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on that all right it's time to. i used. to days after the 1st deadly clashes in decades between china and india both countries now calling for a peaceful resolution but the violence also comes at a time when the u.s. has strengthened that relationship with india and has seen increased tensions with china rachel bludgeons is joining us live from the newsroom with the latest developments there rachel well manella secretary of state my pompei was to meet with one of china's top officials today increased tensions between washington and beijing trade disputes to involvement in hong kong to the coronavirus the meeting is expected to cover a range of topics but could now include the latest dispute between china and india has confirmed that at least 20 of us soldiers were killed following border clashes with. on monday but has yet to report

a number of casualties on its side political observers suspect china's decision not to release the number of soldiers killed could see its desire to downplay the situation due to days high level meeting still some india news reports place china's death toll between 35 and 40 the border dispute between china and india has been ongoing for decades with the 2 countries agreeing to a line of actual control after a war broke out in 1962 surrounding territory has become increasingly militarized amid recent disputes and on monday china claims indian soldiers crossed the border twice and acted provocatively which led to a fight that included rocks and clubs but no shots fired but just 2 days after the 1st deadly clash since 1975 both china and india say they are seeking a peaceful resolution a spokesperson for china's foreign ministry said they are in communication with india but they refuse to accept the blame because they say the clashes happened on

their side of the border. chinese and indian border troops are jointly dealing with the relevant matters on the ground the merits of the incident are very clear this incident happened at the chinese side of the line of actual control and china is not to blame for this. india's prime minister has also denied that his country provoked the attack and he claimed the soldiers who died gave their lives for a just cause. i want to assure the country that the sec or 5 super soldiers will not go to waste for us the unity and sovereignty of the country is the most important and no one can prevent us from defending india wants peace but if provoked we are capable of giving an appropriate response now i know the world is watching this conflict closely because not only are these countries the 2 most populated in the world but they are also 2 nuclear powers and the effects of an all out war would be devastating rachel how does the us responded to these recent

clashes well hours after news of the clashes broke the state department released a statement which it did not appear to condemn either side instead it said quote we are closely monitoring the situation between india and chinese forces along the line of actual control both india and china have expressed a desire to deescalate and we support a peaceful resolution of the current situation now earlier this year president term was greeted by a stadium of fans when he visited india to meet with prime minister modi the state department also confirmed that the 2 leaders discussed the situation on the india china border recently during a phone call in june socket now those all comes amid continued conflict between the u.s. and china as a trump administration has blamed beijing for the spread of the current virus and threaten against involvement in hong kong reporting in the newsroom. the boeing $737.00 max jetliner has been grounded since march of 2019 after 2 deadly crashes indonesia's lion air and ethiopian airlines so for more than

a year congressional investigators have been seeking documents and interviews with f.a.a. officials in an investigation to see if boeing and the f.a.a. had too cozy of a relationship and might have overlooked some problems with the 737 max now. today the f.a.a. chief testified before the senate commerce committee that has been following the story she's joining us in studio now so erin was there any bombshell admission about you know a buddy buddy relationship well someone elect to say the chief steve dixon was grilled by senators today is a total understatement because there were some tense exchanges from each and every senator on this committee but the short answer is dixon did not admit that the f.a.a. and boeing were too close unfortunately in the senate investigation on this fact though the f.a.a. has been stonewalling lawmakers by either taking forever to turn over documents if they've been requested to give or just not even turning them over at all which was

the committee's biggest frustration listen here you make every document be able to every document. it's an easy question is it would you make every document. be able for the public. senator i'm not i'm not sure what normal protocol is on that but we will be as transparent as you possibly can no no that's not the question not as you can that's what happened the last time you were transparent or so will you commit to making every document public. i'm not i'm not in a position to commit to that at this point well you did not do your kind of a cover up. also surprising fact uncovered by texas senator ted cruz today listen here has anyone at f.a.a. been fired there have been changes and leadership in various areas no one has been fired over this particular matter up to this point has anyone been disciplined over

this matter. no not specifically so unknown somebody made unspecified mistakes for which there had been no repercussions is that right i would not say that there would not been reap repercussions well please tell us the repercussions the repercussions or that we or we have significant reforms. so you can see a pretty tough day for steve dixon but he did say that he is committed to the oversight process and he also didn't make that both the f.a.a. and boeing they did make mistakes when it came to approving the 737 max too soon however it is important to note though that since the 2 crashes boeing fired a number of people including their top dog c.e.o. dennis that was back in december you know i remember that yeah and the hearing just comes a day after a certain bill was brought forward called the aircraft safety and certification reform act and what is that what's in there so this is the most significant step monella towards accountability following these 2 crashes because it's forced lawmakers to look at how the f.a.a.

approves new airplanes now this bill completely eliminates airline makers like boeing from having an influence on the certification process so the bill gives the f.a.a. a total of 40 to hire fire boeing employees doing their f.a.a. certifications it brings in safety advisers and also protects whistleblowers because you remember monella we saw with boeing there were leaks text messages between pilots about the $737.00 max during the testing phase saying that the systems were faulty but they were too afraid to come forward geez so parent it sounds like congress is putting even more responsibility on the f.a.a. now but the f.a.a. just like boeing they made some major mistakes so do you think that's going to be a good move going forward so yes to no it does help the f.a.a. have more authority but it's also very easy for congress to be angry now after the fact however congress surprisingly is just as guilty and all that happened with boeing listen here. congress has allowed or allowed a given levity to a. so i think they make

a good faith in what ever it was going to be doing with this with this with dorothy that they were during the day i think. it's going to judge the value of their dog given the money by congress to to. the start of this. nominal when it comes to this bill and funding dixon says that he didn't think the f.a.a. hiring and firing would add to the safety process as far as certification however this new bill would actually give the f.a.a. 150000000 over the span of 10 years for new f.a.a. training something dixon says manila is very helpful and would be very helpful for the f.a.a. as far as these new training certifications and training is a little bit of what's needed kind of important get and we'll see i thank you for filing that report. all right take a look at this spectacular video it is footage from north korea's state broadcaster showing the liaison office between the north and south being demolished monday's

explosion and shock waves worldwide the building was empty at the time and followed threats from the north to send troops to the d.m.z. . and to outer space europe and nasa as solar orbiter spacecraft has made its 1st close approach to the sun now close getting as close as 48000000 miles the joint mission promises closeup views of the sun's polar regions and magnetic activity which would be a 1st in human history europe announced as solar orbiter began its mission back in february blasting off from florida's cape canaveral. and scientists have been studying the adverse effects of plastic that it's having on the world ocean them their ecosystems now it's estimated that each day some $8000000.00 pieces of pollution from plastic make their way into the ocean but now researchers are finding those tiny pieces hundreds of miles away in other parts of the country are

to correspondent tosh or 3 it is over in joshua tree national park where researchers have discovered a startling amount of micro plastics millions of visitors come to national parks here on the west coast to enjoy heikki rock climbing and all that nature has to offer but in this remote location joshua tree is just one of several parks where researchers have recently discovered in alarming amounts of micro plastics a new study out of utah state university finds more than 1000 metric tons of micro plastics are bringing down the great outdoors the survey documented 11 u.s. parks in remote locations on the west coast it discovered just over the course of a year fragments have traveled through the atmosphere into some of the most serene locations like joshua tree in the grand canyon janice brainy professor at utah state university and lead author of the study says seen how plastics are moving through the atmosphere and what they're made of can tell us quite a bit about where these micro plastics originated we found that dry deposition had

a much smaller size distribution so the particles themselves were really small and well within the range. what you might see were dots that can travel across continents these micro plastics were able to travel by way of of rain or water particles essentially does that explain how it's getting into the soil but once it's in the atmosphere it has the capacity to be transported in when our range auk's over many different areas and so we can it anticipate that we might find plastics in soils out across the globe. this point but according to brain these steady rain air masses with these particles can be tracked through space backwards in time to see where those air masses started and it turns out the micro plastics traveled over the densely populated area of los angeles before making its way to joshua tree national park brainy study also looked at what the polymers were made

out of about 70 percent are 75 percent are. plastics were fibers that we could identify as merrily coming from clothing and there's no question the fashion industry is one of the world's biggest polluters outside reports suggest fashion makes up about 10 percent of carbon emissions produced by humans 85 percent of materials are sent to the dump each year and washing certain types of clothing reportedly sends thousands of micro plastics into the ocean but fashion isn't the only culprit we also saw about 30 percent of the particles were brightly colored mike ruby it's react on its side at several soupy acrylic and that suggests to us that a lot of these microbes are coming from paints and other types of coatings brainy says that there is extensive research on how micro plastics impact our oceans and it ecosystems there is a little known about the impact in desert like community in the brain he says that

she hopes her find the public light for the research about how michael plastics travel throughout the atmosphere reporting in joshua tree to talk just sweets or to . n.b.c. news is under fire for reportedly colluding with a british watchdog group to fear to media outlets our panel's going to discuss and then over at sports we're going to have brings us a creative way for fans to watch the live sports in germany and make sure you keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed by downloading our branding free app called portable t.v. you can catch us there 24 seventh's catch me back in 2.

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big taki is coming under fire again after 2 right leaning websites were allegedly threatened by google and d. monetization of their sites due to some of the views posted the federalist and 0 hedge are now under the microscope and conservatives are concerned that big tech is censoring free speech so joining us to expand this conversation our panel today investigative journalist and boom bust co-host ben swan an attorney and media analyst litle and litle media all right gentlemen ben i want to go to you 1st can you give us a summary of what this latest spat is all about. yes so essentially you have 2 websites as you said the federalist and 0 hedge and in this case 0 hedge was in fact demonetized from google's ad platform the federalist was given a warning to correct information on their site and to remove it or else they were also going to be doing monetized what was at issue here were articles reportedly

about the protests over george floyd and apparently there were statements made not in the articles themselves but in the comments section of the articles that in b c news found along with this group out of the u.k. and then n.b.c. news apparently contacted google and reported it to google to try to get these platforms monetize that's all we can get into that that's a whole other issue but essentially the core issue here i'm lionel can speak better to this part of the legal side of it which is that essentially these were not in the articles these were in comment in sections and therefore google was punishing 0 hedge and the federalist for having commenters who said things that google didn't like so why don't what about that from a legal standpoint should a content providers or websites and the like should they be responsible for the comments and opinions of. their viewers or their readers. well this may not be a legal answer but responsible for what for an opinion that's rude or might be

controversial you know we speak the last speech to libel slander defamation the statement of a factual basis that turns out to be false which causes damages but what we're talking about here going on and ban are statements that might be hate for or in correct or should fight for war or or injurious to or i've never heard anything like this in my life isn't that the whole purpose of what free speech is about that the marketplace of free ideas so this has no place in the world of law in terms of what they want to ban ok so ben you obviously are a big proponent of free speech no matter what direction it goes but google not being a public good or or utility doesn't that give them the right to allow whomever they want to be able to earn money through their platform the thumbs up or thumbs down. well that's a good question i mean there's really there's a certain level of irony built into this story because remember president trump

issued an executive order recently that would remove section 230 protections from tech companies like google and you tube and twitter and facebook meaning those companies could no longer be shielded as they are now from content that's placed on their platforms google says hey that's not fair we're a platform we're not a publisher and yet they're acting exactly like a publisher by go in and saying we will remove you for being monetize on our site and here's the other thing i'd love lionel said about about the issue of what exactly are you removing and trying to save and protect the world from are you saying that websites cannot have readers and users who have opinions that google doesn't agree with and if you do have those viewers and readers you must prevent them from speaking or commenting on a story in a way that google doesn't. like. you know bigger picture here google is essentially the internet right the internet is our reality if google or facebook or any

other major platforms continue down this path of indirect censorship what might be the ramifications on our society lionel. a complete and total shut down of free speech and the exchange of free speech and ideas look imagine this you know and ben let's assume going back to the days of newspapers imagine i made this week and i mean that was a company in this age that i happen to use was used by 99 percent of everybody in the newspaper business but i'm just a private industry but just so happens that the thing that i produce is responsible news by 99 percent of all people who want to engage in speech don't do you think this idea that i'm a private concern that this argument were slightly more absolutely not it's species and by the way what are we talking about all of this this indemnity on the part of google what are we protecting them from exactly this i'm not really i'm not sure i

can use my imagination but they've never really explained to us exactly what it is dear be shielded from i mean libel slander per se or just nasty talk well on that note lie and all the d.o.j. is considering rolling back certain protections that big tech presently enjoys that section 230 that that ban just mention it doesn't hold them accountable right for what users or content providers write what the content providers post but it allows them to also moderate content from those 3rd parties but is that a good idea or bad idea then and because it seems like big tack is trying to have it both ways then this well i think they are trying to have a both ways but i want to tell you that as this is taking place there is a new development in the story manila that's very important just a few hours ago senator josh holley of missouri filed a bill and he has introduced a bill now in the senate that essentially would allow users of big tech platforms

to sue of those platforms if they are not even and fair in the way that they moderate content from conservatives versus the way they do from liberals and so that's all the asli a relative term. but essentially for instance if google is is treating you know 0 hedge and the federalist one way and go in and surveying their commentaries and making sure there's no hate speech or we didn't monetize here is anyone doing that to be the rat in this case in b c news that came forward and said oh by the way we're going up we're going to let you know what's happening is it will go into their common sections and say will it be c news needs to be d monetized as well because it commenter said something that n.b.c. news maybe didn't say themselves but we don't like it that's the problem is you're holding these sites responsible for what someone else is saying not with the publishers not with the reporters but what a commentary is saying right right why don't. you know are there's just one of an

idea now of these these watchdog kind of like the s.p.l. see there's u.k. greed and want they established themselves as the forum against hate speech and wrong stuff and once the speak all of a sudden people just sort of been are are going to do so well last week we must do something s.p.l. see southern poverty law center is a great example of that they've created themselves as the arbiter of what is a hate group think about that as so all of us do just we're kind of aquinas i legislative judicial imprint my tour we are now making these people what arms of not only the government but arms of the conscience of the world all right be out here right well it's about branding this is get this is not yes it's about branding the one in the u.k. it's called center for countering digital hate and they're the ones that had a hand in all of this so you know it's he put the word hate in there so they're they're there to counteract what hate is hate is a relative term guys or hate is

a relative term and i hate speech is relative in that if one group says it like for instance i guarantee you the southern poverty law center has not gone around and designated anything that black wires matter protesters no matter what they had sad because some are likewise matter and some are empty funds and you know all these people who are protests. and so what's being said how could you not call it hate speech and other parts of it is activism so how do you differentiate between those groups and groups like the s.p.l. see don't they merely declare one group is bad and one group is good and there's a little said and it's by feel. it's totally just whatever they feel like whichever way the direction the wind blows right so want to leave right there guys we could be talking about this forever bents one line of media thank you gentleman. thank you but you. are ever going to hand over the sports h.q. regina there are some tennis news that's going to make a lot of people pretty happy there are and are going to get to that there are some other very happy people because as sports are returning to stadiums the fans are going to laugh at the question what are we supposed to do to watch sports fans in

germany found a way to bring allies more to them in a pretty strange but interesting way people in dusseldorf are treated to a white knight event by the city the whole ball thing competition with all the spectacle was organized by the city and took place at a drive in movie theater fans are able to watch from their cars or socially this is providing they can find the little organizers that events at a drive in theater make perfect sense as it allowed people to stay together while being safe and enjoying some sports heavy wind did make targets hard to clear but german valter been elected came out with on top with a 5.55 meter vault the decathlete said here the competition in very detailed additions gave him an edge over his competitors. and fans of a different sport tennis might want to mark their calendars for august 31st as one of the 4 grand slams on the a.t.p. calendar got the green light to go new york governor andrew cuomo gave the go ahead for the u.s. today to hold the u.s. open in queens under the plan approved by the governor there be no qualifying and

no mixed doubles at this year's event players will be tested once or twice a week during their stay in every one of the venue will be required to wear a face mask draws in the men's and women's doubles will be at $32.00 it's at a $64.00 tennis star serena williams made. but comma says she was excited to get back to tennis after 6 long months away but not everybody shares her sentiment world number one novak djokovic said the proposed restrictions are extreme and other top 100 players expressed similar concerns us open with part of a revised provisional schedule put out by the a.t.p. tour under that plan the city open in you right here in washington d.c. would start play on august 15th and they'd fit in 6 more tournament in about 4 and a half weeks millet is impressive enough to be a lot of tennis sure is but we could all use it all right thank you for that regina our that does it for us right now but make sure you keep up with everything and question at all times by downloading our brand new free free free free app called portable t.v. you catch their point 47 follow me on twitter at manila chan the number of

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quietly tweaking their passenger agreements to make it very hard for if not impossible to school don't go anywhere americans or structure or. a functioning press is vital to any democracy in the present united states is being dismantled by both major political parties by a fair and cousins here to talk about it fair and you are a real journalist i mean there's nobody argue with you are real journalists and you write reports that really matter and in those reports you do the damndest things you ask questions and then maybe you disagree with the narrative out there for the day that's what journalists do there are journalism is dying we have a whole generation and how many there snowflakes i mean yet these snowflakes political correctness it's destroyed.