this hour's headlines story to russian pilots are praise for saving the lives of their passengers after they executed a perfect emergency landing when both the plane's engines failed. and would like to express my gratitude to the pilot and the plane i think we all know life thanks to the pilots did a great job landed the plane on its belly. says the u.s. piracy attempts to the justice department try to block the release of an iranian oil tanker impounded near gibraltar. on the u.k. home office attempts to violence by printing warnings on chicken.

being described as proof. 247 news live from moscow this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story to russian pilots being hailed as heroes after they had potential disaster on thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow as you called ski international airport forcing them to make an emergency landing all 226 passengers 7 crew members as well on board the crimea and airlines flight survived.

ah. well it all happened so quickly about the pilots weren't able to return to the report as they barely got are born reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the runway and without having time to empty the fuel tanks the

pilot to income on 41 year old yusupov had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot he'd been flying with your all earline since 2030 becoming a captain last year his copilot was 23 year old dior morrison he obtained his license just 2 years ago. but russia's health ministry said 76 people sought medical assistance after the incident one woman still in hospital her condition isn't believed to be life threatening remarks calls for of reports now for us from the crash site in southeast moscow. 226 passengers and 7 crew members of ural airlines flight bound for crimea from moscow are celebrating their 2nd birthday the air bus a 321 collided with a flock of birds just shortly after takeoff from the. capitals zuckoff ski airports the captain mir yusupov had just seconds to make the right decision when he

discovered the strike caused engine failure with 16 tons of fuel on board no ability to make it back to the runway he knew that an emergency landing could result in a catastrophe to show you a little after we to call the engines became unstable 1st the left one and then the right one we usually simulate the situations when one or 2 engines are all despite all our efforts the plane was going down we realized that we didn't have much time just one or 2 minutes to make a decision in a blink of an eye this man with nerves of steel decided still land the aircraft in a nearby cornfield without using the landing gear and shutting off all power to prevent an explosion and various officials praised the crew for their professionalism during the spine chilling landing as well as for a well organized evacuation that is something we acted in line with our training with similar situations like this before so there were no surprises the passengers

were disciplined listen to our instructions and evacuated very quickly they did as we expected calm down but the cabin crew they told us that everything was spying we were given medical assistance everything was done quickly and i would like to express my gratitude to the pilot who was flying the plane i think we are all a life thanks to him as to cook tell us please how do you feel now did you hurt your leg. you know it's better than if i was there lying on the field so everything is rather good the landing was good the pilots did a great job landed the plane on the belly everything is fine the media was quick to make connections with the another such incidents when loss of life was a virgin thanks to pilot the miracle on the hudson involving a us airways the aircraft flown by cow. chesley sullenberger and jeffrey skiles hit a flock of geese after takeoff from new york city's la guardia airport and lost all

engine power i'm able to land at any available airport they had to ditch the jet in the hudson river just outside of manhattan with all of the 155 passengers a risk used by nearby ferries and bolts thanks to the heroic solve for the captain and his crew their relatives and loved ones self all the people involved will get to see them again. well we've been getting reaction on the maneuvers how it came to be that they landed in such a way i'll indeed experts that i've been talking to say the pilots made the right decisions on to extreme pressure. i take my hat off to the pilots and to everybody onboard the crew and the passengers because this was a textbook emergency landing the video i've just seen of it was absolutely amazing i think he took a calculated risk he said right we are too near the ground by the time the landing gets down it might not have locked in place we'll go for what we call

a belly flop and that's basically what he did and he landed it beautifully and this is a bit like the if you remember the hudson river incidents when the plane landed on the lake the whole point is that he brought it down with the nose slightly out and so literally it sailed over the cornfield and that's quite a robust crop so that helped the landing these pilots did brilliantly because they were really quite low when the bird strike took place and the engine tower dropped away almost completely so they had to look around for an open space in which to land and they didn't and as you can see they've done it brilliantly russia does have a history of having very good pilots that it's a profession that russians are very proud of having to have it placed exactly 10 years ago there was what has become known as the miracle on the hudson like this event everybody survived.

ok let's move on to more world news this hour to iran's top diplomat jeavons a reef has sharply criticized the u.s. for attempting to block the release of on their remey an oil tanker seized by british royal marines off the coast of japan after last month. having field to accomplish its objectives through its economic terrorism including depriving cancer patients of medicine the us attempted to abuse the legal system to steal our property in the high seas this piracy attempt is indicative of trumpet ministrations contempt for the law on thursday v us justice the parchman made a last minute application to gibraltar asking it in order to release the grace one which was accused of being on its way to illegally ship oil to syria but the supreme court on the british overseas territory decided to release the vessel on 4 of its crew members the tanker is expected to set sail to gibraltar as 1st minister seems that attention was left after receiving formal written assurances from to

route. the grace one is that for now released from detention under the sanctions act by operation of law on the 30th of august i received assurances from the republic of iran that if we leased the destination of the grace one would not be an entity that is subject to european union sanctions i welcome that assurance. i tell you iranian authorities because we have denied the charge that to be graceful was shipping all to syria in breach of the e.u. sanctions 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded iran sees the british flag tanker in the strait of hormuz claiming it violated international law the us then later announced its intention to create a naval coalition to combat so named iranian aggression in the strait but political analysts shabbir razvi toneless america's pressure campaign against iran is faltering. really it's very clear that. the policy that the hawks

or what mr zarif calls the b. team appears to be losing on all fronts. recently wrote an op pad on the 8th of august saying that you know the extreme pressure that's being applied on iran economic warfare that is taking place is bearing fruit but the reality is that all of the 12 points that mr pompei listed in his speech earlier this year iran is not abiding by any of those and has no intention of really succumbing to the pressure from washington and it is continuing to operate quite effectively albeit with lots of pressure and the economic situation becoming very difficult in iran. ok later in the program we look at her advice of america's persian service and has been taking a holiday creasing the top of. the

u.k.'s home office has launched a new initiative aimed at tightening soaring rates of knife crime it has announced it will be printing warnings on real life stories on takeaway chicken boxes the move though has drawn criticism from the public politicians are like brings us more . he'd be forgiven for thinking u.k.'s only current battle is with profit but on the streets of britain doesn't move bloody fight unfolding rising knife crime has of rapidly become a plague with $86.00 fatalities in london alone since january and in the past 12 months there have been over 43000 knife related offenses across the u.k. and with no sign of the violence abating the home office is getting creative to try to tackle the problem we're rolling out our knife free chicken boxes in over $210.00 chicken chops in england and wales including morley's dixie chicken and

chicken cottage the israel. life stories to show people how they can go nigh free that's right when you pay is going to wing it when it comes to fight a knife crime the hash tag night free campaign includes digital posters as well as outreach programs where people face at local communities to talk about the risks of carrying weapons it will also see over 300000 boxes and fried chicken shop is just like this across the country redesigned now that the campaigns hash tag knife free and when you open it up on the inside you'll be able to read the stories of young people who shunned a life of crime in favor of school or music nothing better than a snap and a good read write well 7 it seems not everyone agrees other than accusations of mismanaging fun the choice of chicken shops for the campaigns target space has hit us with some people is this some kind of joke why have you chosen chicken shops what's next ny free watermelons instead of investing in

a public health approach to violent crime the home office have opted for yet another crude offensive and probably expensive complain they would do better to invest in our communities not demonize them because it's a degree idea you know because most of the people are using the my for are you young people so little we're talking about why don't those who don't take a vote will. be doing anything different is a great idea because you need to decode people. to afford to buy a special night right i think they could maybe aim you know public money into more important things critics the labeling the campaign for to line racist saying it no i need a few that fried chicken is the black community's choice of food but that noise of the that community is choice of what could but the marketing company behind the campaign is confident it will bring results and has defended its choice of location saying it's a democratic space where the message will reach

a wide range. people it was already kind of like this is kind of a new kind of opportunity really just to fill screens where you're talking a young part of the audience 16 to 34 year olds has an effect on one person one person can see this message and you know it can have that ripple effects and it can change many people's lives so for us as an impact to one person is the reason i took actions against all the stuff in my free is because there was an unfortunate incident outside one of the mornings and betting on stopping and if you've got the opportunity to raise awareness and spread the message then of course we're going to truth that way you all reach of not those kind of people. thing. rating systems will tell you about the latest allegations of political bias leveled against google after the break.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business you just need the right questions and demand the right answers. the. question. seemed wrong. to me to be yet to shape out these days become educated and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

16 minutes into the program welcome back russia's the fence ministry has released footage of its new strategic drone the hunter flying in tandem with a sukhoi fighter jet the fully autonomous aerial vehicle is said to weigh 20 tons and fully loaded it is believed to have a range of 5000 kilometers it's the zine for surveillance operations on account of void detection by radar a few details about the drones performance detail been officially the slowest this stage. ok journalists at the voice of america's persian language service humping the queues the violating their networks editorial policy

by adopting a staunchly pro trump line a number of the washington funded outlets employees have even taken to publicly a talking supporters of the uranian government most recently deal weight journalists launched a blistering online attack on one of the services former employees despite the fact she complained to the network's editors the tweets have not been deleted came up and picks up the story iranian american journalist who covers u.s. iran relations has found herself being targeted online this woman who lives in comfort in the u.s. and enjoys all the privileges of free society affords her has misused her privilege of freedom of expression by supporting the corrupt terrorist supporting the islamic republic of iran that oppresses and murders its own citizens particularly its women she was terminated when her true mission became known freedom loving people of iran look at this treasonous. criminal type of a person as

a spy and an enemy of the people now the person calling her a treasonous criminal works for voice of america persia that's a u.s. government funded outlet directed at iranians it's overseen by the broadcast board of governors shrill words for a u.s. government employee right now the irony is that mortaza the is herself a former voice of america persian reporter but this points to a bigger issue which is that in recent years that voice of america persian has shifted its tone very dramatically to the point that its hosts are now attacking those who don't support current policy toward iran and 2017 the broadcast board chairman asked the conservative think tank foreign policy council to review the government funded programs directed at iran they concluded that u.s. government broadcasts were overly sympathetic to the iran nuclear deal and the proceeding negotiations that took place in 2015 significant coverage of the state of u.s. iranian relations reflected the mistaken notion that the reunion regime is now

friendlier to the united states later the senate appropriations committee passed legislation giving the broadcasting board a green light to counter iranian influence the secretary of state in consultation with the heads of other relevant federal agencies including broadcasting board of governors show coordinate iran car influence programs funded by the act such programs shoot counter the false assertions made by the government of iran against the united states and other democratic countries described to support such government provides to terrorist proxies and assess and describe the impact this support to such proxies causes to the people of syria yemen and other areas where the operate since that time voice of america persian has shifted from being a vehicle for presenting an american perspective to iranians and perhaps a somewhat even handed way apparently being a vehicle for. right up anti-government agitation iran is another example it's

a country that never really made the key decision the iranian regime was spending a ton of money on its nuclear program and wanted to halt that a noble objective a good goal worthy one but the threat that iran presents is so much greater than that well let's not forget iran too or china has been a major purchaser of iranian oil a voice of america insists that it is not highly partisan and describes itself as free and open all voices american journalists be federal government employees or contractors are expected to adhere to voice of america's social media policy as do we need to clearly in its best practice is guide most of america pursues its mission by produce an accurate balanced and comprehensive reporting program and as well as all mine and social media content for a global audience particularly for those who are denied access to open and free media all the journalists with v.o.a. persian who's been accused of smearing his former colleague has described the

coverage of the story 1st published by the intercept as biased but a call aside stuff a question gave us his thoughts on the controversy the most so there are journalists they all are so 14 sanctions against you radiance why because the more they see or donald trump and bolt films by limit is against the islamic they find their play in the hierarchy in the v.o.a. version. the investigative journalism website project veritas claims to have obtained further evidence of political bias at google and attempts by the tech giant to alter america's political landscape it takes a closer look. project veritas the love download whistleblowing initiative says it has published documents proving google can boost or d. rank new sources based on

a biased set of internal rules the face of projects varied as admits the source of alleged leaked files a google insider is not perfect here's a track record of supporting conspiracy theories but forget about him what's in the documents this presentation slide is the one that suggests that google has been working on a ranking system for media credibility now we don't know whether or not it has ever gone live but this screen short purports to show that it was in the works on the right side is an example of the ranking system the wall street journal tops the chart followed by the major mainstream outlets and r.t. is there too with barely half the rating of the wall street journal it is hardly a match for its competitors now again there's no way of telling if the rating was calculated or an employee's invention but even so it could indicate

a personal bias against our team google has been here before when it comes to accusations of behind the scenes algorithms for instance conservative pundit paul joseph watson has repeatedly attacked google saying the company shadow banned him. yes it's totally normal then when you search paul jews if what some you tube channel and google my youtube channel doesn't even appear on the 1st place of results there is no by situ all they literally broke their own search engine to censor me and many others that's as eric schmidt the executive chairman of google's parent company alphabet previously revealed that google would try to deal rank r.t. we are working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically our car the 2 and there's a whole bunch of coverage about what we're doing there but we're well aware of it we're trying to engineer the systems to prevent it we don't want to ban the sites

eventually google responded that it doesn't have an insider ranking system search is no use to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results to with any political ideology but the latest revelation from project veritas could make these promises less reassuring google and twitter and facebook and other in the social media and big tech and arena have the ability to filter news and filter content for a generation that does is accustomed to doing less thinking for itself than let's say the generations of 10 and 20 and 40 years ago so i think google has way too much power remember in our country in theory we have strict laws about disguised corporate contributions in favor of a candidate and you know you think about how much it costs to get a mass google ad campaign or facebook campaign if what they're doing is providing massive disguise support to what they believe to be progressive candidates and not

disclosing that that's a violation a serious violation of american campaign finance laws and they should be strenuously punished for it i think it's good that people across the political spectrum in congress in the senate are studying this now closely. ok let's stay. side of the globe no because i'm t. government protests are continuing to rock honduras called grow for the poverty stricken countries president won our london her none days to step down he's accused of corruption and of working with drug traffickers to gain an consolidate power on thursday. university students gathered in the capital demanding an end to what they called his norco dictatorship they were dispersed by police who fired tear gas and water cannon. how to garden clean denied claims of having ties to criminal but it's not the ones allegations not been fueling public anger dire economic conditions a lack of public services and widespread human rights abuses also been causing his

popularity to plummet. and the situation in the central american country has prompted many to flee northwards towards the us mexico border ungenerous has been experiencing instability since the ice thing of manuel zelaya in what's considered to have been a u.s. backed military coup 10 years ago we talked to mr zelaya he told us he received threats from the u.s. before he was the post was warned not to get too close to leftists that a lot american politicians. there look i'm as i got to work i got to ask the people who took me out and why they took me out they entered my home one early morning and there were only 7 months left in my term of course i had joined the bowl of aryan alliance for the americas and people from the united states threaten me including president bush they asked why i was a friend of chavez and other causes outside of hunter s. which is what pushed the military to violently overthrow me the united states warned me if you sign the bill of an alternative to the americas alba you're going

to have problems with the united states i signed it in 6 months later i had problems they kicked me out they imposed the rules and they waved their flags of human rights abroad but they only apply those concepts to those that they consider to be adversaries during the 3 and a half years in which i governed i had the best economic growth indicators in wonder and history of poverty reduction hunder in history that the best indicators of human development in history and of course they said that i was a communist i don't look i went to cuba to meet fidel the being president and they said mel castro communist. obama went to cuba and they said obama the statesman that's the international press that with rare exceptions lends itself to that type of coverage and let me clarify this i don't have problems with the united states and that they simply didn't accept the competition brought by the oil of p.b.s. say in venezuela the oil of p. mix in mexico they don't accept competition because these transnational companies live off monopoly they live off the concessions and when you give them competition

on the free market then they stop being capitalist and they become retrograde authoritarian and they play in coups wars and all these things that you know about invasions and all these things that we know about. we're back up politicking once more in moment stay tuned us laurie king welcomes former u.s. congressman ron paul to the program to say it's hard to international. the war we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront dacian flett it be an arms race based on often scary dramatic bad developing the

only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. one on one with the always outspoken ron paul on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king this week president trump delayed his from those times on chinese goods and seemingly admitted that it's the american consumer and not china that would pay the cost of his ongoing terror battle with that country what does

this mean for our economy and what if any effect might this have on the presidential race let's talk about that with the always outspoken ron paul former republican congresswoman from texas he made 3 visits to the white house twice as a republican and once as the libertarian party's presidential nominee he's the host of the ron paul liberty report. and he joins us from lake jackson texas ok wrong president so mantle is the delays that sends terrorists wait till around christmas just in case a bite haven't employed him to people you think. well it was the right direction to go and it gave a big boost for one day in the stock market but it in the next day when it settled down there were still a lot of tears to deal with there are still a lot of problems with china so that isn't the solution the solution would have been my.