can speak as a former prosecutor i think there's a lot of things that i think there was a senator on in your news hour just a few minutes ago saying there's

a lot the public doesn't know that if they knew they would support things and having been in the courtrooms of america seeing the crazy amount of stuff that criminals can do there are tactics that you take but at the end of the day the best part about all this and i do support this side as well very well is there is a legislative judicial and executive branch of government and when the constitution was created it was built on that thing and the whole notion that different branches will balance the powers of each other out so he went on to say that if the n.s.a. has this capability if there are certain ways that certain companies that can protect users encryption data do you hold similar views to this well i do and i agree with him oh i think he's pretty knowledgeable in this area and we do have a system of checks and balances my law firm hogan lovells and i was one of the authors along with my partner in our paris office when some actual produced a white paper this year that shows that in other countries there is not the level of oversight or or protection for the national security agency's access to those

countries citizens data and i think that's a really important distinction that's kind of gotten lost in the wake of the snowden revelations that needs to be pointed out say what you will about how well our framework works we have a framework and it's a very good point a very astute point now as we were talking about little bit earlier back in two thousand and eleven the obama administration secretly won an appeal in the fight to court to reverse restrictions on the n.s.a. back in two thousand and eight and those restrictions dealt with the use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails so can you talk about this a little bit more what does this say about the n.s.a. so i suspect there will be an examination of that opinion or reexamination of that opinion to see whether or not that that ruling was was justified in terms of the needs i think as. pointed out as others have pointed out there are legitimate needs for surveillance to protect the country against threats the question is whether or

not that effort to protect the country oversteps the protection of privacy that all of us also are entitled to so there's a balance that needs to be struck. right now is christopher wallace he's a partner at hogan lovells. well so i hear on our t.v. in california there is a prison that lets you pay for a better cell so what is that the end of the so called the hard knock life more after the break. i think. i'm. a big fuss. over. that you know the price is the

only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press system a girl we've been a hydrogen why a handful of transnational corporations they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem or trying to rational debate in a real discussion critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then welcome to it. welcome back well if you do the crime you do the time how hard that time is could

depend on how deep your pockets are at one california prison where inmates can actually pay for a five star treatment the seal beach detention center in orange county california is offering inmates flat screen t.v.'s brand new access to media centers and more if the price is right that is it is all part of the so-called pay to stay program and are to correspondent ramon the window shows us how it works. with her dreams drew is a violent. lockups have come under major scrutiny because of reports of abuse import medical care but not in seal beach california where inmates are getting a much more comfortable place to serve their sentence it would just be one hundred dollars a day taking a business approach the city of seal beach has advertised their pay to stay jail in newspapers they're trying to track pain inmates with flat screen t.v.'s a media room and clean facilities are current inmate population ranges from

everything between a dui offense all the way up to sometimes even sexual offenders. this storm gets old. inmates who pay also help clean up the jail they have access to kitchen facilities and exercise next if they can pay robert is doing time for behavior manslaughter his family has spent thousands of dollars for slate he calls your sentence there in there can be some arguments about what's on t.v. but that's about it people typically think of a jail as a very buy in place that's not the case here where you get squeaky clean floors and relative safety for a hundred bucks a day however at the end of the day you're still locked up in a cage definitely not a fancy jail and it's nicer seal beach has received calls from all over the country from people wanting to stay here you pay to be here going to fight and then they have to go to a worse place over something trivial several other california cities including

fullerton and and fremont also offered pay to stay jail cells. the idea is help the city of seal beach make money and become more efficient our priority was to be a nice a facility that would offset the cost or subsidize the cost the city taxpayers have to pay six years ago the jail is run by a private contractor and had to close down after the city to go over operation cause rekha employed pay went up and inmates got a friendlier stay i can tell you a dozens of times that we. thank you kurtz and i just received a really long letter one of the inmates who befriended me on facebook to be able to sleep to change british for wednesday's race for. a little more brutal for many people in america's overcrowded jails can't afford to stay like this but as jailers and local governments look for new money streams peter stay appears to be huge a stake in seal beach california remote. all right well for

sale a gently used don't power edge or for ten server what the ability to store massive amounts of memory all while minimizing the amount of energy needed to operate it but this one is unique you see stored within the chips and circuits of this bad boy used to be a cache of secret u.s. government documents man hoff the swedish i.s.p. that originally hosted wiki leaks is selling the server that held all of the documents that private first class manning leaked to the secrecy organization over seven hundred thousand classified files in all the box was originally listed for three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars but come on now this is part of a whistleblower history here as this as of this broadcast anyway the bid is now up to twenty five thousand two hundred dollars that money will be donated to reporters without borders which is

a freedom of the press nonprofit organization as well as the fifth of july foundation which is an internet liberty and privacy organization the auction will end on september twelfth who knows how high the price will go in the next few days . while here in the us having great wealth is at times it seems seen as the cause of a longer better life but there are other ways for a group of people to live long without great wealth for more on that the residents laurie harvest. in the us there exists a cult of wealth with the almighty dollar as its insidious leader we bow down to

people like donald trump who stands for wealth and gold plated toilets we spend our entire lives focused on money for what what is the end goal here a tune filled with stuff when you're dead or maybe we think that money will help us live longer if that's the case get a load of it coast to riga is one of the places on earth where people live longer lives than usual a recent study there showed that the people who live longest with the poorest of those studies focused on residents in the quiet peninsula even by close to rican standards in the koya is impoverished the g.d.p. per capita there in two thousand and twelve was about twelve thousand dollars compared to the us this is fifty thousand dollars and close to rica spends just fifteen per cent of what the us spends on now care and get close to it we couldn't

sixty year olds are four times more likely to reach age ninety than those in the us it quietens have the lowest rate of middle aged mortality on the planet. to understand why scientists took d.n.a. samples and measured the length that's in the coins chromosomes telomeres longer telomeres correlate to longer life expectancy that has really long telomeres longer than close to reconcile where the researcher. analyzed many factors like blood pressure education diet and other things they found that none of those factors explained the koreans longer tell them. what they did five was it than the coins poverty seemed to have approached text of fact and they found that the poorest households had the longest telomere. the napoleons also had less stress and fewer people who lived alone they value strong family support and have

tremendous respect for their elders so an extremely poor population also lives extremely long lives and yet here we are chasing money like you can make us happier or live longer our worship of money is a sham you don't need millions of dollars you don't even need a foreign one k. what you need is to be nice to your grandma so that your kids will be nice to you and want to keep you alive too if we stopped buying into the hype and took a look around for just a second we see that money is nothing more than a false god one we should flush down the toilet whether it's gold plated or not. tonight let's talk about beth by following me on twitter at the resident.

all right that does it for now i'm meghan lopez don't forget to tune in to larry king now at nine pm have a great night. escalation agenda u.s. president barack obama has ordered the pentagon to double be a task force and expand the target list as part of his assumed assault on syria it was spectacles of international opinion and polls at home the us on its own is poised to carry out forced to change in damascus well at least that's the plan. well. it's technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've dumped of huge you're covered.