coming up on our t. washington d.c. multiple people fatally shot at the navy yard the headquarters is the work place for about three thousand employees and is the largest of the navy's five system commands more on this breaking news ahead and the u.s. and russia have struck a deal to have the syrian government remove its chemical weapons by twenty fourteen at the same time the u.n. has released a report on the use of chemical weapons but do we know who is responsible for their use details coming up and it's been five years since the collapse of the lehman brothers investment bank and to the bailout of ai g. that caused a crisis that included the government bailouts of the big banks and helped create the too big to fail phrase that we all know today will take a look back at what we've learned later in today's show.

it's monday september sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm a mere a david and you're watching our t.v. . gunshots rang out this morning at the u.s. navy yard in washington d.c. killing several people and injuring many others at least twelve people have been killed at the naval sea systems command headquarters including a d.c. police officer and another law enforcement officer according to d.c. mayor vincent gray earlier this afternoon the navy yard was established back in seventeen ninety nine and is the oldest navy installation it's the residence of the chief of naval operations and it's responsible for weapons development among other functions there are about sixteen thousand civilian and military employees who work in the complex with three thousand employees in that specific building and the yard

has about two point two million square feet of office space in total now president obama addressed this tragedy in a speech that he gave this afternoon. confronting yet another mass shooting. and today it happened on a military installation in our nation's capital it's a shooting that targeted are military and civilian personnel. these are men and women who were brought to work doing their job protecting all of us so what happened today at the u.s. navy yard well arty's san sacks is there right now with the latest sam what is the latest that you're hearing about the number of victims and the gunman who perpetrated this attack. well the latest numbers of the same well you have there we have twelve fatalities that we know of that includes one shooter of the navy yard is about three blocks that way on the right side there it's an old building it's been here it's been here since seventy nine hundred nine

as you said but back to the shooting rich wealthy tell these include the shooter now police a little bit ago said that they were looking for two potential suspects a white male and a black male wearing military style uniforms we now know they've identified the white male and he's no longer a suspect but police are still telling people around the area here to stay indoors as there might be someone still on the loose who might be responsible for the shooting but still very active investigation the street is still closed down you still see here how helicopters going around police cars driving back and forth around here and have any of the employee is that work there been able to leave or are they on lockdown i know that at some point they were on lockdown. right so about an hour ago we started seeing a steady stream of people walk from the navy yard this way these are people who were in the building at the time the shooting we're told to stay in place and they were in place for about eight hours we've had a chance to talk to

a few of them. you know this is a pretty large building so a lot of people were in buildings that weren't necessarily where the shooting was but they said that they're tired they were scared a lot of people said though that people were calm they weren't sure what was going on while the shooting started taking place but many are just relieved to be alive and now will be able to to leave their place of work about as i said eight hours after the shooting took place this morning and sam we do have a picture of the suspect i think we're going to put up there did did anybody talk to you about perhaps seeing this person before. i believe his name was aaron i'm not sure what his affiliation was with the navy yard you know anything about him specifically. right well there's the reports that aaron alexis is the guy's name a thirty four year old from fort worth a military contractor i've talked to a few eyewitnesses nobody actually saw the shooter but i talked to one man a commander here in the navy by the name of tim jarvis gyrus excuse me tim gyrus

who was there and a person who was standing next to was actually shot in the head i believe we have tape actually of him telling a story. on the military in general in the navy we're trained for combat operations away from here you know with a way to go off and fight or the wars in other locations we don't do it here. so seen somebody die in front of you here where you work at is more of a relationship you talking to guys are you realizing just how fragile life is and how random it is and how quickly you're here and you're not because you could easily then meet a guy who got hit which is what he did and there is this that this is a very sick this is this is this is a very secure building the navy yard here and you need special clearance cards just to be able to get in and once you go through security you don't have to go through additional security you don't have to go through a metal detector and to talk with one man who works in the building you see the typically they do random searches of people which is i guess is to supposed to deter people from bringing weapons but the only people he ever saw armed in the

building were security for the building and certainly law enforcement officers that work in the navy yard as well so exactly you know how this person was able to get clearance into the building is still a fair question but once you have that key card you can see how someone can gain access to the building with a weapon but these are all questions that still need to be answered sure and sam you have been there all day since the morning i believe the attack took place at eight thirty in the morning i tell us about some of the eyewitness accounts and you've been able to gather while being there. we spoke with one woman she was in the cafeteria so when you walk in there's kind of an atrium in this building and you would look up and there's all the floors and what what i want to support her saying is that there was a shooter on what appears to be the fourth floor shooting down into the atrium into the cafeteria below woman said she heard seven shots and went running to a secure area and then was able to leave the building mr gyrus who we just heard

from he went out into an alleyway when he heard the initial shots and that's where he was standing next to someone who was shot from the building in the alleyway there so there's there's eyewitness eyewitness reports remember everybody has their own vantage point depending on what building and what they saw as the shooting unfolded and sam do we know anything at this point about motive there have been reports that this may have been a disgruntled employee or two employees or however many the number is at this point is there reason to believe that there is a large remote motive at hand here though. unclear i mean there's no no word yet of a motive the navy's the c.o. shipyard or the this is mainly for shipbuilding acquisitions it's not exactly a sensitive navy command center or anything like that it does house one of administrative people with the navy and the mainly house a lot of contractors like like this guy if he is indeed the shooter is so it's still really unclear as to what might have caused all this violence this morning

well sam thank you so much for all of your insight we'll we'll get a follow up report from you later i'm sure thank you so much our tease sam sack. and now we turn to syria on saturday the united states and russia reached a diplomatic agreement that calls for syria's arsenal of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by the middle of two thousand and fourteen the announcement came on the third day of talks in geneva between secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov where the agreement focused on the specific framework to rid syria of its chemical weapons the united states and russia are committed to the elimination of syrian chemical weapons in the soonest and safest manner we agreed that syria must submit within a week not in thirty days but in one week a comprehensive listing and additional details will be addressed regarding that in

the coming days. the framework mandates that a list must be available in one week that includes the kinds and quantities of syria's chemical munitions along with the location of their storage and production sites as part of the agreement russia has been pushing for the united states to take military action off the table however the obama administration has refused saying that the u.s. would move forward you know laterally if syria fails to comply with the latest deal we will maintain our military posture in the region to keep the pressure on the assad regime and if diplomacy fails the united states and the international community must remain prepared to act but what role will the u.n. play in enforcing this agreement to talk about that along with the latest developments i'm joined by our teas marina point maria marina thank you so much for joining me. this new agreement sets a very quick process for moving these weapons can you explain the timeline that's

that been set here. well as you already mentioned this deal brokered by russia and the u.s. requires the syrian government to hand over a complete list of its chemical arsenal within one week and have the entire arsenal destroyed by the middle of next year the middle of twenty fourteen in the meantime . russia the u.s. and other power players are supposed to be trying to bring both parties to the negotiating table for the geneva two meeting for the peace talks where they're supposed to be a transitional government formed that would then help and at the crisis this civil war in syria up until this point the opposition the rebels in syria have not agreed to come to the negotiating table i think all parties involved are hoping that with this deal brokered maybe we will now see members of the syrian government members of the syrian opposition come to the table so they can discuss a transition they can discuss a way

a path to lead syria eventually back to peace would considering this would be you know one of the most challenging undertakings in the history of arms control does this seem like this timeline might be a bit ambitious to some it does seem like this timeline is a bit ambitious looks critics say that this is not going to be possible many skeptics believe that first the government of bashar al assad will not disclose all of the areas where they have chemical weapons will not be upfront about it others say listen this is the best agreement we've seen thus far throughout this ongoing civil war in syria that as you know more than two and a half years let's remember just a week ago we can a half ago we were discussing the potential u.s. military strikes against syria against the syrian government that many believe could have led to a wider wider conflict a conflict that went beyond the borders of syria so many believe that this deal that was brokered clearly averted

a military strike that seemed so imminent. so it does seem like in many ways that at this point you have the syrian government complying with the international community a way that would hope that would comply for quite a while and marina talk about the actual role of the u.n. how what role are they going to play in the removal of these weapons from syria while the u.n. security council is expected to draft a resolution for this syrian d.-o. in the coming days now france britain and the united states they're all seeking our strong text what they mean by strong is a resolution under chapter seven now any resolution under chapter seven could allow for military intervention in this case military intervention if syria fails to hand over its chemical weapons or if the international community believes that syria is not complying with the deal that the united states and russia has now brokered so this is now a sticking point because while some thought that the u.s.

would not be spearheading a military strike against syria it seems as though that option has not completely been taken off the table and we are running out of time but i do understand the u.n. released a report a weapons report today can you talk very briefly about what that report tailed is is very important the report released by u.n. inspectors does confirm and says that there is clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in syria on august twenty first but the report does not answer the key question of who launched the attack now the inspector said the environmental chemical and medical samples collected provide clear and convincing evidence that surface to surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in syria to kill hundreds of people so secretary general ban ki moon says the unequivocal and objective conclusion of chemical weapons use in syria amounts to a war crime and perpetrators must be held accountable the u.n.

chief says that this is the most signify. confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since saddam hussein used them in nineteen ninety eight thousand nine hundred eighty eight forgive me so at this point you have leaders of the united nations saying the perpetrators must be held accountable but this this report does not point the finger of who was responsible for launching that chemical attack on august twenty first while lots of new and very significant developments thank you so much marina for coming and breaking it all down r.t. correspondent marina portman. well u.s. military strikes on syria may have been averted at least for the time being however the civil war on the ground continues with the conflict only escalating in recent days case in point darius a suburb of damascus that has been completely abandoned by its residents now the only people remaining are army soldiers and rebel fighters archies maria for notion of is on the ground in syria and brings us this report. an islander is just

a few kilometers from the central damascus it used to be a nice and beautiful very picturesque town where the population of up to three hundred thousand people but it's been torn by clashes between the governmental forces and the rebels rebels two years now the result you can see everything is ruined the residents left the only people we can meet here either the army all the militants. fighting against i guess i can't take it all now we're going with the army to one of their operations. derivates cells of the capital is sponsoring a powerful militant belt around damascus known as eastern ghouta the scene of recent fierce clashes it is also where a chemical attack last month brought international resonance in its wake all weapons smuggled to syria through jordan in the sols comes through here providing local militants with

a secure supply line for. this is what the syrian war looks like today urban battlefield provides dense cover and that's work of underground tunnels also shields the militants there is no defined front line and you don't know when your enemy's watching. the syrian army soldiers say they could be snipers there and they pulled curtains like this one just to protect to prevent snipers from seeing what's going on here and then the simple system helps save many lives every day where he doesn't work soldiers just wrong. in forty minutes with travel from one district to another we follow the army as you

can see through. the buildings through the holes in the walls like this one all this one they're everywhere. and you think for once a. candidate. is here in the morning is the. work life. in this war snipers are from both sides of the frontline. is what they do most of the time waiting for the enemy. in the dead of an office assures me the map they update every day this is where we are the militants are in this big building the army liberates the town street by street building by building very slowly and very carefully has just addressed militants to surrender their promise and sometimes they leave. but sometimes they

refuse and we have no other choice but the quite an american strike seems to be on the backburner at least for now but syrian civil war goes on and on. damascus suburbs syria. in two thousand and nine the nobel peace prize was awarded to president barack obama for his quote extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples but in the five years that obama has served as the u.s. as commander in chief some would say he's done more to disrupt us the policy rather than strengthen it artie's stasia churkin us takes a deeper look at the president's career and how it may have put this award into question. less than a year into his presidency amid gasps of surprise space and why dr obama put on the extra obama was awarded the nobel peace prize for extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy i will accept this award as

a call to action fast forward to four years after receiving the prize right now are the are going gets tough and diplomatic patience dwindles we believe in peace. but we confront. a world that. is full of violence and occasional evil since the august twenty first chemical attack outside of damascus president barack obama has advocated for the use of military force in syria and said he would use it with or without the support of the u.n. or nato. after this weekend's agreement to put syrian chemical weapons under international control the immediate threat of a strike is gone but according to washington the military option remains on the table if you win a prize for being the best at something and you're significantly less than the best at something that it corrodes everything that matters. the idea of the strike

spearheaded by nobel peace prize winning president not just the nobel foundation but many americans initially trusted to be a leader of peace over the last two years my administration has tried to play mostly and sanctions warnings and negotiations but chemical weapons were still used by the assad regime should people of the world demand that the peace prize be returned that's a very important demand it's a good demand because it is a way of saying that this is not someone who represents peace at all but represents u.s. power and most ruthless form. it's not only activists calling for the u.s. president to return his peace prize texas congressman steve stockman said he would vote in favor of the syrian intervention last week if president obama would send his medal back to stockholm bombing cannot but kill people it cannot but kill people regardless what else it does it is designed to kill and it will. the

obama administration flirting with force in syria is just the latest example of a u.s. president willing to use military force sometimes in secrecy even forgot to set that aside we need to examine his drone warfare and the fact that he has been conducting drone wars against pakistan somalia. to name a few there's drones that have been going on in more than twenty countries around the world in just yemen somalia pakistan between four thousand to six thousand people have been killed only seventy seventy of whom were regarded as alleged suspects of terrorism but for now the tide seems to have turned on the u.s. is trying yet again with russia to proceed peacefully when it comes to syria but with the current crisis continuing the military option would means one that obama may return to the activists are holding his feet to the fire to not just talk the talk but walk the walk regardless of how complicated peace through diplomacy may

get if they see target on r t v. and then financial news sunday mark the fifth anniversary of the collapse of the lehman brothers investment bank in two thousand and eight the firm filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy protection following the massive exodus of its clients drastic losses in its stocks and a major downgrading of its assets by credit rating agencies in mark the largest bankruptcy filing in u.s. history and its demise became the catalyst of a major global financial meltdown and which the government shelled out seven hundred billion dollars to go to bail out the big banks at the same time today marks five years since the federal reserve authorized a bailout loan of up to eighty five billion dollars to the insurance company ai g. president obama observed the anniversary by speaking to the american people while he sought to make the case that works period seeing an economic turnaround even he had to acknowledge that there's currently a huge economic inequality gap there's even though our businesses are creating new

jobs that have broken record profits the top one percent of americans so-called twenty percent of the nation's income last year well the average worker isn't seeing a raise at all. well here to talk about some of the lessons learned and why that gap persists is less leopold executive director of the labor institute in new york and author of the book how to make a million dollars an hour why hedge funds get away with siphoning off america's wealth last thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me now going back to about five years ago we talk about what lehman brothers was doing that made it all so hard so quickly. leaving brothers as well as virtually all the major banks were super leveraged and they were into. risky investments. based on. congress' mortgages that were that could not possibly sustain that. they were alleged to sustain so they had they were loaded up

with what they saw or what they said were aaa rated thirty's that were actually junk and one of the emperor's new clothes turned out to be not there. is a wrong and the entire system froze up and. well we had a brother that was allowed to fail but the government bailed out a i.g. the day after for billions of dollars why was that. well they thought that if they didn't bailout a.r.g. then the next day would be goldman sachs and the next day would be j.p. morgan chase. and they saw a string of dominoes falling because as they began to investigate they realized these banks were loaded up absolutely love with this junk and people who owe them billions and billions of dollars were loaded up with junk so if you say i didn't pay off that then you have a whole bunch of other going into bankruptcy which from my point of view would not

have been a disaster right down there is that we absolutely change nothing. and we are now in a new era where the top one percent is literally getting ninety five percent of the recovery the job as an obama greatly understated and comment that the top one percent getting ninety five percent of the recovery and that's precisely because a lot of. and not done since the collapse the believe in the. last you know a if you look at wall street right now it's clearly doing very very well so if we have a healthy wall street then we should by theory have a healthy economy why haven't we seen it translate into more jobs more housing opportunities and less foreclosures yet look what does it mean for wall street to be making a lot of profit if you begin to. that coming from are they creating new value for

the american economy or are they skimming it off and i say that strong case could be made interesting because i'm just in the paper with yesterday the ethanol market being manipulated by j.p. morgan chase faces that h.s.b.c. . we have kids working with payday loans so where is the great profit coming from from these wealthy banks were valued really produce for the economy. there is none and that's the problem so if you're not producing any value how is it that you're going to lead towards prosperity for the american people raising a pardon to. financial sector is literally leeching off the wealth into its own coffers and bringing that to the top fraction of the top one percent and last i want to take a while for the american people to realize that we're in a brave new world here unless i wanted to to move on to my next question which is you know a lot of the jobs we've seen come out of this recovery are minimum wage jobs with

little opportunity of course for upward mobility why is that the kind of recovery that we're seeing in only that kind of recovery we've seen in that kind of recovery for thirty years fastest growing jobs in low wage jobs for a long long time and that's a new economy that we're getting into we're going to have practice for the vast majority of people and we're going to have. two jobs that are enormously well paid and this is the first crack that i know anywhere in the world where the rebuilding afterward actually made the income distribution instead of that well that's unfortunately unfortunately we're out of time but we're going to have to have you back on because of course it's a topic with with lots of news and we need to definitely cover this again thank you so much that was last leopold executive director at the labor institute and author of how to make a million dollars an hour. and that does it for now for more on the stories we

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