join me everything on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure. i'll see you. 2 pilots are praise for saving the lives of their passengers after they executed a perfect emergency landing when both felt the plane's engines failed. and the plane i think we are all in life thanks to pilots did a great job landed the plane on the belly. also coming up to around accuses the u.s. military piracy attempt to the justice department trying to block the release on the rainy an oil tanker impounded near gibraltar. the u.k. home office attempts to tackle

a knife violence epidemic by printing warnings on chicken takeaway boxes in an initiative that's being described as crude offensive. just after 3 pm here in moscow friday august 16th a very warm welcome to our international i mean and o'neill. to russian pilots being hailed as heroes after the inverted potential disaster on thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds whilst taking off from the international airport forcing them to make an emergency landing all 226 passengers on board the crimea. flight survived.

well let's go through what occurred it really happened so quickly that the pilots weren't able to return to the report as they had barely got or 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 in command 41 year old tamir yusupov had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot he'd been flying with ural airlines since 2013 becoming a pilots a captain excuse me last year his copilot was 23 year old and he obtained his license just 2 years ago. when russia's health ministry said 76 people sought medical assistance after the incident one woman is still in hospital her condition is not believed to be life threatening among cost read reports no for us from the crash site in south east 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 capital's zuckoff ski airport's 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 and 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 but all 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 off despite all our approach 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 less. deplane on the down everything is fine the media was quick to make connections with another such incidents when loss of life was a virgin thanks to a pilot the miracle on the hudson involving a u.s. airways the aircraft flown by captain 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. will leave experience we've been speaking to say the pilots may be right decisions under 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 gear 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 rip so that's helped the landing these pilots did brilliantly because they were really quite low when the bird strike took place and the engine power 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.

to more world news this hour to iran's top diplomat jerry fowler sharply criticized the u.s. for attempting to block the release of an iranian oil tanker seized by british royal marines off the coast interpreter 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 and the high seas this piracy attempt is indicative of trumpet ministrations contempt for the law well on thursday the us justice department made a last minute application to gibraltar asking it not to release the grace of law 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 soon travolta's 1st minister ses the detention was lifted after receiving formal written assurances from tehran

. the grace one is there 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. will remain authorities have denied the charge that the grace one was shipping oil to syria in breach of the you cited 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded around sees the british flying tanker in the strait of hormuz claiming it had violated international law the us then later announced its intention to create a naval coalition to combine so named to remey and i gresham in the strait but political analysts shabbir razvi told us america is pressure campaign against tehran 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 mr pompei our recently wrote an op pad on the 8th of august saying that you know the extreme pressure that's being applied on tehran 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. still a lot said in the program including a look at how voice of america's persian service has been taking on increasingly. blood. the u.k. home office has launched a new initiative aimed at tightening soaring rates of knife crime it turns

announced there will be printing warnings real life stories on takeaway chicken boxes the move though has drawn criticism from the public eye one from politicians alike or brings us more. he'd be forgiven for thinking you case only current battle is with brussels but on the streets of britain doesn't move bloody fight unfolding rising knife crime has of rapidly become a plague with 86 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 have rolling out our knife free chicken boxes and over 210 chicken chops in england and wales including morley's dixie chicken and chicken cottage he is real life stories to show people how they can go knife 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 campaigning creates digital posters as well as outreach programs where people focus 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 campaign's hash tag night 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 sport or music nothing better than a snap and a good read write well it seems not everyone agrees other than accusations of mismanaging fun the choice of chicken shops for the campaigns target space has hit us full both with some people is this some kind of joke what have you chosen she can shops what's next my free watermelons instead of investing in a public house 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 with so little. talking about wind up because it only took a book deal. to do anything different is a great idea because you need to educate people. to avoid the crime the special not right i think they could maybe. you know public money into more important things critics that may blame the campaign for july grace saying it no i meet a few times that fried chicken is the black community's choice of food but that nah it's about communities choice of what put 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 of people it was already kind of like it's a kind of

a new kind of opportunity really just a tool screens where you talk to the young 105000016 to faithfully rhodes has an effect on one person one person can see this message and you know put on a night they can have that ripple effect and they can change many people's lives so for us it has an impact to one person is doing the job the reason i took that since i can harvest from my freeze because there was an unfortunate incident outside one of them already fighting on but i was just stopping and if you got the opportunity to raise awareness and spread the message then of course we're going to choose an outlet where you all reach and that kind of those kind of people. the break censorship block list thing controversial rating systems will tell you all of the latest allegations of political bloodiest leveled against google. in a world of big. logs and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting out. it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect them so. the family. lives be the one percent. we can all middle of the room say.

60 minutes into the program welcome back rush is the fence ministry house released footage of its new strategic drone the hunter flying in tandem with a sukhoi fighter jet the fully autonomous vehicle is said to weigh 20 when fully loaded and is believed to have a range of 5000 kilometers it's designed for surveillance operations on kind of void detection by radar few details about the drones performance are being officially disclosed at this stage. journalists are the voice of america's persian language service being accused of violating their networks editorial policy by adopting a staunchly pro donald trump line a number of the washington funded outlets employees have even taken to publicly

attacking supporters of the arabian government most recently f.b.o. a journalist 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 get 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 us 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 the 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 iranian 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 eram car influence programs funded by the act such programs shoot. what are the false assertions made by the government of iran against the united states and other democratic countries described as 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 straight 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 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 practices guide voice 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 well the journalist with v.o.a. persian who has been accused of smearing his former colleague described the coverage of the story 1st published by the intercept as biased. the

investigative journalism website project veritas claims to have obtained further evidence of political bias google attempts by the tech giant to alter america's political landscape he 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 green 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 the t. is there too you know 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's some you tube channel and google my youtube channel doesn't even appear on the 1st page of results there is no bias situ all they literally broke their own search engine to sense to 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 r.t.s. put nick are 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 cost 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. it's been a turban. and weak for global markets with all this and investors warning that they'd done turn could be on the horizon adding to those fears germany europe's economic power has posted negative growth in this 2nd quarter of this year and looks to be heading for recession we asked frankfurt based financial analyst dr

marcus kroll for his thoughts on the increasingly. heading for a global recession i think yes we are very clearly the signs are not very good and the center of the problem though is not the united states it's not asia although there are also problems coming from the trade dispute and other elements but the center of this crisis i think would be europe we have a number of imbalances that have been accrued as a result of what i would call in monetary policies i do think that negative interest rates 0 interest rates and quantitative easing have created a lot of problems that are now looking to rebalance and since we have been doing this for a long time i'm afraid that this one could be quite severe recession that we're heading into. many commentators say the negative data from germany as evidence the u.s. china trade war is already taking its toll we asked markets what he believes the long term impact of the conflict will be as well as what breaks it could mean for

both the e.u. and global economy. when you look at the trade dispute between the united states and china there are several elements one is i do not think that currently there is a huge impact from that on the world economy and on the business cycle there is a potential long term impact if protections and takes hold and world trade starts to be hindered by all types of new obstacles and those tariffs on non-tariff obstacles it is a good scapegoat for other elements and for other players who basically do not like to see the imbalances that they have been helping are trying themselves. first of all i do not think there will be a deal because to reach a deal the european commission would have to reopen the negotiations and they cannot reopen the negotiations without losing face they have been repeating that

they are not going to do that so many times that they cannot do it without with losing face and this is not so much about political choice but about the personal face losing of the of the acting people in the european politicians seem. a lot of what we've heard about the dangers of a no do drugs it is just fear mongering actually what what the. mind of people in the british politics called project feel and i think that is a real thing when you think back. before the taking place there was the same kind of feel mongering actually boasts that britain would fall into a severe recession immediately if people voted to leave the european union and nothing of the sort happened to the country so i do not see any empirical evidence all. evidence that points in the direction that there would be an economic crisis of any kind being treated in britain even though do you think it's ok for discussion on today's watching the hawks when social media meets censorship colin

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greetings and salutations in early august the white house held what was dubbed a social media summit for us president donald trump it's reported that the event was attended by roughly $200.00 different conservatives and republican activists in order to discuss allegations that both twitter and facebook have been censoring right wing messaging on their social media platforms on the other side of the political aisle democratic candidate tulsi gabber filed a $50000000.00 lawsuit against google claiming that the tech giant infringed on her free speech rights when it briefly suspended her campaign's advertising account up to the 1st democratic debate in june and of course we cannot forget the democratic party's cries of larceny and regulation following the u.s. intelligence community's alligator.