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 chinas top officials today amid increasing 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 india has confirmed that at least 20 of its soldiers were killed following border clashes with china on monday but regime has yet to report. Amber of casualties on its side political observers suspect chinas decision not to release the number of soldiers killed could see its desire to downplay the situation due to high level meeting still some india news reports place chinas death toll between 35 and 40 the border dispute between china and india has been ongoing for decades with that your country is 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 Chinas 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 indias 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 is the us responded to these recent clashes well our. After news of the clashes broke the state Department Released a statement which it did not appear to condemn either side and 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 on june 2nd 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 indonesias lion air and Ethiopian Airlines so for more than a year congressional investigators have been seeking documents and interviews with a fishel 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 shes joining us in studio now so erin was there any bombshell admission about you know a buddy buddy relationship to say that she 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 as theyve been requested to give or just not even turning them over at all which was the committees biggest frustration listen here. You make every document able every document its an easy question its an easy question is it is it will you make every document a bailable for the public. Senator im not im not sure what normal protocol is on that but we will be as transparent as you possibly can no no thats not the question not as you can thats what happened the last time you werent transparent the last time will you commit to making every document public. So i dont im not im not in a position to commit to that at this point well if youre not being a part 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 in leadership in various areas no one has been fired over this particular matter up to this point 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 they were not sure well please tell us the repercussions the repercussions or that we or we have significant. 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 didnt 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 wallenberg 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 whats in there so this is the most significant step monella towards accountability following these 2 crashes because its 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 thats going to be a good move Going Forward so you have to know it does help the f. A. A. Have more authority but its 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 given whether the. You know. I think is a good phrase in what ever it was going to be doing with this with this with dorothy that there were you know i think. 2 its been a. Ritual your way of giving the money. To. The structure of the story. Nominally when it comes to this bill and finding dixon says that he didnt 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 whats needed kind of important get and we will see i thank you for filing that report. All right take a look at this spectacular video it is footage from north koreas state broadcaster showing the Liaison Office between the north and south being demolished mondays 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 suns 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 floridas cape canaveral. And scientists have been studying the adverse effects of plastic that its having on the world ocean them their ecosystems now its 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 atia thwaite 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 raining down in the Great Outdoors the survey documented 11 u. S. Parks in remote locations on the west coast it discovered that 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 theyre 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 dust 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 its getting into the soil but once its in the atmosphere it has the capacity to be transported in when our rain doubts over many different areas and so we can it anticipate that we might find plastics in soils out across the globe at 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 brain the 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 primarily coming from clothing and theres no question the fashion industry is one of the worlds biggest polluters outside reports suggest sasha 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 isnt the only culprit we also saw about 30 percent of the particles were brightly colored mike ruby its an aside and several should be acrylic and that suggests to us that a lot of these bees are coming from paints and other types of coatings brainy says that there is Extensive Research on how micro plastics impact our oceans and its ecosystems there is a little known about the impact in desert Like Community in the rain he says that he hopes to find the public like further research about how michael plastics travel throughout the atmosphere reporting in joshua tree to talk to sweets or to n. 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Its our concern that big cat is censoring free speech so joining us to expand this conversation our panel today investigative journalist and boom bust cohost ben swan and attorney and media analyst lionel of light on 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 web sites as you said the federalist and 0 hedge and in this case 0 hedge was in fact the monetized from googles 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 monetize 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. 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 to monetize thats all we can get into that thats a whole other issue but essentially the core issue here im 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 publishing 0 hedge and the federalist for having commenters who said things that google didnt like so why dont 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 thats rude or might be controversial you know we speak the last speech to libel slander defamation to state in the factual basis that turns out to be false which causes damages but what were talking about here in the law and then are statements that might be hate for or incorrect or fight for war or or injurious to or ive never heard anything like this in my life isnt that the whole purpose of what free speech is about 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 doesnt 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 thats a good question i mean theres really theres a certain level of irony built into this story because remember President Trump issued an executive order recently that would remove a section 230 protections from Tech Companies like google and you tube and twitter and facebook meaning that those companies could no longer be shielded as they are now from content thats placed on their platforms google says hey thats not fair were a platform were not a publisher and yet theyre acting exactly like a publisher by go in and say we will remove you from being monetize on our site and heres the other thing id 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 doesnt 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 doesnt like that is insanity you know like a wig or 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 line on. A complete and total shut down of free speech and the exchange of free speech and ideas look imagine this you know and ben lets assume going back to the days of newspapers imagine i made this link and i mean that was a company in this that i happen to use was used by 99 percent of everybody in the newspaper business but im 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 dont do you think this idea that im a private concern t