you know when you. leave. the trump administration urges congress to permanently reauthorize a suspended must surveillance program prompting an ide drive from rights groups. also ahead in the program as the bait continues in the u.s. over to democratic party lawmakers on their desire to visit israel we look at america's own laws that target critics of the middle eastern nation. and the 9 year old german girl is told by a court in berlin that she can't join the country's best known boy by her.

sunday afternoon 2 pm here in moscow in august the 7 good to have you with us i'm you know no need on this is our t. international. a wide reaching to mystic surveillance program could be back on the cards stateside the troubled ministration house called on u.s. lawmakers to permanently reauthorize it via the national security agency the request was made in a letter sent to congress on thursday son by former national intelligence director down coats interestingly his appeal to reveal about the controversial call busy detail records program had actually been suspended after collecting more information than it was illegally to do the spying program falls under a section of the usa freedom act which is set to expire in december kill it up and brings us more. the trump white house is speaking up about a high profile n.s.a. program that allows the recording of americans phone calls and personal messages

dan coats the outgoing director of national intelligence is urging congress to reauthorize the law before it expires at the end of the year now dan coats has confirmed that the n.s.a. has put the program on hold however he says it's necessary to have the ability to get the program going again if needed as technology changes our adversaries trade craft and communications habits will continue to evolve and adapt in light of these dynamic environment the administration supports reauthorization of this provision as well a coalition of privacy and civil liberties advocates sent a letter of their own to the u.s. house judiciary committee and said of renewing the program they called for meaningful surveillance reform the government's implementation of the program further demonstrates both the privacy threats posed by the program and its lack of efficacy it is highly concerning that it took almost 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 the freedom act gives the n.s.a. the ability to build a network with the telecommunications companies to record the phone calls and personal messages not just of the suspects but of anyone that they are in contact with. and voted to allow it to proceed for the. i will vote against that it is better than the usa patriot act but it doesn't go far enough in my mind in protecting our civil liberties we find that we're spending resources for no benefit in terms of

public safety in real just in terms of freedom and liberty and this is why i voted against the freedom act when the senate would fix the problems inherent in the patriot act just stop spying on innocent americans instead of trying to make it legal. when the freedom act came down it was a way to try to ease americans and say no no we're going to make sure we work out the kinks but i think americans know better than that because and that's what dan coats is saying here is that anything the n.s.a. and sometimes the n.s.a. just gets surveillance information that's just hundreds and pages of nothing and they've actually come out saying that it doesn't really help resolve or solve any terrorism or investigate terrorism activities so because of this though now they can send that or they can decimate that disseminate that information out to the cia to other players to the f.b.i. and to people who might not have the knowledge of who really is a threat which is going to put a lot of americans at risk certainly these privacy violations so yes you're allowed to surveil you're allowed to keep your country safe from terrorism from these kinds

of acts but at the rate that it infringes on the privacy rights of people who have absolutely no known ties to terrorism that's where it gets a little bit tricky. u.s. congresswoman who said she was planning to visit her grandmother in the west bank says she will no longer be making the trip to the spot israel granting rashida to leave a visa and humanitarian grounds overturning an earlier decision to deny her entry the democratic party representative who support for the controversial boycott israel movement had just the say about her fight for published and right. never mind only you're talking about. the. all of the earth i mean you know. this is. israel's original decisions upon russia to leave us well as representative of iran omar came immediately after president truman tweeted that the person be allowed

access israel then reiterated that foreigners who publicly call for a boycott of the country will be stopped from entering the netanyahu government streetman to all of the 2 muslim lawmakers has provoked reaction in washington to. israel doesn't advance its case as a taller and democracy or and they vary in a u.s. ally by bahrain elected members of congress from a 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 times difficult discussions that we must have in order to ensure israel remains secure and democratic nation israel's analysis and treaty congresswoman and omar is beneath the dignity of the great state of israel now it is worth noting that critics of israel can also face penalties within america itself the anti boycott which was passed 2 years ago allows us states to cut ties

with contractors who support sanctions against the country it was designed to combat a boycott divestment and sanctions efforts targeting israel over its building of settlements in the palestinian territories critics of the legislation argue that it violates the u.s. constitution which states that political boycotts are fully protected by the 1st amendment we got the thoughts of the green party candidate for new york city council. i think it is a double standard but actually what is interesting about this is that the fact that there was sort of this retaliation is tarnished meant for individuals businesses that are joining. the thoughts of violation of. every american women were allowed when any or all or all politically with issues that i think with some seeds you. really also elements. that france

permits are almost as not. the u.s. justice department has issued a warrant calling for the seizure of an iranian oil supertanker release sponsor brought to her on thursday the documents seized the ship the oil it's carrying nearly $1000000.00 in cash or subject to forfeiture for violating u.s. sanctions on iran the war and also cites bank fraud money laundering and terrorism related stuff to it it's alleges additionally that iran's revolutionary guards on lawfully attempted to make use of the u.s. financial system to support illicit shipments of oil to syria previously around the plant sharply criticized the u.s. for attempting to block thursday's release of the ship which was 1st seized by british royal marines off the coast of japan altar 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. having performed small maneuvers on friday the vessel remains stationed in the waters of the british overseas territory as they count the no longer wants to keep command of the ship chief minister sais that attention was lifted off to the british overseas territory received formal written assurances from iran that it would not ship oil to syria. violation of the use of actions. to grace one is that for now released from detention under the sanctions act by operation of law on the 14th 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 we are really in authority as the noise of the brace one was ever shipping oil to syria in breach of e.u. sanctions 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded iran sees the british flag tanker

in the strait of hormuz claiming it had violated international law the us then later announced its intention to create a naval called the combat zone in the arena aggression in the strait middle east analyst. thinks the u.s. may have over played with its british allies. very skeptical the u.k. and gibraltar of the will heed the call by the u.s. car meant to continuing pounding the tank here and you know despite the legal fight thought it is this 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 will be followed shortly immediate future 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 of it and the u.s. is trying every trick in the book to linger deuce crisis and to keep you as part of this so called my time. escort for their oil tankers passage through this strait of hormuz and the u.s. is worried that once this crisis between iran and the you'll kill. is resolved then do you pull out and yours will be a core lesion one. a 9 year old german girl has been told by a burley in court that she can't join the country's most prestigious boys' choir breaking down the case on the debate it has triggered yourself over. nobody likes rejection and no one wants to hear that not good enough but it seems for one family in germany no just isn't option picture a 9 year old girl who just wanted to sing her mother says she's got the voice of an

angel and that the best place in the city for her training is the berlin state and cathedral choir set up in the 15th century it's one of the oldest and most renowned choirs in the country and it's pretty much just got 2 rules you have to be over 5 to addition czech and you've got to be a male ah undeterred the god apply twice and was rejected both times but try try try again 3rd time lucky she got back from all dition before the door was once again slammed in her face but the choir is adamant agendas got nothing to do with the acoustic pattern of a choir is part of its artistic freedom the rejection was not predominantly about her gender and she would have been successful had her voice matched the desired sound characteristics of a boys' choir out unsurprisingly of the decision struck a wrong chord with the girl's mother who is now taking the choir to court over

gender inequality she says she's got a letter from the dean of berlin's university of the arts which the choir is affiliated to and which it's written that aggarwal never sing in a boys' choir boys also argue that as an institution receiving state funds rejecting female singers contravenes germany's gender discrimination laws now many have weighed in on the side of the choir saying that mixing it would bring an end to its traditional sound nobody has said girls can sing as well but the tumble is different and judging this should be left to the musicians and musicologists anyone who wants to misunderstood gender equality here secretary rice is a cultural asses this standoff between gender equality and autistic freedom isn't exactly new music professionals and academics alike have been debating the. anatomical differences of boys' and girls' voices the year is saying the former has a purity of the law to just can't attain and just last year the famous british soprano signal leslie garrett called out all boys choirs for being stuck in the

past backward looking traditionalist argue that there is an exclusive purity in the boy's voice but i think that's just nonsense it's an excuse to hang on male privilege and perpetuate a dominant male gender stereotype and male power but not ready to dump the carrots kune came squire rolled out a very diplomatic on tsa will recognise different tasks to contribute to the tower female singers make to the quarrels seen here at cambridge we're especially proud to follow mixed voice quiet king's voices which was formed 20 years ago precisely to give women students depart you need to sing choral music in the chapel we all know parents will do anything for that children but trying to shake up an institution that hasn't changed over hoffer millennia now that dedication. still ahead at raising a glass to a better future the homemade chernow ball vodka aiming to raise money for those a unstudied the exclusion zone but just how easy will it be to swallow we find out

after the break. you know world's big partners the lot 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 bad and 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 we're watching closely watching the hard. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. in the final larry go around listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news. they're back with our tea international the head of germany's federal police has voiced concern over rising levels of far right hate speech he's warned it could be leading to the formation of new extremist groups and terrorist cells in the country for several years now with fluctuations we have seen an increase in violent politically motivated crimes coming from the far right we are also seeing a risk of terrorist groups forming. german authorities registered over 8600 right

wing extremist offenses in the 1st half of 2019 that's close to 1000 more than sure in the same period last year but the spiking trace the number of violent crimes they've roughly the same here say reflect the scale of the country's problem with far right extremism. one case that potentially highlights the threat from the far right was they murder of the politician walter luka he was a member of the merkel c.d.u. party and was a strong supporter of migrant rights he received death threats on was killed with a gunshot to the head they are his whole numbers at the beginning of june his

suspected killer is believed to harbor extreme right wing views. although the police have said they're working hard to tackle extremism martin dozer from the left party doesn't believe enough is being done. and the problem is that the right wing extreme right wing. for violence lists as well for any lease. group called do not call it specialist extreme right wing group and they had a list of 25000 people who do politics christians who do activism for refugees and we're seeing in germany which say that the busy influence you blind on the right. means they don't really know what the right wing of the real extreme right wing doing and during the last years they did a lot of movie decision organization useful should we be extremists and militarist

and so we are the increase of. crime so the rightly we as well we have a lot of. people of color left wing people. in danger or abused for being people in the last few. with former u.s. special counsel robert miller's investigation into russian election meddling dawn and us that until the patient has not billing ahead of a new report into the origins of the inquiry specifically the justice department's inspector general is believed to be looking into whether the f.b.i. abused its powers and surveilling a trump campaign advisor he's expected to publish his findings in september artie's afshin rattansi has been speaking to the man at the center of the case carter page it was just a complete meth these complete lies that were misleading the american public and

just created such you know such problems for. the trumpet ministration i think is just terrible and the person has allegations that the f.b.i. were worried about when they read this amazing dossier by the forum i 6 by against you. what was just so preposterous. that i had these meetings with these senior russian which people i had never met in my entire life i mean is this completely fabricated completely made up ok well we had the movie or inquiry now we got the horowitz inquiry just how does it differ to the attorney general the now it's really general bilbo who's also investigating of the alleged russian conspiracy allegations created well i think it's important work that they're doing and i just hope that the people that they are talking to. actually give the truth now because they were just giving complete lies and basing

it on false. misinformation that was being fed to them and they just pumped it into the system and unfortunately it just needs it was just a complete falsehood. so let's cross to hong kong where another weekend of demonstrations is in full swing this time rallies have been held in support. position to the authorities in the chinese semi autonomous territory these are live pictures now from hong kong a little bit shaky you might expect a lot of mobile devices being used to film scenes the streets winging their way through traffic and people like the pro-democracy protests. of. today to show support for the mainly youth in the movement they were originally calling for their patrol of a controversial extradition bill since adopted

a much broader set of demands those include the resignation of hong kong's leader current democratic elections. into alleged police brutality concerns are growing however that the ongoing campaign is putting the city's. special status and shepherded risking intervention from china. life few people who would be willing to visit the site of a nuclear disaster if you were still you'd think would want to buy products made in the exclusion zone but a group of british scientists is seeking to change that they've been working on producing of vodka made with grain from churned oval we spoke to professor jim smith from the university of portsmouth he says the atomic spirit is completely safe and has been tested in world class. but what we did we set up an experimental sailcloth in the main exclusion zone about 20 kilometers south of the power station

and it's not one of the most radioactive parts of the exclusion zone but obviously there's some contamination that and so we look 1st at the transfer of radioactivity into crops and we grew raw and so then when we have to menton the grain and distilled it to produce alcohol we as we expected because any chemist knows that when you to still something you leave a lot of the impurities in the waste product and not in the the distillate alcohol so what we found was that when we measured the distillate alcohol that we couldn't with very sophisticated equipment we couldn't find any radioactivity except a natural carbon 14 which would get in any spirit drink. well the church noble disaster shock the soviet union and the world 33 years ago almost 600000 people were affected by the catastrophe at the nuclear plant according to the world health organization jim a specific and say the vodka project is not about grabbing headlines but promoting recovery in the economically depressed area. we want to do is make make money in

order to help develop area and support the communities that have been affected it's a long road you know 30 years after the chernobyl accident and there are still issues particularly around the perception of radiation risk and people worried about the radiation perhaps when we scientists think the shouldn't they insert things in forms from that point of view to show that we can make a consumer product that hopefully people will want to drink so i have to say that this is technically this is not of it's more like in 30 high quality moonshine than what we're producing is something using the more traditional way that's been done in ukraine belarus russia poland for many centuries or to our distil that he thinks and i agree the good way of doing it because it keeps more of the flavor of the original grain and we've had a tasting and they like the flavor. ok that's how our news runup

looks this saturday for not but in moments some more great programs get their start today with interest. a lot of people talk about ponzi scam but do people really know what a ponzi scheme is. why a paradise with some all year round turned into a round the experimentation field but 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 who have 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. cash cows and is drawing alfonzo among. their situation pay change guard service. his 1st words were at a lot of us here a challenging post you've got to use tools. i have no doubt that what happened was criminal.

let's concentrate market is a $1000000000.00 industry these companies have a few financial motivation to solve these problems there are numerous studies showing that doctors were keen to chest x. ray concentrates for sites of its own that patients won't give them don't use the drawings to play golf. or study why they're keeping secure those whose day. people still i don't know which question or so i try to leave when so many have. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. for something i want to be preached.

to the right price it's like the for me the more people. i'm interested always in the why. question. mark trying to act in the 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 at home i 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 sudan or colombia where this particular person was killed in the one to west virginia for my boss is an ass to me because on the romanian descent and i look i just i just want to say. as say i'm trying.

to make sure. you got a rash on his ear. but i can't get to 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 after 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. 6

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 burned the embassy did they not see the complaint box because it was right it was right we could be out. for those occasions as reported by the gray zone 10 years ago the democratically elected center last left under and president man well as a law was whisked away from his residence in a brazen military raid supported by the united states is a lie is remove all clear the path for the interests of big business across the country he was whisked away in a military coup and we stopped the phrase whisked away was reserved for like romance novels.