i. live. hi lindsey francis is the boss broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight the leaders of the world's two largest oil producers meet in moscow and the first visit by a reigning monarch of saudi arabia to russia it's a move to strengthen ties between the two we bring you the details on that also tobacco giant philip morris says it's not a smoke free initiative in the works down under but skeptics say it's just

a bid to make money on more unhealthy habits is that true we're going to find out also billions have been affected by recent attacks i did yahoo and which actually is happy just keep getting in my guest explains why they're blocking technology could be the way forward for businesses and governments as they rush to prevent stand by us start right now. a bit of backtracking at the white house president donald trump says puerto rico's insurmountable debt may need to be quote wiped out and quote and then the white house budget director stepped into the breach trump statement caused audible gasps as people envisioned a giant bailout initiative but then mick mulvaney clarified saying the white house

will in fact not be offering a bailout for puerto rico later this year the white house is expected to require tens of billions of dollars more in the long term funds that will help puerto rico reconstitute its shattered electrical grid and help people build after the huge hurricanes battered b. islands now trump surveyed hurricane damage in puerto rico earlier this week praising his administration's response even as lawmakers returning from the islands . the president is painting far too rosy a picture. and yahoo has an update on a disaster all its own and now possibly yours last december it made it more than one billion customer accounts were hacked in two thousand and thirteen that number has now jumped to three billion every one of its accounts following yahoo's acquisition by verizon in june yahoo has now obtained new intelligence while investigating the breach with the help from outside experts it says the stolen

customer information did not include passwords in clear tax payment card data or bank account information. russia and saudi arabia are looking to strengthen ties in what is the first visit to moscow by a reigning saudi monarch the world's two biggest oil producers are expected to focus on oil politics and other hot topics while discussing syria as well a conflict where riyad in moscow have backed rival sides with more on the story i'm joined by our team's alcohol of edge enter onto alex let's start with the economic cooperation at stake here what can we expect from this meeting and you know the king arrived in style obviously talking about economics obviously has a lot of money took up the whole ritz carlton with his delegation and now all the first step all the sleep oil oil is the big one for both countries there the two biggest oil producers on the face of the planet and they've been hit because of low

oil prices there are the two countries have worked together in stemming the hitter basically trying to do as much as possible to not feel the full blow they've got opec nations and other nations to agree to cut the supply of oil now that supply cut is supposed to end march two thousand and eighteen and what you might see at the top of the agenda is having that supply cut actually extended beyond that date . prices are not doing great we haven't seen some massive job so both nations are interested in continuing this program which seems to have helped them at least in the smallest of bits also when you're looking at investment investment for both the nations and we're looking that there could be deals up to three billion dollars in total here everything from saudi toll roads being built in russia itself as well as petrochemical plants or oil and gas and a one billion dollar fund that will work on everything from oil to renewable energy

so it's a one billion dollar energy fund that will see everything across the gamut be touched by that well this disaster and this conflict in syria is a very sore point between russia and saudi arabia any chance of progress there. you know the question is who wants what we know that these two countries are on opposing and saudi arabia is with the u.s. they've been backing the rebels and with russia they've been with iran and president assad so right now from the saudis i you know it looks like they've got the message russia is a massive player in the middle east their influence has definitely grown and the saudis recognized and they also it seems recognize the fact that president assad will not be going anywhere so from the saudi perspective what they want to see and the questions they'll be asking is what happens after isis is beat and what happens to the rebels will there be a negotiating table for them to sit down with the assad government and have some type of influence in the future the biggest question though for the saudis is the

randi you know we rate indian influence iranian influence is growing in the middle east as well they've made their push because of supporting the assad regime in syria so what the saudis would like to see is a ran out of that playground basically and pushed back to within its borders now this is going to be a very contentious issue seeing that you ran and russia have been together the russians obviously a backing a saw it want to see. that last now the assad government but for them to be able to negotiate something with iran on the behalf of saudi arabia that's a big question and russia right now you know they'd like to separate these two things boil that konami and away from the conflict in syria we don't know if the saudis are actually going to go for that simply because the saudis it seems are approaching this as one big package deal so syria actually might become negotiating chip when it comes to the economic side as well well let's hit on something else

very important on a separate now russian president vladimir putin met with venezuela's president and gero what can you tell us about that. well it seems like the reading went well for me during brush has been a backer of that as well of the government in venezuela both politically and economically they've helped the government in venezuela and they've at least shown sympathy for the situation that the government is going on with right now what's happening in venezuela with the opposition and the strife that we've heard of her in the past month so russia is standing strong and standing behind president maduro and we know that just recently russia actually agreed to give six hundred thousand tons of wheat to venezuela we know the again economically speaking the issues there we've heard of bread lines etc you know that all kinds of bad things happening people not having the food that they need so russia is helping out there by giving wheat to venezuela and simply by standing by them politically in

a time that this country's going through a lot of strife very true thank you so much for the thought they are coming at us from toronto thank you. for the past few decades campaigns against tobacco and cigarette manufacturers have gotten more aggressive as a result smoking rates are down which has been bad for business and now philip morris the world's biggest tobacco company wants to help australia become smoke free for more on this we're joined now by the boss. why is the company doing now philip morris is doing this very specifically to save their business because it would provide them the opportunity to start selling newer and more modern products . on thursday tobacco manufacturer philip morris will pledge its support to help australia become a smoke free country by doing that the company could have an easier time selling

cigarettes alternatives that come with less health risks maurice smith a scientific affairs fellow at philip morris will promote to lawmakers at a hearing in melbourne it's a product the company made that heats tobacco rather than burning it and has apparently been quite successful however it's still unclear how the council will respond when most health officials have acknowledged that cigarettes are less harmful than actual cigarettes they're still little information on the risks they might carry philip morris is feeling confident about a costo in fact the company already pledged eighty million dollars a year until two thousand and thirty to search for the right smoking substitute but that's just a slice of what it's worth philip morris pulled in twenty nine point nine billion dollars so far this year and has a market cap of one hundred seventy two point nine billion dollars that's not too far off from the rest of the industry either the most recent figures from the

c.d.c. show cigarette and smokeless tobacco companies spent nearly twenty five million dollars a day in marketing in two thousand and fourteen they also spent over nine billion dollars on advertising and promotional expenses and that's just in the us so for a few years now the industry has had its eye on smokeless tobacco products to stay in business that we were means unclear how many governments around the world will be willing to work with them on. how have health organizations responded to this project project is that a loaded question just the level they as you can imagine have not responded very warmly to this for example the world health organisation upon hearing of this new project created by fault morris has been urging every country including australia to reject it. because they say the tobacco industry has misled the public for so long why on earth would we trust them to help us cut smoking rates now let's just not include them in this project of cutting smoking rates let's do it on our own

and what's also very ironic is that the lead researcher employed by philip morris on this project used to work for you and as you can imagine he's spinning a very different estimate pays better narrative i guess so he's going to get very different narrative here than you think both sides should work together so we can cut smoking rates around the world but who made it very clear that they will not be working with philip morris or any other tobacco company to cut smoking rates around the world ok the speaking of around the world the back and industry operates very different ways depending on the country how does what we're seeing in australia compared to elsewhere it's really very different country by country in the more developed world where there are very wealthy nations like the u.s. like australia the tobacco companies are very nice and they want to work with the governments and say let's provide alternatives so we can both be happy you can cut down the smoking rates and we can start selling a cigarette but in the developing world. or in particular many countries in africa

like uganda kenya many of the governments there have accused these tobacco companies of threatening them regarding legislation that they're trying to push that would either impose a tax on cigarettes or in some other way try to cut the rates and unfortunately in the poor countries not only do they not have the resources to always go up again seize billion dollar companies but they also don't even have the funds to launch anti-smoking campaigns like the ones that we've seen in the u.s. over the past decade so it's much more complicated for them and you know unfortunately if you live in a wealthier nation it's you know you don't you're not going to be bombarded like you might be if you are in a developing country now not only that but as you travel around you see that cigarettes in a lot of developing nations are so cheap and they can keep those pride. down and here for instance it can run you i think ten dollars a pack or something like that in new york yes and they can keep those prices down yes they can then they're trying to expand the market there so that's why they're

fighting so viciously against many governments in africa and southeast asia in particular thank you so much for this book about to be offered. time now for a quick break stick around though when we get back godwin says no to fracking but will it still process the fuel that imports from overseas fracking projects and the prevalence of blockade and digital ledger so-called is on the rise my guests and i will discuss to impact we go to break here the number of. economic development is all about really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six point two. but what do we know about the other figures.

when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike do. over a twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart is says he and with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just you know a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society from the part of the government try to do. might be making things worse. listen we're. hopelessly disastrously wrong. i'm concerned about the failure of the united states of.

democracy what is happening there. it is a suicidal suicide not only over but over the political system that it sees with the it will survive and. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate is full on. the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of mark to you americans do the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of low down to the next president of the world bank so

very. seriously send us an e-mail. american business giants have made big bucks on european tax deals but for amazon that could have just come crashing down the european union has told member state luxembourg to get its two hundred ninety five million dollars back in taxes from the online retailer this is the latest attempt to get foreign multinationals to pay their fair share of predecessor of amazon's worries is apple the e.u. has ordered it to pay ireland three billion euros in back taxes after the e.u. member state cut apple a one percent tax deal to base operations there the european union has waived its finger over and over in that situation and it wants its money back but back to amazon e.u. competition commissioner marguerite best augur says

a tax ruling granted by looks important courts cut amazon's tax bill over eight years allowing it to ship massive profits from one of its companies to an. other thereby avoiding taxation on three quarters of its profits it made from amazon sales within the european union and she went on with her plans. so today's decision to order luxembourg to recover unpaid tax from a muslim and refer you to recover on tax from apple. i hope that those decisions seen as message that companies must pay their fair share of taxes as the huge majority of companies do. after what he calls overwhelming opposition to fracking scotland's energy minister paul will house told members of parliament that the practice cannot and will not take place in scotland this comes after

a lengthy review period according to will house ninety nine percent of the sixty thousand respondents in the public consultation portion of the review were opposed to the practice of using liquids to fracture shale rock deep underground to release fossil fuels scotland allows itself to process shale gas shipped in from foreign countries but an existing ban on extracting it from scottish land has been in place since two thousand and fifteen and will now continue the trade and worker unions there are not happy saying the ruling costs goddess jobs in oil and gas sector the b.m.g. trade union secretary for scotland gary smith says the government is being dishonest and hype and hypocritical as scotland imports a huge amount of shale gas extracted from what he calls trump's america.

sharing using blocking technology is growing in popularity it's a fish and it's encrypted and so by its very nature it is protective as i hacked into large businesses such as yahoo and equifax affected billions of us could the technology finally go mainstream right now we see hacked and yet to be hacked corporations and even governments wanting in on block change which has brought the crypto currency market capitalization to one hundred fifty billion dollars joining me now from new york regimental ten founder of veritas am sir thank you for coming in on this now we've got the head of technology at b.p. david a ten saying that block could give them what he calls a competitive advantage in terms of speed and verification of transactions just one example of businesses wanting to get on board with this possibly in your opinion what's a workable timeline for blocked chain going mainstream if you think it will. grow it all depends on the path that is take you there are two schools of thought one is

using blogs and technology to bolster the legacy systems that are in place and the other is using drugs and technology disrupt of. creative destruction engine to create new business models that will most likely. to mediate the business that are in place so to bolster the legacy system that can happen immediately changes in culture that created here mentality so in reality that will take. seven years the this is. the school of thought which i happen to belong to it's hard to predict ok it could take anywhere from two years to two decades but when they had it would have. with the equivalent of immediately and chances are it would happen sooner rather than later because what that does is it increases efficiency and decreases friction so

let's suppose we have a large and city that's been hacked and looks to use black team technology to go through a legacy system and they're competing with a start up with. no real organization that's looking to just rewrite the whole architecture in a business model they get started immediately and the get to benefit from the protections that the bludgeon takes to office and they don't have the leg culture that says well we have to do it this way because we've always done it so that is so much a matter of technology and speed but acceptance. of the past ok let's talk about values here cryptocurrency are already showing a market cap of one hundred fifty billion dollars according to coin task set to go up but block chain we see now according to markets according to markets and markets a recent study that came out worldwide blocking market of nearly three hundred forty million dollars is set right now if we consider the next four years though going all the way to two thousand and twenty one we see people are forcing two

point three billion dollars in value you think that's an accurate assessment. i think there's actually underestimated the veridical is from using. technology you know seeing blood is like saying. but the value that comes from using using it as an example the internet is much more than say the market capitalization of the companies that use incentives for instance when you have your phone and you use your phone to send a document from yourself to your producer. you can be a company that gets paid for that mistake it's forty percent margin forty percent profit from it but the value of that document versus going to the post-office paying for a stamp waiting for two days for the post office to send a message document from your location to the post office location and then being picked up by someone else right is much more difficult to convert to measure right

there's a multiplier effect there and that multiplier effect is not linear but it's exponential so if you did it. increased right the other people did it so valuable value of time people etc etc exactly right it's a network effect that comes when you use the network and bludgeoning technology is basically a database built upon a series of networks. right so as these you know these networks of computers you know a block sort of a ledger system to fill this information encrypt it and move on and try to to another block it becomes very attractive as we've seen the hacked i'm sure you've seen them in the news yahoo equifax and so on we see governments wanting to get involved we have to address the government angle the centers for disease control is just one entity. as a way to move massive amounts of data if government organizations like the c.d.c. get in on blocked train you are there worries of a reversal of the sort of unregulated nature of this technology. well i'm

sure the c.d.c. will use federated bloodstains basic sheens that are. not. public networks these are controlled by center. and cities and realize that in doing that you know file a lot of the attraction of the block chain. the attraction of a block chain is that it is since your proof being sent your proof that eliminates a lot of the ability of the lot of the attack surface to air ok by making it central by being controlled by. centralize assembly and city then you create a single. surface of attack well i'm not easy to. worry though about people who sort of have this idealistic lone wolf mentality when it comes to block chain is that the government steps in it might be not an unregulated unregulated space but

an under regulated space according to government. well you know the regulation issue it's almost impossible to regulate a public you know it's public but everything never. right and never say never but just let's put it this way you could jump off of a fifty foot building ok it's almost impossible to survive it yes you can survive. but nine point nine nine times out of ten i will put my money on someone else about it not for that's a smart so smart bet so. in creating a centralization of the plug you another. significant portion of the attraction that made it such a proof. centralizing it you would create a central point of attack but. you spread out the points of attack you make it harder for the distributing it meaning that you have nodes everywhere they have to be attacks. you make it effectively attack right now that's right that effectively ok well you can talk about i mean it's too expensive to attack to do it you can't

return for the attack let's talk about expands you can't talk about blocking without of course talking about currencies like big combing the area like coin the list goes on they depend on this to protect them record these transactions they block chain gains a wider use outside of digital currency would we see the price increase or is that dependent on the block technology is it independent of it or would it depend on technology if it becomes more popular what it increase the price of these currencies ok it may but not be connected to people are asking these questions. ok well i want to throw cold water on the parade but i don't have much time lot of people refer to the tokens as digital currencies they're not crises ok they're the best way to define that would be programmable commodities that run the. network these commodities could be programmed hence the fact that it could be programmed means they have a very very wide. potential you scary ok each program

a commodity could be used for a specific purpose such as medical privacy exactly that's right if you transfer some could be designed specifically to sidestep keppra controls in china specifically ok so chances are the more the world of the use of bloodstain technology the more public they become but using the network effect theory the more any particular token is you the more powerful it becomes and the more of a proper columns this is just the beginning just can't get insurance not billions but you can see there is much for your foresight on this always good to talk to you thank you so much reggie middleton founder a very tough thing ok. for over eighty two years mr monopoly has acted as the iconic mascot of the board game monopoly and he's just been spotted on capitol hill at a senate hearing no he wasn't in the hot seat he sat right behind it cameras caught

a man dressed in a familiar black top white mustache and monocles seated behind former equifax c.e.o. richard smith as he testified before the senate banking committee wednesday he was answering questions about a hack into equifax which compromised the personal data of more than one hundred forty three million americans so why did mr monopoly decide to show up it was a stunt to bring attention to the issue of forced arbitration clauses. these are used by banks and credit card companies to prevent consumers from taking them to court in class action lawsuits when they've been wronged as first smith he will not stop and go he will not go to jail and definitely will not collect two hundred dollars because before leaving the company just after the hack took place he took eighteen million dollars with him thanks for watching be sure to catch him on direct t.v. in the united states you can find us at the r t channel three two one and if you miss us on directv on youtube youtube dot com slash through last r.t.

thanks for watching next time. in the us a child can choose a nominee course in school. with a retired officers as teachers we don't. recruit will says to if the president is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves and see. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers your chance to step up to an apollo so that way for a comfortable with yourself and things you are yourself you can't go wrong in the woods or it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are

willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is a very popular first year video game. it's play and that's because the military like call of duty to turn off duty oh yeah well you can't turn off your lot of these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. to keep in mind. but.

thanks. to. the king of saudi arabia. coming up.