coming up on our t.v. last night president obama spoke to the american people on why he seeks military intervention in syria but he also stressed that he's willing to seek a diplomatic deal to mourn what's next in the fate of syria just ahead. and today marks twelve years since the world trade center towers fell while we remember those are died that day some of the moon some of the first responders and volunteers are still struggling with health issues that story coming up also more of the n.s.a.'s inner workings are revealed new documents shed some light on the top secret buys a court and how your phone privacy is being compromised more on the revelations later in the show.

it's wednesday september eleventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching r.t. and we begin with the united states senate where today the senate was expected to hold a vote on. they force in syria but as president obama noted in his primetime speech last night that vote has been delayed at his request while he and secretary of state john kerry confer with russia to see if their diplomatic solution to compel syria to hand over its chemical weapons stockpiles is indeed viable and secretary kerry is expected to meet with his russian counterpart in geneva tomorrow to go over all of this the next stage is the united nations where the united states allied with france and the u.k. will try to work with china and russia to pass a u.n. resolution requiring assad to give up his chemical weapons but already there are some discord as russia says it can't support any u.n.

resolution that threatens military force against syria while also forcing syria to disarm but the united states argues that the only way to get syria to disarm is with the threat of military force and in his speech last night president obama insisted that military force is still very much an option meaning that while he's pursuing this diplomatic solution he also has a gun on the bargaining table and i've ordered our military to maintain their current posture to keep the pressure on assad and to be in a position to respond if diplomacy fails for nearly seven decades the united states has been the anchor of global security this is men doing more than forging international agreements it has meant enforcing them but all the presidents continues his strong embrace embrace excuse me of u.s. military ism in syria he tried to make the case that the u.s. is not the world's policeman america's not the world's policeman terrible things

happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. but when with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death. and thereby make our own children safer over the long run i believe we should act but to congress and the american people also think the u.s. should act now all of this is going on the senate is working on a new authorization for military force in syria one that hinges on all diplomatic measures being exhausted first before any targeted u.s. military strikes such a resolution may be able to attract more support in congress where lawmakers have received an earful from their constituents urging a no vote the new c.n.n. poll shows that more than two thirds of americans are confident that a diplomatic solution will ultimately prevent a u.s. bombing campaign in syria. while the international community weighs its options on

syria syria itself continues to deal with the horrors of its civil war a civil war that has pitted the syrian government against a diverse opposition a rebel groups some moderate others focused on jihad artie's more if inertia as the story of those fighters who come to syria to fight on behalf of al qaeda i did this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the lawn is lama coat is a suicide bomber leaving on his final journey. this is his last under sanctions because elder brother in a car that is supposed to take him to those of the central bank reason in aleppo syria and then explained sending him to paradise according to his beliefs these clips were found on the letter to have taken wanted and seen in the food age who is now in a syrian prison. he calls himself round he says he came to syria from the former

soviet republic to fight. him out. approached me a year ago and convinced me that muslims in syria are being oppressed and killed and that i should go and take up arms against assad parol jihad and help establish a caliphate that will extend worldwide to europe america and everywhere she sneaked into syria last january through turkey in istanbul two men who said they were from al qaeda and accompanied him to syria where he joined a large mormon delegate run by an egyptian jihad is my job was mainly to prepare bombs for cars the rim any people all from different countries our teachers showed us how to make bombs which ingredients to use and how exactly to cook it. one of his recent assignments was a letter praising bowman last may the man you saw in the farewell video was driving the car the russian can't rush on brought his entire family to syria including his

five year old son on this mediocre minute and shows his boy how to make a bomb they say are you terry father dies the son should confess. i don't know what al are prepared for me but we have to finish what we started we spoke to rush on at the air force intelligence jail next to a military airport in damascus in the south. the police news here are mainly charged by the terry smith of spying. this newly built unit can accommodate up to two hundred people and already almost full. in the jails backyard an officer tells us not to get to play as the prisoners could be dangerous there are people here from syria yemen iraq jordan egypt and palestine but many came from europe as well as algerian with a french passport ammar has spent most of his life. in france where he married a french woman and lead

a normal life that changed after he was recruited by an islamic group of undecided thais calling hard in syria. a volunteer i went to in a very few gee camp there i met a salafi groups and i trained with them for about two and a half months and then we illegally crossed the border into syria. under says as a son of the fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw on al-jazeera al-arabiya another channels the kids are also suffering i took up arms and i was ready to use them but when i came here i didn't see the enemy in a separate building they show west weapons including handmade bombs and green maids seized from militants these are the instruments of global jihad that syria is a battlefield to bring foreign fighters from violence this prison may be food but beyond the wall is really a man of many causes remain free to continue their fight for.

damascus syria ortiz maria for nourishes on the ground in syria with cameramen to cough and camera system curial. of course today is september eleventh remarks twelve years since the two thousand and one terrorist attacks that killed nearly three thousand people at the world trade center at the pentagon and in shanksville pennsylvania the day so far has been filled with memorials around the country. and yeah i mean. trudy and all of. you and me so much your brother his sister and you have a need and never. find. an amazing

father. they. can be. some of the most iconic images from nine eleven our first responders running toward the chaos toward the danger to save lives and for many losing their own life doing so and first responders today twelve years after nine eleven are still suffering from the consequences of their heroic actions and unfortunately many are not receiving the help they need artes on the stasi a church has more. rebuilding a site of horror and tragedy. a new tower marks the new york skyline filled. with rebuilding the lives of those who were here to help twelve years ago is moving at

a glacial pace we have more forty one people this year to nine eleven related illnesses over thirteen hundred workload and not one thousand nine hundred since nine eleven a little more than eleven people have been compensated wasn't needed with only a handful of people so far having received cash from a fund set up for victims first responders and volunteers tens of thousands are still waiting while struggling with sicknesses from inhaling toxic air after nine eleven people like t.j. gill martin. g. hasan and ken george it is a big fight. big fight like you we would a criminals. the way they treat us doctors tell can he has the lawns of a senior citizen he's only forty nine once a highway worker he is disabled and can't make a living will play with his grandchild or lead any semblance of a life he once had i can't think enough oxygen in and well enough oxygen out so this with this machine here and helps me breathe gives me the extra oxygen i need

forces it into me not only is he attached to a machine can also has to take thirty three pills and almost a bottle of cough syrup every single day this is. the first responders wearing sunglasses because the steroids he takes to keep his vital organs working give him chronic headaches they've also caused him to have a heart attack and gain dozens of pounds ken considers himself lucky each year that comes by it is more of my nine eleven brothers and sisters who got sick passing on you know there's that thing of total sixty hundred that that passed away already from the illnesses guilt is a major part of ken's life because i did for him everybody alive there you know. jimmy hazen had surgery on his stomach and struggles with p.t.s.d. breathing is a daily struggle for him monitoring his health is his new full time job a nine eleven first responder it's like nine eleven every day for you when you're sick or getting sick or there's

a believe about fifteen hundred people with cancer right now jimmy says the government has no excuses left and needs to step it up nine eleven that's yesteryear let's not worry about it but the truth is people are sick people are dying people have cancer they're not exactly healing from this and getting better fifty three year old t.j. gill martin echoes this a former construction worker he also has not been able to work for the last five years because of his disability following nine eleven i've woken up at night with b.s. and coming out of my throat and i'm choking to death. and i can't breathe we first met t.j. shortly after the zadroga health and compensation act was passed two years ago promising financially to sick nine eleven first responders. since then i had to sell my house and so whatever i had because the victims' compensation fund hasn't. anybody since i saw you was the nodules in my lungs have grown if they stay where

they. will be fine if they grow any more they got it they got below but my one traditionally on the anniversary of nine eleven the world commemorates the lives lost on this historic day but the first responders in our story and thousands of others are yet to receive the compensation and help they deserve a mind boggling twelve years after the tragedy and the future going to see new york and there are still others who remain affected by the events of nine eleven namely muslim americans who have been dealing with ever increasing islamophobia here in the united states as the war on terror has ramped up abroad today many muslim americans took to the nation's capitol here in washington d.c. for what they're calling a rally against fear but they were met with counter protesters artie's was wall was there here's what you saw. both as a. million muslim march but it was renamed million american a march against fear that turned out not as big as and to some hated maybe

a hundred people shy of the thousands of people that were expected to turn out for this event today on this anniversary of the nine eleven attacks protesters here want to bring attention to the plight of the muslim american community after the nine eleven attacks people want to try to come together as a human race as human race or whatever your religious views. were coming together here as human race to say hey look we don't agree with everything we do. they don't even trust yes i have been discriminated but. according to what. we muslims condemn turns we must little's against violence and hate. and we muslims all just like all americans wants to work hard to build this kind of perhaps a bigger definitely louder demonstration today has two million bikers demonstration

it's actually a counter protest to the original protest this original protest among conservative groups because some of the organizers have ties to the nine eleven true their conspiracy group so they came out on their bikes today to make it their voice says loud and clear they originally applied for a permit so that they could bypass all traffic signals that permit wasn't approved we caught up with them today here is what they had to say. or for victims you know a lot want to hear. things about nine eleven and then you see. their lives the families our troops who are still fighting for all the families that have lost people that's why we're here. to be able to do. i want to say. well brings you. in on the last

time i've been around so a lot of different points of view being displayed today signaling that twelve years later some of the decisions and policies policies that nine eleven remain divisive but i did notice on both sides there is this message of unity here in washington liz wahl our team today also marks one year since the terrorist attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi libya which took the life of four americans including u.s. ambassador to libya christopher stevens marking the anniversary powerful car bomb was detonated today outside the foreign ministry building in benghazi ripping apart the buildings facade luckily there are no reports of casualties this is just the latest act of violence in a nation that still trying to find stability following nato intervention in the ousting of its president moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven. and now on to the latest regarding the national security agency's massive spying program edward

snowden the latest leak published today by the guardian shows that the n.s.a. is handing over huge amounts of raw data including data belonging to american citizens to israel where it's then sifted through without any safeguards protecting the privacy or association rights of american citizens according to an undated n.s.a. memo this intelligence sharing program with israel began in two thousand and nine and while internal documents stress the need for israeli intelligence analysts to respect the privacy rights of american citizens the reality is israel has access to raw intelligence that has not been filtered by the n.s.a. to remove u.s. citizen communication data or yesterday trying to stay in front of leaks just like this one the director of national intelligence james clapper released hundreds of documents about the n.s.a. as telephone calls surveillance program these releases came in response to a freedom of information act request from the electronic frontier foundation and

the a.c.l.u. and included in them are previously classified buys a court documents that show concerns from the court over how the n.s.a. is searching through americans phone communications artie's amir a david now with more on what can be gleaned from this document dump. more than two years ago senator ron wyden of oregon took the senate floor to boycott of four year extension to one of the most controversial pieces of legislation the u.s. patriot act i served on the intelligence committee for over a decade and i want to deliver a warning this afternoon when the american people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the patriot act they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry. now we didn't know it at the time but senator wyden is words would foreshadow just an inkling of the disturbing revelations to emerge regarding americans right to privacy it's because of white and chilling comment that privacy

advocates began to ask questions about how the government had been interpreted in one very questionable provision of the patriot act known as section two fifteen a section that vastly expanded the government's power to spy on ordinary people referred to it as sensitive collection program and now more than two years after a flurry of requests and a subsequent lawsuit from the american civil liberties union and the electronic frontier foundation we finally have the answer just yesterday the office of the director of national intelligence released approximately eighteen hundred pages of documents that shed light on the constitutionality of the n.s.a.'s domestic surveillance program so we now know more details on a program that started back in two thousand and one that allowed for the government to collect our phone records in bulk that's right under this program the n.s.a. received daily transfers of all customer records from the nation's phone companies

those records included incoming and outgoing calls along with the calls duration but more specifically the documents reveal that the n.s.a. had been running an automated alert list on the selected phone numbers the spy agency to. at the list of about eighteen thousand suspicious phone numbers but senior intelligence officials now say that of the phone numbers on the alert less more than fifteen thousand of them or eighty eight percent were wrongly included and according to the documents and i say officials didn't even understand that this activity was a violation of their own internal regulations the washington post poll did one official as saying there was no single person with a complete understanding of the business records by the system and apparently that lack of understanding led to us small lack of communication for three years between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine the n.s.a.

provided faulty information to the five the court during which time the court continued to approve the bulk surveillance program but in two thousand and nine the court finally came down on the n.s.a. when district judge reggie walton who oversaw a u.s. spy court wrote a blistering opinion about the n.s.a.'s abuse of power in fact the judge almost shut down the government's domestic surveillance program after he quote lost confidence in the ability of n.s.a. officials to operate it in the right way but instead of shutting down the program bolton instead ordered the n.s.a. to conduct an end to end review of its policy and mandated that the organization be subject to closer monitoring this might sound familiar to those of you who are following the fallout of the n.s.a. scandal and which the president major action has been calling for its own review board so there you have it thousands of ordinary americans being searched without meeting the n.s.a. standard of reasonable articulable suspicion and as punishment they're getting

review board in washington and your david parties to dive deeper into these n.s.a. documents i was joined earlier by marcy wheeler an investigative reporter of the real dot net and i asked her what do these documents that were released by james clapper yesterday tell us about the oversight mechanisms in place not only at the n.s.a. but also at the far as a court which we are told is the ultimate oversight institution. well basically this program when it was put on to the price of core operated for two and a half years before a judge came along and started figuring out what was going on the judge who initially approved it was a judge who was in the white house during the nixon ford transition which means he probably knew cheney and when he initially approved it it was it was stunningly bare it basically said oh sure you can do this and then that was march in august of

that year the n.s.a. sort of kind of told the fisa court exactly what it was doing although not in very clear sense and it wasn't until two thousand and eight and the timing of this isn't is critically important because it wasn't until december of two thousand and eight that so literally the transition before between the obama administration the bush administration the obama administration that judge reggie walton took a closer look first wrote the opinion that should have been written in two thousand and six laying the groundwork for why this was legal in the first place and then within five weeks six weeks. had come to him and said we've got a problem because we've been doing vastly more than we told you when you approved this last month. so you know there's that two and a half year period it was the second people doing audits of this function themselves as you guys mentioned the. director alexander claimed

to walton in a declaration back in two thousand and nine that golly they had no idea there wasn't one person what he actually said was there wasn't one person who knew the architecture of this entire program but that wasn't what was that issue what was it issue was the legal advice that the n.s.a. his own lawyers had given and when alexander. spoke about that he very carefully always used the it appears to be that nobody knew what they were doing it appears he kept using appears appears appears so his claim that nobody knew it nobody one no one person knew everything first of all is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand because it didn't address whether people understood the legal issue. but then when he talked about the legal issues you very carefully couched his language because he was making a sworn declaration to a court so that you know it it is completely unbelievable that they didn't know

what they were doing because general alexander in particular had been in charge of cheney's legal program before this went under the court's oversight in two thousand and six when they were doing this as well pressure point that more so i want to move on real quick to this way this leak that the guardian published today. it's doesn't this further show that even with these minimal safeguards that dennis a claims are in place protecting u.s. citizens that they're essentially meaningless as long as foreign governments like israel like the u.k. like germany have free rein to search through u.s. citizens communications and then share that information with our government it's as though the work of spying on your a citizens were simply outsourced. right and and what what's really interesting is that document was from two thousand and nine we've seen the minimisation standers from two thousand and nine which is pretty explicitly say foreign governments are only supposed to get the stuff for translation purposes and then they're supposed

to give it back what in what was invision by that memorandum of understanding was far broader and it was almost farcical because it said well if you happen to stumble upon a u.s. person's data or god forbid you know an official whether it's you know an executive branch official or congress person please get rid of it as if any other government would get rid of it so it's those two documents the minimisation procedures which the feis a court has seen and that document which we signed with the israelis are are incompatible and so we'll have to see whether the government can offer an explanation how those two things drip drip drip drip marcy wheeler just a reporter at mt we'll done thank you thanks so much now take a look at this video where you are seeing is a police stash camcorders that is pleased as camp footage from the night of august tenth and the arrest of forty four year old christine westlake village she was driving drunk and crashed her s.u.v.

into a house with three foreign exchange students in the back seat of this routine or a side you see turns anything but routine wintel house and police begin using force on west as you see here slam her head in the police car and then into the pavement before one officer places his knee on the back of her head. this is what christina west look like after the arrest her cheek bone broken she's since had two surgeries to repair the damage now the tallahassee police department stands by its actions that night claiming that west got visible with the officers attempting to kick them in the growing in the leg the police have david also says that in the hospital wes tried to rub feces on a nurse caring for her but west's attorney now plans to file suit against the tallahassee police department for unwarranted brutality against his client. and finally one florida death row prisoners date with destiny has been postponed as the state's attorney general has more pressing matters on her plate like raising

a bunch of money marshall league or was sentenced to die for the murder of two individuals in the one nine hundred eighty s. his execution date was yesterday september tenth but today gore is still alive that's because his exit execution date was rescheduled once it was realized that florida attorney general pam bondi had a reelection fundraiser planned for yesterday september tenth two funding persuaded florida governor rick scott to delay the execution while she had the opportunity to hit up her supporters for cash bond he did however release a statement acknowledging that her decision was a mistake it reads as a prosecutor there was nothing more important than seeing justice done especially when it came to the unconscionable act of murder the planned execution of marshall lead gore had already been state twice by the courts and we should add we should absolutely should not have requested that the date of the execution be moved gore's new execution date is slated for october first barring of course any new campaign

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he. says. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle stumbling in syria there can be no doubt the obama administration would very much like to strike syria and strike a hard problem is if you actually buy into the administration's so-called.