coming up on r t germany once said word snowden members of the german government are trying to get the n.s.a. whistleblower to testify an investigation against u.s. spying activities on this new development ahead and on capitol hill a group of senators claim they are pushing legislation to deal with concerns over n.s.a. surveillance but critics say their efforts fall short and could actually make things worse we'll tell you more coming out and in chicago the u.s. is biggest jail is also its because mental health facility or third of the prisons inmates have mental illness so how did this happen tell you more on that later in the show.

it's friday november first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our team and we begin at los angeles international airport the site of the latest deadly mass shooting in america it was there just before nine thirty this morning that a gunman walked into terminal three at the airport pulled an assault rifle out of his bag and opened fire he continued firing that assault rifle through the security screening area making it fairly far into the airport before he came under fire from law enforcement officials and was taken into custody one t.s.a. agent was killed making him the first ever to be killed in the line of duty several other individuals were injured in the shooting the gunman has now been identified as twenty three year old paul anthony ciancia artie's ramon glinda joins us now from l.a. with the latest ramona you've spent a good portion of the day at l.a.x. today what do you see while you were there and what's the latest on this story.

that's right sam as you mentioned authorities have now confirmed the identity of the suspected shooter as twenty three year old paul anthony c. and c. a regionally from pens of ill new jersey it's been reported that he was living here in the l.a. area most recently the f.b.i. is in charge of the actual shooting investigation and has reportedly busy did the father of the younger c.n.c. in new jersey for questioning it is confirmed that one t.s.a. agent has died as a result of. his identity has yet to be released so we now have a name of the gunman there were reports that he may have been targeting t.s.a. agents specifically of course one person killed in this incident was a t.s.a. agent give me more information on the yeah in fact a number of t.s.a. employees were wounded during this shooting law enforcement agencies have given information to the l.a. times and other news organizations that

a note an anti-government type know was found on the suspect there however at the latest press briefing that we just received a few minutes ago l.a. airport police did not want to confirm that now it is believed that the suspect may be one of the people who is still being treated at the hospital u.c.l.a. medical center just behind me three people were taken there two with gunshots one is still in critical condition one in stable condition so i was just going to ask you what do we know so far about the victims i just they're expected to pull through at this point. that's right there was the one faith he was transported doctors were able to revive him a total of seven people were injured during the shooting according to airport police six transported one person didn't want to get treatment and one of the men

who is or one of the patients who was taken here teasdale a also was able to be released but it looks like most of the victims are going to be ok still no confirmation on the condition of the suspect himself but it does appear that also in the last few minutes operations at l.a.x. are beginning to start up again terminals one in two which were shut down pretty much the read the entire day are starting to reopen but terminal three where the shooting actually happened will be set down for quite a long time a lot of airlines flying out of their hawaiian version among many others and that will be a crime scene for quite a long time because besides the actual shooting of the c.s. agents we have to remember that officers also shot the suspect so l.a.p.d. will also have to investigate that shooting as well arty's ramon glendower in los angeles thanks for the reporting today ramon you bet moving on to germany or one

politician is making a bid to bring edward snowden into the country to appear as a witness against the n.s.a. spying activities german green party politician hans christian strobel met with snowden in moscow where you received a letter from the n.s.a. whistleblower to be shared with german authorities in a letter snowden writes i am heartened by the response to my act of political expression in both the united states and beyond citizens around the world as well as high officials including in the united states have judge the revelation of an unaccountable system of pervasive surveillance to be a public service today german interior minister hans-peter friedrich confirm that he's trying to find a way to bring snowden into the country to testify in front of german officials. but that could be difficult since of edward snowden who leaves russia he'll lose his asylum there any any deal to testify in germany has to come with new protections for edward snowden at a press conference mr strobel discuss this issue would be fully isn't two days ago

i sent to you that it was to both parts of the u.s. congress the senate and the house of representatives and offered a consultation intox between the german bund this the parliamentarian control board maybe also a board of inquiry to see together how we can solve the problems and one of the central problems will also be the question of what will happen with edward snowden so while the germans look into reaching out to snowden secretary of state john kerry responded to the growing criticize criticism worldwide over u.s. spying and he went farther than any senior official has gone in criticizing the n.s.a.'s activities here's what he had to say while speaking to the open government partnership summit in london. is there is that there. is. a president. this is region. is not the. secretary kerry's comments come after

a delegation of you lawmakers spent a good portion of the week in talks with intelligence officials here in washington d.c. trying to get an explanation on the n.s.a.'s activities spying on world leaders. meanwhile at the white house meanwhile the white house continues its review of u.s. surveillance programs senior obama administration official told reuters that within the last few weeks president obama decided to put an end to spying on the u.n. headquarters in new york and u.s. officials said the president also halted spying on the world bank and the international monetary fund even though it had never been revealed that such spying was even going on so this could be the first in a series of denials to non accusations coming from the white house as it tries to get in front of the next series of n.s.a. leaks. now moving to capitol hill where yesterday the senate intelligence committee moved legislation forward addressing the recent n.s.a.

revelations. the chairwoman of the committee senator dianne feinstein a fierce n.s.a. supporter touted the legislation known as the prize improvements act saying she believes the reforms in the bill are prudent responsible and meaningful but critics of the bill say it falls well short of meaningful reform and they say that it actually gives the n.s.a. more legal protections to conduct its bulk collection of communication records under section two fifteen of the patriot act edward snowden's leaks revealed a secret reinterpretation of section two fifteen of the patriot act by the n.s.a. and the fai's a court that gave the n.s.a. enormous power to collect americans phone records in the feinstein bill rule will remove this program section two fifteen program for murky legal grounds and officially codified into law electronic frontier foundation called the bill disingenuous saying don't be fooled the bill codifies some of the n.s.a.'s worst practices would be

a huge setback for everyone's privacy and it would permanently entrenched in his collection of every phone record held by u.s. telecoms this is not synonomous a reform bill it's in a say entrenchment bill senator mark udall who's been critical of the n.s.a. argued the n.s.a. is ongoing and base of surveillance of americans private information does not respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform not incidental changes unfortunately the bill passed by the senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address the n.s.a.'s overreaching domestic surveillance programs. senator udall instead supports a bill introduced earlier this week by senator patrick leahy and by congressman jim sensenbrenner in the house that would all together end the n.s.a.'s ability to conduct bulk collection of phone records which means in the coming weeks or in the coming months there will be a showdown in congress over what n.s.a. reform should look like and just how far it should go earlier i was joined by

elizabeth the co-director of the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice and she started by saying where senator feinstein's bill ranks with other n.s.a. reform efforts coming down the pike on capitol hill. well senator feinstein's bill is an effort as was said earlier to codified by the n.s.a. is the bulk collection of americans telephone records which is in fact on shaky legal footing right now it's true that the secret files a court has approved the program but if and when the legality of that program ever came before i don't want to say a real court but one of the other article three courts. i believe it's very unlikely that it would be upheld so what senator feinstein's bill would do is to remove any statutory challenge to this practice and codified and enshrine it into law and i mean her bill includes a number of things like the top secret files accord to collect every case briefs on

certain issues for privacy issues it changes how the n.s.a. chief is appointed just they they all seem like very cosmetic reforms but this bulk data collection program is the most egregious one of the most egregious revelations that have come out and it's what's really outraged lawmakers we heard from jim sensenbrenner who wrote the paycheck saying this is not any idea i had so she's basically doing the n.s.a. a huge favor by taking this most controversial program and legalize it essentially that's correct and there's another program that's being legalized in this bill which has not gotten as much attention as it really should which is the back door searches of international communications that are acquired under the section seven o two of the members that this is the back door loophole that ron wyden had warned about exactly and so what has been happening is that the n.s.a. is allowed under the files and them its act to go collect huge amounts of communications of people who are suspected to be foreigners overseas without any

individual warrant because they are foreigners overseas what ends up happening is the n.s.a. scoops up a lot of communications between people overseas and americans and also ends up scooping a lot of purely domestic communications of americans into that. as well these are all communications americans communications that the n.s.a. would need an individualized order a court order or warrant to look at under ordinary circumstances but what they're doing is once they collect it under the pfizer amendments act they are saying that they can then go search it for the names of americans and it's a sort of it's a backdoor way around the warrant requirement of the fourth amendment so so normally the under normal court as you said they would have to target the individuals that they're going for they have to prove show evidence of why years reasonable cause as to why they're going to go after these people but now that pfizer just approved this blatant search and then the n.s.a. can go in run these algorithms and collect these these giant these giant databases that they can then search through to collect americans and find find science bill

basically codifies that as well as that as well even though it seems quite strikingly against the spirit if not the letter of some of the targeting restrictions in the five amendments act senator feinstein sits on the senate intelligence committee that's a very powerful position her counterpart in the house mike rogers sits on the house intelligence committee both these individuals have been very deferential to the n.s.a. have been have been defended i've defended the n.s.a. i interviewed alan grayson a few days ago and he said that the congressional intelligence committees have become apologists for the surveillance state complex we're told that these programs have oversight coming from congress and coming from the fires the court how can we believe any of this stuff when when these oversight committees are basically giving the n.s.a. a huge favor well there's two different questions and one is what kind of oversight do we have in place and the second question is what are the programs that are being overseen and if the programs that are being overseen give the n.s.a.

too much leeway to collect information about americans without any reason to suspect that there is any kind of connection to an international terrorist or a foreign power then you can have all the oversight in the world and if it that oversight finds that the. program is operating as intended the program still isn't operating in a way that's consistent with americans liberty if what you make of lawmakers like jim sensenbrenner saying hey when i wrote the patriot act i never anticipated that section two fifteen would be interpreted the way that it was interpreted is that is that a legitimate claim or should they share the blame for all passing the patriot act back in two thousand and one and not be surprised that the n.s.a. has done with the what they did with it well i would say a little of both i think that a lot of people were concerned that these powers that were granted under the patriot act went too far and could be abused and could be pushed at the boundaries to allow something like bulk collection that said i don't believe that at the time

that the bulk collection section to fifteen of the patriot act was passed anyone who voted for it imagined that it would be used to collect all americans telephone records that simply does not something you could get from reading the text of the bill one of the the spy chief general alexander d.n.i. clapper they keep repeating this long to justify the bulk collection program by saying you need the haystack to find the needle. does that make any sense to you well it would make sense if finding the needle were a purely random process in which the best way to find a needle was to scatter about in the as much as possible this is not a good analogy for how efficient intelligence processes work the most effective form of intelligence and this this isn't for me this comes from intelligence professionals themselves comes from following known liens known associations with people who are suspected to be terrorist but we were police marketers and in fact

according to the n.s.a. they don't even search this database until they have reasonable suspicion so what's the harm in requiring them to wait till they have reasonable suspicion and then requests just those records from the telephone company is just the last thirty seconds here or there reforms particular reforms you see coming out of congress that are worthwhile that people should be paying attention to and have saluted i think the usa freedom act was introduced by representative sensenbrenner and senator leahy in the senate. is a very sensible measure it ends ball collection and it closes this back door but it still enables the and i say and our other intelligence agencies to get the information they need to prevent terrorists so it sounds like a pretty good start when it comes to confronting this monster that's been revealed i think that's the way to go those are the co-director of the liberty national security program at the brennan center for justice. today rocky prime minister al maliki met with president obama to discuss u.s. aid to rock this is moloch his first visit to the u.s. in two years but it comes after

a wave of recent yet tragically routine violence in iraq more than seven thousand people in that country have been killed this year and according to the database iraq body count an op ed in the new york times this week moloch he wrote then iraq and its affiliates are conducting a terrorist campaign against our people the prime minister is requesting helicopters and fighter jets from the u.s. to help his military fight against insurgents. and now we go to new york where a federal appeals court on thursday gave a green light then why petey's controversial stop and frisk policy now back in august judge sheriff scheindlin ruled that stop and frisk is unconstitutional as it unlawfully targets minorities and she said that police made at least two hundred thousand stops between two thousand and four and two thousand and twelve without any reasonable suspicion she went on to block further use of the tactic until the n.y.p.d. makes changes so with her ruling stop and frisk was as we know it dead unfortunately

her ruling was tossed out on thursday by a three judge panel in the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit in stop and frisk is once again good to go and really that the appeals court removed judge sheindlin from the case any impropriety from the bench to the judge made some opinionated comments on stop and frisk to the media. next week democratic nominee bill de blasio is expected to win the new york city mayoral race he's been a critic of stop and frisk and he released a statement in response to yesterday's ruling saying an extremely disappointed in today's decision we shouldn't have to wait for reforms that both keep our communities safe and obey the constitution. i was joined earlier by ortiz on a saucer target to talk more about this case and i first asked her in light of this ruling from yesterday what's the next legal step well sam up now that judge sheindlin which as we have to say you can see is considered by the judiciary

community here in new york to be one of really the top judges and a very good professional and she has been following the stop and frisk policies for years and that trial when she. consider the application of some of the stop and frisk policies unconstitutional lasted ten weeks certainly she was somebody who is very familiar with the topic now that she has been booted off this case by this appeals court what's going to happen is a new judge will step in to look into exactly what it was whether or not the suggestions that she had made over the unconstitutionality of the stop and frisk policies what exactly will happen with them next we have to keep in mind that what she exactly suggested was that the stop and frisk program should be at least based on reasonable suspicions it should be racially neutral that there should be a prosecutor appointed to change some of these policies to make them more adequate and that also some of the police officers should carry and wear video cameras to be

able to see exactly what happens when they stop and press policies. take place and also a schedule of appeals has been set up extending all the way into twenty fourteen where we will have a new mayor in new york city so certainly that could change there in itself and we do of course know about the lawyers in this case are going to keep appealing against this latest ruling and keep fighting for the stop and frisk to be banned but we've seen stop and frisk. going on in new york city for years now what's the latest message coming out of these protests after this court ruling. well you know it's it was really an unexpected twist this latest ruling sam because the people who have been fighting stop and professed for years certainly hope that finally something is going to keep changing and happening but you know their message is racial profiling these stopping frisking questioning these people on the streets you know you mentioned numbers earlier we have to say that the new york city liberties union says that it's actually almost four million stops since two

thousand and two and in almost ninety percent of the cases we're talking about communities mostly latino and african-american and people are outraged take a listen to what they told us earlier today. first needs to be ended because it is racist immoral and illegitimate it treats black and latino people especially young people like criminals guilty until proven innocent if they can survive to prove their innocence stop and frisk is a crime that amounts to police stalking intimidating sometimes jailing and even as much as killing people in the name of security and sam you know people we've spoken to they basically keep repeating the same message over again they say this is the largest profiling of program in the u.s. and certainly one of them is controversial so how much do you think the fact that stop and frisk is considered unconstitutional by its critics reflect what's going

on in the u.s. today more broadly on a larger scale when it comes to police well you know a certainly guess a lot of people do say it's unconstitutional because it brings unreasonable searches and. excuse me. gets in the way of equal protection but the activists on the ground say that it does reflect a much larger attitudes in courts these days take a listen. this court ruling you know shows not that it's a more complicated issue and maybe there's different degrees of of constitutionality but it shows that this courts are more than fine with violating the rights of blacks and latinos and certainly that's a very popular opinion out on the streets here in new york city center so we have a mayoral election coming up tuesday bill de blasio the democratic nominee is expected to win he's been critical of stop and frisk if he wins it would can he

just ended i mean does this court opinion matter if he gets elected tuesday and says we're just not doing this anymore well technically he can do that because yes certainly he can step in and do that but i think the activists are trying to make sure that this is also something backed by the legal system in case that does not happen so certainly that's possible and people are hoping but we have to say that even though he has been very anti stop and frisk throughout the campaign he's also said that it's the particular use and the over use of the stop and frisk program that's questionable so we'll have to wait and see if he sticks to his words and interested parties on a stasi turkana from new york thank you and i want to chicago where budget cuts to mental health services and rampant crime and drug use have created an uneasy situation at the nation's largest jail or cheese as well brings you the story of cook county jail. chicago's cut county jail holds over ten thousand inmates making it the largest jail in the united states it's also the nation's

largest mental health care provider it's exploding on any given day about twenty five to thirty percent of the inmates here at the county jail suffer from some sort of severe mental illness here in the minimum security section of the jail most inmates suffer from some kind of mental health issue most of the crimes there are three cells are nonviolent drug related almost all of these inmates are on psychiatric medication a lot of antidepressants and things i.b.m. insist that kind of as well one thing you know here they take part in group counseling sessions for an hour therapy but resources are wearing thin and experts say many of these men diagnosed with mental health disorders simply don't belong behind bars they're under stress a court case and then again there are no significant separate from friends and family in some here for the very first time which means it's really difficult to just this dorm holds three hundred eighty four beds oh one of the jail rooms like

this became flooded with psychiatric patients after chicago made deep cuts to mental health care services we've had three state hospitals state mental hospitals in the state of illinois that have closed over the last two years six of the twelve mental health clinics here in chicago specifically have closed. a couple large private clinics have it closed down as well because they can't get funding anymore it's an absolute disaster without a place to turn for support many of the inmates that shuffle through cook county jail and up homeless they will be effectively warehoused they will they will sit in a cell and there's nothing magical about a prison cell the problems you bring to prison won't magically go away just because you're incarcerated that's why so many inmates return back to jail may. detainee's here in the maximum security division are repeat offenders outside the walls of

jail they fail to get the medication they need and turn to drugs and crime that's the challenge for illinois in several scenarios states to how mean the service is for people to go back for the underprivileged getting help for mental health outside of prison faces financial and political challenges when it comes to budget cutting time the first thing to go we fight is always mental health services because nobody cares about these people they don't have a voice as long as psychiatric services remain scarce it's almost certain and the halls of cook county jail and others across the country will continue to overflow in chicago lives of all our team moving on new reports have surfaced in the new york times and c.n.n. the new i.o.'s seven may be slowing down all their i phones in a time today users to spend money and upgrade to the new i phone five well laurie harvest is on the case and tonight's resident.

many i phone users have been complaining about how the new i.o.'s operating software has been slowing down their older i phone that led to a bunch of media outlets questioning whether or not apple is doing something as in thirty years as purposely trying to get our old phones to stop working so that we buy the new phone the new york times ran a piece called cracking the apple trap c.n.n. had the i mean this headline is your i phone designed dot dot dot to dot and on and on. are you kidding me how stupid can you be of course apple is

doing that one of the supposed to do make it easier for us to stop giving them money it's called planned obsolescence and any maker of any consumer good does it they plan on their goods becoming obsolete so they can sell us all whole bucket load of new crap you don't need to be a genius to figure that one out they all do it car companies t.v. makers all of them they all do it if you think the fashion industry doesn't work hard to make that sweater if you just bought looks over the last year of course they do they have more crap to sell you you think it's a cool when sit ins that your make a company discontinued your favorite lip gloss nope they're doing it on purpose to make you buy a lot of other due shades to find your new favorite shade that you'll keep buying for a while before they discontinued that one too. of course apple knows that its new operating software out there. all their hardware for the media to insinuate that

that is some kind of evil conspiracy is just utterly stupid they are being dumb maybe it too many corporations are not customers we are consumers and they will do what they have to for us to keep buying their stuff and consuming and consume me and consume until we consume everything possible on the planet and it finally gets rid of gluttonous humanity that may be the only obsolescence corporations are planning on tonight to talk about that by following me on twitter at the residence . and that does it for now from all the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check our web site r t v dot com slash usa you can follow me on twitter sam saxon over to turn a nine pm for larry king now with famous actor clark gregg told him take it easy.

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