putting pressure on congress and the u.s. intelligence chief calls for the n.s.a. surveillance powers to be renewed into 2020 with the program set to expire at the end of this year. u.s. department of justice issues a warrant to seize iranian oil tanker grace one just a day after it was released by authorities in. india stresses its pledge to not use nuclear weapons 1st in warfare but warns that made changes hostilities escalate with pakistan over the disputed kashmir region.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our t.v. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. by the u.s. intelligence chief is hesitant to fully relinquish the power to monitor americans phone calls and text messages he's putting early pressure on congress to reauthorize the national security agency's surveillance program which is set to expire at the end of the year with more his party's killam up. while 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to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect it's necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it and that it would be in the interest of the country overall for congress to renew the free. this is what dan coats said as technology changes adversaries tradecraft

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 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 investigative journalist dave lindorff believes that ultimately the national security establishment will get its way. basically the

vast majority of congress is going to support renewal of this horrible law and they say is largely what it wants to do for years it was doing a lot of illegal surveillance is. snowden reported long before it was even authorized and so you do wonder why they feel likely need these laws saying that they can do that and since they do things that they can't do anyway they were surveilling for 3 years massively beyond what the c.d.r. was allowing them to do and they didn't do anything about it the intel anybody about it only because it got discovered did they have to deal with the. u.s. justice department has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the iranian oil supertanker grace one it comes only one day after authorities in the british territory of gibraltar released of the detained vessel the warrant says the vessel all the oil on board and nearly

$1000000.00 in cash are subject to forfeiture based on violations of the international emergency economic powers act the document also cites bank fraud money laundering and terrorism related statutes it alleges a scheme to unlawfully access in the u.s. financial system to support illicit shipments to syria from iran by the islamic revolutionary guard corps which has been designated a terrorist organization by washington. previously iran's top diplomat sharply criticize the u.s. for attempting to block of the release of the ship which was 1st seized by british royal marines off the coast of your browser 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 on 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 of 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 trotters chief minister says the detention was lifted after receiving formal written assurances from iran. the grace one is that for now released from detention on the sanctions act by operation at low 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 in breach of e.u. sanctions 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded iran seized the british flag tanker in the strait of hormuz claiming it had violated international law us then later announced its intention to create

a naval coalition to combat so named iranian aggression in the strait. middle east analyst. thinks the u.s. may have overplayed its hand with its british ally. very skeptical that the u.k. and gibraltar officials will heed the call by the u.s. car meant to continuing pounding and tank air and you know despite the legal fight sought it is a safe bet that given the fact that iran is also holding a british tank this is part of a quid pro quo whereby the release of the iranian tank will be followed shortly immediate future by the release of the british tank held by iran we know that. garmin and their boys john saw that as well as those in gibraltar are. you know annoyed by this lingering crisis and they want to wash their hands off of it and

the u.s. is trying every trick in the book to lingard this crisis and to keep the u.k. as part of this so-called time. escort for the oil tankers passes through the strait of hormuz and they will says worries that once this crisis between iran and the you'll k. is resolved then they will pull out and yours will be a coalition one. amid escalating hostilities between india and pakistan the indian defense minister has stressed his country will continue to abide by the no 1st use policy when it comes to nuclear weapons however you did have this morning. it just through the till now india has strictly adhered to the no 1st use policy what happens in the future depends on the sickest and says so this is a region in question kashmir at the northern tip of india and pakistan now both

countries lay claim to kashmir with the united nations describing it as a disputed territory of the so-called line of control remains in the defacto border and the country's remain and maintain their own administrations within that territory but earlier this month india revoked kashmir's special autonomy status now pakistan says that decision has destabilized the status quo in the region the united nations prohibits any changes to the status of any disputed state is also fear that kashmir is majority muslim population could be targeted by people of other faiths in the region with the conflict already into its 72nd year without a solution but.

we've been hearing from political and strategic strategic analyst in both pakistan and india on what is next for the kashmir crisis. it is something the nuclear blackmail which some has been using against india by which they say that look nuclear so we cannot afford an escalation of full scale war and so you have to be in with the disturbed 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

a defense ministry saying by the chief means you find santa downs in a large scale terrorism wonderful meant you know an uprising against india you mean your country we are priced to you know do incursions into india did it reach me have to intervene it is just battle heats are signaling not to our conduct in the military misadventures of actually from bugs somebody sparked what specter which is not the wording but it should be reporting from the from the perspective of the international community because in the broader picture then there is a war between 2 countries and whenever 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 all see to have or not india has blown apart all the biological agreements and 17 u.n. support constant resolutions which calls are the best on me so has left more room for their dialogue but different commercial given indeed does not intervene. this

see india as a big market and that is why i did the longer jeopardize the evolution with them and that is why the one in politics isn't being driven by the hard economic realities and not by them what ality. the us congresswoman has refused to to travel to the west bank to see her grandmother if she has to do so under israeli's conditions and the situation has drawn fierce condemnation back on capitol hill. israel doesn't advance its case as a tolerant democracy or and they've ruined us ally by barring elected members of congress from visit in because of their political views i strongly condemn this decision by the israeli government which undermines the ability for our 2 allied countries to have the frank open and it's times difficult discussions that we must have in order to ensure israel remains secure and democratic nation israel's

analysis and treaty congresswoman taylor and omar is beneath the dignity of the great state of israel on thursday tel of even ounce that would block visits by the congresswoman over their support for palestinian led boycott movement in the us israel has since said. you could enter the country on humanitarian grounds to visit her 90 year old grandmother defending his earlier stance prime minister benjamin netanyahu sided israeli laws prohibiting entry to anyone supporting boycotts of israel decision came hours after donald trump encouraged betting the u.s. lawmakers. it would show great weakness of israel allowed representative omar and representative chloe but to visit they hate israel and all jewish people and there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds minnesota and michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office they are a disgrace being critical of israel and the us can hurt contractors ever since the

anti boycott act was passed 2 years ago individuals or companies wanting to do business with us state governments are banned if they boycott trade with israel but some are calling this a violation of free speech we spoke to the green party candidate for new york city council marnia who told us trump's intervention in the case is the 1st of its kind . this is the 1st time that a sitting president has actually told a foreign country to not accept members of his own government so in that sense i think it's very unprecedented and it's surprising at the same time i think many of us in the united states that if you really have $7.00 this isn't a woman's administrating absolutely i think it is a double standard but actually what's interesting about this is that the fact that there are sort of this retaliation is punishment for individuals and even i've heard even business it's that are being. first of all it's at

least complete violation of the 1st and then i mean every american i mean we're allowed to point on any. form get involved politically with issues that is really of violence of the moment and i wouldn't mind a lot so i think that's tragic and i think that's immoral and i think that's the product question that over the democratic party really has to do has to look at look at least to stand up against. the 2 russian pilots who averted potential disaster on thursday morning have been given the country's highest honor the hero of russia war by president putin their air bus jet lost both engines after a bird strike while taking off from moscow's you go skiing international airport that forced them to make an emergency landing on 233 people on board the crimea bound euro airlines flight survived artie's roughly agency managed to get

a hold of exclusive video of the evacuation. i don't i mean of. all the good looking. people for the dish you're going to live. with all the studio that each studio. but is included. so let's go through what happened it all took place so quickly that the pilots were not able to return to the airport as they had barely managed to get airborne in 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 emptying any of the fuel tanks the pilot in command a 41 year old. had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot he has been flying with ural airlines since 2013 and became

a captain last year his copilot 23 year old georgie morrison got his pilot's license just 2 years ago. russian health ministry says 76 people sought medical assistance after the incident one woman is still in the hospital her condition is not believed to be life threatening. sort of reports now from the crash site in southeast moscow. 226 passengers and 7 crew members of fuel 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 shelia with little bro after we to call off the engines became an.

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 we 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 just 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 his belly everything is fine the media was quick to make connections with another such incidents when the 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 solve 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 efficient safety advocate

and pilot a kid in you are. told us that birds are the most common problem facing airports and pilots and what landed at the plane was still 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 down a recent offer and gregory was and thankfully those events are incredibly rare. when a lot who is your engines. 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 but unfortunately birds tend to find the area around and feels quite attractive it's supposed to the environment . as a speeding up issues they feel safe from their ports spend an awful lot of energy

trying to keep birds off the airfield that geisha advice is like scaring some some out of court suv used to tree bows to frighten off the other birds they do have entire teams their work exclusively keeping birds as way from the actual as much as possible of course if the birds are just outside to have field there's not a lot of the outward so can do. a new campaign to tackle britain's soaring rates of knife crime is seeing the home office targeting to take away warnings and a real life stories will be printed on boxes of chicken but the move has drawn criticism from the public and politicians the like it's hard to get taylor reports now from south florida. 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 when you pay is going to wing it when it comes to fighting knife crime the hash tag knife free campaigning creates 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 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 all new sick 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 full with some people is this some kind of joke what have you chosen chicken shops what's next my free watermelons but 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 are. so let's talk about point off because you don't take a book. to do anything different is a great idea because you need to educate people. so for the crime special night right i think they could maybe be

a you know public money into more important things critics that maybe the campaign will too like gray fit saying it no i need a few things that fried chicken is the black community's choice of food but that knife in the back community's choice what put the marketing company behind the campaign is that 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 just the 2 screens where you talk to the young part of the 1000016 to fight for your roads has an effect on one person one person can see this message and you know it can have the ripple effects and it can change many people's lives so for us it has an impact one person has to be a reason for that since again probably something my phrase because there was an unfortunate incident outside one of the border from birmingham but it was a 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 those kind of people well as

the old song says it 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. and 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. but it doesn't for mel b. back with more news in about 34 minutes with such international. ally a paradise with some around turned into a round the experimentation field the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have

many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. thank you so much loggers jack didn't know this is the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents producta look i love you know i love you guys here i love you and all my love all of you but every week in the comments of the e-mails i got people like i can't believe you not covering

fill in the blank kashmir's sudan or cologne. well this particular person who was killed in the woods of west virginia my boss is an ass to me because on the romanian descent and i look i just i just want to say i just want to say i'm trying . to make sure. you got a rash on a 0000 but i can't get everything have you tried aloe. me covering a particular topic doesn't mean i'm controlled opposition for your cousin's ears to your ways and it doesn't mean i'm in bed with big rash cream. on top of that even though it's in the title of the show some people don't realize i'm trying to go up to the story that the mainstream media isn't plastering all over your television if you want to see that c.n.n. is covering then watched c.n.n.

is covering. for example there are large protests going on in hong kong and russia right now not really a secret but our corporate media won't tell you about other protests so let's get into some of the censored protests happening around the world. the large protests continue in honduras where a few weeks ago the american embassy was burned by protesters standing up against the neo liberal government and i don't know why the protos burn the embassy did they not see the complaint box because it was right it was right we couldn't go out . for those occasions. as reported by the gray zone 10 years ago the democratically elected center last left under and president manwell the law was whisked away from his residence in a brazen military raid supported by the united states is

a lie is removal cleared the path for the interests of big business across the country he was whisked away in a military coup and we stopped the phrase with the way it was reserved for like romance novels. my dear friend the way you wish me a way to get me to a picture as bed and breakfast. play was magnificent. whatever point. protesters are literally burning the u.s. embassy because we have started to rule over them how is that not news. stories are furious there like you. had to deal liberal austerity measures supported by our government and the i.m.f. the measures have caused massive layoffs.