it's ok to show us the truth so. putting pressure on congress the u.s. intelligence chief calls for the n.s.a. surveillance powers to be renewed into 2020 programs set to expire at the end of this year. india stresses its pledge to not use nuclear weapons 1st in warfare the ones that may change its hostilities escalate with pakistan over the disputed kashmir region. and president putin awarded 2 pilots with the highest state award the hero of russia for saving hundreds of lives with a perfect emergency landing in moscow after both the plane's engines failed. there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilots did a great job landed the plane on the valley.

that live news worldwide from moscow this is r.t. international my name's column by welcome to the program we're starting in the u.s. where the intelligence chief is none too keen on fully relinquishing the power to monitor americans' phone calls and text messages he's putting pressure on congress to reauthorize the national security agency's surveillance program which is set to expire at the end of the year reporting next his caleb maupin. well the trump white house as well as dan coats the outgoing director of national intelligence are urging congress to renew the freedom act of 2015 and this ability of the national security agency of the united states to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect it's necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it

and that it would be in the interest of the country overall for congress to renew the freedom act this is what dan coats said as technology changes adversaries trade craft and communications habits will continue to evolve and adapt. to these dynamic environment the administration supports reauthorization of this provision as well now civil liberties groups have argued that it is necessary for congress to not renew the freedom act of 2015 they argue that there are sections in the act specifically the spying and surveillance section of the law that put the privacy and civil liberties of millions of americans into jeopardy the government's implementation of the cool detail records program further demonstrates both the privacy threats posed by the program and the lack of use and for q.c. it is highly concerning that it's 3 years to detect the fact that the n.s.a. was collecting records even beyond the broad authorization provided under the c.d.o. program the n.s.a.

should not be permitted to resume this program now prior to the freedom act of 2015 the n.s.a. spying program collected billions of records and the freedom act of 2015 reduced the amount of data the n.s.a. was collecting under the freedom act the n.s.a. has the ability to collect data and phone records of suspects as well as those suspects contacts even if those contacts have different phone companies however there was a concerning revelation in june of 2018 when it was. revealed that under the freedom act the n.s.a. had collected data on millions of americans that it did not legally have authority to oversee they said this was due to a technical irregularity so there are many concerns now but at this point the white house and the outgoing director of national intelligence are urging congress to renew the the freedom act of 2015 a controversial surveillance law. thanks to mid escalating hostilities between

pakistan and india the indian defense minister stressed that his country will continue to abide by the no 1st use policy when it comes to nuclear weapons however he did have this warning. it just through the till now india has strictly adhered to the no 1st use policy what happens in the future depends on the circumstances this is the region in question kashmir or the northern tip of india and pakistan both countries like claim to kashmir the united nations considers its disputed territory now this so-called line of control remains the defacto border that in the countries maintain their own administrations within the country but earlier this month until no india revoked it kashmir has a special autonomy status of a pakistan they say that that decision has destabilized the long running status quo in the region and the united nations prohibits changes to the status of any disputed state but it's also fair that kashmir is a majority muslim population could be targeted by people of other faiths in the

region where the conflict already into its 72nd year without a solution. and we've been hearing from political and strategic analyst saying both pakistan and india are on white might be next for the kashmir crisis. there is something there nuclear blackmail which our son has been using against india by which the sea that

looks nuclear so we cannot afford an escalation of full scale war and so you have to build with the jihad the stirrer terrorism that this once or across our border in indian country we saw in years trying to carve the nuclear bluff of france on by saying look no 1st use is not set in stone if the circumstances change as our defense ministry saying by the chief means you find santa downs in a large scale terrorism wonderful meant you know an uprising against the new country we are priced you know incursions into and you do treat me after reading so in the interview you just got a heater signally not to conduct any military misadventures or catch me from bugs somber sparkplug or specter which is more worrying but it should be a warning from the from the perspective of the international community because in the broader picture then there is a war between 2 countries and remember the situation arises where one particular

currently going to use a nuclear weapon they are not going to consider the option that since they are declared all see to have or not 1st use india has blown apart all that by little agreement and 17 u.n. support a constant resolutions which calls for the plebiscite on sort of india has left more room for their dialogue but if international community does not intervene. this there is this see india as a big market and that is why they're going one projectile days the evolution route then and that is why the one in politics isn't being driven by the hard economic realities they are not by them what ality. the 2 russian pilots who averted a potential disaster on thursday morning have been given the country's highest state honor the hero of russia aboard by president putin their air bus jet lost both engines after a bird strike while taking off from moscow she coughed international airport that forced them to make an emergency landing but all 233 people on board the crimea bound euro lines flight survived auntie's are up in video agency managed to get

hold of exclusive video of the evacuation. i don't think about. the other student that he doesn't lose immediately. but if you listen with a lot of. well let's go through what happened it all took place so quickly that the pilots weren't able to return to the airport as they had barely got airborne reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield just over a kilometer from the runway and without being able to empty the fuel tanks the pilot in command 41 year old damn near your top of previously wasn't a lawyer before agreed training as a pilot and he's been flying with your airline since 2030 he became a captain last year his copilot 23 year old and got his pilot's license just 2

years ago the russian health ministry says 76 people sought medical assistance after the incident woman still in hospital but her condition isn't believed to be life threatening among cost of reports next 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 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 no ability to make it back to the runway he knew that an emergency landing could result in a catastrophe to show you a bit of parole 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 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 it 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 as they did as we expected there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job he landed the plane really kathleen just cook tell us please how do you

feel now did you hurt your leg. this is you know it's better 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 he's fine the media was quick to make connections with the another's. such incidents when loss of life was a virgin thanks to 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 boats thanks to the heroic soul for the captain and his crew their relatives and loved ones self all the people involved will get to see them again ramana koester of artsy moscow region. and safety advocate and

pilot gideon you has told us of the most common problem facing airports and pilots and what landed the plane was skill and resolve. people describe it as a miracle i don't prefer i don't call america i prefer to call it a shiny example of the professionalism and skill of the 2 pilots done a decent offer and gregory was and thankfully those events are incredibly rare. delighted to see your engines it is such these days that you know the idea of getting you some particular entire career without even having one in 20112 at the same time engines are designed to accept the impact of one or 2 birds and unfortunately birds tend to find the area around airfields quite attractive incentives opposed to the environment. as a speeding up issues they feel safer their airports spend an awful lot of energy trying to keep birds off the airfield that negotiate prices like bird scaring some

some have a ports of used to tree birds to frighten off the other birds they they have entire teams their work exclusively keeping birds as way from the actual as much as possible of course even if the birds are just outside they have field there's not a lot of the what is so can do still ahead this hour a new campaign to tackle knife crime in britain has come after some heavy criticism i'll tell you why among all stories after the break. seems wrong. just don't hold. any world to see her out. and indeed from. israel. once on find themselves worlds apart. just on the common ground.

you know world big partisan movies a lot of things 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 bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back iran's top diplomat has sharply criticized the united states for attempting to block the release of its oil tanker which was seized by british royal marines off the coast of gibraltar last month. having failed 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 on thursday the u.s. justice department made a last minute application to gibraltar asking it not to release the graves one which was accused of attempting to illegally ship oil to syria but the supreme court in the british overseas territory decided to release the vessel and 4 of its crew members the tank is expected to set sail soon developers 1st minister says the detention was lifted after receiving a formal written assurances from iran. the grace one is therefore now released from detention under the sanctions act by operational law on the 30th of august i

received assurances from the republic of iran that if released the destination of the grace one would not be an entity that is subject to european union sanctions i welcome that assurance. the iranian authorities deny that the great swarm was shipping all to syria which would be in breach of the new sanctions 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded iran seized the british flag tanker in the strait of hormuz claiming that it had violated international law the u.s. then later announced its intention to create a naval coalition to combat so named iranian aggression in the strait but political analysts shabbir razvi believes that america's pressure campaign against iran is faltering. really it's very clear that the policy that the hawks all what mr zarif calls the b. team appears to be losing on all fronts mr pompei are 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 pompey are 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. and you campaign to tackle britain's soaring rates of knife crime is seeing the home office target the take away warnings from real life stories will be printed on boxes of chicken but the move is wrong criticism from the public and politicians alike in our reports from south london. he'd be forgiven for thinking the u.k.'s 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 $86.00 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 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 nigh free that's right free campaigning creates digital posters as well as outreach programs where people visit 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 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 it seems not everyone agrees other than accusations of

mismanaging fun the choice of chicken shops for the campaign's target space has hit us full but with some people is this some kind of joke why have you chosen chicken shops what's next my 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 think it's 30 degrees idea you know because most of the people are using the my party using the young people so that we're talking about what are those who don't take a vote lol. to do anything different is a great idea because we need to educate people. to afford to crime special night crime i think they could maybe aim you know public money into more important things critics that labeling the campaign want to lie grey fit saying it no i need

a few that fried chicken is the black community's choice of food but that knife in the back community's choice of what put the marketing company behind the campaign is confident it will bring myself 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 kind of a new kind of opportunity really to 2 screens where you talk to the young part of the 1000016 to 34 year olds has an effect on one person one person can see this message and you know put down and i think it can have that ripple effects and it can change many people's lives so for us it has an impact to one person has to be a reason for that since again probably something my friends because there was an unfortunate incident outside one of the board even betting on but i would just stop and if you got the opportunity to raise awareness in spite of my face then of course you can add to that now that where you all reach i'm not quite in those kind of well as the old song says the clones to the left of me jokers to the right i'm

stuck in the middle with you the left the liberal identity politics crowd throw up their hands and cry racism the last time i looked at chicken shop all kinds of young people were eating it and on the right you have people who are similar to knisley running down our police force by 21000 officers can you believe that since 2000 and then imagining that you can solve the consequent crime problems by writing messages on cardboard these messages are not what the cardboard they are being written on we need more police with more resources and more power. to get to grips with what is a mob epidemic london last year over to new york can you believe that somebody has to do something about this much more effective than writing messages on

cardboard. a nationwide ban on demonstrations in zimbabwe has sparked violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police in the capital the gathering was initially planned as a peaceful stand against the president calling for a fair election for you policies to address crippling economic problems defoe says he is tear gas to disperse a crowd of hundreds in central florida detaining dozens of protesters several people were injured with one reportedly in critical condition. the russian defense ministry video of its new strategic drone the hunter flying in tandem with us who are fighter jets fully autonomous aerial vehicle is said to weigh 20 tons when fully loaded and is believed to have a range of 5000 kilometers is designed for surveillance operations and can avoid detection by radar a few details about the drones performance of been officially disclosed at this stage. ok that's your global news from moscow this hour sophie and co next meeting a soldier for hire on a mission to read nigeria boko haram terrorists. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. the very dramatic development the only. disease either. i'll see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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his new thrilling and exciting experiences. in the face of nations wrists leaders words and a misunderstanding could trigger disaster the odds of translation becomes crucial in global affairs what does that translate to witness behind closed doors during one on one negotiations how do you translate those who show the world leaders cope with the risk of a mistake and do they also have their own impact on global decisions. it is so great to have you on our program welcome thank you so i want to talk about you in this and for the most part when you go back a little bit when you 1st started working on the level of u.s. so it summits did it. scary. reagan emulator literally translating the words of the most powerful man in the world did it change it that

moment. i don't think i was scared frankly i don't think that if you're scared of responsibility you want to do this kind of work. it is interesting that this was the 1st time that simultaneous interpretation was used rather than consecutive interpretation when you 1st listen to the speaker and in target what he has said simultaneous interpretation was 1st tried in helsinki at the high level in helsinki during the meeting of george shultz and one shevardnadze in the summer of 1985 years and years ago but now it has become rather common practice at that time it was very new i was thrilled i was fascinated not afraid not scared but certainly i felt the responsibility so you

were on board the. beginning of the end of the cold war started so this is home for us as you are important where you allowed to have a political position where you are allowed to have a say in this things. in part that depends on the position that you have in the foreign ministry initially was a member of the department of translation and interpretation and it was only later in early 1987 that i was transferred to the usa desk to the department of us a and canada of the ministry of foreign affairs in that position i was involved in the preparations both for ministerial meetings and summits and in that position i dast have maybe much influence but they could contribute but the most important moments are when the principles

of the foreign minister or the president actually ask your opinion when that happens you are on your own and you're not just in to you actually have to say what you think and to me with my very limited political prior experience that was not easy but that happened because i know that her intimate with gorbachev actually were not about cherie not it is my grandfather and i know about gorbachev because you're his advisor up to this day how did you earn their trusts how does that happen how does that happen the initial process is earning the trust as a professional as an interpreter but then in the notably work with.