One cameraman says he was just arrested for taking an officers picture from 90 feet away. It is thursday, september 5. Im megan lopez and youre watching rt. President obama is in russia. A number of World Leaders have already made up their minds on what they want to be done. Back at home, lawmakers on capitol hill are in a very similar position. A deadlock about whether the u. S. Should use military action. This is not a partisan issue. Congress members have come out for intervention. That is why they feel so strongly about this issue. It is not our responsibility, it doesnt involve any Vital National security interest. It wont do any good and it is expensive. And it is dangerous and can easily spin out of control. The Washington Post just updated the list and found among the 435 members, only 20 have declared in favor of the resolution, against his 183. We are closing on the magic number. A majority of the house indicates it will vote against the president boss resolution. President s resolution. Emails are running 100 to 1 against intervention in syria. In addition to that, they have in no time attracted 40,000 signatures. You have also said that you believe this is not our problem and the u. S. Is not the world police. Who should be dealing with this problem . Whether it is united nations, nato, the International Court of justice, and so on. We have multilateral means to deal with multilateral problems. There is no reason for this at all except for selfdefense. No americans have died. There is no case for self defense. You are not the only person against. The pope wants to avoid more death and instruction. Rebels have taken over a small Christian Village in this location is one of the last places where people speak aramaic, which is believed to be the language that jesus spoke. Many are worried that they can start killing christians. There is word coming out about these rebel groups fragmenting. Do we even know who we are at this point . It is difficult without a scorecard. Now it is becoming a proxy war between crazy sunni fundamentalist and crazy shiite fundamentalists. Would you agree if other countries jumped on board . It depends upon the circumstances. One of the primary objective is to make sure america doesnt have to undertake burdens that are not fair to americans. It is not our responsibility to act alone. Apparently, it is not going to happen. What about arming the rebels further . Is the choice came down to one or the other, arming the rebels is the lesser of two evils. They describe you as a fierce critic with bumper stickers. Numerous cases of whistleblowers claim there was fraud by iraq contractors. Are there comparisons between syria and iraq . When the case for war was made, the administration went way out of its way to monopolize the conversation to the point of suppressing a u. N. Report that raised questons about the intelligence. The Obama Administration is flooding the field. Trying to monopolize the conversation, dominate the discourse and divide information in favor of an attack. I think that is unfortunate. There are always two sides to the story. The public and congress appear to hear about deserved to hear about both sides. Donald rumsfeld is against action in syria because it doesnt go far enough . I would hate to think that i ever agree with donald rumsfeld, but there are great unknowns. You cant be sure of anything and he deserves credit in that regard. You voted against. We have had 40,000 people going to dontattacksyria. Com. And there is an outpouring of people that want peace. People are tired of war and understandably so. The war in iraq cost four dollars trillion 4 trillion. It cost almost 1 10 of our entire national wealth. For what . There werent even any weapons of mass destruction there. The American People understand we should concentrate on health care, jobs, the economy, education. We cant afford to spend 1 billion being the worlds policeman, much less the worlds judge, jury, and executioner. You members of the subcommittees. Does the u. S. Have a good grasp on what is going on in the region in terms of tribal sectarian violence . We spent 50 billion a year on intelligence, and we certainly do our best. There are unknown unknowables. One is what the future would bring if they conducted this attack. There are so many ways this can go wrong for us. This can go wrong in enormous amounts of taxpayer money and american blood. That is why we cant leap into this and assume therell be no response whatsoever. Since you brought it up, i cant help but ask about the nsa and what is going on right now. Do you think the conflict is a distraction for these techniques . We are three weeks away from the government shutting down. We are five weeks away from the government running out of money. It is appalling to me that in this circumstance, we spend two or three or more weeks deciding if we should conduct what is laughingly referred to as a humanitarian war. Very clearly with different media outlets, the humanitarian war does not seem to go together. Thank you for joining me. President obama is in st. Petersburg, russia. He is there with leaders from france, germany, turkey, and a host of other nations. Leaders took an opportunity to discuss the crisis and how it should be handled. It became very clear on the first day of the summit that most of the economies here in one way or the other against military intervention. A lot of economies including that you have spoken out about being against military intervention. Including germany, italy, very optimistic. It could be the last format to find some kind of political solution. With more support for this intervention, it might not be the case. Brazil, russia, india, some of those emerging economies. It wasnt so much the economy front and center. But also recent revelations brought to the world by whistleblower Edward Snowden that many of these companies entries were being spied on. They basically aligned this electronic snooping with terrorism. Certainly the mood here in st. Petersburg on day one a very intense one. What kind of debates, specifically, in terms of syria will be put on the table and whether or not demands were made of that alleged chemical weapons attack on august 21. That will come out on day two in st. Petersburg. Internet privacy activists came on rt america numerous times in the past to speak his mind. He also worked with hacktivist groups like anonymous. Now a federal court has approved of a media gag order on brown. They face up to 100 years in prison for a number of charges for his alleged role within anonymous. Our gag orders like this, and . Is this an attempt to cover up the case . We began by asking them some sort of precedent for gag orders like this. People said this is a little bit exceptional. I am not an expert in that particular area. Is that because it includes Barrett Brown and his lawyers . The problem is not picking out Barrett Brown or the lawyers, but usually there is actually some tangible threat poisoning the jury pool or Something Like that. Alternatively, there might be some threat coming out of this but that is preposterous. I think about a case where an oj type case where it will be impossible to find a neutral jury. We are talking about a case for the most part,. 1 of the population has ever heard of them . Can you walk us through some of the original arrest warrants and walk us up to this point . The whole thing started with the project p. M. That was a website and a Journalism Project that he had running where they would crowd source the investigation of private intelligence companys and what they were up to. And then there was the hack that took place by a kid named jeremy hammond. It yielded Something Like 5 million emails. Jeremy put those emails up on pirate bay, somebody in anonymous broadcast the location of that data. He took that link, copied it, and pasted it to the chat channel for the 10 or 20 individuals that work on the project. Because he copied and pasted that link and pointed his Editorial Board to the data, he is charged with a number of Crimes Involving various forms of credit card fraud. That is the basic case. Is their ramifications for journalists . Part of what journalists do, they claim that something is sitting in something online. You go over and look at it. Alternatively, you might want your colleagues to look at it. Here is a link to this database. Journalists have to think twice. Some of my friends that do investigations into this sort of thing, i am afraid to post this link and give you the link because i dont want to get bbs or Barrett Brownd. It has created a tremendous Chilling Effect which is why it was done. I know you have a lot to deal with the ethics of hacktivism. What are the ethics . The basic idea is to get students to think critically about Different Things that activists might do and where they think people might be crossing the line. Is it when we do denial of Service Attack . Or is it a kind of intrusion . Certain kinds of leaking things, is that ethical . The basic idea is to get people thinking critically because we live in a world where students have to confront these issues for the rest of their lives. How do you behave and act as a citizen where there are all these secrets and ways of getting at those secrets . Something we will be exploring an internet privacy and surveillance. He is the philosophy professor at northwestern university. The freelance photographer has been shooting the sites of l. A. For years now. He has also been repeatedly detained for doing his job. He has never been charged with a crime and police took me to the Police Station after they photographed him from 90 feet away. They say he interrupted them doing their jobs. We take a look at the tense relationship between cops and photographers. I am a photographer spending a lot of time in hollywood. When he began taking photos, and never thought that his camera would get him into trouble with police. A number of times i have been detained for taking pictures. He was taken to a hollywood Police Station after photographing officers from 100 feet a way. Cameras show how far he was from the Apartment Building the police were responding to. They were so irritated with him that they went through the trouble of coming down this long driveway, hopping into their patrol car, and driving down the street just to confront him. Officers drove another half block where they met him here and put him in handcuffs. I was handcuffed to a bench. Brought to the interrogation room. All of which were ignored. It is not the first controversial detainment by nla cop. He was taking photos at a subway station when confronted by a deputy. I want to know if you are into hoots with al qaeda. He thought the photographer could be complicit in terrorism because he was taking pictures of the subway. They filed a lawsuit claiming that they violated his rights. They say they were also detained while taking pictures of public places. When they are simply in public, that is unconscionable and needs to stop. The days where Police Officers can get away with this sort of abuse and straight up lying, those days are simply over because cameras are everywhere. He is now moving forward with a civil suit against the l. A. Policed u department. He avoids some parts of los angeles for fear of running into overzealous deputies. A consequence of what some photographers call a violation of their constitutional rights. It is thursday, and for time for the weekly tech report. Do you know the phrase brain power . Researchers call it direct brain to brain communication and they do it by passing a signal from one mind to the next using the internet. Does it sound a little scifi . It did to me, too. I brought one of the researchers onto the show to tell me how it works. She is an assistant Research Professor at the university of washington and he told me why this is not as weird as it sounds. We use existing technology to read the brain patterns and transmit them to a different person. We do it with a very simple impulse right now like muscle commands. It was technically possible years ago. Can you go into more detail about how specifically it works and what you need from a person . A person is sitting on a chair and is connected to a machine detecting electrical activity around the brain. If he is thinking about moving the right hand, it controls a second computer connected over the internet and the second computer controls a magnetic field. It is in such a way to review that particular command. The part of the brain that controls the right hand. The Wireless Connection is only through computers. They can be in the same room or any part of the world. What do you think the future of this is . Other than moving hands, are you trying to transmit between brains . There are lots of possible developments. We want to show that it is possible and that technology is available. It can be used in hospitals and it can be done in a way that is noninvasive. Two big directions are developing so that a person can play the piano. This can be used to control another person. Another way this technology will be to transmit complex information about things that people see or hear. You have described this as lending part of your brain to somebody else. Can this be helpful with medicine where you have someone who is paralyzed and the other person is telling them to move their hand . It is possible. For most of these applications, rehabilitation, we just dont know if that technology can be impacts for. We dont really know. What are we learning . We know about the capabilities of the brain . It is the most complex system that has been involved in the universe. Cracking that is quite a challenge. We have enough knowledge to start doing something unthinkable. We dont know where this can lead. It can be more useful than making a hand move up and down. We believe in the next year or so, we will be able to transfer information that is useful. I am going to use my brain to thank you right now. I am transmitting my youre welcome to you. Thank you so much. Normally when you think of hunting licenses coming out of colorado, you think about hunting for deer or birds or fishing. What about drone hunting licenses . That is what one man in the small town of deer trail colorado is offering customers. He is the founder of professional drone hunters and the author of an ordinance that requires people to buy a license before firing their arms at u avs. He sold more than 60 of these licenses online for about 25 bucks a pop. If you do purchase one of those papers, it does not mean you can go off willynilly. There are rules, of course. You must be able to read and understand english. The drone must be flying less than 1000 feet in the air, good luck on measuring that. It must be flying over private robert he and you can only shoot during the daytime. If you think selling these is a bit premature, you would be correct. The town board is split on how to issue these and if they should. The residents wont vote until early october. It already has one more to get the ordinance passed. Showing off robert drone hunting techniques. He has never seen a drone flying on his property and the move is mostly symbolic. The faa is not laughing and warned that shooting could result in a criminal and civil action being taken against the gunslinger. I printed out my own license. This cost me about . 10. We will see what i decide to do with that but that will do it for now. For more stories, go to youtube. Com rtamerica. You can follow me on twitter for all things that i find interesting. I want to know what you think about the civil war and brain to brain connections. I will see you back here at 8 00 p. M. Hello there. Welcome to newsline. Its friday, september 6th. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. The group of 20 leaders are meeting in the russian city of st. Petersburg and the crisis in syria is expected to dominate the talks. The twoday summit began on thursday. U. S. President barack obama, Russias Vladimir Putin and other leaders are discussing the global economy. But the meeting is being