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question. hey there i'm lindsey francis broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight in the run up to the group of twenty summit at hamburg germany we take a look at the predictable economic and trade hotspots that are sure to crop up and a whole host of new political issues that are short to get in the way also should firms plan to leave the u.k. even as bret's that talks of just begun and has british leaders shaken as businesses are already planning their own very detailed exit strategy and where in the world the big point come from and where is it headed now i guess the author of how money got free that point in the fight for the future of finances fills the

ascent on this topic stand by for us are right. and the group of twenty economic powers converge on hamburg germany for the annual summit we see a number of new leaders among the group and a number of new political tensions there as well ahead of the summit president trump gave a patriotic speech in warsaw poland which could indicate the tone he plans to strike in hamburg. the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive do we have the confidence

in our values to defend them. at any cost do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it. well trump is on course to separate himself from the pack over his stance on many things including trade deals cue the exploration of new economic ties by other nations first up japan and the european union the two have just announced a free trade deal also on offer are a host of other hot topics such as north korea and its missile tests russia and the united states elections nato and climate change another area where trump diverged from the set path of course it's important to note that an agenda may be set but it's really the sideline talks that sometimes bear the most fruit.

i. traditionally the heads of state in attendance at the g twenty focus on global growth and market regulation but this year the expected topics of discussion are looking a little different for she has more on that for us now. we're heading into obviously very beginning coming up what should we anticipate you're right so as you said this year will definitely be more or less of a focus on just growth and markets one big topic this year will certainly be trade because all of the other areas that are likely to be discussed derive from that so it's kind of the root of this year's conference each year members from the g. twenty nations gather to talk about the world's most pressing economic issues after all they collectively account for over four fifths of global growth as well as

three quarters of global trade and the latter has been a primary concern over the past year after breck's it and donald trump's presidential victory the future of free trade became murky agreements like nafta and the t p p were threatened and it looks like the u.k. will not retain access to the european single market and it's not to. the u.s. or u.k. that has to worry about that a change in any of those agreements could have global implications and it's clear that other countries like the richest member are taking note because i think we both agree on the facts that we want to strengthen multilateral relations as a consequence of the g. twenty s. work and we want to keep the trade flows open merkel made those comments next to singapore's prime minister just a day ahead of the summit emphasizing their strong commitment to trade they also touched upon security issues which is another topic we can expect to hear about especially where nato is concerned during his trip to poland from claimed billions

of dollars have cordin to the organization since he called on all members to pay their fair share but he also issued a warning what we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before and if we fail to preserve it it will never ever exist again so we cannot fail. his remarks it didn't come as a surprise since he said before that he'd pull the u.s. out of nato if other members didn't pay up what might surprise some leaders though is this so-called welcome to help protest going on protesters descended into hamburg to bring attention to climate change just a month after the u.s. announced its exit from the paris agreement it's yet another issue that tension between trump and his global counterparts considering the disagreement in policy a summit kicks off on friday and will last for two days with protesters expected to

be present for the full extent of it. of course who are sitting there watching what comes out of these meetings and as i've said before and i'm sure you've covered these stories enough it's not so much the meetings on the agenda it's the side meetings that we see a lot of and source let's let's go back to talking about the japan the trade deal the just been announced between them what can you tell us about them so they just announce or trade deal it's a free trade agreement is excited solve access to japan's cars japan is excited because they'll have access to the farming products manufactured in the e.u. we do not know every single detail of the deal yet it's pretty pretty broad but it is rather telling that it was announced on the day before the g twenty summit similar to similar to something other trade agreements that were just announced particularly between you and asian countries you know some people are saying is this a sign that other countries are just not going to hold their breath any longer and just move past. america first policies and you know they're not going to wait for

that to be official. you know to go around him and not through him or through the united states really which is yeah important which is you know could be a sign for more similar agreements like that to happen sooner rather than waiting for breakfast to be officially over and waiting to see how the rest of the term presidency plays out. over climate change now is every member expected to jump on the u.s. for. pulling out of the paris obviously publicly they've made very harsh statements but all twenty members what do we see coming out of this divergence here yeah a little bit i mean most western european leaders like merkel and may have come out against it and said that they plan on challenging trump at the g twenty over leaving paris agreement but a lot of other countries that have not signed on yet like turkey and indonesia are now being a little less clear on whether or not they'll end up signing on to the terrace agreement really so when trying to go i mean you know have to see what happens on

friday and saturday but it doesn't look like every single leader that's there is going to get after trying for not staying in the paris agreement i might be a little more of a mix i mean western europe will certainly be beyond him for it but the rest of the countries might remain a little more quiet. what do you anticipate just watching his posture and coming into this we've talked about you know two instances of him in speaking in poland very sort of nationalist tendencies what do you think we're going to see as far as his behavior goes you know it will be different than his behavior in poland because he you know obviously walked into a very warm reception i think his reception at the g. twenty is going to be a little different so we'll see hopefully we'll push anybody out of the way this hopefully not you very much christine. after brags that the future of british businesses came into question immediately will they stay or leave for pastures of the u.k. hasn't even left yet some firms are already planning very specific exit strategies

and it's not sitting well with british leaders especially andrew bailey bailey who leads the u.k.'s financial conduct authority told a crowd at canary wharf firms should be able to take their own decisions on where they locate subject to appropriate regulatory arrangements being in place which preserve the public interests authorities should not dictate the location of firms he went on to say it would be regrettable if those firms moved before knowing what drugs that negotiations turn out to be but he welcomed the competition from other cities like frankfurt and paris to take over as europe's finance. canada's prime minister will be treading lightly at the g twenty summit as he attempts to manage a potential showdown between the us and germany are looking out for his own country's best interests and that is just one of the possible fights there will be a number of divisive issues on at play during that meeting which could cause some sparks to fly including climate change terrorism trade and refugees or tease out

some highlights has the latest for us from toronto alex. so far we've seen a bit of civility between the leaders from the u.s. and germany a little different than most of the white house not too long ago that may change though as the meetings progress how does prime minister trudeau intend to push forward his agenda while sort of mending these wrath let's face facts to those more on the merkel side that he is on president trying but their buddies let's not forget their buddies canada day which was just a couple of days ago right before the fourth of julys july the first which is canada day president trump sent out a message say you know my new found friend justin trudeau and hello everybody else in canada so they're buddies so that's the way that trudeau's playing this game so migration yes climate change yes you know we're talking about also free trade now free trade is the big one for canada obviously the u.s. is our biggest trading partner so trudeau does have to tread lightly he can't be as brash as merkel has been when she's talking about donald trump he has to tiptoe

around mr trump and there's good reason for that i mean obviously trade you want to see canada making money and when you're making money with the states it's a good thing everybody's happy also the migration thing so you know how many refugees we take it to this country we had three hundred twenty thousand immigrants come in last year alone that that's a huge number it's a bit different in the states we know that and that's not something that canada is going to be pushing at all when it comes to climate change we are totally for the pair's accord and what mr trudeau is saying is that you know what the rest of the countries the g twenty summit including germany you need to walk around mr trump in a different way don't hit him head on necessarily there's a lot of advocates of the paris agreement in the united states they might be at a state level they might be at a municipal level they might be just amongst people in the u.s. so looking at the popularity you know working for a better environment mr trump is not the be all and end all really but at the same time at the same time i think justin trudeau understands very well that to get mr

trump to part. dissipate and all these things would be better so the way he does it is just with a little bit more diplomacy than i'd say a glimmer of hope does and it's been working and other leaders are actually read the world are trying to emulate what the present prime minister trudeau is doing when he's talking to president trump and that's you know a little bit of a stroke of the ego and then you have to move forward from there to say that coke's that ego and just welcome them with open arms that won the battle that's expected to continue at the g. twenty between germany and turkey so the latest on that. we know you know there's three million turks that live in germany so i mean that's a that's a lot of people and one of the contentious issues has been since last spring you know some turkish politicians during election time there and even prior after election they want to come talk to their people that are in germany and germany and the netherlands but said not to do it on our territory now president everyone was not very happy with that and that is still pushing forward right now we're seeing

the installation art in hamburg that is and t. heir to one and that he's not very happy with that everything seems to be shocking to have him freaks out right away and as well as the fact that you know there was this whole agreement with the with the e.u. with refugees as well so you know what we're talking about all these different aspects of it and just the fact that these two countries don't agree on a lot of thing media but let's not forget there was a turkish german reporter a journalist back in february who was arrested in turkey angela merkel has asked turkey to return this woman many times over and present everyone say look no way first you've got to kick over some of the kurdish rebels or rebel types that live in germany over to turkey and then we can talk about this so you know this is not one of those he said she said or one of these battles where you get a bickering back and forth like merkel and trump they're calling each other names sometime this is actually the real deal stuff going on so they're not really friendly with each other right ok well let's. let's talk about the refugee

situation jeremy in turkey are likely to bring this on. we know many countries of the g twenty are at odds when it comes to the subject very touchy any progress who might be able to see in this area probably not and one of those things that you i just mentioned that the refugee thing there's a new type tie between turkey and the e.u. and germany obviously being the powerhouse there six billion dollars went to turkey for the turkish to take care of refugees from syria so that they wouldn't be going through greece into the e.u. the turks were promised visa free free travel they were powerless to a quicker access to get into the e.u. and none of the stuff that's really happened so president was not really happy with the way this is moving as we know also in germany i mean they lead over a million million point two refugees into their country so it's going to a lot of discussion here especially with president trump when you have the canadian side where we are living in refugees the saudis who have a lot in a single refugee but want everybody else to so i mean because twenty countries there there's going to be

a lot of heads butting and this could be one of those issues all right thank you so much we have edge from toronto thank you. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return the u.s. trade deficit narrowed and brian cathcart is the author of how money got free decline in the fight for the future of finance weighs in on the background of bitcoin and how it got to where it is now as we head to break here the numbers because into. all the world still no news companies are merely players but what kind of partners are anti american play r.t. america offers me r t america offers. many ways to use landscape

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a budget name and what your biggest fear. of the moment a right wing. well you sure you. want to. i did you. were. i. the u.s. trade deficit narrowed by two point two percent to a seasonally adjusted for forty six point five billion dollars in may according to the commerce department these numbers depended on an increase in shipments of cars and consumer goods like cell phones exports rose modestly to one hundred ninety two billion dollars the highest level since april two thousand and fifteen now the deficit in goods with china fell by six point two percent to thirty point one

billion dollars the gap with mexico rose by five point six percent to six point eight billion president donald trump blames bad deals and abusive practices by trade partners for america's deficit despite the dip in may the overall u.s. trade deficit is up thirteen point one percent so far exports are up six percent imports imports are up for more seven point three percent while imports fell slightly. argentina has a mega merger on its hands cablevision is joining up with telecom argentina it will create argentina's biggest public company with a market value of more than eleven point five billion dollars in a first for the country the new company will legally be allowed to offer packages of wireless landline fixed internet and television services to its customers this is something competitors want to get in on and now they've got to play catch up it puts the sector right in line with president crees a to increase service quality and digitization across argentina telecom argentina will issue one point one nine billion new shares to the owners of cablevision

cablevision's holders will own fifty five percent of telecom argentina. and cryptocurrency are everywhere these days from the king of the mall to up and comers like in syria today they have a total market cap of about one hundred billion dollars but why are so many hot right now where did it all start joining me today to answer these questions is brian patrick technology journalists and the co-author and the author rather of the new book how money got free coins and the fight for the future of finance thank you so much for joining me to talk about this obviously the subject of cryptocurrency and block chain attack it can be intimidating to the average person but what got you so interested that you felt you had to literally write a book to explain it to people. well lindsey the first time i ever wrote about bitcoin was in the summer of two thousand and twelve i was a staff writer at c.n.n. money and i'll never forget when i was already interested in big but i didn't know

that much about it and when i pitched this story to my editor she said you know k. go and do it but don't make too much of it she said because it is just a digital curiosity it's a plaything for crypto anarchists you know there's really not much to it and i kind of had a feeling that maybe that wasn't quite right but i really didn't have the ammunition at the time to make a good rebuttal so i just i went and did the story and i remember as i will never forget i'm as i talk to the employees of the start up in manhattan i just became overwhelmed with the sense that this was something that had real potential and then the guys themselves i became you know just fascinated with how they were risking everything to build the early infrastructure of a new economy these guys were young they were hungry they were passionate and you know what i what i realized was that big coin opens a window on to a lot of the most important issues and events of our time whether it be the financial crisis and great recession or the globalization versus populism and so on

but it was beyond that it was really delving into the lives and work of these early rebel entrepreneurs that made me understand just how rich a book length narrative about bitcoin could be right so you've mentioned these early rabble entrepreneurs and coders we know that big coins big coins themselves each singular one are generated by using computers to solve these complex math problems but who created the code in the first place i mean who invented big point for people who were curious or people who watch the skyrocketing numbers now. sure well it was created by someone calling himself the toshi nakamoto which wasn't his real name there's there's been kind of a massive worldwide manhunt many attempts to discover his real identity with no. of resolution to that in fact we're not even sure that it was just one guy it could have been a small team working together under one pseudonym but there are some signs in the

early versions of the code that this was the work of of one kind of idiosyncratic genius and before he released the first version of the software in january two thousand and nine he published a white paper on a mailing list an online mailing list for cryptographers this very small group that was in august two thousand and eight and some of the earliest guys who looked at this white paper that explained soto she's invention they tried to tell him you know this is crazy this isn't going to work and they wanted to engage him in this theoretical debate and basically he told them look i actually have already written the code i wrote the code to prove to myself that it could work even before writing this white paper to explain it so rather than getting into the debate it be easier for me to just release the first version of the software and kind of prove that it would work he had seen earlier attempts to create a form of electronic cash kind of spider out and never really go anywhere and he wanted to make sure that his would be more than just a pipe dream so he he he did that and pretty quickly some other coders

actually got involved they were attracted by his vision and they sort of volunteered their time to help him refine the software they discovered there were some bugs in the earliest version of because they needed to be fixed and so you might say suppose you kind of attracted some disciples but after a few years. vanished from the scene he kind of walked away he kind of gave the keys to the kingdom to his right hand man this other developer and and he withdrew him self and i honestly think that's one of the many brilliant things that he did because he needed to see if it could stand on its own and not just become a cult of personality around this this you know shadowy creator so right solely as you take. personality create it pass it on to see if they can make a go of it was talk about the senior side a lot of people say that aside from not wanting to to sort of legitimize bitcoin because it's

a volatile and unpredictable they also talk about the seedier side of things with with dark web buying missile launchers and drugs. this is a lot of people away from even wanting to talk about bitcoin what do you say to people that say will this do you a good in my eyes is it because because it is so secret. well i think we need to understand that you know because one is a form of money and like other forms of money it is going to be used some percentage of the time by bad actors you know whether it be one hundred dollar bills or you know gold coins like krugerrands or bearer bonds or these different forms of you know direct of value exchange they always get adopted by criminals to some extent you know one of the big examples of this in the early days of bitcoin was the crypto market silk road this was the first example of a new kind of online black market that mostly sold illegal drugs and it's true that the impact of silk road on record in the early days really can't be overestimated i

mentioned because it was created in january two thousand and nine but for the first two years of its existence it was practically worthless in terms of monetary value silk road opened its doors in january two thousand and eleven and within days the value of a bit coin had gone above one us dollar and has never fallen below it since so you mentioned volatility but but despite that volatility it has you know always kind of stayed at or above parity with the u.s. dollar and so ever since then it has had this real monetary exchange value book so crude was finally shut down in october two thousand and thirteen and it's its creator this young texan named who was running it he received a life sentence of life in prison and what was discovered at that time was that actually the black market is a fairly small portion of the overall but quite a qana me that that because actually can endure and thrive without it at the same time just like with cash as i mentioned this is also a use case for big one that has never gone away completely it is still the

preferred currency of the digital underground there are these other copycat black markets out there that were inspired by silk road i spoke with a researcher recently who said it's about a five hundred million dollar a year market altogether and pretty that's. significant but when you consider the fact that the corn itself has a forty two billion dollars market cap and billions of dollars worth changing hands every day you know it's really not the main use for big corn right and it's interesting to see if these different initial coin offerings end up going through when it gets more legitimized by places other than just you know south korea's as we've talked about on this show quite a bit lot of volatility but man the value no and i never thought i would see this very interesting book you've got very very illuminating on this on a subject that not only enough people talk about thank you so much for joining me on this brian is the offer of how money got free big corn in the fight for the future of finance thank you and see. tesla motors debuted its first electronic

car back in two thousand and eight it has been a mainstay of automotive world excitement for nearly a decade but now it's ready for an upgrade the new model three is set for delivery on july twenty eighth c.e.o. elon musk took to twitter proclaiming that the newest electric car passed all regulatory requirements for production two whole weeks ahead of schedule now for some of us that announcement not mean much however it does mean a lot to the three hundred thousand people who paid thousand bucks just to reserve it what really sets this car apart though is the price tesla model s. costs around seventy thousand dollars model x. jumps up to more than eighty three thousand and the three stays right down around thirty five thousand bucks tesla is looking to have more than twenty thousand model threes on the showroom floor by december. that's all for now check out the show on you tube youtube dot com. thanks for watching.

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