Worry about rising tensions in the persian gulf. Minded miscalculation put lead to a major push with the ball to a ship that was detained to fit in with the ship that was the thing to leak and thats not the way iran will come in from the cult basically to stop the world of the. By all means send it back and lets get the british ship but to the british people few times already being released in just the legal terms from the minute that the judge made. Literally going to tell them to use no legal knowledge to stay within the jurisdiction of the last seen gold leaves is a measure of call from place in the gulf death would have devastating implications on Global Security and the global economy. Also on the day preserving me. Using history archaeologists excavate whats left of the legendary 969 festival woodstock mapping out a Historic Site for future generations where 50 years ago love peace and rock n roll ruled many people claim to have been a good start. Maybe they were. I think there was an article a number of years ago about the number of people who claim to have been at woodstock is probably closer to like 5000000 residents 500 times. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world a very warm welcome the u. S. Governments attempt to take control of an Iranian Oil Tanker held in european waters has failed in a dramatic last minute requests the u. S. Justice department tried to stop authorities in the tiny u. K. Territory of gibraltar from releasing the seized tanker but to no avail Gibraltars Supreme Court ruled the tanker was free to set sail just to remind you of what exactly happened british marines seized the iranian super tanker the greece one in the mediterranean back on july 4th it was suspected of heading to syria with oil that violates european embargoes iran responded swiftly by seizing a british flag tanker the pair o. In the strait of hormuz marking a significant escalation in tensions well it is difficult to overstate the importance of the street of our moods of volatiles transit area that is the gateway to the worlds oil industry about a 5th of the worlds crude oil travels through this waterway so ensuring that tankers can move unimpeded is critical to the Worlds Energy security and as we know the release of the ship today comes over a year after President Donald Trump pulled the. The u. S. Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal with world powers. And the growing confrontation between iran and the west is reflected in a tweet today from irans foreign minister Mohammad Zarif accusing the white house of piracy and contempt for the law he wrote this. 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 on the high seas all right im joined now by her salat in washington oliver have has there been any reactions from the u. S. Or regarding the release of this supertanker well it was the United States in the 1st place that called for further detention of the tanker so it does come as a surprise a bit that there have not been and the reactions from the u. S. Government today to brawl to the chords those still working on the bit that was handed in by the United States today but they also say that it came too late to be considered for the court ruling here today that it did not come on time and still consider those so this might lead to a situation in which the tanker will be taken as a 2nd time so its been a bit of a back and forth here throughout the day but overall the situation can be considered as a major embarrassment for the u. S. Foreign policy under President Trump whos been trying to sort maximum pressure 2 on the run with little success so far. All over on what legal basis did the u. S. Justify its request for the detention continued detention of the vessel. Well there hasnt been a lot 1 of proof delivered so far but of course the underlying accusation is that this tanker had all. That was supposed to be delivered to syria and that would be a breach of the e. U. And american sanctions that are prohibiting any Oil Deliveries to syria at this point the bigger goal of course right now 6 of the American Foreign policy here is to get iran back to the negotiating table United States cold aisle of the nuclear deal more than a year ago the accusation of the americans is that iran is working on a Nuclear Bomb Iran of course rejecting that but then the United States of course raised their pressure raised sanctions on iran in an effort to get the negotiating back again iran in turn rejecting that of course as well and 5 5 are threatening to block the strait of hormuz one of the most important ship ways where they have many incidents in recent weeks from shot down drones to attacked tankers so what we are witnessing here right now is a power struggle between iran and the United States in the strait of hormuz and also with regards to the to the tankers were talking about oliver south reporting from washington thank you. At midnight 72 years ago the world hailed the birth of a new post colonial secular nation india today the leader of the Worlds Largest democracy Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his address to the nation to defend the controversial decision to strip india administered kashmir of its autonomy the muslim majority states has been in lockdown ever since our minister modi who has a hindu nationalist government says hes going to return kashmir to its glory days. Indias National Flag unfolds at Independence Day celebrations in delhi a symbol not only of 72 years of freedom from british rule but now also perhaps of the countrys nationalistic shift months after his landslide election when Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended his recent decision to strip kashmir of its special status he said the step would restore the disputed regions past glory. Oh it can greatly contributed indias development journey. We should all make an effort to restore their old glorious days. The new arrangement is a result of these efforts. And it will work directly in the interest of citizens. As nobody spoke indian controlled kashmir spent its an 11th day under a lockdown and Communications Blackout authorities there have cut internet and phone links detained more than 500 leaders and activists and Restricted Movement with police roadblocks. Meanwhile in pakistan black flags flying at half mast the country observing what it called a black day to protest modi is decision on kashmir and express solidarity with residents that tensions between india and pakistan hanging like a dark cloud over the region. While meantime the targets are the army says at least 8 soldiers have been killed in a border clash in kashmir as im about says 3 of its soldiers and 5 indian soldiers died the union army has not yet commented on Todays Exchange of fire earlier pakistans Prime Minister in a hot this morning for delhi. No rudra modi you cant make this nation your slave. Whatever you plan to do in kashmir i repeat that we will have a stronger response. And god willing the time has come to teach you a lesson. Striding words there from the Prime Minister of pakistan lets bring in now nona seem a lot a senior lecturer in International Relations at Kings College in london and his focus is on south asia very good day so good to have you with us now since the sticks have come in place into place its been very difficult to establish what is going on in kashmir is there a sense do we have a sense of what customers feel about these developments and how theyre doing well i mean the actual announcement of the revocation of article 370. 00 was done during as you say Communications Blackout so its only take its taken. A few days for kashmiris to understand the extent of the changes and in governance and the constitution. Apply to them what weve seen in the last week or so is greater and greater kind of mobilization protests especially around eat eat prayers and friday prayers. And theres still a huge amount of kind of curfews and lock downs and military deployment but sadly of course the kashmiris are used to curfews because because this is not the 1st one that they had to endure mr modi lets shift our attention to him he defended his decision to strip general kashmir as the area is known of its autonomy promising in return past a return to its past glory i should say what does that look like. Well its not clear to us because i mean in some senses the the central indian state has been kind of involved in one direction or another in usually quite through military deployments and counterinsurgency operations for at least the last 30 years if not sense since the 1950 s. So theres this there is never never really been a sort of a golden age of Mary Development that article 370 had ruptured in some senses what modi is doing is trying to create a kind of a fictional golden age that we can return to which involves much closer alignment with the policies and its new delhi and it were does pakistan sit in all this i mean whats their role like can they do anything do they want to do anything the kashmiris want their involvement i think that pakistan has very very limited options and im on khan one of the things that besides the strident words that you that your correspondent mentioned. Most mostly the pakistani government has been trying to get the International Community involved. Especially through the United Nations to kashmir is themselves probably are more interested in autonomy and their rights respected within their current political set up in india so theres very little that pakistan can do to change what is fundamentally a domestic crisis right now you mentioned of course pakistan wanting the International Communitys intervene specifically the un the Un Security Council is expected to discuss kashmir tomorrow behind closed doors on friday. Whats the use i mean what is the un going to do. Probably not very much honestly and partly because there are a number of very powerful countries including china in the Un Security Council that would be unhappy with any internal. Conversations about internal domestic politics within their within their fortys as well at the same time the Security Council has been sort of the arena of sort of negotiation there have been a number of Un Security Council resolutions over the years about kashmir so i would imagine the Un Security Council would just sort of return back to a kind of a script that has already been read. Oh i did not on the scene the law senior lecturer and International Relations at Kings College in london thank you for joining us thank you very much. And this day is a day of anniversaries because on this day 74 years ago japan announced its surrender in world war 2 after the us dropped Nuclear Bombs on 2 of its cities and soviet forces invaded japanese hell territory. And new people across japan observed a minute of silence led by newly crowned emperor there hito the anniversary is a time of reflection for the country which lost more than 3000000 people to the war and for their hero is japans 1st emperor born after a conflict expressed his countrys remorse over its wartime actions. We hereby reflect on our past. Since all and weve feelings of deep remorse. We sincerely hope that the misery of the war should never be repeated then i mean. What i sincerely express condolences to those who perished in the war well how can you know you still know what they want you know he must. While a number of those who perished were in former japanese colonies such as south korea while their the day is marked as liberation day because it ended 35 years of brutal japanese colonial rule but the shadows of that time were made especially the abuse of south korean women forced into brothels for Imperial Japanese army troops sex slaves known by the euphemism comfort women south koreas demanding japan apologize for this dark episode in its wartime past japan says it did so back in 2015 but in south korea it is still an understandably emotive issue and with only around 20 comfort women left alive in the entire country time for reconciliation is fast running out. They say is for the victims. Like li yong so. Look out for just a girl when she was forced to work as a sex slave in Japanese Military brothels. They saw more unveiling ceremony part of an emotional day of commemoration im protest leader like many koreans once japan to face up to it. So in the news that. Im in the morning i will never give in to the demise from japan. Yeah ive been the month so i will fight until i get an apology and. The awareness is on course good it is not the money i want to side of i guess that its an appalling and it out side. Elsewhere and sold thousands took the issue to the door of the japanese embassy. To compensate investigate punish they chant the anger here reflects renewed hostilities between the 2 nations. Japan recently imposed trade barriers in addition over compensation awarded to forced wartime laborers only hardening their resolve. And. Weve been asking japan for an apology for a long time but theyre still not owning up to the past and instead of apologizing to the victims of forced labor theyre instead retaliate. Engaging in economic retaliation which makes me really angry. With distrust and animosity running so deep laying to rest the legacy of colonize ation me take many years. And this week marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic woodstock Music Festival the event became a key moment in history as a symbol of the Counterculture Movement and a whole generations hopes for the future in 1969 or roughly 400000 people descended on a farm in upstate new york for 3 chaotic but peaceful days of music and partying while the festival line up there was legendary featuring acts including janis joplin and jimi hendrix and woodstock became a byword for mind expanding drugs and youthful idealism 50 years on poverty fully ileus visits this famous site. There are reminders everywhere from peace signs to tie guys 19 sixties hippie culture is still ever present. But as woodstock become somewhat of a theme park. Mark hedrick has run a souvenir shop on the times main street for over 20 years. Marketing is a stronghold in any kind of market like this there was very little marketing done when the concert was done in fact that to the best of my knowledge there was never a shirt. And now the marketing stuff came after the fact. But here in the town you know we still like to take advantage of that. The local economy is benefited greatly since the festival took place and it doesnt matter now that it was held over 90 kilometers away in the time of bethel its been 50 years since the woodstock festival and the town of woodstock still draws thousands of tourists every year but why do they come here when many of those werent even born when the festival took place back in 1969. This night i think its just i think its obviously were hearing. That feeling of woodstock like this special place for people like the people that believe in peace on earth this is the place. Back at mark souvenir store business a steady who says tourist numbers are up despite this years festival being counseled the lure of woodstock remains unfettered we do get visitors. Many people claim to have been what stuck and. Maybe they were. I think there was an article a number of years ago about the number of people who claim to have been at woodstock is probably closer to like 5000000 residents 5000. The number who attended doesnt matter its the legacy the festival holds for young and old alike on this its 50th anniversary. 50th anniversary and here to stay not too long ago archaeologists actually excavated the field where woodstock was held in our side had was part of the team that led the dixie is a Senior Research associate from the public archaeology facility at Binghamton University in new york a very good day thank you so much for joining us and you know i think you get this probably a lot when we think of archaeology an archaeologist combing through sites we think of ancient battlefields maybe egypt but this is an open field where a musical event took place just 50 years ago is this kind of unusual its very unusual its most probably though the largest Music Festival in the world at that time and possibly even today but we were approached by the museum at bethel woods they now own the grounds where the festival was held 50 years ago and they were getting ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary and were looking to try to recreate and preserve the original cultural features at woodstock and that doesnt look the same way that it does today a lot of the area has been resculpting in landscape and covered by vegetation so they needed archaeologists to help them find those cultural features and help them relocate them so that they could interpret them for the 50th anniversary what were you hoping to find and would did you actually find. We were hoping to find a lot of artifacts associated with the people who attended the festival and we were hoping to find cultural features associated it with the stage and the fencing and the vendor booths but we found out that after the 1969 festival they removed all of the trash with bulldozers so yes actually remove the artifacts that we we were looking to find but they did not destroy the cultural features so for instance woodstock is not just the field where the concert was seldom the bindy bazaar held over 20 vendors vendor booths but they were very informal booze they took rocks and lined the outside of them and they strung tarps over the top so archaeologists were tasked with trying to find those booth so and we were able to find almost all 24 of those wrong outline features and you know talk to us about the surf and turf to talk to us about the importance of finding where the stage was well the stage was the epicenter of woodstock if think when you think about it over 400000 people had trained their eyes on the performers on that stage the performers on that stage were were doing a very innovative music it was it was the center of total idea of freedom many of the attendees were experiencing a lot of new new ideas as well they enjoyed the music they were part of something that was a generational change that they werent aware of then but we know it was now so the stage was a focal area and that the museum at bethel woods wanted to make sure that they they have the right location for the stage because thats quite crucial to recreating that that iconic festival. Correct me if you have people who had gone to woodstock you knew approximately where the stage was and we all knew approximately where the stage was because theres photographs of spousal vintage photographs but theyre all taken from on around or on the stage or all bleakly from. Very challenging where we help them i mean sacked locations are amazing stuff i but we cant wait to go visit it and see it ourselves thank you so much for joining us archaeologists not for sides. Thank you very much. And thats it for the day the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either d. W. News or you can follow me at lille hoxsey. A europe transformed the focus on europes summer series razor sharp barbed wire and hunger games sealed on the bulking room how many refugees entered the e. U. Shutdown. 30 years ago borders were just mantled with both colors hungary opened its gates and let east germans treat austria. Influence. Perception. Thinking and action. 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