are officials be given immunity from prosecution if they are not held accountable in two weeks alternately response. coming up at the u.n. general assembly a resolution was passed over syria's chemical weapons u.n. inspectors are now on their way to take inventory and dispose of them the latest ahead. we're just hours away from a government shutdown with the house and senate still at a standstill over the spending bill parts of the federal government will soon to close more on this shutdown showdown calling up. and government use of domestic drones seems to be expanding millions of dollars have been spent on you weigh these for the f.b.i. and local police departments more on the drone spending later in the show. it's monday september thirtieth eight pm in washington d.c.

i'm meghan 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 weapons arsenal it is the first step in ridding the country of all of its stockpile as part of a unanimous u.n. security council agreement know that agreement passed after a point of contention between the u.s. and russia was actually stripped from the resolution that is the requirement of punitive action against the syrian government if it does not comply with this disarmament for his part syrian president bashar all all side has vowed to fully cooperate with the mission a mission that aims of destroying the whole chemical arsenal by minute twenty fourteen for the latest i was joined by our correspondent ana stasia charkha and i first asked her about president syrian foreign minister walid on wall of this morning speech at the u.n. general assembly. well let me give you know that definitely the syrian delegation

is breathing out a sigh of relief here in new york city following the late night friday vote on the united nations security the resolution which calls for the no use of force and removing chemical weapons from syria under international control some of the key points we heard today from the syrian foreign minister he basically reiterated the government's belief that syria is not fighting a civil war but rather a war against terrorists because of the questionable groups that make up the opposition he said that syria doesn't fax plan to stick to its commitments and follow through with this latest agreement reached by the international community and the syrians and he also spoke quite a bit about the double standards in terms of how certain countries deal with fighting terrorism in one area and then in other areas they end up supporting groups with dubious reputations 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 last year was the international consensus on combating terrorism a serious commitment undertaken by the member states of this organization over was a just mere rhetoric another important point to make in the syrian foreign minister walid moallem made was that syria believes that the middle east should establish a nuclear free zone and he namely again reiterated that israel needs to sign up to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty while this kind of chemical weapons and dangerous weapons conversation is going on about syria this would be a good time to do that now how is the international community responding to the foreign minister speech particularly the part about him still calling this an act of terrorism versus

a civil war well let me get you know he's not exactly calling it an act of terrorism he does certainly refer to the opposition as being made up of groups related to al qaeda something that has been talked about widely but seems to have largely been ignored by the west and the countries that were supporting the opposition and calling for the assad regime to step down but in this particular case we have not really had specific latest reactions to the speech earlier today because the positions of the international community and key negotiators are really known when it comes to the syrian crisis we know that the u.s. and russia have been bugging heads over whether or not to include a use of force clause in the resolution that came out of the security council this is certainly been not the case as russia has been pushing all along so you know he didn't really say anything that was on no one in terms of the position of the syrian guy. government so we haven't seen any new reactions and most certainly with this latest diplomatic breakthrough on the resolution on friday we're not really expecting any reaction from the community rather really these steps to now be

implemented that were voted on and on a saw feel let's talk about those steps and take a step back ourselves can you go ahead and walk us through what the u.n. security council resolution outlines will make and what it outlines is basically the fact that the international community now believes even though we had calls from the u.s. to potentially strike syria that the use of force is not acceptable they obviously condemned the chemical weapon use that took place on august twenty first they did say that what they want is for the chemical weapons to be moved under international control destroyed and then for negotiations to take place the so-called geneva two conference meeting that would allow for more political transition diplomatic solution that really russia for one has been calling all along for to be able to take place so if in the case that syria again a chemical weapon use occurs on the ground then there will be a whole new blow to a whole new resolution to be looked at by the international community and hopefully

and obviously all the members that are involved hope that will not be the case is there any indication of what would happen if those islands are not met. well what would happen if those outlines are not met the security council would have to convene again to vote again but we know the positions of russia in the united states the u.s. would most likely if another attack were to take place would reference strikes again russia does not believe this necessary and does not believe this is a solution and because they're permanent members of the security council then in this negative scenario they would have to find a common ground yet again but for now the plan is to as we as you mentioned inspectors are arriving in syria they are supposed to get rid of the month manufacturing possibilities by november first and they're also their plan is to destroy all the chemical weapons by mid twenty fourteen in order for the syrian government and the parties of the conflict and key negotiators of the international community to meet again for talks and finally on a softball we have a very short amount of time left but can you talk us about the recent

accomplishment at the u.n. g.a. between president obama and rouhani right megan we had president obama and iranian president rouhani speak on a such high level talks to the first time in over three decades they had a phone call a phone conversation we know that a kind of thaw seems to be in place between the u.s. or at least the first stop for a start taking place we do know that israel of course today benjamin netanyahu meeting with the obama administration is quite unhappy with this hoping that. the u.s. does not act naive and really believe in these friendly kind of more. conversational really gestures that we have we have seen from iran before but it looks like iran and the u.s. are warming up in terms of talks although the u.s. is simultaneously trying to ensure its ally israel that they're going to be stepping carefully and making sure iraq and actually means deeds and not just words are to correspondent on a selfie a sharp enough bringing us the latest from the u.n. general assembly thank you well it is the shutdown showdown that won't seem to go

away all because congress can't agree. on a spending bill we are t. minus four hours to an official government shutdown it 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 it would also repeal the medical device tax that funds the health care law now on the senate side democrats stripped the obamacare delay from the bill when they met this afternoon around two and then volleyed it right back to the house now the house is in the process of voting for the bill as we speak with obamacare to funding back in it but when that is passed then it will go back to the senate again where it will be dead upon arrival are you as dizzy about this as i am well that's why we have our chief political commentator sam sax to break this all

down sound of we are as i said less than four hours out here is this inevitable piers so at this point after the senate passed their clean spending resolution and sent it back to senate back to the house there was a small sliver of a chance that we might have heard of coverage mature in town and i was with moderate republicans who didn't think this was worth the fight who didn't think it was worth shutting down the government to defund obamacare would join with democrats defeat whatever this where there were there boating on no this new spending resolution that again delays obamacare if they were to join together to defeat it we could have seen a government shutdown averted but they didn't get the votes in the republican moderate republicans decided not to rebel against their own caucus so they got rank and file behind john boehner and now as you mentioned we're in the pro they're in the process of passing another continuing resolution bill the deal is obamacare which was just defeated in the senate and they're going to ping pong it right back

to the seven here we have less than four hours the senate is not going to accept this we're headed for a government shutdown that's unfortunate and as you say it just keeps. going back and forth around and around the little carousel of government shutdown goes but how long do you anticipate this government shutdown lasting or is there any indication that's a good question i mean when this happened in the ninety's to last a few days to a week. how long will this one last unclear this is seems to be a very committed republican tea party caucus that dead set on doing something about obamacare but here's the thing the last time the government shutdown in the ninety's republicans got shellacked for it they got blamed big time bored unfortunately for the republicans not many of them remember that because not many of them are still serving in congress only about a third of the senate is still serving that served back when the government shut down in the ninety's only about a fifth of the house so they don't know the sort of backlash they might get when the government shuts down when workers start getting furloughed when the museums close in tourism goes down and all this stuff starts compound and so you can

imagine a scenario in a few days when speaker of the house john boehner after the government shutdown all the polls are coming in blaming republicans that he goes back to his tea party caucus and he says look guys we did what we threatened we're going to do we were shut down the government and now we're still no closer to defunding obamacare how long are we going to continue this in a point you can say that the pressure is going to build too much they're going to have to agree with the senate and pass some sort of spending resolution so it really is just a poker game in this case but at the press conference today president obama made it clear that the affordable care act was passed by both sides of congress it was upheld by the supreme court it was not voted on for repeal in the november elections so at what point will republicans say that enough is enough i mean this is pretty unprecedented when we're talking about continuous spending bill the debate should be over spending over levels of spending and that debate's been won by republicans the democrats have conceded the levels of spending on this bill it's

much lower than democrats wanted includes the sequester the republicans have won the spending debate but they want to keep the fight going with this. with this obamacare. obamacare fight as well and that's a fight that they're not going to win democrats are not going to stand for that they can take the spending fight when and walk away move on to the next battle but they don't seem like they want to do that at the same time sam this strategy has been working for a publican's in recent history why would they not do this well that's a good point i mean this is the seventh budget battle we've pub and we've seen that with republicans when they go in they force the issue on things like planned parent defunding planned parenthood in this case defunding obamacare whatever this periphery issue they usually attach to spending it's a distraction to where democrats a lot of that issue say no we're going to planned parenthood clinics open meanwhile republicans are secretly just they're not so secretly just pushing their austerity agenda and getting austerity spending bill after austerity spending bill passed and here they're doing it again we're going to get an austerity spending bill out of all this is just one hundred one problems they're going to accept

a victory there at the same time it can't fall soli it with the republican party the blame can't president obama just called john boehner and mitch mcconnell today if that phone call was perhaps made earlier with that of avoided this at all i don't think so i mean. i get it there needs to be some sort of hey look congress is dysfunctional it has a fourteen percent approval rating democrats are a lot to blame for that as well as republicans but what more are democrats supposed to do in this fight they've said gave they've given republicans ground on spending they've given everything they wanted they're not going to president obama is not going to repeal a law that's now named after him basically that's a bit loopy for republicans and that is why we have you to come in sacks political commentator thank you for enlightening us all on this dizzying back and forth but it's mental. 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 civilian employees will be for a load add the stock market could take as a result of this shutdown now if you remember two years ago just those 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 effects on our economy overall but also the smaller day to day services will be impacted r t correspondent liz wahl gives us the rundown but we are get hours away now before a government shutdown potentially goes into effect if congress doesn't strike a deal by the stroke of midnight the federal officers down federal leave for a load let's take a look now at how the failure of congress to react. back to you federal 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 that 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 it federal courts are exempt so court will remain in session at least until mid october but if the government station down 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 museum 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 good. get a bridge to the guy who was the central 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 and the first government shutdown nearly two decades in washington liz will be well the government might not have enough money to keep that panda cam on but a newly released for a port by the department of justice office of the inspector general shows just the opposite when it comes to understand aerial vehicles here's what we found out between two thousand and four and may twelve twenty thirteen the d.o.j. gave the f.b.i. nearly three million dollars for you avi's and allocated the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives six hundred thousand dollars and the u.s. marshal service almost seventy five thousand dollars for similar projects in addition to all of that the office of justice programs and the office of community oriented policing services within the d.o.j. awarded several local police departments and nonprofit organizations over one point two million dollars for u.a.b. testing and use so yes unmanned aerial vehicles aren't only being used but the

number of departments who have access to them is also growing and the letter sent to senator rand paul back in july the f.b.i. outlined how it use these machines in ten separate instances since two thousand and six two of those a census were for a kidnapping surveillance as well as a search and rescue mission however the a.c.l.u. is worried about the other more nefarious uses for these u.a. these senior policy analyst j. stanley responded to the report by saying quote no agency including the f.b.i. should deploy domestic 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 using these vehicles saying quote congress should pass. the legislation introduced by representatives ted poe and so lofgren that requires law enforcement to get judicial approval before deploying drones and explicitly forbidden the arming of

these machines to discuss this report i was joined earlier by any step on a bench she's the director of the domestic surveillance project at epic and i first asked her if these new domestic drone programs revelations really aren't all that surprising. we've known that that the f.b.i. has drones we know that they've been using them it actually was reported earlier this year there is an instant now about where we're a little boy was kidnapped and the f.b.i. flew drones over 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 kidnapped 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 clock surveillance so did anything new come out from this report we know they 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 be 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 a cuss twenty five because it's so much cheaper and because they're able to operate much closer to homes much closer to people the surveillance risk just skyrockets

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 whether they would be grandfathered in or whether they would be exempt from these type of guy. lines on the seventy something they could choose to do 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 which means they're not binding 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 really in dollars really does not seem like all that much money is this something that we should be warned 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 telecasters 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 at 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 is 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 in so you're not going to be opening your your physical life to companies who want to come. that was amy stepanovich director of the domestic surveillance project at epic. teaming up to take down the n.s.a. journalists grill glenn greenwald and jeremy scahill have announced that they are working together to prepare a report on the national security agency's role in the so-called u.s.s.s. nation program speaking to movie goers at the rio film festival in brazil scahill announced the 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 program or the n.s.a.'s role in it scahill is the author of the book dirty wars the world is a battlefield he has come on our team 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 in 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 as i mentioned we don't know yet what these leaks will entail but as soon as we know you'll know.

well it was shakespeare's juliet who once posed the question what's in a name when considering her family's hatred of the montagues it's an age old question with modern implemented implications just ask critics of the baltimore police department police commissioner anthony batts sent out a memorandum earlier this month ordering the removal of the phrase stop and frisk from all departmental documents in said police officers are to start calling these actions quote investigative stops not changing the policy just the name it should be noted that these stops are not illegal however a new york federal judge found that the in white t.v. uses a stop and frisk policies are in a way that violates the constitutional rights of minorities right now in the baltimore police department is required by law to submit reports on every stop and frisk that the state police actually conduct four hundred twenty two reports were

sent out from august two thousand and twelve through july twenty third team. while the conversation on immigration usually focuses on the matter of who is trying to get into the u.s. but with the increasing number of problems within the u.s. there seems to be. americans that are actually trying to leave for more on that we turn to the residence laurie harvest. in the us lately it's all bad for us americans so it might just be time for us to consider getting the hell out of this country it might be time to emigrate

according to the us department of labor's bureau of labor statistics are currently perfect as the patient ranged is sixty three point two percent that means that only two thirds of american adults have a job or are looking for a way a full one third of us have either given up are too busy with other things like prying into a pillow or are just lazy if the lowest labor participation rate since nineteen seventy eight. our corporations aren't even pretending to care about their workers anymore but he must like wal-mart continue to pay crappy wages while shifting workers from full time to part time status just to avoid paying us and the pit. our corporations rape the environment fill our food water and air with carcinogens and laugh all the way to the bank and our bankers and politicians are in cahoots with them conspiring to make sure they all continue to get obscene leverage at the

direct expense of the rest of the country. all of those are pretty damn good reasons for americans to maybe consider finding another place to live and apparently more and more americans are doing just that. this year we are currently on pace to have a record number of people who actually renounce their american citizenship or permanent resident status according to the association of americans resident overseas over sixty million americans now live in over one hundred sixty countries that are not america the exact number is hard to say because the state department isn't too fond of counting american. there are many reasons for americans to emigrate but perhaps the most compelling thing is our foreign policy we are at war with seventy four countries the rest of the world does not like that we are spying

on everyone and they are not happy about that resilience trashing us over it demanding apologies and explanations who love to live in a country that is the bad guy so it might be time to get the hell out but if you're going to do it americans you might want to do it now because soon the rest of the world might just be too thet up with us to even let us visit tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the residence. all right that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website r.t. dot com slash usa don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez and tune in for larry king now at nine pm with a special guest tim gunn the famous fashion auto host of project runway but for now

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