writing the laws and regulations to tax corporate bankers. here is just too much is it a society. that. coming up on r t iraq's crisis grows as isis militants continue to gain ground while washington weighs its options on how to handle iraq's worsening conflict the latest just ahead and the fighting in eastern ukraine may come to a halt the new president has proposed a ceasefire but will you take your fighters agree more on that coming up. and it's no surprise to see a lot of and videos on you tube but how about as a market stolen credit cards and hacking tools a look at that later in the show. it's

wednesday june eighteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm in your eye david and you're watching r.t. america we begin tonight with the latest in iraq president obama met with top congressional leaders today to discuss the ramping up u.s. involvement in the country white house officials stress that several options remain on the table and no decision has been made rocks foreign minister says he has formally asked the u.s. to launch air strikes against the militant group isis the president has reportedly for now would that out as an immediate option according to the wall street journal the concern is that u.s. commanders don't have the intelligence needed to determine clear battlefield targets meanwhile there's been no shortage of criticism regarding president obama's handling of the conflict particularly from the right just yesterday former vice president dick cheney and his daughter liz wrote a wall street journal op ed accompanied by a video for their new nonprofit advocacy group alliance for a strong america so listen to their critique of president obama. the policies of

the last six years that left america diminished and weakened our enemies no longer fear us our allies no longer trust us empty threats meaningless red lines leading from behind and engagement with rogue regimes that put america on a path of decline while the dual rails on the current president's so called for failed foreign policy mr cheney has also received his fair share of criticism over his reach a bronze this difficulty over whether his tie is to the oil company however and played into president bush's invasion of iraq in two thousand and three here's rand paul on that back in two thousand and nine. dick cheney they won't do that i mean that's what we're going to. do to work for our nation moved over to see you next to that i'm going to do it. in a war that ended in controversy as the violence reignites apparently so does the

war of words. and on the ground in iraq the country's biggest oil refinery beijing has been shut down and its foreign staff evacuated local state staff remain in place in the military claims it is now in control of the facility refinery in beijing sits less than fifty miles north of the city of to create which militants seized just last week the beijing refinery accounts for a quarter of iraq's entire refining capacity and while a process is oil entirely for domestic consumption like gasoline cooking oil and fuel for power stations and outage there could lead to greater chaos in the country the stakes for the oil markets are high as the iraqi government tries to gain control over the situation to talk about what the iraqi crisis could mean for the global economy earlier i spoke with peter schiff he's the president of euro pacific capital inc i first asked him how iraq's domestic economy would be impacted if the beijing refinery falls into the hands of militants. well you know i'm really not

sure how it's going to impact iraq but you know i think there's a situation there that unfortunately we helped create which is one of the reasons among many that i was opposed to us going into iraq in the first place because i was afraid that once we went in there and we drew that something like this would happen and now we're in a situation where we have no good policy options left well rock is a second largest oil producer in opec and has the fifth largest crude oil reserves when you look at the global economy how large of a role does iraq play in the world's oil market well i mean on the margin it's a supply significant. and i'm bullish on oil anyway i think the price of oil is going up regardless of what happens in iraq but to the extent that iraqi production is disrupted by civil war that's only going to be more bullish for the price of oil and it's going to affect the global economy in that oil is going to be more

expensive and that's going to be a negative unless of course you all will and you've got to sell so there are some economies that might benefit those that are supplying oil into the market and others that have to buy oil are going to have to pay more for it and that's like a tax and what kind of impact could the prices have specifically on larger gas consumption countries like china and india where they have to look elsewhere. well i mean there's oil as long as they're willing to pay for it and you know it's just going to build the price up but i think the demand is going to continue to grow in emerging markets like china and asia i'm more worried about our china india i'm more worried about how it might affect the united states because american consumers are already tapped out they're loaded up with debt they've got part time low paying jobs and americans drive a lot i mean more than any other people we're dependent on our cars we don't have a really great public god transportation system a lot of americans have to drive

a long way to get to their low paying jobs and they may not be able to afford higher gasoline prices i think the chinese or the indians based on how little they drive are more likely to afford the increases and then americans so do you expect the price of gas to go a lot and in the coming days for american drivers well i mean i can't forecast that in the coming days i mean in general i think the price is more likely to go up on any given day than it is go down because i think gas prices are headed much much higher you know it's interesting we got the fed minutes today and janet yellen in her testimony said that she's still worried that inflation is too low that inflation is below her target i mean first of all inflation can't be too low the lower the better but if you look at the trailing c.p.i. for the last twelve months even the government acknowledges that inflation is just above two percent so how is two point one below their two percent target i don't know how the fed is massaging these numbers and it's likely that inflation numbers

are going to get a higher trend higher in the future and obviously significant increases in oil prices that's going to believe through to the top and also electric electricity bills that is only going to make the c.p.i. worse. we heard a lot of time about energy independence from the middle east and the u.s. take a listen to this clip of what the north dakota treasury secretary said to u.s. troops earlier this year. to help make our nation and our world an energy independent country so that you and your fellow. officers and enlisted folks never have to go over there again in order to fight for the oil that we all need. so apparently we're going over there to fight for oil what are your thoughts on what she had to say well that may be the very reason that we went there in the first place it might have been over oil some people thought it was over other things but you know i could certainly feel for the families that lost loved ones or

americans who lost limbs and saw their comrades fall because they were told they were there to restore an independent and democratic iraq and now the whole thing is falling apart and we may in fact leave iraq in a worse place than we found it and it may even be a greater threat to america as a result of having deposed saddam than it would have been had we left him in power and considering the u.s. has spent large amounts of money on this war of course also on the afghanistan war how much should that weigh on their decision on the kind of involvement. they choose to have in iraq right now well first of all you know we borrow the money which is even worse and so if we're going to go back into iraq which we're going to have to do if we want to prevent the country from disintegrating we're going to have to borrow even more money but here's the problem i mean you know you talk about two wrongs maybe making a right we never should have went in there in the first place but if we don't go back in there the whole thing is going to fall apart and our whole foreign policy

is going to collapse if we do go back in there to restore order we can never leave it's like a permanent occupancy of iraq how is that going to go over in the middle east and how much money are you have to borrow to pay for that all right peter schiff president of euro pacific capital thanks for joining us. over the past decade iraqi christians have repeatedly fled their homes out of fear of persecution looking to other countries to provide refuge from the violence oftentimes those refugees were able to return home after the danger subsided but with sunni militants now gaining a major foothold over significant parts of the country were turning may not ever be an option artie's in the lead chen takes a look at how iraq's current state of upheaval is dealing a new blow to iraq's dwindling christian community. remember this place called babylon once home to millions of christians iraq's oldest religion has been nearly

wiped out of the country but how did this happen christianity was brought into iraq in the first century by the apostle thomas and his pupil iraq is actually one of the oldest continuous christian communities in the world and has subsequently been persecuted for almost just as long as the vatican has voiced concern about the flight of christians out of iraq and the middle east driven out by endless wars and poverty and discrimination during those wars for centuries iraq's christians have fled to the northern mountains of al cowshed where they found protection from an unlikely ally kurdish fighters known as the peshmerga and now with the recent fall of pallas far at the hands of isis some of the country's christians have one to get and fled to al cowshed before two thousand and three there were approximately one million christians primarily in the northern regions of iraq today there are less

than half that number approximately four hundred fifty thousand some reports even say that number is closer to three hundred thousand as tens of thousands of christians are fleeing their homes into nearby syria and jordan the christian nonprofit organization open doors ranks iraq as the fourth most dangerous place in the world to be a christian now it's hard to believe but many christians felt safer under the dictatorship of saddam hussein who ruled with a rather secular government relative to others including isis in fact saddam hussein's foreign minister tariq aziz his real name was actually michael you hanna following hussein's execution christians in the region reported extreme violence against them back in two thousand and ten during the infancy of isis in mosul christians reported that isis thugs were stopping random people on the street. asking them for identification the purpose if someone had a christian name such as michael they'd be shot dead right there on the street by

isis militants with iraq's christian numbers dwindling so rapidly it's even garnering attention from pope francis who is calling for peace and posed this question to the world who is selling them weapons from washington d.c. military. now to the crisis in ukraine president petro poroshenko proposed a unilateral cease fire by his troops today to allow anti kiev separatists in the ease a chance to lay down weapons or leave the country there's a word yet on whether fighters will agree. has more from moscow. go did say that there is going to be a very short term ceasefire implemented unilateral ceasefire implemented in south east of ukraine but he did emphasize that it's going to be extremely short in the amount of time that he's going to give to all armed groups in the region to lay down arms the details are supposed to follow in the next couple of days now that

that decision seems to have come to a late night phone call which was conducted between the ukrainian president and russian president putin and what could not be immediately tied to that phone call is another decision made by the ukrainian leader and that is to possibly lay off the interior minister of foreign affairs who has made kind of a tourist name for himself in recent days after appearing at a riot by the russian embassy in kiev and behaving in the following manner. because it was so bright is that the three. it's not yet clear exactly how it will go ahead with delivering on his first promise concerning the cease fire in the southeast of ukraine but it does seem however that he has already found a possible replacement for the interim foreign minister. now as are.

a major ruling that would have allowed defense attorneys to view secret documents related to a domestic terrorism case has been overturned the case relates to twenty year old who is accused of trying to detonate a fake car bomb given to him by undercover f.b.i. agents near i downtown chicago bar that would defense team requested to review the secret records from the foreign intelligence surveillance court in order to figure out whether the search warrant had violated their client's constitutional protection against unlawful search and seizures earlier this year u.s. district judge sharon johnson coleman ruled that indeed the defense could review the pfizer court records writing why. all this court is mindful of the fact that no court has ever allowed disclosure of fison materials to the defense in this case the court finds that the disclosure may be necessary she went on to write that an accurate determination of the legality of the surveillance is best made in this case as part of an adversarial proceeding the adversarial process is the bedrock of

effective assistance of counsel protected by the fdic the sixth amendment regardless of that decision on monday u.s. circuit court of appeals overturned a ruling agreeing with prosecutors that letting the woods lawyers see the fire as a court records would endanger national security appellate court judge richard posner wrote our own study of the classified material has convinced us that there are indeed compelling reasons of national security for the records being classified though it is certainly highly unlikely that lawyers would snowden like publicize classified information in violation of federal law they might in there is ill to defend their client or mis remembering what is classified and what is not inadvertently say things that would provide clues to classified material that decision was ultimately reached after a closed door meeting with government officials and prosecuting attorneys. and still ahead here on our t.v.

criminal ad videos have been cited on you tube that includes marketing stolen credit cards and often even offering tools for criminal ventures more on that after the break. are you like me you want your comedy news this is. what your comedy used to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the jab. but. when eating into the next of the corporate elite billionaire freaks well they're going. to that's what you get with my new show rejected in the eight.

most of us associate youtube with listening to new music or perhaps finding do it yourselves videos on home improvement but what about how to on credit card fraud believe it or not you tube is littered with thousands of videos promoting compromised credit card numbers for example someone could type in something like c.c. fulls which is slang for a full package of identifying information on a credit card holder and a couple thousand videos would pop up in other cases the perpetrator may even liven up pitches by incorporating that into an authorized samplings of famous musicians here's the real catch you tube actually allows these videos to play all sometimes even running advertisements for legitimate credit card cards or retail outlets alongside them and that means the cyber criminal may profit not just on the

fraudulent credit card information but also on the credit card companies that had their data stolen in the first place it's all laid out in a new report put out by the digital citizens alliance and earlier i was joined by him onto gum the founder of s s p blue to talk about it considering you tube is the playground for everyone including children and teenagers i first asked him onto how learning this news really is. well i got to tell you it is alarming and he and it's especially alarming because there really is no platform like youtube you said it best it's not just everyone uses it and it's a very unique technology that the world has embraced and because of that i think you tube and its parent company google has really gotten itself into a unique position of responsibility that is starting to look at it from the perspective of let's define the moral compass here of the company do you want to be

involved in situations like this and what you hadn't mentioned just yet but i think is also clear in those ads is you tube is actually profiting from this and that is the most important takeaway is if there's no profit it's a different conversation but that's not the case here at all yeah i was just going to touch on that you know these videos are embedded with advertisements that google is ultimately approving i mean does that mean that the company that google is effectively in business with people perpetrating these crimes. if you put this in the physical world setting which we really do have to do whenever we're seeing anything online is what's the real world comparison it's almost like saying let's stand a person in a creative storefront that says when you come in here we'll show you where their criminal activity is we'll show you how to engage with that criminal activity maybe even learn from it and by the way as part of this we're going to make some money no mall in the world would allow that and in many cases law enforcement would be

saying wait a minute we need to take a look at this so i think that's one of the things to consider and whether you tube should be doing something and the second technology piece is this if you can show really good stuff to the world when people are searching you find it on you tube you find it through google it comes it it almost reads your mind it's so good at analyzing what you're looking for well the same is true in stopping bad things you know you can show the good but find ways to stop the bad and i want us the unique position right and i want to touch on that in a minute but and i want to make something clear as far as advertisers go do they have a say at all and what videos they're advertisement is attached to or is that completely in google's control. well there's definite policies that google has and you tube has and at the same time that advertisers have the problem is that there's a definitely a disconnect here advertisers i think are going to be pretty surprised if you take

a look at target american express wal-mart some of the majors out there who spend billions of dollars every year building their reputational brand and all of a sudden the target breached and credit card fraud is coming at the same time in the next in a video next to their ad that's something i think is going to rest. a lot of people inside the target so i think those conversations definitely need to happen if they haven't already happened and do you think that compromises the relationship consumers have with the companies that you know that they've put their money into. but i think if consumers are paying attention to the question they're going to ask is what's going on here why is target advertising next to a video about how to steal credit cards design really make sense and i think the question almost kind of answers itself and google hasn't yet responded to the revelations of this specific report but the company would likely say that it's not

feasible to look at every single video with thousands upon thousands of videos of course on the website i mean what can google really do to tackle this problem. well you know it's easy to say it's not feasible but if you're going to build a brand if you're going to build a technology that can truly deliver results when you're looking for something in a mirror united do this every day just google it quickly just google it will get an answer which means that the technology is capable of delivering and displaying what you are looking for if that is the case step back for a second that means that the technology is also capable of making a choice of not displaying things that are criminal in nature and therefore not profiting by them and he has so many engineers in there that can figure this out absolutely new and i've actually talked about credit card fraud credit card security before i want to go back to the basics the idea of purchasing credit card numbers on line a lot of people don't quite understand how easy this is can you talk about how the

internet has really shaped this kind of fraud. one of the things that the internet has done is remove geographic boundaries legal boundaries when it comes to not just legitimate things but also illegal things and what they're doing is they're bending with their theories and figuring out that i can reach the masses by simply advertising and say you tube setting up a place that you contact them that you leads to another number their bench you're going to give you and then five minutes you can be on the phone with a guy and i think d.c. actually did this on video get on the phone with a guy who's going to sell you stolen credit card numbers that you can then use to buy something online have a drop shipped to a mailbox location and then pick it up when you're on your way it's a it's a very big problem that's brewing right now and it's a platform that criminals need but if you take away the platform you will take away that reach that they have currently through sites like you to a very important report that came out indeed founder of s.s.

blue thanks for weighing in. it's a bird it's a blame no it's a blend maryland skies will soon become home to two shiny new blooms the air ships will be hovering above harford county to monitor for enemy missiles cruise ships aircraft and manned or unmanned vehicles the limbs will be loaded with tracking technology to detect any suspicious behavior whatsoever and interestingly islams hearken back to the ones used in battlefields to track enemy combatants and in the caribbean to track drug lords and they're not expected to cause much air traffic the airspace above the area is restricted so it won't interfere with private or commercial planes the limbs will employ about one hundred forty workers who are moving special to maryland to op operate them and they'll be in the air by this fall will stay up there for about three years so if you live in the maryland area you live we won't miss them. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm

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causes of. jen psaki the spokesperson for the u.s. state department her job is to talk to the press and make the us look smart in all their decisions that's it that's all she's got to do but a lot of the statements she makes just to make her and the government look pretty dope first when speaking to reporters recently she actually said that president obama quote doesn't give himself enough credit for what he's done around the world

she actually said that as if the president has just been making some hollow bowl understated remarks about u.s. foreign policy as if he doesn't chant interventionist montrose every time. mike the reporters that were in the room actually openly laughed at are because obviously the president gives himself and the u.s. lots of credit when it comes to how we impose ourselves on other countries around the world one reporter asked back if he would give the president two hundred percent credit instead of the one hundred percent credit he gives himself now second saki was speaking to reporters again recently about how the u.s. just went to great lengths to get its soldier bowe bergdahl out of captivity a reporter asked why the u.s. isn't doing anything to get back another serviceman being held in mexico to that she just said the u.s. wouldn't compare the two stories then she called bergdahl a marine when he was in the army to make matters worse basically she just refused to address the very valid question of why we aren't doing everything we can to get

back all of our military men like we did with bergdahl sakis bumbled a lot of answers recently about israel john kerry about press freedom in the u.s. lots of issues so it makes you wonder how she got this job where all she has to do is answer questions well and make prepared statements about u.s. policy but honestly i'm not sure if the problem is with her i kind of feel like the problem is with the job itself because how do you defend all of the indefensible crap the u.s. does around the world how do you keep walking up to a podium over and over again to answer questions from informed people and try to sell them on a bunch of wars and invasions and tactical maneuvers in other countries that don't make any sense so honestly if i take issue with anything in this story it's not with zaki fumbling all over the place it's with the bumbling foreign policy she's contractually obligated to defend.