researcher. coming up on our t.v. fighting isis the u.s. begins flying surveillance missions over syria and now many are wondering if this latest action will have the u.s. teaming up with a regime it's once criticized. easing tensions in ukraine president putin and poroshenko meet as the humanitarian crisis continues in the war torn country but is this meeting providing any chance for peace. in an unarmed teenager killed by police in ferguson misery is laid to rest but what does that mean for the community going forward while i have a report from ferguson later in the show. it's

tuesday august twenty sixth five pm in washington d.c. i'm an electron you're watching r t america. surveilling syrian skies the u.s. says latest response to the threat of islamic militants wreaking havoc along the iraqi syrian border has many wondering if one time foes the u.s. and syria could become friends today obama administration officials announced that it would begin aerial surveillance of isis controlled territories within the syrian border an unnamed official tells the a.p. that while these aerial surveillance drones are necessary for reconnaissance purposes against the isis militants the white house confirms that they are not acting in cooperation with the assad regime so could this mean the u.s. is gearing up for new air strikes in syria in response to this syrian officials say they welcome u.s. surveillance of the isis militants but the syrian foreign minister had this to say

any strike which is not coordinated with the government will be considered as aggression this as the u.s. ramps up its involvement in the region following the beheading of american journalist james foley and the life of another american journalist steve soft hangs in the balance so what's the bigger picture for the u.s. in the region earlier i was joined by matt southworth from the friends committee on national legislation i first asked him if there was a chance that the governments of syria and the u.s. might end up working together against isis. i think the chances of that are highly unlikely i think what the u.s. sees as an opportunity to take unilateral strikes against isis the interesting thing to me is that the administration when they requested that authorization last year was resoundingly shut down by the american public and congress was not even able to take a vote on that authorization because the public was so adamantly opposed to yet another war in the middle east and yet more potential for bombing but do you think

that sentiment has changed given this new the new action on the rise militants has that sentiment change i would think you know i don't actually think so i think most people haven't been paying close enough attention the difference between this time and last time is the president went on t.v. and said we want to new authorization i think of the president were to come on t.v. again and say we want new authorization which he will have to do because the president does not have open ended authority to wage war against isis is very far out of any existing authority for him and the administration to take that action so eventually if they keep this up they're going to have to seek authorization and when that happens i think the public will again speak out and be adamantly opposed you think will still be opposed now now the u.s. has launched air strikes in iraq as we know against isis militants but it's taking a very different approach in fighting the same group in syria along syria's side of the border why do you think the u.s. has taken a different approach in theory just because we have a schizophrenia policy you know the u.s.

has long held contradict dring allies and contradicting beliefs about alliances in the middle east one question in terms of the surveillance in syria is are we doing actual surveillance for the purpose of gathering intelligence or are we actually doing target acquisition i served in northern iraq in two thousand and four with the u.s. army as an intel analyst and i know a little bit about that target acquisition i was responsible for doing some of that and it's not a science is definitely not a science so we have to wonder how long will this action take place before the chances of let's say bomb. innocent iraqi civilians or innocent syrian civilians happens and then what will we do right now just a moment ago you did mention that the obama administration. will seek their approval of congress of course to go forward with anything now the administration has actually said that they won't guarantee that they will seek congress's approval to move forward with with maybe some air strikes in syria but how important is it

for the lawmakers to approve the military response i think it's absolutely essential you know the only way for the public to weigh in on whether or not they approve a third war. third major war and this time is for them to look to congress to actually take a vote on an authorization and if that doesn't happen i think it will be a miscarriage of constitution of the already and now the administration has said that that isis is an imminent threat to the u.s. interests and in fact chuck hagel just recently said that it's a threat to every interest that we have is this really an accurate assumption or is this an exaggeration to me it's more rhetoric you know there's very little evidence for the fact that isis is a threat sure they have made statements but statements in ability are two very different things and you know didn't have weapons of mass destruction in two thousand and three we learned that babies in incubators in one thousand nine hundred one was a made up fictitious story and i have real doubts about this insecurity of the

underlying policy decisions being made for everything that chuck hagel would make such a broad statement you know it's really hard to know from my view. officials are thinking we've been bombing iraq for at almost twenty five years we've been involved in the region for at least the last fifty and we have a few positive examples of where military forces work i don't know why we continue to double down on these failed policies we need a different approach and the approach of bombs and boots first will fail again if we if we do it now syria. has become. as the days go by it's becoming increasingly governable do you think that the u.s. maybe should have acted sooner were guarding isis i mean rather than the president calling them. absolutely the president the united states and the united nations should have acted sooner not in military terms but in terms of getting regional players and international players at the table to broker a political deal right now we've got the president saying there's no military

solution to iraq yet we continue to drop bombs same thing with syria there's no rivaling political process or no political process in tandem so my question to the admin. solution how do you plan for the political solution and doesn't seem like we're taking any of those actions i think that's the opportunity that was missed not military action so we're just kind of responding with violence and you don't think that's going to get us anywhere with it certainly doesn't protect civilians it exacerbates the existing violence it's going to push more people toward the islamic state it's going to push more people toward these other groups because they have the choice of self-preservation or die and i think you know this this policy is only going to exacerbate that now on one last note here today n.b.c. is reporting that an american was killed i'm sure you've heard about that over the weekend fighting for isis it says the free syrian army released photos of american douglas macarthur mccain his passport and photos of his body were released and

right now the u.s. says it's just a small handful of americans that they believe have taken up the cause and a lot of europeans are actually joining but do you do you think that's an accurate portrayal or do you think there's kind of more more to this or to this the u.s. policy over the last you know thirteen years and maybe even further has created us and them groups and the unfortunate side effect is some people are sympathizing with the u.s. and i think ultimately people are defecting from the u.s. and fighting and certainly not you know the first time this is happened but ultimately this is no way indicative of the american muslim community and i think that's an important point to stress i agree and earlier today at a pentagon briefing when asked about how the u.s. is conducting operations against isis gen kirby said the following where we are authorized to act. from a military perspective. iraq and that's what we're doing but it doesn't mean we're

turning a blind eye to the regional threat that they pose and quite frankly we're not turning a blind eye to their global aspirations as well you know much has been made about you know. the threat they pose and and how imminent is. and you don't need to look any further than the recruitment of foreign fighters and the degree to which not just the united states government but many western governments are concerned about these foreign fighters leaving their shores going over there getting radicalized trained and then coming back and. now you heard what he just had to say do you think we'll actually be more americans leaving to fight for isis and or or actually going to get training and just coming back to do some homegrown terrorism here it's impossible to know but you know what i think could stump for the military action but good policing actual intelligence gathering and making sure that we're not continuing to conduct policies that are having these outcomes and if you look at where the u.s. military has taken military action in intervene across the middle east we have more examples of failed states and successful states so i think that's

a really important point when weighing whether or not to continue and expand u.s. military action thank you so much thank you for your insight that was matt southworth from the friends committee on national legislation. the shocking video of james foley's execution by isis fighter in syria sparked international outpouring of sympathy for foley's family and friends and colleagues one of those colleagues as danish photojournalist daniel rye artisan who was held captive alongside foley for thirteen months august and was released by isis back in june and was able to deliver fully his last message to his mother and family here's a small sample of james foley's final note home eighteen of us have been held together in one cell which has helped me we've had each other to have endless long conversations about movies trivia sports we have played games we made up of scraps found in our cell i have weak and strong days we are so grateful when anyone is

freed but of course you're for our own freedom we try to encourage each other and share strength now due to the heavy scrutiny while in isis captivity foley wasn't allowed to use pen and paper to craft as letter instead august and had to memorize foley's final correspondents. after he was released august and dictated the letter to foley's mother diane over the phone and also on sunday we saw the release of another american journalist peter t. curtis held captive in syria for two years however it was the united nations who managed to free curtis he was handed over to un peacekeepers in the golan heights region which is under israeli control and an indefinite truce has been declared between israel and gaza today beginning at seven pm local time but not before a last minute volley of mortars being launched out of gaza into israel that killed one israeli and wounded six others the deal brokered by egypt marks the latest

ceasefire in the seven we conflict that left more than twenty two hundred palestinians dead mostly civilians and now israel says they've had sixty four soldiers die along with four civilians one who was a thai national. and following the july second kidnap and brutal murder of sixteen year old palestinian mohammad abu coderre at the hands of jewish extremists his family now appears to be the target of his really police his nineteen year old cousin with the same name is now being detained by israeli police now this is raising concern at the state department because there the cousin of the boy that was burned alive back in july is an american citizen not until recently was the state department made aware that israel detained an american and to discuss the latest revelation revelation i was joined earlier by our own a mirror david i asked her what the state department has been saying about all of this so far. superman has actually been quite critical of israel when it comes to

the rest of mammadov who could do year what the state department is most concerned about is the fact that the u.s. consulate general was not notified of this arrest immediately as is typical when a u.s. citizen of course is arrested abroad they've also expressed concern that members of the could could your family appear to be singled out of course this isn't the first time you've heard this last name have tarik of will he or the other. mohammed could do or who was killed or a of course hark is the one in florida now in terms of the status of his arrest the charges are still unclear i asked the state department today for an update take a look at that. what can you tell us about the status of a dear u.s. citizen who's been detained in israel why has his arrest been extended apparently to the end of september and why has he not been indicted yet. some of this i'm not going to be able to produce in the legal system but i didn't get an update from our

team on this today obviously you know this is a case that we're watching closely and we're involved with closely but we can check on the legal process and see if there's any updates so as you saw there the state department didn't have a whole lot of new information to add at least telling us why this young man has not been indicted yet but he's idle being detained however last week the department said the u.s. consulate in jerusalem was offering consular services to the boy and his family hoping to really expedite this legal process it just seems a little bizarre that it's taken so long what do we know about why he was arrested in the first cycle where they put it they will be earlier so people understand he was born in baltimore but he has since left and his immediate family has left and returned to the east jerusalem area that's where he both lived and work so he was very much present in the aftermath of the brutal killing of his relatives thought to be his cousin of course that sixteen year old and police say they arrested him

while he was rioting over that death of course he was probably very passionate about it but it's not clear what exactly he was doing what really merited that arrest and with no indictment yet it's obviously even harder to determine and from what i understand even more of his family the boy that died even more of his family is being targeted by israeli police and what he tell us about that and the i mean the reason that we're hearing so much about this particular arrested because he is a u.s. citizen of course it's a little bit closer to home but he's just one of many there are countless palestinians in this family it's a large large family. who have been targeted and we don't. i have verification of this sort of hoarding to the families count at least thirty five of them have been arrested so you can imagine i how big this family is thirty five of them have been arrested and some of them have been released but as far as we know twenty one of them are still under the very they're being harassed at the very least or monitor

something that exactly that's what that's what is believed at least at this point now what the attorney for the family says one of them is actually a doctor who was seen in the area of the rioting thought to be participating but he was not he was only offering first aid to some of the wounded and he is one of the the ones that is still detained right now last but not least since we're just learning this news how how was israel justifying this detention i mean they still have him and now we know what are the example of a police deny this this claim through and through they say that the family's not being singled out that they are not being harassed in any way they say that this is purely coincidence coincidence that this family happens to be the one that's writing because they're passionate over over the death of that young boy and and that there are very large families so five people that we're going to use while i also very actually said and as to why israel did not notify us consulate of the arrest police say that you had your is not registered as a u.s.

citizen in their database and they also say that during the questioning when they were interrogating him he did not make it known to them using the american citizen and i'm sure we'll be hearing a little more about that in the days to come getting so much for that was our case america is now on to the crisis in ukraine the much anticipated one on one meeting between president vladimir putin and petro poroshenko has now wrapped up in bell roosts this is the first bilateral meeting between the two our g. correspondent arena the loucheux has more on what's happened so far. it's not even so much what was being said as it is about what we have seen happening here and i'm talking about that first between russian and ukrainian presidents it has taken place and perhaps it is a sign off things to calm and ukrainian president poroshenko spared no words when describing it's his upper hand. to do without any doubt the fate of the world and the viewer is being decided that's the potential of this meeting together we have

to find the one and only solution of which depends no more no less the peace on the entire continent. but it's definitely no easy task and russia's president putin has described his own view to the solution of the crisis in eastern ukraine. to exchange opinions on the crisis in ukraine which we're certain it is impossible to resolve by for the escalating the use of force without taking into account the interests of the southeastern regions of the country and a peaceful dialogue with their representatives. obviously there are a lot of things for ukrainian russian presidents to talk about including a colony and the issue of humanitarian aid to. ukraine and we have heard there are reports at least coming in from nato that they are actually at this point saying not opposed to. an aid coming in to the regions which are in dire need there all however of course that humanitarian crisis in eastern ukraine actually could be the cornerstone of the talks between russia's president putin and ukraine's

president poroshenko. again that was our correspondent arena. michael brown the eighteen year old who were shot to death by ferguson p.d. was laid to rest in a nationally televised service yesterday his death sparked weeks of protests and rioting in the st louis suburb brown's funeral was peaceful but will that call and ferguson continue. has more. here in ferguson the streets remain calm and quiet and have basically been that way for the past twenty four hours as a matter of fact students boarded buses for their first day of school today this coming after the district pushed back the start of school three times due to the ongoing violence over the past two weeks but on monday night we saw no arrests and very few demonstrators out on the street and much of the reason for that is because michael brown's father personally appealed to the community asking that on the day that he buries his son for there to be peace for there speak quiet for there to be

no weiland said of course the community did respect the wishes of michael brown's family but many optimists that i've spoken with say that the fight for accountability and justice is far from over. thousands braved the boiling temperatures monday patiently waiting to enter a seat that was church inside an outward funeral service for the young man whose name and story has dominated international headlines more than two weeks after michael brown was shot and killed by a police officer he is finally laid to rest his family and friends get the chance to say goodbye but what this community has not yet received are the answers to the analysts questions surrounding the death of the unarmed teenager the white officer who shot at least six bullets into the african-american eighteen year old remains on paid administrative leave while state and federal prosecutors investigate. the police killing fueled nearly two weeks of violent protests in which heavy

handed actions of a militarized u.s. police department shocked the world tear gas rubber bullets flash grenades and death threats. used against mostly armed activists and journalists that were dragnet so i had to turn to our work. computer demand times that i've been in baghdad. shooting's i could tell you did a man of course that was an excessive amount of force and it happens everywhere everywhere around the world tuesday citizens are being encouraged to take to the streets for an international day of action demanding an end to police brutality and unchecked state violence the campaign is called hands up united the tear gas of the hair they're also using a broad right and a lot of people were even comparing ferguson to war zones but those were so shouldn't be that pilot anyway right like it's not ok for tear gas to be used against citizens in the us the side ok in other countries either so we're calling

on communities and citizens across the world to sort of push back together at the same time because none of us deserve that kind of treatment from the state tear gas was banned in her fair under the chemical weapons convention of one thousand nine hundred three however it was not banned from police forces to use domestically ok. america's the enforcement only fires the chemical on its own people it remains the top supplier of tear gas to governments around the world tuesday's international call for action as a united everyone wants to be in the sea that's a great show of solidarity because it will put pressure on our leaders on everyone to know that hey everyone's watching you we see we're not going to allow this to keep going like this cornelius flowers says the tragic reality is that the use of chemical weapons against an army of demonstrators is becoming the new norm practiced and promoted by american officials we were out the other night i'm

standing out and so was there. any get a bag you know pull out a gun he put out a gas mask and he said that are you prepared and that's that's crazy that's crazy that's what preparation it is a gas mask the police shooting of michael brown sparked a palpable sense of anger and frustration extending far beyond the borders of turkey and all the country beats for justice and accountability and there are those police. practices under heavy scrutiny. r t forty six. well slocum if you've got a you know the expression however a man named trevor farrel posted a video does facebook page of himself lighting up none other than a mcdonald's french fry then he proceeds to smoke it and he's pretty disgusted by the concept take a look this is were people cruel over. we've been given to kids this for years i used to go. with it or grandma used to take. to

school is this where we want to feed our cues is this what we want in our system. on the way through every day a woman donald has recently come under fire for concealing the ingredients of their chicken make maggots now we can see that there are french fries can actually catch fire and be smoked that's weird but if you're tempted you might want to think again . i guess that's why there's no french fry flavored ether ads. everywhere we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is actor david arquette and in this clip larry asked him about his new business endeavors. what about you and i clubs yeah i could call bootsy bellows which is. belo would say bellows yeah we call it bootsy's but

yeah it's named after my mother who thought she was a pin up model in the first short period of time i was going through this book called i was a fifty's pinup and i came across a naked picture of my mom and she was still alive at the time and i said look at these pages and there are four pictures of her like having a cat fight with another girl and she's like oh david we were really fighting so it's like i'm not really worried about their mom you know get of this magazine and she's like yeah i was like well did you ever straight you know did you she's like well i did burlesque dance i said did you have a name and she said it was bootsy bellows that's why we named it and we it's a pretty fun place and. so tune in at nine pm tonight right here on our team america and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we just cover go to you tube dot com forward slash r t america or check out our website r t dot com for a clash usa you can also follow me on twitter at the military. dramas

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this story is about an amazing accomplishment of humanity ready the nuclear regulatory commission is the overseer of the us is nuclear power industry they maintain databases to get precise details information about the location and condition of all american nuclear reactors they keep inventory of weapons grade nuclear material that enters the employees about four thousand people who work very serious jobs that affect the safety of the entire planet and according to a new inspector general report the n.r.c. is computer system has been hacked the read in just three years twice by

foreigners and once by an unknown individual and they did it by using this simple list of hacks one incident was a basic phishing scam a couple hundred n.r.c. employees received emails asking them to click on a link and log in doesn't address the employees took the click bait and visited a cloud based google spreadsheet no one knows what the employees actually put into the spreadsheet but they do know. so that the person who set up a spreadsheet was in a foreign country another incident also involves a basic e-mail phishing scam employees got an e-mail with a link that connected to a cloud based microsoft sky drive storage site which housed now where again investigators tracked the center of this e-mail to a foreign country and then the third incident hackers broke into one n.r.c. employees personal e-mail account and sent an e-mail to sixteen other n.r.c. employees in the compromised employees contact list that e-mail contained a p.d.f.

attachment with a javascript security vulnerability and the n.r.c. employees opened the attachment infecting their systems but this time investigators were able to track the hacker all told investigators found seventeen compromises to the n.r.c. computer systems that occurred between twenty and twenty thirty from employees clicking on links and attachments and e-mails from our known senders something that every human with access to a computer should know not to do the right arrow and as the employees are required to complete annual cyber training but apparently some of them aren't paying attention in class and because of that cheers stupidity unknown people around the world have now had access to every detail about every nuclear reactor in the u.s. so yeah this story is about an amazing accomplishment of humanity and that it's seriously i'm amazing that somehow we managed.