The News with Rick Sanchez - March 29, 2019 (17:00 ET)

Israel braces for 2nd Great March of Return 

RT America’s John Huddy reports on the steady escalation of conflict in the Middle East through February and March. While a tenuous ceasefire is holding for now, none can say how long it will last. President Trump’s recognition of Israel claims to occupied Golan Heights in Syria have only heightened tensions. Israel’s armed forces are on high alert along the border with Gaza in advance of the first anniversary of the Palestinians’ “Greet March of Return.” RT America’s Dan Cohen joins to share his insights. Then former Pentagon official Michael Maloof weighs in, pointing out that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection bid and appearance of being “too restrained” with Hamas are factors in the rising violence in the region.

Indian missile sends message to its neighbors

When India successfully shot down a low-orbit satellite with an Earth-to-space missile, it became one of only four countries with the proven ability to do so. Former naval intelligence officer John Jordan joins RT America’s John Huddy to share his insights, arguing that the Indian Ocean is geopolitically crucial to Chinese power and that Indian awareness thereof was behind the need to prove its ability to shoot down satellites.

Hung up on warrantless phone surveillance

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed a bill to end the NSA’s mass collection of phone data. They hope that passing the “Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act” will stop “one of the sprawling surveillance state’s most intrusive overreaches.” But will it go far enough? RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins John Huddy with the details.