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to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect its necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it and that it would be in the interest of the country overall for congress to renew the freedom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 communications habits will continue to evolve and adapt. To these dynamic environment the administration supports reauthorization of this provision as well now Civil Liberties groups have argued that it is necessary for congress to not renew the freedom act of 2015 they argue that there are sections in the act specifically the spying and surveillance section of the law that put the privacy and Civil Liberties of millions of americans into jeopardy the governments implementation of the cool detail Records Program further demonstrates both the privacy threats posed by the program and the lack of use and for q. C. It is highly concerning that its 3 years to detect the fact that the n. S. A. Was collecting records even beyond the broad authorize ation provided under the program the n. S. A. Should not be permitted to resume this program now prior to the freedom act of 2015 the n. S. A. Spying Program Collected billions of records and the freedom act of 2015 reduced the amount of data the n. S. A. Was collecting under the freedom act the n. S. A. Has the ability to collect data and phone records of suspects as well as those suspects contacts even if those contacts have different phone companies however there was a concerning revelation in june of 2018 when. Was revealed that under the freedom act the n. S. A. Had collected data on millions of americans that it did not legally have authority to oversee they said this was due to a technical irregularity so there are many concerns now but at this point the white house and the outgoing director of National Intelligence are urging congress to renew the the freedom act of 2015 a controversial surveillance law investigative journalist Dave Lindorff believes ultimately the National Security establishment will get its way. To be sickly the vast majority of congress is going to support renewal of this horrible law and they say is largely what it wants to do for years it was doing a lot of illegal surveillance as well as snowden reported long before it was even authorized and so you do wonder why they feel likely need these laws saying that they can do them since they do things that they cant do anyway they were surveilling for 3 years massively beyond what the c. D. R. Was allowing them to do and they didnt do anything about it the intel anybody about it only because it got discovered did they have to deal with. The 2 russian pilots who averted potential disaster on thursday morning have been given the countrys highest honor the hero of russia ward by president putin their air bus jet lost both engines after a bird strike while taking off from moscows International Airport that forced them to make an Emergency Landing all 233 people on board the crimea bound Airlines Flight survived arties roughly video Agency Managed to get a hold of exclusive video of the evacuation take a look. I gave us. A. Little. Bit of that student that he is in the. Dark with but his immediate looking at below the cost of. Lets go through what happened it all took place so quickly that the pilots were not able to return to the airport as they had barely managed to get airborne reaching out to into the of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield in just over a kilometer from the run. Way and without emptying of the fuel tanks the pilot in command 41 year old. Of had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot he has it been flying with your airline since 2013 and became a captain last year as copilot 23 year old george was in got his pilots license just 2 years ago. The Russian HealthMinistry Says 76 people sought medical assistance after the incident one woman is still in the hospital her condition is not believed to be life threatening though. Reports now from the crash site in southeast moscow. 226 passengers and 7 crew members of ural Airlines Flight bound for crimea from moscow are celebrating their 2nd birthday the air bus a 321 collided with a flock of birds just shortly after takeoff from the capitals zuckoff ski airports the captain mir yusupov had just seconds to make the right decision when he discovered the strike caused engine failure with 16 tons of fuel on board and no ability to make it back to the runway he knew that an Emergency Landing could result in a catastrophe to show you a little but all after we to call the engines became unstable 1st the left one and then the right one we usually simulate the situations when one or 2 engines are off despite all our approach the plane was going down we realized that we didnt have much time just one or 2 minutes to make a decision in a blink of an eye this man with nerves of steel decided still land the aircraft in a nearby cornfield without using the landing gear and shutting off all power to prevent an explosion and various officials praised the crew for their professionalism during the spine chilling landing as well as for a well organized evacuation it is something we acted in line with our training with similar situations like this before so there were no surprises the passengers were disciplined listen to our instructions and evacuated very quickly they did as we expected there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job he landed the plane really Kathleen Koch tell us please how do you feel now did you hurt your leg. You know its better than if i was there lying on the field so everything is rather good the landing was good the pilots did a great job landed the plane on the belly everything hes fine the media was quick to make connections with the anothers. Such incidents when loss of life was a virgin thanks to a pilot the miracle on the hudson involving a u. S. Airways the aircraft flown by captain Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles hit a flock of geese after takeoff from new york citys La Guardia Airport and lost all engine power im able to land at any available airport they had to ditch the jet in the hudson river just outside of manhattan with all of the 155 passengers a risk used by nearby ferries and bolts thanks to the heroic solve for the captain and his crew their relatives and loved ones self all the people involved will get to see them again Ramana Koester of artsy Moscow Region aviation safety advocate and pilot gideon. Told us birds are the most common problem facing airports and pilots and what landed the plane was skill and result. People describe it as a miracle i dont prefer i dont call america i prefer to call it a shiny example of the professionalism and skill of the 2 pilots to interview support for an angry mood and thankfully those events are incredibly rare. But a lot of who is here engines. Is such these days that you know the idea of getting you some particular an entire career without even having one engine fell in line to do at the same time engines are designed to accept the impact of one or 2 unfortunately birds tend to find the area around affluence quite attractive its supposed to the environment. As a speeding up issues they feel safe in their ports spend an awful lot of energy trying to keep birds off the airfield thats devices like scaring some some out of what suv used predatory birds to frighten off the other birds they have entire teams the work exclusively keeping birds as way from the actual as much as possible of course you know if the birds are just outside they have a field theres not a lot of the tortoise so can do. Amid escalating hostilities between india and pakistan the Indian Defense minister has stressed his country will continue to abide by the no 1st use policy when it comes to Nuclear Weapons however he did have this warning. It just through the till now india has strictly adhered to the no 1st use policy what happens in the future depends on the circumstances well this is the region in question kashmir at the northern tip of the india and pakistan both countries lay claim to kashmir with the United Nations describing it as a disputed territory the socalled line of control remains the defacto border and the countries maintain their own administrations within this territory but earlier this month india revoked special autonomy status and pakistan says that that decision has destabilized the status quo in the region now the United Nations prohibits changes to the status of any disputed state it is also fear that kashmir is majority Muslim Population could be targeted by people of other faiths in the region with the conflict already into its 72nd year without resolution. Weve been hearing from political and strategic analyst in both pakistan and india on what is next for the kashmir crisis. This is something the nuclear blackmail which has been using against india by which they say that look nuclear so we cannot afford an escalation of full scale war and so you have to be in with the disturbed terrorism that this sponsor across our border in an Indian Country saw in years trying to carve the Nuclear Bluff of funds on by saying look no 1st use is not set in stone if the circumstances change as our defense minister saying by which he means if our son had doubts in a large scale terrorism wonderful meant you know an uprising against india you mean your country we are priced to you know do incursions into india did reach me have to intervene it is just not a heater signalling not to our conduct in the military misadventures of kashmir from bugs somebody sparked what specter which is not the wording but it should be reporting from the from the perspective of the International Community because in the broader picture then there is a war between 2 countries and never to situation arises where one particular concrete canyons in it could have happened they are not going to consider the option that since they had declared all see to have an. India has blown apart all that by a little agreement and 17 u. N. Support constant resolutions which calls of the plebiscite on me so has left more room for their dialogue but different commercial given indeed does not intervene. There is this see india as a big market and that is why their board one project about is the evolution with them and that is why the one in politics isnt being driven by the hard economic realities and not by them what ality. U. S. Congresswoman has refused to travel to the west bank to see her grandmother if she has to do so under israels conditions this situation has drawn fierce condemnation back on capitol hill. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Spearing dramatic to follow can only. Exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. You know world of big part of the lot and conspiracy its 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. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Are what we welcome back you watch march international now a story i learned to just before the break lets get to that u. S. Congresswoman has refused to travel the west bank to see her grandmother as i mentioned if she has to do so under israel conditions the situation has drawn fierce condemnation back on capitol hill take a look. Israel doesnt advance its case as a tolerant democracy or and theyve written to us ally why 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 its times difficult discussions that we must have in order to ensure israel remains secure and democratic nation israels analysis and treaty congresswoman taylor and omar is beneath the dignity of the great state of israel on thursday tel aviv announced it would block visits by the congresswoman over their support for a palestinian led Boycott Movement in the us israel has since said russia to should enter the country on humanitarian grounds to visit her 90 year old grandmother defending his earlier stance Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu cited israeli laws prohibiting entry to anyone supporting boycotts of israel the decision came hours after donald trump encouraged the banning of the u. S. Lawmakers it would show a great weakness of israel allowed representative omar and representative chloe but to visit they hate israel and all jewish people and there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds minnesota and michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office they are a disgrace being critical of israel in the us cant hurt contractors ever since of the anti boycott act was passed 2 years ago individuals or Companies Want to do business with us state governments are banned if they boycott trade with israel but some are calling this a violation of free speech. Earlier we spoke to the green Party President ial hopeful marni who told us trumps intervention in the case is without precedent. This is the 1st time that a sitting president has actually told a foreign country to not accept members of his own government so in that sense i think its very unprecedented and its surprising at the same time i think many of us in the United States that if you really have 7. 00 this isnt a small i mean this is the ministration absolutely i think it is a double standard but actually whats interesting about this is that the fact that there are sort of this retaliation is punishment for individuals and even ive heard even business thats that are joining the boycott. First of all its a leak complete violation of the 1st and then i mean every american i mean were allowed to point on any. Forum get involved politically with issues that it is really a violent person and it wouldnt wind up or that lot so i think thats tragic and i think thats immoral and i think thats the product question that there are over the Democratic Party really has to do has to look at look at it really is the stand up against all right in a bit of a correction we have to apologize for something marnie is not a president ial hopeful shes a candidate for new York City Council all right. Switching gears now irans top diplomat has sharply criticized the u. S. For attempting to block the release of its oil tanker which was seized by British Royal marines off the coast of georgia 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 and the i sees this piracy attempt is indicative of trumpet ministrations contempt for the law. And on thursday the u. S. Justice department made a last minute application to gibraltar asking it to not release of the grace one which was accused of attempting to illegally ship oil to syria but the Supreme Court in the british overseas territory decided to release the vessel and 4 of its crew members the tanker is expected to set sail soon trotters chief minister says the detention was lifted after receiving formal written assurances from iran. The grace one is that for now released from detention under the sanctions act by operation of law all the sources 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 assures. The iranian authorities deny the grace one was shipping oil to syria in breach of you sanctions 2 weeks after the vessel was impounded iran seized a british flagged tanker in the strait of hormuz claiming it had violated International Law the us then later anno