Live from our studios in moscow this is R T International im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start with breaking news this hour reports say more than 40 people are dead with about 100 injured after a blast in the Afghan Capital of apparent suicide bomber struck a wedding ceremony which had more than a 1000 guests in attendance here some eyewitnesses to the carnage. Heard an explosion and said it was a very horrific situation a lot of guests were killed when the blast happened we heard a big bang and the power went out. But the explosion happened near the stage where the musicians were near all the youth children and all the people who were there some were killed some were wounded and now they are in hospitals and others are dead it was my fathers cousins wedding i took my uncle and cousin who were wounded to a nearby hospital and then they were taken to another Emergency Hospital there are so many dead and wounded victims my father and other uncle are still there to i
Are broadcasting live from moscow this is R T International incheon 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 hes putting early pressure on congress to reauthorize the National Security agency Surveillance Program which is set to expire at the end of the year with more heres. Well 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to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect its necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it and that it would be in the interest of the country overall for congress to renew the freedom act this is what dan coats said as Technology Changes his trade craft and commu
Expert panelists we have invited here today. Todays event will look at surveillance powers scheduled to terminate at the end of the year. Call detail records provide information like the time a call and the numbers on either end. The last summer in sa announced it had begun to leading all call records since 2015 under this authority. As part of our continuing oversight of the call detail records we have been reviewing this Program Including challenges in sa has acknowledged. We look forward to providing information to congress at the end of the Years Congress conducts its analysis of the expiring authorities. We hope to provide as much information to the public with the protection of classified information. One final note and that pain before he handed over to my colleagues, we are able to discuss unclassified Public Information and we will not speculate or comment on any speculation that may have appeared in the press. Our agency protects classified information. If we didnt, we wouldn
The privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board of the public for men to discuss the freedom act which is a modified extension of the patriot act. Privacy and data experts examine section 215 which allows the nsc to collect phone records. A morning and thank you to everyone for coming. This is the Second Public event since reba gained our quorum late last year. Much of our agencys work takes place outside the public eye because of classified information. We hope these events will upon the public about her work and the programs we oversee. We hope to learn from the panel a very distinguished expert panelists we have invited here today. Todays event will look at surveillance powers scheduled to terminate at the end of the year. Call detail records provide information like the time a call and the numbers on either end. The last summer in sa announced it had begun to leading all call records since 2015 under this authority. As part of our continuing oversight of the call detail records we
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