mike stronger an old guard look at the global financial headlines. coming up on r t shocking revelations about the n.s.a. the agency is accused of reading the e-mails of the former president of mexico the n.s.a. is also accused of looking at millions of french phone records more details on the latest ahead and some adopted children from overseas or abroad to the u.s. with the hopes of a better life but that's not always the case some of those children are given up sometimes to total strangers online r t takes a look at the underground adoption network coming up and professor for trade is the former general and head of the cia is joining another college but not not everyone is happy he's joining the staff that story later in the show.

it's monday october twenty first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. . we begin today with new documents leaked by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden we're now learning that the national security agency has extended its surveillance arm and to both france and mexico the u.s. is now coming under intense scrutiny from these countries who say the agency has overstepped its authority and their reaction points to a possible fall out and diplomatic relations artie's sound sex has more in the world of the n.s.a. there's little difference between friends and enemies the latest leaks from edward snowden reveal a spy agency that's very much interested in the affairs of friendly nations like mexico and france there spiegel reported that in may of two thousand and ten the n.s.a. broke into the mexican presidential network to gain first ever access to former president felipe calderon's public e-mail account that snooping gave the n.s.a. insight into mexico's diplomatic economic and political communications while that

spying was directed at mexico's former president we also know that in two thousand and twelve the n.s.a. spied on mexico's current president pena nieto scooping up information about his most relevant contacts and intercepting more than eighty five thousand text messages many of which sent by the president himself the mexican government which is a key economic ally of the united states has responded saying such actions by the n.s.a. violate international law also angered over the weekend the government of france also a close ally of the united states and was one of the few countries standing in support of u.s. military strikes in syria a snowden leak showed that in one month from december two thousand and twelve to january two thousand and thirteen the n.s.a. scooped up seventy million communications including phone calls and text messages targeting average foreign citizens as well as prominent business and political figures within the country the french embassy has some in the u.s.

ambassador to explain the n.s.a.'s actions and so the white house again finds itself trying to put out diplomatic fires around the planet. fire started by the n.s.a.'s insatiable appetite for data your argument that only terrorists are targeted by the n.s.a. surveillance programs is collapsing under new information that shows average citizens business leaders and politicians and allied countries around the world are frequent targets as well when brazil learned that the n.s.a. had surveilled the communications of millions of its citizens its political leaders and its largest oil corporation president dilma rousseff canceled a planned meeting at the white house and then used her speech at the united nations to rip into the agency's global spying activities meddling in such a manner and allies and the fans of other countries is a breach of international law and as such it is an affront missed to the principles or should otherwise govern relations among countries especially among friendly nations diplomatic ties with allies across the world are strained as n.s.a.

spying activities have been exposed in places like germany india china and hong kong and in allegations of spying against the european union other south american nations qatari based news broadcaster al jazeera and the united nations and there really is no limit to the n.s.a.'s global surveillance operations and all of these revelations directly contradict the n.s.a.'s own mission statement which according to their website reads the national security agency leads the u.s. government and cryptology that encompasses both signals intelligence and information assurance products and services in order to gain a decision advantage for the nation and our allies under all circumstances but now as many of our allies find themselves as targets of the n.s.a. should the white house reconsider the role its spy agency is playing around the world after all the n.s.a.'s mission to give the united states and its allies an economic and security advantage now seems to have morphed into

a mission to give the united states an economic and security advantage against its allies. in washington. are two and now joining me to discuss the implications of this on mexican u.s. relations is patricio the moran our political analyst and editor of intl america dot insult thank you so much for truth for joining me let's talk about the newest revelation that the u.s. has hacked former mexican president felipe calderon's email last month it was also revealed that the u.s. access text messages sent by president enrique pena nieto received this official statement in response to these revelations the government of mexico reiterate its categorical condemnation of the violation of the privacy of communications of mexican institutions and private citizens this practice is unacceptable and runs contrary to mexican and international law patricio tell us more about the response

from the mexican government and that the mexican people to all of this well mexico in general is extremely extremely sensitive to any kind of. intervention sought in this case especially shocking the fact that felipe calderon be the former president of the country it was a close ally of the u.s. maybe one of the closest ones in the last decades so for the mexican society this revelation is really. actually shocking the lack of trust that the u.s. has especially under the elite because of the last policy against the you know computers so in this case is it was actually. a necessary to perform these kind of you know you know that there was a cuny clause and the same case with the union is actually trying to reform our policy on security issues especially immigration very sensitive issues for both

mexico and the u.s. so. these are. just a dream a polemic. of the us and need hugh explained the air police or. mexico or what's going on with these extended why why the spread of our. spying. system that the n.s.a. has been implemented in the last years sure and you mentioned this briefly but what's interesting is that when calderon was president and you know u.s. security agencies had an unprecedented amount of access to mexican intel as part of the war on drugs so why do you think the n.s.a. felt the need to even monitor his name now because security is not your lead resound the n.s.a. is actually performing this kind of act is not a crime it's not there is some what we have seen in terms of the information being revealed by the media and because of this not in documents are sort is that if the

u.s. were what's dangerous by in several respects more or subjects not only security both for economic reasons trying to find out more they've been there are all a nonissue of what's going on within the. last team the secretary of state ministers. dressed up what we what we guess see is we're not talking about up for it we're not. sure we we are talking about economics we are but we're talking about advantage in terms of policies in trying to find out even more and in this case is not only mexico in the u.s. the iraqis easy extremely uncomfortable if for the best you know government because actually this is the omar if you who say if it was actually planning to do that you're the u.s. that the first pressing in prison in decades was going to go to the u.s.

to be a back b.b.c. that pretty and all of our microphone. a couple years ago saw in prison if you receive actually canceled here and that's the crisis for more than i want to jump in because i want to ask you specifically about that we know the n.s.a. is has also extended its reach to brazil delmar is a canceled her trip like you said how do you really compare the mexican response to the brazilian response do you think the. brazilian government has then. much more angry over this yes yes actually it's actually a good friend i think in this opinion yet or his position is. because we are talking about neighbor country we have a very very important binion issue immigration we have to remember though that a big percentage of undocumented immigrants living in the u.s. are from mexico in terms of but it does not address the real rest it has its own

agenda its of its own policies is trying to five job because you are an equal partner we with the u.s. best at least not sharing any in the war there will be u.s. and in fact rest till it has been a stronger on its answer to the second seizures and the fact that the president dilma rousseff castle as an official trip an official invitation to the u.s. it shows how serious the u.s. you don't go in the in these accusations they're not absolutely no willing to provide any any gillespie's point political speech to the u.s. to continue with this is spying on on countries that actually cause you know. of allies are not sure if members receive i want to ask you a question dovetailing off that or you know what kind of a fact do you think this is really going to have going forward on the relations diplomatically do you think this is powerful enough to really turn allies and

enemies here not either of the level i think the come on the. and the common sense of history a strong if the u.s. needs. time interests of very key issues energy security it suggests. actually is is is a factor of more the relation between the u.s. and the rest of the countries of the america so i think what we have now is is is a delusion where the government of the states has to be very active if trying to apologize trying to ensure or if you believe are in again aware and is that this is not to happen again but i see that actually is even thinking about building its own infrastructure based on on on internet if in there on a soil so be it or have to pass through the united states when when an e-mail is sent from a wrestle to europe for example so be it really trying to make sure that no better

happened by the u.s. has even knowledge you tube in italy maybe in any server in the world so what we need now is supple legal. political commitment from the u.s. government and especially from president obama that this is not going to happen again so what's the relationship with it with such an important country as a vessel is going to be affected for a long time absolutely will have to wait and see what happens the truth is i'm around our political analyst and editor of in for america is that and thank you for joining me my my pleasure. and the government shutdown has brought polls of american trust in government to new lows look at this pew poll conducted on the eve of the deal to reopen the government four and five americans distrust the government while less than one in five say they trust the government but the united states isn't the only one facing a population that is discontent with the people running the show artie's laura smith is on the streets of london with more cash for questions selling access to

the prime minister and of course m.p.'s abusing their expense accounts the story that just keeps on giving all of these scandals and more have come together to undermine the moral capital of politicians and the amount of trust that able to command with the public opposed to an earlier this year said britain's think politicians tell the truth less than bankers it's all real estate agents don't tell nicholas allen co-author of a new book on ethics and politics says this creeping loss of trust goes right to the heart of the legitimacy of our government and there is a perception i think that politicians have. become less and less on it's less ethical in the way they conduct good faith politics if people perceive politicians to be generally immoral and dishonest the politicians are going to lose a certain amount of moral authority politicians governments need

a moral authority if they're going to lead the public lead society down quite difficult policy parts the times we live in demona difficult policy pods raising the pension age are paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with austerity they all require a real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as i found out outside their offices over there in port calloused house politicians treat every girl so otherwise it would be then. with. a group of people. the government is trying to do something about it focusing on greatest transparency with money how politicians spend. cash.

on stony ground rather touchingly old people in the u.k. really wants is to know that when a politician says he or she will do something they'll do it and that could be the hardest thing of old for the political class. that was our tease laura smith reporting. and david petraeus the four star general and former cia director will be joining the faculty of harvard's john f. kennedy school of government currently he's a visiting professor at the city university of new york now you may remember that last month many students gathered in protest of the school's decision to hire general petraeus there were about seventy five people at the demonstration which was organized by the ad hoc committee again in the little as asian to me so far there haven't been any similar reactions from harvard students now and his new position betrays will be nonresident senior fellow at the belfer center for science

and international affairs there he will participate in a project taking a look at the technological scientific and economic dynamics that are reinvigorating north american competition the project will also take a look at how policy may be spurring that competition this academic position signifies a further break from betrays his former career before taking a position as the cia director petraeus was most known for his role as the commander of u.s. and international forces in afghanistan before that he was stationed in iraq where he was responsible for carrying out the strategy associated with a surge in u.s. troops however patrice is also known for leaving his cia position mired in scandal in two thousand and twelve he admitted to an extramarital affair with paula broadwell who of course was his biographer at the time. and now to the revelations that are coming out of a recent investigation on america's adoption system reuters has taken a look at adoption as an underground market the report reveals that americans who

adopt children from overseas can easily transfer guardianship over to virtual strangers they need on the internet it's a practice now called private re homing artie's liz wall met with a child who was really homed and brings us the story dimitri stewart was five years old. when he and his brother were adopted from an orphanage in a small town near moscow it would be a rocky road living with his adoptive american parents didn't really feel like you know i was there when he was a young teenager after years of strained relations and after his parents had biological children of their own the stewarts decided it was time to find him a new home that's when they turned to the internet underground groups where people want to. destructive adoptions and eventual levy internet search led the stewarts to meghan axon axon moderated a website to help find new homes for children that's how dimitris parents found

nicole isa in easten advertiser self as an aspiring mother that ran a homeschool demeter found out that this was far from the truth this is a little tiny basically. it was clear that his new home was no home school there was anyone there had to deal with her she didn't even make you go to school she gave me the option to go to school and then we had a kid that was taken away from them from the stay so they want a lot of any more kids and that's why they're in this underground underground thing the living situation didn't last long a month after being dropped off axon was shocked to learn more information about who the easton's really were nicole had been married to a man who was a pedophile and that she could not get a homestudy due to her finances we got into the car and we drove to get it's becoming more common for hopeful parents to turn to the internet to find children

websites like parent profile dot com the site claims to be the number one registry of adoption parent profiles here birth parents can sift through hundreds of profiles of parents hoping to adopt all many parents looking to adopt take matters into their own hands they turn to social media and create their own websites many turn to sites like craigslist and the adoption section of the classified advertising site parents can find advice expecting mothers announce they're looking for parents and couples announce they're looking to adopt these days private adoptions are far more common traditional adoption agencies are becoming a thing of the past according to d.c. based nonprofit families for private adoption seventy percent. newborn adoptions in the region are private independent adoptions it's unclear how many of them were facilitated on the internet where it's harder to regulate the transactions between family it's you both have to have law well years you have to do things legally this

is not an easy way to adopt after the traumatizing ordeal dimitri moved to this group home outside atlanta he feels safe with his new guardians in this quaint home in a nice suburban neighborhood today he has words of caution for families turning to the internet to adopt you just never know who's who's going to. be out there looking for kids and there's six people out there everywhere in marietta georgia liz of all artes to talk more about the adoption issue i was joined earlier by adam perlman executive director of the donaldson adoption institute and started by asking him to explain the process by which adoptees are tracked after their arrival to the united states. well the adoptive are not typically tracked once they come to united states once you adopt a child they are your child just as surely as in law just as surely if you give birth now that said there are monitoring systems that some countries impose the

children almost always come to an adoption agency and there are check ups on that sort of thing so this really homing thing phenomenon as as unnerving is that is is a rare is a rare occurrence and is not part of the system per se it's very decidedly something that's disturbing that's happening outside of the system share and as this report has revealed that international adoptees are especially vulnerable to being really hone it seems that more of them are given out versus domestic adoptees why is that the case this is a little complicated i'll try to boil it down essentially most adoptions in america are from foster care which means that there's a system in place to get services to get help if it is the option does disrupt there's a place for the child to go insane adoption baby adoption don't occur very often but generally speaking those are children who were abused or neglected and like and

unlike international adoptees they weren't institutionalized so looking at the population of international adoptees increasingly just in the last several years these are more and more children who are older with special needs who have reacted attachment disorder so what you see in this free homing phenomenon is sort of the worst cases of the worst cases these are people who didn't get the education up front meaning the families they can't find the supports to help their children and they are at wit's end this is not defending them they are with and what to do for their children and to integrate them in their families they don't know where to turn and they so so they find drastic measures like this free homey and adam. you know legal adoptions are supposed to be handled through the courts and prospect of parents are supposed to be vetted they can you talk about how parents are really able to get around this oversight sure and it's by the way it's not just in the

adoption realm i mean you hear of people turning over the custody of their child to their on to their uncle to a good friend while they go out of the country for two you're three years so there are mechanisms legal mechanisms to turn over because if your child it's a simple power of attorney it's unfortunately it is easy and it's generally just a few paragraphs in your sign on the dotted line the problem is that these kids have problems so when you are turning over the child even if it's for the best motives and i'm not saying that always is but even if it is how do you know that the next parents will have the wherewithal to take care of those issues if you could not write and of course we know that a lot of these three homing adoptions are being mediated if they're being needed through online forums can you talk about how problematic that really has been in trying to regulate this kind of activity well we don't this is pretty new these sorts of activities are not commonplace again they're pretty unusual they're

happening so we need to address it but they're pretty unusual so what we do know is that the internet per se and i invite people go to our insitu web site adoption institute dot org and we've done the the first big report study research on the internet impact on adoption it's called untangling the web and it's there and we're going to put out a second year study in about a month but the bottom line is that the internet has transformed adoption practice should lead to all of us to look at what are we doing for children vulnerable children how do we help them and this is the warning flag that tells us that there's something to be done. that was adam kerman executive director of the donaldson adoption institute. and the new york city man who was arrested this past summer for allegedly carrying methamphetamine is now suing the police department that arrested him you see there was a little bit of

a confusion because that crystal meth he was supposedly carrying was in fact jolly ranchers that's right the popular multiplay virt hard candies the officer who arrested the twenty five year old african-american named love allowed to go confidently said that he had professional training in the identification of methamphetamine you also noted in the criminal affidavit that he had done a field test on the subject substance and determined it was indeed narcotics the red of blue crystalline rocks of solid material were then taken to a lab for a gas chromatography analysis and two days later the earth shattering results were and this was not a controlled substance but rather just candy however this was all after the young man was detained for over twenty four hours. as he underwent severe emotional trauma over the false imprisonment it's unclear at this point why he was stopped in the first place however officers stopped and searched him reportedly said it was

quote only a matter of time before they found something leading privacy advocates to believe the officers were employing the controversial stop and frisk practice. while the recession here in america has technically ended people are still facing tough economic times while the cost of college mounts and the job market spot sputters resident explores how some people have resorted to a new market for cash selling parts of their bodies for more on that here's the residence lori harf announced. if you listen to economic reports you know it's tough times here in america people

are struggling financially across the nation with a lousy job market and college costing a ton of money prospects are slim so to find money to survive more for americans are resorting to creative ways to pay for themselves out and by that i mean they are selling parts of their bodies for body. not their sex parts but their hair breast milk eggs and even kidneys since two thousand and eleven when you type i want to sell mine into google carry eggs and kidneys has been among the top autofill results selling kidneys is illegal in the u.s. but the others are perfectly legal to buy and sell. shady grove fertility center nice name said about thirteen thousand women will apply this year to be a donor women can receive up to ten thousand dollars for their first egg donation and they can receive several thousand more for up to five additional donations you

can get a couple thousand for your hair and breast milk goes for up to five bucks and out on line. the. fact that selling bodily days is so on the rise during these tough times seems to be no coincidence market strategists say that the fact that people are even exploring that as an option indicates just how worried people are about their financial outlook they also point to the internet as an enabler making the buying and selling of things you won't see on the shelves at wal-mart a lot easier. as one analyst noted the economic recovery we're going through right now is unlike every other one we've seen in the past it's slow grinding it is very frustrating. we now live in a world where almost half the wealth is in the hands of less than one percent of the people the rest of the population is getting pretty desperate. as one woman who sold her hair puts it selling these parts of yourself is basically profit for very

little work anything you can do people are willing to do it. the truth is any job you take is whoring yourself out to some degree right but selling parts of your body just for money is arguably one step closer to the oldest profession in the world tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident . and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered today go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at a near a david have a good night. we're

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