in the street and selling drugs one from. myself trying to get my ged that they were and in a misdemeanor trying to get my z. . star given followed home and started having police officers walk up on me read up on me sam on a government aimed where i have been and like just things like the. i hamis all for so wes. a social worker i can't remember his name but they had my home they stop at my house and. so payment told me that i was put through some type of test this and i was. supposed to be going to shoot somebody or give myself so. i was put on the heat their cell phone to be. mr mcdaniel as part of our violently dungeon strategy as someone has generated a list of potential criminals actors and that. we are here today to inform you in

effect that our computers have placed you on the hit list of the police department now since should you decide to continue to engage in criminal activity we should know we're going to charge you and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. i guess we was associated or carefree and disposed to being in the streets or out as an aerial go but we've put through a test and we both came out the most like telephoning dangerous people and now yet again our guys who how can i be dangerous for smoking weed i should know who does this or. the timeline shows all the criminal activities that their persons associate with if you see on the bottom those are all interactions he's had with the police either as an arrest is a contact as a victim and with it so you know who we hang out with you know where he's been

everything to do with him that we've documented through police interaction scroll down please we're 1st got that this shows this is what they'll compile and put together and get back out into the field within 15 minutes so if this person is the victim of a shooting or of violent crime they'll pull of their it's got their criminal history. that's associate so everything. before it was all the criminal history involved with that individual so there's probably maybe about 2530 arrests that you saw on that saw the subject the associates people that they're documented is having an affiliation with that's again a pretty comprehensive list certainly we can actually do even like a link analysis to be able to show how that network interacts.

the idea that you could essentially connect all of the data streams that government collects in different ways everything from you know your arrest records to your contacts to your foreclosures to your mental health records to your social benefits and put them in a particular computer database and then be able to do blank analysis where you connect a phone number from all the different sources and go out you know several links and be able to see the world is something you would never imagine that is technologically possible now.

let's summarize. firstly they are quite serious about fighting crime with algorithms. secondly robert mcdaniel is on the wrong side of the algorithm. thirdly apart from its developers nobody knows how the algorithm behind the heat list works fourthly in 2016 statistically 2.0876 people are killed every day in chicago. i can follow good enough for its. effect on the budget placing you to.

look beyond the dangerous on this kind of on its own well. if. those contacts to. meet up with us in full. swing why next. and then the fukushima just as you don't know what else they pulled off an actor paul active. don't pull the neck to see if. soon if the consumers. they have like a ranking system which shows how many times more likely are they than the general

population to be prone to violence so all robert had a rating of to 15 which meant he's $215.00 times more likely to be prone to violence but robber wasn't i mean that paled in comparison to a number of other people on the list there were a lot of people on that list who are more than 500 times more likely to be party to violence and again that's not because of their criminal history that's because of the people they've been arrested with. you know this is what's really frightening is that there are companies now scoring every subsides that information's out there it's not really out there whether they're a felon or not but it is out there and so what the police here are doing is they're

literally just purchasing information other people already have now that score in society of course is frightening of course it's not just a privacy sense that you're giving out this information it's about a government owning this information right it's a different situation in america we're pretty willing to let big companies like google and apple know pretty much everything about ourselves more more reluctant to have a government it's a good line to draw what's happening here. there is this sort of data convergence where you're really seeing private companies collecting this information and then essentially selling it or offering it through different services to law enforcement and people do know that information in the police don't have it the private companies do have it and that's part of where we are now as technology is collecting as much information about us as i can. i.

like click safed. we deliver the data which generates information about us that circulate on the internet until the next update creates yet another dataset and so on. data mining endlessly. somewhere fairly lost at the bottom of the digital food chain there are people like robert mcdaniel. privacy what privacy. the flag a small influence does unto whom is a poor comma and says it's now almost an xmas. you still have a democrat

a custom tomboy and it does mind you and i had to say chef de compared to about is silly it doesn't screw up the consul vs him dish and he needs and for how to sponsor sponsors so he had a he needs i don't point just on top. of all that i'm going to build a is a buffet and was jim dobbins still a guy i admit is often cited as baby because of one man's one exemption of obvious own to leave us young folks out at number 5 which of stocks to it to one does get just get 15 on t.v. adjusts to. him finding ya in house before dustman it because the initial data with him scoring meant that the viet often mention c.f.e. good for gene come on having just about some to shift some of it was so good i'll of course an internet owns a leaping smoking d.v.r. linda tosh up to leaping smart alstom silicon valley.

money. whenever someone fills out an application for obama they're going to be providing certain information. the be where software they access databases financial institutions the courts. any type of baloney institutions be aware has the ability to access all of those databases simultaneously so when a call comes into our dispatch center and it is categorized as a life threatening call or e. in progress crime then and there is an address attached to the v where software automatically searches all of these databases and then provides the operator in the real time crime center information specific to that address people that have lived their lives there their cell phone numbers prior addresses associates the

other piece that allows for is to research social media and and to gather any type of information that might be in there in terms of threats. the theory behind the where makes a lot of sense if i was a police officer on the street and i was entering a house and i don't know who lived there i don't know all the information i could but the problem is if it's sources through these data brokers there just isn't really much accuracy as you might be arriving in a house in the address alerts as a dangerous place that may be so many lives there maybe the dangerous person moved the problem is accuracy and if you ever got on the wrong catalog in the mail and michael why did someone send me a catalog i don't have children why do i have it that's the inaccuracy that comes along with these data brokers right they don't need to be perfect because what they're really doing is trying to sell products to people.

well if the algorithms used in the private sector allow them to become more successful in targeting their audience to sell product then we should take advantage of that same algorithm that allows us to become more successful involved horsemen and preventing crime. in the case of the beware software i think the bad far outweighs any potential good and i can see how in a perfect world. it could help make police officers safer the problem is nothing is perfect as one of the things that the software companies says that it looks at are postings on social media such as facebook and twitter there was one woman in another city who was flagged in the software for making comments on twitter about rage rage has

a very specific meaning in terms of anger or violence but the raise she was talking about was a card game called rage that had nothing to do with violence or aggression or anything like that yet she was flagged as being a possible problem because she had some of these messages about rage and what if someone is making some it's about that they don't trust the police is that going to flag them as being a potential problem so there are too many opportunities for the computer to get it wrong and if they get it wrong coupled with a police department that already is much more likely than other police departments to shoot citizens that's a recipe potentially for disaster. taking up one question again. why are we forcing these technologies upon ourselves.

the silicon valley's of this world are making a lot of money with them ok. we the users have enjoyed the comforting google and find and that's it. what if the internet fed by the permanent feedback of its users already had its awakening. what if it developed its own. needs and interests it was always leading us to more convenient technologies because we pay for it with private data. what a freedom was just an illusion. metropolitan police territorial police are working together for a safe on the. make of. the much problem police service and one of his own is all committed to me just in that again current information indicates to you have or associated to it gang days in the current issue involving credit and you know stop

. valving crap and do not stop you may be a target but the least partner agencies under a piece of legalization would join and press you may be convicted of a crime and prison for just being present when a serious crime is committed or even with those persons you commit a crime and you don't shut. you would need to change unless the we can help you to do this for. you can speak in confidence to a police officer and or any of the organizations listed at the end of this no i would encourage you to speak to them as they can they hope you break any gang links you know since you are a commando. adoption

join in front was actually brought in over 200 years ago to stop people encouraging jews so if 2 people judging whether it's by pistols will swords this seconds or that support them they can be done full joint and supplies if someone is killed. so that doctrine is not actually lol it is doctrine adopted by the colts but it has an operational and tactical implication in terms of the matrix. to. the tampa.

a group of women fighting for the right to enter a cycle hindu temple that has long been the exclusive domain of men and one i want to investigate the battle to mow becomes centuries of scrimmage nation in india on al-jazeera. the story goes that the statue of an ancient greek god he beat the waves for

millenia. until a palestinian fisherman on earth the priceless relic. the story continues but as the world's attention was drawn to cross mysteriously the data disappear once again. the apollo of ca's. on a. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera president donald trump has announced that a u.s. warship has the story to an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz it comes as tensions are increasingly rising between the 2 countries president trump said the aircraft threatened the ship by flying within a 1000 yards of it and claimed the iranians ignored multiple calls for the drone to

stand down the boxer took defensive action against an iranian drone which had closed into a very very near distance approximately $1000.00 yards ignoring multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of the ship and the ship's crew the drone was immediately destroyed. and earlier iran's revolutionary guards seize the foreign tanker which they've accused of trying to smuggle oil the announcement was made on thursday on iranian state t.v. but the tanker was reportedly seized on sunday in the strait of hormuz all 12 crew members were detained iran says the shift named riyadh had been smuggling 1000000 liters of oil the ship is based in the united arab emirates but the u.a.e. have denied ownership of the vests. meanwhile president trump as this from his

supporters after some of them chanted his own words about a u.s. congresswoman who was born in somalia. several high profile politicians have defended iran omar following the crowd chanting send her back at trump's campaign rally which the president now says he feels a little bit badly about that a classic presidential hopeful come a harris tweeted that the rally the files the office of the president libya's un recognized government has accused forces loyal to the warlord holly for half thought of kidnapping a female politician and injuring her husband see him sick at what this appeared from a house in the eastern city of benghazi on wednesday she's an m.p. and the alternative parliament set up into a book which is backed by half tide he's currently trying to take over the capital tripoli in the west but said what has been critical of his military operations

those that were the top stories that stay with us pre-crime continues next that i'm going to have the al-jazeera news hour for you in under half an hour.

the term free crime comes from this movie minority report and rich a prediction is being made about something an individual has not yet done but is going to view and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they performed. the london my tricks words like that heat lost in chicago. identify individuals connect them detect patterns in social networks calculate the statistical possibilities. score people issue warnings keep an eye on.

i'm doing an end to gang projects in the local area here in east london i have clients who are saying i have never been involved in a gun but the very real issue is the subjectivity to get people on the criminal intelligences than the trim system and then how that then goes into the matrix to then associate people in certain kinds which are questionable so that the thing is who's checking the data entry who's checking those offices who commit those they to entries. i don't see myself as i got them while not a gang member among my dang number you know and said i'm just

a part on the support of this so. i'm just a part of the circle which always gets send the dog that old you know honey. and always will buy them. if you are not in a gang there as you were community are you from or from the answer community ok those are body snatchers of your own those are folk want to ask you a phone how can you tell me what i am because of my address because of our state is probably why i can only afford to leave that makes no sense i just honestly they got a job to do and they want to do if they had a brief crime if they had to make criminals if they got to see here and convince you to a criminal in provoke you to do it they are doing actually i had a frame kill a couple like couple ones couple weeks prior to that so i have only partly i can say is a day day when a gang member. now i guess that's how i got to be near because me and

a person that was murdered was so close but other than now i actually don't know the legacy i'm the a none to the next q. they haven't told us what the algorithm is that they're using to identify people they haven't told us what that data is and there's no way to get off the lists that were up once you're on it so that. that's scary to a lot of people it's frightening to not know how the list is created or to be able to get all that on the back end and they can say that you know we're using meth for use in science is a way to do it math and science aren't always right. but .

if you use a full field in commercial recipes and struggle. that i just picked you to see did you think functional from certain says that avoiding the 2nd place to. ski you could feel as if the instructor he looked like cared for the bulk of emotion up there for you to see most welcome. all data is biased. police department data incident data has the potential to be biased in a number of different ways and we cannot eliminate us but we can potentially offset it to some extent i incorporate in other data we have a number of different components to the software one is either as a component that someone can use at a police station the 2nd component of the software is a mobile version of the software that can be in

a car or other vehicle on the police officers able to see as the car moves around are they inside one of these priority mission control areas. is actually using the g.p.s. from the tablet to track our location and as we enter boxes is going to update the display with information about them so we actually are just driving through a box right now which is about robberies and if this was our final destination we would start patrolling for about 10 to 15 minutes in this area is still relatively unlikely for any crime to happen in that location at that time is just that this is the highest risk location amongst all the choices that we have available and so it's the best place for the officers it's been that free time. while we are positioning an officer in a particular place which means that they're going to be paying attention to that place that should not give them the authority to assume that anyone in that place

is a criminal unless they see something that's actually criminal in nature. so bob from a good stub of 52 they're going to keep you. bugging me did you do to me when are you going to meet the people in the. doing the. other limited you did and then it was good to make it but only in some respects him and some from little time will stop when that's the law is even mentioning the essentials. said i don't want to trust in a machine or. in jamaica myself. but. that's what i'm going. to show you that skillful skill. i don't. see those in the most comical

until he says give them a cut. the ball the rope and that's all he meant and although i'm going to let go of the movie i'll do it over. we have generally been very cautious about incorporating any kind of person centric data into our models we believe there's a number of substantial problems with this whether that's a privacy concern or just that accuracy of the actual modeling. we're not using surveillance data and home slap i think that's a key question that our society is going to be asking and under what circumstances is it reasonable to take advantage of that kind of data.

big data we the users and our privacy well. who could have imagined years ago that good can algorithmically calculate what i will do tomorrow . similar tenuously we activate things our purse hyland until now everything that once was quiet starts communicating with the world and sending our data to the internet my tooth brush my t.v. set the chip under my skin my fitness tracker the toys of our children.

i was not aware of these kind of technologies quote unquote being implemented by the police etc it's not particularly surprising because the technological developments in terms of policing domestically or globally is developing all the time and it's something that we all privy to we can all see it on our t.v. screens especially when it comes to foreign policy and conflicts the rest of conducting abroad i don't feel about it i'm really concerned because i work with a lot of young people and young adults and children who are or have been or will be unfortunately in the short term most likely to be involved in the criminal justice system because they come from troubled backgrounds or they're working class and the black people so if you can use some kind of predictive technology and software it's not going to predict anything but thinking positive for them but if you want to

make money software they have algorithms to give to the police it's it is indicative of how awesome sight see is is progressing away from human solid r.t. and a human approach to just squeezing people as hard as you can in any and every which way. that's one time and. then there's a business over that you know that's one camera over there is a. yeah. and then there's another camera just by you see it. as a remote as last year in the park so what this time is that if they're not being

used then obviously they've got some kind of here in perth this may hit the ball to save people or we're doing something there and if you look at these cameras they're not the kind of ordinary c.c.t.v. cameras i think i definitely think is the kind of books to you see think about it 3 murders happening here you know right as kids play it's crazy one is the most out of place last release of a little bit here and that's why no instance happen here when they do in this light and they are going to find them think about how small this park is and how many cameras there are they've got full coverage of it. and so you know where these gang murders a happening is with that they're not able to prevent them though the intelligence they have. a sting ray triangulation to this kind of stuff i'm not surprised that it's on this scale and i think there's actually we probably don't know most of

you know the kind of surveillance abilities they have i think it's interesting that maybe some of the way that they experiment on gangs in the black community is also . be used in political protest and political organization as a way of so pioneering it and developing it i mean of course it's just reflective of the way in which peace may be target black now us when it comes to crime and how they're disproportionately stopped and searched you know are. we in london and the other parts of this country our place service so you've got to know what that means means accountability and transparency and all of your processes and practices now i challenge that when i was in the met when i was chair of the black police association. i also gave evidence to there's inquiries that said that the police service was institutionally racist because of the way in which

they conduct themselves now the matrix for me isn't on the form of institutional racism it is racial profiling it is unaccountable and as far as i'm concerned that has to be a way in which you can get off this system whether it's the matrix the d.n.a. database you know you've got to highlight you know a process where people believe that. the police service can be held to account. nab tricks strategic subject list no fly list selektah the list terrorist watch list once on the list always on the list because the computer says so because due to the algorithm nobody is directly responsible because there is no

regulator procedure against the errors of the machine because let's be honest nobody cares about what consequences the decisions of the program for the life of robert mcdaniel are smart. is wrong is wrong to be profound is wrong to be saying that your son this is not is wrong to say you are a killer like. oh no. you mentioned so scoring on just pushed him to listen something does it's not kind of human nature can twist to it is this month or force 2 for the house i'm for some minor flushed idea of the idle that mean i is that some of that selfish gene an improvement on having facebook facebook likes also just become to be

a season men fish see like i'm britney spears or get desperate housewives season from its plans of. homosex it out. desert in from had sworn in the end up collided. likes. even and as the levant annoy him for months on the fear just came undone by myself so i listed for 4. months homosex as on their money i'm. off to list them it until this other even norma's tion suppose he puts in to give a shiela since he does his house as a speech to him and i'll see my sponsor. that does it i'm told called but so going to test as it is a russian alibi for. we don't have the person for person to keep in touch with millions of people thousands of people social media does this is double a sort of how do we try to navigate and i think the stay in the peace a fully aware

of this i think ultimately they're going to be just one step ahead they're going to know exactly how to band or how to limit for example thousands of people attending a demonstration or let's just cut off all their own vice let's just not let it be imprinted in social media less effect younger than you know who's sending more messages who's posting more right is no for us we use it with the intention of we don't care we're going to begin to know anyway so we organize openly practically i think is a really worrying thing because we have no way to monitor what they're doing and we have no idea of discussion which powers they have and the technology they have in terms of mass surveillance and databases. at some point i have stopped thinking about who might know when and who might story what about me why and since when. probably because it doesn't make

a difference anyway it's like with hollywood computer games and television everything is inextricably interwoven with reality reality being just the medium of the basic code 01 like don't like buy don't buy guilty not guilty just to remind you code has no conscience. you know what was fun. when i say a best friend bravo. sleep his mind on the rule of like in the

me. my dad put the one to me. is that i was a kid. when. my friend was 18 when 2. he had a son right now that has the a look at the. last thing on his the end. i now know. is wrong is is is too much. if policing is going to use software to predict what these people do in the future it's assuming that certain people with

a certain history are going to do certain things and that's just not necessarily the case because humans can change according to what support i want fossil decisions they make according to that support but again it's a metaphor for that but it's also it's it's it what policing is policing is not preventative it's no it's no it's not just in any kind of way and so it's just that as a punishing mechanism as a criminalizing mechanism and as a punishing mechanism. that it's only a start off a couple months ago a full 100 but now it's good to feel $300.00 that's a big no because made 11 limo crims right there so yeah who is a good folk is it good for the street was it good for the police you got more criminals who are good you got most cases dissolve you guys who think you've got more problem.

see my story my not me that nobody because it wasn't you. but what about when a guy shows him when he got your daughter you know jail you know when he's you now it's a ball. now everybody want to make it seem like. it on the face nobody has come i can only go. so right now i think people are willingly giving up this information right not just what you're giving up on the internet but as we move into a world of the internet of things your smart house will reveal when you've left the day when you take your shower you know what temperature your bath is your

television can listen to you your car will be able to monitor where you're going if you have like an on star system tells you where to go your cell phone knows all of those things and what you're doing and the conversations going on like we're just giving up this data to private companies in a way we're not really thinking about the consequences we're not thinking about what these data trails mean and for law enforcement you could see just how valuable that information would be why do you drink cold coffee in a hot car surveilling some guy when you can just use internet things to track them all the way through right this is the new world and right now the policy makers and even the lawyers haven't really thought through the consequences haven't figure out how to forth and adapt how do privacy laws to death how do was so we have about telephone technology pli in a world where suddenly your watch is talking to the world and giving them your heart beat and and the rest of it are we haven't figured that out yet and it's important i think to ask these questions now i think we're at the very beginning of a very big conversation about what we should do with this new data.

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robert still has a score of 215. smurf has left tottenham. the internet as ever learning and evolving observers surveys collects sage above the city as a friend wrote to me the sky is the color of a television tuned to a dead child. time to say farewell and go back home. back to my smartphone my ip address my emails my bookmarks my twitter account of my facebook timeline. welcome to the mattress.

hello winter carries on in australia with the wettest windiest coldest weather here in the southeast corner cleared in tasmania and then heads off towards new zealand so the full cost for friday is a mere $14.00 degrees in what should be at least sunny weather in melbourne is not much different than adelaide. 2 of sydney we approach the 20 mark believe numbers for the not to a much better than that it's got the windy around the cloudy a weather you'll notice and in perth the picture becomes increasingly cloudy with some what i hope is welcome rain for western australia during the early as a saturday and during the day itself the breeze cool things down in perth off was the rains mostly there over the walls and not over the land which is not

a particularly useful picture as for new zealand well you've got mountains in the way no rain just disappears over the top it stops and it falls and it goes in so quite heavily i think on friday the picture is almost obscuring both the north and south island but the rain has phase further east leaving oakland at least in probably brighter weather come saturday but the rain is still there further south from a different direction and rain becomes increasingly the story once again for a good part of southern japan and south korea with a tropical psycho known its way. banks love to make loans to sufferings because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one bone every single day a 19 it is an urgent national misses its economy but it we officially requested rationing of the support like an ism we created together because i happen to live

in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes president trump says the u.s. has shot down an iranian drone industry to for

a ruse this says it rather reveals it sees a foreign oil tanker there plus. from place to distance himself from a racist chant by his supporters aimed at democratic congresswoman ellen omar. an arson attack on an animation studio kills at least 33 people in japan. and a double blow for boris johnson as parliament block says no deal breaks it plans and the e.u. says there's something fishy about his keeper claims. and score one of the favorites for golf's open championship has had a nightmare start own favorite ring mockery finish the day on 8 over and will now have to battle to make the cut in northern iraq. u.s. president donald trump has announced that a u.s.

warship has destroyed an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz trump says the aircraft threatened the u.s. ship by flying too close he's called in other countries to condemn iran and protect their own vessels in the world's busiest oil route this comes a month after iran's shut down a u.s. military drone with a surface to air missile tehran claimed that the aircraft had entered raining waters but washington denied the allegation. the boxer took defensive action against an iranian drone which had closed into a very very near distance approximately $1000.00 yards ignoring multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of the ship and the ship's crew the drone was immediately destroyed well in the last half hour iran's foreign minister has denied any knowledge of a drone being shot down as he arrived for

a meeting at the un. you know you may have been off the road today you went through well earlier a reign in state t.v. amounts that the revolutionary guards had seized the foreign tanker which they've accused of trying to smuggle oil it was reportedly captured on sunday in the strait of hormuz and all 12 crew members aboard detained in iran says the ship named ria had been smuggling 1000000 liters of oil the ship is based in the united arab emirates but they have denied ownership of the vessel the u.s. state department says tehran must immediately release the best so and that its crew also in jordan has been following developments and there is live for us in d.c. as the us said anything else relating it to this tanker. it has not made any additional law comments about this u.a.e. flagged vessel or own vessel the ria but there has been

a very brief comment from the pentagon about the shooting down of this iranian drone the pentagon is saying that this was done in self-defense but it's not going to give any more information about the incident which did happen thursday morning regional time it is also important to point out barbara that this is also happening on a day when the u.s. treasury department has sanctioned 7 businesses and 3 people for allegedly helping iran obtain material in order to carry out its nuclear enrichment program you'll recall about this time a week ago there was a considerable global concern about iran's decision to breach limits that have been set throughout the iran nuclear deal on how much enrich uranium it could have in

its possession as well as how much it would be actually allowed to process for use either in a nuclear reactor or what the u.s. and the e.u. worry about which is using in nuclear warheads so it has been a rather busy day but it is worth pointing out that even though the president made this announcement there does not seem to be any real was a sense of attention here in washington about what could happen next it's also important to note barbara that no one knows whether or not this drone that was destroyed by the crew of the u.s.s. boxer was carrying any weapons or whether it was simply a surveillance drone rawson it's interesting what you say because looking at what's been happening between the u.s. and iran certainly really since the announcement made by the u.s. that they're going to pull out. of the nuclear deal tensions have obviously been ratcheting up so why isn't there a sense of tension as you say at all more worry i guess in the united states within

government of what could happen if we continue to see that the sort of escalation that we're seeing right now. well i think there might be a clue that could be gleaned from the reaction that the white house had after the iranians apparently destroyed a u.s. drone which the u.s. had said was flying in international waters back in may this is a case where the president was about to order a military strike on iranian targets in retaliation but as he said himself he canceled that strike at the last 2nd because of the risk of human deaths something that donald trump said would be highly disproportionate compared to the destruction of an unmanned aircraft and so this is perhaps probably a bit of the same sort of reaction if the crew of the u.s.s.

boxer was able to protect itself from an object that was coming too close to it then there perhaps doesn't need to be anything more done to send the message that the u.s. military is able to protect itself from any sort of offensive threat coming from the iranians there is also the sense that perhaps there's can be efforts to try to continue diplomatic efforts even though earlier this week the u.s. president downplayed suggestions that perhaps a u.s. senator might be employed as perhaps an envoy to try to negotiate an end to these tensions between the united states and iran there does seem to be still this effort to try to resolve this matter with diplomacy not with some sort of military confrontation also in jordan with the latest on that story and all the developments

from washington d.c. rosen thank you although such a bar now has more from tehran on the seizure of the oil tanker in the strait of hormuz. the revolutionary guard able forces where on an anti smuggling mission in the waters of the strait of hormuz when they came across this vessel on sunday they said that it was suspicious the cargo on board so they decided to investigate further and after about they decided that they needed to pursue the venue's to seize this vessel and that is what they did on sunday the revolutionary guard statement says that the vessel was seized near the rock island in the strait of hormuz with 12 crew members on board apparently this vessel had fueled up from iranian dows where it was heading further south in the strait of hormuz to sell the fuel that it had on board that is when the iranians decided to carry out an operation and seize this ship of course this all comes at a time where tensions are very high in the strait of hormuz

a number of incidents have taken place here and also noteworthy is the seizure of a new raney an oil tanker in the strait of gibraltar on july 4th where it caused a major incident between the iranian government and the british because the british navy seized the grace one oil tanker which was carrying $2000000.00 barrels of iranian crude oil they said that it was heading to syria and that is why they seized that but the arrangements have said that that was not the destination of that vessel and they're demanding it to be returned as quickly as possible but the ship seizure was announced as u.s. central command general kenneth mackenzie was in saudi arabia he met with the saudi general in charge of the coalition $5000.00 yemenis who the rebels the to discuss the situation in the gulf and how to ensure safe passage for ships off the coasts of yemen and iran. let me just emphasize that we don't believe war with iran is another bubble and we don't seek war with the ram. what we seek is to terrorism

from destabilizing and malign activities across the region and we believe the recent adjustments that we've made to our force posture have had some effect toward that him i still acknowledge that attacks by iranian proxies are occurring against the king or saudi arabia from yemen and that's a problem that needs to be addressed. u.s. president donald trump has tried to distance himself from his supporters after some of them chanted his own words about a u.s. congresswoman who was born in somalia several high profile politicians have defended ilana omar following the spectacle of trump's campaign rally which the president now says he failed feels a bit badly about ethical hang reports from washington. his campaign is known for controversial chants but this was a new one. thank god the crowd at wednesday's rally chanting center back they were talking about this member of congress representative phil han omar a somali refugee the president has been saying she should go back to her country

she's an american citizen now president gul trump is trying to backtrack i disagree with it by the way but it was quite a chant and i felt a little bit badly about it but i will say this i did and i started speaking very closely but it started out rather rather fast as you probably know. i in reality he did pause for a while for 30 seconds his target the congresswoman says she will be silenced i want to remind people that this is what this president and his supporters have turned our country that is supposed to be a country where we allow democratic debates and dissent to take place and so this is not about me this is about us. for what this country should be and what it deserves to be analysts say this is all about the next election has the base is

eating this up just as much as you give meat to a lion they are loving this he just needs to keep his base engaged in those key states anough for them to come out and vote big time for him again that's what he's banking on but in diverse communities like brooklyn new york this isn't just about words or one rally it's about racism in america the country has. disintegrated you know it's a shame it's not going to get any better as long as he's in there it's a culture of immigrants so it's kind of a country diction to hear it from the president of united states. he highlights racism as that of addressing it and trying to put it into it he highlights it he makes it like it's a laughing matter when it's a serious matter a matter that the president is likely going to continue highlighting and it's just the beginning the election is still 16 months away.