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this monday september thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm not going lopez and you are watching r t u n weapons inspectors are due to arrive in damascus syria tomorrow to begin taking inventory of the country's chemical arsenal it's a first step but that is of ridding the country of all that stockpile as part of a unanimous u.n. security council agreement that agreement passed after a point of contention between the u.s. and russia was stripped away from the resolution the requirement of punitive action against the syrian government if it does not comply with this disarmament now for his part syrian president bashar all oss saudi has vowed to fully cooperate with the mission a mission that aims to destroy the whole chemical arsenal by mid twenty fourteen for the latest on this u.n. agreement our chief correspondent on a stasi a trucker not hi there on a stasia you know after the u.n. security council adopted a breakthrough resolution on friday night we saw the syrian foreign minister

address the u.n. g.a. this morning what did he say. well let me get the syrian foreign minister you know basically we can be certain that the syrian delegation has breathed a sigh of relief when this breakthrough diplomatic resolution was passed of the united nations security council unanimously on friday citing that there will be no use of force calling for the syrian government to move its chemical weapons under international control in terms of the speech that was made earlier today by the syrian foreign minister there are some key points he basically said that what's going on on the ground to syria is not in syria's not a civil war but a war against terrorism because of the groups that compile the opposition on the ground he also said that syria promises to stick to its commit to its commitments and has had a history of once they sign up to a deal to going through with it and he also talks quite a bit about the double standards of certain countries when it comes to fighting terrorism in some parts of the world and then supporting it and others take a listen. some countries. have launched destructive major

wars under the pretext of combating terrorism while at the same time they are the ones supporting terrorism in my country in contradiction of old united nations resolutions and only human and moral values. here once again. the same question i had already asked last year. the international consensus on combating terrorism is a serious commitment undertaken by the member states of this organization over was a just mere rhetoric well what leads on one of them has also said that those who say they support a bill is a clinical solution on the ground should do so why not just say so and move forward to negotiations with no preconditions and he also made an interesting point about the need to establish a nuclear free zone in the middle east he did call for israel to finally sign up to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty while obviously all of this controversy has

been surrounding weapons and countries here and there throughout the last several years so it sounds very similar to what we've been hearing from president bashar assad over the recent weeks now on friday you spoke with that syrian foreign minister exclusively realistically how feasible is the new action plan on the destruction of these chemical weapons and also a political solution according to that syrian official well megan syria has is now obviously saying that they're willing to go through with the commitments willing to go ahead with this moving chemical weapons under international control plan moving on with the political transition but the syrian foreign minister told us that the biggest concern for the syrian government is the outside influence that we talked about earlier from groups neighboring countries western countries supporting the opposition in a way that the syrian government believes is influences the conflict in syria in a negative way you know because there's so many complicated underlayers obviously to the syrian crisis from what is the opposition to what kind of future syria will

have this is what he told us. many countries speak about supporting ball tickets and use. this is important about this means that they need to be committed to stop their financing their odd link to the terrorists to go. especially the neighboring country. like turkey saudi arabia and qatar. in this way. as they're afraid. of doing this i assure you this is the start for the success of you in the right too. and we can the syrian foreign minister also told us that he believes if there was no outside influence in the conflict that it could be resolved within a matter of weeks very interesting on

a stasia now another recent accomplishment to come up was the u.s. and at the u.n. g.a. was the u.s. actually speaking with president rouhani of. iran excuse me but this has been met with disapproval from israel can you can you with tolson on that well yes there was in fact quite a historic development when it came to iran in the u.s. last week because obama of course and the iranian president rouhani had a first conversation a phone call in over three decades and certainly the u.s. has been saying that the diplomatic door for iran is open they just want to see proof and really see action and not just the more calm words and more friendly words that we have been hearing coming out of tehran and today of course there was a meeting between benjamin netanyahu and barack obama at the white house where the situation around iran was discussed because israel of course remains very concerned about this they want the obama administration to kind of not be naive as they say

and try to really watch carefully in terms of what iran is going to be doing next we know that israel supports tight sanctions against iran the existing ones according to them should be tightened if iran does not comply with what is being demanded from the west in the time in the negotiations to follow and certainly we have heard from the u.s. that military action will remain on the table when it comes to iran but from what we've been seeing recently the tone of voice in the conversation has definitely changed between iran and the u.s. certainly impacting israel's reaction to what has happened but will be we will be hearing from it an awful tomorrow from the united nations general assembly so we should be should be hearing more on this tuesday r.t. correspondent ana stasia check it out right now with the latest from the u.n. thank you. well it's the shutdown showdown that won't seem to go away all because our congress can't agree on a spending bill we are team minus eight hours to an official government shutdown now this will be the first time since one thousand nine hundred six when the last

democrat president was in office bill clinton over the weekend house republicans passed a bill that would fund the government until december fifteenth but would also delay the implementation of the affordable care act by a year and repeal the medical device tax that funds the health care law on the senate side democrats quickly stripped the obamacare delay from the bill when they met this afternoon just a couple hours ago and they've only that bill back to the house and so the political games continue who won the battle from capitol hill political commentator sam sachs joins me now hi there sam so at this point is it possible at all to avoid this government shutdown. well it's very very highly unlikely at this point as you mention the senate took the house bill stripped of the extent the obamacare stuff they stripped out the medical device tax stuff and they sent a clean c.r. continuing resolution back to the house of the house is going to take that up today

so the only way to avoid a government shutdown at this point is for the house to pass the senate's c.r. and they have the votes to do this if speaker of the house john boehner is willing to get democrats on board and bring the floor the vote to the floor it will pass but he doesn't look ready to do this instead reports are that boehner is going to take the clean c.r. receive from the senate and in touch a no other obamacare measure to it this is the vitter amendment named after senator david vitter from louisiana it affects how congressional staffers get subsidies for the obamacare exchanges and the senate's going to reject that off the bat so look here's where it comes down to it's up to the speaker of the house john boehner to pass the senate's clean spending bill to avoid a government shutdown if you attach any obamacare stuff to it and send it back to back to the senate which looks likely in the government's going to shut down at midnight tonight now house republicans have made obamacare the sticking point in this issue where do we stand on this issue and how will this debate affect obamacare overall. well this is the sort of funny thing about this

whole debate is that republicans are willing to shut down the government to get rid of obamacare but if the government does shut down it will have virtually no effect on obamacare of course tomorrow obamacare really kicks into effect it's open enrollment in the exchanges for people to sign up and all the subsidies that go for people to buy health insurance and all the regulations that go on health insurance companies these are all mandatory spending which isn't affected. by a government shutdown at all so republicans are going to get what they want even if the government shuts down plus there's all these counseling positions in advising positions around states to help direct people where to get health insurance a lot of that has been contracted out to private contractors who again won't be affected by this sort of government shutdown so no matter what happens over the next eight hours or so obamacare is going to go into effect tomorrow now assuming that the government does shut down sam what will happen on capitol hill tomorrow is

congress for instance affected by this shutdown. well as you mentioned the last time there was a government shutdown was and it was in one thousand nine hundred six and republicans got blamed for some but some people say it helped bill clinton win a second term pretty easily for president and the thing is not many people around here remember that it's just about a third of the senate in a fifth of the house were here during that last government shutdown and we're remember how republicans were blamed for it so there's a belief that tomorrow after the government shuts down that the likelihood of a clean continuing resolution to be passed increases the speaker of the house john boehner can say to his tea party caucus look we shut the government down now what and you know they don't have any leverage from that point anymore and it looks like that you know a clean resolution can be brought to the floor after the government shutdown and it's likelihood of passage looks looks like it increases but soon we can't forget to remind our viewers that this debate goes on beyond this government shutdown

beyond the spending bill will this give us any insight in the upcoming debt limit debate that's coming up in a few weeks. this is the really frightening part about all of this is that no matter what happens in the next eight hours no matter how this debate over government shutdown is resolved in two weeks there's going to be a whole nother debate about a debt limit with the stakes much higher and the consequences of not rising raising the debt limit far more catastrophic and we've seen already republicans are in the house are planning to attach obamacare to it they're planning to attach keystone x.l. pipeline rolling back e.p.a. regulations all this stuff to a debt ceiling increase that democrats won't go for i asked senate majority harry reid today given how this debate is going what he advised the president at this point to just not have the debt limit debate raise the debt ceiling on his own of what would be a controversial measure but still some people argue he has the power to do this and

reid was pretty momo on that saying we'll see i notice that behind him senator chuck schumer there was nodding his head big time it seems as though people on the hill are saying how difficult this debate is that we can't afford to have this debate again in two weeks when the country's credit is on the line and we'll have to watch in the coming hours to see if that government shutdown isn't hard at all though as you say it's very unlikely that it will be averted political commentator sam sachs thank you so much. all right so we keep hearing from lawmakers on capitol hill that this government shutdown is a big deal but the question on everyone's mind how will it affect me at least eight hundred thousand federal civil civilian employees will be far allowed and the stock market could tank as a result of the shutdown if you remember two years ago just the threat of a government shutdown was enough for standard and poor's to downgrade america's aaa credit rating so a real shutdown will no doubt have tangible affects on our economy overall but also

the smaller day to day services will be impacted are to correspondent liz wahl gives us the rundown we are get hours away now before a government shutdown potentially goes into effect on bridge doesn't strike a deal by the stroke of midnight the better off just shut down federal leave for love so let's take a look now at how the failure of congress to run the budget will come back to you that are all air traffic controllers will remain working so will the majority of the department of homeland security everything from the u.s. coast guard to the transportation security agency will keep operating federal prisons will stay open the state department will keep processing passports but there may be delays social security and medicare payments would keep coming food stamp benefits will be available but many other services under the snap program that help needy mothers and children would be suspended the u.s.

postal service would remain in business so don't worry about the mail turns on neither rain nor sleet nor shutdown will stop the mailman from delivering at federal courts are exempt so cored will remain in session at least until mid october but if the government stay shutdown longer than ten days judiciary jobs would be at risk for furlough active duty military is considered essential so men. and women in uniform will stay at work but if there's a shutdown it's likely paychecks will be delayed that's because even though the military is considered critical about half of the department of defense is not on the chopping block nasa most of its employees would be furloughed a few workers would remain on the job to man mission control the food and drug administration would suspend most safety inspections perhaps taking the biggest hit tourism national parks across the country will close so will museums here in

washington d.c. that includes the smithsonian museums and the national zoo the twenty four hour panda cam would go dark the national zoo tweeted if the federal government shuts down on october first the zoo will be closed to the public all programming and events will be canceled alternately it is up to the executive branch to decide who is essential and who is not right now it looks like roughly eight hundred thousand federal workers many of them here in washington would temporarily be out of work in the first government shutdown nearly three decades in washington liz wall r t well the government might not have enough money to keep the panda cam on but a newly released report by the department of justice office of inspector general shows just the opposite when it comes to unmanned aerial vehicles here's what we found out between two thousand and four and may twenty third team the d.o.j.

gave the f.b.i. nearly three million dollars for you avi's it allocated the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives six hundred thousand dollars and the u.s. marshals service almost seventy five thousand dollars for similar projects in addition to that the office of justice programs and the office of community oriented policing services within the d.o.j. awarded several police departments and nonprofit organization. ins over one point two million dollars for you if you testing and you so yes unmanned aerial vehicles are only being used but the number of departments who have access to them is growing in a letter to senator rand paul back in july the f.b.i. outlined how it used these machines in ten separate instances since two thousand and six for surveillance on kidnappers as well as for search and rescue missions over the a.c.l.u. is worried about other more nefarious uses for these u a v's senior policy analyst

j. stanley responded to the report by saying quote no agency including the f.b.i. should deploy domestic drone surveillance surveillance drones without first having strong privacy guidelines in place he went on to lay out one of the a.c.l.u.'s main demands for these vehicles saying quote congress should pass a legislation introduced by representatives ted poe and zoe lofgren that requires law enforcement to get judicial approval before deploying drones and explicitly forbids the arming of these machines but is this report really all that surprising joining me in studio is a mist upon of it director of the domestic surveillance project at epic amy thank you so much for coming in the studio thank you for having me so as i asked is it really all that surprising these new domestic drone revelations we've known that the f.b.i. has drones we know that they've been using them it actually was reported earlier this year there was an instant now a banner where a little boy was kidnapped and the f.b.i. flew drones over the the bunker where he was being held to get

a better view on it i don't think anybody really would object to their use to help rescue canet children it's more of when they can be used on a legit maybe wrongdoers or just members of the general public without a warrant without any legal process in order to collect information and really just click surveillance data so did anything new come out from this report we know and we. reiterated something that we already know and actually expanded on that point and that's first that the f.b.i. and other d.o.j. agencies think that it's totally unnecessary to look at the privacy implications of using drones in the usa i think that they can use them in line with just typical aviation guidelines which don't address privacy which have nothing to do with surveillance and that that's ok and i think that. how much they stress that is telling so with these machines already in use how likely are we to actually see any

meaningful privacy guidelines implemented or signed while the industry is pushing back hard against this they think that drone you should be totally unregulated that privacy is kind of not a big deal the problem is in the report highlights this when a traditional aerial vehicle would go up in the air and make six hundred fifty dollars to operate with a drone it cus twenty five because it's so much cheaper and because they're able to operate much closer to homes much closer people the surveillance risk just skyrocket and this ignoring the privacy concerns doesn't take that into account now even if these privacy guidelines are somehow passed somehow brought into effect the ones that are already in use right now do you weigh these do we have any indication one of them would be grandfathered in or whether they would be exempt from these type of guidelines on the seventy something they could choose to do or they could build that into a law or regulation that they have the drones they have would be exempt i can't see that happening the policies would likely have kind of universal impact and that's

what we would push for there's right now a lot of guidelines in place that are voluntary. and they can change them at any time so there's nothing that happens if a law enforcement officer the f.b.i. operates outside of the guidelines now when we're talking big picture with the department of justice five million dollars really does not seem like all that much money is this something that we should be warning about at this point or is this something that maybe in the future could grow exponentially it actually is something that's going to continue to grow five million doesn't seem like a lot but first of all we're not talking about buying airplanes seven forty seven teleprompters which are much more expensive to buy a lot of drone for five million dollars and then in two thousand and fifteen the f.a.a. is supposed to streamline and make the process a lot easier to license drones within the united states so i mean the two five million dollars spent up till now in this very difficult process to operate however when the operation is made easier if the money is made available to you you can

expect to see many many more drones flying so what kind of privacy guidelines should be passed that this point is there a bare minimum of standards that epic or other groups like epic want to see literally we need to have a warrant before they can conduct surveillance and and some measure that prohibits them from doing broaden targeted surveillance you shouldn't be able to throw up a drone over a protester demonstration to pick up information on who's speaking out against the government we think that the peeping tom laws there should be a federal peeping tom law so that individuals can't buy drones and use them to spy in stock on other people because that technology is going to make it much easier for bad actors to do this and we also think that there need to be guidelines in place for commercial use of drones something that makes transparency accountability built ins for years you're not going to be opening your your physical life to companies who want to come film you and this is so those are questions that are so

hard to answer because we really are in a new frontier when it comes to these you have these being able to fly around and hover and stay in one. place also when it comes to backyards and things like that so how are local law enforcement agencies playing into this whole matter the local law enforcement agencies many of them that are operating drones have voluntarily picked up some of these guidelines which we think is a great step and we think that recognizes we think that they have recognized that privacy is a concern again the problem is that the guidelines aren't binding so any time that they want to break out of those guidelines they can do that and there's no record question for that others say want to fly it over a person's property if god forbid we've seen over and over and over again with local law enforcement all the way up to the n.s.a. recently instances where surveillance technologies are abused so you have not only acting outside of their policies in day to day operations but acting outside of these privacy guidelines in just horribly abusive ways to maybe conduct

surveillance you can imagine on an ex boyfriend or girlfriend so just the latest example of you evy is not only coming to the u.s. but becoming more prevalent here. is the director of the domestic surveillance project said epic thank you so much thank you well teaming up to take down the n.s.a. journalist glenn greenwald and jeremy scahill have announced that they are working together to prepare reports on the national security agency's role in the so-called us especially nation program seeking to moviegoers at the rio film festival in brazil scahill announced a partnership and provided some details on the new project however neither scahill nor greenwald provided any evidence to support claims of the existence of the assassination programs or of the n.s.a.'s role in it so far anyway scales the author of the book dirty wars the world is a battlefield and the documentary by the same name was actually created as

a result of that book he has come on r.t. america numerous times to talk about america's covert wars take a look. moving back to a narrow like the one nine hundred eighty s. when the u.s. was fueling all of these dirty wars in central america nicaragua honduras el salvador and elsewhere i mean the under the obama administration we have kind of full spectrum covert war you have the drone strikes continuation of the use of mercenaries use of special operations forces cruise missile strikes proxy warlords in somalia so it's all very very dirty right now and while people paled a lot of attention to drones right now this is really full spectrum meanwhile glenn greenwald is the guardian journalist who worked with edward snowden on the n.s.a. surveillance leaks and who promised that much more will come out well apparently he's making good on that promise as i mentioned we don't know yet what do these leaks entailed but as soon as we know you'll know. everything is bigger in texas including the vehicles used by it's

a sheriff's department according to the dallas observer the dallas county sheriff's department just picked up the newest addition to its tactical fleet a mine a resistant ambush protected vehicle in route for short the vehicle that you are looking at if that sounds familiar it's because these are the trucks our troops use that in the war zones as of september fourth sheriff's deputies have one of their own and take a look at the specs on this bad boy it has a v. shaped hole to deflect bomb blasts bullet proof doors and tires it's strong enough to withstand blast from improvised explosive devices mines ballistic missiles and more this bad boy weighs one thousand tons cost six hundred thousand dollars and its lifespan is unfortunately just ten thousand miles pretty intimidating right so i know what you're thinking what in the world will sheriff's department use these beasts for well in response dallas chief deputy marlin swell wrote to commissioners

quote having a tactical vehicle will not only provide warrants execution with the equipment to assist in. performing their jobs but will provide an overall safety are much so if you have a warrant out for your arrest this vehicle could be the one that comes to your home and greets you and texas is not alone one city in tennessee and ohio state university have also got their hands on their very own military grade armored s.u.v.s so obviously there are being used within the us even that is a little bit limited the military itself has about twenty four thousand m. wraps many of which by the way will be locked up in warehouses to collect dust or will be broken down in parts if they are not bought so at least we are getting some use out of a few of them though i doubt any designers thought that these machines would one day come back to be used on american civilians and that's going to do it for now a mega lopez see right back here at five.

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