Dont speak in politically correct balanced way is. Either thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. In a rapid escalation of the situation iran has officially designated the Us Armed Forces as a Terror Organization thats according to local media the move came in response to the killing of the countrys most powerful general in the us a rate at iraqs Baghdad Airport on friday around the killing of money as an act of state sponsored terrorism the body of the iranian general has arrived in his hometown where hes being buried this is the scene right now hes crowds of mourners gathering ahead of the funeral reportedly 35 people have died and 48 have been injured after being crushed in those crowds theres been an outpouring of grief millions of flooded this. Streets of tehran on monday tensions across the middle east of saud as a variance have been demanding retaliation one of the 1st repercussions for washington has come from iraqi m. P. s who voted on sunday to expel Foreign Forces
Reflecting on what happened the Russian National memorial jailed at the height of russian great scandal and what moscow called a politically motivated case. From moscow thanks for joining us on a weekly or r. T. International im Daniel Hawkins welcome to the program before we go to our other headlines news just coming in from italy where 6 tourists are been killed in the northeast of the country after a car crashed into a group of 17 holidaymakers all the victims are thought to be german nationals it happened just after 1 am local time in the south are all region which is popular with visitors all year round and the Emergency Services plan to hold a News Conference later this hour well update you when we do get more details. The week and the year got off to a troubling start with tensions skyrocketing over in the middle east following the United States assassination of irans most Senior Commander it seems sort of manis body has now arrived in iran these are live pictures we are bringin
On the ground. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out. We have cars everywhere. Down on to the highway. Lindsey this is a new train route for this train. Todays voyage was the inaugural run. Part of a 181 million project. The ntsb will no doubt take a close look at the project as well as interviewing and operating the amtrak train. You can see a live picture of what is going on there right now. A team is headed from here in d. C. To that crash site right now. At the live desk, lindsey mastis. Jonathan thank you very much. Look at the map. When you see the green line, that is the old route. The orange line is the new one that opened this morning. This was the inaugural run and meant to reduce sharp curves and enable the train to speed up. The train was going 81 m the Washington State project had the max speeds of 79 miles per hour. We dont know at this point if the speed was a factor in the derailment. This rail project cost more than 180 million. You know there were cars on bot
The availability of drones and the use of drones, and we are scouring our authorities to see what, if anything, we can do as an agency on and well hear more to say about that in the future weeks and months. Are you hoping to meet the september target date . I think hopefully we will meet that deadline or come real close to it, in terms of getting the rule over to onb and hopefully soon thereafter having the rule out there as final. Heres the last one from me. A lot of talk this week about car hacking as result of wired magazine report on the Entertainment Systems in jeep cherokees and a chrysler products where you can get control of steering, brakes and transmission. I want to know your view of the proposed legislation and also where what the department is doing on the subject. Hacking. Look, this is a place where the government and the private sector have to be working very closely together. And we have urged the out toy all Auto Industry to start a roundtable of sorts to focus on iss
You could buy that car, and it wouldnt have to be fixed. And we think thats a loophole that needs to be closed. There are also pieces of legislation we wish the senate would consider like giving nhtsa Imminent Hazard Authority. We were criticized last year for having too cozy a relationship with industry, but the reality is, is that when a recall occurs, if the company that has been recalled disagrees with our assessment our recourse so go to court and spend years trying to to litigate that issue while dangerous stuff is on the streets. The alternative is to develop some kind of settlement with the automaker or the oem and, you know usually weve been able to get favorable results that way. But if Congress Wants us to have more teeth, give us the tools so that we can fight those battles directly. And, you know, these are the kinds of things that weve proposed previously, and itd be nice for those issues to be addressed through this legislation. Dave shepardson. East one of those be eith