over two years old he will go over. to drill and who runs the blood business. that. was. the headlines on international multi-billion dollar deals are on the table as china's leaders. here in moscow for an official two day visit the trip does come

amid a new strain in relations between beijing and washington. putting some distance between them. and friends and follows donald trump and election manifesto. and today is the final day for qatar to decide whether to submit to a list of demands from arab states or face continued isolation. nine am here in moscow on july the fourth thanks for joining us on r.t. international here comes your world headlines. china's leader is here in moscow for a two day official visit he's already met with the kremlin it's their third encounter this year and. reports on what's expected today. yesterday

was more of a casual affair an informal meeting as well as a dinner the real deal though is today on the table twelve billion dollars worth of deals as well as twenty bilateral documents covering too many things to mention and lead to me a putin and she big old hands at this they've met more than twenty times. last year this is that. many of their foreign policies and foreign outlooks international outlook very similar if not identical including those on north korea and its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons as well as the means to deliver them miss else north korea and also south korea where the united states is in the process of stationing a part of its missile shield which russia and china worry about they say that it sees too much and does nothing to stop to stop north korea also today putin will be

awarding xi jinping one of russia's highest on another one for the memory books. i do think. it's cute little.

well i think his visit to russia comes at a time when china's relations with the u.s. are on shaky ground as off the beijing ordered military vessels jets to warn off an american warship which according to china violated its territorial waters in the south china sea north korea meanwhile is another key area of contention between the u.s. and china. has apparently conducted yet another missile test launching it towards the sea of japan donald trump has tweeted demanding from china quote a heavy move on north korea and a broader perspective. looking at where things have been going wrong between beijing and washington remember the famous chocolate cake that donald trump used to woo the chinese leader we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen president she was enjoying it that was the first time that trump

and she met with trump putting on a grand dinner she also featured granddaughter singing a song for she and chinese. well that was back in april sense then charm offensive seems to a fault here's how the chinese foreign ministry sees it. president xi explicitly pointed out that china u.s. relations have made great progress in the recent days but it has also been affected by factors a fair few such factors actually unlike the u.s. accusing china of being a top human trafficking offender. graded to tears three status in this year's report because it has not taken serious steps to end its own complicity in trafficking and washington's plan to sell one point four billion dollars in arms to taiwan which china regards as a breakaway province didn't exactly go down well either time isn't. alienable parts

of china and the u.s. weapons to taiwan violates international law as well as the basic forms of international relations china firmly opposes it and it's another thing that china family opposes is the installation of american missiles right on its doorstep the deployment of the u.s. missile defense system in south korea does serious damage to the strategic security interests of all countries in the region including china and russia and disrupts the regional strategic balance well it looks like relations between beijing and washington won't be seeing any major reset but how big of a blow is that to china right now china's president xi is in moscow both china and russia would like to. demonstrate their common interests. deteriorating relations with the united states both understand that donal's from administration. a serious fan of uncertainty and dave remain very

cautious demonstration. in china and russia is seen to be beneficial both. despite trump's attempt to be best buddies with she a while ago looks like the geo political setup hasn't really changed just like under obama the two eurasian superpowers seem to be getting along pretty well while the united states is distancing itself and distrusting both of them. are to new york and it seems that i mean time donald trump is losing more friends his relationship with the german leader seems to be falling well short compared to that of his predecessor correspondent peter all of a has been assessing the frosty friendship. what a difference four years could make to a political friendship like in twenty thirty when i published a program she referred to the united states as germany's most important friend

however the most recent well no. published ahead of the september's vote well somewhat downgraded the united states to the role of partner it all really highlights just how the relationship between angola merkel and the president of the united states has soured since donald trump replaced barack obama in the white house and you can clearly see it in their reactions from this. with to this. week. ok. when barack obama was president angular merkel was always there right beside him not just at the photo ops but also when it came to policy points as well. that's also a child from a german perspective the u.s. german and u.s. european relations are a core element of our foreign policy with september's election looming large her

critics they slam her saying she isn't tough enough on trump the german chancellor must sometimes do to be in conflict with the american president up to now she has only done that in abstract terms we have to take into consideration. angela merkel is campaigning time at the moment so she has to look after the voters. and. policy program you can rather well not. over emphasize the inferential partnership with the united states it is not a policy shift me last very long because you campaign manifesto makes it abundantly clear to the german voters that a vote cast for her as a vote cast against the policies and presidency of donald trump peter all of us see berlin well it does seem that everything president does these days is soon turned

into a meme as r.t. jacqueline berger explains despite some criticism this tactic may actually be a winner. donald trump hit back at criticisms that his tweets grades the office of the president by posting an admission saying that his use of social media indeed isn't presidential but rather modern day presidential and while the critics out on whether that's a good thing or not it's undeniable the man understands the power of the internet trump inspires me and creates me trump uses mediums and his twitter post take the recent c.n.n. wrestling video he shared which was originally posted on reddit a popular viral news and discussion website. thanks that modern day presidential post caused an uproar in the traditional media president of the united states taking things way too far and as an incitement to violence he is going to get somebody killed in the media is an attempt to might be successful to drum up violence against journalists

this kind of behavior to lead to a journalist to be hurt it's no wonder that sixty percent of americans say they have little to no trust in the media and many are turning to social media to get their information a trend that trump has cottoned onto and when the mainstream media makes his every tweet breaking news they're giving trump exactly what he wants i think you guys are getting played man i think every time he does this you guys overreact and i say you guys i mean the media in general you overreact and you play right into his hand whatever trump does they jump on it in a huge scrum he has used the media the social media is used twitter. and twitter has been around for a while he's laying reimbursed everything they've got i don't like the dog in the circus it's used to make and they don't understand it and they right now are actually

a very critical position in their life because american public has no faith in them which allowed for so it seems that's how trump when is a war with traditional media. through the magic. washington d.c. . it is already international less than fifteen hours remain for qatar to make its decision on whether to submit to a list of thirteen demands made by its arab neighbors the gulf country set a midnight tuesday deadline although they have not said what measures they might take out of those not complying so just for a moment here on the program on r.t. international let's well give you a bit of a mind of what those demands are includes cutting ties with iran and so-called terrorist groups like hamas and hezbollah are also there are calls to close a turkish military base and shut down news outlets such as al-jazeera and middle east i moreover qatar is required to sever all contact with the political opposition in saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e.

qatar you officials though have so far refused to budge this was still. made to be a joke to me had to be accepted or not made to be negotiated is not an easy country to be the one. we already know we stand ready to defend. now even though it is just a tiny spot on the map it is actually quite an influential player here in the region the us has two military bases near the capital the data base is america's largest base in the middle east turkey also uses qatar for its only military facility outside of its territory also doha partnering with iran runs the world's biggest natural gas field located on its shoreline this is an important factor to remember political science professor anthony things this latest could lead to a full blown regional war. that is not going to lead to peace that is leading

to a war conflict escalation in the conflict and most probably. a war out of blood needs to how evolution changes need to how you would be doing ship give them a ship that is both good minded did their ship that would accept reality as it is we are not living in the seventh century and you will just hold. this whole issue is not the worse it to go into an escalated conflict and self destruction it's quarter past the hour here in moscow or more of your world headlines in just. one else truths seem wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me.

yet to shape out these days because etiquette and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. designed to kill people because it is doing its job just like the architects of the ground in london and the folks that put up the flammable cladding to kill people that's their culpability and the people who designed this health care are doing so to kill people that's their culpability in the capitalist system in america as iterated by the current regime of kleptocrats thanks killing people is necessary to make payments in greenwich connecticut.

thank you joining us here on our to russia's foreign ministry has rejected claims the syrian government and its forces have used chemical weapons and i knew what time the allegation reportedly came from the main opposition forces the so-called free syrian army and was posted in a tweet apparently linked to the group it claims government troops launched several toxic gas attacks on rebel held areas and in eastern suburbs of damascus the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie as a lot of us says she is not impressed by the latest accusations the chemical show is gaining momentum the latest proof that an information campaign against damascus has begun is a message about talks against attacks in eastern guta a piece of paper created in line with all the rules of the western media and now

this is the beginning of a chemical attack and condemns it but this is merely a pretty good. this is the second claim assad's forces have used chemical weapons since the u.s. warned that damascus was preparing such an attack washington threatened to take decisive action if that happened meanwhile we talk to syrian writer who lives very close to the area in damascus reportedly targeted by toxic gases he says there's no sign that any chemical weapons have been used at all but are in many areas. controlled by the state in syria that are so close to the area that this man these terrorists claim. to have been helped by chemical weapons i. just i am absolutely sure that. was not used and the syrians does not have they don't have that actually we foreseen it

we've been expecting it from several areas there enemies of see if you choose to have it in and out of. israel has refused to allow a palestinian teenager to leave gaza to receive medical treatment in jerusalem a seventeen year old gammer he was shot and wounded by israeli forces during a protest near the gaza border in may. i went to the borders to protest against the siege and support the prisoners jerusalem shot me in the hand and i fell down screaming my hand it's paralyzed i didn't feel the bullet and in my stomach. when the doctor came out he took me to one side and said the situation my son was in was very serious he was expected to die any moment one of his kidneys was destroyed his intestines writs his liver was

badly damaged and twelve the answers were cut. the reason for the denial of our request had nothing to do with security but a new directive is surely a year ago to deny treatment israel to anyone injured near the eastern border areas look i can't raise my hand i can only raise it with the help of my other hand. israel said it was rejecting the request for medical treatment because her leaders considered one of the main inciters of the riots that broke out on the border. italy along with france and germany have agreed to draw up a code of conduct for charities operating rescue boats in the mediterranean the aim of bringing under control the growing influx of migrants in the past few days alone up to twelve thousand people who arrived in italy from africa or more than eighty

five thousand of landed in the country since the beginning of this year and rome is seeking financial help from its european neighbors fairing the growing number of migrant raises the risk of terrorism. reports with more from sister. italy says it's buckling under the strain as the my current crisis deepens anti terror and emptiness. national prosecutor franco bestie says that's in danger security those who arrive on the detainees then undergo a process of radicalization that may lead to the realization of terror attacks. called the case of two new zealand an ace a mary who drove a truck into crowds on the berlin christmas market last year amery a rived in italy on the migrant boat back in two thousand and eleven he was denied asylum in germany in two thousand and fifteen but was not deported a year later carried out the terror attack killing twelve people and injuring

dozens more migrants made their way across the mediterranean sea and landed on the tully in what is like this but italian authorities say they just want to cope and they've asked for more help from the counterparts while the majority of migrants unlikely to be those fleeing and poverty the concern is that amongst them will be those who pose a threat to europe and that makes it to cry for help directed at european leaders not just about italy alone but about the security of the whole european union. italy has got this great. swarm of people from north africa and from sub-saharan africa coming through libya in particular into italy what italy needs is some way in which can be a control over people crossing the mediterranean to italy that requires a kind of coast guard stroke naval presence backed up by the other your countries that's expensive they're going to pay for it italy needs help with housing feeding

providing health care that's expensive the other european countries don't want to pay for it and also italy has to ask itself is it just going to be lucky in the sense that other countries are seen terrorist attacks germany france belgium britain and so on italy so far has been massively spurred is that because the radical groups. useful conduit crossing country into the rest of europe or is it simply that they've been biding their time so also italy needs help with security. the founder of a liberal mosque in berlin has been placed on a twenty four hour protection after receiving hundreds of death threats from muslims unlike in traditional mosques this one which was only open less than a month ago caters to muslims of all confessions as well as the gay community men and women are supposed to pray side by side which is normally forbidden and visitors are banned from wearing any full body garments like burkas indoors we

spoke to the founder about the current situation. and i expected such a reaction i expected that not everyone would like it in general of course i knew that man wouldn't give up on patriarchy so easily because these are the pattern structures that we are attacking at the moment i've only got threats because only theorist and so to speak the heart of the movement but this is a movement and people should know that we got reaction from mohamed chafee of the ramadan foundation. fourteen a good years of stomach history tellers that it's the man and the man who leads to prayer has to be mill in the same way the roman catholic church suggests that the pope the head of the church of of rome has to be a man women are absolutely essential part of being involved in the mosque that the main pros have to be led by a man and any attempt to change that is distorting fourteen hundred years of

stomach history and we reject up islam is relevant fourteen hundred years ago it's relevant in the twenty first century to be relevant until the end of times you have to adapt to modern settings i accept that but you cannot change the principles of our faith and i think any attempt you know to use this you know the liberal elite in our societies who want to demonize islam they want to demonize and create division are not going to succeed. up next to an aussie international watching the whole semester joining us from the u.k. i learned a very good morning to you larry king the. people with stories to tell. those who deserve to.

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greetings and salutations and what has now become a yearly tradition hawk watchers when these summer days are long and hot in the united states rings in her birthday with fireworks barbecue and beer we hear of watching the hawks will once again strike a chord to honor the independent spirit of that day with a celebration of music politics and art starting on july fifth we will bring you five unique shows featuring five diverse musical acts and drummers that truly embody the passion creativity and spirit of independence from the early banjo blues of hubby jenkins to the punk pride of c.j. ramone the uniquely los angeles sound of pastel felt the contagious heartbreak of chris angelus and the revolutionary rhythms of the flobots this year no musical stone will be left unturned and no independent voice will be left silence because in my humble opinion there is no better way to celebrate celebrate the political and spiritual birth of one's country than by showcasing one of its single most

important values the freedom of speech and artistic expression you see after all the palette political imprisonable wars have been fought and the historians have recorded all the facts and figures it's the artists who provide us the human context the heart and the voice of our times so let's celebrate our own independence as the music of politics and the politics of music collide this week watching the hawks. it looks like. it's really. easy to get out of it. like you know that i got. the. welcome aboard the watching the hawks

i am tired of the terror and i'm having a life so it's out of this week june july it kicks off this week kicks off the music special watching on strikes a chord we had a lot of fun last year doing it now we're doing again this year for five fantastic individual interesting bands that kicks off with hubby jenkins. he was a part of the band called the carolina chocolate drops of the explore the old you know string music originally he had studied the saxophone and says his parents of build their house when he was growing up would blues and salsa the beatles then he picked up the cello the mentally moved on to string instruments he cut his teeth as a busker in new york city which is what the buskers what's called a street performer the basically works for tips as he progressed in exploring his southern roots he came upon a lot of history about the journey of his ancestors the banjo which is you'll find out more about that in our special is actually a black instrument i don't white one here's

a preview of our interview with one hobby jenkins so that was the first moment your life or your you truly found your passion for music. well i discovered my passion for old time music like after high school when i had been playing saxophone from the age of five until freshman year i started playing cello and bass and high school and i went to a math and science engineering school and was like really. enjoying music like i'm going to take a year off from college and and in that year is when i discovered country and was like ok i think i want to play music i think that's what it is for me and. it was like hearing skip james for the first time and thinking how otherworldly it was and not yet having any of the historical or social contacts yet but just like enjoying the music. and so that was like my my entry into the world of music and all that kind of stuff. and sort of like inherent with old time music is.

learning and learning history you know like you know it's not like pop music where all the references are easily available and right there for you so just learn more about the music and sorts or learn. about the banjo being a black and about you know what really happened after slavery and how that contributed to our growth. i think credible and it's incredible how that the journey of music can take somebody in places they hadn't expected someone who and finding that through music i think it's so incredible especially when he talks about it and viewers will really i heard them to watch on july fifth because he really gets into history and culture and things he didn't know and how the conflict of that yes yes i was really was impressive to me because you know i asked him when you when you start talking about the banjo being a black instrument and you know it's most people in the u.s. are kind of equated with you know why nobility you know yeah yeah and you know when

he said no actually the region you know is a ridgeley a black and it was created there you know that was our music. you know what was interesting when he talked about what you got to drive because we charge what he plays a certain crowds you know one part of the crowd is like hey that's my grandpa happy's instrument how dare you play it you know and the other so the chords like oh that's a racist instrument how dare you play that and so it's very interesting hearing him talk about that aspect when we sat down and talked with him about this and i've spent music like you say you got a hold of that history and that historic and yet you take a listen to it here is a little sore you know moment from performing the song telling your mind.

we. will. tell you. well going through a lover a little bit and then we shift from from her and this amazing exploration of american old blues banjo and string music to chris sandal to. our second special will feature her she won the twenty thirteen best female album by the critics music critics awards she premiered the video for her album

exclusively on ryan seacrest she was a finalist at the bulk southern musician competition the album she's performing in the special was awarded the best female e.p. in the two thousand and sixteen alley music is a word and she was awarded the best female artist at the twenty seventeen international acoustic music awards it's pretty amazing and then she also fun fact sometimes performs with her twin sister and they to music together which is just this incredible sort of moment but is this komodo yeah it's chris angeles is this really is the song is about heartbreak the beautiful songs about heartbreak and i think we all kind of understand those feelings and what her music does is kind of allow us to go in that in this clip we asked her about that journey that she took from the farm to having a seat at the table. my mom says that i was saying before i could really speak and there is actually a video home video of me standing on the stairs maybe two and

a half through all of i don't know being opera singer so i guess i sort of want to do that. i grew up listening to my parents records and classical music and my grandparents and i grew up on a farm so we didn't have cable i think we got one channel and it had lawrence welk on it so we watched that i say we a lot because i have an identical twin sister so so i'm not saying like the royal we. so then really it was just about discovering those. those inspirations and then started seeing in church choir has been to catholic school and then when we moved to california i got into theater camp and doing musicals and i had to be incredibly afraid to sing in front of people on stage just by myself is very scary but i wanted to for some reason and it got me out of my shell you super super. shy. you know it's really amazing when you see singers

songwriters right chris because they really do you know take what's in here and present it to you to a lot of times it's emotions and feelings that you felt you sharing with you gives you a kind of a sense of companionship a sense of camaraderie and tells you kind of gives you a little bit of hope in the world and there is that thing of being shy you hear this a lot of musicians which always seems weird to watch how can you be a pop star how are you this musician to get up in front of these people and sometimes music and for a lot of theater kids like myself that's what helped us get over our shyness our social anxiety and our feelings because you can't really talk of feeling great and there's no way that a lot of great political speakers are also very privately yeah you know but when they get up in front of the like it's i have to i have to get this out i get this message to go share this with the world and that's kind of where the the healing factor comes and is that when when those the those who are shy but have so much to tell or give your thoughts on this you know sort of comes together and let's take

a listen to the beautiful award winning song built this house written and performed by the crew. it was. love. to see. him. so. long and. you.

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this country. this is what we don't understand how we are in such a country. let us into the ones at the same time. it was a monumental. soon to run up with a similar belief that. if the middle of own were not that god can we believe again with the phone about the computer with the plane. would come back to the place story you have to see. it at least that's the. key you move. to.

a welcome world all right. a long time ago you told me of one of your favorite genres of music isn't the. rock. through a little bit of punk rock. we have on this year's structure core yeah we see in the home of history an hour of going out and talking to some really amazing punk artists which i think is indicative this time we're going through a similar time that when punk music came to be so yeah this year we got to hang out with and and talk to c.j. ramone so he was born christopher joseph board is one of the three survivors surviving members of the seminal band punk band the ramones which influenced punk music around the globe there's a legend that goes that sid vicious of the sex pistols told a story that they walked into the studio with the ramones album and told the engineer that they wanted to sound like the ramones and that's where the sound of the sex of those came from so from eighty nine to one thousand nine hundred sixty jay ramone fronted the room out and went on tour he's born in queens new york he

went on to serve in the u.s. marine corps and a laundry list of amazing major punk bands and now is releasing his new album american beauty so it's sort of amazing to watch and one of the things this is an incredible incredible in credible it's his it's a third solo album and the members of the band that are with him are also pretty amazing there are a who's who of american punk but the last twenty years get steven soto or steve soto who's from the adolescence dan root also from the adolescence and peace it was a from the street dogs a lot of raw energy but there's a maturity that's come to the sound of and what it means yes it's pretty pretty amazing the whole album by the way was put together in a levin day. work so it's pretty amazing and he also covers the tom waits on the album so here is this little preview of our interview

with c.j. ramone. to tell about me. in the new album american beauty and how what's the journey of that leads up to this. american beauty is really different than the rest of my records. the first record i put out break on piece to was written over the course of several years i left music around two thousand and two thousand and one had a family recovered from my time in the ramones. and then about two thousand and eight i started playing out again but in all those years that i was gone and when i started playing early on i always sat down with my acoustic guitar and played songs and so i had plenty of songs written by the time i recorded break on teesta my second record. less chance to dance was written i started writing those songs almost immediately after recording reconquista so when it came time to record that

one i already had the songs it was a pretty both of those processes were pretty relaxed and without stress. after we recorded less chance to dance. i started the same process of writing songs whenever i got inspiration and i used my. my phone i used to voice notes and i could be doing anything and i would just pick it up and sing a line into it or play a riff into it and so i had a pretty good stockpile of ideas and potential songs. you know the thing i love about punk is you cannot get more revolutionary and you can i get more best example of first amendment self-expression and this punk music it's outsiders speaking truth to power oh and that's what i love about punk music because they don't come to reasons that old punks don't know we know we are the one people who don't get more conservative we get smarter we get tougher and we play harder than they do and i do i know one thing that saved a reminder as and here is

a little clip from his new album american beauty.

there every year we go out to los angeles and shoot this special we did last year and we did this year and one of the great things about going to l.a. is l.a. music yeah and i'm the l.a. scene is spent. you know when you get in there and you know. one of the great things is that you go to our next group that's going to be that's going to be playing july tenth pastel felt which is a young up and coming all girl band on the scene playing the troubadour hitting all the you know l.a. haunts you want to hit and there's a very interesting experimental awesome sound yeah it would have taken all of these things together and making this very artistic although fi sound that you know is it's really modern but it speaks to a time long ago you know a time like the sixty's this does sound to it really that it's pretty incredible it is pretty incredible that you know you know this group is really what happens when you know kind of makers or artists that work in different mediums find partners

together because they have this great you know graphic artist background comic book artist background a lot of these girls have so i want to get to the clip here is the band discussing how l.a. how l.a. sound becomes apparent when when traveling but also how that sound develops you want to definitely take a listen to this how much does the feeling of los angeles and. find its way into your music and you know is that is that is that hard to capture of that's also one of the things you're trying to do. i mean i think it became more obvious when i went on tour we went to like northern california and like that with a lot of the ones that we played with or like like more focus like just as we like would visit different regions like the music would bury kind of a little bit more into like coming back to l.a. it's like oh yeah up our friends kind of playing simple somewhat similar styles of music with other thing other employees but i think that's when i kind of like notice that it was more of a regional kind of like vibe yeah i guess i think there's like

a weird standard that might be here that makes it maybe a little more like clean. in a way that i don't know what do you think i feel. people hold themselves to a different standard here and things come out of the gate pretty tight and polished which is something i'm not used to actually. be i think it ups the ante for everybody it's a trickle down effect so yeah fully formed in. l.a. it seems like they don't really have much of a gestational around the edges period it seems like they just come out like guns a blazing because they're taking it pretty seriously. i think you could say your definition of the indie rock band yeah you know they're just playing the shows in the clubs got their audience you know selling out you know selling on the. worked up through the ranks to the l.a.

scene there is sort of this place that they used to play a lot now they're more an echo of sand which is all part of this like indie indie based music scene and l.a. and specifically and that sort of eastern l.a. is so very laid back over of area which is very artsy and it's a lot of these makers where you just make things and you figure things out what's really interesting about them is they were named one of the top ten bands to watch in twenty seventeen or l.a. artists to watch in twenty seventy by sally weekly and it's so great because there is these these women that got together and and really are finding out how to express stories and music and do what they have well and that's the thing i like about doing this series is not only do we talk politics with all the you know with all the artists and how that plays into their music but we also talk you know a little bit of their history their sound and who they are and where that finds its way into their music and i think the thing that's paul about the propriety of people we have like pastel felt in the hub you know that is you get all these

different levels of like where you're out on the musical scale it was in terms of six terms of like the you know to me it's like it's so great going from like a c.j. were moments but in the business forever to. you know they're making waves and they're coming up they're not brand new but they're definitely not like you know his level yet but they're there you know i mean like they're all the way and finding their voice is so cool so cool you know well i want to still take a second to listen to a little of that low fi high concept reverb made by pastel felt their song emotional. you you. you you.

you you. lou ruvo to that it is and our main event the big one will air on july eleventh that is our main main show on the big stage this will be colorado based alternative had pop group the flobots their new album no enemies was released this year is kind of a force in this time where you know process are necessary to fight for true american values not the ones that are trying to sell to us all the time. there are you know these things are being crushed by those who can't see that and you know we talk about this on the show a lot that these inhuman acts that their actions are in the main and these are politicians these are public and this is everybody so the flobots aren't just a musical group though they're building social movements they're part of you know

it's sort of the flobots foundation and it's part of working directly with their communities to mentor kids and they really are trying to use music as a way to make the world a better place i mean what's more what's more. it was striking a chord but yeah it was fascinating meeting and talking you know to johnny five br'er rabbit and everybody else in the group you know and they you know there are definitely people who put their you know put their activism where you know where that put their heart where their activism where their mouth is they are very very big they walk the walk they don't just talk the talk yeah they are seriously down to every family they do they walk and talk that talk i one of the really cool things was the flobots and denver's wonder band dance company got together and when they released the album and they've been doing performances they just it's more of a ballet with the music and it's something about this movement that's really great it's this collective power of movement and music so when porton so important let's take a little look at. conscious hip hop the power to change here the flobots lead performers

johnny five and parappa discuss how they became musical partners. and were from being called flobots from denver colorado and. alternative hip hop play music for the last ten years plus together and you know for us music is about engaging the crowd but it's also about kind of engaging people with the message. so what are you guys together because this is sort of a new. version of the group or not version i mean as things evolved what brought the two of you together as artists. loving the eczema. loving g.i. joe lots of nerdy things were to nerdy boys who were placed in a highly gifted and talented program he was in the fifth grade i was in the fourth grade. and it's a memory that i remember very clearly i saw him down the hallway as i was with my father and

a member i told them my dad's army and i see that boy in the blue hat he's going to be my friend and here we are how many years later twenty one years later we thought we're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world that we crafted in comic books and are becoming the worlds that we started crafting and exploring with our wraps. yeah truly fascinating people and i'm great music really great music and really it's a sort of group effort in every it's one of those bands that when you see everyone in the band just fleetly in that moment you never feel like anybody is not in there and they they will like you're having so much fun like you're enjoying what they're doing and it means something it's pretty pretty amazing and i really you guys see this little again another band that you know they lead with their heart they want to make the world a better place through their music through their lyrics and they're actively doing that and mamsell the best conversations that we had you know i that i've had in a long time was with the flobots and johnny five and bear rabbit you know as

a pretty great let's take a short a little short preview of bots with their new song carousel. it's. us. just like him and it was really a good weekend but you know it's good but you know it's important like i said before you know artistic expression music filmmaking all that is sold to society and i don't care what anyone says yeah they can say we're

a political talk show but you know what part of politics part of culture is also the art and art of speaking out to try to change culture for the better so i think when you try to say that art isn't new it's there art doesn't matter to the discussion of what we talk about every day on the show i think you lost the thread there you have lost the thread and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told we are not told we are loved up so i tell you all i love you i am tired robot and on top of the lawless keep on watching those hawks and i have a great day and night everybody. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be that's.

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the headlines on r.t. international multi-billion dollar deals are on the table as china. relations between beijing and washington. putting some distance between them. today is the final day for qatar to decide whether to submit to a list of demands from. all face continued isolation.

midmorning on tuesday here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international we have in your world news. china's leader xi jinping is right here in moscow for a two day official visit he's already met with putin in the kremlin it's the third encountered just this year. has more on what's expected today. yesterday was more of a casual affair an informal meeting as well as a dinner the real deal though is today on the table twelve billion dollars worth of deals as well as twenty bilateral documents covering too many things to mention and lie to me a putin and big old hands at this they've met more than twenty times. last year this is their meeting maybe of their foreign policy the foreign outlooks international outlook very similar if not identical thinking though on north korea

and its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons as well as the means to deliver them selves north korea and also south korea where the united states is in the process of stationing a part of its missile shield which russia and china worry about they say that it sees too much and does nothing to stop to stop north korea also today putin will be awarding xi jinping one of russia's highest on another one for the memory books. i do think.

it's going to do it. well the visit to russia comes at a time when china's relations with the u.s. are on shaky ground as after beijing ordered military vessels jets to ward off an american warship which according to china violated its territorial waters in the south china sea and north korea meanwhile is another key area of contention between the u.s. and china. has apparently now just conducted another missile test launching it

towards the sea of japan. has tweeted demanding from china a heavy move on north korea on a broader perspective. has been looking at where things have been going wrong between beijing and washington. remember the famous chocolate cake that donald trump used to woo the chinese leader we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen president she was enjoying it that was the first time that trump and she met with trump putting on a grand dinner for she which also featured trump's granddaughter singing a song for she in chinese. well that was back in april sense then trump's charm offensive seems to a faltering here's how the chinese foreign ministry sees it. president xi explicitly pointed out that china u.s. relations have made great progress in the recent days but it has also been affected by some negative factors a fair few such factors actually unlike the u.s.

accusing china of being a top human trafficking offender china was downgraded to tear three status in this year's report in part because it has not taken serious steps to end its own complicity in trafficking and washington's plan to sell one point four billion dollars in arms to taiwan which china regards as a breakaway province didn't exactly go down well either time in alienable coats of china and the us weapons sales to taiwan violates international law as well as the basic phones of international relations china firmly opposes it isn't it's another thing that china firmly opposes the installation of american missiles right on its doorstep the deployment of the u.s. missile defense system in south korea does serious damage to the strategic security interests of all countries in the region including china and russia and disrupts the regional strategic balance well it looks like relations between beijing and washington won't be seeing any major reset but how big of

a blow is that to china right now china's president xi is in moscow both china and russia would like to. demonstrate a common interest. deteriorating. relations with the united to space both understand downloads from administration. uncertainty and day very very cautious demonstration. in china and russia you seem to be beneficial on both. despite trump's attempt to be best buddies was she a while ago looks like the geopolitical set up hasn't really changed just like under obama the two eurasian superpowers seem to be getting along pretty well while the united states is distancing itself and distrusting both of them. r.t. new york it seems that the old trump is losing more friends his relationship with the german leader seems to be falling well short compared to that of his

predecessors. has been assessing before the french. what a difference four years could make to a political friendship back in twenty thirteen where the anglo merkel published her election program she referred to the united states as germany's most important friend however the most recent one low published ahead of the september's vote well somewhat downgraded the united states to the role of partner it all really highlights just how the relationship between angular merkel and the president of the united states has soured since donald trump replaced barack obama in the white house and you can clearly see it in their reactions from base. to base. ok.

when barack obama was president angular merkel was always there right beside him not just at the photo ops but also when it came to key policy points as well. that's also a child from a german perspective the u.s. german and u.s. european relations are a core element of our foreign policy with september's election looming large her critics they slam her saying she isn't tough enough on trump the german chancellor must sometimes do to be in conflict with the american president up to now she has only done that in abstract terms we have to take into consideration. angela merkel is campaigning time at the moment so she has to look after the voters. and trump policy program you can rather well not so over emphasizing friendship and partnership with the united states it is not

a policy shift that may be last very long because you come. payment of festal makes it abundantly clear to the german voters that of vote cast for her as a vote cast against the policies and presidency of donald trump peter all of our t. berlin well it seems that everything president does these days is soon turned into a mean it's all teaser jacqueline berger explains to spite some criticism this tactic could actually be a winner. donald trump hit back at criticisms that his tweets degrade the office of the president by posting an admission saying that his use of social media indeed isn't presidential but rather modern day presidential and well the critics out on whether that's a good thing or not it's undeniable the man understands the power of the internet trump inspires me and trump creates me trump uses memes and his twitter post take the recent c.n.n. wrestling video he shared which was originally posted on reddit a popular viral news and discussion website.

thanks that modern day presidential post caused an uproar in the traditional media president of the united states taking things way too far and as an incitement to violence he is going to get somebody killed in the media is an attempt to might be successful to drum up violence against journalists it's kind of behavior to lead to a journalist he hurt it's no wonder that sixty percent of americans say they have little to no trust in the media and many are turning to social media to get their information a trend that trump has cottoned onto and when the mainstream media makes his every tweet breaking news they're giving trump exactly what he wants i think you guys are getting played man i think every time he does this you guys overreact and i say you guys i mean the media in general you overreact and you play right into his hand whatever trump does they jump on it in a huge scrum he has used the media the social media is used.

in twitter's been around for a while. everything they've got i don't like the dog in the circus it's used to make and they don't understand it and they right now are actually a very critical position in their life because american public has no faith in them whatsoever so it seems that's how trump when his war with traditional me. through the magic. of washington d.c. . less than fourteen hours remain for qatar to make his decision on whether to submit to a list of thirteen demands made by its arab neighbors the gulf countries midnight tuesday deadline although they haven't said what measures they might take if it does not comply so just for a moment here on the channel here on this program on r t let's go over what those demands are for example it includes cutting ties with iran and so-called terrorist

groups hamas and hezbollah are also to close the turkish military bases and shut down news outlets al-jazeera. middle east i as well and moreover qatar is required to sever all contact with the political opposition in saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the united arab emirates so father cut saudi officials have refused to budge this list of. demands made to be a joke to me had to be accepted or not made to be negotiated is not an easy country to be the only one. we are ready we stand ready to defend. our even though it is just a tiny spot on the map it is actually quite a big player concerning influence in the region the us has two military bases near its capital one of which the base right here is the biggest u.s.

base in the middle east turkey also uses only military facility just outside its territory also doha partnering with iran runs the world's biggest natural gas field located on its shoreline that is a very important factor to remember a political science professor whose things this latest could lead to a full blown war that is not going to lead to peace. that is leading to a war conflict escalation and. probably. a war i don't. need to have new leadership that is open minded leadership that would accept the reality is we are not living in the seventh century and you. just told us this whole issue is not the worst sit to go into an escalated

conflict. self-destruction how many stories still coming your way here on the program today including our russia's foreign ministry not impressed with the latest american allegations of a chemical attack in syria the details just. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. preparations from washington to washington. voters elected to run this country business. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. obamacare health care designed to kill people because it is doing its job just like the architects of the grab tower in london and the folks that put up the flammable

cladding to kill people that's their culpability and the people who designed this health care are doing so to kill people that's their culpability in the capitalist system in america as iterated by the current regime of kleptocrats thanks killing people is necessary to make payments in greenwich connecticut. moscow russia's foreign ministry has rejected claims syrian government forces have used chemical weapons and a new attack the allegation reportedly came from the main opposition force the so-called free syrian army and was posted in a tweet apparently linked to the group it claims government troops launched several

toxic gas attacks on rebel held areas in an eastern suburb of damascus the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie as a lot of us says she's not impressed by the latest accusations the chemical show is gaining momentum the latest proof that an information campaign against damascus has begun is a message about talks against attacks in eastern guta a piece of paper created in line with all the rules of the western media and now this is the beginning of a chemical attack and condemns it but this is merely a pretty good. this is the second claim assad's forces have used chemical weapons since the u.s. warned that damascus was preparing such an attack washington threatened to take decisive action if that happened meanwhile we talked to syrian writer who lives very close to the area in damascus reportedly targeted by toxic gas he says there's no sign that any chemical weapons were used but are in many areas.

controlled by the state in syria that so close to the area that this man these terrorists claim. to have been helped by chemical weapons i. just i am absolutely sure. was not used and the syrians does not have they don't have that actually we foreseen it we've been expecting that from several years their enemies of syria chose to have it in and out of that. israel has refused to allow a palestinian teenager to leave gars or to receive medical treatment in jerusalem seventeen year old marie was shot and wounded by israeli forces during a protest near the gaza border back in may

i went to the borders to protest against the siege and support the prisoners and jerusalem shot me in the hand and i fell down screaming my hand it's paralyzed i didn't feel the bullet in my stomach when the doctor came out he took me to one side and said the situation my son was in was very serious he was expected to died any moment one of his kidneys was destroyed his intestine was ripped his liver was badly damaged and twelve answer these were cut. the reason for the denial of our request had nothing to do with security but a new directive issued a year ago to deny treatment in israel to anyone injured near the eastern border areas look i can't raise my hand i can only raise it with the help of my other hand while israel said it was rejecting the request for medical treatment because it is

considered one of the main inciters of the riots that broke out on the border. italy along with france and germany have agreed to drop a code of conduct for charities operating rescue boats in the mediterranean the aim of bringing under control the growing influx of migrants in the past few days alone up to twelve thousand people have arrived in italy from africa more than eighty five thousand have landed in that country since the beginning of this year roma seeking financial help from its european neighbors fearing the growing number of migrants are raises the risk of terrorism shala do birds he reports from sicily. italy says it's buckling under the strain as the my current crisis deepens anti terror and anti mafia national prosecutor franco bestie says that's in danger and security those who arrive on the dinghies then undergo

a process of radicalization that may lead to the realization of terror attacks. called the case of two new zealand and this a mary who drove a truck into crowds on the berlin christmas market last year amery arrived in italy on the michael back in two thousand and eleven he was denied asylum in germany in two thousand and fifteen but was not deported a year later carried out the terror attack killing twelve people and injuring dozens more migrants and made their way across the mediterranean sea and landed on the tully in what is like this but italian authorities say they just don't want to cope and they've asked for more help from you counterparts while the majority of migrants unlikely to be those fleeing new and poverty the concern is that amongst them will be those who pose a threat to europe and that makes it illegal crying for help directed at european

leaders not just about italy alone but about the security of the whole european union. italy has got this great. swarm of people from north africa from sub-saharan africa coming through libya in particular into italy what italy needs is some way in which the complete control over people crossing the mediterranean to italy that requires a kind of coast guard stroke naval presence backed up by the other european countries that's expensive they don't pay for it it leads help with housing feeding providing health care that's expensive the other european countries don't want to pay for it and also italy has to ask itself is it just going to be lucky in the sense that other countries are seen terrorist attacks germany france belgium britain and so on italy so far has been massively spurred is that because the radical groups see italy as a useful conduit a country into the rest of europe or is it simply that they've been biding their time so also italy needs help with security. the founder of

a liberal mosque in berlin has been placed under twenty four hour protection after receiving hundreds of death threats from muslims unlike in traditional mosques this one which was only open less than a month ago caters to muslims of all confessions as well as the gay community men and women are supposed to pray side by side which is usually forbidden visitors are banned from wearing any full body garments like burkas indoors we spoke to the founder about the situation. and i expect it's actually actually expected that not everyone would like in general of course i knew that man wouldn't give up patriarchy so easily because these are the pattern structures that we're attacking at the moment i've only got threats because i only feel east and so to speak the heart of them but this is a movement and people should know that we spoke to him how much i feel of the

ramadan foundation. fourteen or did years of stomach history tell is that it's the man. who leads to prayer has to be male in the same way the roman catholic church suggests that the pope the head of the church of of rome has to be a man women are absolutely essential part of being involved in the mosque but the main pros have to be led by a man and any attempt to change that is distorting fourteen hundred years of stomach history and we reject up islam is relevant fourteen hundred years ago it's relevant in the twenty first century to be relevant until the end of times you have to adapt to modern settings i accept that but you cannot change the principles of our faith and i think any attempt you know to use this you know the liberal elite in our societies who want to demonize islam they want to demonize and create division i'm not going to succeed i'm out of time to be

a financial headlines typically ignored by the mainstream as some economic analysts are warning of a major markets meltdown towards a pen but october the kaiser report next. door make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round if certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

the cause. of the. or this is the kaiser report my love the charcoal it you know chocolates mexican so why is it marketed by the swiss company what the going on here should be paying royalties to mexico to market any chocolate swiss company.

actually you know we had dinner with john mill ackerman at a place called as little condesa and it was really good but they actually had me making caesar salad and i think there's some video of me doing that maybe and the other thing is that we learned is that they caesar salad was actually invented in tijuana mexico at least according to the legend at this restaurant on the fourth of july in one thousand twenty four caesar salad invested in invented until one of those two things incredible that i learned last night number one that caesar salad was invented in tijuana mexico and number two you can cook and i didn't have to actually cook anything i just mixed all the lettuce and you know we need to go there ok fair enough they don't use any sardines or anything salty like that so it's not as salty is actually was much better than a western caesar salad i loved it so i want to talk

a little bit about rationing here we've just entice you with the you know major a little bit hungry with the chocolate and the caesar salad but we're going to talk about rationing the first we're going to talk about rationing of capital of money and this is a tweet from eli he says one thing i suppose show this is initial coin offerings for sure is that for better or for worse u.s. securities law deters a lot of investment yes this is a very good point and i tell you why this is an important point. because when i was working on wall street it is beginning a financial engineering creativity. bear came out with the junk bond market and the came out with collateralized mortgage obligations securities credit default swaps derivatives there's tremendous innovation in the financial space that violated all s. e. c. laws at that time none of the financial innovation of the past twenty years was

compliance with s.b.c. law but they said we are ahead of the f.c.c. we're innovators they then when it back in they changed the law to fit what they were doing on wall street asteroid blancpain as jamie dimon they changed a lot of fit what they did already on wall street remember when citibank bought traveler's insurance that was a violation of the law that precluded under glass steagall this type of combination but what the citibank management did was convince the government to change the law so the initial point offering is got a lot of heat and people are saying you're not complied with as you see law that's right the f.c.c. nice to get these to get it with it they need to change the laws and that's what the i.c.a.o. market's doing that's what good court is doing that's why these critics of because a cryptic way in in

a saying oh you government's going to wait now if you have the market you change the law exactly but i do think a lot of these i suppose will end up being scams and everybody will lose their of their money. but what this guy is saying is that for better or for worse that this is there's obviously a lot of demand for investment content and material that is not being met by the current markets because of so much as they see regulations about going public for example or for raising funds so it is an. demand but the other thing that he says is shows and this brings in the rationing another lesson of i.c.'s don't ration through queuing what can be rationed by price so you know you will be able are you you talk all the time about the fact when you worked on wall street you guys would have the i.p.o. shares for yourself and you would build them out to. good clients that you like you

would give them the early shares before the i.p.o. popped and i saw that source that doesn't sound like it's completely open now where they would ever have said anything like that so at the moment we have a rationing based on standing in the queue waiting to get the first share available here he's saying you can ration it by price and this is what i see the market is showing well it's the trend has brought paris with the i.c.a.o. that is doing over the course of a year or so he's doing it i think in a way that is more egalitarian if you will are fair to the market and remember when google went public back in the late ninety's they tried doing a reverse auction. to go public at that time and bypass the wall street mechanisms of my own hollywood stock exchange that i created back in one thousand nine hundred six created a way to price discovery to take movies and stars public on the exchange based on my own patented algorithmic price discovery mechanism so this is a non going to bait this new i c o bank or it is it says that it is

basically price discovering a new way that allows for currencies to be better represented in the market so that large dominated forex currencies like a euro or a dollar is kind of on equal footing with a less dominant forex represented currency like a ruble and so it makes sense on paper you need a good management team you need a good market for it doesn't mean it's going to be successful but these guys are approaching the problem with solutions the recent crash theory of price shows that the demand for i.c. . outstrip the market making capacity of the exchanges to make markets in the i.c.u. knows so what does that mean that means i c o's are bad no it means the market making technology for theory needs to be improved you can borrow from my pad go ahead i don't own or anymore so take it steal it i don't care it's owned by some wacky wall street bank that i hate now but you know in terms of bank or i do want to say i've read basically experts security experts code writing experts who have

now looked at the code and say there's actually back doors in it and they can cut you off from the grid so they could they could basically delete your currency so that is in their their technology their algorithm whatever their i.c.a.o. was just so you know so don't go out and buy bank or just because we've mentioned it try to get in on that but speaking of rationing i want to move on to another topic this is again in the united states and. you know. first of all there's a rationing of time there's only so much time that the news has twenty four hours and what it all the minutes within those hours to cover any news they feel fit to fill that time for the u.s. audience sixty five percent according to a harvard harris poll say that they want. the news and they want congress to move on from these russian conspiracy theories sixty five percent of americans say

they're sick of these this and their air space being filled with this and they want instead to hear about economics they want to know about health care so you know we've had that we had the senate health care bill their version of trump care the age ca written in secret and then it was revealed and it's just as horrible as it were it's actually even more horrible than the republican congressional version and those are a little bit worse than a ca so i have this headline here from matt bruning and it says how many people will obamacare and h.c.a. killed and he's saying both of them are killing people because center for american progress you know that predestiny finance group neera tanden runs and they're part of the resistance so the ones pushing all these stories about russia gate and russia conspiracy theories all five separate people were by line down the center for american progress post about how many people a will kill this post is quite long but all the authors really do is to take the c

b o estimates of how many people will lose coverage under eight h.c.a. and then divide that number by eight thirty they do this because there is a study that shows that one person dies on necessarily for every eight hundred thirty people who lack health insurance so he did it for all of them single payer and it is that down of the bottom zero deaths due to not having any coverage that is obamacare the one that everybody is fighting to defend to the death all the left wing the liberals have been co-opted into and you know. supporting a program written by the heritage institute a very far right wing economic think tank and it's a little bit you know. obamacare is not quite as bad as trump care but they both kill well is obamacare a term care designed to kill people because it is doing its job just like the architects of the growth all tower of london and the folks that put up the flammable cladding did to kill people that's their culpability in that the people

who designed this health care are doing so to kill people that's their culpability in it the capitalist system in america as iterated by the current regime of kleptocrats thinks killing people is necessary to make payments in greenwich connecticut yes and they say that under a child care nearly five hundred forty thousand people will die in the next decade versus obamacare it would be three hundred twenty thousand deaths due to lack of access to health care so i want to turn on to in the last three minutes here i want to move to mexico because there's also a rationing story here trumps russian scandal pales in comparison to what just happened in mexico mexico's latest disgrace involves alleged spying by state and journalist and activists with spyware from israel but more importantly with the article in terms of this rationing they talk about the corruption problem across mexico and that that annually between two percent and ten percent of his g.d.p. reduces foreign investment by five percent and wipes out about four hundred eighty thousand jobs due to corruption but a lot of it is in the individual states and the governors and one in particular

they mention is the former vera cruz governor harvey a day also of the p.r.i. party the pre party that runs this government run the state as a personal cookie jar tracked down to guatemala and april and duly arrested duarte is accused of skimming hundreds of millions of dollars from public funds his plundering of his own state left it in rooms of has come to symbolize a culture of corruption that reigns in mexico and one scam has become emblematic of his greed allegations that children battling can. or in his state were given water instead of chemotherapy drugs so that he could keep the funds meant to pay for their treatment for himself so right now there are no fewer than sixteen former state governors either in prison waiting to face justice or on the run but here that guy with that you know the news is saying this guy is obviously evil you steal water you do you give these little kids not chemotherapy drugs but water i mean how is that any different from obamacare or trump care well it's

a very different than flint michigan being forced to consume lead laced poisonous toxic life killing water right it's an industrial death policy brought on by corporatist and cup the krauts again going back to the news media in america time is rationed they only have so many minutes between commercial breaks to give the news to the american people and it's all russia russia russia they want to stop hearing about this they want to know they want some of that ration the time to be devoted to health care policy to the economy to corruption to competitiveness to these sort of issues that actually matter to the individual down on the ground but the corporate media will tell you the way they see it is that there's only so much news they can force feed in between commercials exactly right at the commercials or what they're there to serve not is live for us it's good because we are so successful our network and our show because people do there is still demand for it

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before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house. first sit. welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are loving it in mexico yeah i would like to resume my conversation now with columnist and economist alexander and i don't know welcome back thank you very much all right we were covering the entire rebel mexican economy a stagnating we talked about why the previous episode you know the money is doesn't seem to drop to the bottom line it goes off shore basically so rid of corruption panama papers reveal that. it's worse than that i mean you have a policy package that conspires against growth and you've been implementing the sponsored purpose for three decades if you consider that the main priority of the

mexican policymakers since one thousand nine hundred eighty two was to control inflation. then you will have the explanation of why the mexican economy's things because how do you control which the mexican palsy maker following the i.m.f. or the world bank of the russian the consensus said it's very easy we will control aggregate demand how do you do that compress wages if you look at wages and makes you think we just have stagnated in the us they were in europe since one thousand nine hundred ninety look at the mexican data and you it's really amazing this is really the average is ok so you repress wages you restrict public expenditures because this is a major component the package at the moment so you restrict. expenditures you increase interest rates and you use the exchange rate as an anchor for the system of relative prices in mexico to control inflation all of these things combined give you

a clear message of this economy is not going to grow ever and this is the policy because that is crystallized and fixed in by nafta so this is why i say we need to get rid of nafta we need to recover space for economic policy the. the world has changed we're not living in one thousand nine hundred two we need different objectives it's not like we're going to use oil as a lever for you know a lever for development look at the world today look at the amount of oil we have left that's not going to happen we need new projects both at the macroeconomic level but also at the secular liberal we need to recover our good at the agricultural sector has been devastated by nafta for example so this is a lot of homer we need to do but the basis is we need to change this policy package that is a perverse system of. how should i say forces. came in as a. it's. been seen as if you want to say that but it's you know it

is really a combination of instruments that we princes growth employment and fiscal revenue so if you have a terrible package for mexico. economic policy has really. led us into this. morning of stagnation ok so on protesters around the strait they're saying the reagan factor as i'm the monitor is ation of the economy the financialization the nail liberalization started in the eighty's the early eighty's and that period they talked about the devastation is done to america and the united kingdom include mexico and that analysis neoliberalism financialization giving banks the wherewithal to run roughshod over the entire economy and the name of some economic policy called aggregate to master me elation which is fed by debt aggregation debt aggregation only thing is that you are the main call was you know we will control inflation and if you deregulate markets you will have growth in the

stability and jobs and everything will be stimulated through allowing the debt to increase no users you honor but you fight inflation by repressing ways. the wage the real wage level in united states thank made it since one thousand nine hundred eighty three that curve was growing after the war and then you know you see the curve the historical perspective is nine hundred seventy three it flattens in the never comes back again what increase was invented this ok so i just said that yeah absolutely ok so lately though my point the senate. so far on with inflation and deflation is that the definition excludes wages in other words you have zero after the stock market makes goes up one hundred percent sure a great excess so people look at that no say must be great the economy is great everyone's great national poverty everyone's rich and you have to wrestle flows and you have a serious and central bank and we persist so it's fine to do this you guys have one

hundred forty billion reserves in the world in the in the central bank so you must be doing fine and i hear those numbers so you guys both start praying because the next crisis will start you know it can start tonight or tomorrow is a bank of mexico central bank oh i mean the financial sector hook let me say now is running it world it's not it's a it's a but it's a consortium of banks it is has funds it's the guys that brought the global financial system this is not a well we've got market oriented mark carney and eyes and kingdom you've got janet yellen in the states you've got my a dragon ball you mean you've got your old or your pant ok so you've got carson's here or the. car since augustine carson their show is about to crash it is a guy that came from my you math etc and i have copped a crash not only that they use a macro economic model that is probably worthless you know it is so the problem is not who wrote this this thing is not an independent entity this is

a crucial thing now because the central bank you know this idea became so popular in the eighty's and ninety's we need a low tone to me and independence for the central bank well from the government yes but he said when we look at the banks i see. ditto if you need to make posters everywhere get to spend ditto says carson's garson so bandito that's right he's in bed with the global banditos course like all of these guys are ok exactly so he goes to martin in the market says you're not given good price discovery because you're increasing debt using financial engineering destroying wages that's not good for the regulations and the laws of nature don't don't don't suggest that you could conduct yourself in this way and he says laws we don't need no stinking laws ok i'm of course i'm referencing the treasure of sierra madre possibly the greatest film ever made with software bogart i'm sure you'll watch a tear to my right you're smiling some man is smiling that's right of course yes these. data absolutely yes so you have this

mantra about free markets and stability free markets and make believe prices and balance budgets and all these things this is what's wrong in the mexican economy this is why you have the complete kaos and then you know i see no we this is a wire economy after being bombarded government step away america come eric eric grab the alligator right there that alligator leader cam or grab an alligator you know step aside from your camera walk over with your legs and grab that alligator saying my spanish is not so great is it that's. going to get we got we got alligator this is for carson sir this is what we're going to do we're going to feed him to the crocodile because john john john but that's who we're going to do we think. he wasn't too happy about it because sour didn't taste good. let's move on the paris climate agreement changing gears for

a second it was only when trump bailed out of this non-binding watered down kyoto fake agreement that mayors and governors and other local governments bodies started actually doing something. well you say i was a big fan of the paris agreement but as everybody says it was the only thing we have i mean i'm not a big fan of the president for one crucial reason all the commitments are voluntary non-binding ok that spelled really bad news but the i could picture this think came from the cops. what was it eighteen was in denmark in copenhagen that's when the you know that's when brazil the brics another fantastic story of the brics and but then trump in saying that this disagreement sucks especially he said it stinks it means calling the truth about it so well it's a bad thing you know i think he's saying i think he's you say this is a funny thing he's pulling out of that thing for for the wrong kinds of reasons ok

if anything what you need to do with the president is let's say let's make sure that all of these are both very commitments independently stablished commitments by each country get employed actually implemented in the countries that we're going to cut emissions by forty five percent in twenty twenty five that you actually do the list let's strengthen that agreement you don't pull out of a better agreement you know that is so important as a pair of agree never disclosed talking shops in a do i think i mean trump said is that a global us is anti new world order essentially because it by putting america first you create more competition what's happened is useful than a disagreement and you have corporations and countries down competing with each other to bring in a better agreement and competition works instead of a global talking shop of nobody doing nothing well the thing is that i mean he's not putting america first he's going america way back also i mean listen if you

want to develop where is where is the the if you going to need. renewable energy and you going to change the profile of the energy use in the global economy. you want to be producing you want to be with the companies that are going to be producing solar and wind and you know the renewable energy industry what's happening in mexico and well what's happened in the us is i mean you are you are giving you are you know this is not improving the situation of american companies mexico is you know we don't have an industrial policy so we have some investments in solar we have an advantage in solar as you can see right now we could use that a lot but we don't have an industrial policy you don't want it so anyway no of all the encouragement knowing that it's not only incurring that's just beyond irresponsible for that's that's like that's like terrorism it's not it's not our fault i would say it's not our fault whose fault is it well we negotiated agreements that includes w t o that impedes the use industrial policy

instruments like for example performance requirements for foreign investment you cannot do that anymore well we would like to use the purchasing power of the public sector you cannot use that anymore there are agreements if you look at w.t. oh look we have our hands up now though you theo today is a minor player in the global arena because because of the financial crisis the real big tigers are financial sector the age of the financial sector got about a minute left quickly i think i'm sorry i just want to cover this yeah china are they big in mexico are they what's going on if i think they're in it in mexico. getting bigger but they are not right now they are not let's say the central force that orients the mexican economy but i think as they are a bit like that all over the world all they're investing and they're bringing the best but i think they are probably more active another latin american countries and mexico really doesn't like to think america will continue to meddle in mexican

elections the way they have been for decades absolutely. sure it's a really good you know need put in to to be accused of that i mean it's the of course these guys have been meddling in elections not only in mexico but the world wanted to blatantly late night meddling users so you're telling me it's true apparently battle of mexican elections oh yeah you're the brother you know you would be fit through absolutely and even if meddled all over latin american social merican south america does i think it really they get rid of the demichelis elected leaders and stick in dictators and intended to lead did they meddle during the elections and after the elections or you know they want to lose and then what happened as a russian ever meddled in the to your knowledge here in mexico i don't think so i mean i don't think one thing that i owe him and they were i work here and never had bush yes very lovely person we got to go there thanks really felt ok thank you very much specs are with us going to do if this edition of the kaiser report with me max

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