coming up on our t.v. world leaders call for peace at the united nations general assembly we'll have the latest from new york. and two deadly natural disasters category four hurricane rita battles puerto rico and seven point one magnitude earthquake rattles mexico we have team coverage on the latest. then that donald trump called the iranian nuclear deal and their assessment will be bold us out of the agreement and what that could mean later in the show.

good afternoon it's wednesday september twentieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part until you're watching our team america we begin this hour in new york city emotions are running high today at the u.n. general assembly meeting where many of the world leaders called on the international body for a clear peacemaking strategy artie's twenty charges reports today at a u.n. security council meeting the world leaders gather to discuss peacekeeping operations lice president pence reiterated a lot of what president trump said on tuesday and called for reform of the united nations to be more efficient more effective accountable and credible he also said every mission must have an exit strategy and the united nations peacekeeping missions must adjust to progress and failure when the mission succeeds we should not prolong it. with a mission underperforms we should restructure it and when the mission consistently fails to fulfill the mandates of this council we should end the british. prime

minister theresa may also called on the u.n. to establish a clear political strategy for resolving conflict because so often the council reaches deadlock and are unable to act she calls for better peacekeeping on the ground and when a certain standard is not met there must be accountability meanwhile a day after president made his debut on the world stage and threaten to quote totally destroy north korea the iranian president hassan rouhani addressed the u.n. general assembly today and said trump's speech was quote ignorant absurd and hateful rhetoric he also said iran would not tolerate threats from anyone. we never condone tyranny and we always defend the police never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone and that our discourse is one of dignity and respect and we are a new move by threats and intimidation and we believe in dialogue negotiation based on equal footing and mutual respect. and on the topic of peace president met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and said achieving peace between the israelis

and palestinians may be quote the toughest deal of all that he's tried to negotiate but nonetheless his administration is working very hard for peace in the region they just want to thank you for all of the meetings all of the work she complex subject always been considered the toughest deal of all peace between israel and the palestinians the toughest of all but i think we have a very very good chance. to vote everything within within my heart and within my shoulder get that deal made in another meeting the president met with jordan's king abdullah and during the meeting trump held a relationship with jordan saying it has never quote been better than it is right now and praised king abdullah for taking in a large number of syrian refugees saying quote who knows what would happen without you reporting in new york and of each other as are today. and we're following two devastating natural disasters today one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit

puerto rico has left the entire island without power maria made landfall this morning in the southeast coastal town as you have the koan as a category four storm with winds of one hundred fifty five miles per hour the bankrupt u.s. territory is battling its second hurricane in just two weeks with fewer resources and federal support generally provided to us states meanwhile hundreds are dead in mexico after a seven point one magnitude earthquake struck yesterday we have a team coverage on these stories marine important i and our miami studio and ashley banks in the newsroom marina let's start with you hurricane maria has killed at least nine people in the caribbean before even making landfall and pretty rico what's the latest on the ground there. well as you mentioned as of this afternoon the entire island of three and a half million people was without power this came just hours after hurricane maria made landfall puerto rico's office of emergency management agency says at this

point anyone with electricity is using a generator video capturing the deadly hurricane ripping groups off structures shattering windows and tearing doors or pinches in the capital of san juan palm trees were stripped streets flooded and buildings were damaged as the storm passed through the category four hurricane is the first one to hit the island since nineteen thirty two according to the national hurricane center as of two pm maria had weakened to a category three with maximum sustained winds down to one hundred fifty five miles per hour now based on air pressure measurements meteorologists say hurricane maria is the third strongest storm to make landfall in the united states meanwhile just pummeled the island two weeks ago reportedly causing as much as one billion dollars in damages and knocking out electricity to one million residents officials expect maría to cause long lasting damage to the people of the island and the islands

infrastructure and this is pretty rico has spent years trying to dig itself out of a financial crisis at seventy eight billion dollars debt debacle how much of will of a setback will the island face now with hurricane irma and maria wreaking havoc. well we're this is going to be a huge setback we are talking about a very poor island that's been in a depression for a decade the territory's infrastructure has gone neglected for years as as the puerto rico governor of puerto rican government has struggled to deal with the debt you mentioned the seventy four billion dollars debt to bondholders an additional fifty billion dollars pension fund obligations in may the island filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history unemployment in puerto rico is around ten percent double the nash. average these hurricanes are hammering an economy that cannot take much more the problem is puerto rico very much has its hands tied it doesn't have the same laws as other

states were cities like detroit for example that can file for bankruptcy in the same way puerto rico is trying it's trying to to negotiate its payments but at this point you're dealing with an island that oh so much money out in the bondholders don't want to forgive any of the debt and it is squeezing the people of this island critics situation indeed it's fair to expect puerto rico will ask federal officials for a relief package like texas did for example after hurricane harvey isn't that right marina. well puerto rico doesn't have any voting representation in the house or the senate so essentially the u.s. territory does not have elected advocates in washington to lobby on its behalf the same way that texas does or florida does two states who have just been hit with these hurricanes so puerto rico is at a disadvantage you know we allow the people living in puerto rico to vote in the primaries they can't vote in presidential elections we allow them to serve in the u.s. military but here they don't have any representation on capitol hill in washington

d.c. that could help them in the aftermath of these horrific natural disasters some points which definitely deserve more attention there marina thanks for breaking that absolutely down and unfortunately from one climate catastrophe to another today the death toll from mexico's powerful earthquake now stands at more than two hundred at this very hour emergency crews are pulling victims still buried beneath the rubble in mexico city the epicenter of yesterday's seven point one magnitude quake the deadliest recorded in that country in thirty two years now over to our correspondent actually banks in the newsroom actually what can you tell us about what's been happening border like you said a seven point one magnitude earthquake struck central mexico tuesday afternoon toppling bill. then killing more than two hundred people among the damage war torn gas means that sparked fire across mexico city and neighboring towns today mexican president enrique pena nieto declared three days of national mourning and called

for a state of calm. i've instructed that the i.m.s. and the hospitals the government run all those when medical services are higher population and under water i have also instructed you make the point in mexico city where you see one yes operation but it's really just for brits with our armed services as well as the mexican navy but you know for me. i have also struck they don't like to be playing sort of throughout the night may continue to care about. your group right now emergency crews and volunteers including five hundred soldiers and navy marines are searching for trap survivors who may be in offices apartment and school buildings after the quake crews including firefighters police officers and volunteers arrived to a three story school and found the bodies of twenty one children and four adults petro serino a twenty nine year old doctor entered the building in search of

survivors and described the scene saying quote we managed to get into a collapsed classroom we saw all some chairs and wooden tables the next thing we saw was a lake and then we started to move rubble and we found a girl and two adults a woman and a man the search continued to well into the night and early wednesday morning several other children were rescued and brought to safety according to mexican authorities thirty others are still missing from the building also during the quake a church collapse while mass was in progress killing fifteen people the church was located on the slopes of a volcano which had a small eruption right after the trouble or a fireman at the site of a collapsed building had this hopeful message. as good as yes by the tragedy we have to say that it wasn't as bad as we thought do that in fact. there are three buildings that collapsed like was one building several stages and thousands and we have firemen most in all of. today's quake is the second deadliest quake to rock

the country in thirty two years ironically mexican residents were taking part in a drill commemorating in one thousand nine hundred five earthquake just hours before the most recent quake struck the one thousand nine hundred five earthquake had a magnitude of eight killing five thousand people in the engineering several others it caused serious damage to mexico city and just a couple weeks back the country saw an eight point one magnitude earthquake however the damage was less devastating and fewer cows will be it's so far there have been more than eleven aftershocks in the state the strongest one has registered as a magnitude for many world leaders have boucle lies their support for mexico and rome pope francis has said he is praying for the victims the wounded their families and the rescue workers here as president donald trump said in a tweet quote god bless the people of mexico city we are with you and will be there for you and as are all prime minister benjamin netanyahu has sent a rescue team per mexico's request to aid to in any way possible anya sally the

death toll is expected to continue to rise as emergency crews continue combing through the rubble the u.s. geological survey predicts the final death toll will be one thousand and the economic impact will be between one billion and ten billion dollars. all right ashley bangs and rain important following some of the very tragic circumstances for us thank you so much. thank you and in florida and has been reported after hurricane irma forced the evacuation of a nursing home which had been left without air conditioning a spokesman for the hollywood police department says that the ninety three year old man passed away yesterday adding to the previous count of eight fatalities this comes after sweltering temperatures caused one hundred forty five patients to be removed from the facility emergency records indicate staff at the rehabilitation center waited three days after the hurricane to made landfall to call nine one one

authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the tragedy. and just two days after meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in new york president trump as announced he's made a decision as to whether or not the united states should pull out of the iran nuclear deal just one catch he is reportedly not sharing his decision quite yet however while addressing the u.n. general assembly this week trump made no secret about what he thinks of iran describing the nation as part of a quote small group of rogue regimes and declaring a nuclear deal is an embarrassment to the united states for some insight i'm joined now by tom cleena director of policy at the ploughshares fund welcome to the show tom i want to start by getting your reaction to something iran's president hassan rouhani said today while speaking to the u.n. general assembly. i declare before you that the islamic republic of iran will not be the first country to violate the agreement it will respond

decisively and resolutely to its violation by any party it will be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers in the world of politics the world will have lost a great opportunity but such unfortunate behavior will never impede iran's course of progress and advancement that's a pretty direct message to the us president there well let's make no mistake by his words and his potential deeds president trump is moving knighted states closer to war with iran and away from peace it's a dangerous activity and it really is is if there's no reason for it there's no reason why the united states would want to pull out of the iran deal it's working the u.s. military says it's working u.s. intelligence says it's working with a deal that's working that's preventing iran from moving towards nuclear weapons the united states should be honoring this deal if the united states pulls out what message does that send to other countries that the united states might want to deal with for example north korea here we are trying to reduce the threat in north korea

trying to negotiate some kind of agreement why should the north work with donald trump if he's pulling out of agreements left and right could he be bluffing though because we know for example if the united states were to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal other world powers would still be signed on to it i mean is the u.s. just isolating itself by doing something like that it's a risk not worth taking you know why should donald trump take the risk of withdrawing from the iran deal yes it's true iran may stay in the deal but they may not it could very well pave the way for iran coming out of the deal for the deal falling apart and for the great risk of military action by the united states going up so that is the danger there's no reason to go there and we can only hope the president trump will not take such a dangerous action you mentioned north korea. and the fact if trump withdraws from this negotiated agreement with iran it would send a message to pee on the end the u.s. is in a very trustworthy negotiating partner do they have reason to believe the united

states as it is now i mean. in the ninety's we negotiated nuclear deals with korea and didn't really necessarily pull out or uphold our end. north korea has many reasons already to distrust president for sure but let's not give them any more i mean negotiations is really the only solution to the north korean crisis there's no good military options sanctions are not working negotiations are best bet going forward so let's not make that any more likely by giving north korea yet another reason to distrust president roh how do you think president should handle north korea you say there's only a diplomatic solution would that include acknowledging the north koreans might just have a nuclear program i mean well facts are facts you know we north know north korea has a nuclear program north korea has nuclear weapons so let's not get let that get in the way of solving this problem we need negotiations with the north first of all to

establish the interests of both sides we don't want to stumble into war and that's the greatest danger right now is that one side will do something that is missed perceived by the other and we will stumble into a crisis that could lead to nuclear war so we need to be talking to the north united states north korea directly one on one to figure out where the red lines are and to make sure that we don't stumble into something and then building on that we need to try to figure out is the way to freeze north korea's nuclear and missile program in exchange for something the north wants for example freezing u.s. military exercises with the south there is there is grounds there to talk and we need to start their process as soon as possible it doesn't seem though that washington is open to that i mean you have come on the record saying they would freeze their program if washington and seoul freeze these these drills but. right all quiet things the ball's in our court i mean trump in ministration seems to be courting war both with north korea and with iran at the same time it makes no sense

there is no reason for it it's dangerous and they need to hear that they need to shift gears it's very dangerous as you say because these are two countries where you can't just march and start. taking down statues and dismantling the government as you know we didn't or the united states did in iraq for example do you think united is actually limited and what it can do here and that's part of the frustration we're hearing from trump the united states can't get what it wants out of iran and north korea i think president trump does not like his options he keeps asking for military options on north korea for example and his aides tell him sir there are no good military options you have to talk to them he doesn't like that but you know the reality is the reality he would like iran to be cheating on the nuclear deal they are not but he has to deal with reality so president trump has to deal with the facts on the ground and he has to do things that will improve u.s. security rather than risking war all right tom cleena director of policy at ploughshares fund thanks so much for your time this afternoon thank you. and

a group of intelligence professionals meanwhile in california have examined the north korean nuclear threat on the port of long beach the port serves as a main gateway to trans pacific trade and could be a top target artie's pretty to santos want to find out more. the thirty two hundred acre port of long beach is one of the busiest ports in the united states second only to the port of los angeles which is adjacent as a leading gateway between the united states and asia it generates over one hundred billion dollars in trade every year everything from clothing and shoes to toys furniture and consumer electronics arrive on ships like the ones behind me before making way to store shelves across the nation because this is such a critical piece of infrastructure it's a prime target for enemy attacks and since nine eleven government agencies have ramped up their efforts to protect it this includes collaborating with consulting groups like knowledge and intelligence program professionals retired marine colonel

how kemper who founded the company told me kip recently hosted a seminar for california officials as part of the eggs or size he asked them to imagine the unthinkable a north korean strike on long beach but rather than hype up nuclear war he took a more pragmatic approach i'm not staying up staying awake at night worrying about a nuclear attack surely within the continental united states with that said. if if kim jong il uses a nuclear weapon it will spell the end of his regime and the purpose of the nuclear weapons is to preserve his regime so there is a certain balance there which is it's a weapon he wants to have but it's a weapon that he could never use what other ways could north korea potentially attack the port we look at their large submarine fleet and we do know that north korea can shoot missiles from submarines they're not shy about this they also have a rather. top notch commando force and their commandos or special operations

forces are pretty famous they have been picked up doing operations throughout that region south korea japan imagine a worst case scenario what are we looking at. it's not the same thing as what we saw in the cold war it's not you know huge nuclear weapons with air burst and multiple mega tons of energy being you know put down a city you're talking a much smaller weapon really the effects after a mile dissipate so if you were down there and the bomb went off down there it would be the worst day you can possibly imagine but if you're up here or on the other side. life goes on this support is crucial for a trade especially with china can you talk about so much of the economy is built with built around trade and a lot of that trade is with the united states with north america and this is the major conduit that that trade comes through so they have

a vested interest to make sure that that is not interrupted they don't want to see sanctions they certainly don't want to see anything happen to the port here in your opinion what is the best solution moving forward i know secretary battus i used to be his for short period of time i was his director of intelligence and he's a very smart man there are military options but but frankly not great military officers with north korea and nobody wants to start a nuclear war the consequences of that are absolutely horrific we have to work with you know the international community as a whole to put pressure on kim jong un with north korea getting closer to intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities and media pundits endorsing preemptively u.s. military strikes it's important for international leaders to neutralize the threat without starting world war three in long beach pretty to santos are. going bust is

up next here on our team america lindsey france joins us for a preview of what's ahead what's up lindsey hey they're coming up we've got rate hikes to face and an unwinding of the fed's balance sheet also more details from the u.n. general assembly and my guest talks about the skyscraper curse and its economic indicators that's coming right up all right sounds good thanks a lot. and that is a for now for more on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com slash our team america also check out our website our t. dot com forward slash america a quick reminder part is now available on direct t.v. channel three two one you know follow me on twitter on your part until question more. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests that's thrown out a lot of boys that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where

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director rob reiner and act air morgan freeman are the latest wealthy hollywood celebrities to have reached new levels of self-importance than any of the backing a new organization called committee to investigate russia yes the guy that made spinal tap and the guy that played president twice in deep impact and olympus has fallen and are apparently foreign policy in espionage experts now to kick off their incredibly dry. mattick investigative committee they released a dramatic video of freeman reading a script about the rise of evil putin the script starts off with the collapse of putin's motherland and how angry britain was about it he's talking about the ball of the soviet union in the ninety's of course freeman doesn't mention the united

states' role in that he fails to mention how he actually bragged about how we meddled in their election so hey morgan if you're listening maybe you should google nine thousand nine hundred six time magazine yells the next to the rescue cover if you're suddenly going to start learning about politics but whatever i could go on and on and i only have two minutes in the video freeman actually says what he's reading it's not a script which is hilarious because that's exactly what it is it is a script that someone wrote for him and it is written exactly like any soviet propaganda would have been written the plotline freeman delivers for putin is pretty ridiculous but then the second half of the video gets even crazier because then the man who has played president twice actually begins to play president again he sits down to the desk and says what he thinks president trump should say he dramatically takes us behind a desk and literally starts playing president again it is so weird is especially because what he wants president trying to say is something he's already said that

freeman says the president needs to say our intelligence community is investigating the election to make sure nothing happened trump has said that and our intelligence community is doing that and they do not need howley woods help because the hollywood doesn't know what the hell it's talking about seriously they have no idea it's so embarrassing just let the investigators do their jobs without media interference seriously listen no one wants this from you guys they don't want that what they want is another spinal tap they want to laugh and be entertained by you they want another original idea from you besides transformers twenty and another frickin spider-man they do. not one board time propaganda which is exactly what you just made rob reiner making it very clear who the real medlars are.

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i'm lizzie frances is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight we bring you the latest from the united nations general assembly also the federal reserve wraps up its closely watched meeting we've got details on interest rate hikes and unwinding that giant balance sheet also the skyscraper curse have you heard about my guest says our skylines or predict our economic downturns we find out why stand by us starts right now.

right away we go to new york where emotions ran high today at the u.n. security council meeting where world leaders called for a more clear strategy on peacekeeping or tease trinity as reports today at a u.n. security council meeting the world leaders gather to discuss peacekeeping operations life's president pence reiterated a lot of what president trump said on tuesday pence called for reform of the united nations to be more efficient more effective accountable and credible he also said every mission must have an exit strategy and the united nations peacekeeping missions must adjust. the progress and failure when a mission succeeds we should not prolong it. with a mission underperforms we should restructure it and when

a mission consistently fails to fulfill the mandates of this council we should and the british prime minister theresa may also called on the un to establish a clear political strategy for resolving conflict because so often the council reaches deadlock and are unable to act she calls for better peacekeeping on the ground and when a certain standard is not and that there must be accountability meanwhile a day after president made his debut on the world stage and threatened to quote totally destroy north korea the iranian president hassan rouhani addressed the u.n. general assembly today and said trump's speech was quote ignorant absurd and hateful rhetoric he also said iran would not tolerate threats from anyone to go on we never condone tyranny and we always defend the voiceless we never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone and that our discourse is one of dignity and respect and we are unmoved by threats and intimidation and we believe in dialogue negotiation based on equal footing and mutual respect. and on the topic

of peace president met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and said achieving peace between the israelis and palestinians may be quote the toughest deal of all that he's tried to negotiate but nonetheless his administration is working very hard for peace in the region they just want to thank you for all of the time all of the meetings all of the work it's a complex subject always been considered the toughest deal of all peace between israel and the palestinians to toughest of all but i think we have a very very good chance. to vote everything within within my heart and within my soul to get that deal made and another meeting the president met with jordan's king abdullah and during the meeting trump held a relationship with jordan saying it has never quote. better than it is right now and praised king abdullah for taking in a large number of syrian refugees saying quote who knows what would happen without you reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t.

trinity joins us now live from new york trinity a lot of pressure on the u.n. secretary general to push u.n. reforms what are some of those developments we might expect in the near future. well. as the u.n. security general said that while his focus will be on conflict prevention peace and migration another major development is on the implementation of the twenty thirty agenda for sustainable development the focal points will be on international trade this is genuine clues actions to create an environment that will be beneficial to global trade this report calls for devising trade policies that foster economic growth that is inclusive and sustainable their report also raises points about openness regarding trade and globalization the un secretary general also said another key change must be to empower the world's women and girls in order to do this he said that he had launched a road map for achieving gender equality throughout all levels of the un lindsay

trinity chopra is joining us live from new york thank you very much. it's a wrap the federal reserve's two day policy meeting comes complete with a proclamation that we can expect a rate hike of short term interest rates one more time this year stocks wavered as investors sized up the rate policy update the federal open market committee is basing this on strengthening labor markets and continued moderately rising economic activity so far this year also a decline in overall inflation running below two percent if that rebounds we could see a hike up to three times in twenty eighteen and what about the four plus trillion dollar balance sheet we hold it's unwinding starting in october primarily consisting of government and mortgage backed bonds as the bonds mature the fed will spend less money each month to replace them which that reduces the balance sheet the u.s. central bank intends to spend ten billion dollars less on bonds beginning next

month a figure of that will eventually reach fifty billion dollars on the news the dow jones closed nearly forty two points higher the nasdaq lost five point two eight points and the s. and p. five hundred added one and a half points. well norway's sovereign fund has officially reached the one trillion dollar mark the fund which is run by the country sometimes bank takes the state's oil revenues and invests in financial assets abroad it is an unprecedented success and according to some an example other oil rich jurisdictions can learn from alex and i love it she joins us in toronto with more right now alex tell us how the norwegian fund is riches milestone well it's a surprise even to the norwegians western europe. many people say the biggest and it is the biggest oil producer in western europe all many people say what i wanted to say was one of the happiest countries on earth always rated close to number one if number not number one they're doing really well when it comes to the sovereign

fund it beat all expectations nor just bank which is the norwegian central bank it didn't even expect it to happen but there was a couple of factors that come into play that's the weak u.s. dollar so obviously all the currencies that are invested there in norway and the norwegian currency have gone up which brought it over to the one trillion dollar mark and also the stock markets have been doing well meaning that the stocks that this fund has invested in obvious lead are all doing well on the plus side let's translate this what does this mean to norwegians what we're looking at a population of about five point two million people basically every one of those individuals is the word of one hundred ninety two thousand u.s. dollars for this fund that's the way it breaks down which is quite nicely it was established back in one thousand nine hundred six and here's a little graph to show you how the fun looks now it's changed dramatically over the years the breakdown of it in the beginning we had about a sixty five percent of the assets were. in bonds that was a massive part of it and now we're looking at even real estate the first real

estate investments were made back in two thousand and eleven of about thirty billion dollars worth of real estate in the portfolio both in the u.s. and europe and if you really want sort of a bigger picture of this all look there's nine thousand companies that are. in this pond about one point three percent of the global market capitalization a two point three percent of europe's market capitalization so this is as you can imagine a massive bond the norwegian government basically is left to touch until january two thousand and sixteen when the economy one little bit about slump their rule is don't take more than three or four percent of it used to before they've actually knocked down that three percent and the left is the rest is just left there to stay as a basically a rainy day fund now that type of government i like to see we see that they're actually making money and not just spending all the taxpayer money that's out there that is a pretty rainy day fund that's candid as i already province alberta's got a similar economy to that of norway but it's fun has not performed anywhere near

that well can you tell us about that and why the approach is night and day the region fund basically looks to order towards the norwegian people the canadian funds or at least as a canadian government alberta government specifically looks towards appeasing businesses so obviously the tax rates are much lower they want everybody to be happy environmental laws sometimes and you know let's push this aside let's push that aside it's two different ball games now a bird is pond which was an established get this twenty years prior to norway so in nine hundred seventy six that's how long this fund been around is worth how much is it worth seventeen point two billion dollars and they you know berta government loves to dip into their fund as much as it possibly can forty one point four billion dollars have gone to government coffers from that fund itself now norway again like i mean let's look at seventy eight percent tax the oil revenue it's a state run. basically that oil industry is completely state run by that oil so it's a very different equation when you look at it that way. they do have

a deficit they were about one hundred thirty billion dollars a year deficit in norway but again if they want to wipe that out tomorrow they can it's a very progressive country free education from preschool all the way up to postgraduate degrees and oil country one in five cars there are electric there i had to basically everybody else when it comes to that causing is thanks a cent from a schnauzer now that's coming out of straight from toronto thank you. staying in canada and over to the united states as well the number has now reached one hundred thousand that's how many canadians private information was hacked in a breach of the credit monitoring service equifax it pales in comparison to the one hundred forty three million americans affected which we learned of only earlier this month the company now says that names addresses social insurance and security numbers and in some cases credit card numbers were compromised equifax did not disclose this have publicly for weeks after its discovery and in the meantime

executives sold shares worth a combined one point eight million dollars before the public announcement the company faces lawsuits and large scale investigations with governments hitting back requesting cyber security protocols from other monitoring services as well equifax had months to fix a known software glitch which was used in this attack its shares have lost a third of their value since it announced the breach. and time now for a quick break stick around though when we get back so she is set to offload it eighteen billion dollars computer chip business just to survive and my guess fills us in on the skyscraper of her that's right find out what it might mean for our economies as those buildings climb higher around the world as we go to break here of a number closing down. all

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what goes up must come down and we can look to the city skies to predict our booms and our busts please welcome from auburn alabama mark thornton author of the skyscraper and ducks and a senior fellow at the masons institute thank you so much for joining us very curious you say there is no coincidence that our skylines jump in height before a crash will talk about some possible coincidences here the. opened in dubai in january two thousand and ten weeks before a massive crash their chrysler building right before the 1930's depression the sears tower in the seventy's the stagnation that went on there it goes on and on and on we're talking malaysia now we've got towers going up in seoul south korea that there are some the highest in the world what can you tell us about the preconditions here. well the skyscraper curse and it's hard to believe it first but it's based on this historical correlation between the building of the world's

tallest building and an impending economic crisis and you know when i trot that the story out and show the history of it it's a long history it dates back into the nineteenth century. you know people don't believe it because they can't believe that building anything could possibly cause an important economic crisis but it's not a cause and effect relationship between the skyscraper in the crisis but rather it's a third economic force at work that produces both a record setting skyscraper and a boom bust cycle that ends in a crisis in this case it's artificially low interest rates from central banks in particular the federal reserve which create an environment with distorted incentives for people to build new things big things to

integrate new production processes and new technology so the forces that are generated by the central banks in these artificially low interest rates they permeate the economy but it's really hard to tell what's true and what's not true what's artificial and what's natural but the skyscraper the record setting skyscraper stands out above and beyond and provides a true. good. illustration of what the banks are or calls you know are coming right so you're not just talking about high rise tower you're talking about these mega buildings and you're not a fan of central banks the federal open market markets committee just got out of their meeting today with her chair janet yellen said a good face of rate hike this year multiple next year inflation and employment look ok now could be seeing a couple of hikes next year the list goes on economic indicators unwinding the four trillion dollar balance sheet what's your reaction to all this and how we might see

its effects and exactly what you're referring to. well there's not a lot of new news the one thing about this in the committee currently is they don't want to upset or distort or remind the confidence of markets they want to do things in a way where they project ahead of time what they're going to do and typically they do far less than what they translate to markets and so we were told we were going to have more hikes this year than we're actually going to get and that's even if we get another increase later this year they're still waiting for higher prices and more inflation which seems backwards when you're talking about economics but they they seem to like inflation so the increases in interest rates have been slow you know they've been promised for almost a decade in it we're just now getting the initial stages and as far as unwinding the balance sheet that's something that they will have to do but ten billion

dollars a month which is their initial projection of where they're going to start with that's only two tenths of one percent. of all of their assets and so it's almost insignificant amount of unwinding to on a per month basis it's almost as if there will be doing nothing at all ok let's talk about the financial recovery from you know starting in two thousand and seven two thousand day in your opinion is it where we've come now is that enough to prevent yet another repeat of the so-called curse on geopolitical attention tensions have rattled markets where do you think we're headed for that because we are seeing these mega skyscrapers go up all over the place as i mentioned saul korea saudi arabia china. oh yes it's a worldwide phenomenon they're not all record breakers of course but they're huge buildings you know multiple records in local areas so you

know this is a. worldwide trend an enormous amount of investment that's going into these mega structures and it basically i don't see this is a true record cover e the interest rates in the united states have been below one percent for a decade they've been very low in europe and some countries are actually experiencing or did experience negative interest rates in the that's what causes the boom and eventually the bust in the economy so here in the united states you know they talk about economic growth but a lot of it is economic growth in terms of building yet more house rise yet more skyscrapers yet more retail and commercial and then as you say overcompensating building and trying to sell it's just not matching up let's talk about a property analysts at dresdner kleinwort wasserstein he brought this when to call

paper back in nine hundred ninety nine called the skyscraper and that's fawlty towers and focus on these groundbreaking buildings just as you were out. as you mentioned going back all you know even pre twentieth century steel beams you going to steel beams right. well i certainly don't want him still being constructions and of course the elevator was important vention as well because people didn't want to walk ups more than four flights of stairs and so we've come a long ways with technology for building these buildings it's been it's been an enormous plus and you know it's natural that we want to build higher and more densely it's just that during certain times like we're right now. there's an over stimulus they should and there's which is requiring these companies these construction companies the architecture companies to invent all new products all new elevators all new heating systems lighting systems and so we're doing

a lot of things that are natural right now and that's happening throughout the we're. world basically is companies who are gauged construction and. although it's been distorted as you say is to say low and in control thank you so much very interesting topic love to have you on more to talk about this dr marc thorn senior fellow at the mrs institute and author of the economics of prohibit. but the battered board of japanese electronics company toshiba is offloading its computer chip business for eighteen billion dollars and it claws its way out of red ink its u.s. nuclear operations at westinghouse electric filed for bankruptcy earlier this year now after an earthquake and tsunami led to the fukushima nuclear meltdown in japan back in two thousand and eleven toshiba and westinghouse as nuclear reactor construction took a dive also toshiba faces the main responsibility for controlling and decommissioning the fukushima plant to ship

a story is one of the most dramatic downfalls of a major japanese company its nuclear arm western digital proposes are actually opposes this chip sale to bain capital and it's threatened legal action however says the deal will go through by march of next year getting it back in the black. but just four days germans will head to the polls to vote in the federal election like every other major race jobs and the economy of course on the top of voters' minds so could a new potential deal regarding one of germany's biggest companies sway the votes well for more on this are about to find out joined by boom bust bianca for she bianca what kind of deal or we're talking about here we're talking about a merger that could end up cutting jobs in germany which is why some people think that it could definitely impact the upcoming election in just

a few days after nearly a year of talks one of germany's most. companies is preparing for a merger these two groups which formed in one thousand nine hundred nine after the merger of two heavy industry companies agreed to a preliminary merger with the india based. the new joint venture called these include tata steel is expected to be in full swing by the end of twenty eighteen and will be based in amsterdam while the companies say the operation will employ nearly forty eight thousand people the deal will also lead to at least four thousand job cuts and with just four days until the german federal election that news could hurt certain parties the most recent poll shows chancellor angela merkel in a comfortable lead with her party at thirty six percent but her party's main competition the social democratic party is more at risk these include plants in six of the twenty two districts where the s.p.d. performed well in two thousand and thirteen so for voters deciding now it was

a potential job cuts could make them change their minds and on monday cigar gabriel who serves as vice chancellor of the social democrats met with employee representatives however support for the s.p.d. has declined since the beginning of the year so even if it doesn't win the most seats it wouldn't only be because of that the syncrude. well let's talk more about the deal what encouraged it the first place will simply put there's just been a major glut in the steel industry which depress prices and really hurt a lot of these companies there was also on top of that competition with china and cheaper steel imports about that it's on. the absolutely so as a result we've seen a lot of merger talks of this deal doesn't exactly as a surprise we've also seen a lot of plants closed and a lot of jobs lost so obviously that last part is what people are most concerned about right now but the reason the business is did this of course is because it is estimated to save them up to six hundred million euros and that was very warmly

welcome. by investors ok no small change the u.k. government is concerned though about this deal how would impact british workers what can you tell us about that so both the government and unions in the u.k. already afraid of how could impact the port talbot steelworks which is operated by talk of steel now they announced last year in twenty sixteen even before practice at that they were going to pull out all of their british assets and their plants but they were afraid that this deal actually does go through with that it could actually you know thousand that up and those jobs would disappear faster than i expected but the keyword there is if because right now they're only in the pool in eerie stages both sides still have to go through every detail ironed out to make sure that they like it but then they also need to get european regulatory approval and we know now it takes a long time a very long time so you know they want to get it up and moving by twenty eight thousand but it could take longer than that and not only that it must be worried that. if this deal goes through faster than expected how are they going to convert

those workers into something else they're already having trouble with that problems and getting their workers trained up enough in those industries right and i mean another thing is that. obviously we know how the e.u. and eve bodies feel about it so if the u.k. all the sudden is saying hey we're going to talk about how this is going to affect us we might not see as much sympathy from regulators about how it's going to impact the u.k. versus if this is good for the rest of europe right bargaining chips there thank you very much for this. having a baby is a joyous occasion and it's always nice to get a gift to welcome the new bundle of joy at last you aren't having a baby on tuesday plenty of amazon users got e-mails telling them that someone had bought them an item off of their baby registry as you can guess most didn't have

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coming up on our t.v. world leaders call for peacekeeping missions at the united nations general assembly we'll have the latest from new york and two deadly natural disasters category four hurricane maria batters puerto rico and seven point one magnitude earthquake rattled mexico we'll have team coverage on the latest. then we'll stay on forever and you study finds the cells which could stop aging process tales later in the show.

good evening it's wednesday september twentieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part until you're watching archie america we begin this hour in new york city where emotions are running high today at the u.n. general assembly meeting where many world leaders called on the international body for a clear peacemaking strategy artie's trinity chavez reports today at a u.n. security council meeting the world leaders gather to discuss peacekeeping operations life's president pence reiterated a lot of what president trump said on tuesday pence called for reform of the united nations to be more efficient more effective accountable and credible he also said every mission must have an exit strategy and the united nations peacekeeping missions must adjust to progress and failure when a mission succeeds we should not prolong it. with a mission underperforms we should restructure it and when a mission consistently fails to fulfill the mandates of this council we should end the british prime minister theresa may also called on the un to establish

a clear political strategy for resolving conflict. because so often the council reaches deadlock and are unable to act she calls for better peacekeeping on the ground and when a certain standard is not in that there must be accountability meanwhile a day after president made his debut on the world stage and threaten to quote totally destroy north korea the iranian president hassan rouhani addressed the u.n. general assembly today and said trump's speech was quote ignorant absurd and hateful rhetoric he also said iran would not tolerate threats from anyone to go on we never condone tyranny and we always defend the police never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone and that our discourse is one of dignity and respect and we are unmoved by threats and intimidation and we believe in dialogue negotiation based on equal footing and mutual respect. and on the topic of peace president met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and said achieving peace

between the israelis and palestinians may be quote the toughest deal of all that he has tried to negotiate but nonetheless his administration is working very hard for peace in the region i just want to thank you for all of the time all of the meetings all of the work she complex subject always been considered the toughest deal of all peace between israel and the palestinians to toughest of all but i think we have a very very good chance. to vote everything within within my heart and within my shoulder get the deal made and another meeting the president met with jordan's king abdullah and during the meeting trump held a relationship with jordan saying it has never quote been better than it is right now and praised king abdullah for taking in a large number of syrian refugees saying quote who knows what would happen without you reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. the following two devastating natural disasters today one of the strongest

hurricanes to ever hit puerto rico has left the island completely without power. or maria made landfall this morning in the southeast coastal town if you have a coa as a category four storm with winds of one hundred fifty five miles per hour the bankrupt u.s. territory is battling its second hurricane in two weeks with fear resources and federal support generally provided to us states meanwhile hundreds are dead in mexico after a seven point one magnitude earthquake struck yesterday we have team coverage on these stories. in our miami studio and ashley banks in the newsroom marina let's start with you hurricane maria killed at least nine people in the caribbean before making landfall in puerto rico what's the latest on the ground in that island. well as you mention the entire island of three and a half million people is one hundred percent without power as of this afternoon this occurred just hours after maria ripped through puerto rico with one hundred fifty five mile per hour winds video capture the deadly hurricane ripping roofs off

structures shattering windows and tearing doors off hinges in the capital of san juan palm trees were stripped streets flooded and buildings were damaged as the storm passed through the category four a category four storm has not hit the island since nine hundred thirty two based on air pressure measurements meteorologists say hurricane maria is the third strongest storm to make landfall in the united states meanwhile just pummeled the island two weeks ago reportedly causing as much as one billion dollars in damages and knocking out electricity to one million residents officials expect maria to cause long lasting damage to the islands infrastructure the mayor of san juan says it may take four to six months before the entire island gets electricity back. and puerto rico has been spending years trying to dig itself out of a financial crisis around seventy eight billion dollars debt debacle how much of

this will be a threat back to the island in face of the aftermath of hurricane. both that is i would be a huge setback we are talking about a very poor island that's been in a depression for a decade the territory's infrastructure has gone neglected for years as puerto rico's government struggles to deal with its seventy four to seventy billion dollar debt to bondholders there's an additional fifty billion dollars of pension fund obligations unemployment in puerto rico is around ten percent that's double the national average and the island's utility provider puerto rico aleck trick pal worth already well it filed for bankruptcy in july after years of under investment that yielded a system called degraded an unsafe this was before the island was hit by an maria these hurricanes are hammering an economy that can't take much more and

instead of putting money into its infrastructure and trying to rebuild puerto rico's infrastructure officials there are being forced to pay back debt collectors that just won't you know relieve the island as it sees them as the people they're dealing with so many problems keeping this in mind it's fair to expect her to rico we'll ask her officials for a little help perhaps a relief package like texas did after hurricane harvey isn't that something we should expect marina. of course we should expect that except puerto rico doesn't have any voting representation in the house or senate essentially the u.s. territory does not have elected advocates in washington to lobby on its behalf so we allow puerto ricans to vote in the primary not in the election we allow puerto rican says serve in the u.s. military but they don't have representation that could advocate and lobby on their behalf when something like a national a natural disaster strikes them they've been struck by two of them in the past two weeks and right now they're just hoping for the best we should mention president

trump declared a state of emergency for rico which authorizes the department of homeland security and fema to coordinate all disaster relief efforts but in terms of funding like the funding we saw texas we don't know what puerto rico is going to get because they don't have anyone lobbying on their behalf to tragic situation from what you describe only seems to be inflamed by the political situation imposed on puerto rico but actually i want to turn to you from one unfortunate catastrophe to another today the death toll from mexico's powerful earthquake now stands at more than two hundred and at this very hour emergency crews are still pulling victims buried beneath the rubble in mexico city the epicenter of yesterday's seven point one magnitude quake the deadliest record reported in that country in thirty two years actually in the newsroom what can you tell us about the latest there so a seven point one magnitude earthquake that struck central mexico tuesday afternoon toppling buildings and killing more than two hundred people among the damage were

torn gas means that sparked fire across mexico city and neighboring towns today mexican president enrique pena nieto declared three days of national mourning and called for a state of calm. i've instructed that the i.m.s. and the hospitals the government of the lim medical services. that are one is going to do you make the point mexico city. yes operational but it's you and it is for brits with our armed services as well as the mexican navy but you know for me with the we're going to have also struck you know i would like to be playing sort of throughout the night that i may continue to care about. right now emergency crews and volunteers including five hundred soldiers and navy marines are searching for trapped survivors who may be in offices apartments and school buildings after the quake crews including firefighters police officers and volunteers arrived to a three story school and found the bodies of twenty one children and four adults

pedro serino a twenty nine year old doctor entered the building in search of survivors and described the scene saying quote we managed to get into a collapsed classroom we saw some chairs and wooden tables the next thing we saw was a leg and then we started to move rubble and we found a girl and two adults a woman and a man the search continued to well into the night and early wednesday morning several other children or rescued and brought to safety according to mexican authorities thirty others are still missing from the building also during the quake a church collapse while mass was in progress killing fifteen people the church was located on the slopes of a volcano which had a small eruption for it after the tremor a fireman at the site of a collapsed building had this hopeful message as good as us going to fight the tragedy we have to say that it wasn't as bad as we thought. there were thirty buildings that collapsed like it was one of the buildings of several stages and

thousands and we have firemen most in all of. tuesday's quake is the second deadliest quake to rock the country and thirty two years ironically mexican residents were taking part in the drill commemorating a nine hundred eighty five earthquake just hours before the most recent quake struck the one nine hundred eighty five earthquake had a magnitude of eight killing five thousand people and injuring several others and caused serious damage to mexico city and. yes a couple weeks back the country saw an eight point one magnitude earthquake however the damage was less devastating and fewer casualties so far there have been more than eleven aftershocks in the state the strongest one has registered as a magnitude four many world leaders have vocalize their support for mexico in rome pope francis said he's praying for the victims the wounded their families and the rescue workers u.s. president donald trump said in a tweet god bless the people of mexico city we are with you and will be there for

you and israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu has sent a rescue team per mexico's request to aid in any way path possible sally the death toll is expected to continue to rise as emergency crew continue combing through the rubble the u.s. geological survey predicts the final death toll will be a thousand and the economic impact will be between one billion and ten billion dollars stunning economic and mostly human toll in each of these cases actually bangs and rain of course thank you for monitoring them both for us and now for an on the ground update let's turn to andrew chemist's he's a journalist and professor of communications at the university barrow in. mexico city andrew can you start by describing your experience when the earthquake hit yesterday and what your immediate reaction was. sure my interaction and sure it was similar to many other mexican residents living in the metropolis was that

a surprise because not only did we have not only did we have an alarm to surlier the day we didn't have an alarm that usually goes up before happens and in some areas and including my own downtown excuse city there was no alarm that was audible during the earthquake senator this is a big surprise to me obviously a very scary i believe i was on the street right in front of my apartment building and there's a massive hotel from my apartment building we were very frightened that it was going to collapse it was literally being in against the side of the building was a parking lot so after the earthquake i ended my thoughts raced to how many buildings collapsed in the city especially moving in about one hundred five much less the other earthquake just a couple weeks ago and as well as a little bit of confusion i had because the movements of the earthquake were much different under way it's been and i've been in these five of the earthquakes and what we found out later was that there was actually two earthquakes one with an

epicenter label in another one of them right now this happened just a couple of weeks after the eight point one or a bit hit. and walk to. be filing mind boggling so those were basically running through my head in there porter what human toll have you witnessed so far in the aftermath have you been out in the street. yeah well definitely the first thing that we did was we ran to sites that we were researching on the internet with help with friends and whatnot folks who didn't lose power and there's a neighborhood that's pretty close to where i live called roma it's really bad so i was working with a team from some correspondence with them and we were covering these buildings several of them in that neighborhood and so our thoughts were about how many folks are going to be rescued or not and what we found out later was that more p. . the parish and its collapse believes and then were rescued and of course the big story here is one i'm sorry it was noted earlier in the broadcast with the

schoolchildren it's going to probably be least a fifty two small children that will perish there and folks are really wondering the building codes have definitely been approved here in force much much more than one hundred five but obviously apparently not enough and i mean that was one of my question three doesn't seem like a city and the country were properly prepared for any of these deaths preventable from what you understand so far the whole world stocks that are you know that are seeing this tragedy here really on the schoolchildren as well as the unusual nature of somebody's earthquakes such a short period of time so yeah nobody wants you know schools to be collapsing others and a building that should blow code beyond should be that of schools right and so definitely that's one area that we here in the city feel should have been prevented it could have been prevented and addition to that the civic society has had an

outpouring of support participation believable volunteerism and really great show ends of human support and decency my friends and colleagues at the colony all day long asked me where to go what can be done and that's good but the flip side of that is that there is a high dependency on that kind of hell on tar perhaps fire him truly is of comfort to most residents consider an ice cube efforts that might be an addict but from the government now there is a big difference in what happened in one thousand you five but again given to the pen and see the pretty high dependency on civic society many folks are wondering if that improvement is adequate enough. finally in the u.s. we often hear warnings about quakes for example the so-called the big one will hit southern california inevitably did you have any expectation something like this could happen in mexico is it something discussed especially with the recent history there. with an earthquake in the bag. the very top of the richter scale you know happening i'll buy you farther away than this one it's just you know

it could still happen this frequency in mexico and so a lot of folks including especially most significantly climate change science is researching and finding links similar to that what's been found with her feelings between climate change and a three month earthquakes these these recent examples of twin earthquakes yesterday and the other earthquake in impoverished chiapas and waka are definitely going to be really really high in the minds of sciences and i hope it will add. the bit that's going on there but that's already clearly consensus is starting to form just even common sense dictates that frequency of these natural disasters especially here in mexico three or weeks until we see these kind of high of a river scale unless it's really really long as the months of all of us here in the city yes those images were also especially unbelievable we're glad you're safe and your chemist journalism professor of communications at university dad make qana

thank you so much thank you. and we are just getting word of another powerful quake and this one just about two thirty struck just about two thirty wednesday morning local time off the coast of japan that's about three hours ago the u.s. geological survey says the quake was centered in the pacific ocean about two hundred miles east of fukushima and measured about six point two right now there are no reports of damage or injuries we'll keep monitoring it for you and bring you any new details as we get them. coming up on our team there. crisis in yemen or sense as the number of cholera outbreaks rises to seven hundred thousand people what role does the united states play all day back in just about.

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welcome back to our team america hearing president donald trump's united nations general assembly speech one of his targets was iran which he blamed for feeling the war in yemen the u.n. made clear the same day though that blame for the destruction and loss of civilian life lies on both sides of the battle over sario has the latest developments coming out of the war torn country two and a half years after the official start of yemen civil war civilians continue to be killed at alarming rates this past week was particularly dangerous and deadly for children with attacks carried out by opposing sides who the rebels and the saudi led coalition just over the past five days we have confirmed that three children died and seven of those were injured in attacks by who c. source forces in the district of the city of tire use. while a coalition air strike even mounted killed five children along with seven adults since march of two thousand and fifteen the office of the united nations high

commissioner for human rights has been able to confirm nearly fourteen thousand civilian casualties including more than five thousand dead and eight thousand injured though they believe the actual numbers to be much higher the high commissioner noted just last week that coalition airstrikes continue to be the leading cause of civilian casualties including of children now the coalition is led by saudi arabia and includes several partners from the middle east and africa is supports the ousted harvey government and has significantly more resources than the who the rebels that fights believed to be backed by iran this week the charity organization warchild u.k. released a report claiming british arms companies have sold saudi arabia six billion pounds or about eight billion dollars worth of weapons since the start of yemen's war and . the u.s. continues to supply saudi arabia with for more than that to complicate matters even more these groups are also fighting affiliates of al qaida that have taken

advantage of infighting to seize territory in the country air strikes in the country are hitting hospitals destruction is hindering the delivery of much needed supplies to many is find themselves not only suffering from famine but cholera where the world health organization predicts an unprecedented outbreak of seven hundred thousand cases and counting in washington sima del rosario r t. the world health organization reported this week the number of cholera and cases in color cases rather in yemen has risen to seven hundred thousand declaring it has a plan to distribute vaccines and hopefully eradicate ninety percent of the cases but get this not until twenty thirty yes that's about thirteen years from now already the poorest country in the region yemen has been plunged further into crisis since two thousand and fifteen when saudi arabia and its gulf allies began bombing and upholding an economic blockade over the country saudi arabia is opposed to the who the rebel movement in yemen which has been resisting the riyadh backed

government in the country since the one nine hundred ninety s. overthrowing that leadership in two thousand and eleven as many have pointed out the bombing campaign against yemen is directly enabled by the united states which refuels planes responsible for the attacks yet there is little opposition on capitol hill to u.s. involvement in the war which has been described by the united nations as the worst humanitarian crisis since world war two to discuss let's bring in robert nine min of just foreign policy his recent article in the huffington post is titled rand paul unconstitutional saudi war in yemen is not in our interest and congress should vote robert i just want to start by asking you since the u.n. general assembly has been in session this week and as i mentioned the u.n. described yemen as the worst humanitarian catastrophe since world war two. you are you surprised it's not the center focus of this year's meeting. i'm not surprised.

united nations isn't magic the united states britain and france have tremendous influence as does saudi arabia. so. that's why there has been more action at the united nations the u.s. and britain but to kill or blocked action at the security council so many rave and its allies have blocked action human rights council well back to the point and your article i want to listen to what senator paul had to say about the crisis in yemen just last week. what else is happening in yemen one of the poorest countries on the planet seventeen million people as we speak live on the edge of starvation seventeen million people there having the largest outbreak of cholera. whereas most of this happening whereas most of the starvation most of the killing and most of the cholera it's in the areas that are being bombed by the saudis they have bombed

the infrastructure into ruins and there is no clean water why is this a brave position to take in congress. you know it stands out because others are doing it's not particularly brave in the sense that you know rand paul walks the street but other. many other members of congress have not been an outspoken senator chris murphy senator al franken senator john young have been outspoken in this particular case senator paul was launching a broadside against all the wars and demanding secure sites set of the two thousand and one two thousand to. use military force but he particularly launched a broadside against u.s. participation in saudi warning yemen which is senator paul has pointed out is on

like the other wars that the u.s. is engaged in in that it is not even a stance of lee targeted against al qaida or isis in fact just the opposite is you indicated in your intro the saudi arabia and united arab emirates are a lot of tied in yemen against the hooty cell and that's why from the u.s. or any of you have been seeking her and the congressional point if you this war is particularly scandal because it's never been authorized by congress under any stretch of the imagination and in fact is contradictory to. suppose a war against u.s. war against all right in that sense it's a little bit more comparable to perhaps syria than the other examples a. morally exactly in the in the left there but i don't think the know what attempt by the

senator can drive time to the fact the u.s. is making this catastrophe and possible but how effective is congress at opposing war i mean where said real opposition to war come from. what should be happening in this country right now and again i can't emphasize enough the worst humanitarian disaster since world war two happening right now. well it's not either or obviously congress has not been that effective so far but congress doesn't exist as in a vacuum they do respond to popular pressure and we expect that when the house returns from recess next week for there to be a bipartisan initiative to challenge u.s. participation in the war under the war powers resolution in the house the reason that there hasn't been more action about this is because action has been blocked particularly in the house and that's why some members are considering using the war

powers resolution to force a vote so whether. members of congress the battle is going to be joined and whether members of congress members of the house hear from their constituents is going to shape the result remember that the last time there was a floor vote in the house than any aspect of this in june twenty sixth. the house almost voted to prevent the transfer of u.s. cluster bombs to saudi arabia the vote was too large an order to sixteen with almost all democrats and forty republicans voting against i want to arabia i want to jump in here because we're almost out of time but i wanted to ask you the new york times recently stated the united states does not play a direct war role in the war in yemen you've started a petition demanding they correct that reporting how such an egregious error possible in the so-called paper of record well it's two things york times is stubborn but also it's difficult to get information about that and the

new york times i was doesn't have independent way of knowing outside of u.s. government sources u.s. government sources according to an article in or sad actually don't know. we've seen you know the united states the pentagon is refueling so. some u.s. government officials until dinner time well we're not doing now because i do matter is that pentagon doesn't know who we commissioned in the united states is refueling it's a crisis unfortunately not going anywhere we'll have to stay on top of it and make sure to have you back on to discuss robert nyman policy director of just foreign policy thanks a lot to lose you and secretary of state rex tillerson reportedly sent a memo to congress a couple weeks ago detailing political repression in egypt the associated press reported this and the state department confirmed to r.t. america the a.p. said tillerson memo referenced disappearance arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial

killings as quote the overall human rights climate in egypt continues to deteriorate president trump met with key counterterrorism ally egypt's president of dull fatah al sisi today only about a month after he cut one hundred million dollars worth of aid from or to rather the north african country. president trungpa issued a harsh warning yesterday at the un general assembly threatening to quote totally destroy in north korea although the president called for the denuclearization of north korea he failed to offer any diplomatic path toward reaching these goals instead he attempted to discourage other nations from engaging in trade with the country it is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a reason but would arm supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear concha. on c.b.s.

this morning the u.s. ambassador to the united nations defended the president's rhetoric this is a country who is threatening its neighbors threatening the united states continuing to use ballistic missile testing but now also nuclear bombs that they are testing and we have to stop every ounce of funding that they used to do bad things haley went on to explain that the current us administration would not give up on failing diplomatic negotiations however the ambassador says she doesn't expect tensions to deescalate anytime soon no one knows how to get his attention so all you can do is continue to let him know what could happen if he doesn't stop. president donald trump's remarks came a day after senate leaders of proved a seven hundred billion dollar military budget for the fiscal year twenty nineteen . and a group of intelligence professionals in california have examined the north korea nuclear threat on the port of long beach the port serves as a main

a gateway to trans pacific trade and could be a top target just antos went to find out more. the thirty two hundred acre port of long beach is one of the busiest ports in the united states second only to the port of los angeles which is adjacent as a leading gateway between the united states and asia it generates over one hundred billion dollars in trade every year everything from clothing and shoes to toys furniture and consumer electronics arrive on ships like the ones behind me before making way to store shelves across the nation because this is such a critical piece of infrastructure it's a prime target for enemy attacks and since nine eleven government agencies have ramped up their efforts to protect it this includes collaborating with consulting groups like knowledge and intelligence program professionals retired marine colonel how come for who founded the company told me kip recently hosted a seminar for california officials as part of the eggs or size he asked them to

imagine the unthinkable a north korean strike on long beach but rather than hype up nuclear war he took a more pragmatic approach i'm not staying up staying awake at night worrying about a nuclear attack surely within the continental united states with that said. if if kim jong uses a nuclear weapon it will spell the end of his regime and the purpose of the nuclear weapons is to preserve his regime so there is a certain balance there which is it's a weapon he wants to have but it's a weapon that he could never use what other ways could north korea potentially attack the port we look at their large submarine fleet and we do know that north korea can shoot missiles from submarines they're not shy about this they also have a rather. top notch commando force and their commandos or special operations forces are pretty famous they have been picked up doing operations throughout that

region south korea japan imagine a worst case scenario what are we looking at. it's not the same thing as what we saw in the cold war it's not you know huge nuclear weapons with air burst and multiple mega tons of energy being you know put down a city you're talking a much smaller weapon really the effects after a mile dissipate so if you were down there and the bomb went off down there it would be the worst day you can possibly imagine but if you're up here or on the other side. life goes on this port is crucial for a trade especially with china can you talk about that so much of the economy is built with built around trade and a lot of that trade is with the united states with north america and this is the major conduit that that trade comes through so they have a vested interest to make sure that that is not interrupted they don't want to see sanctions they certainly don't want to see anything happen to the port here in your

opinion what is the best solution moving forward i know secretary battus i used to be his for a short period of time i was his director of intelligence and he's a very smart man there are military options but but frankly not great military options with north korea and nobody wants to start a nuclear war the consequences of that are absolutely horrific we have to work with you know the international community as a whole to put pressure on kim jong. with north korea getting closer to intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities and media pundits endorsing preemptive a u.s. military strike it's important for international leaders to neutralize the threat without starting world war three and long beach procedure santos r.t. . coming up on our t.v. there are a balding door that keeps on spinning between government and industry it will have

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know what they're working. welcome back to our team and merica while many an american dream of becoming the president or a law maker to instill positive change in the world many times greed takes over and values are compromised artes and tough as we take a look at how many begin with community service ridge which quick turn to. millionaire mentality as you may recall former president barack obama campaigned on hope and change while he promised to fight for the poor many on the right argue his policy including the affordable care act actually tax the poor policy aside the former president went from the white house to wall street in less than a year he was reportedly in a four hundred thousand dollars per speech to massive financial firms that's about

what the president's salary adds up to in an entire year reports surfaced this week that obama delivered a speech to northern trust corporation and the carlyle group both for around four hundred thousand dollars a speech he's also planning to attend a three day conference by cantor fitzgerald next week breaking and other four hundred thousand dollars a move his fellow democrats might not agree with what obama is doing now by speaking to a company like the carlyle group a private equity giant is aligning himself with with corporate power at a time when democrats may want to be turning away from. but he's not the only one from rags to riches former president bill clinton and twenty six thousand presidential democratic nominee hillary clinton have a poorly earned a combined one hundred fifty three million dollars in pay speeches since two thousand and one or that breaks down to seven hundred twenty nine speeches averaging more than two hundred thousand dollars for each address seven point seven

million at least thirty nine speeches were to big banks including goldman sachs after receiving much criticism for her involvement with big banks especially by senator bernie sanders and during the campaign oddly enough clinton wrote she regretted the move in her book that stroller a fellow at the open markets institute compared clinton to her former boss colin obama's move quote crappy saying that even clinton's book is hurting the democratic party far less compared to obama's high fees speeches writing cooper a national correspondent for the week sums it up in his two step plan when asked how to make that much force speech one become president or two do not enforce laws against securities or mortgage fraud but some argue the former president is using his money to help others including the work's been done through his foundation and washington talk this week r.t. . new article written by a legendary reporter robert perry accuses the new york times of yellow journalism writing in consortium news perry says quote the times behavior over the past

several years suggests something even more sinister than biased reporting the newspaper of record has slid into yellow journalism the practice of two new earlier new york newspapers and william randolph hearst the new york journal and joseph pugh answers new york world that in the night eight hundred ninety s. manipulated facts about the crisis in cuba to push the united states into war with spain a conflict that many historians say marks the beginning of america's global empire to talk more about the concept of yellow journalism let's bring in georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers professor chambers k. to start by explaining what you know the yellow journalism is well i mean it's a scheme to get more eyeballs and advertisers if you really boil it down but you're using jingoism which is extraordinary patriotism and saber rattling and you know with a little racism and stuff like the war mongering thrown in to really spice it up to get people talking to get people reading back then reading in the eight hundred

ninety s. not necessarily to create a policy change but in the first instance to get more people watching and you saw her stand pulitzer fight each other like a race to the bottom like c.n.n. versus fox these days you have a race to the bottom to see you can get more sensationalistic so that's basically it now the again the problem is it usually ends up in quite a tragic policy turn such as declaring war on spain more the battleship maine blew up in havana harbor it turned out to be a coal fire and these two guys in new york cooked up this nefarious spanish scheme now what you have as a result are the philippines puerto rico etc etc and panama canal zone pretty much becoming part of the new american empire and could this be comparable to instances of the. the vietnam war the gulf of tonkin incident weapons of mass destruction in iraq and that's and that's the fault of the times if you look at judith miller and

the weapons of mass destruction in the times in the lead up to the iraq war and now you have maybe not the same jingoism the extraordinary patriotism or pathological patriotism but using that method to kind of drama drama against another power i mean you know with respect to the article you just mentioned there a russia let's get into that do you agree with perry's characterization of the new york times reporting with respect to russia's yellow journalism well i think i only disagree with it in in so far as it is not perry that the times is not trying to push us towards war technically technically if you want to be technical about it yellow journalism wants to create a specific sensationalistic game and it's probably war because people they love to cover war i mean war is great to cover but if you're talking about this kind of a new kind of warfare where you have an enemy and you want to paint an enemy and b.

have it be part of a narrative to get more people to read you and click cetera then yes then it's a new kind of yellow journalism. use a yellow journalism isn't always meant to exact a policy change but at least in the case of someone like william randolph hearst we're talking about a very wealthy individual with clear political idiology and views who did gin up the war with spain how much of the yellow journalism has to do with who owns the media well if you look at the you know the new york times the great lady i mean they are more often than they are not in bed with financial interests with bank with the banks with wall street also you know you have some other there veteran big name reporters like you like it like andrew higgins who was the subject of this of this article jenning up this kind of anti rush. feeling based on some really kind of low level war games with people roos were involved

maybe ten thousand guys you know ten thousand saw it on native boards or nato headquarters yeah it's and i suspect that a lot of this has to do with the fact that you have people here who are venerable but i think are kind of bored trying to cover the kind of weird scituate foreign policies you a few see now with president trump so they want to go back to the old ways they want to go back to when the neo cons are running things under the bush presidencies both bush presidencies maybe even go back to the cold war i mean if you can is because being a foreign policy correspondent dealing with that you know it was it was perhaps a little bit more sexier back then things were a little unsure now and i think you know to gen up a boogie man like you know the kremlin is something the give them some other kind of old school important so they perhaps heard some of those old school in the o'connor days and yesterday's u.n. speech some will go that's very true for iran all back on the it's

a very true chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university thanks a lot and q. and now to a subject which directly affects all of us. getting old would you like to stay forever young or have you ever considered eternal life well a new study. in a new study researchers from albert einstein college of medicine in new york claim they've identified brain cells which control the process of aging i spoke to dr don ching ka a professor of molecular pharma solidly at einstein college of medicine about this study. fine and. we discovered. there's a region a solution that loss of sales in particular part of growth in which is a purpose i must say it is not just association in fact the loss of these skills is useful support for said enough at this stage of age and can essentially holdfast these cells got lost determine that the top first to work in progress

so in terms of hypothalamus is. kind the but is where such a substantial important fundamentally important region in the brain and the ideas that will move them to be taken killed for to tackle for the. basic of functions of life for many of us the functions of life such as cool for development sleep macao reason energy balance. in some very fundamental part of a jury and in control of the whole body who missed this is. so then jazz and adding stem cells to the hypothalamus could counteract aging does that mean you found a way to postpone aging and grand people forever you. yes i think that's what we meant to say arming sunni. but there have to be hypothermic stem

cells this will happen a stem cells have a unique function not of other kind of little cells. and also this part of them is themselves a part of great us and we have to do a little bit ingenuity to help them so they can supply up to be in the injected into that i have thought in the us. has actually did you conduct terrorist search and how long did you carry out the study for. they were me. experiments involved different types of experiments. the fortunes of the bodies slow we hire the option to design those bodies for use in the media age of the mines. which a bit of a local but different places so that helped a lot so from it aged to old age or even in the lifespan. for my eyes it can be song is doable we didn't to us. so that was very helpful.

do you think the result of this study might help people stop or slow the aging process and how might this be done r. is your research going to be given to for example cosmetic companies is that where . this might be developed. yeah that's for a while motivation in our research we hope to find a way to help people who suffer long man age in the solution of diseases like alzheimer's disease parkinson's disease and diabetes and cancer cells or both those who just won't impose on motivation and i think the affine you see in beslan maya's. are promising a point upon this soon and. yes eventually there's a way to slow down the agent years in the strategies the. try to propose

there's a tremendous benefit because. of this the one major benefit is to reduce the expense of the different types of aging the social diseases and people can and leave a bit of. them when the old in terms of age they're not good in talking obviously about physically that a paging appearance you're talking about a real internal aging process and following that down i'm sure everyone on the planet would. like to have this a remedy a it's a real breakthrough how much do you think it would cost and what exactly what it looked like of the something what would be applied through many different medications and treatments or one kind of stop pill which people can take. on on the probably is a future question from look for the specific i mean use the approaches we can

eventually come up with in the not only news but the concept is here so those are the hypothalamus stem cells particularly important so there may be this option of a still photo copy on there's a way to opt in to establish the hypothalamus stem cells panel and. provide to patients for injections you could be for not necessarily brain directions even possibly for the triple injections given that. these cells secrete some things there's. more flickers to to provide an aging effect so. it is possible to deliver these cells or people ingest. so all we also understood that as the information involved in this oh why is the sales so positive that you go in asia the hope for

them as no one important thing is that people feel the information accumulated over the agent will use this or it to who the deuce is public for the agent associate information. that can be also been beneficial and i can feel you know a margin of sales to support. and we are unfortunately out of time dr don chang tibe but we really appreciate you coming on and explaining this for us and congratulations on your. research. thank you watching the hawks is coming up next here on r t tyrrel of interest joins us now for a preview what do you got going on tonight all right well tonight we're going to break down these sobering numbers of human beings trapped in trafficking and slavery slavery around the world and then we discover that there is no sunshine energy allowed in the sunshine state if you can believe that and finally in the aftermath of hurricane the real the founder of global. brings us an exclusive

report on the devastation and recovery efforts currently being done in the caribbean that is what we've got coming up tonight on sounds great thank you and that is it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america our web say our team dot com for america a quick reminder our t. is available now on direct t.v. channel three two one you know follow me on twitter on your part and tell. i'm john harshman and i'll give you what the mainstream media a chance the big picture. and when you question or find what you're looking to see let's. go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture.

director rob reiner and actor morgan freeman are the latest wealthy hollywood celebrities to have reached new levels of self-importance and idiocy backing a new organization called committee to investigate russia yes the guy that made spinal tap and the guy that played president twice in deep impact and olympus has fallen and are apparently foreign policy and as experts now to kick off their incredibly dramatic investigative committee they released a dramatic video of freeman reading a script about the rise of evil putin the script starts off with the collapse of putin's motherland and how angry he was about it he's talking about the ball of the

soviet union in the ninety's of course freeman doesn't mention the united states' role in that he fails to mention how he actually bragged about how we meddled in their election so hey morgan if you're listening maybe you should google nine hundred ninety six time magazine yells and yank to the rescue cover if you're suddenly going to start learning about politics but whatever i could go on and on and i only have two minutes in the video freeman actually says what he's reading it's not a script which is hilarious because that's exactly what it is it is a script to that someone wrote for him and it is written exactly like any soviet propaganda would have been written the plotline freeman delivers for putin is pretty ridiculous but then the second half of the video gets even crazier because then the man who has played president twice actually begins to play president again he sits down at a desk and says what he thinks president trump should say he dramatically takes a seat behind a desk and literally starts playing president again it is so weird is especially

because what he wants a president trying just. way is something he's already said that freeman says the president needs to say our intelligence community is investigating the election to make sure nothing happened trump has said that and our intelligence community is doing that and they do not need howley woods help because hollywood doesn't know what the hell it's talking about seriously they have no idea it's so embarrassing just let the investigators do their job without media interference seriously listen no one wants this from you guys they don't want that what they want is another spinal tap they want to laugh and be entertained by you they want another original idea from you besides transformers twenty and another freakin spiderman they do not want wartime propaganda which is exactly what you just made rob reiner making it very clear who the real medlars are.

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greetings and salutation. while everyone focuses on the pomp and circumstance and donald trump at this year's united nations general assembly there was there was one story that tragically will not see much airtime on most of your cable news channels a story that at the very least directly affects roughly forty million people will cross every continent of the small blue planet that affects women and children have an obscenely disproportionate rate. than men and it reaches across all racial and cultural lines.