more news today voss says once again flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter all day. in the. government's ability to insure. one of russia's most wanted men. on the campaign trail for the. family values to be made a political priority. interview program spotlight is up next to. that of the. global grain exports in the wake of the. wildfire. nature and discover in. the league. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you the. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on r t i n l banal vent today my guest is out of. the unusually dry and hot summer has destroyed much of this year's crop and rush the state had to impose restrictions on grain exports to keep prices down but what does it mean for the rest of the world will be asking the presidents of the russian brain that is all just. russia's one of the world's biggest grain exporters but there's some a severe drought has badly affected the harvest

chris voss is on the phone. you there? >> yes. bill: a former hostage negotiator, in circumstances like these, you want to make contact, establish communication, give this guy cell phone, maybe he already has one and try and figure out what his demands are. what would you do? >> well, the problem is incidents like this in a bank is it could be a bank robbery, it could also be a suicide by cop. it's not unusual, because a suicide by cop is a favorite among selected locations, among people who want to create their own lethal end, for whatever reason, because you know the police are going to come to a bank. it's one of those places where you deliberately provoke confrontation with the police and the bank seems to be the best place because they have alarms and the law enforcement is going to there be quickly. so the negotiators are going to be very careful when they start talking to him about making assumptions about what's happening. just because it's at a bank doesn't mean it's a bank robbery. bill: that's very interesting. there's

. >>> senior adviser peter voss likely to fill that post.served as chief of staff for then-senator obama in 2004. ed is reportedly well liked within the administration. >>> over in afghanistan, at least five allied troops were killed in three separate incidents. their nationalalities have not been released. >>> up to new jersey's attorney general to decide whether to charge two college students with hate crimes. they're being blamed for driving another student to suicide by secretly taping him in a sexual encounter and posting it online. >>> a sprawling storm moving up the eastern seaboard snarling road traffic from north carolina to new york. at least five deaths are already blamed on the storm after a family's minivan lost control and crashed in north carolina killing everyone inside. and now we're going to take you back to "hardball." >>> you know, back when i was a kid -- welcome back to "hardball." when i was a kid we used to go at a family up at lake george, new york. something scary happened there last night. it involved carl paladino

unveiling this pledge with america, but the bottom line is what they're trying to do is tell voters voss the country, look, we are going to reform washington. we lost our way for the past eight years or so, but we are going to help you out. what democrats have done over the past couple of years is not enough. >> are all republicans on board with this pledge? >> well, you know, mixed reviews. national review, a very well respected weekly magazine says that we'll take the pledge. they say -- they compare it to the contract with america. they say the inevitable question is -- is the pledge as bold as the contract? their answer, the pledge is bolder, but we are hearing a different theme from red state, a very nunsial blogging site. they say when aamerica needs a bold, simple fresh plan to put america on the path to constitutional insanity, we get an 8,000 word term paper of inside the beltway regurgitation of what the american people are dying for, leadership. mixed reviews in conservative circles. >> mark preston, thank you very much. >>> checking other big stories right now, and this one h