the trumpet ministration urges congress to permanently reauthorize the suspended mass surveillance program prompting an outcry from rights groups. u.s. issues a warrant to seize an iranian oil tanker after gibraltar's supreme court ordered its release earlier this week the vessel was impounded by british royal marines in the mediterranean last month. the family of a young girl blocked from joining one of germany's most famed boys' choir for gender discrimination but the case is thrown out by a court in berlin. broadcasting

live direct from ours studios in moscow this is r.t. international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. wide reaching domestic surveillance program could be back on the current state side to the ministration is calling on u.s. lawmakers to permanently reauthorize the national security agency to use it the request was made in a letter sent to congress on thursday signed by the now former national intelligence director dan coats. now additionally his appeal also revealed that the controversial call detail records program had actually been suspended after collecting more information and was legally allowed spying program falls under a section of the usa freedom act which is set to expire in december are these comments. 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. voted to allow it to proceed for the. they are will vote against it 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 a real cost in terms of freedom and liberty and this is why i voted against the freedom act when they said it 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 you know 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 out 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 prizes violation 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. justice department has issued a warrant calling for the seizure of an iranian oil supertanker released by gibraltar on thursday the document says the ship the oil it is carrying and a nearly $1000000.00 in cash are subject to forfeiture for violating u.s. sanctions on iran the war and also cites bank fraud money laundering and terrorism related statutes alleges additionally that iran's revolutionary guards unlawfully attempted to make use of the united states financial system to support illicit shipments of oil to syria. earlier iran's top diplomat 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 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 on the high seas this piracy attempt is indicative of trumpet ministrations contempt for the law. while having performed small maneuvers on friday the vessel remains stationed in her waters as the captain reportedly no longer wants to keep command of the ship baltar's chief minister says the detention was lifted after the british overseas territory received formal written assurances from iran that it would not ship oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions. the grace one is that for now released from detention under the sanctions act by operation low on the 30th of august i received assurances from the republic of iran that if we leased the destination of the grace one would not be an

entity that is subject to european union sanctions i welcome the shirts the iranian authorities deny that the grace one was ever shipping oil to syria in breach of you sanctions 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded iran seized a british lined 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 their legal 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 it 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 as well as those in gibraltar. 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 linger descrive says and to keep you as part of this so called time. escort for the oil tankers passes through this state of foremost and they will says worries that once this crisis between iran and day you'll k. is resolved and they will pull out and yours will be a coalition 1. 9 year old german girl has been told by a berlin court that she cannot join the country's most prestigious boys' choir breaking down the case and the debate it has triggered here is art. 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 bilin 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 girl apply twice and was rejected both times but try try try again that 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 that should be left to the musicians and musicologists anyone who wants to misunderstood gender equality. is a cultural essence 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 for years saying the former has a purity the latter just can't attain and just last year the famous british the promising a 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 carrot secure in case quire rolled out a very diplomatic aren't we recognise different tasks to contribute to the tower female singers make to the choral scene 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 in over half a millennia now that dedication. us democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders has been forced to clarify comments he made about the washington post on monday the remote senator was accused of peddling conspiracy theories by suggesting the paper's editorial position reflects the interests of its owners the billionaire amazon founder jeff bezos or you tube is on the phone call you girls or you know what you do. doesn't work for what i think is. there is a framework you go through the course of focus on the c.e.o. fritz. anybody you know how more can i move on. then i talk about all the time and then i wonder why but washington which is owned by jumping through all the time i thought i thought right i think we got article

about i don't know what senator sanders. as a member of a large club of politicians of every ideology who complain about their coverage contrary to the conspiracy theory the senator seems to favor jeff bezos allows our newsroom to operate with full independence as our reporters and editors can attest bernie sanders has long been a vocal critic of corporate media arguing that they misrepresent his views and ultimately act in the interests of the v elite. the working families that should not have to subsidize the wealthiest people jeff bezos made 11000000000 dollars last year they didn't pay a nickel in federal income taxes wealthy people should stop paying their fair share of tax that's out of.

bernie sanders makes me skin crawl and i can't even identify for you what exactly it is but i see him as sort of a pro woman candidate or he could seriously bashers billionaires flaming which many of the problems many inner most americans suffer masons is the just man the world works and yours of course is you know. because he's threatening the class interests and work on you trying to keep him through being elected president you can beat him almost for the billionaire class and. it's definitely an obstacle because they have more dollars and conforms and they can reach almost all americans the influence all markets think about but who clearly has a discreet distance from the book you that resonated with his voters and supporters in the den already get the nomination he could be charged if you get sued or

general election but they are the washington post on here you have your selfish b.b. it would be great to off the group who think we're looking at all voting and just don't have a clue independents and even some republicans he would have to. send it up * to the media who are against him and so would be quite. the media i think both candidates are. trying his tech giant wall ways mixed up in a spy scandal in africa this according to a new report on that. just a few minutes this is our international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race in the. spear in dramatic development that only. exists

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. you know world of big. and conspiracy. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 hawks. a lot of people talk about. the people who just came.

back and this is our chief international now an african spy scandal has thrust chinese tech giant wall way back into the headlines after allegations were published in the wall street journal the newspaper allege that while we technicians in at least 2 cases personally helped african governments snoop on their political opponents uganda and zambia allegedly enlisted the company's assistance for wiretapping conversations cracking through encrypted communications and conducting surveillance while way denies the accusations claiming it has never engaged in hacking activities here is part of an interview given on the issue. we refute it quite vociferously again it just feels like it's one of those stories that come up now and again go to completely verify it it sounds like even other companies that have been cited in terms of involvement have made it very clear they don't even have contracts in. one of the countries involved so it looks like the

story is unfortunately really just fake knees and we have to suffer with the wall ways currently the world's 2nd largest producer of smartphones and has been in the spotlight in recent months over its large scale investment in developing 5 g. mobile technology in may the u.s. put restrictions on the company's citing national security concerns after washington accused wall way of spying on governments for beijing which while way has also vehemently denied strategy vice president andrew williams in again told us security is a top priority. it's a private company owned by its employees as i say there's about $100000.00 shareholders and to me as someone that's come to this company i think it's extraordinary the benefits of running an organization like that because people don't necessarily just pick up their paycheck at the end of the week of the end of the month they have

a real vested interest in the commercial success you really have to check everything assume nothing. and trust almost nobody and that's a that's a process in the system that we stick to and work with many of our partners around the world on that basis. germany's most senior police officer has voiced concern over rising levels of far right hate speech he warned it could lead it 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 200-1000 that is 900 more than during the same period last year but despite increased the number of violent crime stayed roughly the same there's a brief look at the scale of the country's problem with far right extremism.

one case that potentially highlights the threat from the far right was the murder of the politician walter lukey he was a member of uncle merkel's c.d.u. party and was a strong supporter of migrant rights he received death threats and was killed in june at his home with a gunshot to the head his suspected killer is believed to harbor extreme right wing views. although police say they are working hard to tackle extremism martin dolts are from germany's left party does not believe enough is being done. and the

problem is that the right wing the extreme right wing they are open for violence they do lists as well of any nice place out of one busy group called the north koreans such is the extreme right wing group and they had a list of 25000 people who do politics christians who do activism for refugees we have a saying in germany which say that the authorities blind on the right right that 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 what we do zation organisation is special we can be extremists and militarists way ready and so we have the increase of the crimes of the right wing we as well we have a lot of scenarios people of color left being people.

in danger or abused by right wing people. in the last few. years a story that hits close to home as i have but few people would be willing to visit the site of a nuclear disaster if you are still you would think would want to buy products made in the exclusion zone but a group of british scientists is looking to change that they have been working on producing a vodka made with grain from chernobyl jim smith professor of environmental science at portsmouth university says the atomic spirit is completely safe and has been tested in world class laboratories what we did we set up an experimental sailcloth in the main exclusion zone about 20 kilometers south of the power station and it is not one of the most radioactive parts of the exclusion zone but obviously there is some contamination and so we look 1st at the transfer of radioactivity into crops and we grew raw and so then when we amended 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 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 virgin mobile disaster shocked 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 professor smith says the vodka project is not about grabbing headlines but promoting recovery in the economically depressed area. but we want to do is make make money in order to help develop that 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 forums 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 god it's more like a 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 to our distil that he thinks and i agree that this is a good way of doing it because it keeps more of the flavor of the original grain and we've kind of a tasting it and they like the flavor. of it as a for me this hour i'll be back in 35 minutes with another look at your news a little over that what you are to national credit with.

join me every 1st day on the alex salmond sure i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. same wrong. rules just don't call. me that is yet to stamp out disdain become agitated and in gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she says to look for common ground. we came here where did you work before you came here when you lived. in many us

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 have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. either a max guys or this is the kaiser report. lot of people talk about ponzi scams but do people really know what a ponzi scheme is stacie well of course we've been talking about ponzi schemes

because he can't taper a ponzi and that was attempted over the past year with quantitative tightening in interest rates rising obviously that has all fallen apart especially in europe where we have 15 trillion and negative yielding debt and went up by over 600000000000 and one day just in the past week and now i want to look at a headline about the unthinkable becoming thinkable of course it's always been think about here in keizer report we always think outside the box but here in the mainstream media they're saying could treasury yields ever fall into negative territory and vespers are wondering whether u.s. treasury yields might follow the trend witnessed in germany or other sovereign markets and eventually fall into negative territory the m think a bull is now thinkable of course this is the german eels and this is the u.s. 10 year yield and as you see since basically the european union finally began

quantitative easing in earnest they've gone into negative territory but i tell you what's remarkable is that you know we made a film like 10 years ago about the collapse of iceland we went to iceland about 6 months 9 months before it collapsed and predicted that it would collapse because it was a serious ponzi scheme where the banks were lending. to speculate and the result of that speculation in the housing market would be used as collateral at the bank to create more lending so it became a huge ponzi scheme force a collapsed now people talk about these negative interest rates they think it's the result of some policy by someone in doing some economic bennett benefit but they don't understand is that it's the biggest bubble in history the sovereign bond bubble is by far the biggest ponzi scheme bubble it's ever been created in the history of the world and when you talk about these sovereign bonds trading in

negative rates that means the price of the bond is a 3000 year highs that's stented this bubble is and how does it get there it's because the banks are lending against the ponzi value of the bonds to leverage more buying of those ponzi extended bonds and of course like iceland this will result in a 98 percent co-ops never in the history of the world in 1971 did the human race ever engage in all fiat's currency commerce trading settlement system i we've always had gold backed currencies or other some other hard assets that's why nations went bankrupt all the time that's why many wars happened is because france would go bankrupt they would have no gold left or something like that so now we have just an infinite regress of ever referring to another contract

or another fiat's currency printed by something backed by we don't know what except for perhaps the mightiest army that is ever stopped and threaten the earth and that's what we have now so that's why they could go. they think they believe they could do this all right i mean it's a good point that up until 971 there was always at least one currency in the world that had a gold backing you know the brentwood agreement that was after world war 2 set the american us dollar up as a currency that ultimately had a settlement in gold and then that was stopped in $71.00 then you had c.i. currencies referring to other feet of currencies and that's how you end up with a global ponzi scheme and you had as nomi prins writes in her excellent book collusion about how the central banks then were no longer competing with each other in a mercantile a system but became their coconspirators in a global monitor a system where each bank was simply passing the hot potato around the world and there was never any moment when interest rates are not being cut over the past 40

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