so you or your immediate. c.e.o. don carty dot com. coming up on r t today in switzerland john kerry and sergey lavrov met to discuss a possible diplomatic solution for syria but will a deal of void u.s. military intervention the latest on the meeting in the future of syria just ahead. with the latest leaks coming out about the n.s.a. surveillance state more americans one congress to act one is on the docket for capitol hill to fix the problem we'll speak with new jersey congressman rush holt about the issue coming up. in texas a foster mother was charged with the murder of a two year old girl is placed in the woman's custody through child protective services but how did things go so wrong we'll speak with the mother of the baby just ahead.

it's thursday september twelfth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching r t u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in geneva switzerland today participating in another round of talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about these chemical disarmament of syrian military forces the two day meeting will include a full diplomatic teams from both countries as well as chemical weapons experts who discuss the overarching question of how what this disarmament will happen the goal is to have a resolution to present to the u.n. by the end of these negotiations and the speech secretary kerry delivered earlier today he set some strict guidelines for syria's disarmament this is not a game that i said my friends are gay when we talked about it initially. it has to be real it has to be comprehensive it has to be verifiable it has to be

credible it has to be timely and implemented in a timely fashion and finally there ought to be consequences. so the military option is not off the table back in syria president bashar all all saud has openly agreed to handing over chemical arms and his first interview with reporters since news of a possible agreement came out the united nations secretary general's office confirmed it has received an application from syria to join the international convention banning the production and the use of chemical weapons in the afternoon it will take thirty days now to become a member of a party of this and assad says he will begin submitting data on his chemical arsenal one month after that that is assad says if the u.s. halts the threat of military action. well r.t. is one of the only news stations to have

a reporter on the ground in syria correspondent maria for an ocean i and her team are in the historic christian town of ma lula which has been the scene of some of the most brutal fighting as of late one of her crew members was actually injured as a result of all of that chaos for more from the ground here is maria for an ocean of. them to all of. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihad just has been booted out you know some of them were killed some of them escaped but it was the locals joined the army to defend the native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms of the so-called national defense that the dream he's very difficult with mountains and caves but we know the area better so we are carrying on with the

alteration of that. we come across one grocery shop owner who we assumed back in two thousand and twelve she then he told us that the armed rebels hasn't come to their village and why would they. this time he's armed with a gun and months to win soldiers and he has some question as again. syria is a land of history and of luck there but not they sent terrorists here from all corners of the world to kill syrians and each other why i ask the world i mean why if a european citizen is so much just slapped across the face there'd be a scam going on in syria how many victims how many hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered what will it stop with quickly find out that it won't be today held by the militants for a week it seems that mountain tops of fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was the liberated them push on my car one

a street we couldn't do it there snipers are everywhere milo is home to many christian churches in monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the wrecks now added to these we see blagged how does swags. it's time to head back. to trial in the car something goes wrong. we take cover in a place where we find dozens of army soldiers hiding from enemy's bullets. the main road has been targeted and it is our only way out. we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit. but it was. clearly much. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we can't wait

a minute more. human . when i'm stuck here in this corner and when i'm trying to get out of here. really missed what. was up no don't go. there with her early think burke. go there are. a lot. more focus also do the boots did you hear them with. peter green rick perry. to fire in your behind.

when you're told if. they're not going to get rid of. their family make. sure you get. and we leave while government two forces continue their princely form on the wall of the luge which despite the claims remains under siege . reporting from syria. well it's called the national security agency but in light of the seemingly endless stream of leaks detailing n.s.a. spying perhaps a more accurate name for the agency these days is the national surveillance agency not only do we now know that the n.s.a. can access your phone and e-mail that a data that has accidentally collected american citizens information in the past that there are numerous cases of blatant abuse we also now know that the agency is

sharing this data with other government entities and other countries this controversy was dominating the political conversation before congress went on recess but now look crisis in syria is taking over that spotlight one. congressman is still paying attention though and he's ready to dismantle the patriot act that gives the government these kinds of overarching surveillance capabilities as well as parts of the foreign intelligence surveillance act u.s. representative rush holt of new jersey joined me earlier to talk about his efforts to rein in government spying and he told me why this is so important to him take a look well we've seen a lot of excesses and missteps come to public attention now the n.s.a. has gone out of bounds in a number of ways with their vacuum cleaner surveillance with their heavy handed many people a sion of encryption codes with their. really i

guess. heavy handed approach to whistleblowers. all of this is coming to light i think it means that the legislation i introduced some months ago now. is all the more relevant let's hope that it becomes supported we'll find out. and let's talk about this agreement that has recently come to light about the n.s.a. in this israeli counterpart i ask you where by the n.s.a. pass along raw data and intelligence to israel not just about u.s. citizens but also on canadians new zealanders brits and australians what do you make of this recent information you know over the years the united states has shared intelligence with israel and israel has shared intelligence with the united states. as in so many cases i think with the intelligence

community there has been too little congressional oversight. you know these things that are done in the name of the security of the american people. should be reviewed and. overseen by the. representatives of the american people. to see that things are done really in the best in the national interest and in the best way. we know that with surveillance of americans the n.s.a. went way overboard outside the law probably against the constitution in. surveilling americans collecting data. really personal data about americans without probable cause without good court oversight the court has now said it's come to light in recently released papers that

they felt they were lied to the court was lied to and deceived and and then the n.s.a. admitted that all of this collection and use was so extensive that no one in the n.s.a. knew all that they were doing another words they were so out of control they didn't even know what they were doing and as for. collecting and sharing with other countries. you know that too needs more congressional oversight for years now the n.s.a. and most of the agencies of the intelligence community have been operating. well with impunity and without oversight and they've gotten what they wanted because they said it's in the national interest and so they get lots of funding and a free hand to do what they're whatever they want to do that they believe is in the national interest only to discover some years later. only for the public

and the representatives to discover some years later it's not necessarily in the national interest collecting on americans certain kinds of sharing of intelligence . and you know i haven't even really addressed the matter of encryption the n.s.a. has over the years had a responsibility one of one of its responsibilities was to see that communications within the united states can be carried out securely so when the president wants to use the phone on air force one that the phone conversation won't be stolen by someone else well it turns out that the n.s.a. in. looking at the the electronic chips as well as the computer software that's used for encryption by banks and online purchasers and. you know any number of uses has been compromised deliberately by n.s.a.

so that people so that they can intercept the otherwise encrypted messages. what that says to the world is don't buy american merchandise. or or american software it's been compromised by the n.s.a. and if you know. an intruder who is smart enough to get into it and so in all of these ways we've got examples of an agency run amok. and it just underscores the need for congressional oversight and public public awareness and in some cases public outcry that was us representative rush holt. and while the majority of attention has been focused on what government agencies are doing with your data the question of how the government is organizing its own

data has been less explored that is until now congressman darrell ice is trying to standardize the way different agencies keep track of their spending so that taxpayers can search and examine where their money is going artie's perry and boring caught up with the congressman and others and she brings us this report. the federal government has been collecting all sorts of data on citizens but is a terrible job organizing its own data expression only when it comes to spending the issue they are using twentieth century technology to track the twenty first century the federal government is so large and expansive that it doesn't even have a full list of all the different agencies it departments and programs and addition all of these different organizations do not report in the same place or in a standard format making all of the information and searchable and complete and not transparent to taxpayers the data transparency coalition as a trade association advocating for data reform hudson hollister is their executive

director we would like to see federal spending fully standardized and fully published that means on a transaction by transaction level everything is public available for all to see but if the government published all this data an easily accessible place what the public like what they see just of coal formally from the us office of management and budget had this to say look you mention a few unleashed all of this data and you have a lot of gray haired people like me with nothing better to do than sit on my computer following the money that my congressman or senator is spending in my district. you're going to have like two million pairs of eyes watching everybody in this country and the way they spend money so i think it's just a tremendous power there that's ready to be on a leash i think the public will love it the u.s. treasury department already has the authority to implement these reforms there does not fully flexing that power so congressman darrell issa introduced the data ags which mandates that the government standardize m.

publish all financial documents any time that you want to update is to say you have to give up your legacy you have to comply with a common standard you're going to get some resistance unless there's an order to do so and we believe that with the that's what the data can force dare i say the chairman of the government over. site committee also sent a strong letter to the f.c.c. chair which expresses my disappointment that we haven't gone all digital that we continue to have transcribing errors and that it's unnecessary on september tenth i saw a launch an investigation into the us security and exchange commission on their implementation and enforcement of the interactive data rule representative jared polis doesn't think this is a partisan issue really i just think it takes a little extra work i mean the easiest thing is to do nothing to continue for a system to be arcane in excess of all these problems that we have lack of interoperability challenges doing something advocates for open data reforms that it would also open new enervate of technology markets not ends of code will replace

layers of lawyers the burden of compliance will be lifted without sacrificing oversight we will see a product to be boom i firmly believe comparable to the introduction of the p.c. we will see economic growth new jobs people moved out of poverty but unfortunately with so many pressing issues in front of congress can they make data reform a priority congress can walk and chew gum at once and will get work on these other issues as well. lawmakers are the wing wait for crisis to make moves hopefully they standardized government data before the next one so the public can see the true cost of it and washington i'm parian boring r.t. . normally when a baby is taken into the custody of child protective services it's meant to temporarily remove them from a potentially bad situation and to put them into a safe environment that's why the parents of two year old alexandria hill were in utter disbelief in july when they got word that their daughter died after suffering

a serious brain injury and that the foster care provider taking care of their daughter had been charged with murder austin texas residents mary mary sweeney and joshua hill agreed to have their daughter placed in to into protective custody while they were figuring out who should have alternate custody over two year old alexandria now the family is mourning the loss of their baby girl and looking for answers as to how this horrible tragedy could have ever happened mary sweeney joined me earlier today to tell me her story and i first asked her when and why protective services took their daughter away well it all started with. josh and i getting into an argument you know as simple parents do and kind of escalated from there he asked his sister for advice and she unexpectedly showed up at the house our apartment and she had gotten furious with

her brother with joshua and. there was a lot of anger and a lot of. just. unhappiness at that at that moment and. so his sister wanted up call and c.p.s. due to josh is anger issue and just how things were panning out at that moment and because i was in mother of alexandria i was part of the situation and it was unfortunate. it was due to marijuana use i did admit that i smoked marijuana in the past and i had actually quit at that time before c.p.s. got involved. but apparently that wasn't enough. josh had said that i was not allowed to be with alexandria alone. due to my grandma seizures which

i have no documentation about that for many doctors but back in florida i had a doctor that did tell me that it should be you know recommended that somebody should be there with me most of the time if josh was at work or anything like that but you know under circumstances there are situations where i can't. be watched well with alex and so it wasn't something that had to be done it was just you know for safety precautions which i understood there was a six month period that i couldn't drive and i did not drive without xandra and it just kind of hurt the fact that i couldn't c.p.s. didn't give me the chance to separate myself from josh and still have alex while he still worked on himself and how did you learn about your daughters that. i learned about alex's death. from a phone call at eleven o'clock at night on july twenty ninth i had gotten

a call. from the sea c.p.s. supervisor i've had one phone call from her that i did not get and she left a message saying that it was due to alex and i need basically needed to give her a call back and. i was unfortunately sleeping at that time and. what woke me up was the multiple phone calls from my caseworker and josh my aunt my ex fiance and. that's what finally woke me up and i answered the phone call and the only thing that i could was told that i needed to come to temple that alex had a little accident and i had an argument with josh over the phone because he was you know understandably very upset he was on his way down there at that time it was

around one one thirty in the morning and. so i told him you know is she alive right now and he couldn't answer me i kept repeating the question and after about three minutes he could finally tell me right now she is. and so my partner and i left and took off to temple to mclean's children's hospital where she was their flight had to. and unfortunately with my grandma seizures they took me in a wheelchair you know just just for safety reasons because the only thing i can the doctors have no idea why i have grandma seizures just not epileptic just due to the fact that i've come to the realization it's all stress induced anytime my blood pressure. he starts going. i fall into a seizure and so i've been learning myself to control my feelings in and everything

to. do to prevent me from having seizures and marion and we only have about a minute left but what do you want to tell parents about this situation what can we learn from this. what we can learn from this is. this is a very difficult question for me. i am trying to get justice for alex and make sure that no one else has to be put in this situation ever again your children always are first and foremost in life and for their safety and for making sure they are taken care of so this can never happen again. because this is unfair. i had no where i had no. reason why this should have happened to me.

as i feel and. no parent should be put through this and the main focus is justice for alex right now very we are so sorry for your loss and we hope that you finally get the answers that you are looking for in this tragic case mary sweeney alexandria held mother thank you so much i appreciate your time. remember that pesky piece of legislation that we told you about earlier this year known as the monsanto protection act well against the outcry of farmers the bill was slipped last minute into the short term house agriculture appropriations bill for twenty thirteen under the auspice that it would expire in six months time many legislators expressed their surprise am that the river formally known as the farmer assurance provision was even in the bill in the first place well six months have come and gone and the act has now been approved by the house for a three month extension in the act. but he mislike monsanto cargo and dupont

from the threat of lawsuits as a result of their genetically modified seeds and also bars federal courts from enforcing the legislations that would force the g.m.o. giants to halt their sales even if it is known that the product is linked to harmful side effects the center for food safety is speaking out against the extension saying quote the rider represents an unprecedented attack on u.s. judicial review which is an essential element of u.s. law and provides a critical check on government decisions that may negatively impact human health the environment or livelihoods but at least for the next few months it looks as if this act is here to stay. well is the invention that has revolutionized the way people around the world connect with one another and while the internet expands it constantly changes the way that we actually communicate with one another however it's not simply the internet of people but also with the internet of things that's

changing where inanimate objects themselves can share data for more and then we turn to the residents laurie who are finished. ninety meters that keep track of how far your job sensors you can put in your plans that send you a text message when they need to be watered washing machines by e-mail you when you're closer to all those things connect to the internet to become smarter and do more things for you and that extra smartness of those things is referred to as a concept called the internet of things and the internet of things is growing so

fast because we all love the added value we get from it another example of things that use the internet of things our baby monitors at home security cameras you can hook them up to the internet so you can keep an eye on your home when your baby from a computer anywhere anytime great writes the only problem is that sometimes other people can watch your baby and your house on the internet too that's exactly what happened recently according to the federal trade commission they issued a release dating that trend net a company that markets video cameras to allow people to monitor their homes and babies remotely was a little bit lax in their security measures as a result the insides of hundreds of people's homes and their cute little sleeping babies were on display for anyone in the world to watch online. in a statement f.t.c. chairwoman even from europe has said that the internet of things holds great

promise for innovative consumer products and services but consumer privacy and security. he must remain a priority as companies develop more devices that connect to the internet. well it's pretty funny to hear someone from the u.s. government opining about privacy and security her words bring up an excellent point about the internet of things as all of the things we connect to the internet learn more about our spending habits our schedules our baby's nap time our running routes all of those things about us become vulnerable to hacker attacks daft invasion of privacy and government spying so while we might love the added value we get from the internet of things it all comes at a cost to our privacy and with a threat to our security the more we buy into the internet of things the more we

become vulnerable things of the internet ourselves tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. does it for me for tonight but for more on the stories we cover go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america check out our website r t dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez have a great night. as president obama takes his case for strikes against syria to the american people russia makes a last ditch effort for diplomacy will it work former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. bill richardson joins us next on politicking with larry king.

live. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future of coverage. i know c.n.n. m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close enough for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you.