his look was because. he. seemed wrong. to shape our. ticket and in. the trail. the party. common ground. the headline international in syria the u.s. led coalition has exchanged fire with. the interests of nato

allies in the country's klatsch. off to be saved from. iraq. normal childhood. abuse. for. any danger that children are exposed to. and one of america's top universities which prides itself on its work with the indigenous community refusing to budge as a native american tribe claims. nine am on wednesday here in moscow you're watching international we have your latest world news. well relations between nato allies america and turkey are again

in the spotlight after the u.s. led coalition forces exchanged fire with turkish backed rebels near the syrian city of mann bridge. explains how the events unfolded. the u.s. has found itself between a rock and a hard place in syria namely between kurdish and turkish forces both of whom are supposed to be american allies but consider one another anime's and it seems tensions are on the rise with a coalition spokesperson revealing that u.s. backed forces exchanged fire with pro turkish rebels not once but several times in recent weeks when patrolling areas held by the forces turkey supports. patrols that have been conducting patrols in the area to keep tensions down received multiple times over the course of the last two weeks now the u.s. has told turkey to pass on to the rebels they support that firing on u.s. led coalition forces is quote not acceptable adding that patrols will continue and warning that coalition forces are always prepared and ready to defend themselves if

need be which is not exactly the kind of dialogue you'd expect between two major powers meant to be important friends and allies but the reality of the situation is that northern syria is now a metaphorical minefield of possible clashes with conflicting alliances that could unravel at the slightest misstep. turkey remains a nato ally and an important part partner in play against dash we expect both those relationships does not do at all they should shift to continue. going to continue to work with the white b.g. as a part of the overarching syrian democratic forces. america

i told you many times you need to side with us all those terrorist organizations you haven't had a good grasp of them and that's why the region has tended to. see. up till now america has more or less managed to navigate the murky waters between the turks and kurds even deploying a number of troops to northern syria months ago with the specific task to turn the two parties from attacking one another but that effort has met with little success leaving few surprised in the wake of these recent skirmishes and fact conflicts like this one have been a long time coming if it's and then american military advisers go to. fool seats would not kid american. whether carries out the will of assad by accident if you rockets can hit them.

now the u.s. was of course never invited into syria but rushed in anyway perhaps without fully understanding the lay of the land now washington finds itself trying to keep peace between its own partners all the while distracting from the real enemy at hand i still just r.t. washington d.c. . tokyo specialist emory callous gun believes the interests of washington and in syria and now no longer the same. there might be two things on the table first of all there's a lack of actually corporation between the two sides basically turkey doesn't inform the americans or do i said or so or the second option might be this might be a mistake and of course there's a third option which is more dangerous that turkey does not control the few syrian army any more today indeed united states and the americans interest are not any more overlapping because for the future of syria and turkey iraq turkey is interest

all quite different than the american ones the battle to force i saw from war torn iraq has devastated civilian lives in parts of the country with children particularly affected even before the liberation of most or all of the battle for tal afar the number of youngsters desperately in need of help exceeded five million there are no present day figures but that number is now expected to be much higher . but i guess takes a look at what problems these children space in their struggle for a normal life. these children have seen more bloodshed and agony than most adults will in a lifetime nearly ninety percent of children have lost a member of a family either they were kidnapped or killed and when they were escaping from the fight many of them have lost family members they were shot at from behind or to falling on booby traps it has been

a horrible experience helicopter flies around. dropping down on the floor and crying some of them my some of them feel when they see for a mess some of them feel when they see you know people that they are not comfortable in with some of them shut up and say no what for quite a long time until they could actually opened up definitely they go all the extreme distress and also physically unfortunately many of them are wounded. many of the hospitalised we visit confirmed that. the biggest number of civilians they have in the hospitals are children traumatized in mind and body but alive lucky by local standards though let's be frank they're stuck in orphanages and refugee camps in iraq and you believe given the sheer magnitude of the problem

thousands and thousands of orphans who. do believe you can adequately help them we are helping those sold and we see certainly we don't have enough resources the children are almost everywhere but ultimately the support comes from family from government and the extended family that once we connect children. everybody schemed to receive them and the support of the problem is making the connection go to all of these orphans iraqi. so many foreign children of isis fighters. it is much better of foreign children were reunited with their families they will have problems here with documents in schools with health care they need their families love problems is putting it lightly in iraq tribal culture venerates blood feuds and revenge isis harmed millions there are those who would use these

children who hate them for what their parents did. vulnerable for abuse they are vulnerable for trafficking. or for. any danger that children are exposed to in today's technology any. bad group. could get those children and harmed them some of these lost children a raped their assaulted abused and abandoned killed for their organs hated for the sins of their fathers the un and unicef do what they can to protect them but there are too many getting them out is a reward unto itself. we helped identify and reunite

a number of these shoulder and yet it isn't straightforward unicef for example once these kids identities protected fearing stigma or exploitation we know we tell our children. if we do not allow our children to normalize tensions that we did not know how do we think of allowing a child that had gone through a. crisis. it's a choice you can shoe their faces for everyone to see and let their relatives recognize them pray that they find them themselves one desperate young refugees among the rocks millions. from iraq. a top u.s. universities on the defensive all for

a native american tribe and supporters set up a protest camp on the premises insisting the land was stolen from them hundreds of years ago and now they want to back. we've done everything possible. and. we want this. brown university is considered one of the most liberal in the elite i feel the group of universities and colleges and so as it prides itself on its work with students from the minority community the university even conducted a study investigating its historical relationship to slavery since taken action to rewrite its official history accepting the role of slavery in the development of the institution adding it now aims to enroll more african american students brown

also claims warm relations with local indigenous tribes and host annual meetings to raise awareness about minority group issues and it made headlines after renaming the federal holiday columbus day to indigenous peoples day last year however when it comes to the tribes demands the university is refusing to budge. the pa cannot get tribe is not recognized by the federal government or more importantly by the other federally recognized indigenous communities there is an important technical difference between holding need of ancestry and holding nation status and that is at the heart of the issue here in camp and has already been on the campus for more than a week the tribe insists it's staying there and has also taken the case to court the co-founder of the code pink activist group things that dispute shows the university's progressive talk is a more of a facade talk is cheap it certainly is the in thing now or

corporations university. sports associations to talk that talk about and have progressive they are to adopt the language. but when the call is for land to be given bag or for reparations to be made for slavery or anything that involves actual financial restitution that's where they draw the line. the german chancellor has found herself being heckled at a campaign rally and with the general election in just under a month's time crowds turned angry when i claimed germany was a more colorful place when diversity is increased. you know what it comes to tough crowds this was probably around the toughest i

think i've ever seen a certainly a sitting politician receive one of their own rallies just as soon as i go in merkel opened her mouth and said hello brandenburg she was greeted with an absolute chorus of boos and whistles her supporters certainly being drowned out with any applause and at times the chancellor's own statements been dampened by the cough cough and that was coming from the crowd earlier on tuesday though i had a much more well very hospitable stage to speak to the german people from she was talking to the gathered press. and you all some a press conference in it she touched on a number of issues relations with poland and turkey neither of which are pretty really very good right now here in germany border controls throughout the end zone and she also said that she did not regret any decisions that she made back in twenty fifteen with relation to the migrant crisis and her opening of the borders

to people to come here to germany she said that when it came to the major decisions she would make them all exactly the same again that's all well and good now but in the very recent past she has said something very different the sentence we can do this is part of my political work but so much has been read into this every day expression it has become a simple motto in the discussion around it has turned into an unproductive endless loop we didn't embrace the problem in an appropriate we the reason for that seeming change of heart may well be the polls angle merkel certainly didn't receive a very good reception in brandenburg on tuesday evening but if you look at the polls from across the country she's sixteen to seventeen points ahead depending on who you look at and. at the moment it doesn't look like a nearest challenges the social democrats and the martin schultz are going to get anywhere near her despite uncle merkel being almost nailed on to win it's according

to the polls after the reaction she received in brandenburg on tuesday night the month can seem very long in politics indeed your news continues in just a moment. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. perforations from washington to washington the media the media the voters elected businessmen to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. when almost seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all.

get to shape out just days after. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. joining us today for your news a report by swedish police as revealed that in less than two years there's been a dramatic increase in so-called no go zones across the country and want to fish oils avoid using that term when making reference to mostly migrant populated pockets referring instead to that of vulnerable areas though the same problems.

that. we need to make clear shift in direction we cannot continue in this direction ten more years so i didn't used to do more we need to do more we need to focus on the serious here the problem is that cultural difference and that these immigrants who

come to sweden to not want to integrate or some don't want to integrate we see this is traditionally many of the european countries where they have taken a lot of immigrants we don't see it in for example poland hungary but in. in germany in this country where i live in denmark we also have no go zones in copenhagen for example and in sweden also it is so especially in the places where they have taken in a lot of a lot of immigrants we see these problems also in france and belgium and in sweden in government people didn't want to admit that this is actually of problem so they one did don't want to mention their. nobles some say as no cold symptoms. the police report puts the number of vulnerable areas across sweden that sixty one to five thousand criminals are believed to be living in them making up

some two hundred criminal networks currently active so long a grocer living in one such hot spot describes what life is like. if you run a company in this area insurance companies do not want to insure you one of the basic requirements for becoming a successful entrepreneur is safety but the risk is quite big today if your life is at risk money does not help. him to go on in the these people have not been taken care of by society society needs to keep the youth busy make it difficult for them to end up in trouble they are being used by adults and in the past three years it has become like this they sell drugs openly they carry weapons. there has been quite a lot of shooting very brutal mistreatment of entrepreneurs'

a lot of robbery so the entrepreneurs have decided to change jobs or move to another area. that is at twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow teachers and british schools are increasingly reporting cases of possible radicalize ation among students but it comes amid widespread criticism of a government initiative called prevent which is aimed at combating the problem of the prevent strategy was introduced back in two thousand and six with three main objectives challenging ideology of supporting terror protecting vulnerable people and supporting sectors out risk of radicalization of a critics claim it alienates muslim communities and impacts human rights and freedom of expression earlier we discussed this with the founder of mothers against radical islam and shari'a tony bugel. from the muslim council of britain. well first of all i think that the numbers are actually that they're probably a lot higher because we have to ask ourselves how many are not being reported i

think if these concerns are being brought forward by teaches them it's a real concern and one that we have to take very seriously and it's something that needs to be addressed now because it essentially is child abuse there is no other way of looking if you take a child and you teach a child that much hatred that to me is an awful thing to be teaching any child some of us are rightly concerned about the integrity of our country rightly concerned about the security of our people and rightly concerned about the issue of radicalization and terrorism get carried away by the perceived view of muslims and islam in this country i think what we need to recognize is that as a general thing to say i really get tired of this whole you or me don't know months after that on the morning of a plane that's i would say you do do you come out with this rhetoric of the some kind of which on this is hatred towards muslims the problem is these things are happening and when anybody says anything about it the first thing we're told is

that we're islamophobia the fight against radicalization and terrorism is a fight of all of us in the muslims the muslims all ally and therefore we have to be extremely careful that we do not create a condition and a narrative in which almost and are seen as suspect sometime that is what happens and i'm sorry if it offends people that we need to take this very seriously it needs to be dealt with and i would also to help why is it the can ease in doing more muslim community is doing whatever it can and should do but we as a community has no greater responsibility than any other section of the society i see it again it is all of ours and we all have to fight and yes it was ideology and initiative had all. you say we need to be careful i say let's stop being careful and let such address this problem properly and without fear because

political correctness and fear is what stops us from this problem. the debate over freedom of speech in the united states has reignited with a crowd of four now at the forefront of the disagreement a true right wing rallies were canceled over the weekend reviving calls to impose legal regulations to control hate speech and its rhetoric on both sides of the country's political debate is escalating it's not clear who's going to be affected american report. banning or canceling right wing to rallies and even events featuring conservative speakers has become pretty commonplace within the past few months here in the u.s. most recently organizers were compelled to cancel two rallies one in san francisco and the other in berkeley after facing heavy pressure from rival protestors and local authorities such demonstrations often attracting neo nazis and white supremacists even when organizers claim they disown those radical participants have

been shut down in opposition to hate speech earlier this month the free speech rally in boston was labeled a white nationalist gathering despite denials by the events organizers we don't do this so my message is clear to this group we don't want you we don't want to comment now with hate speech accusations being thrown around the us remains the only modern democracy in the world without a legal definition of hate speech resulting essentially in the term coming to mean i don't agree with the speech u.s. also happens to be a signatory to international human rights conventions that require member states to declare hate speech or the dissemination of ideas based on racial hatred a criminal offense whether these speakers and rallies fall into that category however is largely subjective so where do we draw the line and if the us does eventually take a legal stand against hate speech. which would it not strike those accusing others of being white supremacists speech doesn't equal violence violence means that

you're actually using force or threat of force or threat of injuring somebody the threat of killing somebody that to us is violence a business that chooses to support eight groups might for example five that it's customers go elsewhere so there are inherent checks and balances in the free market of ideas so i don't think this is a government matter at all i don't think the government has either the moral authority nor does it have the ability to handle this but as the battle between free speech and hate speech rages on us lawmakers are left with a dilemma a cold free speech while protecting hate speech or strike a balance like the rest of the modern world in protecting free speech but within certain reasonable limits the fact remains that until congress passes legislation that protects its citizens against hate speech the war of rhetoric will only escalate as both sides will defend their right to free expression but will also use

hate speech as an excuse to shut down the other side of the spectrum. somewhere high on r.t.e. washington d.c. it was there well headlines continue and often. bustling the dubrovnik in venice are all fixed travel destinations so it must be nice to live or is it. crowds of tourists disrupt the city's economic and social life in them totally pointless on the celestion get out on the street all such as the traditional story some nuts come to buy you some but this is not as we know as minor leagues a school but there's a lot of the while the city has tried desperately not to collapse a powerful corporations. collects the profit of. the separable crowd the globe on

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greetings and sal you. this week well the united states government convulses in the horror of having to react to another crisis of whether there are a few other horse or horror shows that have conveniently ducked under the radar of the news cycles let's start with the recent revelation that according to a predator all court judge. the democratic national committee and former d.n.c. chair your friend and mine debbie wassermann schultz bid indeed hold a bias and work to endorse hillary clinton at the expense of bernie sanders and his supporters despite dismissing the class action lawsuit brought by burning supporters seeking redress for lost campaign donations federal court judge williams lock in his court order states in a bally waiting plaintiff's claims at this stage the court assumes their allegations are true. but the d.n.c. and wasserman schultz held a palpable bias in favor of clinton and sought to propel her ahead of her

democratic opponent but while the d.n.c. primary rigging got off with really nothing more than a vigorous scolding by the judge attorney general jeff sessions and president donald trump decided that a militarized police force is a good police force speaking out the per turn a war or of polies of police convention in nashville tennessee attorney general sessions exclaimed we will not put superficial concerns above public safety the executive board of the president will sign that they will ensure that you can get the life saving gear that you need to do your job and send a strong message that we will not allow criminal activity by a once and lawlessness to become the new normal my jeff sessions and person nation yes because as we all know armored personnel carriers and those lifesaving grenade launchers and bayonets are perfect perfect for combating all that criminal activity and lawlessness lives but what happens when citizens practice their

constitutionally protected rights of freedom of speech and assembly how lawless of them so the d.n.c. gets to keep on cheating in law enforcement gets back to you know gets back their equipment beating on people looks like it's yeah looks like it's time for us to start watching the hawks. but. you know that i got. it so. well corona watching the harks am i robot and that. so the d.m. c. will slap on the wrist meanwhile hey let's put some more military gear back in the

hands of the police because they do so well with it they do they really do they love it really. right and you know what you show me earlier today only a little district so had they been great. police and there's a police department that just takes care of the l.a. school district but they gave them. tests for high school before we did in the grenade launchers for high school kids because we all know that police guarding high school kids in l.a. apparently need grenade blowdry and obviously. law and order yes speaking of law and order or lack thereof federal judge william locke dismissed the lawsuit the class action lawsuit that was brought against the b. mc our good friend debbie. stating in a judicial order that even assuming that the allegations are true which she's basically saying look you got assume the allegations are true that they did do this it's impossible he's saying the judge is saying it's impossible to test any fraud

claims against the d.n.c. in federal courts basically telling these people that like look whether this actually happened or not it's not up to the courts to decide whether this was right this is up for you because the d.n.c. is technically a private organization to figure that out now d.n.c. does get public money and so there is kind of a gray area there whether they're public or private at this point but that is up for those of the b. and c. democrats to solve themselves it's a private organization but you know a lot of private companies i mean corporations get tax breaks technically public or through by virtue they're not a government agency about why this whole act of war if then so many was an act of god and we should have done all this if that's all we're going to say and i don't care that it's a political party that or a private organization that's private citizens coming together to die now. these private citizens got together and decided to steal the election for hillary i think there's still a lot of election that i think is a whole politics i'm sure the republicans have done that nobody else in the same

thing bay dad which is deflect from anything that's going on and make sure nobody one side anybody but the ones that isn't there a little idea the judge did that kind of labor smart a little bit you know so lawyers for the d.n.c. as you said had argued this whole thing was they weren't bound by a law to create fair elections even though like we had during that they said well you know we could be in backrooms just decided with a bunch of people smoking and decide we don't have to even have primaries which is a whole very strange thing that's what angered and upset a lot of the progressive base so the judge kind of said this whole thing about that the argument that the d.n.c. lawyers made but impartiality and even handedness are nothing more than political rhetoric not enforceable in federal courts what he wrote was quote the court does not accept this trivialization of the d.n.c. is governing principles the d.n.c. through its charter has committed itself to a higher principle and quote i would say the judge has to remind the democrats what

they stand for they have to themselves up to hold themselves to our principle what they say they don't have to the democrats say they don't care how beautiful all old voted for these two parties it's absolutely ridiculous the idea that there is no problem i think that's all it is it's there's democratic principles are a wonderful thing as are certain republican principles the problem is nobody's following them anymore and even to judge that you know this judge is like no you know what you know there's a wonderful military is probably. the american civil liberties union agrees with. that through the media we have an epidemic in the united states a police using excessive force particularly against people of color with. the part of the logic to arm the police with weapons of war so well with the democrats on one side basically said. well actions are kind of we don't care we can be as we want and the republicans and from the other side saying the police. what are there . in an effort to clean up our waterways and cut down on fossil fuels over the last

decade governments around the world have started implementing various forms of taxes and bans on those thin plastic bags some of gently nudge consumers in the right direction by incentivizing reusable bags while others have taken a stricter approach implementing punitive taxes or banning and plastic outright no country however has taken an approach to chromium as kenya where after three attempts the government has finally succeeded in banning plastic bags because they're punishable by a fine of up to forty thousand dollars and four years in prison seriously and not only does the law target stores and businesses police will have the power to arrest anyone spotted carrying a plastic bag on the street so the question is how tough is too tough in the war on the ultra thin but ultra controversial plastic shopping bag wow what a lesson i never i never knew. it was good for the environment you know when he was blasted but i didn't realize it was this heavy oh yeah there's really no important

. measure going to you know whole foods or trader joes with a plastic bag of sugar water orders but instead of just the passive aggressive condescension you get from the person that they can't even bring around bags you. know it's going to be like you don't bring your own bags. police or your borders and forty graeme pearman over what's interesting is you're in the u.s. like in most places around the world we get let off easy we you know we'd like to you know complain all the. taxes you know the taxes we put in to try to get people to stop using course it will work but you go to a place like ireland thirty seven is the great hong kong fifty cents actually there's a city in texas. the chargers as much as a dollar every time you use this plaza there. are many many many countries especially over the ones that are actually complete but i was completely you cannot use them whatsoever. for using them but i don't think anyone's really have this

over your book or your final throes of a present for using pasta you know that serious one of the. thing is. it's there's a good side and a down side of this that helps the environment obviously we should be using these petroleum products in general that's fine but there is a little bit of an issue that hasn't really been thought through is that kenya about three percent of their population actually is employed in the plastic bag industry which is a tough thing when you're actually having all these manufacturers and people are getting jobs from it. so that's going to be a number a target that you know and you're talking about tens of thousands of workers that are i mean if the if the ban works that's great but what could end up happening is that you have kenyans who are living on two dollars a day. why more or less than two dollars a day getting forty thousand dollar fines well this is

a great it's going to disproportionately hurt poor people a lot more than it's going to hurt the people at the top. we always see that across the board and i think that's also an interesting microcosm of the look we have to stop using certain products we are using you know these plastic boiler and radical animals or microbial and yeah you know we've got to stop using these but at the same time that we stop using these things and get you know humanity off the addiction to it was the damage ourselves on the arab and around us we also have to start looking at what are we going to do to put in place to make up for the loss of jobs when you say ok the three percent of population can you works in the bad plastic bag making you a street. you've got to come up with something for those people to do otherwise like you said just a lot of those are out of a job because you also have business owners who have put a lot of money into this and if african country after african country starts doing . bans and they may that's a huge part of a business in kenya and other places there those those business owners are going to

be in alert and i know people are going to me to help and there needs to be some sort of structure and that is that's where that next stop is you can break a window you can get out say pass a law but then you have to have that process of what do you want to get rid of the bad thing yeah exactly and i think we i think will see that i think we're going to see the resourcefulness step up people's you know humanities resource gas pressure now we're going to step up and say now we have a better idea because we're going to do and i get all right as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know when you figure out topics we've covered a facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are to dot com coming up terrible wallace to be o.b. truth behind the flooding that we're seeing take place in texas and then sean stone sits down with journalist. to discuss the latest on the crisis in venezuela's state .

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a situation or. even the recession. a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see there which is the. most a decade good of the results. in new york city's welcome by the people. i mean. this is. why you know the same measure still in place. we. will for. this is the truth be consider this is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision.

in response to the great mississippi river plot of nine hundred twenty seven that displaced over six hundred thousand two hundred thousand of whom were poor minorities american poet robert lee frost wrote blood has been harder to dam back than water just when we think we have it impounded safe behind new barrier walls and let it breaks away and some new kind of slaughter following the one nine hundred twenty seven flood that in president herbert hoover did little to help the african-american sparking the migration north to more industrialized cities led many blacks to leave the republican party and change the face of politics for a century this week's natural does. in texas especially the houston area is a result not just of bad luck and increasingly violent storms but a political failing both to the residents of texas and to the land itself so what

happened well part of the problem can be traced back to excessive unregulated housing development and wetland areas nearly six point five million people currently reside in the houston woodlands sugarland area that makes up the metropolitan area including and surrounding the city of houston up from around four million people just twenty years ago more people coming to houston to pursue jobs in the booming energy health care and aerospace and biomedical fields meant the need for more housing and construction workers who would also need housing despite federal regulations governing need destruction of wetlands or saturated lands made up of marshes or swamps houston has seen over fifty thousand acres of wetlands destroyed or paved over in the last twenty years houston's fort bend county saw fifty three percent increase in impervious surfaces like asphalt and concrete between two thousand and one and two thousand and eleven during the same time period harris county saw a twenty six percent and crease and the k.t.

prairie area saw a seventeen percent increase of course houston needed homes no one can deny that but where and how those homes were built and the infrastructure around it has put the entire houston area and its two decade economic boom in serious jeopardy so weapons aren't just smelly places where mosquitoes live they play an incredibly important role in the abatement of flood waters and you're probably asking yourself how does wetland help in a flood well wetlands act as natural sponges that hold and slowly disperse things like rain snow melt ground water and most importantly flood waters according to the university of maryland center for environmental science natural ground cover like wetlands creates just ten percent runoff with the rest being absorbed in the air or ground into the water table but with impervious ground cover less. concrete you get over fifty percent run off with only fifteen percent absorbing into the groundwater tables this means that the very flat city of houston is covered in asphalt and

concrete to such an extent that when heavy rains and storms come which are more frequent there just isn't anywhere for the water to go so it sits destroying homes and lives regulation should have done its job but as with most environmental regulations no one is overseeing the implementation or administering punishment to those who break these regulations and a lot of people are breaking those regulations in ninety nine it became federal policy that there would be no net loss to wave in the united states that means that if developers want to pave over a marsh they have to get a special permit and they must create mitigation for the last two years ago the houston chronicle found that over half of the permit records they reviewed showed little to no evidence of compliance with federal mandates compliance could be as little as just creating retention ponds they also found that since one thousand nine hundred ninety the army corps of engineers has issued over seven thousand permits to destroy wetlands in the houston area and they are in no position due to

budget local politics to change that right before retiring after eighteen years having houston's harris county flood control to strict mike tell them told pro publica last fall that his office had no plans to study the effects of climate change that he doesn't believe in the scientific evidence that tros that development is making flooding worse and asserts that the idea that these magical sponges out in the prairie would have absorbed all that water is absurd here's the thing those retention ponds gutters and sewers are designed based on the science and natural activities of those magical sponges we call wetlands and well houston hire the floods are last year that guy hasn't got the budget or any staff says his appointment in eight in addition republicans. congress are laser focused on removing any even more environmental regulations to building a housing development how democrats are more interested in clutching to conspiracy

theories than protecting lives in the environment it doesn't seem like washing is ten swamp will be very useful and bringing back the swamps we need. most definitely true tell them. to the brilliant brilliant breakdown that you gave of what's going on in houston by also saying that the u.s.d.a. and natural resources conservation service did an inventory back and nineteen ninety two regarding wetlands being converted to other uses and by on the between eighty two and ninety ninety two around seven percent of us wetlands had already been converted into developments that's incredible in. my father's political career i want to get personal my father of political career was based on trying to save me when i'm in the neighborhood i grew up with him when he ran for mayor of brooklyn park back in the rally of nine hundred ninety and he was doing it because the city wanted to put him storm curb and gutters and storm sewers and basically pave everything over one we already had ditches in a well i'm going to act as

a natural system we have water to go and heavy storms this is a problem but we've been oring and now it's coming full circle round to buy this in the bud it's terrible terrible and there's very and this is the thing that it's not just about the flooding it's you know we can we can do a lot of things to mitigate and we can do a lot of things to help people and these these kinds of disasters and whether it's climate change or not it doesn't really matter there's this is what this is what matters is what happened in houston and the fact is it's story after story every year in the houston chronicle and all these papers saying this is a problem this is a problem we've been told her kid for twenty years save the well and save the outlands why because it keeps your house from flooding it's very simple and the other problem that arises that only fifteen percent it's estimated of people who live in houston of houston homeowners have flood insurance and flood. it's comes out of this federal program that sadly that underwrites most think the national flood insurance program the problem with that program is it's completely out of

date with its floodplain information also it's heavily in debt. government program surprise surprise so it could collapse as well but the problem is that it doesn't. doesn't have enough money because they need more studies to update the information on flood plains the problem the new administration is saying they want to cut one hundred ninety million dollars from that program and the one hundred ninety million dollars is exactly what the cost to update the information on flood plains it's true it is going in circles because of politics while people's homes are destroyed is truly despicable of what is going to go back to one of our issues that we talk about here all the time watching the hawks is the structure and lack of caring about infrastructure and wanting to spend money on infrastructure going to update infrastructure which i will tell it to everyone here in the u.s. and everyone around the world infrastructure is going to be about the only thing that can help at least delay the effects of climate change whether you believe it's manmade or not but there are going all around us and houston is

a good example where lands were destroyed not replaced adequately here's the major problem you've got now of course there's other mitigating factors truly can be argued but not having a place for the water to go is a pretty big one. mother nature you can do it better not a great idea. well or good for goldman sachs themselves back in the headlines once again this time for getting a free pass from the trumpet ministrations a new round of sanctions against the beleaguered nation about his way and their president nicolas maduro so goldman sachs parties of its newfound exempt status. the trials and tribulations for the citizens of israel are being exacerbated by the united states to sanction happy mentally. recently sat down with journalist and author pepe escobar and discuss the state of affairs. in venezuela and what the future holds but of course up american country. how do you perceive this conflict going on currently because there's a lot of perspectives as far as the fact that the door of the president trying to

essentially recreate the constitution creating the super congress that's basically giving him more power do you see this as a potentially good thing for the country ultimately leading to more chaos and dissension in what could ultimately lead to a civil war sure enough it is well it's extremely complicated i wish we had left to talk about it but. the basic scenario. demanded of government they called for some saying that is allowed by the constitution the nine hundred ninety nine constitution that was discussed in approved. charges at the beginning of the first job as governments in only four months the you know they congregated people they started discussion they made a modifications there was a referendum on the constitution was approved was a very fast process because even as well and wanted a new constitution at the time there is a previous or yes you can call for

a national. assembly to discuss possible amendments to the constitution. call just the latest election for exactly that the problem is the opposition boycotted this from the beginning and boycotted not really as you read it in merican corporate media or european corporate media they were very violent protests if you go to reliable websites if you go to fin is well analysis in english which is a very very good website that it is also critical of many aspects of the government you have the whole numbers are there proving once again that it was not unilateral . riskily its own people what this was was a rehearsal sue prepare western public opinion for something that might happen and

what might happen once again is regime change don't forget the venezuela is on their side. regime change in syria yet the whole scene was either sent to call him but the difference is even if it is well as in self scone. colombe has a partnership with neat and that dies with nato antics in this so-called arc of instability the pentagon arc of instability this means that nato and colombe owe their close partnership they are gaming scenarios for regime change even as well this is has been going on for quite a while delete the wargame was in effect a month so goal. one of those stupid names they come up with military resolve was a military guardian or something like that and they were a gamey with the columbian forces and they were gaming the usual more do you know

special forces dropped across the border from cologne going to venezuela they steer up a lot of trouble there really put then surely a response heavy response by the government the next day we see headlines all over the world but during skilling it's own people and then we have bashar al assad all over again so you know it's not very creative but it's always the same modus operandi so this has been again and this is. in the books mike ball. yeah a few days ago he said yeah you can even about regime change possibilities so it you know nazi has it and when you see this from a latin american point of view people in latin america you know even a zoo in argentina where everybody knows. what the. american. you know exactly what it's what could happen and there's no so some merican what's

america units at the moment to prevent the possibility of it as well. the noble cassini spacecraft may be approaching its final days before its twenty year old mission is over a boy is a given all he can before. having orbit of saturn for the past thirteen years cassini has been transmitting groundbreaking images and data giving space scientists an unparalleled glimpse into the distant planets environment earlier this year cassini made headlines when i helped discover about saturn's moon and the lettuce is covered in oceans releasing hydrogen a potential energy source for extraterrestrial life. spacecraft manage a photographic dive in between saturn and its famous rings for the first time ever and providing previously unseen footage of the eight main rings from the inside out but before cassini is set to run out of fuel in two weeks and rain down to saturn surface and a ball of fire it's still on track to carry out several new missions i just

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this is a look. at . the headlines. in syria the u.s. led coalition has exchanged fire with. the interests of the nato

allies in the country. after being saved. in iraq are still normal childhood. abuse. and one of america's top universities which prides itself on its work with the community is refusing to budge as a native american tribe claims. good morning on a wednesday here in moscow you're watching r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. relations that between nato allies america and turkey

are again in the spotlight after u.s. led coalition forces exchanged fire with turkish backed rebels in the syrian city of man bitch details now with aussies. the u.s. has found itself between a rock and a hard place in syria namely between kurdish and turkish forces both of whom are supposed to be american allies but consider one another anime's and it seems tensions are on the rise with a coalition spokesperson revealing that u.s. backed forces exchanged fire with pro turkish rebels not once but several times in recent weeks when patrolling areas held by the forces turkey supports. patrols that have been conducting patrols in the area to keep tensions down received multiple times over the course of the last two weeks now the u.s. has told turkey to pass on to the rebels they support that firing on u.s. led coalition forces is quote not acceptable adding that patrols will continue and warning that coalition forces are always prepared and ready to defend themselves if

need be which is not exactly the kind of dialogue you'd expect between two major powers meant to be important friends and allies but the reality of the situation is that northern syria is now a metaphorical minefield of possible clashes with conflicting alliances that could unravel at the slightest misstep. turkey remains a nato ally and an important part partner in the fight against dash we expect both those relationships those multilateral ation ships to continue. going to continue to work with the white b.g. as a part of. syrian democratic forces. merica

i told you many times you either side with us or those terrorist organizations you haven't had a good girls them and that's why the region is turned into the sea. up till now america has more or less managed to navigate the murky waters between the turks and kurds even deploying a number of troops to northern syria months ago with the specific task to turn the two parties from attacking one another but that effort has met with little success leaving few surprised in the wake of these recent skirmishes and fact conflicts like this one have been a long time coming if it's and then american military advisers go to. fool seats would not kid american the weather carries out the will of assad by accident if you rockets can hit them now the u.s. was of course never invited into syria but rushed in anyway perhaps without fully understanding the lay of the land.

now washington finds itself trying to keep peace between its own partners all the while distracting from the real enemy at hand i still just r.t. washington d.c. or turkey specialist emery callus gun believes the interests of washington and in syria on no longer the same. there might be two things on the table first of all there's a lack of actually corporation between the two sides basically turkey doesn't inform the americans or do i said or so or the second option might be this might be a mistake and of course there's a third option which is more dangerous that turkey does not control the free syrian army any more today indeed united states and the americans interest are not any more overlapping because for the future of syria and turkey iraq turkey is interest all quite different than the american ones the battle to force i saw from war torn

iraq has devastated civilian lives and parts of the country with children particularly affected and even before the liberation of most all in the battle for tal afar a number of youngsters desperately in need of help exceeded five million and there are no present day figures but it's expected the numbers now are much higher artie's what i've got reports. these children have seen more bloodshed and agony than most adults will in a lifetime nearly ninety percent of children have lost a member of a family either they were kidnapped or killed and when they were escaping from the fight many of them have lost family members they were shot at from behind or they were falling on booby traps it has been a horrible experience soon as helicopter flies around. dropping down on the floor and carrying some of them my some of them feel when they see for

a mask some of them feel when they see even you know people that they are not comfortable in with some of them shut up and say no what for quite a long time until they could actually opened up definitely they go the extreme distress and also physically unfortunately many of them are wounded. many of the hospitals we visit to confirm that. the biggest number of civilians they have in the hospitals are children traumatized in mind and body but alive lucky by local standards though let's be frank stuck in orphanages and refugee camps in iraq and you believe given the sheer magnitude of the problem thousands and thousands of orphans are little. do you believe you can adequately help them we are helping those sold and we see certainly we don't have enough

resources the children are almost everywhere but ultimately the support comes from family from government and the extended family that once we connect children they are everybody scheme to receive them and the support of the problem is making the connection go to all of these orphans iraqi. so many foreign children of isis fighters. it is much better of foreign children were reunited with their families they will have problems here with documents in schools with health care they need their families love problems is putting it lightly in iraq tribal culture venerates blood feuds and revenge isis harmed millions there are those who would use these children who hate them for what their parents did.

vulnerable for abuse they are vulnerable for trafficking. or for. any danger that children are exposed to in today's technology any. bad group. could get those children and harmed them some of these lost children a raped their assaulted abused and abandoned killed for their organs hated for the sins of their fathers the u.n. and unicef do what they can to protect them but there are too many getting them out is a reward unto itself. we helped identify and reunite a number of these shoulder and yet it isn't straightforward unicef for example once these kids identities protected fearing stigma or exploitation we know we

tell our children. if we do not allow the children to normalize tensions that we do not know how do we think of allowing a child that have gone through a. crisis. to be exposed into a big comma it's a hard choice you can show their faces for everyone to see and let their relatives recognize them or pray that they find them themselves one desperate young refugee among the rocks millions more i guess. fermented iraq. the hour here in moscow a top u.s. universities on the defensive after a native american tribe and supporters set up a protest camp on the premises insisting the band was stolen from them hundreds of

years ago and now they want it back we've done everything possible. through the powers that be in the street. we're just invisible invisible. this was our principle. and we want to sue. to our. spiritual. and. brown university is considered one of the most liberal in the elite ivy league group of universities and colleges and so as it prides itself on its work with students from the minority community now the university even conducted a study investigating its historical relationship to slavery it since taken action to rewrite its official history accepting the role of slavery in the development of the institution adding in our aim is to enroll more african american students now a brown also claims relations very close relations with indigenous tribes hosts

annual meetings to raise awareness about minority group issues and it made headlines for example after renaming the federal holiday of columbus day to that of indigenous peoples day that was last year however when it comes to the tribes demands the university is refusing to budge. the pa cannot get tribe is not recognized by the federal government or more importantly by the other federally recognized indigenous communities there is an important technical difference between holding need of ancestry and holding nation status and that is at the heart of the issue here or the company has already been on the compass for more than a week the tribe insists it's staying there and it was also taken the case to court the co-founder of the code pink activist group thinks the dispute shows the university's progressive talk is just a facade talk is cheap it certainly is the in thing now or corporations university. sports associations

to talk that talk about how progressive they are to adopt the language. but when the call is for land to be given bag or for reparations to be made for slavery or anything that involves actual financial restitution that's where they draw the line. german chancellor has found herself being heckled at a campaign rally with the general election in just under a month's time crowds turned angry when i. claimed that is that her germany is a more colorful place when diversity is increased. you know what it comes to tough crowds this was probably around the toughest i

think i've ever seen a certainly a sitting politician receive one of their own rallies just as soon as i go in merkel opened her mouth and said hello brandenburg she was greeted with an absolute chorus of boos and whistles her supporters certainly being drowned out with any applause and at times the chancellor's own statements been dampened by the cough cough and that was coming from the crowd earlier on tuesday though angler merkel had a much more well of hospitable stage to speak to the german people from she was talking to the gathered press. and you all summer press conference in it she touched on a number of issues relations with poland and turkey neither of which are pretty really very good right now here in germany border controls throughout the end zone and she also said that she did not regret any decisions that she made back in twenty fifteen with relation to the migrant crisis and her opening of the borders

to people to come here to germany she said that when it came to the major decisions she would make them all exactly the same again that's all well and good now but in the very recent past she has said something very different the sentence we can do this is part of my political work but so much has been read into this every day expression it has become a simple motto in the discussion around it has turned into an unproductive endless loop we didn't embrace the problem in an appropriate we the reason for that seeming change of heart may well be the polls angle or merkel certainly didn't receive a very good reception in brandenburg on tuesday evening but if you look at the polls from across the country she's sixteen to seventeen points ahead depending on who you look at and. at the moment it doesn't look like a nearest challenges the social democrats and the martin schulze going to get anywhere near her despite being almost nailed on to win it's according to the polls after the reaction she received in brandenburg on tuesday night the month can seem

very long in politics indeed well the british government admitting now that it cannot deport she harvests you can find out more about this after the break. when else seems wrong. but i. just don't. let me. get to shape out to stay. active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. to be this is what before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. joining us here or not see the report by swedish police has revealed that in less than two years there's been a dramatic increase in so-called no go zones across the country what officials use the vulnerable areas the problem is in the districts heavily populated with migrants remain the same.

oh god if you are. that. you need to make clear shift in direction we cannot continue in this direction ten more years so i didn't used to do more we need to do more we need to focus on the serious here the problem is that cultural difference and that these immigrants who

come to sweden to not want to integrate or some of them don't want to integrate we see this in is traditionally many of the european countries where they have taken a lot of immigrants we don't see it in for example poland or hungary but in germany in this country where i live in denmark we also have no courtrooms in copenhagen for example and in sweden also so especially in the places where they have taken in a lot of a lot of immigrants we see these problems also in france and belgium and in sweden government people didn't want to admit that this is actually a problem so they did don't want to mention. no. no. the police report puts the number of vulnerable areas across sweden sixty one up to five thousand criminals are believed to be living and making up some two hundred criminal networks currently active. a grocer living in one such hot spot

described what life is like. if you run a company in this area insurance companies do not want to insure you one of the basic requirements for becoming a successful entrepreneur is safety but the risk is quite big today if your life is at risk money does not help. the mind of these people have not been taken care of by society society needs to keep the youth busy make it difficult for them to end up in trouble they are being used by adults and in the past three years it has become like this they sell drugs openly they carry weapons. there has been quite a lot of shooting very brutal mistreatment of entrepreneurs'

a lot of robbery so the entrepreneurs have decided to change jobs or move to another area. well of britain's failing to deport foreign terrorists because it's quote too expensive and explosive report ordered by the government admits and i see it finds out. the terror threat level in the u.k. is that severe discrepancies in the system set up to tackle terrorism are continually highlighted britain has been hit by four terrorist attacks in recent months and in three of those the attackers were known to the authorities one of the tools available to the u.k. in its fight against extremism is called deportation with assurances meaning

suspects can be expelled if guarantees are in place they won't be treated badly back home centrally this could mean. threats won't be able to be sent back to countries like syria libya sudan or yemen a report published this summer ordered by theresa may when she was home secretary has highlighted of variety of cracks in the system only eleven people have been deported under this scheme and over twelve years in comparison france has deported one hundred and twenty the report also mentions the process is costly and complicated britain can only handle negotiations with two countries at a time although the u.k. home office argues it's actually up to four and that cost isn't an issue deportation with assurances remains a valuable policy which allows us to remove those who threaten to do us harm while meeting international human rights obligations authors of this latest report claim over forty foreign terrorist convicted in the u.k. have avoided to partition using existing human rights laws including those freed

after serving their sometimes shortened sentences such as the hardest with links to the failed july twenty first plot in two thousand and five on legal aid and clearly that's a cost to the country on top of the general costs of security and it's not in some ways one might say it's not the most effective use of scarce resources in relation to creating security but at the moment unless. we decide that we're going to pull someone in breach of the european convention on human rights which we haven't decided to do and we haven't decided at the moment as you know to withdraw from the convention then we have to continue going through the legal process as it stands the last prominent importation case one by the government cost taxpayers one point seven million pounds back in twenty thirteen but it's understood that no successful deportations have been carried out under this system since. r.t.e. london. teachers in british schools are increasingly reporting cases of possible

radicalization among students and it comes amid widespread criticism of a government initiative called prevent which is a. combating the problem the prevent strategy was introduced back in two thousand and six with three main objectives challenging ideology of supporting terror protecting vulnerable people and supporting sectors at risk of radicalization however critics claim it alienates muslim communities and impacts human rights and freedom of expression well earlier we discussed this with the founder of mothers against radical islam and shari'a tony bugel and. from the muslim council of britain. well first of all i think that the numbers are actually that they're probably a lot higher because we have to ask ourselves how many are not being reported i think if these concerns are being brought forward by teaches them it's a real concern and one that we have to take very seriously because and it's something that needs to be addressed now because it essentially is child abuse there is no other way of looking if you take a child and you teach

a child that much hatred that to me is an awful thing to be teaching any child some of us are rightly concerned about the integrity of our country rightly concerned about the security of our people and rightly concerned about the issue of radicalization and terrorism get carried away by the perceived view of muslims and islam in this country i think what we need to recognize is that as a general thing to say i really get tired of this whole you or me don't know months after that on the morning on a plane that's i would say you do do you come out with this rhetoric of the some kind of which on this is hatred towards muslims the problem is these things are happening and when anybody says anything about it the first thing we're told is that we're islamophobia the fight against radicalization and terrorism is a fight of all of ours muslims non muslims all ally and therefore we have to be extremely careful that we do not create a condition and

a narrative in which all muslims are seen as suspect sometime that is what happens now i'm sorry if it offends people that we need to take this very seriously it needs to be dealt with and i would also to help why is it your can ease in doing more muslim community is doing whatever it can and should do but we as a community has no greater responsibility than any other section of the society i see it again it is all of ours and we all have to fight and yes it was ideology and initiative had all. you say we need to be careful i say let's stop being careful and let's. properly. without fear because political correctness and fear is what stops us from. going out so far for your international we return.

the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results. by the people. to watch.

the. mean. while the same mission is still in place who want. to weaken lube or. will for. the truth be consider is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision. rogers well that's one of the. girl's words go buy yourself. good will reduce. that's undercutting but what's good for markets is not good for the global economy.

france is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight crypto currency is just keep on climbing bitcoin heads above forty seven hundred this comes as countries scramble to build regulations around it and the block chain in general also consumer spending is up but the numbers are shaky we take a look at what's contributing to this also my guest former u.s. trading commissioner chilton is with us to explain the damage hurricane harvey has caused on the oil and gas industry and on your wallet stand by it starts right now .

the prospects of a u.s. rate hike dimming the euro soared to one dollar twenty cents for the first time since january two thousand and fifteen following hurricane harvey in texas most analysts assume the federal reserve will delayed major changes on top of that frequent confrontations with north korea have left the markets nervous as a result the euro has made some pretty big gains in two thousand and seventeen it rose nearly fifteen percent against the dollar monday's extended gains following last week's surge after european central bank president mario dry. the speech at the jackson hole summit it also jumped after a fed chair janet yellen spoke at that same conference but made no mention of monetary policy. and across the global exchanges big coin is trading at its highest level ever at four thousand seven hundred three dollars and twenty one cents big coin split back in august first but then it hit

a high of four thousand five hundred twenty two on the eighteenth the cryptocurrency is up now three hundred fifty percent from roughly one thousand dollars on january first also of note is a light point it has reached a record high of nearly sixty five dollars a thirty six percent rise it holds the fifth spot worldwide with a market capitalization of just under three billion dollars according to coin market cap dot com that is now it rallied fourteen hundred percent since the start of the year when it traded at around four dollars thirty three cents vigorous trading in the last twenty four hours was seed in south korea which has a soft spot for light coins a warning though that country is set to see massive regulatory adjustments to crypto currencies which could change the landscape there for like that cited as a major reason for the dramatic upswing in cryptocurrency asset classes as a whole. consumer

confidence numbers were released and the conference board numbers saw a rise of one twenty two point nine higher than one twenty in july which was surprising to some economists that predicted a drop the university of michigan also saw an increase with consumer sentiment up to ninety seven point six from ninety three point four but a drop in how consumers feel about the current economic conditions from one thirteen down to one eleven let's bring in danielle de martino both president of money strong and author of fed up an insider's take on why the federal reserve is bad for america look if we go up these numbers alone what does that tell us about how consumers as a whole feel about our current. situation well currently they're getting. i have to tell you. i can't take credit for this one of my buddies is an economist mentioned to me the fact that there right now americans are feeling really patriotic for the first time in the better part of a decade and you know what that thought had not occurred to me that why all this

saber rattling and especially with what we saw with north korea flying an actual missile over japan why this wouldn't be polling down consumer confidence and his reaction which makes perfect sense is that americans are really feeling their patriotism right now i would warn you though that this will not be very long lived ok well let's take a look at some numbers we've got a graph here which shows your sixteen years worth of consumer confidence levels why do we still see numbers so high even though we haven't really seen any major financial legislation pushed from the current administration you point to patriotism but do we see anything else. remember about a third of americans are still very much in favor of trump being in office that's not a small number and then when you tack on the twenty percent of americans who have benefited from the fact that the stock market remains near record highs you're talking about a good chunk of the population here who has yet to see a dent in their four a one k. statement and who still remains hopeful that the president's going to be able to

push through legislation i for one have my doubts and they're increasing by the day especially as we see the distractions for the current administration begin to multiply ok let's talk about some sales numbers we seem to keep seeing these high confidence numbers but that's also against the backdrop of being box store retailers macy's sears stores closing down their stores are we seeing customers just have stronger faith in spending elsewhere are they becoming more discerning where they spend their money price comparisons trying to save what do you think this is. well i think you hit on both of the factors that are driving what's going on here and look it is not it is not a feel good situation to see these stores closing down and the more stores that we see closing down my mother just mentioned it a few days ago my gosh i'm worried that my local mall has a sears and a maze sees it will start to chip away at consumer confidence but by the same token

you hit the other major factor that's driving confidence and that's that they are able to exert their own pricing power by switching to e-commerce where we've obviously seen seen sales rise much more appreciably grow much more strongly ok but there's lots of oil refineries we need to talk about in the gulf texas we look at at this chart right here we can see west texas intermediate benchmark starting off strong and sinking in the week leading up to hurricane harvey we're still seeing massive fallout from that what kind of effect could this hurricane recovery do to consumer confidence in the long term if we account for not just dropping oil prices for something like home repairs there's tens of millions of dollars are going to go into i'm sorry millions billions they're going to go into cleaning up the mess this size. the one factor that's missing and that huge i mean that's going to be suffered upon consumer confidence and what economists will tell you is the very first thing to make households turn on

a dime on confidence is rising gasoline prices now as it pertains specifically to the houston area it will be a double economic quickly if oil prices stay low on the one hand which is going to keep people out of work it's going to keep those refinery shut down it will be a drag on the fourth largest economy in the country but by the same token the entire nation feels that gasoline prices prices at the pump rise by thirty forty cents a gallon this could. we could potentially for this current cycle be seeing the peak in household consumer confidence. now we've got analysts pointing to the effects of this hurricane as you as you mentioned some of the refineries closing down the platforms have been evacuated refineries closed down supply lines many of them wiped out still trying to analyze that situation and a lot of analysts are saying look the dominoes are just beginning to fall are you are you keeping your eye on the fall out of the situation as we hear the hurricane

maybe you know winding up off of off the coast and coming back in. absolutely look this is unprecedented i don't know that this is katrina because new orleans is not near the economic powerhouse that houston is nor does it have the same impact on the energy industry lindsay i don't think anybody can make any sort of a determination at this point about what the potential ramifications were are going to be i saw a statistic earlier today that said ten to fifteen percent of homeowners in use didn't have flood insurance you're talking about a ton of devastation it's not that these repairs aren't going to happen in the coming years but what about so many millions of households who could potentially be deeply harmed by this situation and not have the financial wherewithal to simply not have the money to repair their homes that they need that it's a terrifying and catastrophic situation they're dealing with down there let's talk about the month of september which we are heading right into we're talking raising

the debt ceiling with the potential government shutdown on the horizon mitch mcconnell even said quote there is zero chance no chance we will not raise the debt ceiling and quote if numbers aren't wavering now what kind of a drop can we see once these talks begin just real quick before we go well i think that there's a lot of vulnerability right now to any kind of a shock talk about cruising into the eye of the storm in the month of september if there's any kind of a wavering at all i would say that the markets right now are highly highly vulnerable to any kind of doubt that enters into these discussions will be will all be on red alert in the weeks to come it's absolutely right when congress goes back to school on capitol hill thank you so much danielle de martino the president of money strong and author of fed up insiders take on why the federal reserve is bad for america thank you. over the past few decades the cost of higher education in the u.s. has skyrocketed along with that came a jump in student loan debt which just reached yet another all time high. has more

on that for us now what's the average number of. loans americans have now well to be exact the average american has three point seven loans so on average anywhere from three to four compared to ten years ago that number was two point four per cent the student loan balance in the u.s. has changed a lot over the past decade according to the latest data we have hit the one point four trillion dollar mark up more than eight hundred billion dollars from two thousand and seven and currently the average american has a total of thirty four thousand one hundred forty four dollars in student debt that's a sixty two percent increase from ten years ago and that's not all a report from the consumer financial protection bureau shows that the number of borrowers with over fifty thousand dollars of debt has tripled during that same period and while members of every generation deal with it it's generation y. or the millennial that have taken out the most the average millennial has four point four loans more than both their parents' and grandparents' generation z.

notably has less than that but that's because some of them haven't even started their freshman year yet and what's more interesting is that members of generation x. the highest average balance at almost forty thousand dollars meanwhile have average less than thirty four thousand dollars regardless of those differences going to college has become one of the biggest expenses we make next to buying a house but the growing balance of student debt has hampered the ability to do that across the country in fact the u.s. home ownership rate sits at sixty three point seven percent down from sixty eight point four percent in two thousand and seven and to make matters worse the housing market hasn't adjusted to the rise in debt that young americans are taking on and neither have we. you know it's down but even a sixty eight point four percent back in two thousand and seven was an impressive sierra's home ownership for upwardly mobile adults let's talk more about these home

prices though how do they play into this debt problem so they're not exact. connected to student debt but they do kind of depend on each other obviously with more americans taking now more student debt and having more or bigger balances it makes it harder to save for a down payment to buy a home that's why we're seeing one a decrease in the homeownership rate but also an increase in the rental rate and of course rent prices that goes along with that. and on top of that the housing issue wages have not kept up and in in fact in sixteen of the twenty biggest metro areas in the u.s. housing prices grew twice as fast as wages in those metro areas so when you combine student debt with stagnant wages it becomes almost impossible to really buy a home unless of course you live in an affordable area in the u.s. we can make a good info graphic of that and put it on we'll do a whole segment of that to find where those are in the united states because we're all on the hunt for those because it's exorbitant now

a lot of the focus here is on the debt millennial specifically hold how does that affect other generations so you know every single generation has taken out some amount of student debt obviously taken out the most but because we're taking out more loans they need cosigners on these exorbitant amounts that they're taking out means their parents and in some cases their grandparents are cosigning these loans so it's not just a millennial is that i've been hampered down in one hundred thousand dollars of debt when they graduate it's going to their parents and their grandparents accounts so that affects them not only because they're taking out for their kids or their grandkids on top of the debt that they might have so it's really an interconnected problem it's not just a separate one you'll have it worse than the older generations haven't suffered as much as a problem that affects everyone it's a family affair thank you very much. time now for a quick break to stick around because when we return a u.s. visa holder seeking green cards based on employment are set to face mandatory in

person interviews in my. guest fills us in on how the oil and gas industry is tearing in the gulf after hurricane harvey got a break here at the number because. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive in. my body gets and some bodies that i cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity and does this because it helps people that's one of the side

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green card based on employment will be required to undergo in person interviews with u.s. citizenship and immigration services the same goes for visa holders who are relatives of refugees or asylum seekers it's all part of president extreme vetting plan for immigrants the interview has largely been waived for employment based card seekers because of the backlog it creates in processing and the strain it puts on resources such as personnel u.s. citizenship and immigration services says the agency will expand these categories of green card seekers requiring an interview on an incremental basis. homeowners hit by hurricane harvey in the gulf coast are racing against the clock to file insurance claims current texas insurance code gives claimants eighteen percent interest if their insurance company pays late pays too low or doesn't pay at all but house bill seven hundred seventy four changes that starting september first penalties for insurance companies will be reduced and climate lawyers will

face stiffer requirements to file suit supporters. say it will help shut out for us lawsuits but opponents say it allows insurance companies a cheaper way to act in bad faith but that's just homeowners insurance flood insurance is another issue in harris county texas which includes houston fifteen percent of homes happened in two thousand and five hurricane katrina half of homes were covered by flood insurance people without coverage will have to apply for grants or low cost loans from other branches of the federal government how miners in high risk flood zones are required to pay into the national flood insurance program but it can be hard to track if they're actually obeying that directive and premiums can be very expensive also those zones deemed high risk are growing fast hurricane hurricanes katrina and sandy lead to claims of nearly twenty five billion dollars this left the national flood insurance program in debt by twenty three billion dollars to the u.s. treasury grants and low interest loans could be the only way out for those without

flood coverage. and the storm is also giving ramifications reciprocal ramifications and worries for fuel costs as the oil coast as it's called produces and refined oil into gasoline a huge chunk of it for the united states gasoline prices have surged more than four cents nationwide as a result former u.s. attorney commissioner bart chilton says we can expect more at the same time price gougers are out there in the impacted areas gosh you said it we're seeing some dirty stories out there or oil prices have gone down gasoline prices have gone up what's happening in oil and gas markets well i mean there's fifteen percent of the refining capability is gone offline that's two point five million barrels a day. and there are some concerns that it could go. thirty percent with you know the storm coming back around to port arthur in part to lose you know so with the reduced refining to build refining capability it means that the crude oil the sue.

being there and growing a surplus and with that surplus comes lower prices so we saw on the new york mercantile exchange prices of west texas intermediate which is the u.s. benchmark go down to a five week low forty six forty four now at the same time we've got that gas the they need more of that right and so that's in you know tight supply or tighter supply and that's why we've seen a tool year high in wholesale gasoline prices to a dollar seventy six a gallon for the rest of us that prices that prices are also going up there are two dollars and thirty seven cents on the average right now so that's sort of the market dynamics on the stock market side some oil companies are doing better and some are sixteen what's going on to our viewers well really it's like they say about real estate right location location location and so if we look at the one

that's really taken a tumble it's exxon mobil who's been pretty hard hit one with their beaumont texas plant that they've shut most of that down the refining capability and then just a little bit north and east of that is the number two refinery in the united states and that's in baytown and they're having big problems there they even had to report to the texas environmental quality folks they've had a spill that's not sure what it is but it really reeks and this is a plant that's known for having some problems in the past not only to a few years ago they had a twenty million dollar fine so exxon mobil during this circumstance not looking too good others are up just a little bit marathon valero philip sixty six but again it depends where you are and what you know the impact of this hurricane on your refining capabilities as you

say depending on where you are with some of the these refineries shut down limiting gasoline cracks and shipping. going out to fill up their cars and trucks right now i would i did i mean this is a normal thing at this time of year right labor day week and people will go and fill up but even now more than ever like i said the average cost nationwide is two dollars and thirty seven cents that's up four cents in a week but it's one of the larger price surges we had this summer the other day when we were talking about the storm coming in i said that you know estimates were from five to fifteen cents a gallon those estimates are up to ten to twenty cents a gallon but quite frankly when i look at what's going on in the reduced capacity of these refineries you know i could see thirty cents a gallon more and that could last for a long time too it could last for you know a month or six weeks or longer and as you noted you know katrina we saw forty cent increase in prices so it might not be that high but i think it's going to be higher

than most of the experts are predicting i'd certainly higher than you know five to fifteen cents i'd say so katrina as you mentioned we saw forty cents in two thousand and five. gasoline prices how high could they call how how likely are they to stay high what think it's likely they'll stay there for a long time stay high for a long time whether or not it's thirty ish cents a gallon i think a long time because. they haven't been able to even assess the damage and this is not just damage to the window narrowed and yes absolutely we don't know it's like i said yesterday to somebody it's reminds me of that old song the midnight oil song where they say how can we sleep when our beds are burning well how can they assess the circumstances when they're in the middle of the disaster and it's relentless and it keeps on and on they can't even get in workers can't even get there to do the assessment and it's not just the refineries too it's all of the logistics i

mean the pipelines are closed the ports are all close. there's four or five them along the texas coast no oil is going out and nothing's coming in so everything's that a standstill and underwater and it's relentless so i think this is going to last a long time i think prices are going to go up i wouldn't be surprised if we see another nickel in the next couple of days that another nickel left over the weekend and we get up to that thirty cents a gallon and it stays there for a month well then we've got the holidays winter and all those events and household expenses going up and it's going to be a real pinch on people at these prices they high you always been a consumer advocate you've got a book about consumer protection last week on this show you warn viewers we could see price gouging update on that they're doing it bad actors are out there lindsey over five hundred reports of the texas attorney general of price gouging now this is an all just gasoline although the reports that the attorney general's office is take it in shows that some of charging four dollars

a gallon which you could say well maybe there's a reason for dollars but allan come up to ten dollars a gallon some of them you know it's just crazy and it's look the free market is one thing but during these times when there's an emergency out there and people need fuel to survive you know that's a big deal and the fines by the way are also pretty hot out of doing this and you get fined twenty thousand dollars ok unless you are doing it to somebody not you but somebody that sixty five or older then the fine is two hundred fifty thousand because shame on you shame on you now by the way if this goes into louisiana and there's price gouging we did see that back in two thousand and five with katrina there you're doing jail time six months jail time and if somebody is injured by the price gouging you know as a result of what you've done then you could go to jail for even longer up to twenty one years if somebody dies so big deal the price gouging and they're doing it with

water by the way out. we always tell them. that i read a report that taxes are really services for water ninety nine dollars for a case of water somebody was trying to charge so. be careful when you feel like just the how do you go about reporting it telling someone about it getting you into it and both tattle you call the texas attorney general or the losy and attorney general's office they have a hotline i've looked at their forms they're pretty easy to fill out and it's definitely something people should do these bad actors need to be caught it's just not right particularly when everybody's in such a hurry right circumstance what are you looking at the coming days whether or not use find these other you talked about the number two refinery in the country the exxon mobile in baytown but we're also looking at the. port arthur which shut down a little bit today that that's something that if they're closing the largest refinery in that second large refinery in the country that's going to have

a longer term impact than others might and how the reassessment works over the next couple of weeks and it's going to be weeks to do this reassessment that's the key thing they'll be looking at stories not going away thank you very much part chelton former us try to assure. everyone there what it would feel like to trade and use crypto currencies and get free food in the process while burger king russia is rolling out its own crypto currency called the whopper coin customers will get a whopper coin so-called for every rouble they spend on a regular whopper when you get seventeen hundred you can redeem them for a free hand parker burger king russia even has apps ready for launch on apple and google devices can trade and share their whopper coins with other users big fan base there in that country that's all for now check out the show on youtube youtube dot com slash the last r.t.

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