i. i. i. 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. may change as hostilities escalate with pakistan over the disputed kashmir region. president putin awards 2 pilots with the highest state award the hero of russia for saving hundreds of lives with a perfect emergency landing the moscow offered both of the plane's engines failed. there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough defilers did a great job landed the plane on its belly.

hello from moscow i'm a with your world news for a marty international 1st off the u.s. 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 kind of open. 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to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect it's necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it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. and communications habits will continue to evolve and adapt. to these dynamic environments 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 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. 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. amid escalating hostilities between

india and pakistan the indian defense minister has 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. he just threw the 2 now in defense strictly adhered to the no 1st use policy what happens in the future depends on the circumstances. this is the region in question kashmir the northern tip of india and pakistan both countries lay claim to kashmir and the united nations regards it as disputed territory and that so-called line of control remains the defacto border in the countries maintain their own administrations within the territory but earlier this month you'll remember that india revoked kashmir as a special ptolemy status pakistan says the decision has destabilized the status quo in the region united nations prohibits changes to the status of any disputed state but it's also feared that kashmir is a majority muslim population could be targeted by other faiths in the region with

the conflict already into its 72nd year without a solution. we've been hearing from political and strategic analyst in both pakistan and india are most next for cash may crisis. it is something the nuclear blackmail which some has been using against india by which they see that look if you build nuclear so we

cannot afford an escalation skills war and so you have to build with the disturbed terrorism that this once or across our border in indian country saw in years trying to harm the nuclear bluff of fundraising look no 1st use is not set in stone if the circumstances change as our defense minister singh by which he means if our son had doubts in a large scale terrorism wonderful meant you know an uprising against india in the new country we are priced to you know do incursions into india did reach me after reading certain even if it is not a hint it's a signaling not to or conduct any military misadventures of kashmir from august somber spark but specter which is more worrying but it should be rewarding from the from the perspective of the international community because in the broader picture then ever there is a war between 2 countries and member the situation arises where one particular can

be going to use a nuclear weapon they are not going to consider the option that since they are declared also to have unlawful india has blown apart all the biological agreements and 17 u.n. security council resolutions which calls for the plebiscite on so has left more room for their dialogue but if international given indeed does not intervene. there is this see india as a big market and that is why they don't want to jeopardize the evolution with them and that is why the doing well in politics isn't being driven by the hard economic realities are not by them what ality. the russian pilots who averted potential disaster on thursday morning and given the country's highest estate on a hero of russia ordered by president putin the airbus jet lost both engines after a bird strike while taking off from moscow shook off the international airport that forced them to make an emergency landing of all 233 people on board the crimea bound euro airlines flight survived r.t.

for up the video agency managed to get hold of exclusive video of the evacuation. i don't already have a. little. bit of that student that each student doesn't lose immediately. but his english was a lot of sucking up to los gatos the professional. let's go through what happened it all took place so quickly that the pilots were unable to return to the airport because they barely got airborne reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly and a cold failed just over a kilometer from the runway and without being able to empty the field banks the pilot in command 41 year old dummy you stop off to previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot he's been flying with since 2013 he became a captain last year as for his copilot 23 year old of the murchison he got his

pilot's license just 2 years ago. the russian health ministry says 76 people sought medical assistance after the incident one woman is still in hospital but i condition isn't believed to be life threatening among reports 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 semir yusupov had just seconds to make the right decision when he discovered this 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 but all after we took off 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 i want to her it's 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 there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job he landed the plane really carefully 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 he's fine the media was quick to make connections with a another such incidents one 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 rescued by nearby ferries and bolts thanks to the heroic solved by 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. well aviation safety

advocate and pilot getting us told us that birds are the most common problem facing airports and pilots and what landed the plane with skill and resolve. people who 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 you supplied for and gregory was and thankfully those events are incredibly rare. reliability of engines. is such these days that you know the idea of getting you some particular an entire crew without even having one engine fell and learn to do at the same time and humans are designed to accept the impact of one or 2 birds unfortunately birds tend to find the area around airfields quite attractive it's supposed to the environment for birds or speeding up issues they feel safer in their airports spend an awful lot of energy trying to keep birds off the airfield that mitigation vices

like scaring some some out of what suv used to tree bows to frighten off the other birds they do have entire teams who work exclusively keeping birds as way from the airfield as much as possible of course if the birds are just outside they have field there's not a lot the outward so can do. iran's top diplomat sharply criticize 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 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 the us justice department made a last minute application to gibraltar asking it not to release the grace 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 tanker is expected to set sail soon to protest chief minister says the detention was lifted after receiving formal written assurances from iran. the grace one is there for 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 the grace one was shipping oil to syria which would be in breach of 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 us then later announced its intention to create a naval coalition to combat so named in reining in aggression in the strait but political analyst shabbir razvi believes that america's pressure campaign against

terrorism 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 or recently wrote an op pad on the 8th of all guest 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. yeah iran is not abiding by any of those and has no intention of really coming to the pressure from washington and it's continuing to operate quite effectively albeit with lots of pressure and the economic situation becoming very difficult in iran you know without taste and i had a new campaign to tackle knife crime in britain is coming to some heavy criticism

will tell you why 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 raid in truth to stand the news business you just lead as the right questions and demand the right answers. question. seemed wrong but. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days become educated and engaged because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hi again the new campaign to tackle britain's soaring rates of knife crime is seeing the home office target the take away warnings and real life stories going to be printed on boxes of chicken but the movies drawn criticism from the public and politicians alike. reports from south lebanon. be forgiven for thinking 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 dropping me the calmest place 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 of baiting 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 when you pay is going to wing it when it comes to fighting knife crime the hash tag knife 3 campaigning periods digital posters as well as outreach programs where people think that local communities to talk about the risks of carrying weapons it will also see over 300000 boxes and fried chicken shops 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 music nothing better than a snap and a good read write well 7 it seems not everyone agrees other than accusations all. mismanaging fun the choice of chicken shops for the campaign's target space has hit us full 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 house approach to violent crime the home office have opted for yet another crude offensive and probably expensive campaign 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 knife are you the young people with so little let's talk about why don't those who don't take a book. to do anything different is a great idea because we need to educate people. to afford to provide special night right i think they could maybe aim you know public money into more important things

critics by labeling the campaign for too long gray said saying it no i need a few that fried chicken is the black community's choice of food but that knife of the black community is choice of what put the marketing company behind the campaign is that 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 kind of a new kind of opportunity really just the 2 screens where you talk to the young part of 5000016 to fight a 4 year olds that has an effect on one person one person can see this message and you know don and i can have that ripple effects and it can change many people's lives so for us it has an impact to one person is to that reason i took actions against all the stuff in my freezer because there was an unfortunate was that an outside one of the 43 but again what i was a stop even 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 well as the old song says the clones to the left of me jokers to the right here 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 a 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 worth 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. and my 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 zimbabwe as president calling for fair elections and new policies to address crippling economic problems your forces used tear gas to disperse a crowd of hundreds in central and are entertaining dozens of protesters several people were injured and once reportedly in a critical condition. in a turbulent week for global markets with analysts and investors warning that a downturn could be on the horizon adding to those fears europe's economic powerhouse germany posted negative growth in the 2nd quarter of this year and looks to be heading for recession we are frankfurt based a financial analyst dr marcus kroll for his thoughts on the increasingly ominous signs. heading for a global recession i think yes we are very clearly the signs are not very good and

the epicenter 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 a quite severe recession that we are heading into and many commentators say the negative data from germany is evidence that the u.s. china trade war is already taking its toll we also marcus called again about the conflict long breaks it could mean for the global economy. when you look at the trade dispute between the united states and china. 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 in that 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 the truing themselves. 1st 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 acting of the acting people in the european politicians seem.

a lot of what we've heard about the dangers of a node impressive is just fear mongering actually what what the. minded people in the british politics called project fear i think that is a real thing when when we think back to an obvious before the wall test taken place there was the same kind of fear mongering actually it was assumed that britain would fall into a senior position 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 or. evidence that points in the direction that there would be an economic crisis of any kind being triggered in britain even though due happens ok that's it for us for . more on all the stories were across this friday your next update from a moscow news team to.

make this manufacture consent instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room 6. 1000000000 real need real world. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row and in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did they have given up their rights as live among us some even pro. an innocent years on death

row and more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. following welcome to cross talk we're all things considered peter lavelle describing the trump administration's iran policy as confusing contradictory and even incoherent would be an understatement as members of his administration beat the drums of war the president suddenly inject themselves into the conversation with words to the contrary what is the world to think.

cross talking around i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi and he is a professor at the university of tehran in beirut we have come in a was me he is a professor and political analyst and in florida we cross to robert rebel he is a professor of political science at florida atlantic university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mohamed let me go to you 1st and to ron give me your side or how iran sees this whole thing playing out because iran's point of view is virtually silent in western media so western audiences don't know the other side of this story or as i would put it a artificially generated impending complex go ahead mohamed. the most important thing in this story is that the united states is waging economic warfare against iranian women and children the united states is accessorizing what our foreign

minister said economic economic terrorism and that they are trying to make the iranian people suffer and to force the iranian people to suffer so much that the government will submit to the united states and basically raise the white flag and this is based in my opinion on calculations that are due to these so-called iran experts that we so i call the see in think tanks in the united states in europe and pundits yes exactly they are people who know nothing about iran or very little about iran or if they do know a thing or 2 about the country they really can't say the truth because if they do then they lose their position at their think tanks or their they've ceased to be invited to different organizations or platforms so this is economic warfare everything that comes after it is the foundation of that is is this economic

warfare so the heightened tension in the region in the persian gulf in the strait of hormuz in the sea of oman or the gulf of oman is based upon this economic warfare now there are conflicting. perspectives or conflicting reports as to what is actually happening the iranians are very suspicious about about some of the attacks the attacks of the port of jade in the united arab emirates have to have happened right after bolton said that he received intelligence from the israelis there iran is about to carry out that in an attack the one off of the iranian coast is even more suspicious because the americans said mine to use the chinese owner of the ship the japanese owner of the ship rather said that they were not mines they were.